AWD cars overpowered?

[Nismo.]

AWD cars have always had an edge on how easy they are to drive, but GRID seems to take that a bit too far making some classes unbalanced and some races not very fun if you are to pick the non AWD car. Below are the main issues I have with this:

AWD vs RWD/FWD in the same class

Not many classes sport both AWD cars and non AWD cars, but the ones who do there's a clear bias towards the AWD car being easier to drive if not plain out faster.

I joined a quickmatch lobby that was racing Heritage Super Tourers and I decided to pick the RWD Sierra instead of the AWD Nissan. I obviously lost and the laptime differences were clear.
Could be just me who is not used to the car, or just not driving it optimally, but there is clearly at least a much easier car to drive and be fast here.

After that championship, we moved onto Tuner Super Modified where we have one FWD car, one RWD car and three other cars, all AWD. I had picked an AWD car this time and I was somewhat on pace but I noticed the player who picked the FWD car was being ran circles around.

Basically, AWD seems to be the way to go the majority of times if you want to win, sometimes because the car is easier to drive or plain out faster.


Drifting is quicker?

Uh oh...

I've played GRID for a few hours now and I was almost clear this was pretty much like GRID Autosport, clean lines are the fastest way around the track, and for the majority of cases this remains true.
The problem was that I never touched an AWD car before, after I did, it was clear something was wrong.

Drifting with AWD cars, especially around hairpins and 90 degree turns, is the quickest way around a track. We're talking about full on Ken Block style, handbrake engaged drifts here not a quick powerslide.

This brings two major problems when it comes to racing and hotlapping.
For racing, in addition to being faster, it may cause players who don't care about being clean to just drift into your car while going around a tighter turn and lose no speed.
Once someone who knows how to drift is out of the pack they'll be gone.

For hotlapping, players are limited to the AWD cars to reach the top, making the other cars pretty much useless.


The future of current and new cars

Since we've been guaranteed more content down the line there is a chance future AWD cars might either unbalance current classes or make a new one equally unbalanced.


TL;DR - Always pick the AWD car and drift the living hell out of it to go fast.

[HTID]

Yeah I also noticed that thing with drift for win, kinda annoying when you have to ken block your car through turns to be fast.

It is also sad that everyone is complaining about graphics apparently not being good enough when this here is a much more important issue.

[tourist]

Yep, another great example: BMW M1 so overpowered in it's class, it's ridiculous.

[YMR | Roach]

Originally posted by tourist:

Yep, another great example: BMW M1 so overpowered in it's class, it's ridiculous.

yeh the bmw m1 is nuts, i'm sure it's rwd not awd

[Nismo.]

m1 is rwd yeah, it's mislabeled

[tourist]

well mislabeled or not, the imbalance is the real issue here.