F1 2011 does anyone struggle on wet tires with race pace?

Danny Witts · Jun 11, 2012

Just wondered if anyone struggles with race pace on wet tyres. Im in my 4th season of my career with mclaren, first race of season was a wet race n i struggle to keep pace with the likes of vettel hamilton alonso etc. i lose around a second a lap of the front 5-6 cars.

Ive got a good wet setup as i got it from the setups section on RD.

I play on legend, and 40% race

is there something im doing wrong

Victor Ivanov · Jun 11, 2012

You're definitely driving too cautious and that's wrong. This game has massive grip in the wet and you just have to be more brave. Just start pushing hard and you'll see.

Jan-Olov Johansson · Jun 11, 2012

Well, I just know that I feel like Bambi on ice when it's wet....

Kristian Nenov · Jun 11, 2012

You feel like this because the game has very strange physics. In the same time you have an enormous amount of grip and you don't have any grip at all. It's strange, it's not realistic, but nothing to do about it.. Pushing hard works for the wet, just remember that you must have an understeering car. My first wet race was with 10/11 wings and believe me - it's not fun.

Victor Ivanov · Jun 11, 2012

That's because you can't drive an oversteery car

I can and I have no problems with even 11/11 wings

Jan-Olov Johansson · Jun 11, 2012

Kristian Nenov said:
You feel like this because the game has very strange physics. In the same time you have an enormous amount of grip and you don't have any grip at all. It's strange, it's not realistic, but nothing to do about it.. Pushing hard works for the wet, just remember that you must have an understeering car. My first wet race was with 10/11 wings and believe me - it's not fun.

Yeah, that was a good description of it, feels to me like you never can predict when you will loose grip in the wet...

Kristian Nenov · Jun 11, 2012

Victor Ivanov said:
That's because you can't drive an oversteery car I can and I have no problems with even 11/11 wings

I can do it too, but compare your lap times. There's 1-2 seconds difference.

Jan-Olov Johansson said:
Yeah, that was a good description of it, feels to me like you never can predict when you will loose grip in the wet...

You can't in real life too, but just the grip in this game is very strange. The rear end feels very strange. I mean, not that it's hard to handle, it's just unrealistic. It's like your weight ballast is 100/0% F/R.