Frederic Schornstein
TXL Racing
I have a question to most of the GTE drivers. I dont ask this to offend anyone, but understand the thinking behind the decision.
I have driven the URD cars myself and they are on the first look "easy" to drive, but they are very difficult to drive fast and setup properly, which led to very big gaps in qualy up to 4 seconds (maybe more) between the fastest and slowest GTE cars. In most races we managed to overtake several GTE cars with our GTC machine, which is slower and has more tire wear. The ISI GT cars have provided much closer racing in my experience, which is what GT racing is about.
Therefore my question is what is the basis of the decision? Is it diversity, the physics, the graphics whatever?
Would you consider running in a leauge, if there would be balanced ISI cars e.g. you could balance the GTR, Corvette and Camaro to a similar level by reducing horse power and aero on some of the cars and the last physics update was really great. That would kind of solve the diversity and physics question, but would you then still consider the URD cars and why?
I am not opposed to run the URD cars in general as I still could drive in LMP1, but from my view they spread the field a lot and I do believe with other cars the gaps would have been a lot smaller.
For example in Sebring @David Gronvalls created a setup relatively close to the default a few days before the race and I could jump in it without practice and go very fast. In the URD cars at least I needed a lot of time to get all the speed out of the car much more than in any other car in rF2.
I have driven the URD cars myself and they are on the first look "easy" to drive, but they are very difficult to drive fast and setup properly, which led to very big gaps in qualy up to 4 seconds (maybe more) between the fastest and slowest GTE cars. In most races we managed to overtake several GTE cars with our GTC machine, which is slower and has more tire wear. The ISI GT cars have provided much closer racing in my experience, which is what GT racing is about.
Therefore my question is what is the basis of the decision? Is it diversity, the physics, the graphics whatever?
Would you consider running in a leauge, if there would be balanced ISI cars e.g. you could balance the GTR, Corvette and Camaro to a similar level by reducing horse power and aero on some of the cars and the last physics update was really great. That would kind of solve the diversity and physics question, but would you then still consider the URD cars and why?
I am not opposed to run the URD cars in general as I still could drive in LMP1, but from my view they spread the field a lot and I do believe with other cars the gaps would have been a lot smaller.
For example in Sebring @David Gronvalls created a setup relatively close to the default a few days before the race and I could jump in it without practice and go very fast. In the URD cars at least I needed a lot of time to get all the speed out of the car much more than in any other car in rF2.