Had a few hours trying this out last yesterday so here's a brief summary.
Needed to fiddle around with a few of the game settings to get the movement and fov right and went straight for the "Veteran" setting with all driving aids off except autoclutch. I maxed the graphics and deleted the silly map plugin that comes preinstalled with the sim.
The stock cars feel a bit Race 07ish. I remember trying a similar R07 mod a while back and they feel very similar as far as I can remember. They are good fun and I think would make for some good racing, but are a bit too easy to drive to take them seriously imho.
The formula cars are excellent. The classic 88 car (the McLaren I presume) is very immersive and the impression is of much more detailed physics than in the F1 88 mod for instance.
I tried a few ai races at 95% with the F3 car and was totally absorbed. The in-car racing experience is fantastic with a real impression of speed which is helped by great sound and a subtle motion blur.
I don't usually like modern F1 sims/mods as they always seem to be arcade feeling. These cars however feel much nicer. The only problem I have is that I doubt if I could actually get one of these cars off the grid and through T1 in RL.
And that is where all these cars in this sim suffer imo.....they are much too easy to drive! Having said that I will be searching out some online racing for the formula cars as I think they will be great fun. I still prefer the physics and feel of NKPro, but GSC comes close in that regard and as an overall package (the fact it has good ai) is slightly better imo.
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