F1 2010 – Full Bahrain Race Video

A very interesting F1 2010 video has surfaced on Youtube, showing a full 5-lap race at Bahrain in Codemasters’ upcoming title.

The video is available in great-looking 720p resolution and features a complete race in the Lotus. Towards the end of the race it’s clearly visible that the driver has ruined his tires, struggling for grip while making it to the finish. Also included is footage of the driver’s Fanatec Porsche 911 Turbo S wheel via Picture in Picture.

Following their maiden Formula One title that was released only for the Playstation Portable and the Nintendo Wii, Codemasters will be bringing the 2010 Formula One season to the PC, the Xbox 360 and the Playstation 3. F1 2010 has been confirmed to be released September 24.


  • zDToddy

    gotta love all those posers using tv camera view in every F1 video on youtube, can’t have Official TV Style HUD cuz its ALL ABOUT THE DRIVER EXPERIENCE and NOT the spectator, but when you go race with your expensive wheel you HAVE to choose the stupid TV Camera View.

  • Slimjim

    Seems to me the game has been released already.. but not to the people that really want it.. :-P :-P :-P
    do we really need another F’n review on this title.?  i’m getting sick of it before i even get the damn thing.

    and why lately every time i post.. it repeats it 3X..?

  • Turkey :D

    The license for the real TV style HUD would have probably cost Codemasters a few fortunes. I’m sure someone will figure out how to replace the HUD anyway, so don’t worry.

  • Mike Oppenheimer

    What’s with the weird wobbling the Ai is doing?

  • Hottypants

    Reminds me of the AI cars in rFactor when hitting certain curbs.. :/

  • svizzy

    gearing is weired. for example the last turn. in real life its taken in 3rd in game in 5th.

  • F1Man

    I think that’s just the bumpy track surface, like in real life on that new Bahrain part.

  • F1Man

    But on the other hand, you see LG’s logo popping up everytime.

  • Himself

    I dont like how the car just magicaly turned to proper direction after both spins just after 9:00. This is so NFSish (like you couldnt handbrake-turn more than 90 degrees in some of them).

  • Raymond

    Never heard of a driver aids to turn you back in the right direction? F1C and rFactor have it, it must be in this game as well.

  • Raymond

    I find it interesting how everyone is not satisfied with the HUD. Personally I think it works well. The original F1 HUD would take up to much of the screen IMHO. So this is a good alternative. About the video itself. It’s difficult to judge without knowing exactly the realism settings. I think the braking for turn 1 and 4 let’s you gain quite a bit of ground, which is not that realistic. Despite that I think I will enjoy this game, even for no other reason then to finally have an F1 game for PC again.

  • f1racing

    and what is wrong about using T-Cam view?? Someone like to drive from cockpit, someone from swingman camera and someone from T-Cam…I personally like T-Cam…

    and driver experience is not meant to make us use cockpit cam only, it is meant about whole atmosphere, working with mechanics in garage, paddock, press….

  • Krazee

    I am not sure if he had spin recovery turned on. It was stange that is was able to recover the car twice yet he spins off again towards the end of the race and he spun a full 360. Not sure what’s happening there. Maybe he is a good sim racer to recover like the way he did?

  • Renaultr202

    I think this is down to gearing he has chosen…  Also, may be due to trying to reduce tyre wear / wheelspin out as this began to seriously affect to driver later on. 

  • Tigerteeth

    I agree about the HUD. From a gaming point of view, the official F1 overlay would be too impractical to use. The design Codemasters have chosen is far more suitable, with all the information you need at a quick glance. I think the LG logo is unnecessary though, it just doesn’t seem to fit with the rest of the style.

  • infanticide

    Anyone knows of any F1 2010 video from PC version? Most of those vids are from consoles.

  • Basement Walrus

    I can put up with the LG logo, it isn’t on the screen all the time like the Certina logo in Colin Mcrae 200, and it’s not especially intrusive.

  • Dillyracer

    I think camera view looks cool, sue me.

  • Matthew

    But the game is running on a f1 2010 xbox 360?

  • mastersetter

    Dont these drivers know when to shift gear?!? It’s doing my head in, the last few videos the lad was hammering the limiter too, for goodness sake people!!

  • hufc

    More people like the t-cam view because that’s how they are used to seeing the cars on tv – i much prefer it as it gives me better vision

  • vik15

    Would be really great game if the colors would be realistic. But still have that weird gamey look with all those grey sky, grey buildings, greyish trees, brownish grass etc,  everything in between grey and brown. Maybe it’s somewhere on Mars or something.

  • RKipker

    OK, here is what I think….!

    Most of the Nit-Pickers crack me up!  3rd gear in turn where in real life it’s 5th.  The HUD not realistic, the spin recovery, this isn’t real, this isn’t as good as iRacing, looks NFSish! Are you guys for real…LOL!

    We have no idea the guys settings, spin recovery is standard, it’s a freaking game and most folks hate losing that much time getting back into a race, even I do…sometimes. Will the HUD really make us feel it’s real!  Com-on guys, let’s be fair…!

    For me:

    1) Colors look pretty freaking good for an XBox 360 version.  Not to much bloom and colors look realistic IMHO… no brownish hue… THANKS Codie’s!

    2) Sounds seem very good!

    3) AI looked like in the first lap they did not give up  and pushed hard.

    4) The braking never gave the guy an advantage he overshot ever corner and the AI took the inside see turns 1 – 6 in lap one.  Since we have no idea the game AI settings, I think this is a plus! 

    5) Tire wear look great!

    6) game seemed to run fluidly on a console! 

    Glad I ordered both… !

    I think CodeMaster deserves a little credit, even if the first release is not up to Par as we would all like… it’s a Multi-Million Dollar Venture and they must appeal to all gamers, not just the HARD CORE Self Proclaimed Wannabe Sim Racers (just being colorful, no insults intended, I love the Genre of gaming) of our community!

    The game looks like it will be Fun, offer Re-playability, a Good Career Mode and online racing… plus it offers a playable damage model and changing weather effects… all we really don’t know are the physics/car handling… but based on the Ant. interviews I believe it will be very good for all Gamers wanting to try the one.

    ———————————————————————————————————–

    Prespective… take Madden 11.. I wanted this game… but game has become so freaking difficult to play since Madden 1 for someone like me who don’t want a Full Football SIM, the game SUCKS. 

    Remember folks, not all gamers are Hard Core SIM Racers. 

  • RKipker

    It’s BAHRAIN… Then track is in the Desert!

    I think the colors look really good and very realistic, but that’s just me!

  • LVolz

    Is he on a Fanatec Wheel stand?  I can’t tell.  I’m looking at buying one and this looks pretty stable.

  • vik15

    At least they might make the sky not so grey. Never seen a clear sky to be that colored. An all the buildings outside the tracks looks like had been cut of  black&white photos.

  • Thomas Finch

    So, this game is all 5 laps shite? No real 53 laps kinda races?

  • Kenney

    Of course there are, but nobody is bothered to race for so long yet.

  • Firestarter

    100% simracing news

  • Dillyracer

    Replace the name Codemasters with ISI and leave the game how Codemasters made it, the whole simworld would be creaming their pants.

  • Marcel Penzkofer

    Codemasters should try to start getting some realistic replay-cameras like the ones on TV and a real Track-camera instead of a cam which changes every half second and annoys the player like hell. Like in DiRT (first EGO-game) there are always the same perspectives in every game they made ever since.

    I hope German players can change the Voice-Language to english aswell… a german race engineer sounds very confusing on a F1-radio.

  • stephen300o

    As said it is very realistic, Bahrain is like that, it’s why it’s not such a popular venue for the race.

    What are these other games that are better than this? I must have missed them.

  • F1Racer

    Agreed 100% on the replay system.  The player should be in full control and not have them changing from TV view, T-cam, Cockpit etc.   at specific points or timing triggers. 

  • GTEvo

    “Arcarde” ROFL

    the first Race, the first F1 2010 Promotion without any little ArcardeFeeling.

    Looks very realistic and really “OnTop” how a real F1 Car must be handled!
    im pretty sure that Driving an modern F1 Car is the easiest Driving of the World.
    A BobbyCar Dowhnhill Race is much more harder then the Modern F1 PattexVehicles^^

  • GTEvo

    there Cams are the worst and crappiest ive seen since F1 2000 from EA Sports!

    Cams are the most important, Emotional Stuff of any Racegame!
    With Cams you can bring a Game to a higher Level!

  • Mandrake

    In the beginning of the Video he runs through the menu showing everything is set to manual and all driving aids are OFF. The AI has been set to Legendary.

    That said I think it still looks a bit arcadish, the acceleration sounds sometimes sounds as if it was under the influence of a TC and that quick spin recovery looks automated.

    Also the radio from the engineer told the driver: “You’re tires are perfectly warm, keep em that way..” 1 corner further and he spins out. Doesn’t make sense to me :(

  • Dave

    If ISI replaced codemasters in this game the game would be hugely different so not sure where you are coming from on the statement.
    Having said that the racing looks okay ,hard to tell on the ai or handling before we play,
    and those are the 2 issues that will make or break the game for each individual customer.
    The auto spin recovery does make that part look arcadish,im not sure its something you can turn off,its not something ive ever used in a game before.Id hope that in the hardest difficulty that there is an  option to remove it,if i spin off its my fault and im willing to take the hit for it.

  • The Thorn

    I agree with Dillyracer. If Codemasters, for some reason, would bring this out under the name of ISI, all the Simracers here would shout that the physics would look fantastic, just what they wanted. Maybe it is time a bigger game companie would join forces with a smaller racesim dev team. Not in the way NFS Shi(f)t was made, but combine the graphics and physics.

  • noway

    We’ll see how much arcade there’s in F1 2010….

    for disscusion “how easy it is to drive an F1″…. it’s not an actual one but… still impressive

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGUZJVY-sHo&feature=fvw

  • vik15

    I bet most of a time it looks more like this http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/static.panoramio.com/photos/original/1807474.jpg.
     The game looks totally  color filtered to en extent it get a kind of  weird retro appearance.
    As regards of other games I hope GT5 will looks more  color realistic. It is on it’s promothional pictures at least.

  • Creatorex

    This video is a good input, despite of driving so aggressive with accelerator and some activated aids. It’s just great. just 5 days left.

  • moschum

    yeh richard hammond isn’t a decent driver of ANY KIND – top gear is an entertainment show, and the only driver that can drive okay in it is Clarkson, who genuinly likes driving, likes fast cars, and actually watches F1 – the other 2 don’t.

    You can’t use that vid to go ‘oh look, F1 cars are really hard to drive’ because Hammond cannot drive at all, and has no motorsport experience in anything.

  • Spaceman

    Consider how this game “could” have turned out, this game is looking more and more amazing.
    Glad I ordered a boxed PC version now that Codies have decided to make the PC version digital only (atleast that’s the feedback we’re getting from official forums)
    Looks a damn site better than rfactor mods that’s for sure. I could pick holes in those games just as much as some of you guys in this.
    Atleast I’ll have AI to race against, decent ones to. Not since GP4 have I been able to say that. They cover racing lines, try to get out of you slipping them on straights. Pounce on gaps you leave. Get pushed wide. Just hope backmarker behaviour is good when I do the full grand prix.
    Only thing that irked me some was the strange twitch behaviour on opening laps with AI.
    Just the thing I’ve been hoping for since ditching iracing. Just remember F1 cars are not that hard to drive it’s how you manage them and maximise the track, throttle and tires that count.
    Now can someone tell me have they seen anything on safety cars, blueflags (sick of these 3 lap banzai runs) mechanical failures, oilmarbles on track. Does rubber go down on corners increasing grip (ala GP4) Do the AI try and pump in fast laps before pitting, match your fastest laps or crumble under preasure (ala GP4, amazing AI)
    Just these little things will turn this into a classic.

  • moschum

    no they wouldn’t, simracers are a hard bunch to please and we don’t just play something simply because it has a particular brand or name associated with it, how ridiculous.

    youre talking rubbish

  • moschum

    T cam view is for utter n00bs. 
    whats funny is, you perceive it as being easier because you can see more, but this is dumb for a number of reasons.

    you watch f1 on tv and think ‘ooh i wonder what it must be like’. a game comes out, offering you the experience of sitting in the cockpit and seeing what it must be like to drive an f1 car, and instead you go ‘OOH ILL JUST USE THE VIEW I SEE ON TV ALL THE TIME!’ Brilliant.

    secondly, you’ll find its more beneficial to actually sit in the car and play using the incar view, because distances are easier to judge as you’re flat on the floor looking forward, you’re in the centre of the car and can perceive when the back end is coming out better also. 

    why would you NOT want to use the proper cockpit view? utter n00bs use the Tcam view, and thats a fact. 

  • f1racing

    I wouldn’t call me a noob. I am playing racing games for years…I played F199, 2000 and 2001 on PS One, Than F1 2002, F1 challenge 99-02 on PC, playing rFactor for about 3 and a half years, I played GTR, GTR2, Race, Race07, GTR Evolution, Race ON, GP3, GP4, Toca2, Toca Race Driver, Toca Race Driver 2, Toca Race Driver3, Grid, CMR, CMR2, CMR3, CMR04, CMR05, CMR Dirt, Dirt2,…so I wouldn’t call myself a noob actually…In some games I use cockpit cameras like in all CMR/Dirt games, Grid, all simbin games, even older F1 games on PS One and PC. rFactor is game in what I don’t really like cockpit camera because it has too much vibrations and I can barely se my steering wheel and seeing track ahead is only dream…I’ll se how cockpit cam will look in F12010 (and I don’t want to judge by looking at vids, I will try that myself) and if it is good I see no reason for me to not use it….

  • moschum

    who cares about AI, why would you want to play against AI?

    times have moved on, its all about multiplayer. wheres the joy in playing against a computer? this isn’t like an FPS where theres some story to it and youre going up levels, with sports games and with everyone have a decent connection nowadays multiplayer is the ONLY thing that matters. 

  • moschum

    you can stop the vibrations by going into the options ……………………..
    the cockpit cam from the videos of F1 2010 looks……..like you’re in the car. thats why its a cockpit cam.

    there is no good or bad about it, if you want a more immersive gameplay experience, whilst it actually being more beneficial, as i’ve explained above, you’d use the cockpit view.

  • F1Racer

    I thought people dissing people for racing AI had moved on too.    What do you care how people race ?   They have AI in the game for a reason.   
    Multiplayer is way overrated and full of idiots, wreckers and wannabe sim-racers who dont mind cutting corners, getting peoples way, rejoining tracks with traffic coming.  Pile ups on turn 1, lap 1, people going for gaps that aren’t there, going for the inside line while coming from 3-4 car lenghts back, people screwing your hotlaps.   
    Mutiplayer on rFactor is one of the most irritating frustrating things ever and if the only solution is to commit to a league then screw it.
    As Im not going to commit to a league just to get a decent online race I`ll take the AI any day.  They race better, more behaved and consistent and you dont get 5-6 people in front you you on the grid 3s a lap quicker than you because they have to mental unrealistic alien setup on the car and cut corners during the lap.  

    Lots of people care about AI, it might surprise you that not everyone shares your opinion.

    Spaceman:  No safety cars on this seasons game, I guess there will be blue flags as they have yellow/green and others.  Mechanical failures must happen, there are constant engine heat reminders in a race, it goes get slippy or in the wet part of a drying track, its dynamic too meaning that the racing line is the line that most cars follow.  So if you are practicing and you go constantly wide in a corner, thats where the racing line will form.
    Dunno about AI cars putting in fast in-laps, but they are affected by pressure I think, they certainly do make mistakes.  
    Yep the AI beat all the sims out there.  Imagine that.

  • Turkey :D

    Pre-ordering this from Steam :)

  • Spaceman

    Thanks for the mature response there. The ai does sound great. Finally a reason not to go online and shelve good old geoff. I’d only venture online via iracing as unsolicited races via rfactor, race on, gtr2 etal are a lesson in madness. Only one that was ok was GT Legends. I’ll give f1 online a go but I suspect it’l be wreckers delight. Atleast I can have a great time offline now. It was my one concern with this and they’ve nailed it.

  • Sensekhmet

    Temperature was OK, but the wear was bad. If you look close, the status display has two boxes on the bottom: an exclamation mark and a C (degrees Celsius) mark: the first one shows wear/damage, the second one temperatures.

  • F1Man

    At least computer AI doesn’t get jealous and ram you if your quicker than them

  • stabiz

    Wow, I couldnt disagree more, F1Racer. AI sucks, and will always suck. We see it in the videos from this game as well, where you just outbrake three cars into a corner and they wave you by. Multiplayer against someone who matches you tenth by tenth is by far the most rewarding a sim can offer.

  • The Thorn

    Just a little thing I’ve just noticed at 1:28 into the clip, where they show some of the grid.
    The suspension of Mark Webbers front-right wheel is not alligned. I hope this is fixed or just a very little issue in the final release.

  • Substance242

    I completely understand and agree with you, and hope there will be some possibility to fair-play online racing. If not, I will continue racing in Live for Speed leagues.

    PS: One thing I do not like about F2010 is that you obviously can not make the mistake of starting too soon, and you also can not drive cool-down lap which I enjoy most. :)

  • F1Racer

    stabiz:  Maybe on those video’s it was on an easy setting, I’ve also see in in F1-2010 vids that the AI can be hard to catch up to and they don’t just give up a corner that easily either.  They will come back at you if you make a small mistake.    
    I still prefer to reserver judgement on F1-2010′s physics and AI until I’ve played it.

    Anyway I didn’t say the AI is perfect.  I can pick holes in it all over the place.  It seems the AI in F1-2010 will at least improve on what we have seen in recent years.  Not since GP4 have we had decent AI.  The worst of all being LFS but there’s maybe reasons for that.   It is common with AI that you tend to be able to nail them under braking.  That happens to me in pretty much every sim I own.    
    Conversely, when you get lucky and get a good multiplayer pickup race where people act decent and race properly and the people on there are at your level, the experience is extremely rewarding. I won’t deny that.  There’s nothing like it.     
    The problem is, that happens like once in a blue moon.  AI doesn’t necessarily have to always suck forever.  Clearly F1-2010 is more advanced than rFactors or GTR Evo where there is no defending at all and no sense from the AI when to back down.    
    But you cannot deny how frustrating online play is on the rF servers.  I can race, say, 20 races and 1 maybe 2 will be a satisfying experience.  The rest will be an irritating nightmare that only serves to put me into a bad mood.      
    A lof ot these so-called sim-racers who race online are the same people who crave for the ultimate in realism in their sims, and here they are piling into turn 1, cutting corners, ramming, going for insane gaps and taking unrealistic chances.  Thats not sim-racing.    
    Obviously I cannot generalise and blame them all because there will be a lot like me who go online and just want a decent, proper and fair race.  I dont mind finishing 13th out of 16 as long as the race was fun, challenging and fair.    What I don’t want is the guarantee that when I brake for turn 1, some idiot who thought he could brake 20m from the turn or that I was somehow going to be somewhere else in time and space, rams me up the gearbox and puts me out or down to last place.   All that practice and quali session for nothing.  
    How many times out of 10 do you see pile ups in turn 1 on the first lap ?   Almost always.  It’s ridiculous.   
    I could write a whole chapter on the nightmares of pickup races in sim-racing.    I can’t believe that most of these drivers call themselves sim-racers.  It would be laughable if it wasn’t so pathetic.   
    With AI, it’s not the same in that your not racing other living people, but at least after the race, I’m not felling like I want to punch a wall out or tell some idiot online what I think of him.    
    It kinda says something when people have ‘WTF!?’ mapped to one of their quickchat keys.     
       
    AI does suck but MP pickup is way suckier 90% of the time.  Plus seeing 5 Ferrari’s and 6 McLarens and maybe 4 Red Bulls in a race somehow doesn’t do it for me.   F1-2010 will fix that at least. 

  • F1Racer

    Gotta agree there.  Out of the 3 presenters, Hanster is the least experienced.  
    I think the bottom line with modern F1 cars is that they are relatively easy to drive (hell, 16 year olds are testing them these days), but hard to drive on the limits.   
    Thats how I like to think of them.

  • NitroStar

    Speaking of racing against the AI…. I’m a member of iRacing and I still enjoy taking a break and racing against good AI cars from time to time, but sadly there aren’t many titles with good AI cars.
    I just recently played some “F1 Challenge 99-02″. Great AI and track evolves as the race goes on! It was raining at the beggining of race and then stopped. The track started drying out in the racing line and there was easily more grip there. Another great sim with great AI cars is “Virtual Grand Prix 3″ has anyone else bought this title? The AI are superb!

  • f1racing

    well, I raced about 50 online races with RFT 2010 mod this weekend and I couldn’t agree more…from all of those races, I am happy with 2 or 3 of them. I even left one server when in singapore two guy cutted first 3 corners and than a few ahead also…and they were only 0.3 secs faster than me. And even better I was driving with default setup. But I didn’t enjoyed it. My best online race ever which is not part of a league was 10 minutes ago. In qualys me and other 2 guys were in 1 tenth of a second…and race we finished in same places, 3 seconds from 1sr ro 3rd. But it was fun. Gaps changeing from sector to sector for maybe 1 tenth up/down, driving in someones gearbox but without hitting him, opponents who respects you and let you room if you try to overtake and not just ramm you…I respect that kind of sim-racers, and I will always enjoy driving with that kind of people. About AI…well, when offline in rFactor I am running private test days. I think that it says all about it. I hope that AI will be at least half-smart and challengeing from time to time. And hope to see you guys online in F12010.

  • stabiz

    Oh I agree, I have raced maybe 5 times in public servers in rFactor, and it sucked so majorly every time. “can I havez ur setup, k? tnx, n00b” + crash and waving fists. Leagues fixed that, but you dont like leagues. On the other hand, the racing in iRacing is just as you describe, close, competitive and on a pickup basis. (outside the rookie series, the rookie races are sometimes just like rF public, the only difference being that you might get an apology after being rammed off the track by a car doing 100mph at the apex of T1 at Laguna Seca :) )

    Btw, I watched that video RSC put up, in expert mode with no driving aids, it doesnt look like good AI to me. The driving is really, really bad but he still stays in touch.

  • Empty

    I dont speak German. But someone said he was on “Legendary” difficulty. I can guestimate that is what it was from the spelling anyways. One would assume that would be pretty darn difficult.

    As good as this guy was doing, and as bad as he was driving, I’m not impressed there. Up to 14th driving like crap in a crap car and faster than the cars ahead. Sure.

    Spin recovery? Or is that just physics phallacy? Last I checked, cars with locked wheels dont suddenly point in different directions. That isn’t even a sim thing, that is just a “Not as bad as Grid” thing.

    AI sucks from the looks of it. Not only slow, but clearly stupid. Not rFactor bad, but still pretty darn junky. Graphics still dont sit right with me – too extreme. Super bright or Super dark. Super Contrast FTL.

    Looks like we will keep waiting for a game to top GP4 in more than the physics department.

    Probably rent it on the PS3 perhaps, not going to waste my time with console games on PC. Play it where it’s made to be played, because clearly this was designed for a couch and controller. :)

  • Marcuz

    They should’ve learned or have taken cues from the Director Mode (am I correct?) in Grand Prix 4. Cameras go to where the action is happening and are not fixated at you. Do nothing special then you might not even get “air time”, hehehe.

    Still, can’t wait for the game. Preloaded on Steam. Grrr, I wish I can play with that 7GB-data already!

  • Marcuz

    I think you can set how long your races are. It would be great if a video of a full-race highlights would be done, like see how the opening laps went, pit stops by the player, etc. I guess that’s cumbersome to do but aren’t some paid to do those stuff for publicity or marketing?

  • Spaceman

    Well he did find his rythm 3 laps in but remember he only caught AI by overshooting his brake points then hammering the throttle on exit. Four laps in and his tyres are destroyed and he ends up last.
    I’m sure, managing the car properly best he could have hoped for was 17th.
    Things I noticed
    Turn 1 (2.00 min) Rubens has to jump off track to avoid his  going wide.
    (2.28 min) Rubens jumps in a gap and keeps the guy wide in order to gain racing line 3 corners down.
    (3.40) Rubens and Jarno are battling down the road. You can see Rubens showing Jarno were he is in his mirrors and you can see Jarno covering the corner.
    (7.50) Jaime Alguersuari moves to the inside of the straight to stop him grabbing a tow then stays there to cover the corner. What I like is he sort of crept back over to make the turn instead of just staying inside. No more than one move then.
    After that he’s destroyed his tyres and it ends rather embaressing.
    I’d say the AI is just fine. Even the mighty GP4 had it’s faults. Ai spent too many laps trying to overtake on the outside.

  • Marcuz

    Aside from Clarkson being a bit too large of a person to sit on cars sized up to Alonso and Fisichella, I don’t think Clarkson wouldn’t really be able to do much better than Hammond. Maybe a bit better (not locking his brakes as much as Hammond, etc.) but not a-hundred-miles much. Most F1 drivers have been doing open-wheelers ever since they’re kids while Hammond was only given a day to do everything (small formula to F1). I bet Renault were laughing at the “I’ve driven a Veyron” thing.  
     
    I also don’t think our idea of driving an F1 is easy unless you’re on the limit is wholly true. I don’t think it’s just about hitting the braking points, hitting the corners well, etc., that sims teach us. Being able to do that in with a G25 and a good racing seat is just a part of the equation. Doing that while being strapped to a beast taking about 2Gs on corners and hitting maybe 5Gs when braking is another. Someone must really be fit and trained to drive these cars.  
     
    http://www.foxsports.com.au/story/0,8659,25230422-5017921,00.html  
     
    Heck, the guy on the article was told there’s nothing he can do with his drool while being strapped on his seat… while NOT even driving. I think F1 cars are hard to drive not in the “intellectual” sense but because of the physical forces you have to cope up with while trying to get in the rhythm of the track. Fear is also a big factor.  
     
    … perhaps putting a camera on the car controlled by the driver’s head on the cockpit while remote controlling the F1 with a good steering wheel setup is something we ‘simracers’ wouldn’t have much problems with skillwise if we take money out of the equation.

  • Marcuz

    F1Man, what you said is 100% correct! Online racing is full of idiots. Pass them, doesn’t matter if you did it cleanly or not, and they’d instantly make it a “main quest” to put you off the track no matter what it takes. Once the idiot has taken both of you out and he doesn’t have any chance of winning, he’d quit the race after leaving the F-bomb to everyone on the server.  
     
    I swear that when I race online when I see someone approaching behind me really fast, I wouldn’t bother defending because of the risk of the pursuer being an idiot. I’d give way then usually see him beach himself because of being too fast on the corner. If he survives, man, he’d be full of wrath and taking me down will be his only intention.

  • snowy

    Is it moddable?

  • F1Racer

    awww what a shame you won’t be enjoying this while a load of us will be.

  • Dillyracer

    Oh please, simracers rely on brands just as much as other gamers do.

  • Infanticide

    I agree on F1 challenge. From all the games created on ISIs engine, this one have best AI, but still not perfect. The worst is in rfactor, and thanks to that, a lot of rfactor players – like me – will be buyng F1 2010, becasue they are hungry for good single player (championship mode) racing game.

  • RKipker

    Agreed!  I will wait to be my own Judge!

  • RKipker

    That’s a Night Photo… :-[

  • RKipker

    Thanks, I did not know what settings he used as it was not English and I know no other language!

  • Pleb

    They could have atleast given us standard TV cams instead of all this cinematic bullshit.

  • Pleb

    A Williams employee who posts on iRacings forums said Hammond made it look more difficult than it should have been.

  • logos

    Yes, Virtual Grand Prix 3 is a pretty impressive sim with great physics, AI and FFB. The AI is on the level of GP4, IMO.

  • kmsukiracer@gmail.com

    i have getting new thinks from u
    yhanking you

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