mental

[Cody Forbes]

F1 drivers use the team owned multi-million dollar simulators, not console 
games. GPS modeled tracks are not actually all that good since commercial 
GPS accuracy is not very good (a foot or two in any axis at BEST). The good 
simulators that the normal person can get, and the ones that F1 drivers use, 
use laser point cloud scanned tracks which are accurate down to the exact 
texture of the asphalt. The map of the Korean GP course in that game isn't 
accurate at all since it was done before the final track surface was lain 
and doesn't have the right dimensions and lacks the correct bumps. The bumps 
in turn 6 especially (which are not included in the game) are said to have 
slowed the lap time by half a second at least because they had to lift for 
what otherwise would have been a WOT corner.

-Cody

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From: "John Cassidy" <qforsail at yahoo.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2011 6:21 PM
To: <quattro at audifans.com>
Subject: RE:  mental

> Fun videos!
>
> If you'd like to see that from the cockpit, and if you are a juvenile 
> delinquent at heart, buy the F1 2010 game for Play Station, X-Box, or PC. 
> You know you are getting somewhere when you can drive that Au Rouge turn 
> at Spa full throttle!  The physics model used is so remarkably accurate, 
> I'm told the F1 driver's use it to practice.   Especially true of the 
> Korean GP that ran for the first time in '10.  The game came out before 
> the running, before the course was completed.  The designers used GPS 
> based survey of the course to build the game.  You can set realism to 
> compensate for tire wear, fuel load, damaged wings and such.  The track 
> even "rubbers in" over the course of practice, qualifying, and the race! 
> You can race against AI drivers, or hook-up over the net to race other JDs 
> from around the world.
>
> Words of caution:
>
> It is probably more addictive than crack
> Your Significant Other will hate it for the time you spend and the noise 
> (surround sound is awesome)
> Your dog will run away
> You might want to check with a Doctor to be sure your heart can take it! 
> (I got my HR monitor to register 144bpm sitting on the couch!)
> Do not, under any circumstance, drive a real car, especially and Audi 
> turbo, on public roads immediately after playing the game.
>
> You didn't hear of it from me!
>
> JC
>
>
>
>
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