Toughest sim racing tracks
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Toughest sim racing tracks
Although people might think it's the Nürburgring, I'm so familiar with that now, I don't find it difficult.
One of the hardest tracks I am finding to learn is actually...Sebring!
What about everyone else?
One of the hardest tracks I am finding to learn is actually...Sebring!
What about everyone else?
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Bathurst for me.
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The flatter the circuit is, the longer it takes to learn for me. Sebring is quite tricky in that way, but I've always liked the track. COTA was hell when I was on iRacing, but that was a track I didn't like. "Tough" should mean rewarding also, so that would in the end for me mean Bathurst. Very difficult to get right, but very rewarding when you do get it right.
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COTA is hell, yeah. Never bothered to learn it properly. Bathurst is a good example, Nordschleife is always tough but also rewarding, yet I've done enough laps there to no longer really find it exceptionally difficult - if anything, it's a place I thrive in!
As for an actual answer... I would say Mid-Ohio.
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Cadwell Park and Macau in Ride 3. Never driven either track in a car sim, but on a bike, I found it to be one of the toughest two tracks to achieve any degree of consistency on.
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Old Spa in GPL. Sure you could motor around it lap after lap but you'd be slow. If you wanted to be fast you had to nail all those tricky, lethal corners and carry the speed with you. Any minor off and you'd be toast.
Also Zandvoort and Rouen in GPL were absolutely bitches.
Also Zandvoort and Rouen in GPL were absolutely bitches.
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I never managed a lap on the Nürburgring so I guess it's that one lol.
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I can remember Brian Redman saying the same. To be competitive at Spa you have to nail every corner at the right speed and get a very precise exit. Because you carry the exit speed all along the next straight.
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Silverstone, the 1960s version, for such a simple layout I cant seem to get the hang of it.
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In GPL especially, those kerbs were crazy. I find it easier in Project Cars 2.
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Road courses for mine is probably Bathurst and Spa, Charlotte Roval is a bit of a pain too only because it's new.
Ovals I'd say Martinsville, always in heavy traffic and no banking in corners, very easy to overdrive. Darlington is completely unique and very hard to pass in the corners
Ovals I'd say Martinsville, always in heavy traffic and no banking in corners, very easy to overdrive. Darlington is completely unique and very hard to pass in the corners
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Rouen is a nightmare.
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Responding to the above, GPL Silverstone is easy - I went negative in GPLRank with a keyboard about 15 years ago and I'm a few seconds faster than that with the wheel. Assetto Corsa version is a nightmare though, I feel lost on the way into every corner. It's due to the nature of the track, I feel the same about Sebring - particularly the first and last turn. It's difficult to know when or where to brake because the available racing surface is huge.
I agree about Rouen though. Took me ages to go negative there and I thought I was driving out of my skin.
Oddly Martinsville was my best NASCAR circuit. I can't remember if I won there in V8T, but I seem to do really well on ovals like that. Dover was another.
I need to try COTA in a proper sim, I only raced it in F1 2012 with a controller IIRC.
I agree about Rouen though. Took me ages to go negative there and I thought I was driving out of my skin.
Oddly Martinsville was my best NASCAR circuit. I can't remember if I won there in V8T, but I seem to do really well on ovals like that. Dover was another.
I need to try COTA in a proper sim, I only raced it in F1 2012 with a controller IIRC.
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Of the F1 games, which are the only ones I play), I am still struggling with Azerbaijan and Singapore. I think that using a controller is holding me back, as is the fact I haven't played these before having not had F1 games in years.
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playing only GPL, one track where I am holding my breath and that is imo harder than the Nurburgring because difficult sections come to you more often, is MOSPORT I remember on the GPL Trackdatabase, the right comment : "Harder than it looks, a lot " ; How is it true, to me a lot harder than Rouen. You never feel you can relax, here, two hard blind corners and a blind jump followed by a tricky right hander where a lot of speed is mandatory to put a good lap time. Moss corner double right hander is a Russian Roulette, lap after lap
... but this track is rarely on the light, and has never been discussed often at SRMZ.
... but this track is rarely on the light, and has never been discussed often at SRMZ.