Finally re-installed RF2 today, wanting to test various cars and see what lap times I could pull. With the amount of random one off content available, I've decided to try and catalogue a menagerie of cars and try and group them into performance classes for racing.
Today's running was the 2009-2011 Subaru Legacy B4 GT300 from the Steam Workshop on the 2019 version of Road America, which is an authorized conversion of LilSki's Road America with his permission, also on the Steam Workshop. The graphics and textures on this track look great, and it was a blast tearing around the circuit.
The car was also superb, the 4 cylinder Boxer gave it enough oomph to get up to around 227-230 kph on the straights (fastest I measured while focusing on not wrecking) but with the brakes and aerodynamics it feels like a formula car in a GT shell. I could brake super deep, while the sheer amount of downforce allowed me to basically take the carousel full throttle (like second to last board deep, probably around 300-200 ft)
If you like the Tatuus, you'd probably like this. Enough power to require some care on the accelerator pedal, but more than composed enough if you are sensible with it, and enough downforce to rip through the turns but not so much the car drives itself either. To be fast you have to be ready to go deep and go hard on entry, with your bravado into the breaking zones likely making up most of your time difference.
I pulled a 2:15.619 in the end, if you want to try and beat me.
I'm glad I finally came back to this sim and gave it a proper shake, and next I will probably play with the ISI Corvette GT2,
