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About driving aids, I built this tune without using driving aids then went back with SRF and Active Steering in order to drop my times. Two things. First, the balance of the tune really did not change when I added SRF and again when I added AS. SRF seems to act like the next softer tire. I expected AS to allow for me to build a more tail happy tune and allow the AS to catch it. The issue is that the AS, even set to strong, will catch the car, but little catches seem to be faster than big slide catches. So I went back to the original, no aids tune and went the fastest.
try to discredit the tune or my lap time on the basis that I used driving aids. If you do not want to use aids, as mentioned above, the tune balance seems the same no matter which aid I turned on. As for my choice to use them, that is really my choice. I think of it this way. During the traction control era of Formula One, did some teams choose not to use it on the principal of being more authentic? If one team did, how did they perform, how many wins did they get, how many new fans did they acquire? The rules were set for the seasonal and if it is faster to use aids, I am going to do so for the seasonal. When I race online I look for rooms racing on sport tires, a reasonable PP level and only ABS1 allowed.[/quote]
I think PD needs to do the following:
1. If a car built prior to the usage of sequencial (paddle) shifting, the allow the H pattern. Also, the stock setup for the car should exclude all driving aids, even ABS. That would at least in theory make the driving experence more authentic. If the player choses to customize the car, he/she can have whatever setup and parts they desire.
Cars (especially racing cars) of this era should default to sequencial shifting. This is especially true of X and F1 cars.
I'm not sure, but I don't think any modren race cars compete without some kind of driving aids.
Gran Turismo should know enough about cars to install the proper equipment for each car and era the car ran/runs in. So while they are fixing the game on the fly, they might at least pay some attention to that fix.