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- patrakoffman-64
It depends on the event. They can be fast.
Yet no one has a problem running soft racing tires online with the room labeled "Street cars only". The biggest factor in GT5 between street car vs Racing cars is the tires. It's not very often I see "street cars" racing online with tire restrictions. Everyone wants to run with super-glue tires and obvious feels like you do if you pick anything less than it limiting yourself.
Use lower tires doesn't keep you from actually driving the car around the track (like pausing on the track for 10 seconds or closing your eyes,etc ) you just can't go in and come out of the corners as fast. AI has to have some kind of advantage over the player since AI can't learn and adapt like the player can.
Now, that the AI has been 'fixed' and the opponents you get in each race are more 'comprehensible' with 1.06 then before, I have come to the conclusion that the AI is absolutely nonsense. (oh ho, welcome to the club, I guess)
For example, I'm driving the 908. I choose an arcade race, and finally I can race against other 908 cars driven by the AI. But, to my surprise, I'm about half a minute faster then they are after one lap. And no, it's not my racing abbility. To be honest I'm pritty bad at racing, so I guess you guys could even outperform them even easier.
Actually I am even cheating in favor of the AI. To get the 908 as opponent when driving a 908, you have to use a full tuned 908. Later on I remove the Turbo Stage 3, before starting the race to get back to the stock 908 specs.
Same with Super GT. I really have to put some tons of extra weight and reduce hp to have a 'balanced fight' at the Super GT event.
poll: do we need AI or skip those blokes for pure online racing, similar to iracing, for example specific events like Super GT only
yes/no
Why don't you just try and complete the seasonal event with a stock (or moderately tuned if needed) car. No one is forcing you to tune. The game is as challenging as you make it.