I dont feel people should be pressured to be fast enough, if you have control of the car and can keep running laps (lap after lap) without crashing then that's good enough. I remember in the old days some would finish 3 or more laps down on immortal pushing flat out. Heck at that damn Madrid circuit or the damn toyko SS5 I'd be 4+ laps behind. Sometimes just running laps is good enough for top 5 anyways.
As far as the new cars go, the red bull standard feels more like a modern F1 car with extra grip and aero, and I imagine compared to the F1 2018 cars its like a couple seconds faster a lap at Suzuka at than the real F1 cars. Maybe even with them. The F1500 has had about the same performance as an early 90s or mid 90s F1.
The each have their own pecularities. I like the idea of a cross series with the two but of course I have the constraint these days of having to work on Sundays until around 2 PM CDT/ 3 PM EDT/ or 8PM GMT. Once I'm done there I can get on by about 3:15 PM my time or 9:15 PM GMT.
I like the idea of Sundays as its when all the old races used to be.
Of NOTE: The F1 2017/18 E sports series on codemasters F1. Interesting times. I dount I'm good enough at that game to crack top 10 though with all the corner cut cheats they do and the crazyness of those races with real damage. I'd probably GRIND for like 50 hours to make the cut, then somebody takes your rear wing off or cuts your tire going into turn 1 lap 1 in the main race...

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