Poppins, you're talking to a brick wall, its common knowledge that many of the F1 teams run Rfactor Pro -
http://www.rfactor-pro.com/, if you don't know this then you're not an F1 fan or know very little about the sport, if that is the case then why are you still talking?
You failed to mention the Ferrari Simulator or iRacing that i mentioned in my post, those 2 being the most accurate commercially available Sim/Games, Rfactors 2007 official F1 car is very close to the above 2. The above 2 are widely accepted and known as the best simulators, Rfactor the retail game has a fantastic core but it has not been developed, Rfactor Pro is that same core that has been adapted and developed into a professional simulator that allows racing teams to develop their cars and drivers. Rfactor pro as a simulation, the "game" aspect of it has the same under the hood as Rfactor the game, the 2007 Sauber F1 official update was developed in conjunction with the real team and included the licence, it was also available for LFS. This F1 car update feels very close to the iRacing Williams car.
These simulators do not have "****" physics, the physics when used in the way they were intended (for racing) work very well, they are very accurate, it is mentioned that in certain extreme situations the sim may not react well, specifically the tyre model.
iRacing/Netkar - More up to date than Rfactor yet i can jump into any of the sims and drive in the same way, i use the same techniques the same style, and i can do the same in a real car, i can predict how a car will react and i can manipulate the cars in the way i want. Ferrari Virtual Academy, this is a simulator based on NetKar developed for Ferrari to recruit drivers into their own academy, it was made using real world car data and it was made specifically for Ferrari.
Now, my original post which you disagreed with stated that these sims provided a much more realistic and natural F1 driving experience than GT5. Not that these cars are exactly like driving an F1 car, obviously they are not, but the actions used to drive the cars are very close, and that is what matters. Real world factors such as speed, wind, gravity and fear that effect the driver cannot be recreated virtually, but those effects on the car can.
Edit : In response to JJ - Ferrari Virtual Academy and NetKar are the same software, or the same under the hood, but FVA was developed further and is its own software system, though it runs the same physics engine. I do believe the more recent updates to Netkar (especially when the KS2 was released) came along with some of those updates. FVA however does have quite superior graphics and a slightly different (more understeer, more sensitive brakes) to NetKar Pro itself.
I will not post anymore in this thread.
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