The harder the tires are ( also the more air you put in them) the less rubber is actually touching the pavement so you get less grip. You need tires to be soft for grip but at the same time able to handle the forces pulling against them going around a corner.
Deformation is most simply expressed by Hooke's Law, F=kx. The more force, the more deformation. Hard tires on the X1 could act like soft tires on F1 cars. You wouldn't put soft F1 rubber on a racing truck, the truck would be too heavy. Same for the X1, it makes too much downforce, so it gets its own tire.
While a jet can pull a lot more G's yet a Bi-plane can still out turn a jet. It's totally different to get something pull the G's of a jet at the turning radius tighter than a Bi-plane.
Well OK, but I was talking about G, not turn radius. And for a given speed, G is proportional to turn radius. The reason why a biplane can fly a tighter turn is because it can pull more G at those low speed. The X1 would be to the biplane what the biplane is to the jet since it creates 0 speed downforce.
But the percieved performance is absolutely out of the question. There aren't tires on the face of the earth right now that could withstand the full potential of the X1, as driven in GT5. IMO, a real X1 probably wouldn't run much faster times than any regular F1 car and if it did it would more so be attributed to just having more power. Handling and corner speeds would all be virtually the same, but those extra few hundred HPs down anything resembling a straight line would make the real difference.
Now I think you're completely off the mark. How could the corner speeds possibly be the same when the X1 has such a massive advantage in downforce? Fan cars were banned for a reason, because they work and they work too well. F1 cars would be hopeless outclassed by the X1, it's pretty much a fact.
And yes, we know about the tire issue, but here's the thing. No one has had to develop tires for the X1, so there's a reason why they might not exist while still being completely possible. And secondly, GT5 isn't the more realistic computer code ever written. As a matter of fact, the grip on normal race cars is just as inaccurate as that for the X1, after all they all use the same physics. Would a real X1 pull 8g? Possibly, but the bigger thing to take away is that it would leave a F1 for dead no matter the track. The F1 has zero advantages.
You could put F1 tires on the X1. What would happen? The F1 would drive normally. The X1 would drive with the F1's maximum brake, turning, and acceleration at every speed. The F1 car would be hopeless.
So at the end of the day... what point was there to making it and including it in the game? It's meaningless to the auto industry or even motorsports, it has no bearing IRL terms, its performance is blown way out of proportion, and what it really narrows down to is just general knowledge - more power = faster lap times. Well durr
So I propose,
if we're going to include fantasy cars lets also throw in some Transformers, laser guns, and space ships! And some explosions We could call it - TOO FAST TOO FUTURISTIC?
It's in the game to show people the limits of modern auto technology. It does a good job of showing how limited race cars may actually be. And while it's silly for someone to look at it and say it's fake just because it may not be 100% accurate (and in GT, nothing is 100% accurate in the first place), if one tries to be reasonable with it and accept that the research needed to define the true maximum performance simply could not be carried out for a video game, it makes as much sense as any other car.
I don't see how Transformers would fit into GT though. They're not all that realistic.
Stop comparing the x1 to the 2j, they're from two different periods of time
Why does that matter? The X1 is a 2J from 2010. If you want to see what a X1 would do to a F1, look at what the 2J did to everything else.
I do it all the time to remove X1's/F1's/FGT's. It's when you want to get rid of the Furai aswell that you need the minimum weight at 810kg.
