Is the full Silverstone F1 lap configuration the same as used for actual car track tests? I've been simul- driving laps with courses and cars as listed at FastestLaps.com and have been pretty close except for Siverstone full track, there real cars seem to have 18-20 seconds off. Is the track layout different for them, ie, maybe the last chicane is not used or some other shortcut? I mean a stock Murcielago SV doing a 2:08 on CM or CS seems too quick.
Silverstone Full Lap Config?
- Thread starter Polsixe
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- Poland
Not sure but the lap times from FastestLaps.com are from silverstone pre-reconstruction layout, before 2010.
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- Ipswich
- CraigHyphenO
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- RF_Stonemonkey
The lower layout is the new one but the pit straight is between club and abbey. At least in F1 and in GT6, i think the old pit straight is still used for some things, like some of the F1 support races use the garages there.
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- MJTbreww
- GTP MJTbreww
That's why the times are so much quicker. The 2009 layout is significantly shorter than the present layout.
I thought Silverstone was alot different then I remembered, I wish GT had the 2009 varient. Great picture 👍
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- nowcontrol
The 2009 layout seems to be there in the game, just pull up at Brooklands/Luffield and look around over the barriers you can see it's all there. I too wish we could have it and I do hope it gets added.
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- CraigHyphenO
Unfortunately it appears that section of circuit is simply no longer being used, so it appears that the state of the track there is not as good as the current circuit. One thing I forgot to add is that Club is 'boxier' on that picture than how it actually was on the pre-2010 track. It would be nice to have that variation of the circuit (and other old layouts of Silverstone) just how we had the '70s and '80s variations of Fuji back in GT4.
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