you might as well use the formula abarth to practice with. It's original AC content, and you could put some wacky tyre pressures on it or an odd setup to make it feel a bit more lively like your F1000. Or alternatively use your mod but change the track grip % in settings to bring the laptimes back to a more realistic level. I would also recommend using VR instead, screens cannot compete with actually being sat in the car. Real life will start to feel more like a game!      You can get the 'arse' seat of pants feel if you run your wheel settings stock, no damping, no spring, no effects - AC gives a lot of feel for tyre grip but a lot of mods don't utilise this properly so it could be the mod.

Well that is a good question;  Here is what I have seen recent, me an old man (66) and a young guy (17)  in a Formula Ford  at Mettet.  I have been running classic FF's for a long time.   The young man is a champ in SIM racing and full of confidence that he could teach the old farts ( me and my friends) a lesson on how we should race..   I have to say he has never been in a classic formula ford ( van diemen).  We did two laps, and the youngster was upside down in the gravel pit.  Done racing....  Lucky he was not hurt, took an hour to get him out.    Thus SIM racing has it merrits but so far of reality with classic formula ford in the real world of oil , fuel and burned rubber ..

Sorry to hear about your engine woes. I watched your races live, you made great get aways, but drifted away, I guess that was down to lack of real world track time. Looking forward to seeing the onboard video.

You're so much smoother in the real car!

Looking forward to your race weekend video(s).

As always great content, the last race on Sunday, you had a fantastic start🫶

Great video bro. Editing at the start was awesome. Good luck with the race!

Need a load cell brake pedal for the Sim

Nice work!

Love it mate, nice one - Need to talk about your sim AV set up!

I'm somewhat new to your channel so I'll just try to note some stuff about AC and hopefully you'll find it useful.
I don't really know how to word it in a way that doesn't sound nerdy or overwhelming so I hope it doesn't come over as too much info.

I've spent enough time playing around in AC over the years to know that it's just a massive grey zone. There are so many mods out there where the car's model is from another game and the physics are tweaked from existing cars. Sometimes mods get re-posted on other sites with additional liveries and/or different BOPs without consent from the original creators of the mods.
So it's not impossible to imagine that someone ported the F1000's model from the Grid games (4:02 would explain why the car's year is set to 2019) added some close-enough data to it and another person then shared it on another site.

What's worse is that both in case of tracks and cars, offline racing is very far down the priority list these days so common, easy-to-fix problems end up showing up way more often then they should.
- 6:33 AI Cars trying to centre to the racing line immediately after race start? Custom Shaders Patch has a potential fix build into it that can help with that. (Alternatively you can try an app called "Stretched Grid" that will let you space out the field better and help the AI get up to race pace earlier.)
- AI has more grip in the corners than the player can achieve? It's a hidden value called "Ultra Grip" that's inside the car's data file. You unpack the data.acd file into a folder with Content Manager, find the ai.ini inside the data folder and change the Ultra Grip value in it from 1.20 to 1. This will give the AI the same amount of grip you, the player can achieve.
Alternatively you can also add this line into the track's folder. You just add the Ultra Grip section into an "ai_hints" file. This way the track will overwrite every car's Ulria Grip behaviour for the sessions.
(This by the way is a problem with official AC cars too, not exclusive to mod cars, yet people often just blame the mods for it.)

If you find the car being too off pace from the real thing you can just edit the car's engine data, it's literally just a simple file that says how much power the car makes at certain revs.
Similarly you can also adjust how quickly should the AI press the throttle, how late should they brake and if they should trail brake inside the ai.ini file.

I personally find it really annoying how much tinkering can be needed to fix up some cars and tracks but at least AC (and the tools that people developed for it over the years) let's you do that and somewhat easily.
Hope this helps.

I wonder how it will go....? Great content mate, cool to see your analysis of Brands

great video, good to see someone else struggling in the sim! need to turn damage to 100%, that will slow you down haha

Now that jimmi the shed no punterino jimmer has been on the channel the sim car livery guys will probably remember you next time.. and if they don't WTF sort it out.. i'll sit for a weekend and learn how to reskin on Asseto ...  :)

You're too polite to say it, but Jimmy broke your car didn't he? 😂
Thanks for the video.
Keep up the great work.

can't be arsed to read all comments but in case it hasn't been noticed, the last F1 race at Brands Hatch was in 1986...

Nice sim mine is the cheapest one I could find

I was watching the YouTube live feed. 😬💪

I high sided at druids on my motorcycle , that wasn't cheap!  but you cannot hate brands hatch as the elevation changes are awesome

wow what a mod do you use?

Which SIM is it that you use... it seems nice