I really shoulda taken my name outta the image before sharing it with people, huh?

Its very clear to me that this is an aero problem first and foremost, it seems that to counter the previous tire models lack of grip, they overcranked the aero to counter the bad low speed performance. We have always had this issue ever since these cars launched roughly 2 years ago (jeez), and you can still see it how we can go through things like tetre rouge at 265-264kmh, but be 10kmh down when braking for Mulsanne 1,  but now that we have a new, frankly fantastic tire model, the cars don't need this kind of aero, especially now.

I want realism personally that's the whole reason I play sims.

This popped up in my recommendations 47 seconds after it was uploaded. YouTube knows me.

Quick note... the hybrid sounds for the 499p is canned. You can actually go into LMU and turn off the hybrid completely (regen: off) and the regenerative brake whirring and the hybrid whine will completely disappear from the car (not to mention the braking will feel different).

in iRacing, you set to "No Deploy" or drain the battery, and the hybrid sound will fire exactly at the same intervals. What bothers me endlessly more than the unrealistic speeds is the canned sound effect. That suddenly makes iRacing feels like an arcade racer because that's what Grid Legends did. There's no underlying simulation underneath, it's just canned effects irrelevant to any virtual mechanics.

I would have never thought iRacing would push an update like this and I think this needs more coverage than it is currently getting.

Real Racing 3 physics

People seem to be more open to criticism with iracing in recent years thankfully, couldnt say anything bad about it but it still needs to be said, Iracing physics arent realistic in general, the way you have to drive is completely different

Choice for a nicer driving instead of more realistic one would constitute for me a simcade game rather than a really expensive "The Ultimate Racing Simulation"

Realistic is the top priority imo, it's fine if it needs specific strategy or technique to drive, this leads to getting knowledge and insight of these amazing cars.

Considering the standards we know iRacing are capable of setting (Rain is a great example), and the fact that LMU has done a much better job at modeling the Hypercar's/GTP's aswell as AMS2 taking a big step foward recently.

Combined with the fact iRacing has always marketed itself as a simulator and generally has chosen the path of realism over "fun"

The Current State that the iRacing Hypercar/GTP's are in simply isn't good enough, not even close

I went to Le Mans this year, and sat for a while at the entrance of the Porsche curves, not only they lifted heavily, they also only started accelerating midway though after the big bump on the track. To see it go that fast, almost flat, is ridiculous!

I think I’m almost every single racing game the cars being fun to drive is more important than being realistic but sims are the one case where being realistic is absolutely more important

I would love a comparison between VRC and iRacing's Ferrari.
It's insane that this was allowed to go through testing.

10:16 realistic is always more fun to drive. What you’re really asking is — do you want realism or do you want a simcade experience? I don’t want a simcade; especially at iRacing prices. Considering how screwed up GTP is in iRacing now, this is going to be the season of Supercars Camaro 😅

realism all the way. If a car in a simulator isn't fun to drive that should be because the real life counterpart isn't fun to drive. Simulators should be as close as we can get to experiencing the real deal - including all of its flaws.

Unpopular opinion: iRacing needs to look into a ground-up update to the entire game engine. Little by little it's starting to fall behind in comparison to some of its competitors and I think the biggest reason for that is the fact that we're still using a game engine from 2008.

In a perfect world we could have an iRacing 2 with continued support for both the new and original version.

I think its a consistency over the entire catalogue... an MX5 would drive to a standard that can match what the high end cars can achieve

I am so glad that you did this video. I love iRacing, but these thing must be exposed, I dont like that this is happening with these cars.

Coming from Asset Corsa, I'm surprised that nobody has figured this out until now. The speed seems to always be unrealistic for the GTP class. I went only 190kph in the Cadillac at Sebring (T1) in AC, but when I watched an onboard of the Cadillac in iRacing, the speed was about 220-230 kph which is outrageously different.

It's a shame that the new tyre and aero change has also had a huge effect on the GTP BOP. Throughout 2024, the gaps across the cars were around 0.1/.2. Now we're heading into 2025 with almost 1 second from the fastest to the slowest.. I hope it gets fixed soon

as someone who dreams of being a racecar driver.. realism is everything. this is a massive problem