I play a sim game, toca race driver 3, that has these three Williams in it.

I notice that the FW27 is a LOT easier to drive than either of the other two, yet it is also the fastest.

I was wondering if any of you know enough about the engineering of these cars to help me understand why that's so.

I know the fw11 has turbo lag, so that's part of what makes it harder to drive.

but considering it doesn't even have slicks why is the fw27 so fast? does it have traction control & all that?

johnny_shell - 10 October 2008 09:55 AM

I play a sim game, toca race driver 3, that has these three Williams in it.

I notice that the FW27 is a LOT easier to drive than either of the other two, yet it is also the fastest.

I was wondering if any of you know enough about the engineering of these cars to help me understand why that's so.

I know the fw11 has turbo lag, so that's part of what makes it harder to drive.

but considering it doesn't even have slicks why is the fw27 so fast? does it have traction control & all that?

Because you're not feeling any G-forces, the tire algorithms/simulation is very poor and the dirty air/wake turbulence isn't even implemented.

I would think that the 13 would be easiest to drive, with active everything... it could drive itself by computor program

yeah, but the game I play only has the 3 I listed above.

it would be fun to have a wider sampling though