Sat Apr 18, 2015 5:24 pm by strop
Okay, I've tested the track with a number of cars, including a quick-fire replica of a 2008 M3 E92 (6-speed manual version) that relatively closely matches the specs*. The reason I used this car is because BMW released a demo simulator as part of promo for when they released the M3 E90 in 2007 in which you could drive the various trim levels of M3 in a faithfully replicated GP Nurburgring (though at Veedol they used the sharper chicane of the F1 track, as do most of the simulations I've played). I must have done like 200+ laps with that sim. I cross referenced my recollection of that experience with onboard laps of the course to see if my impression of the corner speeds was correct. After that, I took my f*** off fast cars around the track to see if they could come in a shave under 2 minutes on a flying lap, which is my general expected benchmark as those were the kinds of times I was getting with the 1400hp+ totally OP tier of cars I was playing with in other sims.
The good news is that everything checks out really well. The only thing I would possibly change, if anything, and it's not at all necessary, is to make the radius of the fast downhill kink, Hatzenbects-Bogen, wider and with a shallower angle, but that's only because I like going flat out and grazing the kerb with no regard to personal safety because I'm driving in a sim LOL. In reality, a corner speed of 220km/h in a race car is probably quite reasonable, but I found even the M3 I tested had to lift off, which shouldn't have to happen. Other than that, while I haven't checked the elevations strictly, the various speeds indicate this is an excellent job! Thanks so much for taking the time to do it, not least because this is one of my favourite tracks.
* 414hp at about 8200rpm is 100rpm off, dry weight of 1580kg, Top Gear track time of 1:25.7 which is 0.4s slower than I hoped, 0-100 in 4.7s which is 0.1s faster than reported and a standing km time of 23s which is 0.3s faster than reported.) I've attached the car to the end of this post. Also, I just noticed that somewhere along the line I started calling it the E90. It's a coupe, it should be E92. Sorry!
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