Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-36318929-20181229224504/@comment-31710039-20190101091808

Mildvex wrote: Fdalbor wrote: Never understood the outstanding performance of the GT-R Nismo at LeMans in the game. In real life the car was a total failure and competely unreliable. If I rememberr correctly none of the GT-R's ever even finished a race at LeMans let alone win anything. Yet the car is almost untouchable in RR3. Beats the heck ouf of me. Yep, the car was massive failure. In fact their fastest lap was 3:39 around La Sarthe, the best time in any of the three Nissan LMP1s. At the same time literally every single other LMP1 was consistent around 3:20/lap and André Lotterer has set the record-breaking in-race lap time of 3:17.475.

The GT-R LM Nismo was slow everywhere - on straights, in turns especially on curbs (who would've thought with that extreme front bias and that fiasco of suspension geometry 🙄), their braking was unbelievably poor, they were eating tires like crazy (again, shocker shocker)... All in all, it was barely controllable because they went polar opposite of competition-proven development and made that flop to compete against Porsche, Audi and Toyota. I mean, front-wheel drive... right. That was set to fail miserably, lol. But hey, while they were still running at least they managed to be a bit faster than GTE-Pro and GTE-Am cars 😆

To call it massive failure when it wasn't even finished is a bit much don't you think?

And the reason for the slowest lap of all 3 manufacturers was cause Nissan was only running on engine, without electric motors, cause their hybrid system wasn't ready.

To bad Nissan pulled the plug so we will never know how good it would really be.

And the reason why it's so good in game is because in virtual reality, that hybrid system works. ;)