Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-36318929-20181229224504/@comment-28664530-20190101135229

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 😆 Chief engineer, Zack Eakin, said that, it's the most competitive way of making it, within current rules(back in 2015). He also said front downforce is one of the key laptime dictators, hence front engine, FWD setup. And also he said that front tire wear out should not be a problem, because Michelin made some specifically for them. The engine was good for high 500ts HP and, if they didnt put that hybrid system in, no wonder it was slow. They were doing everything differently, experimeting, the whole project was like: "Lets cross our fingers and hope it'll be ok". Imagine how much money they had to spend to make this whole prototype. The other thing that he said was, "The LMP1 is the closest where we can do something crazy like that...".