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Originally Posted by MKSixer
And if you believe that the older cars with less speed are harder on you, the next time there is a club event at your track I enjoin you to go out in a VW GTI and follow up with a GT3-RS. That's about the relative speed difference in the F1 cars we are discussing. You'll be shocked.
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I think the physics are on your side wrt the difficulty of driving old vrs new F1 cars.
Drive an old pre-nannies 911 and you can feel exactly what the car is doing especially through the non assisted steering and medium profile tyres. Loss of grip is signalled early and is progressive.
Creating more grip through wide sticky low profile tyres and more sophisticated suspension makes the steering less communicative and tyre breakaway more abrupt. Adding in big increases in performance makes it even harder it is to find the limit and keep a car there.
ISTM that trying to compare Jim Clark with a modern F1 driver is a pointless exercise, he was a great driver of his era and thats all that can be said....Same Fangio etc.