Assetto Corsa Competizione 1.9 GT World Challenge 2023 is finally here!
After many many months of waiting we finally got ourselves big ACC update!
Not only ACC presented Ferrari 296, Porsche 992 and Lamborghini Evo2 with wonderful Circuit Ricardo Tormo (Valencia), BUT also introduced massive changes to it’s tyre model, suspension, dampers.
So naturally as huge player of ACC I welcome these changes that we asked for so many months ago!:)
Most important points to understand:
Tyres – For past 4 years optimal tyre pressure was 27,5-27,8 PSI, with the new tyre model optimal pressure went between 26-27. So let’s say 26,5 for quali and 26,8 for the race – Lower pressure gives more grip but more heat to the tyre
Suspension – You probably noticed that most of good and alien setups in previous version of the game were very soft. Now setups are having bit more wide spread and seems like “stiff” is the new thing that works.
Dampers – You also probably notice that you can drive over the curbs finally and cars are behaving a bit more “realistic”. Of course there are also some bad things that happens now, like cars bumping a lot.
Let’s give little look at the new cars:
Ferrari 296 – To me it almost seems too easy to drive, reminds me a lot of BMW M4. What you setup has little impact and car feels almost all the time the same. Feels like LMP car, very well balanced.
Porsche 992 – If you hated 991 you will love 992 – it has like 20% of 991 feeling but the rest feels like almost “mid engine car”. Which made me personally really happy. Still lacks top speed but it is very nice to control in the corners. Way harder to drive compare to 296.
Lamborghini – Well, after finally 3 years we got Lamborghini that is nice to drive and is also good on laptimes. I think new Lambo reminds me 991 in terms of pace on slow and mid pace tracks. Topspeed looks bad, but corner speed is really really good!
We will keep you posted of the 1.9 changes because it seems like some stuff might change – In reddit post Aris (dev) wrote there will be change to the graining which is way too sensitive right now.
Meanwhile you can watch video explaining changes coming from 1.8 version of the game to 1.9 🙂