Its quite fun to run on in even a simple sim rig, just wheel and pedals, which is what I have. I managed a 1.29.116 in a Lotus Exos 125, which I think these days would be a Formula 3 car.
I have a standard sim atm. Sounds like I should dive back into the Red Bull Ring. To be fair I have improved so much in cornering lately I should give it another go. BTW be sure to check out !simracing@lemmy.ml and !iracing@lemmy.ml we need to pump the sim racing communities here!
It’s worth it IMO - one of the easiest tracks. Tricky turn for me is always getting traction out of T3 (the first hair pin, not sure id it counts as T2 or T3 because of that left kink after T1). But I think the whole track flows pretty nicely.
It's a rather short track, or what is called a "Mickey mouse track". Lots of slow corners so plenty of possibilities for overtaking. Not heavy on the engine.
In theory, Red Bull should struggle a bit more than normal since their biggest strength is on long straights and fast corners, but they (especially Max) are so far ahead that I expect Max to win unless something technical happens, or an extremely unfortunate safety car or something like that.
But that doesn't matter. There's a really tight midfield behind that, I haven't seen a dull race yet this season, just don't focus on the leader when he is 10 seconds ahead.
We’re on the same page regarding Max’s dominance. I don’t think it’s a problem, in fact I look at it as we’re lucky to watch him. Especially after Monaco quali. That being said I only started watching late last year so everything is still exciting.
I stopped watching this year. They stopped all streaming besides their own here and that service is three times as expensive. I would have pirated but the f1 sub also banned me because I didn't very my email. So all contact to the sport got cut. It's just been motogp for me this year. Will get to see it live as well. :D