There are many vehicles where this is the only viable configuration for FWD applications of certain chassis. And even if you don’t believe it to potentially achieve superior cornering and braking characteristics like I do, I believe that you’ll find it to be versatile. Two real-world motorsport examples are the Miller 122 (one typical front-mid-engine rear-wheel-drive, and one front-mid-engine front-wheel-drive, with the latter being built because it sits lower) and the Nissan GT-R LM Nismo (which had superior aerodynamics, and only failed due to mechanical issues). If really needed, someone could introduce it through a mod, which would probably be the most convenient way overall, in regards to the community as a whole, to implement it. If I was at all competent with modding, I would try it myself, but I wouldn’t know where to start.
I may be wrong, but im pretty sure many or at least a few of the front engine bodies already in the game have front-mid-engine. I may be wrong though.
Oh, and if the GTR LM Nismo truly only failed because of mechanical issues it wouldn’t have qualified barely faster (and in one case slower) than the LMP2 field
That car was a complete shitbox and there’s a reason most race cars aren’t FWD, but of course i get what you mean.
Anyways, i reccomend checking a few bodies with the body invisible to see if they’re front mid engine. You can always move the engine back further with weight balance or whatever it’s called and Advanced Trim.
But the advanced trim doesn’t change the actual weight balance, right? I know that there’s the slider and I remember the advanced trim being only visual
It’s not necessary to hide the entire body - you could just hide the bonnet and zoom in more closely on the engine for a closer look.
Doesn’t using the weight slider actually simulate moving the engine forwards or backwards already?
Only to a limited degree. The further from the default the slider is, the heavier the vehicle will be. Unfortunately…
You have no valid reason to be cruel here. Your hostility is ill-founded, and do you really want conflict to erupt? Because I will defend this machine as someone with a proper love of mechanical engineering. Not being able to handle the 24 continuous hours of Le Mans by no means disqualifies it as a legitimate and worthy racecar. A great many promising concepts have falling short at such extremes but performed perfectly elsewhere. It just didn’t have the endurance required for that specific event. Apply a conventional hybrid system, and it would have had the lap times to compete, regardless of engine issues. And for the record, the unique aerodynamic “vacuum tubes” designed by Ben Bowlby and his team are genius (massive tunnels starting from behind front half-shafts creating incredible front downforce that both fills in and is created by the wake behind the vehicle, which is a partial vacuum like any other vehicle’s wake, only slightly filled in by said tunnels), so don’t you dare call it a shitbox.
Im not trying to be hostile, but if it couldnt even complete a qualifying lap at decent pace it is not a good car compared to the competition.
Do you seriously think an LMP1 running 21 seconds off of the pace is a “good car”?
Im not even talking about the fact it didnt make it through the race, the qualifying pace was atrocious, and the massive backing behind the car and plans to make it something great completely fell apart after one race, and Nissan immediately pulled it out.
An LMP1 is in no way supposed to be slower than an LMP2. Simple as that.
(Qualifying results)
While of course an impressive engineering achievement, if your car doesn’t even function correctly that would seem like a major problem, especially if the team has so little hope in it that it pulls out after only one race.
3 entries, and all completely fail? I consider that a shitbox, yes, and i can say whatever the hell i want.
The project failed, and that is enough for me.
Unfortunately…
You are referring to wrong weight slider: what you probably should be looking at is Weight Distribution one. I don’t think that one changes weight, but merely how it is distributed.
It’s possible that you might indeed be right about all of this, but I don’t recall anybody throwing much of issue about replicating relevant RL examples (or making something inspired by them). Result is that issue may not be as big as you might think.
Couple of these even have car bodies in-game directly inspired by them: first two.
