FH5, Some DLC cars re-review’d

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Ferrari Roma, Lamborghini STE, Lamborghini Essenza.

I raced the Ferrari Roma round the Horizon Festival Circuit in the same configuration as I used for the HW Goliath (eight-speed gearbox; RWD). No. It may have 50% weight distribution, but the back end is looser than my ageing bowels. I wondered whether a six-speed gearbox might be the answer, and although that helped a little, the car was still very twitchy round corners. Aero doesn’t rescue it, but AWD does, and the resulting understeer isn’t dire. At least, that’s my experience on a keyboard.

The Lamborghini Huracán STE (does it have the longest name of any car in the game?) is meant to be an extreme track toy, but, I feel, is in the wrong class. The Huracán STO ought to be a modern supercar, not a track toy. The STE should be a track toy, not an extreme track toy. It struggled against the Sesto Elemento, the 599XX Evo, and the Ariel Atom. I shouldn’t be winning Copper Canyon by hundredths of seconds, but that’s what happened. The car needs more engine and possibly AWD to rescue it, but like the STO, this fails to live up to its outward promise.

I totally misread the Lamborghini Essenza. For a RWD car, this thing has insane grip. Normally through some of the earlier corners in Dunas Blancas I’m fairly cautious, but the Essenza blasted through them as if they were straight lines. The problem is not the car, but the drivatars in the Sesto Elemento or the FE BMW X5M and their ilk when they’re being impossible, and tracks such as the HW Goliath where some of the drivatars can be impossible to beat in this class.

Overall, I’d now rank the Essenza first, followed by the 296 GTB and the Lamborghini SC20. I’d put the Ferrari Roma next now that it’s been upgraded a bit more, and the Huracán Tecnica after that. In penultimate place would go the Huracán STE only because it’s not some chunky EV barge.

Appendix

I decided to try the Huracán STO again, RWD with aero. Ugh! All the car wants to do round any corner is spin out regardless of how careful you are, and tuning couldn’t rescue it.

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