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I just saw a post about the Colombo 1175 F1 car that never made it past the drawing board. I'm curious if any of you would want us to create this car for Assetto Corsa. Perhaps it could be a paid mod since it is a defunct brand, but I'm not sure what the interest is for weird unfinished F1 projects like this car.The 1175 was designed with eight narrower than normal wheels (for the time) with the rear wheels being only 8 inches wide. These wheels were to be arranged in pairs though each wheel moved independently from each other as they were not locked solid to each other.The car was to be powered by a V8 engine, I assume it would have used a Cosworth DFV V8 as that engine was so popular at that time.The brakes would have attempted to incorporate innovative technologies. There were to be steel drum brakes on each of 8 wheels. My understanding, though admittedly based off of limited and somewhat confusing information, is that these drum brakes would have had a more modern disc brake caliper working inside the drum to exert pressure onto the brake shoes. Colombo, the designer, stated that testing indicated that the brakes could sustain higher surface temperature as a result of these innovations. I doubt this car would have been very successful. The car would have been extremely heavy and, in my opinion, it would have had poor performing brakes (putting a disc break inside a drum brake will only lead to a lack of cooling and worse performance). At fast tracks like Monza these downsides would not overcome the slight gains in aerodynamic slipstreaming and the car would have likely fallen off the pace over the course of a race as its brakes overheated, and then at more technical circuits the car would have been a disaster altogether.

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Kelpo

A "almost F1" pack would be epic to see for the first time in AC. There were a lot of interesting cars that were actually built, but never raced from the 60s-90s. Here are some more of these "almost F1" cars that I found interesting: - 1969 Alpine A350 & 1976 Alpine 500 - 1982 Rombo F1 - 1994 Lola T94/30 - 1970 Pygmee MDB15 & 1971 Pygmee MDB16 - 1977 Apollon Fly - 1977 McGuire BM1 - 1974 Dywa-Cosworth

Nick Hill

While I'm certainly not opposed to the idea of an "F1 oddities" pack, my personal opinion is that there are a lot of relatively famous vintage F1 cars that are overlooked (either they haven't been done at all OR have been done at a quality level way below Historic Sim Studios' standards).

Someguy1785

I'll agree that there's still so many great cars that haven't been in AC or any other sim. I have crappy models of early 70's F1 and Prototypes stolen from older games, just because there's no other choice. Learning about failed designs and such is fun and educational, and I'd drive them once or twice to show them off and have a laugh, but I'd much rather see a Matra 670, Ligier JS2, or Alfa Romeo T33/3. Those cars don't exist at all in modern sims yet, and were highly competitive in their day. By name recognition alone it would bring attention to HSS more than "pack of weird looking F1 rejects".

Moorea

I'm surprised I've never heard of that one before. I really like seeing weird concepts get to life in sims like Assetto. As far as I know there is no proper way to make physics for 6+ wheeled behicles though, so you would have to code it as having 4 wide tyres rather than 8 narrow ones? Anyway as much as I like weird projects like this one I think there's a big lack of quality, actual F1 cars from 50s to 70s.

Dylan Hale

YES YES YES YES. This looks like a Hotwheels take on a F1 car in real life.

znooze

It would be lovely if we would get some obscure 70's open wheelers, always down for that.