How good are the AI drivers?
I feel the AI in GPL are very, very good indeed. While there are sometimes places on certain circuits where I am a little quicker or a little slower than the AI cars, in general, I can run very close with them and the feeling is almost eerily realistic. Watching a replay of myself running against 19 AI cars is very much like watching a film of a real Grand Prix from the era. In the early laps, the AI drivers boil around, apparently looking for a way by. With all of them weaving around, each taking a slightly different line here and there, plus the chorus of different engine sounds, and their tires squealing and so forth, it’s remarkably realistic. Sometimes they pass each other – or me, if I make a mistake! Occasionally an AI driver will make a mistake and go off. In one replay from a Mosport race, I saw Hill make a mistake coming out of the turn 5 complex, lock up his brakes and lay streaks of rubber as he slid off into the barrier and out of the race! The first I knew of this in the
