Have Your Say: The Best Virtual Silverstone?

[Paul Jeffrey]

Have Your Say is here, and in deference to the British Grand Prix this weekend we'd like to know who you think has the best version of Silverstone in sim racing..!

This should be a pretty easy one.. or not, depending on your personal opinion and thoughts on the subject. I don't really need to introduce this one much, so I'll just leave the question here:

Which sim do you think has the best version of Silverstone in all of sim racing at present?

Let us know your thoughts in the comments section below and poll above!

 

[Midnight⠀]

When it comes to Silverstone personally my favorites are the rF2 / Assetto Corsa versions, they look and feel quite accurate to me, however I also like the PC2 version, it has a nice atmosphere and due to the game's weather/season/day-night system it is also a fun to drive on.

 

[Caton XII]

Assetto Corsa here !
I appreciate the F1 2017 version too by the way.

Cheers.

 

[leclettico]

These polls have sense only if a user tried all the titles. I think.

 

[Richard Dastardly]

iR, given it's a scanned version of a better layout.

 

[David Wright]

Just to throw a curve ball, my favourite version of Silverstone is the classic 60s version in AC. Creating classic tracks isn't easy but its really well done - hats off to their track team. The classic version in PC2 is nice too for the 70s and 80s cars in that title.

 

[Qazdar Karim]

Assetto corsa's Silverstone is the best, there is no debate about that.

 

[Koen Verlinde]

From what I can learn from real life onboards, it's AC for me.

 

[DND]

I find iRacing tracks difficult to beat for quality.

 

[CC]

Assetto corsa, there is no debate about that.

Like asking if you want to be rich or poor lol obviously its AC

 

[Gogui96]

For me, the best versions of Silverstone are the rF2/AC ones, I also find the R3E one pretty accurate for not being laserscanned. The iRacing version I think is one of the worst versions of the tracks the service has, but still is pretty nice

 

[larre90]

Classic version in AC, no doubt.

 

[Haiden773]

Funny how many people say AC, when AC still has the red and white curbs.

 

[larre90]

Funny how many people say AC, when AC still has the red and white curbs.

Wrong, the best AC-version of Silverstone has hardly ANY curbs...

 

[Fanapryde]

To be able to choose the "best" sim version (as in closest to real), you would need experience on the real track, no ?

 

[RufGTI]

The AC and iRacing versions are best in my opinion but the R3E version is also quite good because it's one of youngest additions to the game. The first tracks which made their way into the game (like Hockenheim) are clearly worse.

 

[Will Mazeo]

Silverstone is the same boring flat track everywhere both to drive and to look at.
PC2 graphics make it a little bit better than the other sims so it gets my vote.

 

[felippekiss]

is it difficult to judge and say which is the better after all, what is the track? the visual? the atmosphere? the whole? Since AC and iR are scanned but they are not the same track after all, the iR version is older with another layout, but both with respect to the track are good given this difference, while rFactor2 has a very good version, but compared to AC it is possible to notice that there is slight difference in the geometry of some curves/turns. Visually perhaps the Raceroom even by having received the track less time has the visually more accurate version considered kerbs, escape areas, grass, and such things and the version of the PC2 despite having some inconsistencies in the direction of bumps also comparing with that of the AC in compensation maybe you have the best atmosphere of a race weekend. taking everything into account I still prefer the AC version today

 

[123rem]

The best version of Silverstone is the 1991 circuit which is featured in the F1GP Geoff Crammond classic.

 

[Alistair McKinley]

For me, it is the AC version with the Real Billboards and Stuff mod by JW Modding.
(Now, you can even drive in the night and in the "rain" on a wet track using Alberto Fracasso's wet mod, Peter Boese's good and bad weather suite and Ilja Jusupov's shaders light patch.)
However, I also like the version in rFactor 2 very much.
Since I don't own iRacing, F1 and MotoGP, I don't know how good Silverstone is implemented there.
Btw: The more I drive at/on Silverstone, the more I like it or the more I appreciate this great track. But I also do understand why some poeple find it a boring track.

Btw 2: Thanks to everyone who mentioned the old Silverstone. I have to dig it out again.