Yes rF2 definitely requires a lot of practice before being competitive, but once you are confident with the car and a good setup, it's wonderful. It is so much realistic in comparison with Race07, and it has great features. Some of them, for those who don't know well this simulation :
- tire change requires only about 8 seconds, but it's preferable to have pit speed limitation since cars are no longer ghosts like in Race07
- some cars like the FR3.5 can't be refueled properly, so like in F1 we fill the tank with the fuel for the race and stop only for tires
- tire model is fantastic, you have to test it to be convinced. There's a enormous difference of tire degradation when you slide or block the tires and when you don't.
- formation lap, really cool, you can consume a lot of fuel, a lot of tire and you can have them very cold at the start if you don't do it properly.
- optional but very interesting feature that we should activate is parc ferme : almost no difference between qualify and race setup
- the track is marking with tire rubber progressively, and a green track is lot slower than a strongly marked track
- weather management seems also very promising : apart from the rain which I still haven't properly tested, you can have wind, or clouds sometimes masking the sun like we had in Sepang (really cool!)