It's a *very* known thing. The Jaguar XJ220 game(s) of the early 90s had crash animations removed because Jaguar said no. I'm sure that wasn't the first time something like that happened. I think the discussion regarding PRC transcends this particular issue, though *Actually I think maybe I read something similar regarding the Lotus Esprit games, too.
It's not that I trust PCR, but in this case I think it's a better source than AC devs who have their hands tied, either way they can't go public with what Ferrari did or did not demand. The fact is they made the Ferrari F1 unable to race against other cars for no good reason. The only reason I can see why is because Ferrari told them so, as Kunos generally don't do things like this just to annoy their community. There is a great risk something similar happens one day with rF2 if S397 decides to go for the bigger manufacturer licenses, so perhaps better to stay away from it.
Even if it is the most obvious thing in life I will never ever trust anything from this site. @stonec Your comment would have been way more trustworthy without the mention of "the worst side for sim-news"... hehe. On topic: I'm sure S397 will handle big manufacturer licenses as good as any other sim-dev before. In Tim they have someone with an already great knowledge about it and I'm sure the Europe HQ also has proper guys to get it done. There are so many great cars and tracks out there, I can life with another 20 years without Porsche... I don't even want them to be in rf2 if I'm honest. Haha. Plus: There are so many licenses left to create for rf2, S397 should focus on them I guess. Right? No? https://forum.studio-397.com/index.php?threads/upcoming-isi-content-list.35912/
I personally no longer care about individual cars anymore. I think the selection of those in rF2 is rich enough. What i want to see is full grids of the same class made in the same level of quality. When ISI made a car and somebdy made the rest of the cars in the field (like the BTCC cars or GT3s) you can feel significant difference in their physics as they were made by less qualified, less informed people with access to less data. (And also differend aproach how to fill in gaps in data) So a whole grid made by the same party is always better than one from this team and another car from that team. So? my wish would be more GT500 cars, more GT1 cars, historics want more ...historic cars from the same era or even same grid. I dont really miss "2003 Bentley Speed 8" What so ever
Regarding the fact of manufacturers not liking their cars appearing crashed. It is funny that after so much care in the past Youtube has compensated all that idiocy. You can nowadays spend hours watching high end cars being destroyed.
Maybe it is just Ferrari that is over the top. Even for car tests they sometimes send two models of the same car. One for top speed runs and another for handling tests... Then they sell a car to their customer that can't achieve neither of those benchmarks...
That is quite common in car industry, you will often see engines with specs like XXX HP at XXX RPM and XXX Torque at XXX RPM but both of those figures happened at differend runs when the engine was tuned to achieve the maximum respected number. So the engine you get will not reach both of them
