Tracks L.A Canyons

[Brandon Wright]

Anyway mate, I've seen your driving in your Quattro around Highlands...
You really don't need any barriers For now just use your jedi car control
I'd recommend trying an F1 car for maximum grip... If you can make it round in one of those... Anything else is easy!

I'm a padawan at best, and not many surprise blind turns at Highlands.

 

[Phoenix77]

I'm a padawan at best, and not many surprise blind turns at Highlands.

Maybe making it round L.A. Canyons in 10mins or less is your Jedi Trial...
If you also do it with a blaster helmet on... you become Obi Wan

 

[Brandon Wright]

Maybe making it round L.A. Canyons in 10mins or less is your Jedi Trial...
If you also do it with a blaster helmet on... you become Obi Wan

I'll need something other than the Bimmer I drove the first time, I think that took 20 minutes.

 

[Phoenix77]

No tyres shall you have left! lol
I did a slightly cautions 10mins 7seconds in a Ferrari 643 found here on RD. With plenty of time to be knocked off.

 

[stingray_SIX_TWO]

That's a fantastic screenshot mate.... You're really getting used to the Photo App...
I'm going to have to put this as an image on the download page... If you don't mind

Would be honored! Go right ahead mate.

 

[Ryno917]

Finallygot a chance to give this a go. Fantastic flow! Really looking forward to watching this develop

I took the old Escort out, did something around 17:45 or so. Great fun

 

[stingray_SIX_TWO]

Setup for this track, based on Nurburgring setup. Removes all understeer, makes the car neutral like a GT3 class car, under braking car stays dead center on track, slight roll into corners when letting off brake/throttle.

Just did a (first) full clean lap just under 15:50. Last 5 miles basically didn't know the track at all. Used the racing line for rough brake points. With this setup the E30 drives circles around the line though cuz of the insaine cornering speeds. I'd say 13:00 is absolutely doable.

Rock on!

 

[Brandon Wright]

I'll need something other than the Bimmer I drove the first time, I think that took 20 minutes.

Yeah, I think I'm throwing in the towel on this one. It would take me hours and hours of practice to get to 10 minutes and I'm not enough of a fan of the F1 cars to put that much effort in.

 

[Phoenix77]

Finallygot a chance to give this a go. Fantastic flow! Really looking forward to watching this develop
I took the old Escort out, did something around 17:45 or so. Great fun

Nice one Ryno, glad you're having fun round here... I thought about taking the Escort out for a few laps, but didn't think it would have the gearing for Upper Big T... It's possible to get a LaFerrari up to 200mph down there at some points, It's deceptively faster than it appears
Great to know you're making it round in one piece... thanks for your lap details...
It would be good to do some thought of leaderboard post on here...
But I'm no forum expert. If anyone feels like doing something like that on here, and knows how, feel free and post a link to it here... and I'll put a link to it on the Original Post. Or something like that lol

 

[Phoenix77]

Setup for this track, based on Nurburgring setup. Removes all understeer, makes the car neutral like a GT3 class car, under braking car stays dead center on track, slight roll into corners when letting off brake/throttle.
Just did a (first) full clean lap just under 15:50. Last 5 miles basically didn't know the track at all. Used the racing line for rough brake points. With this setup the E30 drives circles around the line though cuz of the insaine cornering speeds. I'd say 13:00 is absolutely doable.
Rock on!

Thanks for sharing your setup mate, hope this helps some drivers out
I've haven't really delved into setups... Apart from mainly tyre pressures, ARB's, ride heights and downforce, oh and maybe cambers to counter the downforce applied.
The last... say 5km of the track goes into a slalom kind of layout... lots of left, right, left, rights... Which is tougher if your tyres have gone off by then. Challenging roads Rock on indeed mate!

 

[Phoenix77]

Yeah, I think I'm throwing in the towel on this one. It would take me hours and hours of practice to get to 10 minutes and I'm not enough of a fan of the F1 cars to put that much effort in.

lol No worries Brandon,
Tried you did, Jedi you are yet not! The downforce is weak in this one lol

 

[Brandon Wright]

lol No worries Brandon,
Tried you did, Jedi you are yet not! The downforce is weak in this one lol

No doubt! I tried the 919 Hybrid for a bit last night and there's one turn about 2-3 minutes in that saw me going over the cliff every. single. time.

 

[aphidgod]

For me it's one about 2 mins past the tunnel.

 

[garyjpaterson]

For me its usually in the last mile or so when I think I'm almost there, I suppose I get complacent

I actually made it to the tunnel in the Anglia... I didn't crash or anything, just died of boredom. Think it took like 15-20 mins to get that far

 

[Phoenix77]

No doubt! I tried the 919 Hybrid for a bit last night and there's one turn about 2-3 minutes in that saw me going over the cliff every. single. time.

Seriously though, you tried to pick a mega fast car... So bonus points for that
I'm guessing that would be the corner that is (in reality a junction) Angeles Crest Highway... going into Angeles Forest Highway.

For me it's one about 2 mins past the tunnel.

Is that the left/right section before the Right Hairpin (in reality a junction) on to Upper Big T...

 

[stingray_SIX_TWO]

Thanks for sharing your setup mate, hope this helps some drivers out
I've haven't really delved into setups... Apart from mainly tyre pressures, ARB's, ride heights and downforce, oh and maybe cambers to counter the downforce applied.
The last... say 5km of the track goes into a slalom kind of layout... lots of left, right, left, rights... Which is tougher if your tyres have gone off by then. Challenging roads Rock on indeed mate!

Used 90's Racing Hard for that lap, they were well in the green at the end of the lap...can't tell ya how great it felt when that ghost car appeared next to me signifying a completed lap .

Took me about 550km in total...

 

[Brandon Wright]

For me it's one about 2 mins past the tunnel.

I've only made it to the tunnel once.

Seriously though, you tried to pick a mega fast car... So bonus points for that
I'm guessing that would be the corner that is (in reality a junction) Angeles Crest Highway... going into Angeles Forest Highway.

Well, I wanted to get an idea of whether getting close to 10 minutes was even going to be possible, and I learned that I will need to really learn the track well with a more moderate car before even trying it.

 

[Phoenix77]

For me its usually in the last mile or so when I think I'm almost there, I suppose I get complacent

That's happened to me plenty of times, when trying to get a smooth consistent AI line! Imagine the extra pressure of trying to keep the whole line smooth lol

I actually made it to the tunnel in the Anglia... I didn't crash or anything, just died of boredom. Think it took like 15-20 mins to get that far

Too slow to crash? lol You need to use something faster... Maybe your Transit Van around a X2 length Californians version of the Nordschleife
Or your Focus RS oh yes!

 

[Phoenix77]

Used 90's Racing Hard for that lap, they were well in the green at the end of the lap...can't tell ya how great it felt when that ghost car appeared next to me signifying a completed lap .
Took me about 550km in total...

Well done mate You can possibly imagine my pain... when "trying" to record an AI line... It was randomly locking up and crashing back to the launcher before I could save it... After 26miles of driving a nice line... That was not fun!

 

[garyjpaterson]

I know its an odd opinion, but for learning tracks I have always found fast, high grip cars to be the easiest. Sure I won't be driving at 100% of the cars potential, but I can drive well within the cars and my own limits and still be flying round at a much faster pace than I would be in say a street car.

It was the same years back when we got the Nords, I can get plenty of 9/10ths laps in a reasonably short space of time, meaning I see the same bits of the track more often.

Nothing worse than taking 15+ mins to get 3/4 of the lap just to limply understeer off into the valleys