Hi,
I use R. van Rijn's RD Setup Guide a lot, and I have just found the "tune your car in 21 steps" guide, too, which are great guides for the sim-only semi-casual racer like me. I however did not find anwsers for some questions, or I'm not sure if I understand it correctly, and I'd be pleased to see your comments. I hope some real racers will also share their thoughts.
First, I sometimes feel my car's balance, grip and traction is quite acceptable, but, as the only problem, the car starts sliding in many turns of a given track. It seems that I cannot find out what to change in my driving style or car setup to eliminate sliding. It is also surprising on these track how quickly the car starts sliding when left-foot braking, and it is also sliding when I brake with no gas applied. Could you point me out what settings to look for? Is it coupled with tyre pressure or suspension?
As per tyre pressure and temperature, the RD setup guide makes only an estimation that WTCC car's tyre temperature should be around 95 degree Celsius. This may be, however, too generic. Sometimes I cannot get my tyres colder than 105 Celsius, and sometimes my rear tyres stay at 85 Celsius after several laps. What are the acceptable temperature ranges for WTCC car front and rear tyres?
Tyres again, which is more important, to try to set the left and front tyres to have approximately the same temperature (after a few laps), or to have the same pressure after a few laps? Sometimes I find there is 10+ Celsius difference between left and right tyres, while the difference in pressure is only 1 kPa (after 4-5 laps, of course).
And can someone explain me (just wondering) how is that lower tyre pressure increases tyre temp? For me it was more logical that a tyre with more pressure gets warmer, since there is more air which gets compressed once the temperature increases due to track contact, and the more air in the same amount of space could make higher temperature.
Thanks for all of your comments.
krank
I use R. van Rijn's RD Setup Guide a lot, and I have just found the "tune your car in 21 steps" guide, too, which are great guides for the sim-only semi-casual racer like me. I however did not find anwsers for some questions, or I'm not sure if I understand it correctly, and I'd be pleased to see your comments. I hope some real racers will also share their thoughts.
First, I sometimes feel my car's balance, grip and traction is quite acceptable, but, as the only problem, the car starts sliding in many turns of a given track. It seems that I cannot find out what to change in my driving style or car setup to eliminate sliding. It is also surprising on these track how quickly the car starts sliding when left-foot braking, and it is also sliding when I brake with no gas applied. Could you point me out what settings to look for? Is it coupled with tyre pressure or suspension?
As per tyre pressure and temperature, the RD setup guide makes only an estimation that WTCC car's tyre temperature should be around 95 degree Celsius. This may be, however, too generic. Sometimes I cannot get my tyres colder than 105 Celsius, and sometimes my rear tyres stay at 85 Celsius after several laps. What are the acceptable temperature ranges for WTCC car front and rear tyres?
Tyres again, which is more important, to try to set the left and front tyres to have approximately the same temperature (after a few laps), or to have the same pressure after a few laps? Sometimes I find there is 10+ Celsius difference between left and right tyres, while the difference in pressure is only 1 kPa (after 4-5 laps, of course).
And can someone explain me (just wondering) how is that lower tyre pressure increases tyre temp? For me it was more logical that a tyre with more pressure gets warmer, since there is more air which gets compressed once the temperature increases due to track contact, and the more air in the same amount of space could make higher temperature.
Thanks for all of your comments.
krank