Do the setups help much? I am using the default one, and attribute any speed deficiencies to my lack of skill - hence the snail on my boot lid
- but some of you did mention the change in the car's behaviour. I am asking because I've done some test runs on Cascavel and it's one hell of a bumpy track. I tried setting those Bump things in the garage to various settings, from very soft to very hard but it doesn't seem to make any difference to me
. And the AI so damn quick, like you are here
. I have it set to 89% and still get my arse kicked by about half a second. Life is tough
I am no alien, but I do try to study things like these and I am also opinionated. So, like it or not, here I go
Default Setup: It is excellent. Even after a full week of practice and setup tuning, I often go back to the default setup, just add the same amount of fuel as my setup and usually I can clock the very same lap times.
With these cars I feel that any advantage in speed is not coming from a better setup because the default one is already very good.
However, the default setup, depending on the driver, can create some pretty hairy moments. For instance, with the regular setup it becomes difficult to turn the car once the tires start going. It basically tends to oversteer a bit with good tires and a lot with older tires.
Another things it does is a bit of snap oversteer in some situations. Not enough to spin you, but enough to raise your heartbeat for a moment and definitely enough to have to lift on turn exit.
Getting rid of that snap, at least for me, it's key to driving properly. There are already a number of things that can screw up your concentration, this one at least is manageable (for the record, one of the ways I correct that, depending on the track, is to adjust the front Toe to a positive +5 or +10. For me that's strange because I usually like bigger negative numbers for my front toe).
Another thing I did for the Londrina race was to soften the front of the car and stiffen the back a little. That worked miracles for the T1 chicane bumps, making the car much less likely to get upset and bounce all over the place. Just to make sure I wasn't dreaming that, I stiffened the front and sure enough at the chicane I literally took off into the grass 2 times out of 3.
Lastly, I play alot with the rear stiffness and brake balance to make sure that the rear is a bit loose but not so much that I lose the back at every turn.
At Londrina I went as low as 60F (it around 68F normally) for certain area. I only had to remember to set it back to 62 or 63 for the rest of the turns or I would have been winning the drifting challenge. I mapped the brake bias to my only 2 buttons on my G5 just for this race. Normally the bias is in a less handy place on my button box but I new that about halfway on my stint I needed to change the bias frequently, sometimes 2 or 3 times per lap.
All of that to finish P13 seem preposterous but it's one of the things I enjoy for racing.
My regular league races GTR2 and the strategy in that game is just great with the weather, night, different tire compounds and all. I really hope GSC one day will add full weather and I'll be a happy man.
Anyway, sorry for the treatise. I hope some of it may come handy for somebody here.
