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Test Poll about the track of next round of ATAQ

  • Road Atlanta

    Votes: 6 50.0%

  • Suzuka short

    Votes: 1 8.3%

  • Brands hatch GP

    Votes: 5 41.7%

  • something different

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    12
  • Poll closed .
Round 5 brought us an intense battle between @bliprunner and @rheinaoi . I fulfill my function to show what an average GT7-player is capable of to achieve and let you shine brightly. Congrats to both of you, @bliprunner and @rheinaoi ! With @911RSR healthy again and @ikon_313 with hopefully more time for this little competition I look forward round 6. The track of Lago Maggiore East End (!) is suggested by @ikon_313 and there will be even an additional price for the fastest lap with an Alfa Romeo C4 (according to our actual rules) as proposed by @bliprunner .
 
911RSR
Hi guys and thank you very much for your get well wishes for my old and rusty knee. I think the only long term solution will be the replacement of the load cell break pedal with non load cell pedal. 😩

And, of course, a big congrats to @rheinaoi and @bliprunner ! Amazing laps!
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I also have dodgy knees... luckily it's mostly the right one and I don't have a load cell. Sometimes I even do a little warm-up before driving!

Shakedown time for the Alfa...

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bliprunner
No sir, it is you who are the beast.

But decided not to take it on the chin and just ran 100 miles so I can post a 1:27.912 and (hopefully) finish on a high.

After uploading my lap I watched your replay, super calm and under control, keeping 4th around the final hairpin was a fine move I think. If I was going again I'd try it but that's it for me, I'm done and my settings are below :cheers:


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Good idea with the ballast placement up front. Direct and practical. I used too much time with incremental changes and trying to balance stability while keeping rear weight bias high - and you ended up with more rear weight bias anyway!

I may be misremembering, but I thought saw you take the final turn in 4th gear. That made me think 4th would work at the hairpin. To compensate for my lack of finesse accelerating out of low speed corners (4WD Brain), I spent A LOT of time tweaking the gears, and the diff and toe angles to get the 991 to behave at the hairpin.

I struggled with
  • turbo lag because of the gearing
  • oversteer when the turbo woke up and dumped 10000000nm of torque into the rear tires
  • 4WD style crab walk that teleported the car past the outside of the turn once the rear tires found traction

Using the standard turbo instead of the Low RPM Turbo might be the more sane route, and slightly less torque may be the better way.
 
Did you all know that despite reading @Gorefast's post several times, I spent a couple hours tuning and driving the wrong Alfa?

I drove the 8C so you don't have to... is what I will tell myself.

Well...
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The 8C is awful whenever you need to accelerate out of a corner, but it was still faster than my featherweight turbo shakedown 4C.

The turbo 4C sounds nice, but I think the way to go will be with the engine swap. The Ferrari lump raises the weight enough to sneak on more power. And maybe with some proper gearing, it will out accelerate its marginally more torquey counterpart. Ah, the struggles of Light Car Life in GT7 :indiff:
Additionally, the laps go by so quickly that my testing runs are 5-6 laps instead of the usual 4. Sometimes a blink and see 10 laps.
 
rheinaoi
Good idea with the ballast placement up front. Direct and practical. I used too much time with incremental changes and trying to balance stability while keeping rear weight bias high - and you ended up with more rear weight bias anyway!

I may be misremembering, but I thought saw you take the final turn in 4th gear. That made me think 4th would work at the hairpin. To compensate for my lack of finesse accelerating out of low speed corners (4WD Brain), I spent A LOT of time tweaking the gears, and the diff and toe angles to get the 991 to behave at the hairpin.

I struggled with
  • turbo lag because of the gearing
  • oversteer when the turbo woke up and dumped 10000000nm of torque into the rear tires
  • 4WD style crab walk that teleported the car past the outside of the turn once the rear tires found traction

Using the standard turbo instead of the Low RPM Turbo might be the more sane route, and slightly less torque may be the better way.
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I basically fudged my gears so I didn't have to use 7th!

The Alfa is an interesting challenge, it doesn't like sitting low, it doesn't have much front downforce, and it's quite hard to get nice feeling with, especially on this track.
 

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