FITT : "British Invasion" - Roadster Reviews
by @praiano63 :
Bowtie-Muscle TIME= 50.859 DC:8.00
Corner entry:
Very easy to nail the apex, showing some little understeer, need to force the line to correct it. No problem with the rear grip, there is still a lot of room.
Mid corner:
Very neutral, the wheel answer well to place the car but don´t answer well to throttle variation.
Out corner:
The low LSD accel 7 is still to high to allow full gas for the last corner. Need to wait the car turn more , the little depression make the rear lighter loosing the grip. I´ve tested with 5 and it´s better, you can be earlier on the power to the finish line.
Overall :
Very good gearbox that explore well all the circuit. .
The 50/50 weight repartition let the car easy but induce too much understeer in my opinion. There is still room moving the ballast to the rear to have a more agressive car staying very safe and fast.
Good tune. Congrats.
by @DolHaus
@@Bowtie-muscle – VX220
0:51. 643
DC – 7.5
Entry: The car felt incredibly stable, felt absolutely glued to the road. This inspired confidence initially but I found it was a little bit reluctant to rotate and slow to respond to inputs. The brakes felt solid and got the car slowed down without fuss or too much extra understeer. I found the car to struggle on the entry to turn 1, just didn't like turning in at speed, on the following corners it was very well mannered if perhaps not the most exciting.
Mid: Stable and clean with reasonable grip, didn't seem to move around much in the mid corner which was a nice change but it would always develop understeer as a result of the 50/50 weight bias, needed a bit of junk in the trunk to keep the nose pushed in once the springs were loaded. The understeer wasn't crippling but I did feel like the car would go a lot faster if it was a bit looser.
Exit: Not bad, a bit of understeer and the diff seemed a bit too open which made it feel quite vague on the throttle and lacking punch out of the corners. It would also get quite upset on the last corner going over the bumps on the last corner which seemed fairly out of character with the rest of the lap, I think this was also down to the open diff as I saw the inside tyre lighting up briefly a few times.
Overall Enjoyment: A solid and well put together car but I just wish it would let me drive it a bit harder. Felt a little removed from the experience as a driver, I knew I could go through some corners a lot more aggressively and faster but the car demanded a much more conservative approach. As a stable car it functioned fine and performed as expected, stable and smooth through entry, mid and exit but it wasn't for me.
by @macdog54 :
Bowtie Mucle
Vauxhall VX 220 '00'
51.159.
9
A really good drive, has good turn in through the corners, well planted and stable throughout the track and consistent, well done
by Bowtie-muscle (ME)
Time - 51.024
DC - 8.5
Obviously I like my own tune and know the line to take to make it fast, just not as good a ride as the Elise's. Takes the right line to be fast, but is capable of keeping up with the Lotus, but it did need the 10 extra pp to do it.
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Last edited: Apr 24, 2015