Cape Ring: Less Grip?

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To me Cape Ring looks and feels as though it has a different track surface (Concrete perhaps?) as opposed to the other tracks in the game. Like, it seems a lot less grippy than the others, almost like the Toscana courses. Is this the case?
 
It has a lot of off camber corners which will reduce the grip. I find that the Cape Ring Periphery is quite a good track, but the full track gets boring very quickly.
 
See above post, I have grown to love this track. Grip levels are the same but 4 or 5 of the tight corners have a dip right at the apex that can seriously upset a car. Elevation changes at turn 4 can send you flying if you dont get it right. I fiddled with my cars rear toe to make the car more stable round the ring section when we raced here in the FGT series too.
 
In addition to the camber and elevation changes that can unsettle the car, tracks can have different surfaces of differing grip. Cobblestone sections in Rome Circuit for example offer less grip than asphalt ones. Proper racetracks in GT5 offer in general slightly more grip than street/city ones.
 
I think it is the racing surface, for example: Tokyo R246 Asphalt. Very grippy, almost no slip. Cape Ring: Concrete, lots more wheelspin. If you are an F1 Fan like me, you will see quickly how little grip tracks like Monza or Valencia have little grip, while places like Catalunya are almost covered in tar it seems. :lol:
 
This track has grown on me, I like being unstable through the corners as I feel I can do whatever is desirable to get through at maximum speed.
 
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I think it is the racing surface, for example: Tokyo R246 Asphalt. Very grippy, almost no slip. Cape Ring: Concrete, lots more wheelspin. If you are an F1 Fan like me, you will see quickly how little grip tracks like Monza or Valencia have little grip, while places like Catalunya are almost covered in tar it seems. :lol:
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It's also the fact that unlike Cape Ring, Tokyo is a much smoother, city road. Cape Ring is not only cambered but there's constant undulation (ripple) and what that would do is shift the weight of the car and therefore the tire grip.

Try it with stock/comfort tires on rear wheel drive cars (MR or FR) and if you're using a FFB wheel (hopefully turned high in the 8 to 10 and not the girlie 1 to 7), right off the bat you can sense (via the force feedback) the constant weight shift.
 

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