Hi all, I'm new to this forum, thought there could have been a better way to introduce myself but whatever, lol. Sidenote: I played most GTs (just didn't own GT5) and I kinda like what PDI did with the "human-ish length" endurance races for GT6 - real 24h races or so were senseless IMO, but there's a better place to discuss about this so I'll shut up and end the offtopic xD
Anyway, back on the track (literally...).
Super (endurance) class races. I beat those using just 3-4 cars.
For low-PP race car events, I used a LIGHT CAR COMPANY ROCKET.
-Max out all parts, set the power limiter to the maximum possible to match the PP requirements
-remove camber and toe (all to pure zero) to get stability
-no oil change or other GT Auto treatments
-(optional) fiddle around with gearbox (top speed adjustment only could do), but that's not really necessary since you won't pit that much, so you don't need uber-speed to keep the other racecars' pace.
This thing is insane - fuel consumption is awesome, and so is tire wear - didn't even need to pit once on the Nurburgring 24 minute race, which I also fully ran on Intermediate Racing tires even when the track started to dry out. Yeah okay, it started to feel slidy, but it still managed to win in B-Spec, even against a McLaren F1 Race Car! I'd suggest to switch to Racing tyres (any kind, preferably Soft since you'd run few laps) mid-race if you're gonna use it in A-Spec.
For the same races, if you want something less "thinking out of the box", try a bone stock MAZDA FURAI and buy some different tire compounds to get the max out of it even on wet surface. Great fuel economy and almost no tire wear here as well, since it's super light, much like the Rocket. Won the Suzuka endurance with no effort.
If you need more juice (e.g. against LMP cars), my car of choice would be the PESCAROLO C60 HYBRIDE - JUDD... either with Praiano's tune (which helped me win the Apricot Hill seasonal time trial as well), or simply with zero camber and toe, no GT Auto treatments and a mid RPM turbo (hi-RPM isn't my choice even if you could get it within 700pp with a small amount of limiting - even with TCS on, it'll most likely pop its tail out during hard throttling). Fuel economy ain't that good as on the other two, but pitting every two laps and switching from Intermediate Racing Tires to Racing Softs at the second pit-stop, it'll easily win the Le Mans 24 minute race.
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Anyway, I posted this stuff here for another reason. The 20-mile race at Willow Springs... which needs to be run with road cars. I started to fiddle around with "thinking out of the box" ideas, and I found people saying the MAZDA RX500 is awesome. And yes, it is. BUT...
...for some weird reason I can't seem to be able to make it handle decently on banked corners, it oversteers badly (even with TCS on) and it's nearly impossible to recover since it either ends up understeering in the gravel if you don't correct it, or weight-transfer-oversteering in the opposite direction if you try. So I'm asking if there could be a way to make this thing suited for this track. I'm looking for a SS tire setup since I'd like to enter the 20-mile Willow Springs endurance with it. Absolutely no problems with either tire wear or fuel consumption, and I guess that a customizable transmission with a 300 km/h top end could do (it even saves some spare revs if you want to draft or use N2O), but I can't figure out which suspension and LSD settings I should try to get the most mechanical grip out of this car... since you can't even add downforce to it. Any help would be appreciated... Thanks in advance
EDIT: Oh, I forgot to mention the RX500 I'm talking about has maxed out parts, thought it'd be obvious but never mind, lol.
Anyway, back on the track (literally...).
Super (endurance) class races. I beat those using just 3-4 cars.
For low-PP race car events, I used a LIGHT CAR COMPANY ROCKET.
-Max out all parts, set the power limiter to the maximum possible to match the PP requirements
-remove camber and toe (all to pure zero) to get stability
-no oil change or other GT Auto treatments
-(optional) fiddle around with gearbox (top speed adjustment only could do), but that's not really necessary since you won't pit that much, so you don't need uber-speed to keep the other racecars' pace.
This thing is insane - fuel consumption is awesome, and so is tire wear - didn't even need to pit once on the Nurburgring 24 minute race, which I also fully ran on Intermediate Racing tires even when the track started to dry out. Yeah okay, it started to feel slidy, but it still managed to win in B-Spec, even against a McLaren F1 Race Car! I'd suggest to switch to Racing tyres (any kind, preferably Soft since you'd run few laps) mid-race if you're gonna use it in A-Spec.
For the same races, if you want something less "thinking out of the box", try a bone stock MAZDA FURAI and buy some different tire compounds to get the max out of it even on wet surface. Great fuel economy and almost no tire wear here as well, since it's super light, much like the Rocket. Won the Suzuka endurance with no effort.
If you need more juice (e.g. against LMP cars), my car of choice would be the PESCAROLO C60 HYBRIDE - JUDD... either with Praiano's tune (which helped me win the Apricot Hill seasonal time trial as well), or simply with zero camber and toe, no GT Auto treatments and a mid RPM turbo (hi-RPM isn't my choice even if you could get it within 700pp with a small amount of limiting - even with TCS on, it'll most likely pop its tail out during hard throttling). Fuel economy ain't that good as on the other two, but pitting every two laps and switching from Intermediate Racing Tires to Racing Softs at the second pit-stop, it'll easily win the Le Mans 24 minute race.
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Anyway, I posted this stuff here for another reason. The 20-mile race at Willow Springs... which needs to be run with road cars. I started to fiddle around with "thinking out of the box" ideas, and I found people saying the MAZDA RX500 is awesome. And yes, it is. BUT...
...for some weird reason I can't seem to be able to make it handle decently on banked corners, it oversteers badly (even with TCS on) and it's nearly impossible to recover since it either ends up understeering in the gravel if you don't correct it, or weight-transfer-oversteering in the opposite direction if you try. So I'm asking if there could be a way to make this thing suited for this track. I'm looking for a SS tire setup since I'd like to enter the 20-mile Willow Springs endurance with it. Absolutely no problems with either tire wear or fuel consumption, and I guess that a customizable transmission with a 300 km/h top end could do (it even saves some spare revs if you want to draft or use N2O), but I can't figure out which suspension and LSD settings I should try to get the most mechanical grip out of this car... since you can't even add downforce to it. Any help would be appreciated... Thanks in advance
EDIT: Oh, I forgot to mention the RX500 I'm talking about has maxed out parts, thought it'd be obvious but never mind, lol.
