I tested all of these setups on trial mountain. I tried to maintain a quick but safe pace as if I was leading an online race. The time below are certainly not examples of time trial times. I can go a lot faster, but one lap flyers are not what I was aiming for.
vett'e setup:
1:24.7xx
Car is fun, nice to drive. The back steps out under braking and produces some excellent tight drifts around turns. Not great for racing, have to brake mostly in a straight line to avoid drifts.
Heaps of fun but too much time lost drifting and to easy to spin for racing.
brazo's setup:
1:25.0xx
I thought this setup would be faster. It is more controlled under brakes and the drifts are a little reduced. But it has more understeer. Ultimately this setup bought more mistakes out of me. With more laps I could greatly improve on the laptime, but I am looking for a setup to take online and I make enough mistakes already. Plus I dont really like driving stiff feeling cars. Personal preference.
oppositelock's setup:
1:24.871
Feels very compliant, planted. Rode the bumps at trial mountain well. Would have beaten my best time so far if not for comparative understeer into the tunnel. This tune made me realise that vett'e tune gains time out of turns in my hands by reducing the turning circle via rear drift. More turn in and this would be quite nice indeed.
Deutsch Rennen:
1:23.7xx
Is this car 1+ seconds quicker? No. Does it really seem to suit my driving and come at the end of a test where I am really used to the car? Yes.
The car moves about a lot, I like this. So many times I test tunes that try to brute force a car to behave, turn it into a stiff board without personality. This is certainly not one of those tunes. This car loves to turn and this really makes it easy to fly through the fist section of the track into the first tunnel. It is still sliding around the long left hander at the bottom of the back straight, I pretty much always end up in a 4 wheel drift coming out of it. Even still the lap time does not seem to suffer that much, obviously.
stock:
1:23.9xx
I actually beat the best time on 2 out of 8 laps, but they were disallowed (red) because I accidentally cut the first left hander a little due to the aggressive way the stock setup corners. The stock setup is fast around trial mountain, but it is a wild ride.
Final thoughts:
All these setups have their place. I believe all of them are capable of beating my best time, it comes down to they way you drive and what you expect out of a car. Vette's setup might have been a lot quicker had it come at the end of the test. brazo's setup seemed like it might be fast but it really did not mesh with my driving style.
I wanted my F40 to turn on a dime and be very stable. I don't believe it is possible. Every single one of these tunes has me in a controlled 4 wheel drift at times, some simply more than others. The stiffer setups (the ones that felt stiff anyway) did reduce the oversteer on corner entry, but also lost time in the high speed s turns, they were not as agile.
For me, I am going with Deutsch Rennen's setup. It is very much like the stock setup but with the edge taken off. It still wags its tail, but hey its fun. And not as damaging to lap times as I thought since it gains in other areas.
Thanks for contributing setups guys, it is very much appreciated
