Just over a week ago, I went with Jorday's very first tune for the championship. Since it wasn't a 1-off race, I was probably much more conservative than I needed to be, so still my other settings were:
TC: 5
Skid Recovery: on
ABS: 1
Overall, the entire championship was very doable with just the 1 tune.
On Fuji best lap was about 1:13.8, it's not a hard race with this tune.
Indy was probably the easiest race, the AI can't keep up through the section with all the hairpins.
On Cote d'Azur I adjusted the gearing to just over 300 kph (310 or so). The trick with Monaco mainly seems to be not to try and go too fast; no need to worry as the AI is slow here too, it's all about not getting stuck on a wall somewhere, the tune worked fine.
The Nurburgring GP circuit, gave me my first hard race. I still won, but it wasn't really because I was outright faster. Through some quirk, the AI seems to spin out at the last Chicane every other lap or so. The whole time the 2nd place guy was faster than I was, untill he would spin out again. The whole 1st part (epsecially the first corner after the 1st lap) and the chicane, I thought were pretty hard to do quickly. I also don't like this particular track much, it might could my judgment. It might help to loosen up on the ABS and increase the brake force to 5:1 a bit so you get a slight twitch to turn tighter as you brake, or to go for a very slightly more oversteery set-up if you feel you can manage to stay on track.
On Monza, I got lucky as it wasn't raining. One thing I did notice was that the AI cars would out-accelerate me at the start and sometimes on the straights. This was made even worse when I tried it with rain once. I think their gearing is probably shorter as they seem to bounce off the limiter around 360kph, but I think it's more than that. In the dry, you can still comfortably win with the basic tune, but a slightly more aggressive LSD set-up and/or less TC. In the rain, I could barely hold on to 8th place for a bit. Any more aggressive set-up may have seen me off the track a lot more, so not sure what would work best here. One thing I did note was that intermediates worked much better than rain tires as the latter really slow the car's reactions to a crawl. Forrtunately, you can cut the pretty much all the chicanes, which really does allow you to close the gap a fair bit.
Finally Suzuka, probably my favorite track in this championship. I think the tune is allmost perfect here, xcept for one thing, it's very easy to go off if you brake even just a little bit too late. This is especially true on the two right-angle corners, the following hairpin and the chicane at the end. Just a fraction too late will see you land in the gravel. So, I'd advocate a slightly more aggressive braking set-up that still allows good control (maybe 5:2, possibly ABS all the way off) Best lap was about 1:30.8 (in the dry)
Overall, I think Jorday has hit on a great all-purpose tune (that also seems to work pretty well on a Nascar btw) and it's certainly possible to win the whole championship with it, with the exception of races in the rain. Anybody got a good rain tune?
TC: 5
Skid Recovery: on
ABS: 1
Overall, the entire championship was very doable with just the 1 tune.
On Fuji best lap was about 1:13.8, it's not a hard race with this tune.
Indy was probably the easiest race, the AI can't keep up through the section with all the hairpins.
On Cote d'Azur I adjusted the gearing to just over 300 kph (310 or so). The trick with Monaco mainly seems to be not to try and go too fast; no need to worry as the AI is slow here too, it's all about not getting stuck on a wall somewhere, the tune worked fine.
The Nurburgring GP circuit, gave me my first hard race. I still won, but it wasn't really because I was outright faster. Through some quirk, the AI seems to spin out at the last Chicane every other lap or so. The whole time the 2nd place guy was faster than I was, untill he would spin out again. The whole 1st part (epsecially the first corner after the 1st lap) and the chicane, I thought were pretty hard to do quickly. I also don't like this particular track much, it might could my judgment. It might help to loosen up on the ABS and increase the brake force to 5:1 a bit so you get a slight twitch to turn tighter as you brake, or to go for a very slightly more oversteery set-up if you feel you can manage to stay on track.
On Monza, I got lucky as it wasn't raining. One thing I did notice was that the AI cars would out-accelerate me at the start and sometimes on the straights. This was made even worse when I tried it with rain once. I think their gearing is probably shorter as they seem to bounce off the limiter around 360kph, but I think it's more than that. In the dry, you can still comfortably win with the basic tune, but a slightly more aggressive LSD set-up and/or less TC. In the rain, I could barely hold on to 8th place for a bit. Any more aggressive set-up may have seen me off the track a lot more, so not sure what would work best here. One thing I did note was that intermediates worked much better than rain tires as the latter really slow the car's reactions to a crawl. Forrtunately, you can cut the pretty much all the chicanes, which really does allow you to close the gap a fair bit.
Finally Suzuka, probably my favorite track in this championship. I think the tune is allmost perfect here, xcept for one thing, it's very easy to go off if you brake even just a little bit too late. This is especially true on the two right-angle corners, the following hairpin and the chicane at the end. Just a fraction too late will see you land in the gravel. So, I'd advocate a slightly more aggressive braking set-up that still allows good control (maybe 5:2, possibly ABS all the way off) Best lap was about 1:30.8 (in the dry)
Overall, I think Jorday has hit on a great all-purpose tune (that also seems to work pretty well on a Nascar btw) and it's certainly possible to win the whole championship with it, with the exception of races in the rain. Anybody got a good rain tune?