gears for short tracks

[reefer]

Can anyone give me some idea about setting up the gears/transmission for short tracks? I'm specifically thinking of Tsukuba. Are there any basic principals that apply for short tracks? I like to run the Mazda RX500 on Tsukuba but am struggling with the gears. Any help would be appreciated!

 

[TonyJZX]

You should be pinging the redline at the end of the longest straight.

That's it.

 

[lbpomg95]

Can anyone give me some idea about setting up the gears/transmission for short tracks? I'm specifically thinking of Tsukuba. Are there any basic principals that apply for short tracks? I like to run the Mazda RX500 on Tsukuba but am struggling with the gears. Any help would be appreciated!

No matter what the track, make it so you're nearly topping out at the end of the track's longest straight. Perhaps leave a bit of room for the sake of slipstream.

 

[eran0004]

Can anyone give me some idea about setting up the gears/transmission for short tracks? I'm specifically thinking of Tsukuba. Are there any basic principals that apply for short tracks? I like to run the Mazda RX500 on Tsukuba but am struggling with the gears. Any help would be appreciated!

Set the gears so that you can spend as much time as possible as close to peak power as possible. For a peaky power curve that means having close gear ratios. For a flat power curve you can do pretty much whatever you want, it doesn't matter that much.

 

[reefer]

1. set final to 5,500
2. set speed to 112
3. set individual gears all the way to the right
4. reajust final for longest straight

This is what I do for short tracks like Tsukuba. Is this okay or is there another way you'd recommend?

 

[Sick Cylinder]

1. set final to 5,500
2. set speed to 112
3. set individual gears all the way to the right
4. reajust final for longest straight

This is what I do for short tracks like Tsukuba. Is this okay or is there another way you'd recommend?

That is the normally recommended method, but I don't normally use it.

I set the top speed so it goes into the red, but doesn't hit the limiter at the fastest point on the track. Then raise 1st, 2nd and normally third gear as high as possible and set the higher gears closer together. This works well if it is a race with a rolling start - you want the bottom gears high because if they are low they won't get used on a track like Tsukuba.

If it is a standing start race (e.g. online) test your acceleration with different first and second gears on the type of tyres you will be using. Unfortunately the speed test facility from GT5 was inexplicably deleted from GT6. Some cars will give a quicker 0-100 time if you start in 2nd gear. Some cars may need a lower first gear and carefully spaced intermediate gears. If you are able to get a good launch in 1st gear you sometimes get better acceleration if you space second gear closer to first than third.

Sometimes you will want to tweak gears individually to suit different corners on the particular track - i.e. being able to hold onto a gear - this becomes especially important if you are using clutch and H pattern shifter.

 

[eran0004]

1. set final to 5,500
2. set speed to 112
3. set individual gears all the way to the right
4. reajust final for longest straight

This is what I do for short tracks like Tsukuba. Is this okay or is there another way you'd recommend?

If you want the closest possible ratio gearbox you need to set the 1st gear as tall as possible (low number), top gear as short as possible (high number) and the other gears somewhere in between.

 

[reefer]

Thanks guys. I could get around Tsukuba with the RX500 @ 500pp (with t/c and asm on) on automatic transmission at 50.1 on a controller. I felt proud of that time cos I could at least hold my own, if not win most, in the rooms I entered.

Can't get close to that now on my new wheel.

I thought I was doing well, too, and in stepped a couple of Japanese guys:

49.775 and the other guy 49.665 - which I'm still in total admiration for. Blew me away. I didn't think it was possible. How did they do it? I still have no idea. A better tranny setup than me?

Either way, go and try it and see how close you can get to those times because anyone who can do a sub 50 second lap in an RX500 @ 500pp at Tsukuba is doing something right!

If anyone wants to try the RX500 @ 500pp on Tsukuba then here are my times:

controller
asm and t/c on
best time: 50.133

wheel
asm and t/c on
best time: 51.824

controller
abs only on
best time: 51.285

wheel
abs only on
best time: 51.781

Thanks to eran004, Sick Cylinder, Tony and ibpomg95 for sharing your wisdom above! I'd be curious to know your times and tranny set at Tsukuba on the RX500

 

[Sick Cylinder]

Thanks guys. I could get around Tsukuba with the RX500 @ 500pp (with t/c and asm on) on automatic transmission at 50.1 on a controller. I felt proud of that time cos I could at least hold my own, if not win most, in the rooms I entered.

Can't get close to that now on my new wheel.

I thought I was doing well, too, and in stepped a couple of Japanese guys:

49.775 and the other guy 49.665 - which I'm still in total admiration for. Blew me away. I didn't think it was possible. How did they do it? I still have no idea. A better tranny setup than me?

Either way, go and try it and see how close you can get to those times because anyone who can do a sub 50 second lap in an RX500 @ 500pp at Tsukuba is doing something right!

If anyone wants to try the RX500 @ 500pp on Tsukuba then here are my times:

controller
asm and t/c on
best time: 50.133

wheel
asm and t/c on
best time: 51.824

controller
abs only on
best time: 51.285

wheel
abs only on
best time: 51.781

Thanks to eran004, Sick Cylinder, Tony and ibpomg95 for sharing your wisdom above! I'd be curious to know your times and tranny set at Tsukuba on the RX500

Eran is much faster than me. I long ago learnt that in this game, just as in real racing there is always someone faster!

 

[reefer]

Eran is much faster than me. I long ago learnt that in this game, just as in real racing there is always someone faster!

Yes, just when we think we're doing well, along comes someone faster! It's like sitting out beyond the break in a kayak (if you've ever done any kayak surfing?), watching the waves as they break. It's humbling. Maybe it's the faster guys that keep us going.. and learning from too, of course:tup: