Great car handling in few seconds...

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For those who have not thought it or haven't tried it, or do not want to bother with tuning suspensions, LCDs etc:

Try to use different tyre compounds in front/rear for curing oversteer/understeer.

Tried this in the new seasonals no.7 FF & FR races and I was very happy with the cars.

For FF with my 200hp tuned Peugeot 106 which had massive power understeer I used Sport hards in front and Comfort softs in back and then the car negotiated all turns very willingly like a 4WD with a beatiful 'on the limit' feel.

For FR with my 300hp tuned Honda S2000 using Sport hards in back and Comfort softs in front it helped the car become much more predictable and natural. I was really able to thrash it over most Suzuka corners (except maybe the really tight ones where it slightly understeered) with a very controllable manner giving you great confidence for pushing more.

OK so maybe it does not sound "right" as tuning your car's suspension etc, but it worked wonders for me with so little hassle.

Don't know how this will be with tyre simulation ON (e.g. online/endurance) but for those races it was really great.

Thought I'd share, so there you are. :)
 
I actually used to do this in GT1 and GT2. I'd put Racing Soft up front and Racing Hard on the back and it would become a lot easier to turn. If it oversteered too much I'd just upgrade the rear to Racing Medium. The only downside is that you wont be as fast as someone using Racing Soft tyres all round with a good suspension setting.
 
Remove toe in on the rear wheels, alot of cars seem to have it as default

For FWD cars soften up the front and harden up the rear, seems to make understeer a little better. Thinking about it, this probably works with f/r/awd, someone enlighten me.
 
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r0llinlacs
thought about trying this with the Veyron to cure it's massive understeer problem
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Hmm I still maintain it has no such problem, it's because it is so darn fast...check your speed man, it's probably going into the corners about 50mph faster than even other supercars :)

Also don't forget it's a road car, not a race car, as people seem to overlook that also.
 
I used to do that all the time when I raced 1/12 scale R/C cars. My dad taught me the trick which he, in turned, learned when he and my uncles used to race dirt track oval. If a car had a lot of "push" ( what they called understeer back in the day) they would run tires with more tread on the fronts and more worn on the rear to make the car handle more "loose" or tail happy.
 

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