Over the weekend here I thought I'd just give this a few laps to see if the combo was any good.
No more than 20 or 30 laps, I said.
Some 700km later, I was still inching the time down and fiddling with the setups.
T1: 0'18.835
T2: 0'36.210
T3: 0'54.795
I think I've gone a different way with setup compared to others; since this car weighs virtually nothing I see no reason for hugely stiff springs. My settings are softer than the standard racing suspension. Though, I believe that suspension settings this week don't make a lot of difference, since we're running on R5s. The grip from these tyres is such that you could probably run the suspension from a horse-drawn wagon and still set a reasonable pace. I've just tried to make the car a bit less jumpy and easier to drive.
My gearing is also fairly simple, using only 3rd, 4rd and 5th for the entire lap. The engine has a huge, flat torque curve and takes forever to change gear, my solution was to leave the gearing at auto 14 and just made 4th gear a little taller so I wouldn't bump the limiter at T2 or just after T3. After Jerome mentioned it, I tried the tranny trick but I'm certain it's slower, because the time lost in the gearchanges is greater than the benefit of tighter gearing.
If anyone's interested in trying them, here are my settings
Springs: 7.5 / 5.7
Height: 107 / 107
Bump: 4 / 4
Rebound 6 / 6
Camber 2.5 / 1.3
Toe -2 / 0 (this is optional, not sure if it works. 0 / 0 is ok)
Stabiliser 4 / 3
Wing: 30 / 30
Gearing: Auto 14 then make 4th taller (lower number) to about 1.390. I used 3rd gear for the first and last corners and the corkscrew, 4th gear for the rest of the corners with 5th on the straights.
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oh well, still the weekend. It is good to get my gran turismo thumb back after not playing for so long.
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. Unless mullen beats me again this week
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Now I feel better.
