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The Riley DP has twitchy brakes. I don't like it. Can I relieve some of the brake pressure? Change braking sensitivity? Help appreciated.
 
Try changing the brake bias, should be at the top of the setup options in the garage.
 
Just took my second win in Grand-Am in the Mustang, pretty happy considering my race yesterday was absolute crap..
 
SKIDMARX
I'm guessing your new to the DP?

And you'll find that most 'Higher Performance' cars have brake bias option.
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I bought the Riley yesterday. Yeah, I'm new to it. So much power, so much aero, such long straights (tried it at Daytona night time...) And such twitchy, touchy brakes... :yuck:
Mac K
Just took my second win in Grand-Am in the Mustang, pretty happy considering my race yesterday was absolute crap..
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Congrats. I'm about to try the Mustang myself, once I mop up some points in the Jetta.
 
MrMelancholy15
The Riley DP has twitchy brakes. I don't like it. Can I relieve some of the brake pressure? Change braking sensitivity? Help appreciated.
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I move mine all the way to 5.
Test the brake bias by doing high speed stops.
I lower it until it no longer wants to spin.
 
MrMelancholy15
I bought the Riley yesterday. Yeah, I'm new to it. So much power, so much aero, such long straights (tried it at Daytona night time...) And such twitchy, touchy brakes... :yuck:
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They are not that bad, you have just got used to a slow FWD car aka the Jetta. You want more aero, power and twitchy brakes then a lot more cars can beat the DP like the HPD, FW31, IndyCar etc.

You'll get used to it, then struggle to get used to slower cars again, believe me, it happened to me. :)
 
SKIDMARX
They are not that bad, you have just got used to a slow FWD car aka the Jetta. You want more aero, power and twitchy brakes then a lot more cars can beat the DP like the HPD, FW31, IndyCar etc.

You'll get used to it, then struggle to get used to slower cars again, believe me, it happened to me. :)
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It's not that the Jetta's slow; it's only 13 seconds slower than a Star Mazda. It's the ABS.


My Impreza (in real life) and the Jetta, in iRacing, both have ABS. So, when the lights turn red, I've gotten used to having a little bit of "kick-back" in the pedals.
Whether I'm dodging MX-5s or cops, I stop quickly. :lol:
 
MrMelancholy15
It's not that the Jetta's slow; it's only 13 seconds slower than a Star Mazda. It's the ABS.


My Impreza (in real life) and the Jetta, in iRacing, both have ABS. So, when the lights turn red, I've gotten used to having a little bit of "kick-back" in the pedals.
Whether I'm dodging MX-5s or cops, I stop quickly. :lol:
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Haha turn the ABS on in the options menu then, it's a lot slower and doesn't slow your car down as quick and it's annoying and it shakes the steering wheel around and..... well you get the idea.
 
Ardius
GT cars tend to have large spoilers, splitters and diffusers and generate a fair bit of downforce. If they take damage to the splitter or lose other bits of aero, they lose quite a bit of performance and generally they can't always race close to each due to their reliance on aero.
GT cars tend to be quite a lot different in appearance and performance than their road variants.

Whereas touring cars have minimal aero and can take quite a bit of damage without losing much in performance. Touring cars are (or used to be) quite close in appearance and performance to road cars.

Its this difference that puts me off today's DTM because its effectively a GT series now...but with only 3 different makes and some fairly dull racing at times.

Also, most touring car series (such as BTCC) tend to run shorter tracks and shorter race distances. GT series tend to run 1 hour or more race distances on large tracks. Basically touring cars are more like national-sprint type races and GT are more like international-endurance type races.
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Actually the main difference and what determines what car falls on GT or Touring classes is engine displacement. Off-course with each class come a new set of regulations together with their evolution and how liberal the teams can be with them.
In the case of DTM/SuperGT those beast are closer to LMP cars than they are to anything else.(personally I think the ACO should use those regs for the LMP classes)

As for the BTCC car our SR System will prevent people fro driving like total clowns no track<===AKA real life BTCC!
 
Jav
Actually the main difference and what determines what car falls on GT or Touring classes is engine displacement. Off-course with each class come a new set of regulations together with their evolution and how liberal the teams can be with them.
In the case of DTM/SuperGT those beast are closer to LMP cars than they are to anything else.(personally I think the ACO should use those regs for the LMP classes)

As for the BTCC car our SR System will prevent people fro driving like total clowns no track<===AKA real life BTCC!
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Its not based on engine displacement though...otherwise why did we have 1.5 MGs fighting 3.5 Jaguars back in the 50s?
Or what about GT cars such as the Mazda MX5 or Chevron GR8 which have 2.0 engines, which is the same displacement as S2000 and NGTC touring cars?

I think its as simple as:
Touring cars = tuned/modified road cars with minimal aero upgrades.
GT = fully blown race cars with minimal carry over from road cars.

Of course, there are areas (especially these days) where the lines are blurred.
 
Those examples fall under class evolution. If you see something like that that today is on regional classes. And don't think for a minute a Touring car is just a tuned street car, even on S2000 trim those cars are purpose built machines, even on the days of Speed World Challenge the tech used by those cars was nothing short of the most advanced GT cars of the day!
 
Oh I realise that, though the aerodynamics comparing S2000 to DTM is like comparing a Bi-plane to Concorde ;).
 
Ardius
Oh I realise that, though the aerodynamics comparing S2000 to DTM is like comparing a Bi-plane to Concorde ;).
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Oh you're definitely right!! I failed to see your point, I just refuse to see DTM/SuperGT cars as anything but prototypes. That's my mistake.
 
I've just finished driving my new tracks and cars. After driving the Mustang, it's too bad I can't have refunds... Why is it so slippery?! But, the Star Mazda... :drool: And I'm indifferent about the DP. I just hope I can learn the brakes/throttle.
 
MrMelancholy15
I've just finished driving my new tracks and cars. After driving the Mustang, it's too bad I can't have refunds... Why is it so slippery?! But, the Star Mazda... :drool: And I'm indifferent about the DP. I just hope I can learn the brakes/throttle.
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BF Goodwrench Street Tires ;)
 
Mac K
BF Goodwrench Street Tires ;)
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:yuck: They're actually worse than the Pirellis...


Also, just had the worst race ever. I was in a comfortable, happy third placed Jetta. Second place was a lot faster... Until he spun on the exit of the Carousel (Road America's Turn 8,) spun across the track, put the car in reverse. The end result was me smashing into the T9 wall... And flipping, several times.


This also marked the first time in an iRace, an oil spill took out a majority of the field... Sorry, guys, my fault. I guess hitting a wall at 200 km/h will destroy the entire engine bay... Leaving fluid everywhere.
 
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Race or not? I took a few months off from iracing, im trying to get my groove back. but im struggling with new sim gear.:nervous: i upgraded from g27 to t500rs & fanatec v2 pedals. ive been practicing for 3 days trying to get dialed in the c6r for daytona, my laps times are like 142's to 144's. ive seen 138's in practice and i just cant get there yet. Should I keep practicing or take a chance and race? I really want to race this track, or I could just keep practicing and wait til next season to race Daytona. Any thoughts?
 
runfast1
Race or not? I took a few months off from iracing, im trying to get my groove back. but im struggling with new sim gear.:nervous: i upgraded from g27 to t500rs & fanatec v2 pedals. ive been practicing for 3 days trying to get dialed in the c6r for daytona, my laps times are like 142's to 144's. ive seen 138's in practice and i just cant get there yet. Should I keep practicing or take a chance and race? I really want to race this track, or I could just keep practicing and wait til next season to race Daytona. Any thoughts?
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If you can keep it on the road- race. Chances are someone will be at your pace and you can race with them!
 
Normally touring cars (it was once called saloon car racing, or sedan racing in US terms) have 4 seats and typically 4 doors or a hatchback or something, which generally makes them relatively heavy with a high CoG and skinny tires.

GT cars have 2 seats and maybe some pretend seats for 5 year olds and are never, ever front drive.

Anyways who says touring cars are less aero heavy than GTs never saw a late 90s Class 2 Super Tourer or old school DTM/ITC, and anyone who says they're smaller displacement has never heard of a V8 Supercar. Modern DTM is definitely hard to place, especially with this year's new cars that have the same rules as next year's SuperGT and even racier bodies than the last time they were 2 doors. Plus you have things like the M3 GT2, aka the world's most glorified (vaguely) production based touring car racing in a GT class.

Basically touring car racing is about everyday drivers and GT racing is about play cars. Stock car racing is an extreme form of saloon car racing.
 
runfast1
my laps times are like 142's to 144's. ive seen 138's in practice and i just cant get there yet.Any thoughts?
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Press Tab in testing. Enjoy. :lol: You'll see where you're losing time against the optimal lap time. That's how the 1:38 guys get up to 1:38s. It works no matter which car I'm in.
 
My computer is acting up real bad, I got this on startup
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and it loads really slow for whatever reason, it was working fine before except a loss in frame rate recently
 
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