Less downforce equals more handling?

[SilverFire]

I was racing my Mercedes-Benz CLK-LM Race Car '98 and seems to handle better at lower downforce than higher downforce. Can somebody please support this. I found this odd.

 

[Motor City Hami]

I was racing my Mercedes-Benz CLK-LM Race Car '98 and seems to handle better at lower downforce than higher downforce. Can somebody please support this. I found this odd.

Rear downforce induces understeer. Most cars in GT5 suffer from understeer. Adding rear downforce adds to the problem.

Front downforce can be a useful tuning tool.

 

[SilverFire]

Thanks

 

[Aquarelle]

Yep, despite higher downforce giving higher PP it can certainly affect you adversely - It's a pretty common misconception

 

[SilverFire]

I'll have to remember that.

 

[scrambles175]

thats one of my few criticisms with GT5 is they took away splitters that worked with the wing and gave us spoilers instead

 

[shmogt]

Idk I don't find this to be the case. I have cars with no spoiler that just act insane and the second you drop and spoiler and crank it to max it's a dream car. I assume it depends on the dune applied to the car too.

 

[Aquarelle]

Idk I don't find this to be the case. I have cars with no spoiler that just act insane and the second you drop and spoiler and crank it to max it's a dream car. I assume it depends on the dune applied to the car too.

Pretty much. If your tune adequately compensates for the added 'weight' to the rear it's not so bad, but the fact remains that adding the spoiler will reduce oversteer at the cost of inducing understeer.

It's a balancing act and you can still reduce the understeer effect through tuning the suspension.

 

[Dan]

So could this help with the understeer on my RX-7 TC? Yes this might sound odd to some, but it doesn't push through turns as much as I would expect it to.

 

[Aquarelle]

So could this help with the understeer on my RX-7 TC? Yes this might sound odd to some, but it doesn't push through turns as much as I would expect it to.

That sounds more like it's a fault with your suspension or diff, but yes you could probably fix this issue using your downforce.

If you lower your rear and raise your front downforce you'll feel a difference in cornering (not to mention less drag)

 

[scrambles175]

Idk I don't find this to be the case. I have cars with no spoiler that just act insane and the second you drop and spoiler and crank it to max it's a dream car. I assume it depends on the dune applied to the car too.

I never really noticed a difference with or without spoilers myself, I just know having a splitter would help keep some of my high powered cars from trying to fly to the moon.

 

[Dan]

That sounds more like it's a fault with your suspension or diff, but yes you could probably fix this issue using your downforce.

If you lower your rear and raise your front downforce you'll feel a difference in cornering (not to mention less drag)

Gotcha. Thanks, man.

 

[shmogt]

I never really noticed a difference with or without spoilers myself, I just know having a splitter would help keep some of my high powered cars from trying to fly to the moon.

I notice it a lot with more recent updates to the game. Before I could add it and the car would improve, but I could still drive it fine without one. Now some cars like the BMW M5 are just not drivable without one. I think it would also depend on the starting car. Some cars just have to have one and others are fine without one. Spoilers are meant for high performance racing so any lower end HP car probably doesn't need one.

 

[scrambles175]

I notice it a lot with more recent updates to the game. Before I could add it and the car would improve, but I could still drive it fine without one. Now some cars like the BMW M5 are just not drivable without one. I think it would also depend on the starting car. Some cars just have to have one and others are fine without one. Spoilers are meant for high performance racing so any lower end HP car probably doesn't need one.

I guess I'll have to look into to that more, I didn't notice a difference with any of the Lamborghini’s, the '88 Toyota Supra and any of the Mitsubishi's so I just wrote it off as something to make the car look cooler