Very well Laurent , it is better follow now your national football club....
Laurent,
I know I have had some illusions about camber working lately, and I was sceptical about your telling us that camber is not making any difference overall. So I went into a big testing session today using the Minolta Toyota 88C-V in the 24 minutes of Nurburgring For me this car is one of my favourites along with the Mazda 787B and they handle similarly.
I started with the suspension set to the 1.09 default page, your brake settings, your transmission settings and 3.475 Final gear. I used your LSD settings with the decel bumped up to 20 for the camber. So, 1.5* front and 3.5* rear, -0.50 front toe and +1.0 REAR TOE OUT.!
My 1st, and 3rd lap times were 8:14 and 8:07. I am not including the 2nd lap times because of the extremely poor lights on the 88C-V. It was like looking through a roll of toilet paper, trying to find the road in the dark. It might be the fault of the big screen T.V. I was wishing for a 4WD on all the second laps!?!?
I then changed to your 700PP tune for the 88C-V and tuned the power and transmission the same as the first test. No CAMBER! and 59.9% power. BTW all test laps were run with 600/850 downforce which limited the top speed to 184 mph on the straight.
The two daylight lap times were 7:59 and 7:54. Not only that, I passed the whole pack before the first uphill on the Nordschliefe. That was just over 2 minutes after the start!! The handling was solid "ON RAILS" as we like to say.
I changed back to the Default tune and ran it again just to be sure.
Both daylight laps were over 8 minutes again, 8:05 and 8:02.
OK, I'm a believer now. I can safely say that camber is providing no overall improvement in grip, which is a bit of a disappointment I must say. On the other hand, that saves all the tuners a lot of work. And it save us poor dweebs a lot of work getting a whole bunch of new tunes and printing/writing them out.
With both of the tunes, I won of course, and was ahead by 3 minutes at the end of the 3 laps with both, and the best part is, that I was ahead in the $ department by a couple of million by the end of the test session. I like to test while racing because it's a bit more "real racing conditions" rather than just running test laps with no one else on the track.
Anyway, thank you for all your work and your incredibly quick grasp of the "NEW PHYSICS" when 1.09 came out.
Happy football, Mustangxr
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