Trail cars tips and setups

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Hello mates!
I am finding really hard time to get control of all those trail cars like the Audi quattro or the Toyota Tacoma. The Norway stages in the Rampage cup seems quite complex with those sorts of car.
Lemme try explain: going with the Audi, a very oversteer setup in the car, powersliding in the curves seems to be quite over itself; easily tends to go offtrack, spinning and leaving the end of a curve wrongly enough to hit a tree bad. Generally, this is setup: gear ratio midshort, downforce midweak, suspension soft, ride midhigh, break ratio rear, differencial loose.
Quite opposite setup would leave me with no powersliding, a more "classical" driving style, braking in the enter of the curve, doing it and leaving it, hammering down the gas. No tree, in this case, would be harmed. But my times tend to be 5 - 6s higher than the 1st ( custom difficult: level 5, all aids off except line ).
Question, so, what can be done to shave off my seconds?
Cheerz!
 
Take it easy on the corners.


Practice that track over and over again... you will eventually pick up on how fast you can travel through a corner.
 
My suggestion is make the downforce stronger. It really helps while cornering. Should keep you from going off the track.
 
Adzian
My suggestion is make the downforce stronger. It really helps while cornering. Should keep you from going off the track.
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I had tried it already. The Audi is a quite tailhappy car, even with the wing and low ride; the Tacoma is a monster, the peugeot is fhe most driveable, but quite lazy IMO.
I tried both ways: something more drifter and something more steady. Going steady is 5 - 6s slower; going loose is a dread, and complicated with a DS3...
 
I've found the Audi is probably the best car to use for Trailblazer. It's very stable, and the power-to-weight ratio is just right. You can drive the car rather than it driving you, which I've found to be the case with cars like the SX4.

I think your problem is in your setup. You need to fine-tune it to eliminate - or at least minimise - oversteer.

Secondly, you need to learn the stages. The Norway ones can be especially tricky, and least of all because you're driving on snow. It's essentially one stage, Vaaler Climb, broken into two halves: Hafjell Descent (the downhill section through the bobsleigh run) and Nordsetervegen (the mostly flat half that runs through the town and across train lines). And they're two very different sections - Hafjell Descent can be taken almost flat out, while Nordsetervegen is very technical. You need to learn to anticpate the corners (especially since you get no pace notes), and know which ones you can take flat out and which ones will require braking.

I'd also suggest turning ABS on for Trailblazer. Espcially if you're learning the circuits.
 
Indeed interludes, the tracks is not in my head yet, gonna work out in that one. Bug one fact that is desapointing, for me at least, is that the Audi is not that weapon of trust that I thought that it could be, more than others cars, like SX4, which is the most horrible ride. But the significance of the peugeot 405 in this game was leave behind, a pakes peak record car, only with 150 rep points.
Anyway, I am not found of trailblazer racers ( if they exist irl ), but is illegal to write track notes? Maybe, gonna give a try on that one, to help other; also the presets that I use for the cruse. If people wanna share, too, There is no probs...
Cheers
 
Correction: The SX4 is arguably the best Modern Trailblazer car in the game (unless there's DLC I don't know of)...
 
Sorry, but I find the SX4 to be nearly undriveable. The power to weight ratio is so extreme that I feel like I'm going to bend the chassis just be accelerating. And when you do get up to speed, it's incredibly understeery. I have to constantly make corrections to the steering of the SX4, whereas with the Audi, I can just aim it where I want it and not have to worry anymore.
 
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Correction: The SX4 is arguably the best Modern Trailblazer car in the game (unless there's DLC I don't know of)...
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Ultimate pace does not necessarily mean it's the best, though I wouldn't argue it isn't the fastest I know plenty of people who will be quicker with one of the other Trailblazer cars (usually the RMR P580 or Tacoma). Personally the SX4 and Quattro are the way I go in their appropriate classes, the cars with lower centres of gravity don't tend to suit my style to well but online if there's ever anyone quite close it's usually one of the two aforementioned lower alternatives as they seem a little more stable.
 
To all those wondering about how realistic these cars are: Look them up. They are all hill climb specials (mostly built for Pikes Peak), and they really do exist.

I am glad DiRT 3 went with realistic hill climb cars, as compared to the flashy body kits for standard rally cars which were called trailblazer in DiRT 2.
 
skazz
To all those wondering about how realistic these cars are: Look them up. They are all hill climb specials (mostly built for Pikes Peak), and they really do exist.

I am glad DiRT 3 went with realistic hill climb cars, as compared to the flashy body kits for standard rally cars which were called trailblazer in DiRT 2.
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I am not dening... they exist i quite know this ...
http://youtu.be/TJsHlugRls4
 

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