What are you aiming to achieve when you tune your car for a track?

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What are you aiming to achieve when you tune your car for a track?

  • Maximum possible speed

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Maximum possible handling

    Votes: 18 36.0%

  • 50:50

    Votes: 23 46.0%

  • I don´t tune my cars a lot

    Votes: 3 6.0%

  • I leave them stock

    Votes: 6 12.0%
  • Total voters
    50
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Question is simple. What is your top priority when you tune your car for a track? I find myself setting up car and then test it online but what I want from my car is very good handling and reasonable top speed but nowdays I found more and more people online driving their normal car as it was some Red Bull prototype :D I mean i am just a casual player but seeing Fiat 500 racing with Pagani or Civic going 400km/h in drag for whole straight. Maybe someone can build 400km/h+ car with handling of LMP from normal civilian version of any car in real life :D but I think it´s ruining all the fun of driving a car.
 
I don't fully understand the question.

If you are asking if I go for power over lightweight, or vise versa, then it's lightweight as a priority, then power as I see fit.

On the suspension and diff side of things, most of my competitive cars are tuned for stability and consistency.

All of my fun cars are built with oversteer in mind, be it natural oversteer, or tuned for understeer to be stable when in big oversteer situations, ie a purpose built drift car.

I voted 50:50.
 
FussyFez
I don't fully understand the question.

If you are asking if I go for power over lightweight, or vise versa, then it's lightweight as a priority, then power as I see fit.

On the suspension and diff side of things, most of my competitive cars are tuned for stability and consistency.

All of my fun cars are built with oversteer in mind, be it natural oversteer, or tuned for understeer to be stable when in big oversteer situations, ie a purpose built drift car.

I voted 50:50.
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Well english is not my primary language so maybe I wrote understanding of question wrong or accidentally wrote two questions in one but what I meant is if the people are sacrificing speed over handling or handling over speed when they tune their cars but when they do if they tune them with some sort of realism or not.
 
In that case, yes, for my competitive cars, I go handling over speed.
 
Making it fun to drive, so good enough handling and a good sensation of speed.
 
What do you mean with speed? Top-Speed or aiming for the fastest laptime?

I'm always looking for the fastest laptime, Handling on second place. So i think I cannot vote properly here
 
I will go for Maximum possible handling.
 
Fastest lap time and best control
I can't vote in your poll as none of the choices line up
 
psychoazubi
What do you mean with speed? Top-Speed or aiming for the fastest laptime?

I'm always looking for the fastest laptime, Handling on second place. So i think I cannot vote properly here
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50:50 could be answer your looking for because you trying to most of the car in speed and corners for best time.
 
HBR-Roadhog
Fastest lap time and best control
I can't vote in your poll as none of the choices line up
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My bad. I wish I could change 50:50 to Fastest Time option in poll because that's what I meant in first place by 50:50
 
I went for maximum handling, but when i tune, the first i try to achieve is an overall-good and stable car to handle. It shouldn't do anything that surprises me (like losing grip in the middle of the corner). After that, i should worry about speed. Consistent acelerations and speed. When i work out all of that, then i try to squeeze the most out of the particular car to be the fastest around the track.
But, I always prefer handling over speed in the last minute. I rather spend the last 2 minutes trying to tune the suspe and diff rather than tweaking the gearbox. It's always better not the leave the track. There's always the slipstream ;)
 
making it fun to drive. simple as that.
 
I leave them stock.. but last night I found out just using a hard suspension helps improve lap times a lot, so it's going to be my minimalist tuning for golding seasonal events easily...
 
Generally, when I tune for seasonals, it's handling and speed. A fast lap time will seldom happen for me if both of those are not in the mix.
 
Depends on the track, and to a lesser extent the car. Tracks like Monza its got to be top end speed, somewhere like Trial Mountain its more 50:50 speed and handling. Really twisty tracks its all about handling and quick acceleration.

To be honest though, I tend to not mess about with tunes too much, unless its for a Seasonal event.
 
I try to tune in the right balance of slight entry oversteer, mid corner grip and exit rotation without oversteer. It's relatively easy to do with newer cars, much more of a challenge in older cars. PD has done a great job with the subtleties IMO of the varying eras of car manufacturing. Not perfect of course, but well done for the most part. Engine tuning is basically to get a flat HP curve in the usable rev range while adding the most beneficial parts like racing exhaust, cat. conv. and ECU.

The overall goal is always the same for me. Fastest car possible given the parameters I have to work with...HP/PP/Weight etc.
 
Unless tuning for drift or drag I put minimal effort into it. Usually toe, bar and transmission adjustments. Instead I try to adapt my technique to the car im using. Sometimes it works, others not, but I believe its all about balance. 50/50
 
I go for a good balanced car, handling wise.

To try and rid the car of anything like a snappy tail end that wants to surprise you when getting on the accelerator. Or to remove understeer.

So that the car will take corners in a fast and smooth manner with few surprises. Once you've got the car going through corners well, then you'll have a good exit speed and be fast down the straights.

The main online racing series I've been in goes for long races 1hr - 1.5hr so you need to be comfortable with the car over a long haul.
 
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