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TJ Koyen
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| Quote: | | My first impression is that using a smooth technique with the wheel does not provide the speed that a herkie jerkie technique does with the wheel. The same with the brakes. |
It all depends on the car. You still need to be super smooth in all cars but some of them require you to be more aggressive with steering input on entry.
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Paul Hutt
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| Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2010 4:03 pm Post subject: |
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| TJ Koyen wrote: |
It all depends on the car. You still need to be super smooth in all cars but some of them require you to be more aggressive with steering input on entry. |
I am glad to know that someone agrees with me. I made the same comment on the IRacing forum and was beat up real bad.
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John Denman
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Smooth steering inputs work best under most but not all conditions. Take an oval like Indy; gotta be glass-smooth. Take a twisty bumpy road course like Monaco; gotta be twitchy with the steering wheel.
Some tracks work front tires harder, some work rear tires harder. The harder they work the more they heat. You can't always use tire pressure to balance out the heat. On tracks that work the rear tires a twitchy steering style generally works better, and vice versa.
Dario Franchetti is a master of tire (and fuel) management. Watch him on a road course; he favors super smooth and mostly runs in "conservation mode" but when he puts on the charge he makes it evident and is anything but silky smooth. Mario was like that in his younger days but seemed to have lost that edge about the time he retired from F1.
I can understand the perceptions from iRacers, the tire physics feel a bit inconsistent to real tire slip angle physics making them harder to drive at the edge - kind of like the reactions to inputs are a bit retarded or delayed.
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VINCE SCHNEIDER
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| Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2010 8:38 pm Post subject: Racing Sims |
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| I have the Xbox EA sports Formula One software, which took me almost 4 years to find a mint one to purchase. Also the Papryus Indy car racing is not half bad, just the graphics are old, but car setup, etc. is very adjustable. |
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John Denman
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| Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2010 9:30 pm Post subject: |
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Any Indycar simracers? We may have a spots open for the 2010 season. Just got done testing Sao Paulo. Talk about a drag strip connected with tight turns. Cool track.
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Dan Morera
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| Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2010 11:52 am Post subject: Re: Racing Sims |
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How many people here are simracers? iracing
What platform do you run? computer with 32" LCD and G25
What cars do you run? Mostly Skip Barber and Trucks. Would like to race the Corvette but can't find easy to drive set ups for it. |
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John Denman
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Dan, its nice having a 32" screen isn't it?
As for setups I found the same principals that worked for real cars work for the better sims like iRacing and rFactor. There is a Tune To Win Tutorial you might want to take a look at if you're interested in learning how to tune that Corvette.
Tire pressures and temperatures are a major factor to get right and that it takes a few laps to reach temps.
One thing that was missing when I was running iRacing was the MoTec data system.
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Dan Morera
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Oh yes it's great, couldn't go back to a 22" or something like that, specially at 1920x1800.
Thanks for the link got to read that, that corvette is way loose, got to be VERY gentle with the throttle
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Jeff Field
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| Dan Morera wrote: | Oh yes it's great, couldn't go back to a 22" or something like that, specially at 1920x1800.
Thanks for the link got to read that, that corvette is way loose, got to be VERY gentle with the throttle
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Dan |
My vette setups have quite a bit of rear toe in to help launching off the exits.
Have you been going in the iracing forums looking for setups that have been shared? I usually go there for a starting point.
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