Leonidae
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Let's just say that I had a hunch how this car would be to drive, and I sincerely hoped that my guts weren't right. Greycap will possibly test this car tomorrow as well, just to see if he agrees with me.
The downforce surprised me. I didn't remember that this could have racecar level downforce values. It did certainly help at higher speeds. In lower speeds, i noticed that the gearbox was pretty butchered. Car's performance did cover it quite well, but the second gear ratio hints that it's been made in order to drive this car with sports tyres as well. despite that, the annoying fact is that the gearbox is one of the biggest weaknesses of this car. Speedwise this car is pretty even with Grim R34per, and acceleration is similarly staggering. Ride was firm, no squatting or bowing under acceleration or deceleration, and it was very flat through few last corners, so big thumbs up this far. on final corner, my speed was usually around 146mph.👍
But then I arrived to corners that required hard braking. And that's when this car started to resemble my old blackbird in worst possible manner.
As soon as I lifted off throttle carefully, I felt how the car raised it's axe. I touched the brake pedal, and the car flexed its muscles. I pressed the brake pedal, and the axe hit me right between the eyes and it spun out in familiar manner, locking the rear tyres thanks to the quick and solid weight shifting effect, that lightened the rearend of the car enough. Same thing happened in the rest of the corners that required braking. Lift off throttle= spin. Using brakes = absolute death. Using throttle to stabilize the car = doesn 't turn enough to clear the corner. 
Thus, it's really similar to Blackbird, and most likely for same reasons. I believe that the main culprit is -4 rear toe, and high rear rebound. I suggest trying out 0 toe in the rear, and something like 4 or 6 for rebound in the rear. I couldn't perform a proper, clean lap with it on GVS, thus, I don't have a laptime to give.
It does have potential, but in order to perform 110% in racing situation, the car has to be controllable in every aspect of racing, not only in speed or acceleration. I suggest taking a look at the Blackbirds suspension and brakes, maybe even the downforce ( even though it can't have more than 30 front or rear..).
Positive things:
-speed
-acceleration
-grip under acceleration ( from 2nd gear upwards )
Negative things:
-Behaviour under braking from high speeds.
-gearbox ( can't be helped though.. well, maybe with a bit shorter 2nd gear, but that would sacrifice driveability on sports tyres, right?)
Cien Review!
Let's just say that I had a hunch how this car would be to drive, and I sincerely hoped that my guts weren't right. Greycap will possibly test this car tomorrow as well, just to see if he agrees with me.
The downforce surprised me. I didn't remember that this could have racecar level downforce values. It did certainly help at higher speeds. In lower speeds, i noticed that the gearbox was pretty butchered. Car's performance did cover it quite well, but the second gear ratio hints that it's been made in order to drive this car with sports tyres as well. despite that, the annoying fact is that the gearbox is one of the biggest weaknesses of this car. Speedwise this car is pretty even with Grim R34per, and acceleration is similarly staggering. Ride was firm, no squatting or bowing under acceleration or deceleration, and it was very flat through few last corners, so big thumbs up this far. on final corner, my speed was usually around 146mph.👍
But then I arrived to corners that required hard braking. And that's when this car started to resemble my old blackbird in worst possible manner.
As soon as I lifted off throttle carefully, I felt how the car raised it's axe. I touched the brake pedal, and the car flexed its muscles. I pressed the brake pedal, and the axe hit me right between the eyes and it spun out in familiar manner, locking the rear tyres thanks to the quick and solid weight shifting effect, that lightened the rearend of the car enough. Same thing happened in the rest of the corners that required braking. Lift off throttle= spin. Using brakes = absolute death. Using throttle to stabilize the car = doesn 't turn enough to clear the corner. Thus, it's really similar to Blackbird, and most likely for same reasons. I believe that the main culprit is -4 rear toe, and high rear rebound. I suggest trying out 0 toe in the rear, and something like 4 or 6 for rebound in the rear. I couldn't perform a proper, clean lap with it on GVS, thus, I don't have a laptime to give.
It does have potential, but in order to perform 110% in racing situation, the car has to be controllable in every aspect of racing, not only in speed or acceleration. I suggest taking a look at the Blackbirds suspension and brakes, maybe even the downforce ( even though it can't have more than 30 front or rear..).
Positive things:
-speed
-acceleration
-grip under acceleration ( from 2nd gear upwards )
Negative things:
-Behaviour under braking from high speeds.
-gearbox ( can't be helped though.. well, maybe with a bit shorter 2nd gear, but that would sacrifice driveability on sports tyres, right?)
I've tried lesser toe settings on the rear on it helps this problem while at the same time inducing fairly large understeer. So I have a question for you, if I take the rear toe to -2 and then switch the front/back spring rates (so it's stiffer at the back) around and make the rear dampers a little softer will that have the same effect as the rear toe at -4 without the snapping away from me? I also just achieved a new best lap time using current settings by taking one corner on a new better racing line that I had to teach myself in the WRS. I'll see if I can make it better still and try these proposed settings, any input you can give on the positive and negative effects of this change would be appreciated. Thanks 👍
We'll see if it has too much power for it's layout on S3's. But, being mid-engined, I doubt that.
