Ballast tuning/PP

[Samareye]

I have a Gallardo that is currently 571 PP.

The weight balance is 43/57, weight of car: 1410kg. With a Ballast of 200 kg, at position: -50, the weight balance becomes 50/50, but the PP drops to 560 and the weight of the car becomes 1610.

Is it worth it to have a weight balance of 50/50 for a heavier car and lower PP?

 

[XDesperado67]

Getting a better weight distribution can help the handling of a car out tremendously.
That being said, if you can tune a car to handle the way you want it to without adding weight you will see higher acceleration, possibly better top speed and may even find it can corner as well or better.
The way I generally work on tunes is if I'm aiming for a specific PP then I am much more likely to use weight to improve the distribution. If however, I'm simply trying to tune a car for maximum performance then I'm much less likely to add ballast.
So in the case of your car, if I wanted to tune it to compete at 550PP then I would be very likely to add some ballast to bring it to 50/50 or close to that before applying power limiter to reach 550PP. This would offer the dual benefit of improved weight distribution making it easier to tune the suspension, and leaving as much of the HP and torque as possible.

 

[seanneedscar]

Although nobody here is going to acknowledge this, 45/55 would be ideal for racing an MR car

 

[esoxhntr]

Although nobody here is going to acknowledge this, 45/55 would be ideal for racing an MR car

acknowledged.

 

[oppositelock]

People obsess way too much over 50/50, especially with mid/rear engined cars. Nearly every car with a rearward weight bias runs massively staggered tires to balance out the handling, so in most cases you're trying to fix something that's already been fixed. And contrary to popular belief, putting more weight over those narrow front tires does not increase front end cornering grip. In my opinion, unless you're trying to meet PP or weight requirements, leave the anvils out of the car.

 

[CyKosis1973]

If you're working to specific PP or weight limits, then I would remove more weight than you need and add it back as ballast. This is an unproven opinion, but I believe by adding ballast you improve the weight distribution. The game seems to add the ballast as a singular entity. Take a really light car, like the Caterham, and slowly add a couple of hundred kgs to it. You should eventually see the weight distribution change, even if you leave the position slider alone.

I don't normally move the ballast after I've added it, I tend to like it in the centre of the vehicle. However, moving it slight to the front or the rear can help you with marginal over or understeer issues, respectively....

{Cy}