Cars and settings for Daytona Oval 600pp
- Thread starter GARY1951
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- Ardius_
Im not a great tuner, so I only spent 5 seconds creating this, but it works, guaranteed wins in the hands of someone skilled enough:
Jaguar XK 597PP
Power: Full (cant remember, +44 I think is the max?)
Weight: 85%
Tyres: S3
Ride Height: -15/-15
All other settings stock.
I can win with it every time, you nearly always start from pole because of the PP value and the extra power keeps the car just far ahead enough to keep all of the competition at bay. Only good drivers in things like Ford GT's or Audi R8's can really challenge you, and even then, you can keep up easily with slipstream.
Just got to be careful with the corners because you have less gripier tyres.
Jaguar XK 597PP
Power: Full (cant remember, +44 I think is the max?)
Weight: 85%
Tyres: S3
Ride Height: -15/-15
All other settings stock.
I can win with it every time, you nearly always start from pole because of the PP value and the extra power keeps the car just far ahead enough to keep all of the competition at bay. Only good drivers in things like Ford GT's or Audi R8's can really challenge you, and even then, you can keep up easily with slipstream.
Just got to be careful with the corners because you have less gripier tyres.
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- Manchester
- Ardius_
Turn? You dont need it to turn! Lol.
I approach the first corner with a gradually reducing speed, keep your foot half way on the throttle until it balances it out around 160mph+/- (if you get a good entry, you usually slow down to about 160 at the lowest half way around the corner) then make throttle corrections depending on how much it understeers, I generally keep the car in the centre around the corner, till about 7/8's around the corner, where I start putting more throttle down and moving to the outside for a full throttle exit.
For the second corner, I drop the throttle and get the speed down to about 158mph+/- and dive straight for the inside (doing both at the same time) and then balance it keeping it to the inside, finally throttling down and moving outside for the exit.
Thats how I get the car to do 51 second laptimes (in free run) anyway. In the end, I suppose its my driving style that makes this car fast, but Im fairly sure anyone else can adapt to this car and drive it as fast.
Good throttle control gets this car to turn (as with many rear wheel drive cars), use the throttle to get rid of understeer by dropping it a bit (but not fully) and then bringing the power back, you'll find you can sometimes go around the corners faster by repeatedly dropping and then rising the throttle in tiny amounts, but this requires a lot of effort and I only do this when necessary.
I approach the first corner with a gradually reducing speed, keep your foot half way on the throttle until it balances it out around 160mph+/- (if you get a good entry, you usually slow down to about 160 at the lowest half way around the corner) then make throttle corrections depending on how much it understeers, I generally keep the car in the centre around the corner, till about 7/8's around the corner, where I start putting more throttle down and moving to the outside for a full throttle exit.
For the second corner, I drop the throttle and get the speed down to about 158mph+/- and dive straight for the inside (doing both at the same time) and then balance it keeping it to the inside, finally throttling down and moving outside for the exit.
Thats how I get the car to do 51 second laptimes (in free run) anyway. In the end, I suppose its my driving style that makes this car fast, but Im fairly sure anyone else can adapt to this car and drive it as fast.
Good throttle control gets this car to turn (as with many rear wheel drive cars), use the throttle to get rid of understeer by dropping it a bit (but not fully) and then bringing the power back, you'll find you can sometimes go around the corners faster by repeatedly dropping and then rising the throttle in tiny amounts, but this requires a lot of effort and I only do this when necessary.
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Just wanting to go FASTER!!!!!!!!!!👍
- 10,373
- Manchester
- Ardius_
Well, you can sacrafice some power or weight in favour of some grippier tyres, you'll have to mix and match and see what you prefer, but be warned that the drop in power or increase in weight will lose some of the XK's decent straight line speed and mid-speed acceleration, which is its only strength against stuff like Clios and Elise's.
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- Buckeye Nation
Gary,we have raced against each other at various times,I recognize the name.There have been times were you were keeping up with my Elise 111R/tuned,I think your about there,I rear view mirrored you and it seems like you are just lacking in the cornering dept.,if that Jag could keep good speed in the corner you would have it dialed in,other than that you are good 👍,keep it up , your o.k.
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and ImagineByJohnLennon knows he is great at the superspeedway
Hey ImagineByLennon. Yes I remember running with you. I finally switched to the Nissan Skline Coupe tuned and really liked it. Well the update has changed everthing again. Looking forward to raceing with you again. !!! Reguards,Gary
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