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[R063R]

Spa Tip thats working for me...

Ride Height - F = Low, R = High

Shock Absorber Extension F = Strong, R = Strong
Shock Absorber Compression F = Weak, R = Strong

Spring Rate F = Weak, R = Hard

Wheel Alignment Toe F = In, R = 0
Wheel Alignment Camber F = Negative, R = 0

ARB F = Weak, R = Hard

I'll let you play about with the numbers yourself, to suit your driving style. I find this setup approach to the Evo's 4WD system at Spa to be better than the 'even' setup I used for the first 2 races of the season.

Quite a few of your settings were sounding familiar to my own, but was out at work there so thought I'd wait until I got home to check rather than guess what they were.

Ride height is same - nose down.

Spring rate is same.

How do you define 'strong' in relation to the dampers? A strong number, or strong as in little room for movement? I understand the value to be, the higher the number then the longer the stroke of dampers and being quite soft.

Roll bars I have opposite to you, for some reason. But, if I'm trying to correct the Evo's understeer by making my front suspension quite soft and rear harder, then it makes more reason to have my front roll bar soft too.....

Both front and rear camber sitting at a gentle negative. Then my front toe slightly positive and rear toe more negative.

 

[OmniusGT]

How do you define 'strong' in relation to the dampers? A strong number, or strong as in little room for movement? I understand the value to be, the higher the number then the longer the stroke of dampers and being quite soft.

Actually I think you'll find the higher the number the greater the resistance, thus stiffer/harder springs/ARB/shocks etc....

 

[RichyB28]

will be there thursday, what weather settings are you using for spa, you gonna use the changable weather?

 

[OmniusGT]

will be there thursday, what weather settings are you using for spa, you gonna use the changable weather?

Not this time, check out page 1 for the link to *RLW* that will explain when to expect the wet stuff

 

[RichyB28]

Not this time, check out page 1 for the link to *RLW* that will explain when to expect the wet stuff

Ok omn, i would prefer it with changable weather on, would probably mix the grid up a bit more. But dry weather is cool, cheers

 

[jamesybograt]

Second session was not as informative as the first one but anyway I managed to improve my best now its 1.30.675 = free run 1.30.585 = race

with that pace you will lap everyone at least twice.

 

[trotterlover79]

with that pace you will lap everyone at least twice.

my best is 2.32 hope its good enough to keep up

 

[OmniusGT]

Trotter - buraspo got it wrong, he mean't 2:30 not 1:30

 

[Third Reign]

Some more tweaks got me down to 2:30.xxx as well now for laps 2+3, starting lap 4 my pace steadily drops down untill about 2:35.xxx on completely worn tires. Still gonna have to do some tests on tyre management. Busting out 2:30 times eats away at them quite good. Gonna be interesting to see if driving 2:32 consistently nets me a better distance time.

 

[GT Flaw]

Just got some laps in,best was a 2:28.8 but I think I'll get sick of the sight of the pits with the tyre wear.

Gonna be more of a strategy race,should be fun.

 

[R063R]

Some more tweaks got me down to 2:30.xxx as well now for laps 2+3, starting lap 4 my pace steadily drops down untill about 2:35.xxx on completely worn tires. Still gonna have to do some tests on tyre management. Busting out 2:30 times eats away at them quite good. Gonna be interesting to see if driving 2:32 consistently nets me a better distance time.

Seeing this, now I don't feel as bad. Literally cannot get any faster than 2:32.7xx with my driving style. And as some have noticed in earlier races, I'm quite conservative with my tyre wear.

 

[OmniusGT]

Some more tweaks got me down to 2:30.xxx as well now for laps 2+3, starting lap 4 my pace steadily drops down untill about 2:35.xxx on completely worn tires. Still gonna have to do some tests on tyre management. Busting out 2:30 times eats away at them quite good. Gonna be interesting to see if driving 2:32 consistently nets me a better distance time.

Just got some laps in,best was a 2:28.8 but I think I'll get sick of the sight of the pits with the tyre wear.

Gonna be more of a strategy race,should be fun.

Seeing this, now I don't feel as bad. Literally cannot get any faster than 2:32.7xx with my driving style. And as some have noticed in earlier races, I'm quite conservative with my tyre wear.

Absolutley right geordie/R063R, Strategy all the way - jamesy will be the one to watch, finally we may have a race that even he can't conserve his tyres

Third - liking the sig 👍

 

[GTP_ADE]

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Third - liking the sig 👍

I am liking it too.👍

 

[R063R]

Omnius, count me in for this week. I'm 90% sure I can make it. And with all this testing I'm doing it would be rude and/or pretty dumb not to take part

Also, if there's a practice lobby open tomorrow/tonight/Thursday night (sorry, nightshift ruins me...) I'll try to make an appearance as long as the sleeping during the day goes ok.

 

[Dowlin39]

Is everyones front tyres wearing much faster than their rear tyres? Its probably down to set up but I'm just figuring out what to look for.

 

[GT Flaw]

Is everyones front tyres wearing much faster than their rear tyres? Its probably down to set up but I'm just figuring out what to look for.

Same here,fronts are down to about 60% after 6-7 laps but the rears look like they'll do the whole race.

 

[OmniusGT]

Is everyones front tyres wearing much faster than their rear tyres? Its probably down to set up but I'm just figuring out what to look for.

I've altered my setup to reduce front wear, its not stopping it, but I'm now seeing some wear shift to the rear (jamesy will probably have some tips tonight)

 

[Dowlin39]

I've altered my setup to reduce front wear, its not stopping it, but I'm now seeing some wear shift to the rear (jamesy will probably have some tips tonight)

Thats what id prefer actually.

 

[OmniusGT]

Thats what id prefer actually.

Look for my setup tip above, basically I've set the car up as if it was an FF then changed the traction to make it like an FR ....if that makes sense

 

[buraspo]

with that pace you will lap everyone at least twice.

Oops lol .Yeah it was 2.30.xxx.Its a long track , you know ,there are not too many circuits that are often more than 2min
But anyway I dont expect having the fastest car this friday judging by the leaders pace in Monza . Thats why I wanted several practice sessions
Its better to have more competitive cars on track during endurance to have battle on sevrral part of track at once

 

[OmniusGT]

Oops lol .Yeah it was 2.30.xxx.Its a long track , you know ,there are not too many circuits that are often more than 2min
But anyway I dont expect having the fastest car this friday judging by the leaders pace in Monza . Thats why I wanted several practice sessions
Its better to have more competitive cars on track during endurance to have battle on sevrral part of track at once

That's true, but we all need to be aware of what's around us if we're having our own races when the race leaders potentially may catch us up, we don't want any unfortunate accidents

 

[R063R]

Is practice 8pm or 830pm??? I've just started cooking steaks and rice here.......

 

[GTP_ADE]

Is practice 8pm or 830pm??? I've just started cooking steaks and rice here.......

If your cooking the steak properly, you should be eating it by now.👍

 

[R063R]

I am eating it now, but I don't wanna be rushing it........

 

[OmniusGT]

If your cooking the steak properly, you should be eating it by now.👍

TRUE

 

[OmniusGT]

I am eating it now, but I don't wanna be rushing it........

Chill, plenty of time

 

[GTP_ADE]

Interesting practice tonight, Spa showed us the different physics when we had the races that you dont get in practice. Watching the replays, I think the racing will be very tight tomorrow.

 

[OmniusGT]

Interesting practice tonight, Spa showed us the different physics when we had the races that you dont get in practice. Watching the replays, I think the racing will be very tight tomorrow.

Very tight, but also a mistake, will cost lots of time!

As long as we pace the start, lets not get into a mess - it's an enduro after all

I'm going for a tyre race, rather than trying to blast it from the off and going off! Lots of cars on cold tyres gunning for 1st, not good considering we've got 35 laps!!! It will be interesting to see the pitstops across the night, could end up a real game of chess out there! 👍

 

[buraspo]

Interesting practice tonight, Spa showed us the different physics when we had the races that you dont get in practice. Watching the replays, I think the racing will be very tight tomorrow.

👍

 

[BAZZABAX]

alright lads how do i join?