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Plymouth AAR Cuda 340 Six Barrel '70
All specs equal to posted tune, no problems recreating the tune.
Best Lap Time: 1:38.819
Driver Score: 4
Notes:
Ok accuracy and response on turn in, as long as I don't enter too fast, which unfortunately is very easy to do. Very sloppy feel from the wheel after the first movement, the front felt like it floated.
It's easy to over throttle on exit.
Braking distance is OK.
Because of the corner-straight-corner nature of the track each corner follows the same procedure. There isn't a complex on the track, just isolated corners.
After a few laps the cornering procedure looks like this:
1) Brake just a little late, but try to judge on the side of caution due to understeer induced by correction inputs. Entering too hot will red out the tyres and then you're in the kitty litter.
2) On tight corners try to induce as much rotation as I can through brake lift off. On corners that don't have a middle, I still need to induce situational oversteer on entry to keep the cars movement on its suspension consistent for throttling out. The extremely slow nature of this cars steering without brake lift off, or at least some movement to induce the front to go inward, makes it very hard to turn without using the brake/throttle.
3) On tight corners throttle up enough to keep the rotation movement till the exit input is needed. On corners that don't have a middle, skip this.
4) Make a slight throttle lift off and reapply input to give the car a slightly in pointing like line for corner exit. Apply the throttle smoothly and don't overpower the tyres.
2.5) Do not try to correct the middle of a corner with steering, it's too slow to transfer the inputs to car movements. Make all line corrections through throttle application.
4.5) On exit apply corrections through steering, not throttle. Keep the throttle application smooth and consistent, steering inputs at this point can be very aggressive.
Not a car I would race with online, and I would probably grow very frustrated with anyone who tried. My lap times were horribly inconsistent. Correcting the car from an entry that is anything over slightly too fast or too slow and I blow my line so far that I'm losing 5 seconds per corner. For the middle of the corner, if I can't induce oversteer through brake lift off, I again lose my line so far that I lose seconds trying to get the cars body to move into a useful position. Corner exit is the easiest part of the corner. Probably since I pretty much am near a stand still and straight before I can get on the throttle in a useful way.
Under steer is present at all times, pre-entry is a must at all parts of a corner.
I name this car "Monza."
jtqmopar
Plymouth AAR Cuda 430 Six Barrel - 1:40.068
DC - 8
If it wasn't for the understeer under braking and power oversteer on exit this would be a 10 pointer because it did feel really good, except when braking and when exiting the corners if I was just a bit too heavy footed. Though the oversteer did help bring the rear round on the first corner if it understeered.
jtqmopar - Plymouth AAR Cuda 340 Six Barrel '70
Time - 1:38:987
DC - 7
Had some grip issues here. Predictable under braking but seemed to lose it mid to exit of the corners.
AAR Cuda 340 Six Barrel '70 tuned by JTQmopar
Understeers a little and throttle control can be difficult sometimes. 1:44.272
DC 6
Thanks, like I said earlier, I would get a nice lap then test again with minor tweaks that should have helped, but made it worse. I lost my tuning notes with the few consistent tunes I had. I tend to brake as late as possible for a turn, whiel still slowing enough to get back on the throttle as soon as I can. Hopefully I'll do better in future shootouts, and put more effort into keeping track of cause and effect in my tuning. It's funny how I have a 540PP tune for the car that was great the last time I used it in 1.03, but it just wouldn't work at 500PP.