Test Driving results for the FITT British Invasion hosted by
@Bowtie-muscle Driven at Silverstone Grand Prix
All cars received 5 Laps warm up and learning. All cars then driven for 5 Laps or till I got all I could from the car on the majority of the track. Which ever came second.
Track and driving aids. Grip= Real, ABS=1 all other driving aids off that impact handling.
DC scoring is as follows. Stock suspension & LSD with power and weight upgrades. (3 Stock Laps max to get a feel on it)
1-4 worse than stock and why.
5 as good as stock.
6-7 better than stock but….
8-9 Great tune.
10 WOW one of the best I’ve had the privilege of driving n GT6
Pro Touring Gt:
All cars are the same in terms of power and parts. Ballast set at position 0 aero set at 15 for stock lap.
Aston Martin DB9 Coupe ‘06; 2:07.203
Jaguar XKR-S ‘11; 2:07.233
@787bcgr -
XKR-S
Lap time;2:07.327 DC;6.5
Entry; Too easy to slide causing understeer.
Mid; Under steer through the entire mid corner and a loose rear that would transition to oversteer very quickly
Exit; The high accel setting needed fantastic throttle control or it would spin the car.
Overall; 787’s tunes are always a handful for me, they need a high degree of precision to drive fast and I just don’t have that. I would see glimpses of what this tune could do but I could never put it all together in one lap. I logged nearly 40 laps with this car and just never got it all right.
@Bowtie-muscle -
XKR-S
Lap time;2:05.265 DC;8.23
Entry; Solid braking no tire lock up, good turn in. Heavy understeer if cooked even a little.
Mid; Building understeer from entry to exit made entry extremely important.
Exit; Solid here great grip, little or no swimming or tire spin, just go. Over steer present here for the most part which offset the understeer at mid
Overall; As long as I got my entry right this car took any turn in stride, if I missed my entry even a little I found it would understeer through the entire turn, required I brake to induce oversteer to get the car back on track. Well done solid tune. Just a bit loose at mid and would be much faster car.
@DolHaus -
XKR-S
Lap time;
2:04.2762:03.978 DC;8.89
Entry; Sweepers it was fantastic, tight turns it was unforgiving.
Mid; Held any line I asked it too and would adjust with no issues.
Exit; Great grip, I needed to be a gear high for the turn or would I spin the wheels.
Overall; This car was great, fantastic balance, rotation was very good, brakes were solid and didn’t interfere with the turn in. I found that it was a very forgiving car in the sweepers but would turn and bite me in the tight turns. I also found I needed to be going straight to jump on the gas if I wasn’t I was going sideways. Fantastic build sir.
@Motor City Hami -
DB9
Lap time;2:05.246 DC; 10
Entry; Solid braking, didn’t like it if I cooked it, but what car does? Fantastic cooked entry recovery.
Mid; Solid rotation was incredible. Tiny bit of understeer if my foot was too heavy.
Exit; Incredibly solid here, only faltered if I was out of shape from a heavy foot a mid corner.
Overall; Fantastic tune, do you keep a rubber chicken and a incense burner in your tuning kit? This was totally magic.
Bonus test; Seeing how these cars are pretty much identical I slapped this tune on the XKR-S with the transmission as close as I could get it and logged a 2:04.169 on lap 3 and it was sloppy I missed my mark on a couple of sweepers and the final turn, easily left 2-3 seconds on the track.
@Otaliema -
XKR-S
Lap time;2:03.354 DC;8.1
Entry; Solid brakes didn’t over power unless you missed your mark and had to hold them too long. Picky about it’s entry line.
Mid;Very high grip but a touch of understeer that necessitated a little throttle lift to keep on the track at exit.
Exit; Fantastic grip hard to spin the tires on anything but the slowest of turns. The understeer that built up in mid corner would require a ever so slight lift off to bring it back
Overall; Good solid tune, little too touchy to be useful out of a TT, the grip this car had made it great for off throttle turning but I did feel the car fighting itself in the sweepers the nose wanted to push out and tail wanted to come in.
@shaunm80 -
DB9 Coupe
Lap time;2:06.862 DC;7.8
Entry; Good if you’re doing a slow in fast out line. If you try to brake late and dive it just slides.
Mid;Lots of understeer here and it loved to get out of shape here if I was too heavy on the throttle.
Exit;Seems low on grip here, I was out of shape just after more turns than I was in shape. It liked to swim for me.
Overall; Good car if you do what it wants, if you do something it doesn’t like it lets you know with a healthy dose of swimming and understeer. I found it rather easy to over power the rear and spin the car when in 2nd and even 3rd gears. Once I slowed down and stopped diving into turns it go faster I just never felt confident that I could just lay in to it.
@sinof1337 -
XKR-S
Lap time;2:05.565 DC;7.1
Entry;the brakes over powered the front wheels causing a lot of lock up and thus understeer.
Mid; Great grip here, held any line I was on and would even change the line with little argument.
Exit; Excellent grip here and stable. I would have problems if I was out of shape from smashing the gas at mid corner.
Overall; This car loved the sweepers and hated the tight turns. I had Dolhaus’s ghost loaded when I drove this and I kept up with and gain on it in all the sweeps but I would loose all that ground and than some in the slow turns as I had to slow down a lot for them to get the car around them, as a result it was just slower over most of the track. The final gear could have been a touch longer to keep the car in power band on the back straight in 6th gear.
@xande1959 -
DB9
Lap time;2:06.101 DC;8.21
Entry; Good brakes go the car slowed down with no drama and allowed for basic trail braking. Good turn in at the correct speed. Under steer if I cooked it and oversteer if I was cold.
Mid; A touch of understeer present here so it always started to drift wide, it held what ever line I started on but didn’t want to correct it.
Exit; The understeer from mid corner continued here and it would keep drifting out of the turn, as long as I didn’t lead foot the gas, it held very well.
Overall; Overall I had a good time with this car took to my style much better of brake late and dive in. I did find that I didn’t like it if I gave it the beans too soon and I swam down more than one straight on the track.