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I apologise for the disjointedness of this post, I had many things to say but it
is was 4:30am after New Year's celebrations so bear with me. (I fell asleep before I could finish the ramblings below)
I know I'm late but I'd like to acknowledge the WRS's Christmas gift of tuning and thank them greatly for allowing us to tweak stuff this week.
Initially I ran a sort of a combination tune between
@EDK and what I'd tweak myself, which I compared to
@Iceman 's original tune and decided it had too much understeer, before seeing mad improvements on his tune from others and then going chasing more front end on iceman's tune meaning I ended up with this weird fusion of EDK, Iceman and my own preferences to get what I felt was the best setup for me. Funnily enough, the changes I made would later appear on both those revamped tunes, with EDK getting rid of the rear toe while running less front toe and Iceman adding front camber.
After what can only be described as too long, including a run to 4am yesterday with barely any improvement, today I shouted aloud to nobody in particular about a lack of rear grip, but only in acceleration, to which a quiet part of my brain responded "what differential are you running?" The answer to which I obviously didn't know and after checking realised I'd left it just a tad too high after one of my previous "will this help?" tweaks. After fixing that it just became a question of when the laptime would drop not if, and even then I simply ran out of time before New Year's celebrations kicked off, and I'm only getting around to posting now because those celebrations very much got in the way (before I fell asleep postponing this further).
19.477
22.225
26.603
Just like
@Special_K I too believed a 19.3 was possible in S1, got darn close but never quite breached it with 19.419 being as close as I got, also saw a 22.184 in S2 about 3 runs before my best lap, had a 26.463 in S3 as well as part of an older best lap, and had a couple of better total times to S3 before completely messing up the final split throwing away many a great and good lap.
This one proved an incredibly frustrating challenge, my Three Sector-itis is pretty twitchy at the best of times but on a 4 sector track it was playing up something fierce! Sucks to leave so much time on the table, but it was one of those rounds where you just can't get the *really* good splits you've run to come together on the same lap, so I'll have to just suck it up and deal with being best part of 3 tenths off an 'optimal' lap.
The car was surprisingly fun in the end, got to the point where I was steering it on throttle, on brakes and sometimes with the wheel too but ultimately just not quite enough the way I wanted, have to hope that the final split is competitive enough to stay with the top guys, but as usual really rewarding to finally string sectors together to achieve what was at the time 'close enough' to your ultimate potential, which occurred a couple times even if I didn't finish that way. So many incredibly close moments with track limits and cone strikes, but in the end a relatively 'clean' lap by comparison to those that came before it, which came amusingly as part of a string of 4 consecutive PB's over 2 sessions, in which I managed to miss the 'cut' on the right hander at turn 4 in Sector 2, running completely on the tarmac of that turn instead of trimming it with 2 in the dirt as I usually did and as was suggested in the thread previously. Not sure if it was worth time or cost time but I found it interesting how that line happened to be part of many of my best laps when it wasn't the line I was aiming for.
I hope the above is coherent enough, but I hate just posting splits without saying anything else about the challenges or explaining stuff.
No really now, I see the learning potential this combo has, but I cannot handle this car,... unless I get another urge later today this is it. Will have to live with the placement then.
