Thank you so very much for the
Camaro Z28 '69 tune, guys! I adapted it a little to the RM version of the car and was able to beat the Expert Series' Historic Racing Car Cup on the first try! For the record, I just changed the following:
Aerodynamic Adjustment: 20/50
Tires: Racing Soft
I had an extremely close and fun race at the first course (Deep Forest Raceway)! I had to be a little aggressive on the first turn, but other than that, it was a very clean race, and I had a GT40 glued to my car all the time! I even saved the replay and plan on ulpoading it to YouTube as soon as I can borrow the video capture card from my girlfriend.
The second race was little more extreme, I had to be a lot more aggressive (Cote d'Azur). It was a fun race too, but a lot more tense. I was going to upload it to YouTube too, but I was in such a sorry state of mind when the challenge ended that I simply FORGOT to save the replay... Not to worry, I guess, it wasn't as beautiful as the first one, as it wasn't a very clean race. For this one, I recommend lowering the Top Speed, as the course doesn't have great straights to benefit from the regular max speed, and DOES have some tight turns that can benefit from a greater acceleration:
Trasmission: Top Speed - 300km/h (~186.4mph)
Aside from that, I prefer running with the following presets:
Transmission: Manual (MT) (VERY important)
Traction Control: 1
Skid Recovery Force: Off
Active Steering: Off
ASM: Off
ABS: 5 (I like to break well into the corners, so this is important too)
By the way, I play on a DS3, so a wheel is NOT a requirement to pull this off
On another topic, might I interest you epic tuners at Lion's Den Performance at giving the Suzuki ESCUDO Dirt Trial Car '98 a little love? The car is great, although it's no longer the monster it used to be in previous installments of the game. With a little work, it could reclaim a lot of its glory, even though I think that in order to pull out the whole potential of it you would have to control each gear's ratio... Anyways, a racing version of the car would be greatly appreciated, as I suspect that, given some work, this beast could easily take on, outrun and outmaneuver many a LM car
PS: As a little something that might be of note, I had more luck reaching top speed with Turbo Kit 1 than with 2, 3 or stock with ESCUDO. But it might just be mistuning on my part