I agree with
jparker. You have tooooo much HP... lose the turbo and go back to stock. He is also right about figuring out the braking... Takes a little practice to force yourself to brake a little earlier than you normally would think. I would add to his advice: Just after braking and turning in, wait (coast) until the attitude of the car is right on or after the exit of the apex before stomping back on the gas. (BTW, don't "stomp"... ease back on)
As in all city driving, ignore the walls and concentrate on hitting the apex just like you would on any other track. Most folks have a tendency to forget about that basic rule of racing in the city and I personally think it is because of the barriers and walls. The walls give you the illusion of corners being sharper than they really are. That sets you up to overbrake more often than not, therefore you enter slower and subsequently, find yourself needing to over accelerate as you exit. Truth be told, I think the gauge here is to realize that there are only really three or four sharp corners on this whole track. If you think there are more than that, you are missing apexes.
Think of them as curbs. Find a rhythm that is smooth and consistent. Get yourself to where you are carrying momentum through the corner and not trying to gain it all back after the corner. Try even stretching your gears out a bit (ie- move the autoset to the right so your highest gear goes down). Less "get up and go" but will help you to drive for momentum and not catchup. Also will help your tire life.
Some helps to that are:
Soften up the ride a little, maybe adjust more with the bound/rebound than with the springs. I think I set mine at (Bound 5/7 Rebound 5/7) Make sure your ride height at Paris is at least 20 clicks over the lowest setting and maybe even try 25 clicks. You need to smooth out the "choppyness" of the street race here and leave room for the suspension to be taxed.
Set your ASM/TCS to whatever feels best for you but somewhere around 0/0/4 and 0/0/7 so you aren't roasting the rears all the time.
On that track I run -1 rear toe to help facilitate turning. I might even run just the opposite in the front toe at 1.
You may want to try a little "tail-braking" assist if you run automatic... What I mean is to set the rear brakes at like 1 higher than your front so you can move the rear a bit quicker as you are turning by tapping the brakes. Careful though, takes a bit of practice and forces you to brake in more of a straight line the balance of the time (which, on this track is what you should be doing anyway).
Don't let the car ahead of you fluster your driving. Drive
YOUR race, catching and passing will come best if you drive
YOUR race. Don't forget the strategy of running the R3/R2 combo that works best at Hong Kong might be best for you here too.
Other notes from my screwups here (one of my favorite tracks BTW):
Braking points where I was loosing the greatest amount of time were the long back straight into the tight left and hairpin right. There are three overhead signs (white) counting down the distance to the tight left. I found that if I started my braking just after I passed under the first sign, I could hit that tight left apex much better and I could subsequently set up a much later apex on the hairpin instead of having to make the entire corner a carousel. I bet I shaved 1.5 seconds off my lap time in just figuring that one corner out. (That is not to mention the time loss due to gaining back momentum.)
Another time loss for me was the long chicane like area where you slow, jog right and then back left. When I finally figured out the right way to hit the apexes right on those two jogs, I shaved another second off my lap time. I was originally taking that in 4 turns and then figured out that really there are only 3 turns. One right on entry, straight through two, gentle arching left, straight through two and then another right on exit. Brake early (before you pass under the sign), coast for a sec as you turn in, throttle control through and as you set up exit through the last two on the other side, you can find a happy point in there where if you do it right, you are full throttle through the exit.
I found a similar technique on the back and forth slalom course just before the start/finish worked wonders on my time as well. It is straighter and faster through there than you first think if you get your throttle control right.
Watch out for the bump in the left side of the road just before the sweeping right onto the back straight! I have hit that on more than one occasion and I discovered I was wwaaayy missing the apex of that sweeper if I hit that bump in the road. You miss it completely if you are hitting the apex of the sweeper cause you should have started the gentle turn-in long before the bump. Believe it or not, it is almost no brakes and almost full throttle through the sweeper on to that straight. You exit onto the straight really tight to the wall on the left.
Smooth (in spite of the choppy feel of the street)=Fast so go smooth-smooth-smooth
Hope this helps... 👍
phattboy
please help
and Opera Paris Reverse. I'm currently at Race 9 and the points are like this:
