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- Barefoot_Driver
Praiano / Farrari 458 Italia
https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showthread.php?p=7573810#post7573810
Stage 1: Stock Tune
546hp@9.0, 1485kg, 553pp @ 0.0 miles
Drivetrain: MR
Weight Distribution: 42/58
Painted Matte Black w/ custom Blitz BRW Profile 08 painted Silver Crome (classy đź‘Ť)
Standard Setup
Sports Hard tyres Stock
Times:
Trial Mountain (Reverse): 1:37.024
Deep Forest: 1:24.217
Autumn Ring:
1:25.472
Cape Ring Full:
2:53.801
Feeling:
This is the sexiest car ever made. Especially in Rosso Corsa. Straight up car pornography.
Technical:
This ain't no family van (:cough: PT C :cough: ). It took me two laps to remove the FF style from my driving and another several before I became comfortable.
Braking is relatively short. Trail-braking isn't life threadining but not usually productive. Throttle is needed to counter the under-steer. On the sports hard tyres it can be easy to forget how early I need to brake from a high speed. The car accelerates much better than it brakes.
Turn-in is sharp and accurate. Not overly hyper and undisturbing and not very pedal dependeant. Mid-corner is difficult. When I get the entrance correct then mid- follows easily enough and if I am smooth with the throttle then it flows into the exit. But usually I try to correct my line in mid-corner and this leads to inconsistant throttle application which upsets corner exit.
Sudden elevation changes (like those on DF Start/Finish straight) can cause the car to lose traction. Cambered corners don't have a detrimental effect, the car seems to keep up with them fine.
The overpowered nature of the car is apparent in the first slalom on DF, as the car rounds the tight right between the first tunnels a steady throttle will keep the nose pointed in, pushing through the light under-steer. The under-steer is so light as to be non-existant. Throttle lift off during a high speed corner can initiate catastrophic under-steer.
This car likes to sit in the Squeak zone. But don't be fooled, just because you hear the tyres going "rrrrrr" doesn't mean you're hot lapping, it can just as easily mean that you've overextended yourself.
https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showthread.php?p=7573810#post7573810
Stage 1: Stock Tune
546hp@9.0, 1485kg, 553pp @ 0.0 miles
Drivetrain: MR
Weight Distribution: 42/58
Painted Matte Black w/ custom Blitz BRW Profile 08 painted Silver Crome (classy đź‘Ť)
Standard Setup
Sports Hard tyres Stock
Times:
Trial Mountain (Reverse): 1:37.024
Deep Forest: 1:24.217
Autumn Ring:
1:25.472
Cape Ring Full:
2:53.801
Feeling:
This is the sexiest car ever made. Especially in Rosso Corsa. Straight up car pornography.
Technical:
This ain't no family van (:cough: PT C :cough: ). It took me two laps to remove the FF style from my driving and another several before I became comfortable.
Braking is relatively short. Trail-braking isn't life threadining but not usually productive. Throttle is needed to counter the under-steer. On the sports hard tyres it can be easy to forget how early I need to brake from a high speed. The car accelerates much better than it brakes.
Turn-in is sharp and accurate. Not overly hyper and undisturbing and not very pedal dependeant. Mid-corner is difficult. When I get the entrance correct then mid- follows easily enough and if I am smooth with the throttle then it flows into the exit. But usually I try to correct my line in mid-corner and this leads to inconsistant throttle application which upsets corner exit.
Sudden elevation changes (like those on DF Start/Finish straight) can cause the car to lose traction. Cambered corners don't have a detrimental effect, the car seems to keep up with them fine.
The overpowered nature of the car is apparent in the first slalom on DF, as the car rounds the tight right between the first tunnels a steady throttle will keep the nose pointed in, pushing through the light under-steer. The under-steer is so light as to be non-existant. Throttle lift off during a high speed corner can initiate catastrophic under-steer.
This car likes to sit in the Squeak zone. But don't be fooled, just because you hear the tyres going "rrrrrr" doesn't mean you're hot lapping, it can just as easily mean that you've overextended yourself.
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I love the long nose, short deck style in my cars: California, Corvette, FC and FD RX7, even the old Audi Quattro and VW Corrado and Scirocco. More modern looking cars like the R8 and 430 and Gallardo are great looking too but the Daytonas and 280Zs and such will always be the truer expression of a sports car.... in my opinion of course. 
, I had 1:56.xxx with similar 550pp 458 Italia during the recent TT seasonal.
