@Turbodatsun @tmtk @PlanetJanet @Seve212
Thanks All 👍 Trying to keep things fresh with new information.
Definitely sounds like you’re on your way; those are already
very good times (lap & race).
I have heard in other threads that many users have a difficult time adjusting to their wheel “speed wise” when coming from a controller, an adjustment period that seems to vary. If you want to push forward adapting to your wheel it may be helpful to compare laps (under identical conditions) from both to see where you’re losing a full second, which certainly sounds significant.
There’s a consensus that the wheel has (or had?) an extended steering angle range, which was tested/confirmed by a member here, as well as a video addressing it on YouTube(?). Some have found the wheel helpful to deal with the heavy understeer that the Group C cars inherited with update 1.31. However, there was a change to steering sensitivity in the most recent update which appears to have helped the issue quite a bit.
@Grimm6Jack , our fastest controller driver here, had no problem overcoming it before that though. On the other hand, for me it was a nightmare, killing my times in corners. In most cases, it felt like they were either completely overshot from understeer or had to be taken so slowly time was being penalized twice, from early braking and the crippled acceleration from speed drop (due to the tall 1st gears we’re using for group c). I’m in process of revisiting these cars again now.
Regarding the TCS, as far as I’m aware, turning it off is absolutely faster. It’s something I learned to drive without early on after hearing that, reserving it almost exclusively for courses with rain. However, it is an “assist”, so as you mentioned taking advantage of having it off requires a different approach to throttle control, particularly in corner exits to not lose speed from slippage or control of the back end. If you’re having trouble, you could try stepping it down to setting “1” first and taper from there. I believe one of the recent updates lightened the effects of (TCS 1) specifically. If that still doesn’t cut it, could to try briefly using the “stability control” assist as a crutch to help smooth the transition.
Yeah the AI can be frustrating at times, definitely a luck of the draw with them. Idk how long you’ve been playing but there’s also a random AI issue were they won’t pit stop, causing them run out of gas and put around the course for 10 laps at 50mph, causing congestion, accidents and erratic behavior of the other AI. It’s incredibly obnoxious and has led me to ruin countless races that had so much potential.
In my opinion, the wind speed/direction plays a big role as well, in addition to changing the braking points, I believe there are directions that are good for certain cars and some just worse all around like strong south->north winds, southwest -> northeast and west -> east.
