interesting discussion, and interesting timing, as I was reasoning to myself yesterday about trying to take off the countersteer assist, just to see what effect it has.
I don't think there is a right answer, we often tend to answer from what our own goals, feelings and abilities are, but of course we are not all the same.
The short answer for me would be that whatever setting takes you in the direction of achieving your goals is the right one. Maybe it's worth experimenting a little bit, to get your own opinion on what happens when you change something, just so you don't run the risk of missing out on something just out of fear of change.
Want to have fun without too much flutter? Then TCS, ASM, etc etc may be for you..
Do you want to improve your time? Then, as someone wrote, activating something that makes you slower but more able to hold the car might help...
Do you want to improve your skills? Then perhaps the long-term goal is to reset the aids, but not too quickly, lest you fall into frustration...
Probably many of us place ourselves in different combination of these three.
For the experience, the skill and the objective I have my default now is TC0, ABS weak, CSA weak
I took stability control off pretty quickly because it gave me the impression that it generated strange reactions of the car in some situations.
I slowly took the TC off (at first I was at 2/3) and learned how to manage the throttle. On rare occasions, especially in races wher car/track combo is not ideal for my taste, I put it back to 1 so as not to run the risk of getting pulled in by the rush of the race and stepping on the pedal without restraint.
I have not yet experimented without ABS; I think that will be the last thing I do
Now I'd like to try removing the countersteer assist, perhaps starting from more potable situations to (I hope) getting to the point of not using it at all.
So far I haven't because I know the many occasions it saves me from making a mistake, but I'm seeing that on rare occasions I think I'm handling the countersteer before the assist goes in. Maybe it's true, maybe it's not, but I have this afterthought that tells me that if I don't learn to feel that the countersteer moment is coming, and I just wait for the assist to engage it on the steering wheel, I might get used to not feeling what the force feedback is telling me.
And then when I watch your videos and I see you controlling in countersteer I get so excited, and I get just as excited when I can do it myself. I don't think I'm going to be faster, because right now my countersteer has the goal of not dying, not going faster, but I still think it's time to try
