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Way off-topic but: What do you do for a job? I want to do it too!rsmithdrift
Under or over?
- Thread starter Greycap
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- URBANCOCKPIT-1
You will smile... but for me, the best moment on this game is to drive the BMW 2002 Turbo on road tires, stock with around 250 HP. You just have to release the gaz just when you enter the turn and the car slide smoothly... IT IS GREAT! 
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For the past four or five days I've been concentrating on coming up with as good a setup for the Ford GT '05 as I possibly can. I'm making tiny changes to settings as I slowly make progress. I'm using S2 tires front and rear.
I'm doing it on just one track: Midfield. My consistency is steadily improving, and I'm very much aware of any mistake that costs me time. There is absolutely no doubt whatsoever that even the tiniest trace of oversteer on any turn costs huge amounts of time. Just a slight stepping out, even on the very tight hairpin that leads into the last tunnel, simply wastes the whole lap.
Any tendency of the rear end to get even a little loose costs anywhere from a half-second to almost two seconds. To go fast, all oversteer (which I define as looseness that requires even the slightest bit of opposite steering lock) must be eliminated in high-traction environments. When things get really slippery, all bets are off, but if you're getting a bite, you have to keep the rear end completely behind the front end if you're looking for good lap times, with any car.
I'm doing it on just one track: Midfield. My consistency is steadily improving, and I'm very much aware of any mistake that costs me time. There is absolutely no doubt whatsoever that even the tiniest trace of oversteer on any turn costs huge amounts of time. Just a slight stepping out, even on the very tight hairpin that leads into the last tunnel, simply wastes the whole lap.
Any tendency of the rear end to get even a little loose costs anywhere from a half-second to almost two seconds. To go fast, all oversteer (which I define as looseness that requires even the slightest bit of opposite steering lock) must be eliminated in high-traction environments. When things get really slippery, all bets are off, but if you're getting a bite, you have to keep the rear end completely behind the front end if you're looking for good lap times, with any car.
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ferrari_chrisWay off-topic but: What do you do for a job? I want to do it too!
Dude, I'm talking about 3-4 hours a day on video games. I don't have a job, that's the problem. Although I do get sideways VERY often in my '86 300zx in real life, I even went to a SEDA drift practice in Atlanta earlier in the year. Unfortunately it is in the shop right now and nobody know's whats wrong with it. It just wont start, it turns over like normal, but wont get any fire at all. They think it's my Coolant Temp. Sensor right now, but they aren't sure yet.
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How much I am aware that oversteer is not the fastest way to corner, especially when the rear end doesn't grip at all and you really feel the power being wasted away... I CANNOT stand understeer.... it just frustrates. Snap-oversteer is not too fun, but few things are more grin-inducing than a bit of opposite lock.
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i like a bit of oversteer. Its easier to tell how hard your pushing and how hard you can push the car.
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Hate to burst your bubble Greycap but there is a poll exactly like this on the main forum of GT4 message boards jsut under your poll. Exact same issue, exact same topic, exact same choices. A "search" would have revealed that thread. sorry for sounding rude, but I'm just letting you know kindly that you are going to get some people shortly telling you to search....consider this as a friendly warning
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Actually Greycap's thread is older. It was just dug up after he linked it in the othe over/under thread, which bankokgt created today. So if you really want to get picky, bankok is the one who sould have searched.
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- arten_v
Wow... take it from the bottom eh?
Well, now that we're here, just wondering if anyone's watching Initial D.. here's the thing. The driver of an S2000 there has a style in with he almost doesn't turn the front wheels, and those are almost always pointed straight, even during corners.
In the anime, they doesn't know if he's drifting or gripping, but he's extremely fast! So much that he's called God-Hand.
So, this is not about the anime, just used an example. We all know the anime is far from real.
Someone in this thread said that turning the front wheel just enough and "turning with the rear wheels" is the fastest way in racing. Would that be the same thing? Isn't that a 4 wheel drift?
what you think?
Well, now that we're here, just wondering if anyone's watching Initial D.. here's the thing. The driver of an S2000 there has a style in with he almost doesn't turn the front wheels, and those are almost always pointed straight, even during corners.
In the anime, they doesn't know if he's drifting or gripping, but he's extremely fast! So much that he's called God-Hand.
So, this is not about the anime, just used an example. We all know the anime is far from real.
Someone in this thread said that turning the front wheel just enough and "turning with the rear wheels" is the fastest way in racing. Would that be the same thing? Isn't that a 4 wheel drift?
what you think?
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Depends. I want understeer on high speed / entry, and oversteer for tight corners.
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It was brought back because I posted a link of it in the new understeer/oversteer thread and adviced bangkokgt to read it, just to have a larger amount of opinions available. No idea why people began posting in this, I only wanted this to be used as a helpful source of information.Wolfe2x7Why was this one brought back? Wasn't the other thread doing just fine on its own?
Ermac26 - I won't say anything, you seem to have got your punishment already.
GreycapIt was brought back because I posted a link of it in the new understeer/oversteer thread and adviced bangkokgt to read it, just to have a larger amount of opinions available. No idea why people began posting in this, I only wanted this to be used as a helpful source of information.
Ermac26 - I won't say anything, you seem to have got your punishment already.
That's why I was asking why it was brought back.
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- ferrari_chris
Well, what's the point in having two threads on the same topic?Wolfe2x7That's why I was asking why it was brought back.
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