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Post by XRF Lemarrrr on Jan 8, 2020 22:54:46 GMT
Whats the best tune for a gte at silverstone (im quite new and dont have much setup experience) The best bet is to find a fairly quick times on Time Trial and see I it suits your driving style, if you have any questions about engineering the car then ask away 🙂
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Post by Dale Rossi on Jan 9, 2020 15:34:01 GMT
Offline practice tip:
Full race so you have full tanks and set the AI to 100 Aggression. Lower than that, they will act too much like bots and then when you get in a grid with human opponents, it will feel like things are moving way too fast. It may suck at first, but it will help with awareness.
Set it to full damage and turn track limits ON.
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Post by Dale Rossi on Jan 9, 2020 15:50:16 GMT
Passing/Corners tips...how to avoid dive bombing etc:
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Post by Dale Rossi on Jan 12, 2020 23:02:23 GMT
Pit Stops..would be a good idea to put mandatory stops in your practice sessions. They seem straight forward, but things can go to hell quickly with a bad one.
The ICM has several options to adjust them in the car. When things are hectic, it can be a bit tedious. Best to square it away before.
Always set at least one for just Damage and maybe even set that one before the race starts. That way you can just pit and fix everything if something goes wrong. If things go well, you have a long time to select your planned pit Strategy.
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Post by XRF Formula1 on Jan 13, 2020 23:04:15 GMT
Currently I have 3 custom pitstop strategies specifically for WEC. I'll probably need to add another for wets once we get to Fuji. Softs with fuel & aero repair, hards with fuel & aero repair, and a splash and go stop.
I usually don't worry about engine/gearbox repair because most of the cars I drive either can't just switch out for new ones while boxed or the sport has banned doing that.
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Post by XRF HammerPH on Jan 13, 2020 23:24:18 GMT
Pit Stops..would be a good idea to put mandatory stops in your practice sessions. They seem straight forward, but things can go to hell quickly with a bad one. The ICM has several options to adjust them in the car. When things are hectic, it can be a bit tedious. Best to square it away before. Always set at least one for just Damage and maybe even set that one before the race starts. That way you can just pit and fix everything if something goes wrong. If things go well, you have a long time to select your planned pit Strategy. Also when you adjust something in the ICM whatever change you make is made to the saved pit stop strategy you had currently selected. So for example if in your saved strategy you have softs selected but in the ICM you decide to change to hards because of an early incident or something similar, the next time you pit with that same strategy selected it will bolt on hards again. You have to remember to swap it back to softs before the next stop.
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Post by XRF Formula1 on Jan 13, 2020 23:24:51 GMT
A huge and important bit of advice for pit tyre strategies:
Make sure to match your tyre pressures in your pit strategies to that of what they are in your setup.
NEVER SELECT 'AUTOMATIC BY WEATHER' in your setups. I had to change the in-game units of measurement to bar so I could match them correctly.
NEVER SELECT 'RECOMMENDED' for the tyre compound and ALWAYS SELECT 'HARD' 'SOFT' or 'WET'.
ALWAYS SELECT 'CHANGE ALL COMPOUNDS'
This is all because your pit crew are bots with limited intelligence lol.
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Post by Dale Rossi on Jan 14, 2020 5:49:07 GMT
Great points. Pits take some practice.
I have my Planned pit, a Damage Only Pit, and a Damage + Left/Right (depending on track) tires pit.
There are some other options, but it depends on the race.
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Post by XRF Formula1 on Jan 19, 2020 23:18:50 GMT
I have a couple pointers for my fellow Ferrari 488 drivers at SPA.
I've spent some time against the AI at 100/100 there and it's going to be a tough race. The Ferrari has got to use everything it has to keep up with the others down the Kemmel Straight and Courbe Paul Frère. I'm using almost no downforce at all which helps as it still seems to be quick around the rest of the circuit. We just need to be careful when down shifting fast and turning the wheel as it can easily upset the rear. The kerbs don't help this...
Also the Ferrari gets most of it's power from about 4000 to 6000 rpms so try to avoid higher revs. 2:19s and 20s is good race pace with a full tank of gas so I don't think we'll hit the 2:16s like the Fords can, maybe CPRacing can do it😉.
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Post by XRF HammerPH on Jan 19, 2020 23:58:21 GMT
Those 2:16's are not on full tanks.. at best I think it's been about 40 litres from what I've seen but mostly lower than that
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Post by Dale Rossi on Jan 20, 2020 0:19:26 GMT
Ferrari is the one car I haven't tested at this track, but witnessed a deep 56 at Silverstone in one.
CPRacing has a 2:16.300 on the TT board (that's obviously with 5L of fuel)
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Post by Dale Rossi on Jan 20, 2020 1:03:08 GMT
I have a couple pointers for my fellow Ferrari 488 drivers at SPA. I've spent some time against the AI at 100/100 there and it's going to be a tough race. The Ferrari has got to use everything it has to keep up with the others down the Kemmel Straight and Courbe Paul Frère. I'm using almost no downforce at all which helps as it still seems to be quick around the rest of the circuit. We just need to be careful when down shifting fast and turning the wheel as it can easily upset the rear. The kerbs don't help this... Also the Ferrari gets most of it's power from about 4000 to 6000 rpms so try to avoid higher revs. 2:19s and 20s is good race pace with a full tank of gas so I don't think we'll hit the 2:16s like the Fords can, maybe CPRacing can do it😉. Just did a few laps in the Ferrari and am pretty familiar with the GT3 version, so it didn't take too long to tweak just to get a rough idea of what it can do. The straight after Eau Rouge, the Ford GT seems to have the highest outright speed there, by a hair. But all 6 cars are within 1 to 2 KPH there. If you are hitting much more than that in any of the other cars on that straight with the same line, it may be the setup.
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Post by Dale Rossi on Jan 24, 2020 16:18:27 GMT
***PIT STOPS***
Put them into your practice. Even the most experienced drivers have a tendency to blow them, speed in pit lane and get DQd etc.
Go through your in car menu and learn how to adjust what damage you do and don't want fixed on the fly, etc.
Setup one pit for your Planned stop and another for Damage Only in case something unexpected happens. Hopefully it won't, but plan for the worst and hope for the best.
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