For a couple of days now, I’d been noticing across some other forums and Discord that some Motorsport 2023 players were recommending to zero out the anti-dive and anti-squat settings on cars to greatly reduce, if not outright eliminate understeer in cars. With that in mind, I got back on and gave it a shot.
First car I tried out was the Mercedes-AMG GT Black Series. I reset my entire setup back to stock and then adjusted nothing else but setting the tire pressures to 31 psi and setting the anti-dive and anti-squat numbers as close to zero as possible (note: you won’t always be able to zero out the settings completely - just get as close as you can). Then I ran two laps at Road America. Immediately, there was a much noticeable difference in car feel; the car took corners much more confidently than it had completely stock and braking also seemed to be improved. By the end of the second lap, I’d knocked more than a second and a half off of my lap time.
I then took the Black Series to Mid-Ohio, where I had first noticed how badly the car seemed to handle stock. Same settings, two more laps. Again, a very noticeable improvement, and by the time I completed my two laps, I had shaved off nearly two seconds.
On a lark, I did the same thing to the Porsche 919 Hybrid (minus the tire pressure) and ran a couple of laps at Le Mans. The effect was less noticeable, as that car’s issues deal with oversteer, but there was still increased confidence in the car’s turn-in ability.
Then, on an even bigger lark, I got into a car I knew handled like a pig no matter what I did- the 2018 Ford Mustang GT. Back to Mid-Ohio I went. It took just two turns to notice the improvement. I didn’t even finish the lap.
I chose that last car for a reason, because it illustrates just how bad the stock setups are in this game. If you want these cars to feel anything close to what they should in reality, then the very first thing you are going to have to do is get a race suspension and zero-out anti-dive and anti-squat. They really shouldn’t even be a thing, let alone be set to the numbers that they are. Whatever their reasoning is for including these settings, Turn 10 needs to make it a priority to go across every single one of these cars and setting those numbers to zero stock, just like toe is. I would go so far as to suggest that it needs to be removed from the game completely.