To kick off the feedback here is a cut and paste of a PM from Dysalot. I asked him to take a spin in a couple of my tunes. He provided great feedback. I have checked out the tunes since then and made some updates.
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Dysalot’s Average Joe Tune ratings:
I am basically an “Average Joe” driver. I have been playing the series since the FM2 release and hotlapping since then. With every series I have made spreadsheets to compare my top times. On average I am a top 5% driver, who uses no driving assists, besides a braking line (for consistency), and I use a controller but not simulation steering.
Why Road Atlanta? I wanted a short-ish track, which could get 10 laps in around 15 minutes. I wanted it to have at least one high speed straight, but also a mix of high speed turns and tighter turns. I basically wanted an all-around track that has a little bit of everything
This early into FM6 I don’t have a lot to compare to, and this is the first set of tuned cars that I have looked at.
I rate cars based on several categories:
Speed – How fast is this car around a track?
Drivability – How easy is this car to control?
Consistency – Can I put down the same times lap after lap?
Crucian4’s Mitsubishi Evo VI:
B Class:
Speed – 4 /5
Drivability – 4/5
Consistency – 4/5
Notes: Compared to JEZNASTY’s B-Class Evo VI, this car has 110 fewer horsepower and 167 fewer LB-FT of torque. But on the other hand it is almost 400lbs lighter. What those numbers tell me is that this car is setup to dominate the small tracks. Road Atlanta is more of a mid-tier mix between speed and curves, so it is not the fairest comparison.
The official clean time is 1:36.074 about 0.9 seconds off JEZNASTY’s similarly spec’d car. But the difference isn’t that great. If it weren’t for a bad end of a previous lap I posted a dirty time of 1:35.353, and probably would have saved a few hundredths off that if it was clean, which is essentially equal to that of the other Evo. On a shorter track I bet this car would win.
I found that this tune using the 5th gear really helped the speed on the back straight. The car has some slight understeer, which makes that final corner difficult to hit perfectly, because there is no correcting a slightly wide line.
Crucian4’s Ford Shelby GT350R:
A Class:
Speed – 4 /5
Drivability – 4.5/5
Consistency – 4.5/5
Notes: Note these ratings are for comparative cars, such as similar RWD cars. This car is very well tamed from its stock RWD self. The first few laps I was a little nervous about throwing it too much at the S-curves, but it stays very well under control even with some wheel spin and some sliding. For a car without massive amounts of downforce it is quite impressive.
The bumps especially at the end of Road Atlanta on the final turn are hard to navigate with a RWD while trying to get on the throttle as early as possible (or keep it down). It did catch me out twice, once was caused by a slightly late turn in, I just couldn’t pull it back in. The other was caused by accelerating over those little humps, the car stepped out.
This tune is fun to drive, but hard to get perfect. But overall for a RWD car it can be very consistent on lap times, especially if I was able to give it more time. Probably due to being RWD it doesn’t like to eat curbs as much as say the A class Evo or Subaru, but it does handle them competently.
Crucian4’s Toyota GT86:
C Class:
Speed – 4 /5
Drivability – 5/5
Consistency – 4.5/5
Notes: This was the most fun car to drive of the bunch. C class can sometimes be boring, but certainly not this car. It is very lively, and really, really fun around the corners. It handles the curbs much better than the GT350R. The only really negative thing I can say about it was that I struggled to hit the first turn perfectly to maximize speed up the hill which is critical for C-Class times on Road Atlanta.
The car was nearly perfectly balanced, and had just the right amount of understeer/oversteer. I don’t have a lot of C-Class times to compare it to, but my hunch was that it was a bit slow on the straights, but that opinion comes after driving the A-Class GT350R beast.
If I am playing a career mode C-class race, this is the car that I want to be in. Too bad not many people play C-Class online.
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Overall, my favorite part about Crucian4’s tunes is that he doesn’t try to over spec a car. There is no need for a Trueno to be an A or S class car. Crucian4 keeps cars at a level where they can actually shine and be competitive which is how I would always prefer it.