This championship really shows the power of transmission tuning and why you don’t want aero in low classes. I lopped off the aero, optimised the gear ratios and I was easily gapping the other cars on the straights with a stock car.
It’s not a rotatory engine, It’s a wankel
A Wankel engine is a type of rotary engine.
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Ye well in Italy we use to call wankel, radial and rotatory piston engines
Call it whatever you like, I used to have one and called it a 13B when asked
Did all 5 tracks in Featured tonight, it’s a fun little car. It’s like a baby MX-5 and very easy to race.
A radial engine is one such as a 9 or 18 cylinder in the f4u Corsair of WWII.
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Yeah well wankel, radial and rotatory pistons engines are all rotary engines but the wankel is the only that doesn’t need to transform the alternating kinetic energy with a crankshaft, I hope I’ve written well
There was a “rotary” version of the radial engine the precedes the true radial engine. The difference with the rotary radial engine is that the crankshaft stayed stationary and the entire crankcase and cylinders rotated. Hence the name of a “rotary” engine. The “Wankel” invented by Felix Wankel, is a type of rotary engine. It is proper and accurate to call it a Wankel or a rotary engine, or a Wankel rotary engine.
Really nice car, super fun to drive on club and short tracks, and great addition to the game.
The featured single player event is good fun. Nice courses for this car and the AI improvements make for fun racing. @Operator1 you’ve probably got something now but I can share the E and D tunes I’ve used if helpful.
Thanks. I prefer seeing tuning settings instead of installing downloaded tunes.
I like to know for my own reference what tuning factors affect certain behaviors in different cars.
I also like to be able to adjust other settings - sometimes downloaded tunes have behaviors I like combined with behaviors I don’t like, so I like to be able to adjust as needed.
But I know not everybody wants to share their “secrets,” and I know it’s also a bit more effort to type out setups.
Thanks to those who offer their shared tunes though. 
It seems like this car’s understeer is most painful in slow corners (like the Andretti hairpin & corkscrew at Laguna Seca).
E class:
- stock build
- 30/30 PSI
- 5.60/2.37/1.21/0.85/0.69/0.60/0.57 gears
- 1.2/-0.8 / 0/0/ 7.0
- 40/40
- 277.6/256.2 / 8.5/8.5
- 2.6/2.6 / 9.2/9.2
- 0/0 / 24.9/0.1
- N/A/30 (min)
- 46%/125%
- 90/5
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Noice. Thanks. I’ll give that a try later.
D class:
Race exhaust/ street pistons / race flywheel
Race tyres
Lightest wheels
27.5/27.5
6.00/1.94/1.13/0.84/0.64/0.52/0.50
Alignment - same as E
Anti-roll - same as E
Springs - 273.9/252.8 / 9.7/9.7
Damping - 2.5/2.5 8.0/8.0
Suspension - 0/0 24.9/-2.9
Aero - N/A 39 (mid)
Brakes - 45% / 120%
Diff - 65/5
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Thanks again for sharing your settings.
I tried the D-400 setup at Laguna Seca because that’s where this car’s understeer in low-speed corners really stands out to me.
These settings don’t feel any better to me in the Andretti hairpin, in the corkscrew, or in the last left-hander onto the start/finish straight.
It feels to me like all rotation in this car just switches off mid-corner through exit in slow tight turns - almost like it’s front-wheel drive.
There are a couple of top-100 rivals entries at Laguna Seca in this D-400 G40 Jr., so I watched their replays and they don’t appear to struggle with understeer.
Since settings that I’d typically expect to fix understeer aren’t working on this car for me, I’m experimenting with odd/unexpected settings to see if I can stumble upon anything that gives me the results I want. 
By the time (if) I get this car dialed in how I want it, the current D-400 spotlight series for it in Featured Multiplayer will be over. 
Hmm, I tried a few runs at Laguna and didn’t notice any significant understeer. I’m only on 1.41 pace though, so not troubling the top 100 times currently. Will do some experimenting later and see if I can narrow the gap.
Maybe I broke mine lol.
I can hit hit high 1:42’s at Laguna Seca (on medium race tires), and I feel like I’d gain a lot more time back if I wasn’t crawling through the slow corners with this understeer.
Is that in rivals conditions? I’ve only tried softs so possibly the tyre choice is making a difference.
I’ve been testing it in free-play test-drive, afternoon, partly-cloudy.
Since I want to run it in its current Featured Multiplayer spotlight lobby, I’ve been testing on mediums, but maybe softs would last long enough to get through the short lobby races without wearing out.