Is it possible to have so much downforce on a car that the tire pressure goes up and the car spins out?
I think so, because every time I do a race in my Centenario, it spins out.
A lot of downforce can make a car twitchy, which can then make it spin out if you’re not careful. And the increased downforce will increase tire heat that will then make the tire pressure go up.
No. You can have a poor balance due to aero that will cause the car to spin easily, too much front and not enough rear downforce. Try adding maximum rear and minimum front if you are spinning and dial it back from there.
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I can’t tell if Canto360 or PTG Baby Cow is right because they both have experience.
Both of us are right honestly, lol. A lot of downforce increases the grip you have at speed, you tune your downforce according to all your other settings and also how you drive, all my cars use max downforce and i only spin out at low speeds or when i get hit either by another racer or a lag spike lol. Gotta balance all your tune settings just right or the vehicle will be unstable.
if you spinning out at low speed you got too much rear down force, if you spinning at high speed you got to little rear downforce.
^ wrong. More rear downforce means more grip in the rear, more noticeable at high speed but no exception to the rule.
It can happen, like it happened to me last week, I was spinning at low speeds and I checked my aero after and it was way too much rear wing. You know the oppersite of high speed is low speed?
When you have too much downforce in the rear you understeer at high speeds so for someone that does not know its the aero that is the problem (most people) you would try to tune it out resulting in half oversteery at low speed and half understeery at high speed, and best fit compromise. When you could of just fix the problem right and tuned the aero correctly.
But you werent spinning because too much rear aero. you were spinning because of the results of a poor set that was masked with a lot of rear aero. Not specifically because the car has too much rear aero, that will never cause a car to spin or over steer.
True, it is not a direct influence but can be a secondary one.
spinning out because of your camber. I use f 1.5 r 0.5
Aero is only functional at speed because air moving over or under the car generates lift and/or downforce. At low speeds the aero is not generating much or any downforce, if you are spinning out at speeds where no downforce is being generated its a combination of all your other tuning elements working against each other. Ex: having too much camber or too stiff of springs for the car to consistently maintain a good grip level without the aero providing full downforce.
I’ve used tunes with far less and far more camber, you tune each car differently so some can use 3.0 negative camber and i’ve even tuned some that needed positive camber to handle decently. All the tuning elements have to work together.
Forzas aero works at all speeds.
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It is stronger the faster you go.