Downloading tunes is cool. But understanding how all those sliders work and making your own tunes is so much more rewarding.
If you just want a leaderboard time, then by all means, download a rocketship tune. If you want to get better at driving and enjoy progressing your driving skill, learn to tune your own cars.
This guide is a great place to start. Easy to understand and covers all the bases…
Yes watched this yesterday, very good guide.
I’m going to make myself a cheat sheet based on what he says e.g. move this slider up to achieve this result, ideal value from x to y etc etc.
There’s a lot of info there and needs summarising. It’s easy to turn a good car in to something undriveable, but equally can knock a couple of seconds a lap off with some easy minor tweaks.
Yet another article getting gearing terminology backwards. Long gearing gives you more speed but reduces acceleration. The gears pull longer. Imagine that correlation.
And obviously the converse is true for short gearing.
Lower (shorter) gearing has a higher ratio. Vice versa for high gearing.
This is a great post! I was heavily into tuning from FM2 through FM4 but it has been a while.
I am having to relearn quite a bit because the tuning options and how the cars react
to tuning seems to be different.
LOL if only I could TUNE my car (I don’t need the guide tho as a long time sim-racer)
Every time I try, I get stuck on applying.