Hey all,
I just wanted to ask the community… When you tune a car for all round performance for lobby use or for multiple LB times, which tracks do you like to use?
I like Catalunya and Sebring personally.
Thanks
Sk3tChY
I was thinking the same thing this morning ,i have been only doing rivals so far.Your ideas sound good ,i’d maybe say the alps would need a special setup.
All cars should be tuned track specific if you plan on using them for attacking leaderboards. Although a car may work well on other tracks there is no better way of tuning the car than for each track. The other way to do it is speed tracks, grip tracks and then a combination.
If I tune for a specific track, I’m gonna go on that track.
If I tune for an “all around tune” I use Prague most of the time, a wide variety of turn, elevation change (Which you wont have with sebring and catalunia, but that you have to take into account if you do an 'all around tune"), I really like the track, and since its a new track, I’m not completly bored with it.
In all previous FM, I was using tsukuba. Near the end of FM4, I was using Infineon Raceway.
I have been told by a few people that Indy works well for them. It has a good variation and some speed as well.
I bounce around between a few different tracks. Yaz for the hairpin, S’s, curbs and off camber corners. Prague, Indy GP, Sebring for reasons already stated. Road America has a wide selection of high speed and low speed corners, on and off camber, heavy braking zones and the carousel. When tuning lobby cars you will always sacrifice something on every track but the key is making it stable and drivable without nasty habits. Alps is a totally different animal all together and you may find something that works okay but it requires it’s own set-up most of the time.
For grip tunes catalunya national though sometimes I use Bugatti circuit.
For a little more acceleration and top speed tracks I use Indy GP.
If I need more speed/accel I rebuild for short sebring.
Track specific for leaderboards sometimes if the car really needs it. Most of the time I use the same tune on many tracks when leaderboarding. Usually the difference between me and a rival I cannot beat is driver ability more so than tune.
I like to tune on Spa, Silverstone long, and Sebring long for general tunes. I would say for leaderboards like others have stated you will need a track specific car if you really want a great time. One car can have lots of different good times on multiple tracks though so dont thing you need to tune for every track. I couldnt tune on every track cuz i would get bored so i have all my cars set up for general tunes so i can run whatever i want where i want to (excepts lemans and Alps, they do need their own tune).
ooops perhaps this is where im failing i always tune on alps as its the first test drive track lol my cars always fly round alps and ive hit good leader board times but struggle on other tracks to get any near top 500 i need a rethink on my choice of tracks as i only build all round tunes ir so i thought
Alps as a lot of wide turn, not that many hairpin or chicane
I’ll Second Road America and Spa. More important is that I am consistent at the track. More than once I’ve finished up a session all pumped up with pride on how I gained 3 seconds only to realize after a break that I actually masked a 1 sec loss in the tune with a 4 sec gain in driving line. Makes it really hard to learn what effects what.
I use Spa almost exclusively for Diff tuning. Low enough accel for the hairpins/chicanes high enough to keep the inside from slipping on the grass. Deccel for the hill and last high speed left hander. I switched from Sebring to Road America after struggling with one car to figure out the best camber setting. I still like Sebring for setting front to rear camber difference but found that it is easier for me to tell what camber is doing for the car at Road America. Yas for the rumple strips but to be honest I haven’t figure out Yas yet and all my tunes are junk at Yas. I also hit the Alps to check front bump and rear rebound settings cresting the first hill. For the most part what works there doesn’t seem to have that much of a negative impact on the other tracks I like to run. There is a dip on the first left hander at Prague that can make the car step out - so I usually go give every car a few laps around Prague even when I’m tuning for a specific track.
Crash
I tune all new builds first at Indy because the two long straights give me time to look at telemetry. Next I take the tune to Mazda to expose mistakes under harsh conditions. I usually end up with a car that for the most part is undrivable.
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