For B class.
This track baffles me. I can’t seem to figure out what kind of build is needed here.
Good Accel and Grip I guess. Needs to accept bumps well because of the curbs, half decent top speed but it’s all those corners and powering out of them that will surely get the time.
Haha, you just explained a car that is good at acceleration, grip and speed.
So which is it lol?
Lol I see what you’re saying. It’s worth saying that I don’t have any specific cars in mind as I don’t run B class and haven’t driven 90% of the cars in game but if it were me I’d be choosing a car that I can primarily build and tune for as much acceleration as possible - so being light mainly and not underpowered, heavy cars won’t cut it on Yas.
Top Speed is just an after thought for me on this track but I am aware that there’s decent straights. Although long, the main Yas track has enough corners to outweigh the need for a high top end so don’t worry about top speed. Now I know it’s an A Class LB car(xbow) but I’ve ran a Nissan GT-R R35 against an Xbow on that track and I know the guy racing the Xbow wasn’t that good, anyway i would pass that thing within seconds down the straights at Yas and be way ahead at the end but a few corners after the straights the xbow was back on my tail and I had to defensive drive just to keep it at bay so like I say…
Acceleration and Lightness
I’ll also throw in good braking but good grip and braking come with lightness anyway.
There’s several different cars you can run and be competitive here, I usually like to run muscle cars so I have a slew of them that I have gripped out with tons of acceleration. I can give you some of those tunes later if I can get the Party chat thing worked out. The Alfa Stradale of course works well there as well and I have seen quite a few of the Evo’s and Subaru’s with the 1.6 motor that does pretty well there also.
I usually try to tune my cars fairly soft so that they don’t bounce a lot on the rumble strips at Yas…and in most of the muscle cars I tend to leave the cage out so that they aren’t as rough here.
Ya I tried out the 69 charger that you owned faces with the other night but I must not have built it right cause I ran some of the slowest times I ever have at yas with it. I also tried the Pontiac GTO that Wheelman was using with no success. Im pretty much hitting a lap time barrier at 2:26 and I watched you, STiGGLES and Wheelman do 2:24’s and 2:23’s
start with handling, race tyres etc, then stick as much power in as you can get to bring up the PI to the boundary.
I think acceleration is the key for this track. You’ve got some corners that you have to really slow down for and then come out of and hit top speed ASAP. Just an amateur’s POV.
need both accel and top speed for the straights. No good having a little pocket rocket on this track with no top end.
I agree, but the track isn’t Old Lemans either. What good is top end speed if it takes all day to get to that top speed? I don’t think either can be ignored, but I view acceleration as the more important factor.
Clay would beg to differ.
That’s fine as I don’t pretend to be an expert. He mentioned the 33 Stradale, Subaru and EVOs though in his post. All cars that are great for accelerating and don’t always have the best top end speed. I’ve been using a Chevelle, Buick GNX and a Trans Am for that track. I’m not great at that track (well any track for that matter), but I think the Buick has been the best of the bunch so far for me. None of them are slow when it comes to top end speed, but I wouldn’t call them fast either. However, they all accelerate really well.
B class is pretty wide open. Put the cars on a dart board, close your eyes, sling a dart at it, and you will likely have a car that will work.
Swap the motor to a 1.6 or a 5.7 if it’s available then make the PI work without dumb upgrades like flywheel or clutch.
Yas is weird though and what im asking is more about, do you need grip, accel or speed here. The best car I’ve ran was a Renault Clio grip build but even then it still sucked.
So I got home from work a little while ago and decided to run yas in a bunch of different cars over and over again. I thought maybe it was a mixture of both bad builds and sucking at the track. Im using a 04 wrx sti with 5.2 handling and im hitting a lap barrier at 2:26. Ive done 19 laps now as im writing this.
WTF.
'04 WRX
Remove first restrictor and run it with the 1.6
Build it with the restrictors still on with the 1.6
Shift around 5,500-5,700 rpm