Does anyone have any advice on how to minimise wheelspin when coming out of corners? I have a few cars that overall perform well but tend to very easily spin when exiting tight corners, I do control my throttle (not just planting it) and so far this is my only way to avoid it, but was wondering if there was anything I can do in tuning to hep reduce this behaviour, perhaps increase aero on the rear or something? Please speak in lamens terms tough I’m not overly great with tuning. I will add, In all my builds Im focussing on the handling (tires, ARB, weight etc) before adding to engine upgrades and I only usually upgrade 1 class above the starting class (Eg: from B to A) so I wouldn’t think Im overpowering my cars. TCS, STM and ABS are all off but I do usually drive Auto.
Lower accel setting on the diff but the downside is your car will understeer more at high speed corners. Its a balancing act.
Also try softer rear suspenssion, more rear downforce and larger rear rims, gives more traction.
Try dropping the tyre pressure by 0.5-1 psi at the rear. All this will create more understeer and make a car more managable on exits.
You can also short shift on exit(being in a higher gear than normal). You may think your going slower but without the wheel spin you wont be.
Then, if all else fail. Do what everyone else does and turn on tcs. Its a lot faster, unfortunately in the higher classes.
Mmm, in B class I decided to use a leader board car (Lotus Cortina) and traction control in test drive, just to see if it really was that good, and what I was capable of, and I took my lap times on silverstone international from 01:08.953 without TCS down to a 01:07:997 with TCS, which is going from barley top 50 to 10th position. I was shocked, and saddened, because I feel cheap using it for some reason.
Back on topic, it’s already been said but soften the rear suspension and rear anti-roll bars, it’s the most effective thing to do, but it’ll sacrifice mid corner control, and promote under steer. I’d say throttle control is the most important thing, because tuning it might help a little, but it’ll be barley noticeable.
If you have already softened the rear suspension, check the ride height/suspension travel in the telemetry, and be sure that you are not bottoming out the suspension when you get on throttle hard out of slow corners. You can also try lowering rear bump and increasing rear rebound on the dampers and see if that helps the tires stay in contact with the track better. Doing so will give a slightly faster weight transfer to the rear as you get on throttle, and keep the rear squatting as you go through the gear.
As with any adjustments, they will effect the car elsewhere in the track, so you should definitely save your tunes before you make adjustments, so you don’t lose where you were… sometimes I have 5-6 saves for a car through its tuning process, and often go back to certain stages to take different approaches and see how it differs on the track.