09 Dec 2010: Mugello

thats odd :/

i have an i7 920 at 3.5ghz, 6gb ddr3 triple channel ram and a gtx285. my system runs fine, so i dont know whats up with yours?

have you updated to the latest GPU drivers?

last drivers NVidia 260.99 ; netkar but always turned out well on my system before the last updates

just a little Mugello-review:
I noticed that my setup idea to put wing-aero always at 0.0% was wrong especially for Mugello.
I tried some laps with aero at 1.0 - 1.5 % rear which is much better. In race I could lose my rear very easily in the first section of the track,
now with less frontwing the car is more stable and I can break later which results in 1 sec. faster laptimes.
Of course it is more understeering but not a huge problem for most of the corners.
So now I know I did some little thing wrong with my setup just regarding the wings, ..shouldn't have always strictly amied for 0.0% aero .

i dont know what 0.0% aero is xD i try to make the car feel as comfortable as possible, where i can then make minor tweaks to try and help it go faster. obviously you can set a car up in x number of ways, but its always great to have the car drive how you like

i believe mugello is one of the harder tracks to make a setup on, mainly due to the road surface and the fast downhill section. curing the understeer goes straight into death-defying oversteer

ive noticed a lot of people, in general, use 4/5 more degrees front angle than rear angle - i use more like 1/2. it helps aid traction in the rear and stops the car snaking under breaking. ive seen people use 12/4 on tracks where i would use 10/8 for example

MikaRaymond wrote:ive noticed a lot of people, in general, use 4/5 more degrees front angle than rear angle - i use more like 1/2.

I use 10 or 11 degrees more on front wing -so at least the double amount than most of people use *. For Melbourne I used 21 / 10, for Barcelona 24 / 13 and for Mugello 29 / 19 ... , regarding Mugello as you can imagine it was difficult to prevent the car's rear snack around when braking 'late' or on throttle in some cases -so as I mentioned already it would have been better there to settle for less front wing and then a bit more rear wing also instead.

*but this value depends btw. also much on the car's relation between the used front and rear ride-high.. .

of course. its very interesting to see the different ways people setup their cars. out of all the different settings, its still amazing how the racing (especially qualifying) can be so close, even for a game!