Now speed up slightly and continue lapping at the new speed, our aim is for consistent laps at each step keep lapping at this speed until you are as comfortable as you were at the lower speed. Just drive the track, keep doing laps til you know every twist and turn and bump, drive until you are sick of the place, drive until you can look away briefly without putting a wheel offline. Get on the track and start racking up seat time take enough laps to warm up the tires, then just start lapping steadily and comfortably - don't even think about running fast laps, don't get near the redline.

So, now you have your car pick a track which you can drive comfortably and don't even think about setups yet. Resist the urge to immediately take the most powerful car or your favorite car, if its handling characteristics don't match your driving style you'll never get the most from it (and you're here to win races, right?). This works in real life and in sims.įirst, as a sim racer you have a major advantage over a real racer - you can drive every car on the grid to decide which one best fits your style. I hope to describe a system to help you learn when and where to apply that, and to ascertain if, indeed, the setup needs to be changed at all (many handling problems are caused by 'the nut behind the wheel'). I'm not going to try to tell you 'adjust this to compensate for that', there are many good tutorials that will explain that much better than I can. I've learned more about setups from twenty years of sim racing than from thirty-five years of real racing (I left that to the mechanics, I just wanted to drive). Also, in a car with wings use the wing adjustments for aero balance/grip (high speed) and chassis adjustments for mechanical balance/grip (low speed). If the car has wings, you will end up redoing all this for any major wing adjustment: less wing = less downforce = softer springs (they're carrying less weight) = softer shocks = camber adjust. The sequence of adjustments can vary depending on how the car handles, but I usually tweak the bars for basic balance, then the shocks for response, then camber and tire pressure. Regardless of the car, the track, or the sim, there is no magic combination of parameters that will suddenly make you faster and resist the impulse to download other peoples' setups, especially hotlap setups (in the length of time it will take to find someone elses setups that 'fit' you, you can learn to create your own).

'Setting up the car is something you just ease into with experience.

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