I've been concentrating on Aston Club, racing the FOX for the past week or two and have had the best time. It's almost as if the car and circuit are perfect for each other. Most of the other drivers have been great.
I started racing on this combo last night. It is alot of fun, I've had some great races, but also seen alot of ugliness. As usual T1 is just chaos, it's hard to pick the right brake point, some people are overly cautious, and then there is the T1 heros.
It does seem like a great circuit, but I can't seem to get rid of a horrid amount of power-oversteer out of both hairpins
Keeps me in the low 1:02's with occasional high 01's...although I do think part of it is the lack of finesse when putting the power down using my gamepad
What are some good first sector times? It seems to me that a 32xx is crucial for a good lap.
Are most of you running through the chicane in 5th or 6th? I tend to go through in 5th, exiting (on a good lap) at 110-112 MPH, and then upshifting...
What I've found is that I need to turn in much earlier for the first part of the chicane. I was waiting too long and making a much harder second half of it.
Ive also been racing this combo all week and thoroughly enjoyed it. Since upgrading to AMD 3700+ and 6800GT I can now race on a full grid and wow just blown me away - I've learnt alot from the more experienced racers but still yet to get into 1:01's nevermind practice makes perfect
The chicane should be flat out (maybe not on cold tyres and 70% fuel though, but it depends how brave you are). If you can cut the grass on the exit at 115mph or more then you've done well.
My best split so far is a 32.18 (I think), though I'm mostly high .2x and low .3x
The exit of the hairpins is crutial. On both you need to apex quite late and go quite slowly allowing you to straighten up and get the power on early. A lower power diff setting might help a bit, but the higher you can get away with the better. After that (the above is a bit of a simplification) it's just practice and confidence (which comes with practice).
I'm not hugely mechanically minded so I find setup work very tough...I even ask one of my mates to help me with suspension setup! I tell him what the car's doing, he tells me what things to adjust, pretty often it works very well!
My first set up was self built and wouldn't let me take the chicane flat out. I then tried the set up that everyone seems to be using (base sus settings are the same - get it from inferno, darkone or something.)
I then just fiddled and tried other folks sets. For that chicane, one thing that helped me was to go slightly wider before the entry than you think you should, and to turn in earlier also.
I also tried a set (same sus settings) which had parallel steer at 0 instead of 100. And that made a difference. BUT, that set had different camber and tyre pressures so that may have been a factor.
I also reduced my DFP from 450 to 360, as I was occasionally underturning the wheel, and not getting quick enough steering.
I think it's also a matter of getting the line absolutely spot on (obvious I know, sorry to seem condescending) but there seems to be very little margin for error in getting through that chicane flat out. I mess it up 1 in 3 times.
After I made the post here everything went really bad. T1 became even worse, for along time I couldn't complete a race or even make it around T1. And someone turned into a wrecker because he lost his precious second place after a restart.
I think I need to try this combo more, 1.05.67 using "Race_S" and my mouse (too lazy to setup my wheel). The FOX is so easy to drive using the mouse, you can tell when it's going to break traction so you can fix it before it lets go.
I absolutely love this combo. I have played this combo the most out of everything! That last hairpin is kind of hit or miss though. If you find clean racers, then you're set, but if not then have fun at T1.