Mon Mar 21, 2016 2:25 pm by squidhead
Well, the tracks are completely uncomparable. Hockenheim needs a fine ballance between power and top speed and cornering ability. I dropped 3 seconds off the initial lap time just by fiddling with the aero and the suspension, and it all lost me quite a bit of time on ATT. The initial ATT time was 2:09 though, if that's what you're asking, but I do not think that's a factor. The drivability. Well... With these seriously unrestricted rules I am guessing most people will have trouble getting their drivability over 10 with track sportiness ranging from 30 and up. The ideal ballance is "drivability over track sportiness", but I honestly do not know how to do that.
Also, Bob, I ran 1100 hp and all it did was never put it all to the ground. As in "Actually never", even at speeds of over 250kph the car was at best at 30-40% throttle, so yeah, power numbers aren't very informative. Also note that the main limiting factor for everybody this time will be the tires. Even though the width is set at a pretty decent 265 you got 2 problems. 1. It's nowhere near enough to handle some of the outputs we can muster up and 2. Since the quality of those must be 0, we are stuck with downsizing the rims, leaving less space for brakes, which ruins drivability. I will be running my NA with some 460+hp
The only body I could find that works around this is the muscle car, it has plenty of roof for wide tires and high profile, so you don't need to limit your brake size, but that thing is ENORMOUS, it would need a collosal engine to pull it and it's weight would get in the way of teh 3rd sector, negating the tire width advantage. If anything I'm running 235 (I think, too many experiments and too lazy to open up automation), and it's pretty much enough traction at speeds over 120, whch suits me just fine.
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squidhead on Mon Mar 21, 2016 2:32 pm, edited 2 times in total.
