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- Lord-Jonty
Hi all,
Apologies if this has been asked before but I'm doing a lot of Sardegna grinding with a lot of different cars, keeping track of fastest lap times and total race time.
One thing I've noticed is that pimped up road cars are always faster over a single lap than the GR2 cars. For example, I can get a 1.33 lap with a Berlinetta, a low 1.34 in a Corvette and similar in an F40 with engine swap. My fastest lap in a GR2 car is somewhere in the 1.35s, I think with the Merc CLK LM. The theme is absolutely consistent; the road cars have significantly worse brakes, lower downforce and slower cornering speed, but significantly more power/top speed.
Two questions result from this for me:
1. Is the game biased towards pure power / top speed? I.e., is it almost always faster to tune for top speed, even on a relatively twisty track like Sardegna?
2. Am I doing the GR2 cars wrong? They're so easy to drive and brilliant on fuel but feel massively lacklustre on the straights. Should I be tuning them for speed as much as possible?
Interested in your thoughts rather than a definitive answer per se.
Cheers
Apologies if this has been asked before but I'm doing a lot of Sardegna grinding with a lot of different cars, keeping track of fastest lap times and total race time.
One thing I've noticed is that pimped up road cars are always faster over a single lap than the GR2 cars. For example, I can get a 1.33 lap with a Berlinetta, a low 1.34 in a Corvette and similar in an F40 with engine swap. My fastest lap in a GR2 car is somewhere in the 1.35s, I think with the Merc CLK LM. The theme is absolutely consistent; the road cars have significantly worse brakes, lower downforce and slower cornering speed, but significantly more power/top speed.
Two questions result from this for me:
1. Is the game biased towards pure power / top speed? I.e., is it almost always faster to tune for top speed, even on a relatively twisty track like Sardegna?
2. Am I doing the GR2 cars wrong? They're so easy to drive and brilliant on fuel but feel massively lacklustre on the straights. Should I be tuning them for speed as much as possible?
Interested in your thoughts rather than a definitive answer per se.
Cheers