14-03-2017, 12:57 PM
gorgias1976 Wrote:A shame my strategy didn't work because of the close traffic the first third of the race and thus the heavy understeer from the tubulence created by the cars in front.
In the paper it should have been as quick as doing a pitstop bringing a close battle by the end of the race.
I tried out my setups (with modification to 0 pit strategy because the weight of fuel badly affected handling) using 4x fuel and tyre wear practice races. I found that 0 stops was the slowest, 1 stop the fastest and 2 stops 2nd best. For 0 stops, the weight of the fuel slowed lap times down and increased tyre wear significantly, the understeer was abysmal! I had to rework the setup for 0 pits but I suspect that car development is not properly finished as it was almost impossible to get it setup to manage this, I just didn't have anywhere to go with tyre pressures, spring rates, etc. Having to increase other stuff in order to make the correct "shape" setup just made it very unstable as I couldn't take my settings low enough.
I'm not sure how I feel about racing another unfinished project car, 1975 F1, as a result of this season and the setup issues.