Stock Car Brazil 2015 - Interlagos [Wed 20th & Sat 23rd Dec]

Sorry Ray for the tap but i got hit just before that and it unsettled the car,yet again the latest update has screwed my controls up when race starts,seems ok in practice/qualy,but soon as it goes to race the settings change on final straight went from 5th to neutral instead of 6th ?,which resulted in me getting rear ended and out.

Thanks to everyone who joined in the races, the cars can be tricky, but are fun when you get them right.

ISO would like to wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year and here's hoping you all have good ones!

See you next year for some more races and possibly a championship

Damn, I love these cars. ...and this track.

Thanks, ISO, for hosting this. Wish I had been able to make the Wednesday race too.

That was a blast.

+1 for a championship in these, I'd definitely be in!

NP m8,i have had to map all the controls again,lets hope next update does not screw them again,hope it did not damage your car Dylan, sorry.

This cars are really tricky to drive... Either Im really incapable of seting those propperly.
The very moment I start to push a bit harder, Im acctualy driving on the edge and start to be a threat for myself and others.. Its kinda frustrating, since I was not able to follow the rest of the field.
However, I had fun overall, I cought some of the cripled cars, but event like that, i was not able to battle them propperly..
So whats next.. Im on holiday for two weeks, and no races in plan?

These cars are definitely "slow in, fast out". There seems to be no other way to drive them efficiently. Any pushing just seems to result in overdriving, sliding, etc etc etc.

They are sort of "on edge" at all times. But it's deceptive and sometimes what feels like the edge is quite a bit more unstable than when you push through those bounds and find a new "edge"...I found multiple places at Interlagos where I thought I was at the car's limit, only to find that I wasn't even close to it yet, and strangely, the closer I got the more stable and balanced the car felt.

I've found they also require a specialized style of driving to feel like I'm not always on edge.
I don't know how everyone else tends to approach them, but for me, part of the goal is to ALWAYS stay in the throttle slightly.
Can't just lift off and let them rotate like many other cars. Also, can't push hard into throttle suddenly (they really don't like that at all)...
...so I've ended up developing this habit where I'm blipping throttle (or mostly just slightly "on" it a bit...ever so slightly at times because it'll cause the car to push through the corners) even while I'm braking...

It's a pain to get used to, but rewarding as all hell when you get it right.

That said, I remember some conversation about using aggressive wings to stabilize these things. While it seems to work to some degree, I don't think that's the best approach. More effective seems to be differential tweaks to suit your particular style..and in getting that in a comfortable zone, I seem to have better results that way than just trying to tack some wing on for stability.

I'm interested to know if Richard, in particular, was running high wings yesterday.
I was at 0 myself.