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I've been practicing the DTM cars, mostly Mercedes. I lose control pretty much every time I touch the steering wheel, and from then on it's just praying until the corner ends. I somehow managed to go through a Brands Hatch race by learning the braking and turning points, but in Nordschleife that's not possible. And Nordschleife is full of small corners, which means I lose the control a lot. Driving a clean lap in under 10:30 confidently seems pretty much impossible (although when trying to go fast I once managed to do a 9:27 by getting lucky in many corners).
Is there anything I could do in the setup to make the car more stable or easier to drive? I'd be more than willing to sacrifice 30 seconds of laptime.
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04-30-2020, 12:56 AM
(This post was last modified: 04-30-2020, 12:57 AM by Fabian Tiele.)
For me the Alfa is much more stable than the other two cars, I think you should try it out.
I recommend moving the brake balance way more to the rear (to around 60%-62%) and moving the rear toe slider a bit to the left (position 4) to get a less nervous rear while braking (for the Alfa). (Normally you would just move the brake balance to the front for this but for me it seems like with the standard 78% front brake balance the rear tyres dont brake at all and "try overtake me" while breaking ... and the fronts still lock first that way)
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04-30-2020, 01:52 AM
(This post was last modified: 04-30-2020, 02:15 AM by Martin Smith.)
I don't understand why you'd experience that with the BMW or Merc (I never drove the Alfa). They're pretty conventional to drive.
But my first thought is to check you steering config. It sounds like you may not have 1:1 steering but something closer to go-kart steering ratio. It doesn't sound like a setup problem.
Or maybe it's a FFB setting as that can be customized for each car.
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Unless someone else can chime in who understands what's happening, the problem you are describing is indeed very strange. In which case you should be open to looking in strange places for a solution.
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Yeah, it could be a FFB thing then.
To demonstrate what kind of a thing I'm talking about, as a stupid example: When I'm driving on a straight and abruptly turn the steering wheel a bit and then get my hands off the wheel, the car and wheel will start wiggling , and the wiggle will gradually increase until the car spins. In a straight that is of course easy to fix just by keeping my hands on the wheel. But when I'm exiting a corner, I get a similar feeling of wiggle which isn't that easy to fix. And when I'm entering a corner, I similarly feel that the car isn't quite in control, although there is less visible wiggling.
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If you maintained with 10% 20% throttle on straight and then turn too a corner always maintaining that throttle, it looses easily control too?