AMS Time Trial of the Week

[Jimlaad43]

Post times, share setups and tips, fill up some leaderboards!

The Time Trial feature on AMS allows users to post times at any tracks and compare it to other drivers around the world. The setups thread for AMS is quite bare, and hopefully if this takes off we can start posting the winning setups there to improve the game for all users.

How does this work?
Choose the selected car of the week in the Main Menu. Click on Time Trial and load up the track of the week. Once in, feel free to play around with the setups as much as you like and post some laptimes. The scoreboard in game will automatically update. When you are done, post here your laptime, and either share your setup and tips, or ask for help.

To start off, we will only use Reiza default cars and tracks, but we may move into mods in the future.
Voting forms for next car and track.

Former Trials
Formula V10 @ Goainia
Super V8 @ Johannesburg Historic
Supertruck @ Cascavel Truck
Copa Montana @ VIR Full Course

This Week
V8 Stock @ Curitiba

 

[Jimlaad43]

New Trial!
Copa Montana @ VIR Full Course

 

[P*Funk]

Jeeze, revisiting the Copa Montana?

 

[Taris]

New Trial!
Copa Montana @ VIR Full Course

Please Jim.... could you create one thread for each TT of the Week... This could be better to visualize the challenges...

PS. I tried everyweek make times here

 

[Jake Fangio]

A separate thread would be good.I don't think we've used the copa's yet.Really enjoying these TT Jim,cheers.

 

[P*Funk]

I don't think we've used the copa's yet.

Pretty sure everyone's hammered them to death in the first week of their release along with the debut of the leaderboard. It was like Copa Montana at Mendig was the first unofficial TT.

 

[Alexandre Costa]

This week I'll try to make some time. Btw, I agree with the request about one thread for each combo.

 

[fortyfivekev]

Set a time on this combo when the Montana and VIR first came out. Will try to better it this week.

 

[xnorb]

Pretty sure everyone's hammered them to death in the first week of their release along with the debut of the leaderboard

There can't ever be too much Copa Montana!

 

[TeSL9]

1.57.1xx .. but I don't really know what to do with the setup, will try again if someone shares a setup to begin with.

I don't know if this is discussed already, but is there going to be a pre heated brakes and tyres in time trial mode? and if so, the start should be a few corners back.
It's frustrating with specially long tracks, to "waste" the first lap away, you know.

 

[fortyfivekev]

1.57.1xx .. but I don't really know what to do with the setup, will try again if someone shares a setup to begin with.

I don't know if this is discussed already, but is there going to be a pre heated brakes and tyres in time trial mode? and if so, the start should be a few corners back.
It's frustrating with specially long tracks, to "waste" the first lap away, you know.

Maybe wrong but I think Reiza said they are leaving things as they are but it would be nice as some cars seem to be quicker on the 3rd lap so it wastes quite a bit of time whenever you want to make a change.

 

[fortyfivekev]

Managed a 1:57.371 so far. Really like this track but having a lot of trouble being consistent through "Oak Tree" corner onto the main straight. Also not sure if the set-up should be more for the slow parts or the fast parts.

Edit: Attached setup

 

[Tim O'Glock]

This track is frustrating. You touch a kerb and you get a track limit violation. You run just slightly wide on corner exit and you get another track limit violation. It really takes all the fun out of it for me.

I have attached my setup. It's a little understeery in both the fast and the slow corners but it handles the kerbs well. I managed a 1.54.7 with it after about 10 laps of practice.

 

[TeSL9]

Yes. The track limits needs polishing by reiza on this track.

 

[P*Funk]

While I haven't been trying as hard this week as in the past I didn't find the track limits all that bad. The only one I fell afoul of repeatedly was the one on the way to the fast left hander before you go downhill to the Oak tree hairpin. However when reviewing replays it always looked like at least 3 tires are out of bounds riding the whole curb.

I may give this one another go though and see if I can get myself an extra second.

 

[fortyfivekev]

Shaved off a couple of tenths. Had some laps with better splits but always blew it in the last section. Had a few wild spins and was wondering how they get away with just grass runoff at some of these very fast corners? You don't see any circuits like this in Europe these days, all the grass would be paved over.

 

[Qazdar Karim]

This track is frustrating. You touch a kerb and you get a track limit violation. You run just slightly wide on corner exit and you get another track limit violation. It really takes all the fun out of it for me.

I have attached my setup. It's a little understeery in both the fast and the slow corners but it handles the kerbs well. I managed a 1.54.7 with it after about 10 laps of practice.

I learned it the harsh way during a race we've had few weeks ago

 

[P*Funk]

@fortyfivekev I think its the nature of American motorsport. Its much more shabby, much less technical compared to the stringent excesses of Formula. There's much less of this FIA grade stuff going on. Europe is very rules heavy while America is a lot more haphazard which I think is defined in the history of the two motorsport cultures.

Furthermore there's no fantastic Le Mans disaster in the early history of American racing. Most of the strong safety changes have been involved in Ovals more than anything in America and even then much more recently than in Europe with F1. That's where all the grass has been paved over. That's also where most of the heartbreaking deaths have been.

Personally I prefer the feel to American racing. I'd rather watch an IMSA race than most of WEC. I mean, you show Lime Rock Park to a European race steward they'd probably have a heart attack.

 

[fortyfivekev]

Yes, probably being a bit harsh on VIR as it is a great circuit and I am glad we have it in AMS. Have added it to my growing list of US circuits to try and visit in real life. Actually I think Cadwell Park is probably the lower rent equivalent of VIR in the UK so it is odd we will have that soon in AMS as well.

OT, but what a great WEC race yesterday, way better than the F1 borathon.

 

[fortyfivekev]

New combo this week?

 

[Jimlaad43]

V8 Stock @ Curitiba