AMS Time Trial of the Week

Jimlaad43 · Jun 29, 2016

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

fortyfivekev · Jul 28, 2016

Track seems so bumpy in these cars, bet the local dentist does a good trade. Managed a 1:18.455 with this set-up so only 1.8 seconds to find

P*Funk · Jul 31, 2016

Popularity has flagged it seems! Seems to be pretty normal for this type of thing.

fortyfivekev · Jul 31, 2016

Yeah, looks like it. Would probably be better if Reiza would run this type of thing (which I think they said they were going to do?). Maybe they will when it goes to V1.0.

P*Funk · Jul 31, 2016

No point really in driving it if all the times are going to get erased anyway.

Alexandre Costa · Aug 29, 2016

Now that we have version 1.0 I think it would be great to have the Time Trial of the Week again.

P*Funk · Aug 30, 2016

Perhaps something with the Formula Reiza? Its oodles of fun now.

Augusto Dufloth · Sep 20, 2016

No more time trials?

Btw @Gaugo, where you from? what do you eat? are you even real? lol...

Taris · Sep 26, 2016

AMS Car List

BOXER week 6
CAMARO SS
COPA MONTANA week 4
COPA PETROBRAS DE MARCAS
F-CLASSIC
F-EXTREME
F-REIZA
F-RETRO
F-V10 week 1
F-V12
F-VEE week 8
F-VINTAGE 67' week 9
F-VINTAGE 69'
F3 BRASIL - F301
F3 BRASIL - F309
LANCER CUP - LANCER R
LANCER CUP - LANCER RS
LANCER RALLYCROSS
METALMORO
MINI CHALLENGE
OPALA 70
OPALA 86 week 7
STOCKCAR V8 week 5
SUPER V8 week 2
SUPERKART
SUPERTRUCK week 3

TRACK LIST

INTERLAGOS week 6
INTERLAGOS CAFÉ CHICANE
BRASILIA EXTERIOR CIRCUIT
BRASILIA FULL CIRCUIT
BUENOS AIRES 6
BUENOS AIRES 7
BUENOS AIRES 8
BUENOS AIRES 9
BUENOS AIRES 12
BUENOS AIRES 15
CAMPO GRANDE
CARUARU
CASCAVEL
CORDOBA
CURITIBA week 5
CURITIBA OUTER CIRCUIT
FLORIPA
GOIANIA week 1
GUAPORE
JACAREPAGUA
JACAREPAGUA CURVA SUL
JACAREPAGUA 2005
JACAREPAGUA OVAL
KANSAI
KANSAI CLASSIC
KANSAI EAST week 8
KANSAI WEST
MENDIG FLUGPLATZ
MENDIG FLUGPLATZ 2
MENDIG FLUGPLATZ BERGSCHLEIFE week 7
LONDRINA
LONDRINA LONG
RIBEIRAO PRETO 2010
RIBEIRAO PRETO 2012
SALVADOR
SANTA CRUZ DO SUL
SPIELBERG GP
SPIELBERG NATIONAL
TARUMA
TARUMA CHICANE
VELOPARK
VELOPARK 2010
VELOCITTA TRACK DAY
VELOCITTA
VELOCITTA CLUB DAY
VIRGINIA INTERNATIONAL week 4
VIR GRAND COURSE
VIR NORTH COURSE
VIR PATRIOT COURSE
VIR SOUTH COURSE
MONTREAL
INTERLAGOS HISTORIC week 9
INTERLAGOS HISTORIC OVAL
JACAREPAGUA HISTORIC
JOHANNESBURG HISTORIC week 2
MONTRAL HISTORIC
SPIELBERG HISTORIC 1977
SPIELBERG HISTORIC 1974

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Taris · Sep 26, 2016

Top 10 times so far - It would be nice setups

fortyfivekev · Sep 26, 2016

I think most of those times have been there for some time. I used the attached setup to set the 1:35.602 today. I find this car a bit frustrating so I am sure some people can go quicker.

Augusto Dufloth · Sep 26, 2016

Let's wait for @Gaugo to demoralize everyone... lol

I'll give it a shot later

P*Funk · Sep 27, 2016

I've managed to log the new number 3 spot but that won't last. This car indeed has some unruly tendencies when going over curbs in particular through the Senna esses as well as through places like the downhill left at the end of the second sector and the uphill left hand section in the final sector where you can feel the car just lurching as the weight keeps moving around the car. Lots of issues in control seem to come from weight coming off of the front tires as you're in high speed turns due to the suspension and naturally the driver's inability to treat this princess of a car juuuust right.

All I did was take 0.5 out of the packers for both front and rear but I have no idea if it made a difference. I also took one off of the brake ducts to keep them warm at the end of straights. I know I have more time out there if I can either dedicate myself to being as smooth as possible with my controls or just finding a set up that'll be a bit more tame over the above mentioned areas. Definitely a car that requires concentration and smooth management of weight transfer. If you misbehave the car misbehaves badly too and you'll find you're either washing out of those long radius high speed corners or you're lifting to stay on track.

I don't find it frustrating myself so much. The challenge is welcome after spending the last few days driving GT2 and Hypercars in AC where they're glued to the pavement and never misbehave ever.

s2173 · Sep 28, 2016

Frankly, the Boxer is abit weird for me and seems to be dependent largely on the track... So far on default setup. On Interlagos it feels understeery especially under power, and it hates curbs. On VIR it feels boring like a gt3 car, probably because I'm scared to drive it faster out there

And on Ginnaton's Silverstone it's a absolute bliss to drive, powering through corners, 4-wheel drifting, you name it... maybe it's all about confidence with the track. I don't particularly like Interlagos actually...

fortyfivekev · Sep 28, 2016

My main problem with the Boxer is a lack of brake feel which I usually find very good with most cars in AMS. Maybe it is the ABS, not sure really, but I just find it very vague.

P*Funk · Sep 28, 2016

@s2173 If you think the Boxer is boring at VIR you really must not be pushing it!

Heitor Facuri Cicoti · Sep 29, 2016

Here's my setup. Don't ask me how I got to this, because I have no idea.

s2173 · Sep 29, 2016

Heitor Facuri Cicoti said:
Here's my setup. Don't ask me how I got to this, because I have no idea.

I stole your tire pressures and got to 1.35.06... And just then comes Timo Glock with 1.34.424

I'm surprised he didn't do a 33 frankly.

Here's my setup anyway:

Tim O'Glock · Sep 29, 2016

Sorry for stealing the top spot from you!
You should give my setup a try.

s2173 · Sep 29, 2016

At that point it's probably not about setup... I'm curious btw, why both of you go for so low and detached rollbars? I thought it was best to have them as stiff as possible, and balance from there...

Augusto Dufloth · Sep 29, 2016

s2173 said:
At that point it's probably not about setup... I'm curious btw, why both of you go for so low and detached rollbars? I thought it was best to have them as stiff as possible, and balance from there...

On ARB, less is more. Generally you should use only to correct small handling issues with the lowest possible value.