AC Round 3 of 23 Formula Agile 2023 Thu, March 30th 2023

RasmusP · Apr 22, 2023

It's also not only about giving you a different challenge so that you can learn different things.
It's about feeling different things.
All cars work "the same", but a wonky road car feels completely different to a stiff F2 car.
But whatever issues you need to work around with the super soft, big travel suspension, are still there with the F2 car. They are just within such a tiny suspension travel that you normally won't feel them.

I'd argue that driving different sims works even better for this than driving different cars in the same sim, since the ffb will give make different things easier to feel.

In rF2, you really learn to feel the front end under braking.
The increasing tyre load is way more pronounced.

In AMS2, you can feel the tyre flex a lot (although acc is a lot flexier now with 1.9).

Overall AC is fun and the best package for me overall, but you don't really feel one thing pronounced so I got stuck at some point.

KFMaster · Apr 25, 2023

Hi Rasmus, Carsten,

I thought I would report back about a big break through in my driving. May be it has something to do with laying off driving the FA because the GT4 race yesterday, but definitely the simmering of the stuff you guys have been telling me about on racing lines and track position, and then finally triggered by the most insightful tips that Jason gave after he kindly looked at my driving: at Baku, I went from 2:06s to 2:02s ditching worrying about traction circle and focus on slow in fast out and racing lines using Rasmus' high downforce setup, then using Jason's low downforce setup (which seemed to work well with the way of driving that Rasmus described from my interpretation

) to go further down to 2:01s, and the over last night and tonight, following Jason's pointer, down to 1:59:099!

What happed was that I was highly fixated with braking points (as in the distance to the turning point), hitting the apex, and tracking out nice, I completely missed one big thing until Jason pointed it out! I was going into turn way far from the outside track edge. The other thing was that I was using way to low gears, taking a few corners in first. I completely missed those even though I was comparing my driving with Jason's both in replay and data log. With this new realization, I spent a hour looking at the replay of Jason's and my own in slow motion so I can note down all the land marks like Carsten mentioned before. Then with Jason's pointers, it became so much easier to negotiate the turns and fixed all the exit understeer I thought was there!

So thank you all for all your help in helping me progressing, not only you guys and Jason, but also Ernie earlier, and Han and Markus in helping me getting started with this series! It has been a great learning experience and fun!

Dai

RasmusP · Apr 25, 2023

Hehe yeah, theory is one thing, but quite often you just need to learn how to push like a madman

Great to hear about your progress! 6 seconds sound insane!

Low aero might make sense for Baku with quite a lot of straights. I should really do some laps myself but currently I'm living from deadline to deadline