Technology Preview - Time Attack - Top 30 Leaderboard

Hampus Andersson · Feb 22, 2013

So... to kill some time i decided to make a Top 30 board for all RD members.
To get your time official you need to make a post and post a screenshot/video of the time.

Car - Lotus Elise SC
Track - Magione

edit: nevermind, people will never learn.

1.23.456 - Hampus Andersson
*picture or video*

Do not edit your own post telling me you have updated it with a new time, make a new post.

1.21.813 - William Levesque
1.21.942 - Martin Kroenke
1.22.203 - Luca Sodano
1.22.248 - Requiem84
1.22.272 - Luke Russell
1.22.320 - Tariq Gamil
1.22.434 - Aleksi Elomaa
1.22.482 - tHenOrthfACe
1.22.536 - Jan Coomans
1.22.536 - Arkadiusz Wawrzyniak
1.22.557 - 6e66o
1.22.563 - Hampus Andersson
1.22.602 - Graham Byford
1.22.647 - Maciej Dolinski
1.22.779 - Mitja Bonca
1.22.785 - TLiivo
1.22.824 - Pablo Lopez
1.22.872 - BaldApe
1.22.938 - nijeat
1.22.974 - Lee Ross
1.22.974 - Craig Booth
1.23.052 - Salajutsu
1.23.082 - Dino Paolini
1.23.145 - Marcel Pfister
1.23.199 - Tony Rickard
1.23.232 - JvMr
1.23.256 - Michael Hornbuckle
1.23.301 - Jack Sargent
1.23.304 - Maciej Dolinski (with aids)
1.23.310 - Manuel Darin

Celtic Pharaoh · Mar 9, 2013

Majnu said:
How did you change the cockpit FOV? I like how yours looks.

I didn't change it

. It's the default FOV. But if you want the settings, these are the ones I found:

[MODE]
IS_WORLD_ALIGNED=1
FOV=60

Tony Rickard · Mar 9, 2013

Tony Rickard - 1:23:400

Michael Hornbuckle · Mar 9, 2013

That's great...seems everybody on here is way faster after the update and I'm the only one half a second slower...FML

Jack Sargent · Mar 9, 2013

About the same for me with both versions.

I only got faster times after restarting after 3 laps for fresh rubber.

BaldApe · Mar 9, 2013

Didn't notice any laptime difference, was there even any change in physics?

Michael Hornbuckle · Mar 9, 2013

I don't think so, even though the car feels a little better (didn't think that would be possible) I can just barely get into the 23's where before I was getting close to the 22's.

Requiem84 · Mar 9, 2013

From personal experience a small tip;

If you're hitting a wall in improvibg, start to brake a tad earlier. I sometimes start pushing too much on the braking/entry zone, and while you feel you get everything out of the car, you actually go slower laptimewise.

It's all about the exit.

Tony Rickard · Mar 9, 2013

Tony Rickard 1:23.199

Celtic Pharaoh · Mar 10, 2013

Michael Hornbuckle said:
That's great...seems everybody on here is way faster after the update and I'm the only one half a second slower...FML

The new version made no difference for me. I just went a lot faster after discovering that running higher pressures allowed me to go faster. Try running 30 psi at the front and 31 at the rear. I'm not really sure why I should be faster since lower pressures = more grip but I think it might have to do with the same methodology behind stiffening suspension.

Michael Hornbuckle · Mar 10, 2013

I'm skating around everywhere with those pressures Tariq. Oh well, I think it's time to turn off the lap counter and just have fun driving and making laps again. Good thing for me is once the game comes out is that the three friends that I will race with the most are all within a couple tenths of each other.

LazyBug · Mar 12, 2013

Having problem to improve lap time, not sure how to make the car turn faster and drift like most fast guys do.
Below is a video of my driving in the first 4 turns. Thanks for the advise, if any. Good day.

BaldApe · Mar 12, 2013

I'm sure you know this already but your entry to the corner leading to the long straight is way too tight. Get the car all the way to the left when approaching the corner.

Hampus Andersson · Mar 12, 2013

You are also going on and off the throttle in the first two corners.

Only touch the throttle if you know you can keep it down.
Only increase throttle, never decrease.

T3 you can enter much quicker as well, and to early turn-in for T4.
Exit of T4 was a bit of a disaster but that´s easily fixed.

LazyBug · Mar 12, 2013

Hampus Andersson said:
You are also going on and off the throttle in the first two corners.

T3 you can enter much quicker as well, and to early turn-in for T4.
Exit of T4 was a bit of a disaster but that´s easily fixed.

Mean brake at the same point but turn earlier ?? Usually this result in huge oversteer and lose control in my case. The car either understeer most of the time or too oversteer when cornering that really kill me, my cheap saloon car actually much easier to drive than this.

Hampus Andersson · Mar 12, 2013

LazyBug said:
Mean brake at the same point but turn earlier ?? Usually this result in huge oversteer and lose control in my case. The car either understeer most of the time or too oversteer when cornering that really kill me, my cheap saloon car actually much easier to drive than this.

Yea pretty much.

What you did was go hard on the brake then turn in.
Instead be smoother coming of the brake and turn at the same time.

The reason you might feel the car might oversteer is because you have either too much weight on the front tires (rear end starts wandering) or it´s because you are at the maximum threshold of lateral and longitudinal grip.

In your case you are probably using too much brake there. If you brake at the same spot but roll of the brake smoother you can use some of that energy to turn the car in earlier.
You will still be able to stop the car at the right time (for T4) but you will have a higher entry speed into the corner (T3)

Just a random example,

You = 100% brake, then 80% brake, 20% turn-in.

Try = 100% brake, then 60% brake, 40% turn-in.

The percentage doesn´t really mean anything but just try and let go of maximum pressure sooner and use the remaining grip from the tires to turn the car in earlier.

Arkadiusz Wawrzyniak · Mar 12, 2013

And you are braking too late which results missing the proper driving line.

otirc · Mar 14, 2013

Craig Booth said:
A question and suggestion. Is is possible to save the ghost file and then upload it here. It would be interesting to race against other drivers ghosts!

Could someone from the top 30 upload his ghost file?

Arkadiusz Wawrzyniak · Mar 15, 2013

Arkadiusz Wawrzyniak- 1:22.764

I can still cut lots of time.

Hannes-Joshua Thor Barthel · Mar 15, 2013

omg I hope I am better with other cars at other tracks... driving the tp almost every day... but I just can't go faster... high 1.23s (1.23.571 my pb) are my very best laps... my usual laps are low 1.24s ... there is just no way to go faster (for me)... I am at a point where the elise just starts to skip around... I can't find the grip needed to go faster... time for high perfomance cars at fast tracks

I hope the release is soon... (but I expect something about end of may (end of spring) or so,... but I hope ofcourse spring is meaning early spring lol

)