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Tips for car set up

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  • 29-05-2020 6:06pm
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    johnnysmack
    Registered Users Posts: 2,108 ✭✭✭


    Just wondering if anyone can help with this. Whether it's GT Sport or any of the yearly F1 titles the biggest thing I've noticed is that people can brake far later than me.

    I was playing F1 2019 last night and watched some on-boards of faster cars and they were all braking at the 100m board or less. I have to break at the 150m board. I set the brake pressure to 100% and tried braking at the 100m board...still sailed right past the corner.

    I'm convinced there must be something set up wise I'm missing. Grateful if anyone has any suggestions.


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    RonanG86
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    The way you describe it, it seems like they're a lot better and it might be more than setup. Apologies for the possibly stupid question, are you sure you're getting full brake input in the game?

    Generally, things in racing games / sims that directly impact braking are:

    - Brake pressure, which you say you've already maxed.
    - Brake pad friction, but I don't think F1 2019 has this.
    - ABS settings. Not a thing in F1 2019 though.
    - Brake bias. Hypothetically speaking, as far back as you can go without being unstable under braking gives you the shortest braking distance. But I don't think this is going to shave a third off your braking distances even when optomised.

    There's other setup options that indirectly impact it. If they have more downforce or are on softer tires, they'll be able to brake better than you because their tires are generating more grip. Likewise if their car turns in better (balance towards oversteer), they can enter the corner faster.

    Do you trail brake? What are your cornering speeds like vs. theirs?

    In any case, remember slow in fast out. Where you put your foot on the gas has a bigger impact on your lap time than where you put it on the brake.


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    johnnysmack
    Registered Users Posts: 2,108 ✭✭✭johnnysmack


    Thanks for the reply! Changing the brake bias did help a bit, thanks for that. Out of curiosity I turned on the brake assist and guess what happened, that too was able to slow the car from closer to the 100m board. So it's just me being bad is the only explanation. Just can't wrap my head around how the car can be slowed so quickly. Ah well, thanks for your time.


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    johnnysmack
    Registered Users Posts: 2,108 ✭✭✭johnnysmack


    6 months later and I can safely say it was the ABS all along!


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