rec.autos.simulators

I have been using the Cooper in GPL, but would like to
graduate to the Lotus. It is though extremely twitchy to drive.
Does anyone have any tips to make life a little easier with this car?
PJ

Hi Paul,

Find the cars limits and do not exceed them.  For when you
push it too hard, all those other *** skills come into play :)

I would recommend not skidding, squaking, or squeeling the
tires.

When driving to the cars limits, its like a 'walk-in-the-park'
to get great times (this is coming from a Ferrari driver :)

Jason.

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Jason Monds
"My other car is a Ferrari"
(Please remove 'no extra spork' when replying)

After endless experimenting, the Lotus is still pretty twitchy whatever you
adjust. However front and rear toe-in (positive value) does help straight
line stability under acceleration and braking. Also I find most setups have
the chassis set far too low and when combined with soft (low number)
roll-bar settings you get sudden wheel spin and loss of directional control
as the chassis grounds or as one wheel either lifts off or gets very light.

Setting bias towards understeer rather than oversteer always makes things
easier but on the other hand the car is more reluctant to "point" into the
corner. Negative toe-in on the front helps point the car where you want, but
the downside is it also makes things less stable. You can't have your cake
and eat it in the Lotus!

Robert

Read Steve Smith's article on a followup to the game manual.
Basically no toe in on rear, stiffen her up to make it
easier to drive, and ease her out of corners, lotus has low
end and midrange torque producing wheel spin easily.
Check out VROC for links to Steve's article.
Also read Doc Wynn's info on tweaking windows and gpl.

Yeah, drive smooth, drive slow, and drive careful....

8-)

*Peter*   #:-)

On Mon, 7 Dec 1998 22:50:58 -0000, "Robert Young"

Probably the best thing to do is to download one of Alison Hine or
Doug Arnao's setups and take it from there.

One of the problems is that people talk about an "understeering" setup
or an "oversteering" setup, but in reality the difference between the
two is minimal - an understeering setup developed by a good driver
will be just a couple of notches above neutral balance and an
oversteer just a couple of notches the other way. A newcomer will have
neither the knowledge nor experience to do this, and will likely end
up with something with way too much of one or the other and
consequently a pig to drive.

Both Doug and Alison make nicely balanced setups which, while not
suiting everyone, are well balanced and tailored nicely toward a
gentle understeer or oversteer depending upon your style. I'd say
trail-brakers should go for Alison's and those who get the braking out
of the way on the straight should go for Doug's. Beyond that it takes
a lot of knowledge to read a car's behaviour and tune it to your
style. I'm sure I still drive around a lot of horrible setup faults
rather than understanding and curing them.

Cheers!
John