% Ok, I've been running at Michigan trying to get used to the new
% game. I've only owned Nascar 2 for 5 days. I was running at Michigan a
% certain way.... I learned how to drive without using brakes (excluding
% traffic) but I still cannot break the 180mph barrier! I really don't
% understand how people are cutting 182-185 here. I'm going to download
% a replay or two, but I'm still lost. When I enter turn 1, I hit right
% about 199 (red light comes on with a 3.5 fourth gear) before I ease off
% the gas and work down towards the turn. I can either hit the turn early
% and gas out harder or hit later and gas less, but overall, I think I hit
% 180 right when the turn is completely done. Along to turn three, I
% ease off the gas at about the 3rd to last billboard, work down towards
% the bottom, back into the gas to hold at about 165, then accelerate smoothly
% out of turn 4. Tires squeal like hell, but they only hit 175-190 degrees.
% Anyone see an error here?
Michigan can be a hard track to master. First you will need a good
setup. After you have put some heat in your tires you should be able to
be close to 200-201 before taking turn 1. Come in high and actually
take the middle of turns 1 & 2 past the actual apex. The major key to
MIS is too scrub off as little speed as possible in the turns. You are
losing some in Turns 1&2, but 3&4 are robbing you blind. This is the
killer turns for me also. I still don't have it down right. So, I will
pass on a few secrets from one of the CCG partners (Rob Camp -- hope he
doesn't mind -- well I am pretty sure he won't if you will download our
AI enhancement for Michigan <G> Check the CCG NASCAR2 AI Project site:
http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/6746 -- With this AI, you won't be
using the brakes for the other cars, just to stop in your pit stall).
From Snowdog's Secrets of Michigan:
DO NOT EVER touch the brake..
Run hard into 1.. Go high to the wall along the frontstraight and then
DIVE from the wall into turn one.. Later than you may think.. Just get
off the gas (coasting) until the apex, *maybe* a little sonner than the
apex, and slowly get back on the gas.. Sometime VERY shortly after the
apex, you'll feel the car saying "hey man, let's go!", and then floor
it.. The car (at least with my setup, for me.. Chevy chassis) will
basically turn itself...
As for T3, get off the gas (coasting) anywhere between the last sign
(billboard on the right of the track) and the skids that are low going
into the turn.. Enter this turn in *any* groove.. My fav is the diagonal
line from the wall, down toward the bottom of the track in T3.. still
coasting... You'll see a funky pattern of skidmarks somewhere in the
mid-apex of 3 & 4.. use this to be a visual as to where you get back on
the gas... Then you have a choice (depnding on you entrance) of either
flooring it and taking yourself high groove OUT of 4, or flooring it and
letting the car turn in ans taking the low/mid groove out of 4... Either
will work, but they are DIRECTLY related to how you enter #3.
Michigan, in my mind, has only 2 turns.. NOT 4 <g>. 2 is so dependant on
1, and 4 is so dependant on 3 that they are basically one turn... More
so than any other track in WC, to me..
And remeber, under ANY circumstance.. TIE YOUR LEFT FOOT TO THE FLOOR!
far away from the brake pedal...
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Track: Michigan Setup: SNOWDOG
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Tire Pressure Camber Shock Lock 5 Weight Bias
RF 50 -2.40 85 1st 9.80 Left 1900
RR 52 0.00 100 2nd 6.50 Rear 1770
LR 50 0.00 100 3rd 4.40 Cross 0
LF 50 0.10 95 4th 3.40 Spoiler: 60
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N2HQ (C)1997 - Dane Johnson
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[End of Snowdog's Secrets]
Here is my setup for Michigan (slightly modified from Rob's):
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Track: Michigan Setup: TEST00
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Tire Pressure Camber Shock Lock 6 Weight Bias
RF 50 -2.70 20 1st 9.80 Left 1900
RR 51 0.00 100 2nd 6.90 Rear 1800
LR 50 0.00 100 3rd 4.40 Cross -5
LF 51 0.30 100 4th 3.40 Spoiler: 68
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N2HQ (C)1997 - Dane Johnson
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Upside out, or inside down...False alarm the only game in town.
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