rec.autos.simulators

> Following the comments (advice) of D. Waltrip duing the Texas WC race.
> "Whatever (setup) works at Atlanta will work at Texas", I figured I'd
> take the FAST setup from Texas, which I thought was workable and copy
> it over to the Atlanta player setup folder.  It seems Mr. Waltrip was
> right!  It worked like a charm.  With a little tweaking, I'm touching
> the line at the bottom of the turns and keeping up with the AI WITHOUT
> spinning out.  Just to let you know, this was a last ditch effort to
> figure out Atlanta for me as it seems that track gets me loose and I'm
> usually facing the wrong way in Turn 1.

> Gene

> Worked for me too up until the point I hit the wall.

> Following the comments (advice) of D. Waltrip duing the Texas WC race.
> "Whatever (setup) works at Atlanta will work at Texas", I figured I'd
> take the FAST setup from Texas, which I thought was workable and copy
> it over to the Atlanta player setup folder.  It seems Mr. Waltrip was
> right!  It worked like a charm.  With a little tweaking, I'm touching
> the line at the bottom of the turns and keeping up with the AI WITHOUT
> spinning out.  Just to let you know, this was a last ditch effort to
> figure out Atlanta for me as it seems that track gets me loose and I'm
> usually facing the wrong way in Turn 1.

> Gene

> Thanks for the tip.  I picked up 5 mph.  I thought Texas was just an
easier
> track to drive.  I had pretty much given up on Atlanta for now.  Time to
> look at the difference in the setups and apply at other tracks.  I'm
> starting to warm up to N4 a little.  Had a good run going until the stupid
> AI took me out.  "Car low" doesn't seem to mean anything to them.

>     Hmmm, copied my Atlanta setup over to Texas and was
> hitting 189's in the early going! Seemed to work pretty well.

>     Pete

> > I have a pretty good racing setup for Atlanta and I tried copying it to
> > Texas as DW talked about.  It might have worked copying from Texas to
> > Atlanta, but not the reverse.

> > My Atlanta setup was actually very bad at Texas.  The tire pressures
were
> > way off, the gear ratios are different just to name a couple.  Just
about
> > everything was off from what I could see.

> > So as far as N4 is concerned those tracks are not the same, even though
in
> > real life they are close.  But Atlanta is still a faster track.

>I have a pretty good racing setup for Atlanta and I tried copying it to
>Texas as DW talked about.  It might have worked copying from Texas to
>Atlanta, but not the reverse.

>My Atlanta setup was actually very bad at Texas.  The tire pressures were
>way off, the gear ratios are different just to name a couple.  Just about
>everything was off from what I could see.

>So as far as N4 is concerned those tracks are not the same, even though in
>real life they are close.  But Atlanta is still a faster track.

>> Thanks for the tip.  I picked up 5 mph.  I thought Texas was just an
>easier
>> track to drive.  I had pretty much given up on Atlanta for now.  Time to
>> look at the difference in the setups and apply at other tracks.  I'm
>> starting to warm up to N4 a little.  Had a good run going until the stupid
>> AI took me out.  "Car low" doesn't seem to mean anything to them.

>> > Following the comments (advice) of D. Waltrip duing the Texas WC race.
>> > "Whatever (setup) works at Atlanta will work at Texas", I figured I'd
>> > take the FAST setup from Texas, which I thought was workable and copy
>> > it over to the Atlanta player setup folder.  It seems Mr. Waltrip was
>> > right!  It worked like a charm.  With a little tweaking, I'm touching
>> > the line at the bottom of the turns and keeping up with the AI WITHOUT
>> > spinning out.  Just to let you know, this was a last ditch effort to
>> > figure out Atlanta for me as it seems that track gets me loose and I'm
>> > usually facing the wrong way in Turn 1.

>> > Gene