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GP3 steering lock

Rick Clyd

GP3 steering lock

by Rick Clyd » Thu, 31 May 2001 10:11:10

Does anyone know how you set-up your car in GP3 to make that ever so tight
hair-pin (Loews) at Monte Carlo?. I keep running into the barrier no matter
how slow I go - I just can't turn tight enough.

Thanks....

Doug Olse

GP3 steering lock

by Doug Olse » Thu, 31 May 2001 11:44:19

Go to the controller setup screen, then click the "advanced" button. The
setting you seek should be in the upper left, about 5th from the top, IIRC.

- Doug

RegularRace

GP3 steering lock

by RegularRace » Thu, 31 May 2001 15:35:11

Slow down......


Harald Edwin Boer

GP3 steering lock

by Harald Edwin Boer » Thu, 31 May 2001 20:42:29



Go to options>controls and then set your max lock at 18-20.

Cheers,

Harald

Hamm

GP3 steering lock

by Hamm » Fri, 01 Jun 2001 04:56:51



> > Does anyone know how you set-up your car in GP3 to make that ever so tight
> > hair-pin (Loews) at Monte Carlo?. I keep running into the barrier no
>  matter
> > how slow I go - I just can't turn tight enough.

I have had this problem too before, even with max lock.  If your car
setup is weighted/tilted too far to the rear, the frickin' car won't
turn no matter how slow you go (even braking idle).  At that speed,
wings have nothing to do with it really, there is not enough airflow
over the wings to influence this much, espeicially as slow as Loews
is.

Check your brake bias, make sure you have at least 25mm of ride height
difference from the rear to the front (unless you have a radical
setup), make sure your rear suspension/dampers are not too much too
soft compared to the front.  Also, if you have no suspension travel in
the front (bogus packers config), it doesn't want to turn either.

The other thing I do with Loews is I have setup such that I can almost
pirouette (sp?) the car on it's front right tire into Loews, wait for
it to settle, and powerslide out under gentle throttle... which set's
the car up nicely for the following right.  It takes a stable setup
tho, or when the tires start to wear the back end can come around if
you misjudge the pirouette point - especially considering the lack of
airflow over the rear wing due to low speed.

I learned this lesson playing around with some semi-radical monaco
setups, and it has served me well since, at other tracks with slow
chicanes but where you want a stiff setup.  In general, if the car is
too soft in the rear (or too stiff at the front, pick yer POV),
turning at low speed is a bear.  If you can't turn at even at idle,
yer setup is***ed up.

Good luck.  It's likely someone here will pipe in that I'm full of
sh*t, and I may well be, but this is what works for me.

Hammer

Chri

GP3 steering lock

by Chri » Fri, 01 Jun 2001 07:53:22

I set to about 17 and left it there.  It took me ***y ages to find that.

Chris


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| > Does anyone know how you set-up your car in GP3 to make that ever so
tight
| > hair-pin (Loews) at Monte Carlo?. I keep running into the barrier no
| matter
| > how slow I go - I just can't turn tight enough.
|
| Go to options>controls and then set your max lock at 18-20.
|
| Cheers,
|
| Harald
|
|


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