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> >I've noticed severe locking up of the left front at several road courses
> >(including Sebring and nose-ring).  Is this related ?

> Hmm...I had that at Sebring as well.  Made me not want to run there...

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> You can find inis edited with the purpose of giving more credible tire
> heat and wear results, and an explanation of the philosophy behind the
> modifications, at http://users.skynet.be/AchimT/start.html (look in the
> bottom left hand corner) for many tracks.

> However, there's this particular overheat issue on some road courses
> with the RF tire, and I'm not sure there's a real cure for this at all.

> The above mentioned track.inis will cure this to an extent, but they
> cannot really remove the cause for the problem, as I think it's
> hardcoded, a consequence of N2k3 originally having been made for ovals.

> I've experimented a lot with all sorts of parameters in the inis, and
> I've found ways to get the right and left hand tires to heat up evenly,
> but at the cost of a very ugly-to-drive car. I haven't fully tested
> everything out yet in that direction, but I have a feeling the cause is
> hardcoded in the exe, really.

> Achim

> > > Ok, I lost the postings about how to edit the track.ini's to remove
the
> left
> > > front tire from overheating.

> > You can find inis edited with the purpose of giving more credible tire
> > heat and wear results, and an explanation of the philosophy behind the
> > modifications, at http://users.skynet.be/AchimT/start.html (look in the
> > bottom left hand corner) for many tracks.

> > However, there's this particular overheat issue on some road courses
> > with the RF tire, and I'm not sure there's a real cure for this at all.

> > The above mentioned track.inis will cure this to an extent, but they
> > cannot really remove the cause for the problem, as I think it's
> > hardcoded, a consequence of N2k3 originally having been made for ovals.

> > I've experimented a lot with all sorts of parameters in the inis, and
> > I've found ways to get the right and left hand tires to heat up evenly,
> > but at the cost of a very ugly-to-drive car. I haven't fully tested
> > everything out yet in that direction, but I have a feeling the cause is
> > hardcoded in the exe, really.

> > Achim

> OK gimme the grip too :)  Seriously...

> As for what these settings do, please go to the site I mentioned and
> read the explanation, so you'll know the reasons for doing this and the
> goals. Because, the grip is - on purpose and for a good reason - never
> modified. It's all explained at that site.

> If I _would_ touch the grip, then I would only _lower_ it on many of the
> new tracks because most of the new trackmakers use far too high grip
> values, depriving the physics of a lot of their beauty, to the extent
> where it has negative side effects on the car's behaviour.

> The modifications I make are exclusively to tire heat, wear and grip
> loss over the race distance.

> Read the explanations, its all in there, and grip is never touched
> anywhere. But as I said above, online, the server's ini decides all this
> anyway. All clients have no choice, they get sent the values the server
> has in its track.ini, and then these server's values apply to all clients.

> Achim

> OK gimme the grip too :)  Seriously...

> Mitch

> > Thx, Achim!  Interesting.  Provocative.  Now if only we had a Bernie
> > Ecclestone/FIA to enforce the *preferred* track.ini's online....

> > > > Ok, I lost the postings about how to edit the track.ini's to remove
> the
> > left
> > > > front tire from overheating.

> > > You can find inis edited with the purpose of giving more credible tire
> > > heat and wear results, and an explanation of the philosophy behind the
> > > modifications, at http://users.skynet.be/AchimT/start.html (look in
the
> > > bottom left hand corner) for many tracks.

> > > However, there's this particular overheat issue on some road courses
> > > with the RF tire, and I'm not sure there's a real cure for this at
all.

> > > The above mentioned track.inis will cure this to an extent, but they
> > > cannot really remove the cause for the problem, as I think it's
> > > hardcoded, a consequence of N2k3 originally having been made for
ovals.

> > > I've experimented a lot with all sorts of parameters in the inis, and
> > > I've found ways to get the right and left hand tires to heat up
evenly,
> > > but at the cost of a very ugly-to-drive car. I haven't fully tested
> > > everything out yet in that direction, but I have a feeling the cause
is
> > > hardcoded in the exe, really.

> > > Achim

>> >I've noticed severe locking up of the left front at several road courses
>> >(including Sebring and nose-ring).  Is this related ?

>> Hmm...I had that at Sebring as well.  Made me not want to run there...