working hard with F1 setups (Ricardo Nunnini being my favourite), but I
haven't found much for F3:s. What do you recommend?
Jari Jokinen
Jari Jokinen
Go here for the best F3 setup page. Ron's setups are particularly good as
they are very stable and hence easy to drive.
http://www.bus.nait.ab.ca/staff/mikeh/gpl/
http://www.bus.nait.ab.ca/staff/mikeh/gpl/
get Ron Ayton's setups. They are great!
Chris Noto
cnoto at conc dot tds dot net
>Go here for the best F3 setup page. Ron's setups are particularly good as
>they are very stable and hence easy to drive.
>http://www.bus.nait.ab.ca/staff/mikeh/gpl/
Mike Horton
http://www.bus.nait.ab.ca/staff/mikeh/gpl
GPL F2/F3 Hotlaps and Other Downloadables
On Fri, 7 Jan 2000 15:18:10 +0200, "Jari Jokinen"
>>Sure.
>>Go here for the best F3 setup page. Ron's setups are particularly good as
>>they are very stable and hence easy to drive.
>>http://www.bus.nait.ab.ca/staff/mikeh/gpl/
I'll give you an example for Kyalami.
The left hand turns at Kyalami in a F3 car, are not important to
overall lap times, when we are comparing the different lateral levels
of traction in relation to camber/suspension off-sets, but the right
hand corners are very important for a F3 car, so the cambers must be
set up to favour the right hand corners at Kyalami, both in front end
and rear end grip.
At a track like the Ring, asymetrical setups in a F3 car are not
needed, nor required, due to the many variations in both the right and
left hand corners, however even at the Ring, if you are having problems
with a certain section of the track, then the asymetrical setting up of
cambers and suspension to help give better lateral grip in the problem
area, can still be beneficial to you, but be prepared to suffer slight
loss of adhesion and controllability in other parts of the track then..
As a further insight, i usually setup most track specific setups to
exhibit added lateral traction in the right hand corners, except for
Rouen, where i try to keep a reasonable level of rear end lateral
traction in the left hand corners, as the left hand corners at Rouen in
a F3 car are where you can make up a lot of time..
The important right hand corners at Rouen can be taken flat-out in a F3
car, within sensible camber/suspension limitations of course. :)
At a track like Monza, my F3 setups generate as little as possible
camber/suspension induced lateral traction in the left hand corners,
but will grip like a vice in the right handers.
Keep in mind that the asymetrical setting up of a car has it's lows as
well as its highs, but IMO, the advantages of asymetrical setting up
far outweighs the disadvantages in a F3 chassis, where every 100th of a
second per lap is needed and required if you want to be competitive in
the F3 class of racing..
Hope that helps explains a bit why i use asymetrical setups more so
than symetrical Jari..
Cheers,
Ron
Ron,
I use asymetrical setups on all cars F3, F2, and F1 cars. The F1 cars due
to more grip needed to flat hook the car up coming off a corner. The only
track I do not use asymetrical setups is the ring. I have even set the
shocks up to help the car tranfer wieght asymetrically better. This really
helped me at Monza get down from low 1:28s to high 1:27s. It will help in
any car where you have more turns that are important in one direction the
the other.
Dave
Jari Jokinen
Thanks Ron!
Arto