We might be having a mis-communication here. i have used specific setups
and ones for other marques...Some feel good to me and others don't. I don't
have the proficiency in GPL to get the maximum from a setup so swapping
marques isn't that big a deal.
I believe your assesments are correct about the differences between the
brands, but if you don't have to talent to exploit the differences...such as
myself, then not using brand-specific setups isn't such a taboo.
dave henrie
> Have you driven a BRM and a Lotus in the same session? Day? Month? The
> former has no torque, and has to be rowed around with the gearbox (thank
God
> it's got an extra gear), and the latter has so much torque it doesn't
matter
> what gear yer in.
> Which is not to say a bad setup won't work for a good driver...or v.v., or
> any other combo.
> --Steve
> > > Since Papy went to the trouble to model different engine curves,
> > different
> > > wheelbases, different tracks, different weights, different c.g.s,
> > different
> > > aero, etc., for each car in the game, I'm amazed anybody but a rank
> > amateur
> > > (or somebody with a remarkably dead butt) would think one setup
> > would work
> > > for more than one car. Then again, I know some churls who don't
> > even bother
> > > to change the setup (except top gear) from track to track!
> > Fully agreed in principle, except that I've found much the same thing:
> > once I've developed a setup which seems to work well for (say) the
> > Coventry, I can transfer it to another car (perhaps the Ferrari or the
> > Eagle) and it'll be somewhere near. It certainly doesn't result in
> > the second car handling identically, but I can usually 'sort it' with
> > a no more than a couple of clicks on any one tweak.
> > I do wonder just how different the cars really are - they're all
> > around the same weight and dimensions in absolute terms, and are
> > possibly on the same tyres so you'd expect /similar/ numbers to work
> > okay. Does anyone know whether roll centres and camber curves vary
> > between cars?
> > I import original gearing back to the new car, though - no way I can
> > see the same ratios working across engines!
> > Jonny
