rec.autos.simulators

Hi,

        I'm looking for some Atlanta setups for N2.  I can't seem to keep my
foot on the gas going around.  I'm way too tight.  Does anyone have any
good setups?

                        Thanks,

                                Shawn

I don't think there is any setup that will allow you to keep the gas on all
the way around the track, the best I can get is I gotta lift goin in, coast
in till the speed is about 178, then roll the gas back on to full.   The
greatest help I found, (after struggling at atlanta for years) was to stay
in the middle of the turn.  It seams that the Papy programmers duplicated
Atlanta well, cause the banking in the turns is not constant but increases
to full about half way up the track.  I picked up 8 mph staying in the high
groove with the exact same setup, then I had to change the gear for the new
speed and got faster!
Kenny L.

It is a tough sim track, I think- for some reason, the AI is much
stronger than me on that track. I'm racing with a joystick, and I
think that gives me a disadvantage in some ways... but I can blow away
most all the tracks at 100%... not atlanta, though!

Coming out of the turns is nightmarish at Atlanta for some reason- no
matter what I do to my setup, I seem to come out much  shallower than
the AI cars, often ending up in the middle of the straightaway, and
can't really race side by side with them at all there.

I'm glad to have moved on to Darlington.

Shawn,

     I agree with Kenny on Atlanta. There just isn't any setup that
will let you run the track flat out all the way around.

     I just ran my race at Atlanta and finished 2nd after fighting it
out with the wonder boy for the last 22 laps. I would have won except
that I wore my front right tire out.

     If you watched the race on ESPN (Monday live), you would have
heard just when they lifted off the gas and got back on it when they
did the in car cameras.

Regards,

Joel Willstein

Hi,
  One of the reasons I find Atlanta difficult is because you have to have
your speed just right going into the turns.  If you go too fast you slip
up high, sometimes if I go to slow into the corners I'll accidently clip
the apron and I'am into the wall. There is little room for error and the
AI has no mercy!

Atlanta must be really bad then :) the narrow corners at Darlington do
make me feel claustrophobic sometimes!

john

It would appear you are speaking of N2 and Atlanta.   I agree, I cannot
get N2 to race full steam around Atlanta, though I have a hard time just
keeping the dang thing away from the wall in the corners.

I just converted Atlanta to ICR2/CART and love it.  I've got one problem
though, about halfway into T1 I have to get off the gas or the car will
get REAL loose for a second, it actually starts to spin and then fixes
itself.  I just keep the gas on and dont move the wheel and Im ok, but
it raises the RF temp by nearl 30 degrees.  (If you wanna see 300 deg
temps run soft RF and do this about 4 laps in a row).  Anyways, Im
wondering if anyone else has this problem with the Cart conversion, is
it a problem, is there a fix?  I need to know ASAP, gotta race on it
this week.  Thanks.

--Scott

Data wrote

Get low, low, WAYYYY low.  You know the white line on the apron. Stay on it.
It's the only way you can run those 186's in Nascar2 (and on the NROS).

The same thing happens in Turn4 at C***te.  And also at Talledega.  By
changing the friction in the .txt files you will be able maybe to solve it.
It's not the setup.  Oh I'm speaking about the Nascar1 version of C***te
and Tally.

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Atlanta is one of the easier tracks.  With the right setup it's easy
to average in the 180's.  You have to get off the gas before each turn
and come down low.  I forget which one is which, but in one end you
can floor it once you get 1/3 or so through the corner and in the
other end you have take it a bit easier through the first half.
Talledega is the only "pedal to the metal" all the way round track.

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Please don't tell me that I'm the only person who runs the high line at
***-Atlanta!

Kenny L.
tynankenATinreachDOTcom

I run it with great success.  <G>

Chris