Indycar 2 setups

I've tried everything on ICRII for the 1 mile ovals and i just can't get the car to act right. Does anybody have a setup for Malwaukee and Loudon in which a can make the turns without losing 70mph, i have a lot of understeer and keep hitting the wall.

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>Newsgroups: rec.autos.simulators >Subject: Indycar 2 setups >Date: Mon, 08 Jan 1996 23:26:52 -0800 >Organization: ftn Internet >Lines: 4 >NNTP-Posting-Host: 205.210.59.119 >Mime-Version: 1.0 >X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b3 (Win95; I; 16bit) >Status: N >I've tried everything on ICRII for the 1 mile ovals and i just can't get >the car to act right. Does anybody have a setup for Malwaukee and Loudon >in which a can make the turns without losing 70mph, i have a lot of >understeer and keep hitting the wall.

If you are understeering, use a lot more down force. Get it so that you can drive through the turns w/o lifting. This will slow you down on the straights, but the whole lap time should improve. Once you can easily make it through the turn start to take off downforce little by little. I know this can get frustrating and boring, but it works. Of course you could always try adding downforce on just the front so you don't understeer. Of course you may just not have enough wing to make it through the corner. Good luck and keep at it,

I have raced a fair amount at Milwaukee (used to be sitting at the top of the grandstands out of the fourth turn - many years ago while growing up there). I find the easiest way for me is to let up going into turns one and three, and apply throttle about 1/2 way out of the turn. Going into one, I try to let up at the skid mark on the far right of the straightaway. Let it coast until the baloon passes your 12 o'clock and apply throttle for the exit. Going into three, I let up just passing the purple building on my right. There's a massive skid mark at the white line about 1/2 way around the turn, and I apply throttle here. I hit 170+ (really havn't looked) at the end of the straights, and 140-ish at the appex. Hope this helps, Russ

Carver) writes: >: I've tried everything on ICRII for the 1 mile ovals and i just can't get >: the car to act right. Does anybody have a setup for Malwaukee and Loudon >: in which a can make the turns without losing 70mph, i have a lot of >: understeer and keep hitting the wall. >I've spent hours at Loudon to come up with a suitable setup. I find >that it is impossible to get through the corners flat out until the car >is almost out of fuel. The following is the setup I am using now. It's >a little loose at the start. You have to let up coming into the turns >and sorta slide the car into the corner. The lighter the fuel load and >the hotter the tires the sooner you can come back into the throttle >coming out the corners. >A couple of interesting things about the setup. The LR tire is kept >at about 195 degrees. This seems to help keep the car from becoming >extremely loose on the exits. It also allows me to put extreme throttle

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>on the exits. I also played with the camber on the rear tires abit. >This setup is for Thrustmaster Formula T1. >I've achieved 187+ on my 2nd qualifying lap when I lower the fuel to >3 gals. >Fuel: 40 gallons 1st Gear: 11.90 >Steering Lock: 9 degrees 2nd Gear: 9.10 >Stagger: +0.900 inches 3rd Gear: 7.70 > 4th Gear: 6.40 >Front Wing: 14.40 5th Gear: 5.70 >Rear Wing: 8.20 6th Gear: 5.30 >Boost Level: 0 >Front Anti-Roll: 4 >Rear Anti-Roll: 5 >Brake Bias: 4 > TIRE COMPOUND PSI CAMBER SHOCK > Right Front Hard 35 -2.00 75% > Right Rear Medium 34 -1.30 70% > Left Rear Medium 37 +0.50 90% > Left Front Soft 41 -0.90 100% >-- >**************************** Michael E. Carver

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It sounds like you have one of those energy-saving systems that blank the screen after x minutes of no keyboard/mouse input. Check your CMOS settings; you should be able to disable it from there. (Or tap a key occasionally when driving)

Anyone out there have this problem? I have ICR2 running on a Pentium 75 Mhz using the t2 wheel and CH pedals. During practice or a race after a few minutes the screen goes BLACK! It is restored by hitting the space bar but you can imagine how disconcerting this is when overtaking a slower car on a street circuit. I run the game out of DOS and all screensavers are off. <<< Does your monitor have a power-saving mode? I've heard of this happening on some monitors that support such a thing. Rick Genter Technical Lead, IndyCar Racing II Papyrus Design Group, Inc.