Going back to Monday, I hadn't realised how close I came in the GTO to taking out fndr (Miura) during THAT SLIDE...
Yeah, that was pretty close. I was sure I was going into the wall; good job holding there.
Got to admit that I knew I'd lost it, so I just floored the power so it would spin out inwards and hopefully avoid you (it worked!
. If I'd backed off the power I would probably have ended up taking you out.
Going back to Pete's comment agreeing with me about the d/f on Sunset, here's another thing to thow into the mix. As you can see from the pic,my GTO has no wings, just the Forza rear bumper yet it is faster than my 80% d/f'ed Miura at Sebring. That is another thing which has me a little puzzled as I would have expected Sebring to be less biased to a low d/f set-up than Sunset.
Which brings me to my problem with the Miura. It really doesn't like kerbs, and I think that is why I'm struggling with the lower d/f set-up. I'm reluctant to mess with the springs as they seem to be pretty well set in terms of they only go red when I hit a major bump of kerb. Likewise, I'm reluctant to fiddle around with the ARBs as the car settles well once in a corner and you can very easily adjust the line on the throttle without it trying to spin out on you.
Which means I either have to use the higher d/f settings to control it over those bumps, or I have to confront my daemons and start playing with the damping. Generally I shy away from major adjustments, only changing the settings by 0.1 or 0.2 to assist under braking or acceleration. But here I suspect that the car is overdamped for hitting kerbs, especially at the back. I need to go and check the telemetry, but it feels as if the rear suspension is still trying to bounce as I come off the kerb and that is leading to the snap oversteer I'm seeing ( I know it doesn't help being a MR configuration, but so is the GTO and that doesn't have the same issues despite no rear wing). If the telemetry confirms my suspiscions, I'm going to try increasing the rear bump setting (and the corresponding rebound with it). This may lead to all sorts of other issues coming to light, but I figure it's worth a try. If the worst comes to the worst, I can always go back to my current set-up which is good for a mid 2:07 at Sebring and mid 1:29 at Sunset, but is really better suited to the twisty tracks.
