Tripping the Light Fantastic - A850 Proto Spirra

[Spiny Anteater]

If you're running at Silverstone, i found the low downforce version to be better than the high downforce tune. While the high d/f tune is much better through the turns, the lack of top-end meant I was losing more time on the straights than I gained through the turns.

I think the low d/f tune is also better on Suzuka (full) than the high d/f tune, although oddly the high d/f tune was better at the two shorter versions, presumably due to hitting lower top speeds after 130R.

Glad to hear you like it though - it's always nice to hear when someone else does well with a tune

[sk15kev]

Gave it another go last night and I love both versions.  Nice to be able to pull out two setups on the same build!

I had a very good run on Laguna with the High downforce, just scraping in behind my Lotus Elise.  And with the low downforce again posted a 152:809 on SilGP with still room for improvement.


Gave the Ferrari a good spanking on the Semi Pro 500HP events.

[Spiny Anteater]

Glad you're liking it - it's really just coincidence that there are two builds the same. When I first built up a car for the flowing tracks I first added all the tyre upgrades I could, then reduced the weight. As that took me just over the A850 PI limit (856 I think it was), I tried adjusting the tyres as you can move in smaller increments with those than the weight. I could have stuck with the Avons and reduced the width slightly, but I decided to go with the full fat tyres and drop down to Kumhos.

If you want to find the high downforce car's natural home, I would suggest looking at the Test tracks. It ended up between about 100th and 300th on all of them apart from Copperhead.

[sk15kev]

I thought that also.  It turns really well.

[Spiny Anteater]

I think part of that turn-in is due to the configuration - the NSX's are also mid-engined and they turn in well too.

Now that I've finished, time to put some figures against this description:

PR: 185.998
FR: 142.178
TR: 139.976
QR: 182.925

Taking all of the tracks, the car ended up with a total time of:

1 hour 11minutes 25.977 seconds

which puts it within 3 minutes of that R4 class Audi. Currently that would put the car in 275th place on the A Class leaderboards so I'm pretty pleased with how it turned out