new to game, how to choose car setups

[RS Phil 214]

2 minutes ago, marioho said:

Yeah I've seen players supporting the 100% brake pressure always as this way you keep your muscle memory and references for how much you press the trigger and just adapt to the track at hand.

Exactly. Changing your brake pressure from track to track is not recommended. Changing your brake bias is vital.

[pacers101 19]

As an update, for F1 2020 I have been using the setups from tom97 (can be found via youtube). I have found them to be very good, and importantly he sets them up for racing and managing tyres, not just one lap pace- although he manages to smash some great times from them. Even though I drive very differently from him (I am much less skilled, and use assists and a pad) he tends not to push the boundaries too far, so it suits me. My adjustment options from his base are usually limited to a little extra wing, extra off-throttle diff and rear toe if more stability is needed.

For wet races, I have been using the setups from realsport101. They are very nice this year. They have found some good settings with the combination of rear downforce, off-throttle diff and high rake.

[Ultra3142 384]

6 hours ago, pacers101 said:

For wet races, I have been using the setups from realsport101. They are very nice this year.

Thanks for the tip. I'll check them out.

In case it's of interest to anyone browsing this thread I'll just link to Tom97's video with setups for all tracks:

 

[Krisperfectline 63]

On 8/17/2020 at 7:56 PM, pacers101 said:

As an update, for F1 2020 I have been using the setups from tom97 (can be found via youtube). I have found them to be very good, and importantly he sets them up for racing and managing tyres, not just one lap pace- although he manages to smash some great times from them. Even though I drive very differently from him (I am much less skilled, and use assists and a pad) he tends not to push the boundaries too far, so it suits me. My adjustment options from his base are usually limited to a little extra wing, extra off-throttle diff and rear toe if more stability is needed.

For wet races, I have been using the setups from realsport101. They are very nice this year. They have found some good settings with the combination of rear downforce, off-throttle diff and high rake.

Mate, how do you find Tom’s setups fine? I also race on a pad, but with no assists. I am having to drastically soften the anti roll bars to make his setups suitable to me. I find his setups and most youtubers’ setups to be extremely stiff when cornering and particularly in the change of direction. Perhaps it could be due to me running maximum camber on both the front and the rear and also minimum toe on both rear and front. I also run with 50% on throttle diff and 50% off throttle diff. I also run extremely low tyre pressures. 

[KNT2011 214]

On 8/17/2020 at 12:56 PM, pacers101 said:

For wet races, I have been using the setups from realsport101. They are very nice this year. They have found some good settings with the combination of rear downforce, off-throttle diff and high rake.

 

+1 for this, I was looking at theirs for Australia to get a baseline on it until I realised what they have was perfect and was actually faster in dry than my own dry setup 

Edited August 21 by KNT2011

[pacers101 19]

On 8/21/2020 at 3:55 PM, Krisperfectline said:

Mate, how do you find Tom’s setups fine? I also race on a pad, but with no assists. I am having to drastically soften the anti roll bars to make his setups suitable to me. I find his setups and most youtubers’ setups to be extremely stiff when cornering and particularly in the change of direction. Perhaps it could be due to me running maximum camber on both the front and the rear and also minimum toe on both rear and front. I also run with 50% on throttle diff and 50% off throttle diff. I also run extremely low tyre pressures. 

I think everything affects everything if that makes sense. So if you are running different camber/toe, differential and tyre pressures, then you probably need your own suspension setups too. But yes, I always need to make some small adjustments (see the start of this thread), mainly to account for my skill level being well below that of tom97. So for example my throttle control is nowhere near as good.