WTCC and Curitiba

[Gabriele]

Hi guys.
Yesterday I've downloaded the awesome WTCC carset, and I started a full race @ Curitiba.
Cars have 550 bhp (more or less), and drivers ranges are between 13900 and 14100 roughly.
At ACE level, with the standard setup, I am (i created myself at 13000 and dumped another driver) where I should expect me to be, fighting for a top 5 qual/fiinish.
BUT... cars are a lot quicker than me: 280 km/h for SEATs, 265-275 km/h for others, and... 242 km/h for ME.
No way, I do not want to be overtaken 100 times at the end of the straights, and be blocked for the rest of the track.
So I changed a little bit rear wing and gears ratio, to match top speed.
And I was *really* quicker. Fastest was 1.37.4, I was flying around 1.35.4...
So I thought to decrease my driver range from 13000 to whatever was required not to be SO dominating.
To cut a long story short... now my range is 900 (nine hundred)... and guess what? I am STILL on the same 1.35.4.
How is it possible?
I do not wanna mess up with weight and car grip factor, since it is perfect for a WTCC "feel".

[Gabriele]

correction: even with standard setup I am hell quick... 1.35.3!!!
I need competiton! Maybe is related to the track???

[Greyhead]

The problem is that when you change the BHP values in GP2, for some reason it's possible to get the player car accelerating much more quickly then the CC-cars by messing around with the gear ratios.

However what you can do if you want it to be more realistic is to open a season calendar on WinTrackMan, then select "CC Car Setup" from the Track menu at the top. This will show you the wing settings and gear ratios for the CC-cars. If you use these settings you'll have the same acceleration and top speed as the other cars.

[Gabriele]

Gosh, I'm stupid.
I'll try and let you know (I guess that they are the same values you get with trackeditor).

[Greyhead]

Hey, it took me years to work that out!

[Gabriele]

I opened up the track in trackeditor and I noted the CC setup: 12/3, 28-35-42-49-55-61.
That was put as my setup. Warmup lap, first lap... 1.34.255... 3 seconds quicker than the 2nd...

Damn I'm good!!!

...but still this was not what I was looking for...

[Gabriele]

I think I found the key.
Playing with carset's grip factor, I noticed that CC times are always the same, whereas mine decrease or increase according to that changes.
So, after playing a little bit, I just put grip factor at 800 instead of 500. Fantastic!