Miami Bicentennial Park Setups
#1
Hey everyone,

I've been doing a bunch of laps around Pavel69's Bicentennial park circuit. I've managed to get a best time of 1:00.959 in preseason testing but that's only on a run where I nail every apex and accelerate out of the corners really well. I can never be consistently fast and usually get 1:01.500. Along with that, the middle section with the slow left hand corners always feels sluggish and I know I lose all my time to the AI in that section. My setup is pretty stiff on the shocks and my roll bars are also really stiff as well. What kind of setups do you guys run or does anyone know of a setup that a quick person has on the site?

Thanks.
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(10-23-2021, 11:27 AM)Kryptic Wrote: Hey everyone,

I've been doing a bunch of laps around Pavel69's Bicentennial park circuit. I've managed to get a best time of 1:00.959 in preseason testing but that's only on a run where I nail every apex and accelerate out of the corners really well. I can never be consistently fast and usually get 1:01.500. Along with that, the middle section with the slow left hand corners always feels sluggish and I know I lose all my time to the AI in that section. My setup is pretty stiff on the shocks and my roll bars are also really stiff as well. What kind of setups do you guys run or does anyone know of a setup that a quick person has on the site?

Thanks.

I can't remember my best times there, but I don't think they are far from yours.

Most of Miami 95 likes a relatively soft setup for the slower long radius corners. There isn't much quick transitioning so you won't benefit by making the car stiff. The only 2 corners that I can think of where you would benefit with a stiff suspension would be the "paul tracy" chicane, and the corner leading on to the fast stretch.

Personally I like the grippy qualities with lower tire pressures there also, around 33psi.

I suggest very high wing settings because the top speed at miami 95 is pretty low, about 170mph if I remember. Make sure that your camber settings are right, because poor tire performance will really make the car feel sloppy.
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(10-24-2021, 12:19 PM)samsepi0l Wrote:
(10-23-2021, 11:27 AM)Kryptic Wrote: Hey everyone,

I've been doing a bunch of laps around Pavel69's Bicentennial park circuit. I've managed to get a best time of 1:00.959 in preseason testing but that's only on a run where I nail every apex and accelerate out of the corners really well. I can never be consistently fast and usually get 1:01.500. Along with that, the middle section with the slow left hand corners always feels sluggish and I know I lose all my time to the AI in that section. My setup is pretty stiff on the shocks and my roll bars are also really stiff as well. What kind of setups do you guys run or does anyone know of a setup that a quick person has on the site?

Thanks.

I can't remember my best times there, but I don't think they are far from yours.

Most of Miami 95 likes a relatively soft setup for the slower long radius corners.  There isn't much quick transitioning so you won't benefit by making the car stiff.  The only 2 corners that I can think of where you would benefit with a stiff suspension would be the "paul tracy" chicane, and the corner leading on to the fast stretch. 

Personally I like the grippy qualities with lower tire pressures there also, around 33psi.

I suggest very high wing settings because the top speed at miami 95 is pretty low, about 170mph if I remember.  Make sure that your camber settings are right, because poor tire performance will really make the car feel sloppy.
Thanks for the advice. I went with a softer setup but it was never as quick as the stiff setup. The setups don't feel that different when out on the track but the timing doesn't lie as I'm about 5 tenths quicker with stiff shocks with both fronts being at 85% and the rears at 55%. Both soft and stiff setups suffer from horrendous understeer at the slow mid section corners and so I have to have a close to dead soft front ARB and a pretty stifff rear ARB to get the damn car to point the right way out of a corner. I'll keep experimenting but I want to at least qualify in the top 3 with 100% AI difficulty.
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Quote:Thanks for the advice. I went with a softer setup but it was never as quick as the stiff setup. The setups don't feel that different when out on the track but the timing doesn't lie as I'm about 5 tenths quicker with stiff shocks with both fronts being at 85% and the rears at 55%. Both soft and stiff setups suffer from horrendous understeer at the slow mid section corners and so I have to have a close to dead soft front ARB and a pretty stifff rear ARB to get the damn car to point the right way out of a corner. I'll keep experimenting but I want to at least qualify in the top 3 with 100% AI difficulty.

Are you driving with a keyboard, joystick or steering wheel/pedal combo?

Setups will vary greatly by driving type and style. I could never get any setup for any track I downloaded to work better for me than something I developed by trial and error. Everyone will be faster in some parts and slower in others- which is why I originally started making my own LPs. You can adjust the RELS to make the AI more competitive, but eventually you will want to make the CCs as fast as you are, where you are.

Tire pressure, and camber are a really big deal in icr2.

"100% AI difficulty" dosen't really mean anything. When someone makes a track, (regardless if it is a papyrus track, or a home-made track) 100% is just the speed at which the LPs were written with the RELS set at 100, and the game difficulty set at 100. It does not mean that is the theoretically fastest achievable or anything like that.

The only way to truely be challenged, is to race against yourself. (I think Dennis would like that quote- I took it from him!)
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(10-25-2021, 04:20 AM)samsepi0l Wrote:
Quote:Thanks for the advice. I went with a softer setup but it was never as quick as the stiff setup. The setups don't feel that different when out on the track but the timing doesn't lie as I'm about 5 tenths quicker with stiff shocks with both fronts being at 85% and the rears at 55%. Both soft and stiff setups suffer from horrendous understeer at the slow mid section corners and so I have to have a close to dead soft front ARB and a pretty stifff rear ARB to get the damn car to point the right way out of a corner. I'll keep experimenting but I want to at least qualify in the top 3 with 100% AI difficulty.

Are you driving with a keyboard, joystick or steering wheel/pedal combo?

Setups will vary greatly by driving type and style.  I could never get any setup for any track I downloaded to work better for me than something I developed by trial and error.  Everyone will be faster in some parts and slower in others- which is why I originally started making my own LPs.  You can adjust the RELS to make the AI more competitive, but eventually you will want to make the CCs as fast as you are, where you are.

Tire pressure, and camber are a really big deal in icr2.

"100% AI difficulty" dosen't really mean anything.  When someone makes a track, (regardless if it is a papyrus track, or a home-made track) 100% is just the speed at which the LPs were written with the RELS set at 100, and the game difficulty set at 100.  It does not mean that is the theoretically fastest achievable or anything like that. 

The only way to truely be challenged, is to race against yourself.  (I think Dennis would like that quote- I took it from him!)
I'm using an xbone controller that I set up that works well with the game as I do not own any wheel or pedal set. I will definitely crank up the Ai difficulty when I feel happy with a setup. Thanks for clarifying as I do not know the ins and outs of how the game works.
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