Need advice on Lotus 98T@Imola: Acqua Minerali

Short shifting is upshifting way before the limiter to avoid wheelspin.

Blipping the throttle is very important... If you go 6 - 3 without blipping and you do it even a fraction too soon, you will spin immediately. 6,5,4,3 is kinda a habit, abit more realistic, because it's (mostly) done so in real life to save the clutch and gearbox, and it might be faster because you don't have to search the gear, and you just go in sequence in a nice rhythm.

That is kinda interesting thread for me, because I'm quite slow in all high speed high downforce cars, like these lotuses or the C9. Maybe I just have slow reactions...

 

Ah understood, I do that sometimes too. So you match revs - how do you know how much throttle you need to match the revs? And what if you don't do so? Then you always have to have the wheels straight when releasing the clutch due to load change?

 

That's the reason I usually cycle through all gears. It's easier when the same amount of throttle blip is needed for every downshift.

If you don't revmatch you will upset your driven wheels during every downshift.

 

Might sound stupid, but what turbo level are you using? I tried 80 percent and it is a torture for the poor car...

 

I always drive 100% on hotlaps. Of course it is a torture . It should have about 1100 hp then I think. Out of a 1.5l V6. In that setting, the car was made for 1-2 qualifying banzai laps.

 

It should be around 1400 HP at 100%. Out of that same 1.5 v6

 

Cool, didn't know it still had that much hp, as it is from 86 season. Strongest was the Renault RE40 Prost drove 83 I think.

 

Did a few laps last night and the best I managed was 1:25.5 with almost default setup ( lowered fuel, increased camber and longer gears for the 100% boost). Higher aero does help a little but didn't have time to tinker with dampers, springs, etc. Something was wrong in my lap time though. Rsr showed 328kph top speed when I'm sure I ran high wings and my top speed didn't exceed 310. Not sure if the lap counter was bugged but the detected top speed was definitely lower.
Tyre pressures go through the roof half way through the lap on Q tyres though, so to get the most out of them, you need to lower the cold pressures - 18 front 15 rear do they balance out at around 28 while hot. Also Q tyres start at 97% grip so make sure you do 1 out lap to bring them to 100% before you start pushing on the second lap.

That's as much as I can tell you with my limited laps last night. Will try again today.

 

Really? I was pushing like no tomorrow with 97% tyres then.

So you really should be able to go way faster than 1.25.5!

 

I "managed" to do a 1:29:2 with your setup, reduced wings a little bit.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/lfl1ornvd9496i7/lotus_98t_imola_ 1 29 2.dat?dl=0
Maybe someone can tell me, where I lose so much time?

 

I'll have a look at your replay and see if there was something wrong with my time/pedals/wheel whatever or that's my genuine time. Rsr detecting higher top speed got me thinking..

 

Very interesting thread...
This is mine 1:27:385 with the setup from wm79 post (just some tweak...less bumps and fast bumps and less front tyres pressure).
I do just few laps so with more practice i suppose i can reach 1:25:xxx anyway 1:22 seems very,very fast,and jumping on kerbs like in the video
posted by WM79 it's a bit improbable with no assist or withouts cheats!
Im with T500RS with H gear and absolutely no aids and full damage of course...

Download my lap replay :

https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=EDE51CBF5418538E!9249&authkey=!AGpROMrRqzMQJ0k&ithint=file,rar

 

You cannot attack the curbs if you want to be fast. You only have to push like crazy, and some more. Also you don't want to ruin your straight line speed with too much wings. It is much more efficient to lower your car and to maximize ground effect.

When I tried I was constantly lapping 1.24's and a few high 23's. It is really not that hard when you find yourself atleast somehow comfortable with the car. I say it once again. I really don't like open wheelers and I'm pretty sure there a tons of people faster than me with a car like this. Downforce is a cancer if you ask me..

 

Lowering it doesn't ruin anything ? I though it would ruin geometry or cause it to bottom out. Have to try it someday, saving on drag by increasing ground effect must be much faster than maxing out wings.

 

If I understand correctly ground effect is a win-win. I posted my quickly done setup earlier and I think I had wings set to something like 6 in front and 12 at back. I think you have to decrease static camber when you lower the car to keep the live camber at more reasonable values.

 

I know,but im talking about how the guy on the video cuts the chicane...if i try to cut like this,the bottom of the car hits the objects over the kerbs (sorry i don't know how they call in english) and the car jumps away off the track!

 

If you see the date of the video, it's back from 2014 when bottoming out wasn't even a thing...

 

Ah,so that explain it all!