MX5 @ Cape Ring

The MX5 @ cape ring was fairly hard for me. Frustratingly hard. I tried the 07 which everyone and their mom seemed to do well in and couldn't come closer than .300 seconds behind. Granted...I changed a lot of settings before going and I think that ruined it a bit. Anyway. Switched to the 04 and made a few slight adjustments and boom, victory at last. 

Racing Hard Suspension

Racing Brakes

8 / 5

Stg 2 Engine upgrade

Stock everyting else

Clio R.S @ Brands Hatch

Wow, annoying but guess what...You basically can't win this challenge without Skid Recovery Force set to ON. I know, I know, you want to bet that you can but no...not really. I mean, you can get close, and hey, maybe you'll make it but I couldn't get anywhere closer than about half a second behind and on such a short track, that's a lot of time.

Here is my setup

Ride Height

70 / 75

Springs

8.63 / 10.26

Dampers(C)

4 / 1

Dampers(E)

2 / 1

ARBs

7 / 7

Camber

2.9 / 2.8

Toe

-0.05 / 0.06

Racing Brakes

10 / 7

Transmission

Top set to 118

LSD

60 / 60 / 20

Stg 3 weight redux

Add power as necessary.

Easily beat the gold time once I added SRF

Tesla Roadster @ Tsubkba

Oddly enough, the easiest of the challenges this week came in the form of the Tesla Roadster at Tsukuba in the wet. The course proved to be much more forgiving than you might think. Try to drift through the turns a little and you'll find that you save time. I managed a 2 second improvement on Gold with this setup.

Ride Height

75 / 82

Springs

5.24 / 8.15

Dampers

3's across all four

ARBs

3s

Stock Camber and Toe

Racing brakes

8 / 7

Standard LSD

Full weight redux

15 downforce on the rear. 

Diablo @ Grand Valley

So I love Lamborghini, and my favorite car ever is the Diablo so guess who was excited about this challenge. Well I was, and then I saw that you needed to compete with HARD SPORTS TIRES!!!!!!!!!!

So just to put that in perspective, the XNR challenge at willow this week also uses this tire and is more than 100PP less than the Diablo, not to mention that the XNR has the power to break the tires loose. What were they thinking? The Diablo wants to kill you.. that's why we love it, that's why it's so much fun...but on sports hard tires???? It's essentially suicide. 

I had real trouble reigning in the devil and resorted to good friend and supporter Silver Dragon Tuning for their gear setup. While I found their suspension to be a little different from my preference, the transmission settings are bang on and really, they smoked my time by 2 seconds to good on them. 

My suspension settings were

Ride Height

F 60 / R 70

Springs

F 19.00 / R 20.41

Dampers(C)

F 6 /  R 5

Dampers (E)

F 5 / R 3

ARBs

F 5 / R 3

Camber

F 1.2 / R 0.3

Toe

F - 0. 20 / R 0.13

Transmission Settings

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Top speed was 186 mph for me.

LSD

5 / 5 / 20

Power

Stg 2 Engine

Racing Exhaust

Sports Cat

Max Downforce

Stg2 Weight redux

Ballast = 77Kg @ position -50

Plymouth XNR @ Willow

Willow is totally becoming the Tsukuba of GT6. In any case here was my winning strategy this week. 

Stock Suspension

Racing Brakes

set at

F 5 / R 2

Custom Transmission

set at

149MPH top speed

Triple plate clutch

Carbon Drive shaft

Intake tuning

Stg 1 Engine tuning

and thats it. This was good enough for more than a second faster than the GOLD time and and honestly you could do more and go much faster. I didn't want to change the suspension because part of this being a cool old car is the old suspension and the wacky handling. It was a good fun trial. 

Elise @ Brands Hatch

This weeks challenge at Brands Hatch was pretty easy really. Not a lot you can do to your Lotus race car to begin with and most adjustable parts are already on it so lets go to the Suspension setup.

Ride Height

F 50 / R 60

Springs

F 8.75 / R 8.72

Dampers (C)

F 4 / R 3

Dampers (E)

F 4 / R 2

ARBs

F 5  / R 4

Camber

0000000000s

Toe

F -0.08 / R 0.26

Transmission

Top Speed set to 

137Mph

LSD

Stock

Downforce

MAX

Brake Balance

F 9 / R 5

Added parts

Stg2 Engine tuning

Oil Change