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Originally Posted by PowderfaceTr.
One should be making identical setup changes to all cars on a per track basis. the cars have geometry to make them all neutral. if a track has a tight corner you could be compensating with tuning when you just have cornering problems, your looseness going in, you yourself could be making the rest of the corner a problem when in fact it really isn't. As a driver it's very easy to mislead yourself into believing how your car is reacting through a corner. Just let the computer do the work. Only after you have a neutral handling car entering the corner& through the middle do you attempt to work on adjustments.
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First off, these car are not configured "neutral" from the factory; they are setup to understeer (or at least mine was, the acceptable range for alignment could get more neutral on the margins of specs).
Secondly, I was talking about the line you drive a car on and how that varies between platforms. It is frankly unpractical for all but the most well outfitted of race teams to customize their car's configuration for every event. Beyond that, even with that level of customization you will still be seeing variation based upon inherent properties of the platform. Going back to my example of eating a berm, a heavy car is going to behave differently compared to a light car.
Thirdly, you seem to be making personal implications about my corner handling. You know nothing of me, my car, how I have set up my car nor how I handle corners. I am more than willing to admit that there are corners that I have issues on, but you have no idea what those issues are.
Fourth, if a driver has an issue balancing their car on a corner then yes, it is good for that driver to improve their technique before trying to fix that corner with the car. This is not the same, however, as the configuration of one car allow techniques (and using those techniques) that another car cannot achieve.
And lastly, "Just let the computer do the work." that is exactly the opposite of what you keep saying you do (that is, that you are so smooth that there is no VSC/TC interaction). I am going to make a strong statement here: if you are really doing that ("Just let the computer do the work.") then I honestly hope I never meet you at the race track. People who do that are usually a danger to themselves and those around them.