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Originally Posted by justatroll
In fact a properly setup race car should be slightly biased towards understeer.
A car with just a little understeer is more predictable, easier to recover and requires a little less effort to drive, but it is a hotly debated topic and you will find many that say otherwise.
At the track I met a guy that races a stock BRZ and he is the fastest of almost any of the twins in the region. He said that almost every race the other twin drivers will come and ask him what mods he has to make him so fast. He tells them "Take all of that shit off your car and learn to drive it in the configuration that the engineers intended, THEN you can decide what the car needs."
The ONLY mods he had was an extra set of wheels with racing tires.
Here are a few good links:
http://safeisfast.com/sections/6-adv...g#.VqO2zBUrLIX |
I didn't feel the car was slightly biased to understeer off the showroom floor, I felt like it was a pig, eventually I adjusted it to slight understeer via front camber mods (est. About 3.2 degrees like another poster here) other than that it had street tires and decent Brake pads, loved the setup and could add enough front camber to have the front out grip the rear if desired, even with the way I like it I had two other drivers jump in and beat my time, my goal for this year is for that not to happen any more (or at least by a much smaller margin).
I fully agree with your buddy and that's a great way to get to know a racecar, but my time Racing I preferred the oversteer as it allowed me to turn down and pass without loosing as much speed as an understeering car, I was only fortunate to nail down a truly neutral setup once or twice and never got the hang of it. Anyway, Skill>parts
