How do u drive a tight car???

[RaCeRKiD5]

I have tried so many different things, but I just cannot drive a tight car, a loose handling car fits me perfectly but over the long run it gets tighter, i dont want any loose setups or anything i just want to know how to drive tight cars over the course of a long run...

 

[amidst tundra]

I too have the same problem in that I find it hard to match the ai to my ability. Too high and I run with them early but once I start tightening up I get wrecked or fall way of the pace (like getting lapped from being a leader in a matter of laps), too low I run away from the field and the tightening condition doesn't even it up enough to make the racing particularly exciting. Its part tire management, part throttle control as to how you drive a tight car, you may have to alter your line, I tend to run low early (depending on the track) until I start tightening up where I will try and fall into corners... my real issue is that if I have someone on the inside or the outside of me I have to get right out of the throttle to avoid collecting them resulting in me often loosing several positions or getting wrecked from behind.

I also find myself feathering the throttle the tighter I get, my real problem is I run a controller, not a wheel, I think a wheel would make battling a tight condition a lot easier. Sometimes you may have to alter the ai's tire wear in the ini to try and match them up with you, because there are certain tracks where my tires fall away at an incredibly unrealistic rate ( like within 5 laps) and the ai run seconds faster than me within laps and maintain that pace for 30+ laps.

 

[MillsLayne]

Are you going so fast for a few laps that you're burning up your tires?

 

[Corey Carpenter]

Yeah running anything other than a wheel will make a car feel tight.
If you are running a wheel and still get tight then back up the corners even early in the run.

 

[ValvolineMan]

You have to be pretty loose in the beginning if you don't want to be really tight after a while. Otherwise you'll cook the tires. You can't just be tight and have good tire wear.

 

[MillsLayne]

Yeah running anything other than a wheel will make a car feel tight.
If you are running a wheel and still get tight then back up the corners even early in the run.

I'll be honest, I run with an XBox 360 controller and I don't have this issue. I'm sure using a wheel is better, but if you calibrate the controller correctly, it shouldn't cause all setups to feel tight.

 

[Julio Chang]

Like Mills I also use a 360 controller. I'd love a wheel, but its just simply not in the budget right now. Backing up the corners definitely helps. It also depends on the track. For me my tires are fine a lot of places, but I tend to cook them at the flat tracks. I've learned that for me, as long as I'm fast enough to hang with the leaders, I just hang around in the top 5 and run a similar line to the leaders, and when it gets closer to the end then I start to make my moves and that usually allows me to save my tires until the end and then go win the race. It also depends on your driving style. There are a lot of factors. There are people on here that have been doing this far longer and are far better than me to take advice from, but that's just what I do.

 

[RaCeRKiD5]

Thanks guys for all the feedback, the only problem is i use keyboard.....

 

[RaCeRKiD5]

yeah i would run at sometracks abot 5 seconds in front of the leader then i would basically hit a wall 30 laps in and fall behind and eventually wreck, another thing is, i use a keyboard..

 

[MillsLayne]

If I were you, I would invest in some kind of controller. It will make the experience that much more fun.

 

[amidst tundra]

I do race my tires too hard, although I have definately gotten better. Part of it is having the ai set too high, I try too hard to keep up with them that I kill my tires early and fall away. But definately buy a controller, mine cost me $20 and it saved the game. You have no touch or feel in the keyboard, I'd have to run most tracks at about 87% to be any way competitive on my keyboard I run most tracks between 92-95% on my controller and when I did have a wheel I could run mid pack at 97%.

 

[ongias25]

I will try to get down to the apron line and that will help the car turn but if you go too far you will spinout,so it takes alot of practice........then the first pit stop chance I get I will adjust wedge or trackbar accordingly.Also at some tracks you can run the top groove and that works too.

 

[whirlwind]

If I am tight, I get out of the gas early on the straights and getting into the corners, roll the center and gently apply gas until about 3/4 the way thru corner...then full throttle coming off.

You will be slow going into the corner, but fast coming out of corner.....if you over drive the turns, your tires will be toast.

 

[SkyWalker]

like this

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[J.W.]

<-----Guilty of burning his tires up early in a run.




For me, worse than fighting a tight car is fighting one that is way loose, especially on exit. Nothing worse than not being able to get on the throttle on exit. This seems to be a common issue for me. I sometimes wonder if its my controller settings, driving style or jsut the setup.

 

[RaCeRKiD5]

Thanks guys for all your feedback its realy helpful!