This is something ive already raised with the Piston Broke Racing guys, but i wondered if anyone else had any insights into making these things go quick. In the last race i became totally exasperated when i was over 4 seconds off the division 2 pace (and i run quite successfully in meny other leagues so i knew it was not just me :schwitz

So far in 2 rounds i have established:

- The car is light on feul, a 50% full tank is not needed, about 0.5% a lap is just fine

- Hybrid tyres are better than Normal Road tyres

- The car needs to be shifted up a gear at about 6-7000 RPM instead of 9-10000 which is where my ear thinks it should

- The default setup is not a good start at all.

However any other 'key info' would be greatly recived.

Also a final point, Dyno was good enough to send me his setup in Quali. However when i checked the garage it was not there to be selected? where to sent setups go?

Quote from Dr_Duck :

This is something ive already raised with the Piston Broke Racing guys, but i wondered if anyone else had any insights into making these things go quick. In the last race i became totally exasperated when i was over 4 seconds off the division 2 pace (and i run quite successfully in meny other leagues so i knew it was not just me :schwitz

So far in 2 rounds i have established:

- The car is light on feul, a 50% full tank is not needed, about 0.5% a lap is just fine

- Hybrid tyres are better than Normal Road tyres

- The car needs to be shifted up a gear at about 6-7000 RPM instead of 9-10000 which is where my ear thinks it should

- The default setup is not a good start at all.

However any other 'key info' would be greatly recived.

Also a final point, Dyno was good enough to send me his setup in Quali. However when i checked the garage it was not there to be selected? where to sent setups go?

Question. Did you save his set up and name it?? if you did it will be in your garage...or should be that is..

Regarding UF1's only thing i can say is, keep the momentum and revs up and as high as possible, dont run the widest lines all the time as the car is not fast enuff to cover the extra ground...... most important point is also not to 'over brake' if you are a little fast in, scrub the speed off with tyre turn rather than braking...

HTH,

Dru.

Also i take it you have engine cut off??

to expand on Niko: to save the setups press N to bring up the name (connections) list then press the green S next to the person's name.

The best way to be fast in a UF1 is momentum. Keep that up and have confidence in the car. Also you have to be very consistant.

I've always said it's an easy car to drive, but very difficult to drive fast. Practice is the best way of doing it. You might think you're confident in the car with speeds on corners, but you can always go quicker.

My tip is to download the quickest set for that track from the Setupfield (http://setupfield.teaminferno.hu). Then do some laps, say 15. Then download the WR lap and go through it corner by corner. Then do some more laps. Look at the WR lap again. And keep doing that until you're happy. For me, 1 second off the WR is a good lap at most of the tracks we visit this season, so aim for that.

Oh, and remember to be smooth, that's the single most important thing with the UF1 IMO

Quote from mr_x :

to expand on Niko: to save the setups press N to bring up the name (connections) list then press the green S next to the person's name.

The best way to be fast in a UF1 is momentum. Keep that up and have confidence in the car. Also you have to be very consistant.

I've always said it's an easy car to drive, but very difficult to drive fast. Practice is the best way of doing it. You might think you're confident in the car with speeds on corners, but you can always go quicker.

60 seconds too slow Chris..... a bit like your lap times mate

Quote from Dru :

60 seconds too slow Chris..... a bit like your lap times mate

ooo cheap shot. You know that on my day I can be as quick as Pecker is

If it wasn't for personal problems then I'm sure I'd be right up there!

/me hopes for a season 2

To me the uf1 is focussing 100% on driving technique. I always make sure I use 100% of my tires' ability to brake, turn, accelerate or any mix of those. Because it's such a slow car, every small mistake you make or every percent you don't use of the tires' ability will cost you a lot.
I haven't seen you drive, but i'll give you some tips.
If you run onto the grass on the corner exit, this means you've started your corner arc too early, so choose a later turn in point. Don't forget if you take a later turn in point, the beginning of your corner arc can be smaller then the rest of the arc (in simple words, go slower in the first half of the corner, but you'll be faster outof the second part). If you do this you can easily be on 75% throttle at the time you reach the apex. Don't forget you want to accelerate out of corners, so you can't use 100% of available grip to corner. Just use 90% to corner, and 10% for acceleration (play with these values as you like).
You could use this advice for every corner, but you have to decide on which corners exit speed is more important (a corner leading to a long straight for example). A corner where there's a corner immediatly behind it doesnt require a high priority on exit speed but more on entering speed and scrubbing speed off until you reach the apex ( in other words, here you can use 100% of your tires to corner)

Anyhow, I know this is a little bit dense material, but it kinda does specify driving on the limit for every part of the corner.
If you'd like to read about a tires' ability to corner, google for tire friction circle to see the theory behind this.

Quote from Dru :

Also i take it you have engine cut off??

As a noob, practicing with the UF1000, I noticed this thread and read it, because I am interested in tips on how to drive this car.
Because english is not my native language I don't understand this term.
What is meant by "...have engine cut off.."

Don´t lift all the gas pedal at the corners. If you do you will probably drift, loosing all the speed. Maintain some of the gas while you brake to keep the momentum.

Quote from Ton van Rijn :

As a noob, practicing with the UF1000, I noticed this thread and read it, because I am interested in tips on how to drive this car.
Because english is not my native language I don't understand this term.
What is meant by "...have engine cut off.."

dutch:
"Engine cut" is een kleine pauze in gaspedaal percentage wanneer je schakelt omdat er anders een te groot verschil onstaat van de engine rpm's en transmissie rpm.
English:
Throttle cut is a small pause in throttle preventing a big gap between in engine's rpm and the input shaft rpm.

@totx
I usually lift of the throttle pedal to get some more turn in on the first part of the corner, but it depends on the setup offcourse (and i like some more oversteer on the corner entry).

dr duck if you wanna meet up online at some point so we can do some follow my leader stuff then thats cool

Thanks for the help: I tried the team infoerno setup immediatly after the race and found i was 2 seconds faster (hence i questioned my tyres).

I have also been straight shifting without needing to blip the throttle but i will look at the engine cut off option.

The rest of it im sure will come with practice as the season progresses, unfortunatly thursday pretty much has to be my only LFS night due to a busy schedule over the next few weeks

Hopefully a bit faster next time out

I wouldn't really recommend disabling throttle blip as it causes engine braking. If you think you need more braking, then you should turn up the braking force.