*Now armed with potentially more rear grip I went to the -1.8 and this allowed me to again test the 2 clicks lower front ARB. I needed to be able to rely on the rear and subsequently be able plant the throttle as early as possible ideally before the apex but certainly mid corner and corner exit to take stress off the front tyres. It worked to an extent but the rear lost its planted feel and required constant adjustment of steering and throttle mid corner in fast turns. Next to improve front grip I lowered rear wing 1 click. I put that knowledge in my back pocket* as it meant that I could now do more to increase front grip as I had a tool to match it with rear grip. I tried that but the extra rear grip created understeer. My testing had shown that -1.8 offered more grip than -1.7. Lowering front ARB made it too "pointy" the oversteer was unmanageable. But as importantly more front grip and less sliding meant lower front temps and wear. My earlier testing had convinced me that -3.3 offered more mid corner front grip than the current -3.5. The technique option was to lift and get it pointed in more but I wanted to see if setup could help. (I can never help myself from wanting to fiddle and "make it my own").įirst task was to increase front grip to reduce the tyre melting understeer in that sector. So despite this setup being a lot faster than mine (appr 2.5 sec) I wanted to try to improve it even more. In the race front tyre wear was a concern and my tyres were getting nuked with high temps in the critical turn 5-6-7 section in sector 2. This was a surprise and when I checked the differences using the very handy "compare" facility in the garage menu the biggest difference was the "Roll Centre" setting. I was using a setup that I was given as my own was woefully slow. Most of my laps were +3 (appr mid 1:47) sec compared to the winners pace, I managed 1 lap that was +2 sec. We did a 45 min race (27 laps)on Thursday night. Ive just had a very interesting day playing with setup in the Formula Renault 3.5 at Malaysia using Motec and I wanted to share some of it. Setup, Motec and the beauty of the RF2 Tyre model.
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