Automation Airfield Power Lap Times

In what way? Like a modified LUA file? Yes. But only if it’s to change the shape.

If you mean community-made bodies, like Kubby’s Vivaro, then sure. :slight_smile:

I need to rethink my strategy, i’m getting 73.6’s (1:13.6) consistantly with a 1002hp N/A 427ci v8 front engine AWD sports coupe

Rennen Kusanagi R! An extreme hardcore version of the regular Rennen Kusanagi. I resized the picture so it’s not so in-your-face.


Is this even relevant? It’s just the car and stats. I’ll put it here anyways.

Also, it has a turbocharged 2.7 (2659 cc) DOHC 24 valve inline 6. If you need that information.

Dear Janekk,

Welp, took me long enough. I had to resort to voodoo magic to squeeze out those last few hundredths.

P.S. I am well aware that the not-Vivaro bodies house ultra ridiculously large wheels, and therefore have a huge advantage when it comes to tackling the leaderboard. While hilarious that I have in my possession a van that goes faster than ALL my super ultra sports race cars, I also find it vaguely wrong and unnatural and therefore I don’t wish to submit a van to this leaderboard!

Strop, what kind of power is that thing running?

About as much as you can squeeze out of a naturally aspirated engine in the large MR body. More horses than kilos, the way I like it :stuck_out_tongue:

Airfield is a unique challenge because more power doesn’t mean faster, because it’s technical and tight and doesn’t have long straights. There’s a lot of power coming out of corners (Hammerhead a case in point), so you need nice gradated power to get it down more effectively. That’s why, I think, NA engines have an advantage in this simulation, on this track.

I am happy to announce that neither of my entries use the van body. Therefore, I am not relying on huge 465 tyres.

EDIT: There should be a fastest road-legal entry too.

Ugh, Leo, really??? I was so pleased just to have passed Janekk’s old time, and now I realise you’ve gone and done that!? :stuck_out_tongue: It never ends…

[size=85]Also you should totally throw me a bone. How on earth did you manage to trim the time down that low? Are you using the MR body? Orrrrrr… are you using the not-corvette coupe body?[/size]

I will never reveal my secrets! (evil laughter) :smiling_imp:

[size=30]Actually both cars use the mid-engined supercar body[/size]

Alllllright then, its back to the garage we go!

Entering the 1:10.60 club with a few tweaks to my buffalo :slight_smile:


The motor is looking a little stressed now though.


a ha I see you too have cottoned onto the optimal aero setup for the Airfield. It really threw me for a loop, coz it’s like a Nissan Deltawing. Also, try running these cars on Nordschleife, and more often than not, one finds that they crash xD

That alone has significantly dampened my desire to continue pushing to the maximum limits for the track, though I was making decent headway on catching up. There just seems to be a little less point if I can’t translate these findings to other tracks, as I’m the kind of person who tunes a lot, yes, but find it really annoying to tune for every single track.

This did teach me a lot about how moving the wings on the car around affects the F/R balance of downforce. I may have gone a little overboard on it though.

edit as it’s currently setup the buffalo manages a decently respectable 7:1.65 on the ring but I see what you mean.


Why did you -15 the chassis quality? See what you get if you make it 0?

I’ll check it out tonight, I just finished throwing that together before work.

It costs me 2/10’s, might just be that my suspension is optimized for the -15 setting but I couldn’t find the extra time at a +0 setting.

Yeah, that’d be because the FR car like that has a balance of about 56/45 ish. The MR cars on the other hand have a ratio closer to 30/70, which, for a 1000kg car, means only about 300kg on the front, and going over a crest… I needn’t link to some of my favourite UFO (Unintentional Flying Object) videos :laughing: With better downforce spec on the front the MR cars are easily good for 6:52 (or better, I haven’t really looked into it all that much), and the F-AWD cars can manage a 6:53 too, depending on the body.

Interesting that your car doesn’t do better with CF quality 0, that’s the lightest setting with medium rigidity. Normally upping the quality ups rigidity which improves sport feel but actually generally makes the time worse, though again, haven’t properly looked into that! Should do a comparative tune sometime because you’d think better chassis rigidity = better road holding… or does it…

For clarification, the record-setting Helldiver R does not use the van body.

Wow! :open_mouth: that’s like in a new class of time! Clearly either there was a paradigm shift or you’re using a different body entirely!

Definitely not sure how you did that, nor whether I can match that in the remaining time for this current build (probably not). It kind of does make me curious as to how fast you can make the van go :stuck_out_tongue:

Heck, I’m just happy to eke out 10th (currently) on the Production leaderboard. :laughing: