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Just remember that mid-corner steady-state tuning is all about relative roll resistance across the front and rear axles, so changes in front roll stiffness relative to rear roll stiffness should move handling balance one direction or the other. Confusing, I know, but if you keep good notes it’ll always be easy to revert to your last best setup if the car starts to push even more mid-corner.

Generally speaking, mid-corner push is a unique animal that requires you doing the opposite of what you do to fix corner entry understeer or corner exit understeer, but if your car has excessive body roll then you may need to do the opposite of what we’ve listed as mid-corner adjustments. If your car has a fairly stiff setup and thus doesn’t have much body roll, then the suggestions above should work well, even though they seem counterintuitive. One caveat to the above recommendation for reducing mid-corner understeer. To each his/her own, so do some experimenting with extreme setups to see if you’re more of an understeer or oversteer driver. Personally, in FWD and AWD cars I like a bit of understeer, since I find oversteer in these types of cars to be pretty sudden and less intuitive to control, but with RWD cars I like a fairly loose setup since it lets me balance the car more with the throttle.

Just because your fastest friend likes a loose setup where the car rotates and oversteers early in the corners doesn’t mean that’s the right or fastest setup for you. Point being, set your car up to have the balance that inspires the most confidence in you as a driver.

#Beamng drive controller understeer Offline#

Plus a bit of understeer gives you a bit of safety if you overcook corner entry, since it’s safer to plow offline a bit than it is to oversteer off the track (and potentially back your car into a barrier in the process). That said, a touch of understeer can be a really fast setup, especially at big, fast road course like Mosport. Lets start with understeer, since nothing robs a car of cornering speed like this hideous invention of insurance companies and overly conservative car companies. In the more detailed story to come, which our buddy Andrew Wojtezcko from Auto Analyser and Mantella Autosport has graciously offered to help us with, we’ll give you all the theory and background information so that you’re not making these adjustments on blind faith, but rather based on a solid understanding of suspension fundamentals.

#Beamng drive controller understeer how to#

So we’ve attempted to distill what’s out there, combine it with our own racing experience and setup tinkering, and offer up these admittedly simplistic but hopefully still useful guidelines about how to reduce your car’s tendency to understeer (loss of front grip, which can result in fun-sucking front end plow) or oversteer (loss of rear grip, which can result in fun but time-consuming skids).

Some are quite good, some are confusing or share what we consider misinformation. It’s also worth mentioning that if you do a quick Google search on ‘Suspension Tuning Cheat Sheets’ you’ll find quite a lot of information that attempts to summarize the complex relationship between a car and its contact patches. We like the iPad app Laptimizer as a way of keeping notes on our car’s setups, but even just a notebook and a pen is a huge step in the right direction, as is owning a proper tire pressure gauge and tire pyrometer (but more on that in our in-depth nerdtastic suspension tuning story coming soon). It’s important to keep in mind, however, that not every car is going to react exactly the same to these changes due to differences in weight distribution, suspension design, and drivetrain configuration, so be sure to keep detailed notes on any setup changes you make and how they impact on your car’s balance on corner entry, mid-corner, and corner exit so that you can begin to build a better understanding of how it’s reacting to your driving style and the setup changes you’re making to it. We’ve been working on an in-depth story on chassis and suspension tuning that’ll cover a lot of complicated variables including optimizing tire grip, fixing suspension geometry, dialling in spring rates and sway bar rates as well as dealing with shock damping, but for those of you looking for a quick and easy set of guidelines for fixing a handling imbalance in your car’s setup at the race track (we’re talking road course setup here), this is for you.