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akabei · Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2012 11:31 am Post subject:

nice find.
No it's not the same gears. Mansell doesn't even have to use first gear in Loews, so gear ratio isn't the same.

john4p · Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2012 11:53 am Post subject:

But you do use the default car settings and D tyres?

john4p · Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2012 12:29 pm Post subject:

Beat Senna:

Monaco: 1:19.830

akabei · Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2012 1:16 pm Post subject:

john4p · Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2012 1:36 pm Post subject:

Glad we're all on the same page. Well, 1:17 is definitely a very impressive time! Thumbs Up

Monaco: 1:19.276

john4p · Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2012 1:57 pm Post subject:

Monaco: 1:19.069

lifeschool · Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2012 3:36 pm Post subject:

Monaco: 1 :20.886

Small improvement.

akabei · Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2012 4:08 pm Post subject:

A few tipps about the gears in Monaco, though I seem to be the only person driving manual gears at the moment.
Sainte Devote is easy to master in 3rd gear, if you're breaking early enough. It's more important to be fast on the exit, than on the entrance of the corner, because a long full throttle uphill sector follows. The following Massenet is a 4th gear corner(around 10-11000rpm, so it might be hard to keep the car in fourth gear with auto shifting). After Casino, there's a sector with a lot of 1st gear corners, except Portier, which can be taken cautiously in 2nd. The entrance of the nouvelle(Harbour?) chicane is also 2nd gear, but only the entrance, 1st gear for the rest of the chicane. Tabac might work in fourth, but that's a little bit hairy. Corners 13,14,15,16 are all 3rd gear and the left turn before Rascasse, as well(Maybe 4th works too, but breaking into rascasse too hard isn't a good idea) and finally Anthony Noghes works in 2nd gear, if you hit it perfectly.

LinesMachine · Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2012 8:14 pm Post subject:

akabei · Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2012 5:05 am Post subject:

LinesMachine · Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2012 8:04 am Post subject:

LinesMachine · Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2012 8:13 am Post subject:

By the way, so far I haven't tried to go straight over the Nouvelle. From memory it doesn't "work" either by not allowing a completed lap time or just busting the car up....?

john4p · Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2012 12:02 pm Post subject:

Tried that once yesterday - there seemed to be an invisible wall...

Monaco: 1:18.477

john4p · Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2012 12:14 pm Post subject:

Just after making the above post had 4 tries at Imola - this time cutting the green thrice like lifeschool and got an improvement right with the first completed lap:

Imola: 1:13.756

The lap wasn't that great so significantly faster times are possible.

john4p · Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2012 12:22 pm Post subject:

This lap already went better:

1:12.408