PCARS Season 5 Tips and Tricks

Remember meet and greet is scheduled for this sunday with R1 set to kick off on the 16th october, sunday week
Alright, here we are for another season! Meet and Greet just 4 days away, thought i should kick this thread off!
This can be a little hub to ask for help with what laptimes should each Div be aiming at, how can you find more laptime, Anti-Roll bar and Brake Bias suggestions, anything! Helps keep the Division threads cleaner, but also if you want information on pace for each track, you know right where to find it!
When the track list is released next week, i'll also be posting a commentated Hotlap video each week *With the hope that i'm competitive enough* to be able to maybe help a lower div driver find a handful of tenths. Thanks to everyone for the support last season on those, and also to those who private messaged me suggestions in the off season on how to make them more helpful in regards to brake markers and telemetry, i'll be taking all of that on board. Otherwise.... let's hope for some close racing!

Round 1. Circuit Du Bugatti


Round 2. Willow Springs

Thanks mate this is a great help. one thing I would like to know is how you tapped into our game and from what planet you are actually from.

By the way I hope the recovery is coming along well.

A slightly complicated and perhaps confusing requirement to do before competing this season. I made this video to hopefully clear up any confusion so we have a trouble free Meet & Greet and Round 1. Good luck all tomorrow!

Round 1. Circuit Du Buggati

Time set to 4:00 to replicate Qualifying.
Roll Bars Softened up front, stiffer at the rear.
Sorry if my Mic was a tad quiet, recorded at Midnight! Hope theres something to learn!
#NeverBackDown

awesome, found where im losing at least a second from that. thanks mate

anyone share their brake balance and sway bar settings?

I'm struggling to come to terms with this beast at the moment...

Alot are softening the rear of the car up to settle the rear down on mid-corner power delivery, but i personally have softened the front and gone stiffer at the rear. All comes down to driving style and preference, but what i'm saying is theres different ways to go about it so my best advice is experiment and dont be afraid to go into some crazy stiffness settings, my ARB's are pretty extreme....
Brake Bias at 56% to stop so much initial push when the weight settles on corner entry

I'm going to have a tinker with sway bars and brake biased tmrw but I've done it before so I won't have a magic setting yet haha

i've been playing too much F1, and this thing feels like steering a boat!

i know man, its quite difficult to get used to the car after a night on F1. lot more steering input, for a lot less actual steering!
need to focus on PCars until sunday, then F1 Monday to Thursday.

on the flipside, I've always had much better throttle control in pcars after a session on f1.. mind you the majority of my time is spent without any driving aids.. even steering becomes alot easier because everything seems to move alot slower lol

Round Two in the Twilight at the twisty Willow Springs Circuit!

Alot of this track is about feel, knowing how early you can get on the power and how late you can brake without any real reference points. It's tough and i'm not 100% comfortable yet so in the event i do find alot more time throughout the week, which is quite likely seeing as this has been a bogey track of mine in the past, i'll post a second non-commentated lap. But for now, here is a 1.13.91. Hope it helps!

All i did for round 1 was move the bias up to 59 about 2/3's in to the race. Never changed sway bars.

Would you be able to post some Sector times for me to chase? I've run some more laps today and i haven't found a single tenth. I don't feel like i have Turn 2 quite right, but i doubt i'm losing all my time there alone.
You were a missile around here in Meet & Greet so who knows, you could be chasing a third PCARS Div1 Podium or better this weekend Stu!