Originally Posted by
zeakemedia
Had a guy drive my car and he hated it. My car is set up to drive the way I want it to drive. I have been making the same lap times for a couple months and I have accepted that is my speed for now. Once you get to a certain point in driving ability tenths of a seconds can be hard to come by. And since I can't go during the week to practice early on race day before it gets crowded I try one or two things to see how it changes my times. I do it this way because I really think my set-up is close to the way I want it. Two weeks ago it was springs and tires, this week was rear wings, next week will be rear toe. Once people start to show up I do few, if any, changes and just drive it.
I know i said this earlier... and what im about to say goes back on the 'trying one thing at a time' method. But dont forget that one change will alter the effect of another.
Just changing rear springs will not show you what changing rear springs AND rear toe at the same time would. In your head you gotta combine a setups needs with available traction and type of track. If youre on a small smooth track with gobs of grip... you can reduce rear toe and go stiffer on rear spring together (generalized). Just reducing the rear toe may make the car wash out on power... where the stiffer rear spring could have helped by reducing rear weight transfer (generalized... directly connected with inner shock/roll center choices too).
Learning each adjustment separately... allows you to mentally combine them and form a great compromise on the track. The rest is just wheelin it...