How do you change brake settings or wing settings during play? During a pit stop? The engineer tells you to do it while you are driving, but I have no clue how to do it, please help!
Rambo McQueen
Rambo McQueen
How do you change brake settings or wing settings during play? During a pit stop? The engineer tells you to do it while you are driving, but I have no clue how to do it, please help!
Rambo McQueen
There should be an option to call wing adjustment while in pits - real team is adjusting front wing, I can remember Webber in British GP this year when he said on radio: "I think we should increase front wing a bit". I don't know if they included this to game. During driving this year we can't do this, that's right.
From Steve's Hood informations, Brake Bias will be in patch later.
But in return, we get full reign to change setup between qualifying and the race, whereas the actual cars are limited in what they can do, even after a change of climatic conditions. At least it wasn't in 2010, and while I've heard plenty about Parc Ferme in relation to cut-scenes, I've not seen any mention of the rule.
I hope we are not able to adapt settings between Q and R sessions without getting a grid penalty. Can someone confirm/deny if it's in the game?
I don't know about the game, but the official FIA regulations are not that strict. While the cars are in parc ferme some adjustments can be done on the wings, tyre pressure, bleeding of brake fluid, etc. In the case of change of climatic conditions (wet to dry or viceversa) further changes can be made.
IMHO, I doubt many people (players) could exploit any advantage from being able to fiddle with the settings between Q and R, implementing the regulations seems like an awful lot of complication, especially since the setup is so simplified.
IRL this season the gear ratios have been a major tactical decision for the teams. Full use of DRS and a light fuel load during qualifying compared to limited DRS and heavier fuel loads in the race means that, because gear ratios can't be changed in parc ferme, the teams have to choose between a qualifying setup, race setup or a mix that doesn't quite get the best out of the car in both situations. We've seen countless cars hitting the rev limiter on long straights in quali or when using DRS in the race (hence Hamilton struggled to get past Schumacher at Monza)
If the game ignores parc ferme rules and we can change gear ratios between quali and the race, it takes away an important strategic decision that I would enjoy having to make.