It depends where and why a car is doing something. I suggest that you DON'T follow the usual guidelines - e.g. do the fronts lock up on braking? Questions - educate the driver? Too much front brake bias? Is it hitting the bump stops and needs more ride height (or maybe needs a stiffer spring)? etc. Some things you can do by feel and common sense. Does F12002 have a telemetry bit? Use that to see how your car is behaving and make decisions based on that.

I honestly don't think there are absolutes in the setup game. There are plenty of places around where you could get some really good and specific advice - such as Race Sim Central. We are not really talking about F1 car setup here, but game setup.

I aprecciate that driver preference and circuit considerations play their part and there's plenty of other setup options but it seems these are the fundamentals so I would like to get a handle on these first. In kPA tha reads about 156/130 but the stock setups in the game are always around 135 front and 130 rear. Something I read said that in psi around 23-24 for the front and 19-20 at the rear. Tires? in the game they go from 90 - 195 kPA, I guess psi is the common units though. The mid point for the rear bar is 90 k/mm (50-130) increments of 10 The mid point for the front bar is 200 k/mm (100-300) increments of 10 The mid point for the springs is 175 k/mm Then downforce, do you have less at the front than the rear? The range is 0 - 50 front and rear I understand that the front should be stiffer than the rear so that under braking the rear gives up it's load slower and helps with traction on the exit, but how big should the difference be? To go into more detail, take the spring rate, in the game it goes from 100 - 250 k/mm in increments of 5 both front and rear. I've got the EA F12002 game which has all the setup options I could ever want, but how generally is an F! car setup?

Hi, I'm trying to understand a bit about F1car setup.

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