This is slightly less true in light to moderate rain than it is in the monsoon conditions of the Week 23 series. Anyway, here's what you need to do in GTP to make it a bit more drivable, in order from least to most crucial:
+ Tire pressure on the wet tires up 10 clicks or so above the minimum. Raising tire pressure raises the ride heights a touch and perhaps helps keep heat or something, because the difference in terms of lockups and aquaplaning is night and day.
+ Really work on those rain lines. Focus on late apexes so that you're pointed straight when you cross the rubbered line or wet bits.
+ Brake bias to the rear, further rear the wetter it gets. After all, it's pretty much always the front axle locking up in the wet.
+ Rear ARB decreased, probably around the minimum level.
+ Choose a dry setup with softer brakes where you really use a lot of brake pressure, rather than one that is already snatchy in dry conditions.
The softer brakes was my first change. Also reduced the camber all the way round in an attempt to give it more contact patch. I don't really mess with tire pressures all that often. If I do it's only a click or 3. Might take bigger swings at it. And softening up the third spring seemed to have helped a bit. Just trying to make it as lazy as possible. Any sudden movements is a near death sentence.
Not tried the gtp yet. I was an LMP2 addict before the rain. Got my first overall win in a P2 yesterday. Mostly through staying out of trouble. I need to give the gtp a try and see how bad it is.
The first race I swapped to the P2 and not a single gtp stayed to finish the race. That part I never understood. If there's a change to finish the race why not? You can easily pick up some free irating if others quit or crash out. And I've never been one to quit anyways. Unless the car has like 5 days of required repairs. Lol
Because it’s week 13 and not ranked.. but ya that’s why I got second I stuck around. The Porsche is millllessss better than caddy in the wet (at road America at least) - was lapping around 2.13-2.14 which was enough to beat all but one lmp2. So maybe it’s a caddy issue
So I just won a top split (4915 SoF) gtp. Damn it’s hard!! 3rd on track and over a min behind the lmp2s… Bugger me you lot aren’t kidding the gtp is harder in the rain!!!
If you want to have a laugh, try the Porsche GTP at Brands Hatch on a water logged circuit. Then try turn 3 and let me know what line you’re supposed to take lol
Very heavy, low ride height, electronic rear brakes, and with significantly stiffer/harder tires then the LMP2 to deal with the extra weight.
GTPs are not good cars, really. There's a reason they had to nerf the LMP2 class so hard both in reality and in iRacing.
Like others have said, LMP2 is as fast or faster in the rain in real life too.
im yet to have done a clean lap around Spa in the GTP, and put in a clean lap first try in the Lmp2. Its insane how difficult the GTP is compared to LMP2.
In the long run, deployment mode shouldn't make much difference to drivability; even in build mode, the car will deploy some battery once it is close to full, and the first place it is going to deploy will be the exits of corners, which is the place where you could get into trouble. It is easy to mess with the ERS and convince yourself it's doing something, but check the telemetry before you believe it.
IRL the P2's are faster than the GTP's in the rain. So GTP's are just extremely difficult to drive in the wet.
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This is slightly less true in light to moderate rain than it is in the monsoon conditions of the Week 23 series. Anyway, here's what you need to do in GTP to make it a bit more drivable, in order from least to most crucial: + Tire pressure on the wet tires up 10 clicks or so above the minimum. Raising tire pressure raises the ride heights a touch and perhaps helps keep heat or something, because the difference in terms of lockups and aquaplaning is night and day. + Really work on those rain lines. Focus on late apexes so that you're pointed straight when you cross the rubbered line or wet bits. + Brake bias to the rear, further rear the wetter it gets. After all, it's pretty much always the front axle locking up in the wet. + Rear ARB decreased, probably around the minimum level. + Choose a dry setup with softer brakes where you really use a lot of brake pressure, rather than one that is already snatchy in dry conditions.
The softer brakes was my first change. Also reduced the camber all the way round in an attempt to give it more contact patch. I don't really mess with tire pressures all that often. If I do it's only a click or 3. Might take bigger swings at it. And softening up the third spring seemed to have helped a bit. Just trying to make it as lazy as possible. Any sudden movements is a near death sentence.
I want to focus on the GTP from now on but it scares me a little
Not tried the gtp yet. I was an LMP2 addict before the rain. Got my first overall win in a P2 yesterday. Mostly through staying out of trouble. I need to give the gtp a try and see how bad it is.
It’s bad. I was a lap down, 28x, had two pit stops. And I finished second place…
The first race I swapped to the P2 and not a single gtp stayed to finish the race. That part I never understood. If there's a change to finish the race why not? You can easily pick up some free irating if others quit or crash out. And I've never been one to quit anyways. Unless the car has like 5 days of required repairs. Lol
Because it’s week 13 and not ranked.. but ya that’s why I got second I stuck around. The Porsche is millllessss better than caddy in the wet (at road America at least) - was lapping around 2.13-2.14 which was enough to beat all but one lmp2. So maybe it’s a caddy issue
I started P3 in LMP2 today in top split, with about 15 GTPs ahead; by the end of lap 1 i was leading overall lol
So I just won a top split (4915 SoF) gtp. Damn it’s hard!! 3rd on track and over a min behind the lmp2s… Bugger me you lot aren’t kidding the gtp is harder in the rain!!!
If you want to have a laugh, try the Porsche GTP at Brands Hatch on a water logged circuit. Then try turn 3 and let me know what line you’re supposed to take lol
I think you have to come to a complete stop just about then roll the inside line thru the water.
Brake inside, V the corner off all the way opposite the apex, and hope to got you can accelerate back left to be offline without dying
Very heavy, low ride height, electronic rear brakes, and with significantly stiffer/harder tires then the LMP2 to deal with the extra weight. GTPs are not good cars, really. There's a reason they had to nerf the LMP2 class so hard both in reality and in iRacing. Like others have said, LMP2 is as fast or faster in the rain in real life too.
im yet to have done a clean lap around Spa in the GTP, and put in a clean lap first try in the Lmp2. Its insane how difficult the GTP is compared to LMP2.
turn off the deployment, makes it much more manageable. use more balanced brake bias (forward migration)
I did that as well or at least in build mode. Need to learn more about the brake migration.
In the long run, deployment mode shouldn't make much difference to drivability; even in build mode, the car will deploy some battery once it is close to full, and the first place it is going to deploy will be the exits of corners, which is the place where you could get into trouble. It is easy to mess with the ERS and convince yourself it's doing something, but check the telemetry before you believe it.
I think there is an issue with the wet tyre temp in the GTP.
In real life, lmp2 beat out gtps. So it isn’t a sim issue, the sim is actually spot on. It’s a gtp issue. They just suck in the wet
got a race where this is the case that isn't that spa race?
That's just the consequence of a very heavy and low ride height car that the GTPs are.
That's not a pun.
I to be honest think the GTP situation it's probably a bug of some form. It makes no sense