Set brake bias to ~65%, that will also work with a more conservative way of braking.

LOL, thats one of the things I learned from your Darlington set, ran it at 63% bias for the race. Couldn't risk an accidental spin going into 3 and 4.

last week a ran volker set no adjustments and won! tonight im gonna do the same, ive been runnin 5 yrs and these sets are sweet to me thats my opinion, to me once i feel how the car handles these sets work nice ,real nice,,, ill be runnin at www.grassrootsracin.com im the #23 car peek tonight live upper left hand side of page go volk! keep up the good work!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nice Setup for Darlington! Others were faster in the beginning, but on the long run when it counted, Your Setup was still there.

Thanks!

Well, VH, I have been using your setups lately and I can't thank you enough! Most of these setups that people make are way too loose. Yours ROCK!! My first two races with your setups were Atlanta and Darlington in our league. I placed 2nd at Atlanta (was faster than first, just couldn't get around him during last 10-lap shootout after a restart) and I won at Darlington!

I have 17 month-old triplets, so I don't get much time to set a car up. Plus, N2K3 has me all screwed up anyway as to a logical approach to setting up a car. I seem to have lost the ability to do it well. I am able to drive your setups right out of the box. I can't get near your q times, but I got a lot better than I could get with my own efforts.


Once again, much obliged, sir!

Great.... Nick found your setup's! Nick, Volk is one of the reasons for my vast improvement over the last 6 months. Now I got out drive you!

Hey Volker, I am curious about this. From which setup did your setup derive from, did you copy it from another track or did you alter the expert setup or did you built it from scratch.

Well, my approach here was using my (i.e. your) Rockingham setup for my first Nascar 2003 visit here about 3 month ago. Now coming back to Darlington and doing the obligatory check on your setup here, I saw that our setups were basically identical except for the front weight bias which was way lower on mine (I had to find it out the hard way in my first race that it was way too low, hehe, so I immediately took your front weight setting, hehe).

So did you also use your Rockingham setup as a template? I was just stunned when I compared them, so I have to ask.

Thanks for thje info, and thanks for sharing!

All of my setups based on each other somehow, I never start with the expert setup or anything like that.

You're right about Darlington, I started with my setup for NC because the turns are very similar and because the car gets extremely loose when the tires wear on both tracks.

Thought so, thanks!

Hi Volker,
after how many laps your rf tire go yellow?

I don't remember...John?

me?

in all seriousness, i don't remember.. sorry.. after wacking the Turn 4 wall i had a bit of tire rub from the RF fender so i bet that didn't help

plus, at Darlington and The Rock i consider myself a late charger not a best-i-can-get-every-lap kinda runner..

hold on, i do that every race

Is there a place for D/L Darlington CTS setup good as yours cup one?

Thansk alot
Zdenek

Hi Volker
Thanks for your sets they are very good, very nice work. I have a race
coming up in 2 days with the weather set at Cloudy 91 degrees wind SW 9 mph
I was wondering what would be the best way to adjust the set for that?
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks

Keep up the good work mate : )

Cheers

Shads

That's hard, Darlington is very special and I haven't been there for a while...
Well, I'd start with the clear 70°F setup and try the following changes:

Qual trim:
Drop diff ratio to 3.800:1.

Race trim:
Drop diff ratio to 3.800:1 and reduce tape to 40 or 45%, you need to check that yourself. I don't think that you have to change front bias or any other handling-related settings.
Furthermore, you might want to tweak the gearing, you need a gear like 6.5:1 for good restarts.

UPDATE
I just found setups for cloudy weather on my hard disk and uploaded them.

It seems to me the setup is too tight for Darlington. It should be looser at the start as the track tightens setups with tire wear.

I loosened it up too, BUT: Darlington loosens up with worn tires, speciall exit T4 can get hairy with a loose car. Depending on how you drive, it is not wise to loosen it up too much.
You can try putting the weight one click to the front and loosen it up by other measures like reducing lf spring or adding rebound. I usually add quite a bit of wedge.