Nascar Oval Setup

[Harding Jr]

This is a very useful Nascar (oval) set up guide in really deep detail, originally for NR2003, but the core concepts are off real life and are reflected in sim's.

www.racelinecentral.com/RacingSetupGuide.html

I would post whole guide but I would have to spread it out over several posts.

[DaveO]

Great guide Harding!! I'm probably opening up a can of worms here but for me personally setting up a car for ovals versus RC is slightly different. Especially for NH..

[BurnOut]

Well as far as I know, things like wedge and positive camber have very limited use in road course setups (if any at all), so IMO its quite different to set up a car for oval than to fit a road course.

Thats not even getting into downforce or gear ratios, which also are way more easy to set up for ovals.

[DaveO]

Sept 1, 2009 15:11:10 GMT 2 BurnOut said:

Well as far as I know, things like wedge and positive camber have very limited use in road course setups (if any at all), so IMO its quite different to set up a car for oval than to fit a road course.

Thats not even getting into downforce or gear ratios, which also are way more easy to set up for ovals.

You are 100 percent correct it IS a major difference in setting up a car for RC versus ovals. I should of used a better choice of words in my other post.

[Deleted]

Sept 1, 2009 15:11:10 GMT 2 BurnOut said:

Well as far as I know, things like wedge and positive camber have very limited use in road course setups (if any at all), so IMO its quite different to set up a car for oval than to fit a road course.

Thats not even getting into downforce or gear ratios, which also are way more easy to set up for ovals.

Not as easy as youd think because on roadies its all speed gears and on Ovals you have to make the fuel runs. Theres usually two windows... you have to practice which 1 is faster slower and if you can make it without compromising too much out of the draft.

[DaveO]

Sept 1, 2009 23:15:37 GMT 2 @bmxtwins said:

Sept 1, 2009 15:11:10 GMT 2 BurnOut said:

Well as far as I know, things like wedge and positive camber have very limited use in road course setups (if any at all), so IMO its quite different to set up a car for oval than to fit a road course.

Thats not even getting into downforce or gear ratios, which also are way more easy to set up for ovals.

Not as easy as youd think because on roadies its all speed gears and on Ovals you have to make the fuel runs. Theres usually two windows... you have to practice which 1 is faster slower and if you can make it without compromising too much out of the draft.

BMX, your talking about pitt strategy. Where on ovals depending on the race length, you consider using fuel gears vs speed gears.

Heck you can even use speed gears or fuel gears on RC's. depending on what you wanted to do.

Now your talking about a completely different thing.

We were talking about gear ratios. Where in a typical Nascar mod you race with 4 gears, and on Road Course mod we race with 6 gears, and the Gear ratios are defiantly different.

BTW: Burnout is right it's easier to setup, Oval gears vs Road Course gears. IMHO.. Or maybe that's just my opinion because I've been racing a very long time... LOL Sorry kiddo.

[Harding Jr]

I agree setting up gears on ovals is quite easy compared to Roadcourse. In just time as well, as on Road course you have to go into each corner and watch the rev's make sure its not bogging down all the while thinking if you should click 3rd gear up .05 to give better power through a sweeper and risk bogging down out of another corner, in most cases stil learning the track at the same time and have an ill handling car that still has oversteer/understeer and usually don't have much knowledge of the track. In ovals, well your driving straight turning left, your going fast or your not.

But one thing for sure is knowing the little secrets that give you the slight advantage at ovals.