Traction on corner exit

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Like many other drivers out there, I have been really struggling with traction on corner exits. The AI seems to catapult off the corner and I just can't keep up. At Imola, I found this extremely difficult on the final chicane. I find that I am too heavy-footed, and can't quite find the sweet spot. So much so that I had to run Imola at 70% AI and full TC just to keep up, even then I was well off my teammate was a good 6 tenths a lap quicker if not more.

To help with this, I went into the wheel settings and increased my throttle linearity from 0% way up to 40% and put TC to medium, and increased the AI to 80%. Upon changing these settings and going into a qual session in Imola I was immediately quicker, I stayed very close to the Redbull ghost car even out of traction zones and qualified P3. I would say that I am a second too quick so need to put the AI back to 90% which is what I was at in F1 2021 (TC at Med).

Obviously, I am heavy-footed, and can't quite find the sweet spot on these new cars out of the corners but the 40% setting seems to have helped A LOT.

Please let me know your feedback if this works for you or the reason why you shouldn't do this.

chinook · Answer

@SE_FULCON-ARROW I come from other racing sims like iRacing, where cars like the Mercedes-AMG W12 E Performance don't have any traction control, and I've spent a lot of time learning how the pedal works, so I don't want to enable traction control. But I have found great pleasure in adjusting the linearity of my acceleration pedal in F1 22 because it's better to adjust it to a point you are more familiar with it, and start refining your skill than to start from scratch. So kudos for bringing up the solution to the snap oversteer problem, but I would urge you to give it a go without traction control for a more satisfying experience in the end 🙂

philalary · Answer

@SE_FULCON-ARROW Hi. Personally I set throttle linearity to 25 (above and you will be slower but it depends on your driving style). The following may help :
- reducing the on throttle diff
- short shifting to 4th gear
- adding rear wing and softening the rear suspension
- lowering the rear tyre pressure
I hope this helps you

cheesusdeepdish · Answer

I just ended up putting medium TC to get away from the frustration with the twitchy throttle. I might have to bump up the throttle linearity much higher... been running at around 10-20% I think.

I really wish Codemasters would add throttle linearity in the setup section. It's something the teams have access to when setting up their cars and it's something that can be very useful to change from circuit to circuit.

pointgrinder · Answer

I had tried iRacing with the Mercedes. I could NOT spin at 3rd gear.We all agree iRacing is a sim that worked hand-in-hand with Mercedes.&nbsp;

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