Thanks for your answer Klaus. I started to doing my own setups only recently and I have not managed to figure out how gears ratio are functioning.
No problem
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Hm, I though we had an english setup tutorial anywhere, but it seems I was wrong...
Gears ratio are quite easy. I guess you mean the gearbox, not the differential
. The gear ratio will influence the speed you drive in a special gear. There are 3 main aspects of gear ratio:
1. The value of your highest enabled gear (gear 6 or 7) will determine you top speed. If the value is too high you won't get most out of the car. If the value is too low, you will get into the rev limiter on the straights. Values vary between 50 for Monaco and 64 for old Hockenheimring.
2. The value of the 1st gear is very important for throttling out of slow corners and for a good start. A value of around 20 is best in most of the tracks.
3. The values for gears 2 to 6 will determine your acceleration from lowest up to top speed. Standard gap between these gears are 6 clicks.
How to get a good gear ratio:
- First you need the right wing settings. Making a good gear ratio has got no effect, if you will change your rear wing after that
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- Now use the longest straight of the track to get the value for the highest gear. If the rev limiter (might be visible on the steering wheel) engages to early on the straight you have to increase the gear ratio for 6th/7th gear. For qualy it is okay, if the rev limiter is turning on on the straight for about 2 seconds. For the race, you'll need more room for overtaking.
- If you have the highest gear ratio, place the rest of the values at the same time: each gear could be gapped 6 clicks to the next one.
That's it! Experienced driver do often not need more that one lap to make a good gear ratio.
One more thing: Sometimes you'll have to make bigger gaps between the gears, e.g. to avoid that you have to change a gear within a very fast corner. Changing gears within fast corners can lead to very dangerous car behaviour, so try to avoid it. Barcelona's old New Holland was such a turn
. It could also be nessecary to increase gear ratio's gaps to avoid too much wheel spin in the wet.