marshmallow?

well done. after spenting some more time thinking about my setup and the tire issue i made some changes on my setup to improve handling and cornering speed on cold tires. on the gt3 tires i got very small improvements and disappointed by that, i decided to switch to the michelin gt tires. i went back to my former 24 h setup but i kept some of the gt3 setup parameters. for the first test laps i startet on med front and hard rear tires for track temperatures of about 27 degree celcius. surprisly, the car was quite fast, i got close to the 8 minutes with 8:03. adapting the tire pressure to the cold environment (compared to med/hard tires) and decreasing the camper settings once more gave a really good handling. to check the ability to do some fast laps i went for soft tires all around, decreased the fuel to 55 litres and off for the track. first two laps were to head up the tires to about 70 degrees and to get an impression of the turn in behavior. lap 3 was my flying lap and i finnished this lap with a 7:54 and a very spectacular style 😉 due the unexpected good turn in behavior and the great grip i took a couple of bends too close and the first left hand corner (t13) kicked my car on two wheels and my line for metzges feld and kallenhard were far away from being perfect. so avoiding such mistakes, finding a better line for the improved speed and a little bit hotter track will easily lead to a lap time below 7:50. i have to do some more tests because driving on soft tires will lead to the problem that the tires won’t last for 2 or 3 stints but adapting the setup more to medium tires will fix this. next step will be to raise up the rear by another 5 mm and to strengthen the springs on the rear a little bit because of all the sparks in compressions and the banked curves 😉 a complete stint distance (9 laps) will show if i go for less pressure to get at least some sort of heat on the tires or if i go for a pressure which will provide more eval grip over the whole tire surface.

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