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iRacing - Throttle-On Braking with the F-Mazda
I chose to post this here first instead of the iRacing forums. This
is in hopes that we can have a real and detailed discussion of the issue. On the iR forums the discussion will get bogged down with a bunch of lightweights chiming in on how accurate iRacing is, and how stupid it is to question anything. The issue is how a rearward brake bias combined with application of throttle affects braking distance. There was a post on the iR forums yesterday with a Formula Mazda setup attached. The post was from one of the fastest guys in iRacing. IMO the setup is ludicrous. I think it's as bad as any exploited setup in any previous sim - GPL, rFactor, or whatever. My previous official qual time for this week's track using my own setups, and with substantial testing, was 1:06.8. I had one or two laps in testing at .79 or so. Pole right now is 1:06 flat. I was fairly happy with the car, but didn't see where I could possibly pick up another 1/2 to 3/4 second. This has been standard for the last six weeks of the Mazda series. I qualify around 10th or 15th for the week, but I'm around a second off the pole time. Then came the setup post in the iR forums. Brake bias at 48% and ride heights at around 1/2 inch front and rear. I'll just disregard the insanely low ride heights for now. Brake bias is the bigger issue. So I load the setup and hit the track. First thing I notice, while straight line braking you can't even breath on the brake pedal with zero throttle or the car will spin. OK, well, even though I've abandoned that style of driving, I have a good handle on the throttle- on braking technique from years of GPL. Next thing I notice is that you can stop more quickly by essentially pushing both pedals to the floor than you can by balancing your brake bias and stopping with the brake pedal only. After a few laps I'd beat my previous best time by a tenth. With a little more practice I entered a qual session and layed down a 1:06.4. So great, right? I got a new setup for free that gained 0.4 seconds. No, it's not great. I'm disgusted by it. I always assumed the gain in lap times with those rearward brake bias settings was the result of allowing trail braking closer to the limit during turn entry. If that was the case you could argue that driver skill was at play. That doesn't seem to be the situation at all. The car just slows down more quickly with a ton of throttle on top of braking if you use an extremely rearward brake bias. There has been a lot of discussion about this exact technique on the iR forums. I just glossed over the topic for the most part figuring it wasn't that big of a deal. Well now it is a big deal to me. So what are the vehicle dynamics issues at work here? How will this behavior be explained so that we can believe that a real car will stop so quickly with the engine driving the rear wheels? I have a feeling that it can't be explained, but I'm willing to listen with an open mind. -- Pat Dotson |
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iRacing - Throttle-On Braking with the F-Mazda
Sounds like a big hole in the physics to me.
Going back to the low hide height: won't the bumpy tracks and bottoming out discourage that sort of thing? > wrote in message ... >I chose to post this here first instead of the iRacing forums. This > is in hopes that we can have a real and detailed discussion of the > issue. On the iR forums the discussion will get bogged down with a > bunch of lightweights chiming in on how accurate iRacing is, and how > stupid it is to question anything. > > The issue is how a rearward brake bias combined with application of > throttle affects braking distance. > > There was a post on the iR forums yesterday with a Formula Mazda setup > attached. The post was from one of the fastest guys in iRacing. IMO > the setup is ludicrous. I think it's as bad as any exploited setup in > any previous sim - GPL, rFactor, or whatever. > > My previous official qual time for this week's track using my own > setups, and with substantial testing, was 1:06.8. I had one or two > laps in testing at .79 or so. Pole right now is 1:06 flat. I was > fairly happy with the car, but didn't see where I could possibly pick > up another 1/2 to 3/4 second. This has been standard for the last six > weeks of the Mazda series. I qualify around 10th or 15th for the > week, but I'm around a second off the pole time. > > Then came the setup post in the iR forums. Brake bias at 48% and ride > heights at around 1/2 inch front and rear. I'll just disregard the > insanely low ride heights for now. Brake bias is the bigger issue. > > So I load the setup and hit the track. First thing I notice, while > straight line braking you can't even breath on the brake pedal with > zero throttle or the car will spin. OK, well, even though I've > abandoned that style of driving, I have a good handle on the throttle- > on braking technique from years of GPL. > > Next thing I notice is that you can stop more quickly by essentially > pushing both pedals to the floor than you can by balancing your brake > bias and stopping with the brake pedal only. After a few laps I'd > beat my previous best time by a tenth. With a little more practice I > entered a qual session and layed down a 1:06.4. > > So great, right? I got a new setup for free that gained 0.4 seconds. > No, it's not great. I'm disgusted by it. > > I always assumed the gain in lap times with those rearward brake bias > settings was the result of allowing trail braking closer to the limit > during turn entry. If that was the case you could argue that driver > skill was at play. > > That doesn't seem to be the situation at all. The car just slows down > more quickly with a ton of throttle on top of braking if you use an > extremely rearward brake bias. > > There has been a lot of discussion about this exact technique on the > iR forums. I just glossed over the topic for the most part figuring > it wasn't that big of a deal. Well now it is a big deal to me. > > So what are the vehicle dynamics issues at work here? How will this > behavior be explained so that we can believe that a real car will stop > so quickly with the engine driving the rear wheels? > > I have a feeling that it can't be explained, but I'm willing to listen > with an open mind. > > -- > Pat Dotson |
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iRacing - Throttle-On Braking with the F-Mazda
On Sep 16, 10:34*am, wrote:
<snip> > Pat Dotson People are taking advantage of the lack of internal damage. They will have to stop doing that or they'll not have a car beneath them for long. |
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iRacing - Throttle-On Braking with the F-Mazda
On Sep 16, 11:34 am, wrote:
> > Next thing I notice is that you can stop more quickly by essentially > pushing both pedals to the floor than you can by balancing your brake > bias and stopping with the brake pedal only. After a few laps I'd > beat my previous best time by a tenth. With a little more practice I > entered a qual session and layed down a 1:06.4. > > -- > Pat Dotson Do you mean literally full throttle and brake travel? Sounds like a bug and I understand your frustration, but I'm sure that iRacing is working on it. Frankly I'm surprised things like this haven't been ironed out yet. Also, doesn't the very low ride height help with downforce? That would shorten the braking distances too, I think. I'm really looking forward to when the iRacing cars' brakes and transmissions wear out or break when abused. Bob Simpson |
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iRacing - Throttle-On Braking with the F-Mazda
On Sep 16, 1:03*pm, Tim Wheatley > wrote:
> On Sep 16, 10:34*am, wrote: > <snip> > > > Pat Dotson > > People are taking advantage of the lack of internal damage. They will > have to stop doing that or they'll not have a car beneath them for > long. Here you go (I never thought I would link to Wikipedia for factual info, but anyway...) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-foot_braking It covers the car stabilization of trailing the throttle under braking, the possibility of altering brake bias to take advantage of this more fully - but also refers to the damage caused to the car internally when doing it. |
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iRacing - Throttle-On Braking with the F-Mazda
Tim Wheatley wrote:
> It covers the car stabilization of trailing the throttle under > braking, the possibility of altering brake bias to take advantage of > this more fully - but also refers to the damage caused to the car > internally when doing it. I believe Pat is referring to lowering threshold braking times rather than using trail braking to adjust the balance. I guess the throttle is acting as a form of ABS on the back brakes which are way too powerful with the bias set to 48 for normal braking with the weight being distributed to the front they would lock up way too soon. With a normal bias the brakes would be overpowered by the throttle and would push the car forward increasing brake distance. Whether the brakes would be powerful enough to stop the wheels turning under near full or full throttle I don't know. Certainly road cars aren't hence you see situations where people go on a wild ride with the throttle stuck open and brakes burnt out trying to stop it. I think this should be resolved with the brake wear and fading being modelled. They shouldn't last long! Cheers Tony |
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iRacing - Throttle-On Braking with the F-Mazda
On Sep 16, 2:08*pm, Bob Simpson > wrote:
> On Sep 16, 11:34 am, wrote: > > > Next thing I notice is that you can stop more quickly by essentially > > pushing both pedals to the floor than you can by balancing your brake > > Do you mean literally full throttle and brake travel? *Sounds like a > bug and I understand your frustration, but I'm sure that iRacing is > working on it. *Frankly I'm surprised things like this haven't been > ironed out yet. Yes. With extreme rear brake bias set just right I think you can stop equally as fast by pressing both pedals to the floor as you can by use brake pedal only with a balanced brake bias setting. If not equal then very close. With the slightest effort in modulating the throttle you can brake more quickly with 50% to 75% throttle and 45% and lower front brake bias. > Also, doesn't the very low ride height help with downforce? *That > would shorten the braking distances too, I think. Low ride height will increase downforce, but you shouldn't be able to corner with the bottom of the chassis on the ground. The track this week is extremely bumpy. The car is bottoming out all over the place but doesn't seem to be affected. I remember the late model used to slide up the track at Irwindale if it bottomed out in the turns. The Mazda doesn't seem to be affected. -- Pat Dotson |
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iRacing - Throttle-On Braking with the F-Mazda
On Sep 16, 2:10 pm, Tim Wheatley > wrote:
> > > People are taking advantage of the lack of internal damage. They will > > have to stop doing that or they'll not have a car beneath them for > > long. > > Here you go (I never thought I would link to Wikipedia for factual > info, but anyway...)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-foot_braking > > It covers the car stabilization of trailing the throttle under > braking, the possibility of altering brake bias to take advantage of > this more fully - but also refers to the damage caused to the car > internally when doing it. I hope mechanical damage will address the issue. I honestly don't expect that sort of thing to be implemented in lower license level cars. Maybe the higher level cars will be introduced with mechanical damage. The article is a shallow look at LFB stabilization during cornering. I understand and use LFB to turn the car all the time - even with conservative brake bias settings. That's not the issue. The issue I'm talking about doesn't concern cornering at all. I'm talking straight line braking distance. There really are two separate parts to this: 1) You ostensibly couldn't use full brakes and throttle like this in real life due to temp and wear. 2) Even if you could use this technique in real life, there is no reason that it would yield the same sort of performance gain in straight line braking. So really, mechanical damage should help somewhat at least during races. Implemenation of damage alone will not stop exploitation of whatever is going on with the tire modelling. I don't think temp and wear will slow down qual times at all. -- Pat Dotson |
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iRacing - Throttle-On Braking with the F-Mazda
On Sep 16, 11:34*am, wrote:
> > Then came the setup post in the iR forums. *Brake bias at 48% and ride > heights at around 1/2 inch front and rear. *I'll just disregard the > insanely low ride heights for now. I'm a little encouraged now on the ride height issue. The good news is I took my original setup with ride heights over 1 inch, changed brake bias to 48%, and went faster than I did with the setup from the iR Forum. Got down to a 1:06.3 in testing. That's just a couple tenths off the setup owner's qual time. So while excessively low ride heights don't seem to negatively impact the car as they should, low RH's don't appear to give any great advantage either. -- Pat Dotson |
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iRacing - Throttle-On Braking with the F-Mazda
On Sep 16, 3:04*pm, wrote:
> On Sep 16, 2:10 pm, Tim Wheatley > wrote: > > > > > > People are taking advantage of the lack of internal damage. They will > > > have to stop doing that or they'll not have a car beneath them for > > > long. > > > Here you go (I never thought I would link to Wikipedia for factual > > info, but anyway...)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-foot_braking > > > It covers the car stabilization of trailing the throttle under > > braking, the possibility of altering brake bias to take advantage of > > this more fully - but also refers to the damage caused to the car > > internally when doing it. > > I hope mechanical damage will address the issue. *I honestly don't > expect that sort of thing to be implemented in lower license level > cars. *Maybe the higher level cars will be introduced with mechanical > damage. > > The article is a shallow look at LFB stabilization during cornering. > I understand and use LFB to turn the car all the time - even with > conservative brake bias settings. *That's not the issue. > > The issue I'm talking about doesn't concern cornering at all. *I'm > talking straight line braking distance. *There really are two separate > parts to this: > > 1) You ostensibly couldn't use full brakes and throttle like this in > real life due to temp and wear. > 2) Even if you could use this technique in real life, there is no > reason that it would yield the same sort of performance gain in > straight line braking. > > So really, mechanical damage should help somewhat at least during > races. *Implemenation of damage alone will not stop exploitation of > whatever is going on with the tire modelling. *I don't think temp and > wear will slow down qual times at all. > > -- > Pat Dotson Tyres are quite WIP I think, unfortunately. Internal damage isn't modelled at all yet, but it will be, right down to the rookies (this is why the lower classes get car resets, people think it's for the crashes, hehe) I'm wondering, are you driving this setup with the auto clutch on or off? I really don't think weight transfer is happening so much in this type of stiff suspension cars... I think the suspension takes the strain and the body doesn't roll forward much at all... If you can use the throttle to help with this, it would explain why you can benefit a little... But you're right, it should be looked at. Can you email me (my email address on RAS is real - gmail spam filter is very good) giving a clear explanation of what you're seeing and I'll forward it on, that way you won't have to post in the forums. I get the feeling I'm perhaps not understanding full implications as you seem more concerned than I would be... I'm no physics prof. |
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