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Oreca 07
Daytona Sports Car Course
- 10.0 °C
- 18.0 °C
Setup and Data for the Oreca LMP2 (Gen2) on Daytona in AMS2
LMP2
The most interesting part on almost any car surely is the differential, which allows you to adjust the car in all potential cornering phases.
Here I dialed it in so that the rear would rotate on entry, but just about not step out too much, while on exit you will feel it gripping up and pulling itself more to the inside. With more fuel, you'll likely want to check the balance and potentially counter the resulting oversteer with either a click of wing on the rear or lowering the rear ride height further. Other than that there should not be more changes from Q to Race, unless its hot temperatures and you want to go for the harder compound.
Daytona
Daytona is mostly straight line speed with slow turns. We need some stability in the chicane, but that is easy to do in the LMP2. The trickier bit is the combination of gear ratio and drag. The steps adjusting the gearbox are too large and running longer gears gives a tiny bit more top speed, but acceleration around the entire lap is worse, ultimately not being faster. You'd need significantly less drag to make use of it, but the car does not allow to reduce drag enough to make user of a longer gearing. So the setup is made in a way that you'll just run into the limiter end of straight while keeping some downforce for the middle sector.
Driving
- Initial braking can be harsh, but needs trailing off the brake right after as the downforce quickly drops
- unless you throw the car in too harsh the car will be stable to understeer when coasting - that means you want to be back on throttle as soon as you are off the brake and the car will keep rotating
- TC1 is fine, but for ultimate laptime, turn it off for the fast corners, as it still engages too much
Adjustments
- start with the differential if any behavior is not to your liking. Less coast degree for more stability into the turn. More power degree for less oversteer on exit
- remove front wing if car is too aggressive in fast turns for you (or add rear wing)
- if slower corners are too sketchy, stiffen front roll bar (small impact), also more coast locking (lower degree or more preload) help here
- of course adjust brake bias to the front if car is difficult under braking, but I feel its already quite far forward
Fuel
In Q the car needs about 3.26 L per lap. Likely a little more in the race as the straights become "longer". Calculating with 3.4 per lap should be more than safe.
For the race I'm expecting the balance to be slightly forward with fuel, so perhaps already account for that with the changes above.
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Oreca 07
Daytona Sports Car Course
- 10.0 °C
- 18.0 °C
- Qualifying1:36.199