Assetto corsa competizione setup plus#

Τhe stiffness, the curve of it and the “window” of suspension movement before it touches the bumpstop, are extremely important. Actually necessary, as the new areo modelling requires proper bumpstop usage, as the real teams do. The actual rate is controllable both in the force and the shape of a stiffness curve, making the presence of bumpstops much more useful. In ACC bumpstops are greatly improved by adding variable stiffness. Occasionally they would be necessary and unavoidable, but their use was always a bigger compromise than it should have been. In AC they were generally avoided by fast simracers because they had a fixed stiffness value and so when the suspension would hit them it would be like hitting something hard instantly, resulting in heavy load changes on the tyre and general loss of grip. Obviously, research never ends and everything can get better, but on the other hand it is a clear step forward and we believe you will appreciate their effect during driving, attacking kerbs, bumps and weight shift situations.īumpstops is another heavily used suspension feature in real life.

Assetto corsa competizione setup plus#

It is a bit tiresome to design 24 or 36 or whatever number, different curves for bump and rebound but the results are definitely worth it, plus we have another part of the simulation that we can be sure that “that’s it” without having “what if” situations when numbers do not do what they are expected to do. We can get damper graphs from the manufacturer, and input those directly. For ACC we can now simulate fully blown damper graphs.

Everybody in the racing automotive industry, continuously talk about how much dampers are improved nowadays, while in the same time, we keep simulating dampers with 4, 5 linear values for bump, rebound, fast bump and rebound and threshold times.

When we started working on ACC, we wanted to improve on our suspension simulation and specifically the dampers simulation. “You have to redo all the alignment again? This is madness!”