The 1980s Renault 5 Turbo

[Raigavin]

I have failed to grasp the skill to commandeer this vehicle, it seems to turn like a truck and the frontside rubber bands away from the sides towards the direction of intertia while trying to use hand brake during turns.

Being an RWD vehicle, it can barely turn (I am unable to understand it).

Any suggestions, hints or tips to drive this vehicle?

[Stig Lennart]

basically it stems from not having enough pressure on the front wheels and too much grip in the rear. There's a few things you can do. on the setup side you can 1. increase pressure on the front wheels by raising the rear/lowering the front, and 2. you can move your brakebalance to the rear and trailbrake into the corners (this will induce the oversteer you need). You can also try to induce the oversteer by performing a scandinavian flick, for this you should check the ingame tutorial video

[Randomheppu]

I did not bother to even test this car yet. Now I tryed it in the Greece. It feels good for me if we look the handling. Here is video about it. Hopefully you find some helpfull things, like brake early and use scandinavian flick :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSrkNZ7Jxmc

[Randomheppu]

Originally posted by cheeki breeki:

I can manage it in gravel (too easy to drive actually) but on tarmac it's a train. Had to enter number 4 turn with handbrake to prevent the horrible understeer.

Car should be understeering until you release gas or hit a little brakes. But can't say is it realistic. I'm not very experienced driver on tarmac.

[Oyster]

It's a very unique car. It behaves like an AWD, but if you abuse it too much, it'll show is still a RWD. On gravel you can really eat up the open corners, going sideways like with the Peugeot 205 T16, but on tarmac it understeers like hell, I can`t understand how a RWD car can understeer so much, probably because of the big rear tyres. What I learnt is that I really can't be afraid of diving inside the corners with it, be it tarmac or gravel. It's the best way to extract the maximum of this car. And the bonus is you don't need to worry about the rear going out of the track and touching ditches or bumps, because it's way shorter than the 80s sedans. Codemasters really should've used the Group B version of the Renault 5 and put it together with the other Group B RWDs, it would've made much more sense.

[Ushak Taal]

setup is the key on tarmac
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNtgtRZiTak

[Randomheppu]

And now you forced me to test it in Monte :P

On those videos is a lot of handbaking...

I think the handling is modelled quite well. Maybe the problem is that most of cars in this game is behaves way too arcade. Here is my first and only run in Monte with Renault. I enjoyd it. You need to drive it, not only steer it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMIt0ofrFTk&feature=youtu.be

[Raigavin]

Thanks for the great info/suggestions, I will try to tweak the vehicle setup to shift the weight to the front during turns.

[DocStrangelove]

I'm torn about it. It's fantastic in Wales, almost drives itself, but on tarmac it's a disaster. I don't seem to get around anything below a 3 without excessive use of handbrake.

[svenoss]

Handbrake helps a lot in hard corners, but you have to play with the accelerator smoothly during the turn otherwise you will spin on yourself :p It is the inconvenient of have such a small car with such a big engine at the back. The most horrible part is when you loose a rear wheel^^

[dgeesio & ronMctube]

im just uploading a new video as i type this with the renault 5 turbo. its a 3rd in world on geufron forest.

since its been added to the game i have spent quite a lot of time trying different things and what i have gathered is.

try loosing the differential to the loosest setting in game. this makes it easier to slide or fling into corners. cause the car understeers quite bad on sharp turns make sure you dont accelerate at same time of turning. let of look for the marker flags on hairpins handbrake flick the car and use the wieght of the car to turn around it then only accelerate as you exiting gradually.

it is a tricky car but when you start to get the hang of it its very quick .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHwx36TCTac

[Mr_Jolly]

in greece if u end up slow into a hairpin and dare to want to drive round it 'normally' u just go nearly straight off cliff, no turning circle at all in the car somehow its very odd
floor it in first or limp round and just straight on, need 3 point turn almost

[xOnexEyedxWolfx]

I'm also having trouble with it. Especially Finland. Just wants to bounce off the track on every bump. Tried setting suspension a lil softer but it made it very unstable. Any tips for Finland ,?

[Pte Maylam]

Originally posted by Fisu FIN:

I did not bother to even test this car yet. Now I tryed it in the Greece. It feels good for me if we look the handling. Here is video about it. Hopefully you find some helpfull things, like brake early and use scandinavian flick :)

Watching that video it seems more like your brake wasn't working, you hurtled along. It only serves to show how awful a driver I am by contrast!

[#NoControl Jan]

Originally posted by budbud0503:

I'm also having trouble with it. Especially Finland. Just wants to bounce off the track on every bump. Tried setting suspension a lil softer but it made it very unstable. Any tips for Finland ,?

Set the fast rebound more to the right, that should stop the bouncing.

[rob_every05]

You noticve this rather silly handling trait when you go off course.

All of a sudden tyres that grip everything else no longer grip anything and you have to turn the wheel full lock to simply enable yourself to get back onto the road again.

Just a plain physics fail that's all. Same as 037 on asphalt and the mid engined GpB cars being overly twitchy.