Understeer!?

[Thorstorm]

How the hell do we control that? I have my wings aero on high 7-8 and I even tried to push the ballast to the rear.
As soon as my tires have 25% wear or more it's unplayable, drifting and sliding at every corner, I let go of the acceleration and then when I'm almost out of the chicane I give some gas and my rear just slide and drift me out of the race, every single time, I'm in Montreal GP right now on 20-25% tire wear and I can't even make a proper lap.

[Synth]

Putting Ballast to the rear (9 or more is pretty undrivable for me in races longer than 5 laps) decreases understeer but if you have high ballast (8 or 9+) than front wing should be lower by about 4-5 clicks than the rear wing ex. Front: 4, Rear: 9 and so on.

If you are using any tires different than softs, medium, hard, hyperhard than at about 25+ % your tires aren't considered fresh and there is a significant loose of grip; if you can't handle that you need to use harder compunds longer in a race. At about 40+ % (depending on hardness of a compound- harder means higher percent) "cliff" happens and than tires become supper slippery.

Finally what are your tire temperatures: if they are above 110° C than there is literally nothing that you can do other than come to pits as decreasing tire tempreatures takes minutes of slower driving. To combat tire temperature don't lock tires, limit your wheelspin, and if you are using setups downloaded from the hotlap than those needs some tweaks to work in carrer

[Maya-Neko]

Understeer happens, when the tyres can't handle the load any more. Just using higher wings won't change that but it will in fact put even more load on the tyres, making the problem even worse.

First of all you should look at your temperatures. If they're way above the working range of your tyres, then try to use softer suspension settings. Most of the times this will solve a ton of problems when it comes to overheating. Also don't use to much tyre pressure outside of time trial, as this will also heat up your tyres.

And when it comes to wings, try to get it as low as possible until a point, where even fresh tyres understeer/oversteer all the time and then get it 1-2 points higher again. There's no need to put it higher, as this won't give you any positive effects and will in fact just make you slower overall. And if you change anything on the suspension, then repeat it. The wings should be build around the rest of the setup and not the other way round.

And in terms of ballast just keep this in mind: Higher Ballast will cause less Oversteer and more understeer, but if you oversteer, it will be much stronger, while understeer get's weaker if it occours. lowering it will cause the opposite effects. So getting it higher will just cause much understeer wich ist pretty hard to get rid of if you go higher than 8 and if your tyres start to degrade, you'll slide pretty much in every corner when the oversteers starts to kick in (i would actually recommend to set it just to 7 most of the times and to 8 if you feel that it's still controlable with worn tyres, but not higher as long as you don't know, why your car is actually under- or oversteering).

[Thorstorm]

Thank you both it's very appreciated, I was getting a bit desperate, I'll take note and try it out tonight on time trial before going back to my career.

[raM1]

This might sound weird but check your camera settings, increasing your field of view above 0 makes the car start to feel very understeery also messing with the camera angle seems to have a similar effect.

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Originally posted by inclinedSLope:

This might sound weird but check your camera settings, increasing your field of view above 0 makes the car start to feel very understeery also messing with the camera angle seems to have a similar effect.

I'm not the only one. Thank god, I have since f1 2016 noticed.

[VanZan_75]

Originally posted by Sgt. Jefeon:

How the hell do we control that? I have my wings aero on high 7-8 and I even tried to push the ballast to the rear.
As soon as my tires have 25% wear or more it's unplayable, drifting and sliding at every corner, I let go of the acceleration and then when I'm almost out of the chicane I give some gas and my rear just slide and drift me out of the race, every single time, I'm in Montreal GP right now on 20-25% tire wear and I can't even make a proper lap.

Em , what you are describing here is oversteer ( rear sliding out while cornering ) , not understeer ( car sliding straight on while trying to take a corner ). I find softening the rear anti- roll bar and softening the rear suspension helps ( leaves rear of car less " snappy " ) .