To counter a front lockup, shift the brake balance towards the rear of the car incrementally. This all happens when the front, and sometimes the rear, tyres are unloaded under braking, and the tyres freeze as the car tries to brake. Not only can it pitch you into the barriers or lose lap time, but a lockup will also wear the tyres out faster and, although not modelled in the game, flat spots can occur. Adjusting these can help you to avoid lockups.Ī lockup is one of the most irritating things to encounter on any lap in F1 2021. The sliders for your Brake Pressure and Front Brake Bias are found under the Brakes tab of the modification screen. Changing the brake bias and avoid lockups Doing this will give the car more bite as it turns into a corner, and shouldn’t feel as if it’s about to float off the circuit and into the run-off or gravel – or even the barriers if you are at Monaco. To counter this, make sure that your car has plenty of Front Wing Aero on its slider. Where oversteer pitches the car around from the back, understeer sees your lack of grip at the front push you off of the track, making the car feel a bit lazy and lethargic. Understeer is something that you will encounter at the front of the car. A higher number selected along the Ring Wing Aero slider, putting more downforce at the rear, should help to keep your car planted on the ground. Still, in F1 2021, try to eliminate oversteer as best as you can. Oversteer can be managed, and indeed some drivers in real life enjoy a car with a bit of oversteer. To put it simply: this is when the back end wants to step out as you turn into a corner, spin the car around, and thus oversteer the car into a spin and potentially the wall. Oversteer is something that you will encounter quite often in your F1 2021 journey. You can adjust the setup aspects that influence your oversteer and understeer on the Aerodynamics tab of the modification page. It is best to keep the front and rear ride heights either at the same level or with no more than one position discrepancy. Finding the right balance is very tricky.

This aspect dictates how much ground clearance the car has at the front and rear, with an increased ride height resulting in an increased vehicle profile, causing drag in a straight line.įor tracks such as Monza, you want this to be fairly low to maximise the straight-line speed, but be wary of it hurting you in the corners.

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