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Red Momo --> cheap G25 = unexpected laptime improvement
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Re: Red Momo --> cheap G25 = unexpected laptime improvement -
07-11-2009
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I cracked this week and bought a G25 for 99 of our UK pounds (coming to a devalued currency shop near you any day now!) I'd been waiting for the 27 to be reviewed, but this price was far too good to miss. It's 50ukp less than I paid for the Momo about, er... seven years ago? Something like that anyway. The G25 landed on my desk yesterday and although I'm having some difficult adjusting, I'm also getting some faster laptimes in my 'benchmark' combination of iRacing Solstice <fx:spit!> at Lime Rock. I was horribly slow there before, and had no fun at all driving the Solstice. But with the G25 something really strange happened. My previous best laptime was something like 1:05.5, but in races and normal practice I was lucky to see 1:06 consistently, and it was never any fun to drive that slowly compared to the average iRacer. The G25, however, changed the experience completely. More so than I'd ever expected. All of a sudden I can catch oversteer more regularly, and... well, I was just enjoying the whole experience of pushing harder! It was really rather startling, especially in a car I've grown to loathe. In my last practise session I drove five laps in a row under 1:05, with a cluster of laps at 1.046. Not alien territory, but certainly competitive if I can keep that up. In a recent Opinion Nation http://radio.psrtv.com/ they had a discussion about pointlessly chasing 'perfect' hardware. I generally agreed with their line that it's usually a waste of money. Unless you have a serious problem the most important factor is always the driver. But while that may still be true, it appears that my Red Momo's pedals and wheel -- while working perfectly as far as I could tell -- were further from ideal than I realised. The stiffer pedals certainly make a difference to my braking (sometimes in a bad way at the moment!) but it's the steering which is definitely helping most. By calibrating to use most of the wheel's range I can catch and control situations which were completely beyond my abilities before with the Red Momo. It's come as a bit of a shock that I might soon be able to drag myself up the bell curve of ability from slower than continental drift towards competitively sluggish. Whether that will actually happen after this burst of enthusiasm remains to be seen. But for the time being it's fun trying and has almost certainly persuaded me to take another chunk of subscription out at iRacing. The driving experience with a G25 is just so satisfying. I may even <fx:music from Psycho> join some Solstice races. Andrew McP |
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http://forum.rscnet.org/showthread.php?t=336105 |
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I have mine set up to full and just adjust the steering lock in the garage. |
tweaking the configuration. I suppose I should take advantage of the maturity of
the G25 and its knowledgebase before I get too used to the default options.
Andrew McP
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I cracked this week and bought a G25 for 99 of our UK pounds (coming to a devalued currency shop near you any day now!) I'd been waiting for the 27 to be reviewed, but this price was far too good to miss. It's 50ukp less than I paid for the Momo about, er... seven years ago? Something like that anyway. The G25 landed on my desk yesterday and although I'm having some difficult adjusting, I'm also getting some faster laptimes in my 'benchmark' combination of iRacing Solstice <fx:spit!> at Lime Rock. I was horribly slow there before, and had no fun at all driving the Solstice. But with the G25 something really strange happened. My previous best laptime was something like 1:05.5, but in races and normal practice I was lucky to see 1:06 consistently, and it was never any fun to drive that slowly compared to the average iRacer. The G25, however, changed the experience completely. More so than I'd ever expected. All of a sudden I can catch oversteer more regularly, and... well, I was just enjoying the whole experience of pushing harder! It was really rather startling, especially in a car I've grown to loathe. In my last practise session I drove five laps in a row under 1:05, with a cluster of laps at 1.046. Not alien territory, but certainly competitive if I can keep that up. In a recent Opinion Nation http://radio.psrtv.com/ they had a discussion about pointlessly chasing 'perfect' hardware. I generally agreed with their line that it's usually a waste of money. Unless you have a serious problem the most important factor is always the driver. But while that may still be true, it appears that my Red Momo's pedals and wheel -- while working perfectly as far as I could tell -- were further from ideal than I realised. The stiffer pedals certainly make a difference to my braking (sometimes in a bad way at the moment!) but it's the steering which is definitely helping most. By calibrating to use most of the wheel's range I can catch and control situations which were completely beyond my abilities before with the Red Momo. It's come as a bit of a shock that I might soon be able to drag myself up the bell curve of ability from slower than continental drift towards competitively sluggish. Whether that will actually happen after this burst of enthusiasm remains to be seen. But for the time being it's fun trying and has almost certainly persuaded me to take another chunk of subscription out at iRacing. The driving experience with a G25 is just so satisfying. I may even <fx:music from Psycho> join some Solstice races. Andrew McP Wot?? Wot?? What's this about cheap G25s? - I haven't seen any. |
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Where are they, please??! |
which is piss-taking territory. :-)
Now I've got the G25 though I'd certainly pay the £140 or so you can find them for.
It's worth it for the pedals and extra wheel range.
Andrew McP
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lwolmer (AT) blublunder (DOT) co.uk (Lol) wrote: Where are they, please??! It was a weekend offer at Play.com a while back now. Their normal price is £200 which is piss-taking territory. :-) Now I've got the G25 though I'd certainly pay the £140 or so you can find them for. It's worth it for the pedals and extra wheel range. Andrew McP |
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"Andrew MacPherson" <mcp.andrew (AT) DELETTHISgmail (DOT) com> wrote in message news:memo.20090807120413.5348A (AT) mcp (DOT) andrew.c... lwolmer (AT) blublunder (DOT) co.uk (Lol) wrote: Where are they, please??! It was a weekend offer at Play.com a while back now. Their normal price is £200 which is piss-taking territory. :-) Now I've got the G25 though I'd certainly pay the £140 or so you can find them for. It's worth it for the pedals and extra wheel range. Andrew McP Thanks - ordered from Dabs @ £140 For anyone still after a G25, back at £99 at Play.com, this weekend |
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