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[APP] ACC Engineer (per pressione gomme e carburante)


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Inspired by this thread, I've made an ACC Engineer tool that plays the part of a race engineer who sets up your tyre pressures and fuel load for you. You tell him what you want, go and drive several laps, and he'll tell you how to adjust your pressures and how much fuel you'll need for the race. The tool also helps you analyse the understeer and overtseer behaviour of your car.

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You enter:

  • your target PSI in tenths (e.g. 278 for 27.8 PSI)
  • Race length (hours and minutes)
  • How many extra laps of fuel you want to add as a buffer

Go and drive several laps, and what the race engineer does after you've driven a couple of laps is:

  • Tells you your average tyre pressures over the last lap, and how much to adjust your pressures by to attain your target.
  • Based on your fuel rate and average lap time, tells you how much fuel you'll need for the race.
  • Tells you at the end of each lap if any of your tyres are, on average, too hot or too cold.

Understeer and oversteer
In order to use this section of the app, you need to enter your car's steer ratio, as measured in the "mechanical grip" section of the setup.

This section of the app shows how much your car is understeering or oversteering. The four displayed percentages tell you how much of the time your car is understeering or oversteering while cornering, both in slow corner and in fast corners. If any number is too high for your liking, try to adjust your driving or your setup to lower the percentage.

Each measurement (fast/slow understeer/oversteer) is now broken down into braking, coasting and accelerating phases of a corner, so you can use this information to ask the setup engineer bot in the Aris.Drives Discord channel (e.g. "setup: oversteer high speed apex") about setup changes.
For example: "Fast US: 11,4,1" means that in a fast corner, you have understeer on corner entry, a little at the apex, but then none on corner exit.

The app also produces a low tone beep when you are understeering and a higher tone beep when you are oversteering (enabled by ticking the "Sound" checkbox). This is a handy way to get audible feedback on the car's behaviour while you're driving.

How it works
The app measures the ratio of your steered angle (at the wheels, not the steering wheel) to the car's rotational velocity. If you have massively turned your steering wheel, but the car is not rotating much, you are understeering. If you have not turned your steering wheel much but your car is turning around, you are oversteering.

Tweaking the measurements
If you're unhappy with the results, you can adjust some settings by clicking the Settings button.

ACC Engineer2.png

Understeer Threshold: If the steer/yaw ratio is BIGGER than this number, you're regarded as understeering. Making this number smaller makes the app think you're understeering more often. Making it bigger makes the app think you're understeering less often.

Oversteer Threshold: If the steer/yaw ratio is SMALLER than this number, you're regarded as oversteering. Making this number bigger makes the app think you're oversteering more often. Making it smaller makes the app think you're oversteering less often.

Low Speed Threshold is the speed in kph below which a corner is regarded as being slow speed.

New: Setup Tips
Once you have some understeer and oversteer measurements, the Setup Tips button displays setup tips to address the two areas with the highest measurements. The setup tips come from the Setup Engineer Bot in the Aris.Drives Discord channel.

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Download Link (ACC Engineer.zip)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TL-lMUFW7rws5hz9bYbMTjnr88-akmk8/view?usp=sharing

Changes

 

  • 1.3.0.0, Jun 7, 2021 - Added Setup Tips
  • 1.2.0.0, Mar 29, 2021 - Understeer/Oversteer broken down into corner entry,apex,exit
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Inspired by this thread, I've made an ACC Engineer tool that plays the part of a race engineer who sets up your tyre pressures and fuel load for you. You tell him what you want, go and drive several laps, and he'll tell you how to adjust your pressures and how much fuel you'll need for the race. The tool also helps you analyse the understeer and overtseer behaviour of your car.

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You enter:

  • your target PSI in tenths (e.g. 278 for 27.8 PSI)
  • Race length (hours and minutes)
  • How many extra laps of fuel you want to add as a buffer

Go and drive several laps, and what the race engineer does after you've driven a couple of laps is:

  • Tells you your average tyre pressures over the last lap, and how much to adjust your pressures by to attain your target.
  • Based on your fuel rate and average lap time, tells you how much fuel you'll need for the race.
  • Tells you at the end of each lap if any of your tyres are, on average, too hot or too cold.

Understeer and oversteer
In order to use this section of the app, you need to enter your car's steer ratio, as measured in the "mechanical grip" section of the setup.

This section of the app shows how much your car is understeering or oversteering. The four displayed percentages tell you how much of the time your car is understeering or oversteering while cornering, both in slow corner and in fast corners. If any number is too high for your liking, try to adjust your driving or your setup to lower the percentage.

Each measurement (fast/slow understeer/oversteer) is now broken down into braking, coasting and accelerating phases of a corner, so you can use this information to ask the setup engineer bot in the Aris.Drives Discord channel (e.g. "setup: oversteer high speed apex") about setup changes.
For example: "Fast US: 11,4,1" means that in a fast corner, you have understeer on corner entry, a little at the apex, but then none on corner exit.

The app also produces a low tone beep when you are understeering and a higher tone beep when you are oversteering (enabled by ticking the "Sound" checkbox). This is a handy way to get audible feedback on the car's behaviour while you're driving.

How it works
The app measures the ratio of your steered angle (at the wheels, not the steering wheel) to the car's rotational velocity. If you have massively turned your steering wheel, but the car is not rotating much, you are understeering. If you have not turned your steering wheel much but your car is turning around, you are oversteering.

Tweaking the measurements
If you're unhappy with the results, you can adjust some settings by clicking the Settings button.

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Understeer Threshold: If the steer/yaw ratio is BIGGER than this number, you're regarded as understeering. Making this number smaller makes the app think you're understeering more often. Making it bigger makes the app think you're understeering less often.

Oversteer Threshold: If the steer/yaw ratio is SMALLER than this number, you're regarded as oversteering. Making this number bigger makes the app think you're oversteering more often. Making it smaller makes the app think you're oversteering less often.

Low Speed Threshold is the speed in kph below which a corner is regarded as being slow speed.

Setup Tips
Once you have some understeer and oversteer measurements, the Setup Tips button displays setup tips to address the two areas with the highest measurements. The setup tips come from the Setup Engineer Bot in the Aris.Drives Discord channel.

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Auto-Reset Readings
The tyre pressure and temperature, and brake temperature, readings automatically reset when you leave pit lane, and when you leave a session. If you don't want the readings to auto-reset when you leave pit lane or a session, untick the "Auto-reset readings" checkbox.

Download Link (ACC Engineer.zip) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TL-lMUFW7rws5hz9bYbMTjnr88-akmk8/view?usp=sharing

Changes
1.6.0.0, Apr 17, 2022 - added cars: Porsche 992 GT3 Cup, Lamborghini Huracan ST Evo2, Audi R8 LMS Evo II, Ferrari 488 Challenge Evo, BMW M2 CS

 

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