Spring Rate/Wheel Rate: is the stiffness of the coil spring. This determines how stiff the car’s behavior is and mainly contributes to its stiffness when cornering. The higher the number, the stiffer the coil spring vice versa, the lower the number, the softer the coil spring will be. The Wheel Rate is the actual stiffness of the spring when it is interconnected to the wheel. Due to the lever effect that the wheel has on the spring, the stiffness of the assembly (spring plus wheel) is often lower than that of the coil spring alone installed.Fast rebound: corresponds to the damping of the high speed rebound. It occurs on uneven surfaces after the spring is compressed quickly and must extend just as quickly to maintain contact with the road surface. Low numbers allow the shock to extend quickly and high numbers resist extension.Rebound: Rebound damping controls the rate at which the shock is able to extend after the compression stroke. The shock absorber will need to extend after the wheels have been compressed (it happens, for example, when cornering the inner wheels while the car is tilting, braking the rear wheels or accelerating the front wheels). The low numbers make the damping soft, allowing the spring to extend quickly with low resistance. The high numbers stiffen the damping and resist spring extension.Fast bump: corresponds to the fast compression of the spring. It occurs on bumps, holes and curbs of the circuit and changes the speed with which the spring compresses under these circumstances. Again the low numbers make the damping softer and the higher ones make it stiffer.Bump: Controls how quickly the spring compresses and controls how the wheel moves upward. Soft damping (0) allows the spring to compress quickly the rigid damping (10) resists the compression of the shock absorber making it more rigid.Driver Preferences: You as a driver are a key element in setting up and running the car and may want to make changes to get more feedback from the car. ![]() Weather changes: If the weather changes between races or during a race, you will need to change the setting to cope with the changing environmental conditions. ![]()
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