Need some help with GTR 2 car setup

[josh817]

So I've been playing around with GTR 2 and I've been driving the Lister car. My problem is that I have the difficulty at 95% with full realism except for tire wear and fuel consumption because I'm trying to find a setup that's stable before I throw in other factors. My typical problem, and I'm sure other peoples problem, is that my quickest setup is of course the most radical so tires are kaput in a few laps.

 

For this thread I'd like to ignore tire wear and stuff. At 95% during practice and qualifying I'm sitting at a 1:59.050 time on the Brno GP 2004 track, and am placing around 5th. I don't really like being at 95% and only placing 5th.

 

I keep feeling like my go is understeering. How do I know if I'm understeering or just going too fast?

 

I have my front sway bar as high as it can go, running soft tires on the front and then I tried to reduce the understeer by stiffening up the rear to make it swing out easier I guess you could say, and using the mild tires. Another problem I have always exhibited with any racing game is I run what I would think, inconsistent laps. 1:59 may be my best time but I would do 2:00-2:02 regularly so its all over the place... By the way fastest lap for this track the computer says is a 1:56.... I'm slow. I know you guys like to play these sorts of games, don't let me down! Lol