I find it fascinating when drivers talk about setups and what works and what does not.
Which is why I was keen to hear member's experiences with my two offerings.
I had read somewhere that on ovals the inside tyre pressures should be harder than the outside tyres, but whenever I tried to make that concept work I got no joy. I am sure that it works for some drivers and I suspect that it depends upon driving styles and preferences? But it just did not work for me.
I like a car that turns in quickly when I lift off, and also generates oversteer when I press on the gas. The trick for me is to make the transition from lift off, to power on as smooth and stable as possible, so that I do not have to wait to be able to accelerate through a corner.
If the stiffer inside works for Axel and other drivers and allows them to get around an oval faster than they did before, that is great and no-one can argue about what is right and wrong.
I have always felt that all the different parameters within the GPL setups all react with each other, and because of that there are many ways of arriving at the same result. If you factor in different driving styles as well, I would guess that there are a hundred ways of achieving a fast lap time.
I have to confess that I was very pleased with that Lancia setup....1:04.5 on the first flying lap which was far from perfect and no tow. I think that without tow, it would go sub 1:04 comfortably and with a perfect slipstream around the whole oval ( almost impossible in practice) a low 1:03, or even a dip into 1:02's would be possible.
I only tried the Lancia because it is the fastest car, so that I had a benchmark for whatever car I chose to race. I did try the Connaught, but although I like a challenge that did seem a step too far, and I opted for the 250F.
So I set about getting the car to carry speed through T1 and T3. The obvious route was to more or less copy the Lancia setup and then tweak things to suit the Maserati.
Whatever I did appears to have worked for me, but some drivers have found that they cannot drive my setups with my 5:1 steering ratio?? which goes back to driving styles and preferences.
IMHO There is no right or wrong in GPL setups, only what works for you, and allows you to drive more quickly.