Aaaaaah, tech talk, good one too. Cool.
Harder front (or rear) ARB also helps transfering weight much
faster thus makes the car more responsive when changing direction, which is why we all go for high front ARB at Monza. In effect - car's easier to slide around, soft ARBs make it grip like crazy but are hard to control once grip decides to let go (PITA on this track if front ARB is hard and rear is relatively soft).
Hard ARB comes handy in that 5th gear fast right kink at the back semi-straight, doesn't it? I must admit this track is very hard to dial in setup wise (or learn, first time on this track
), never had so many problems with setup as here, very unpredictable in responding to setup changes, main theme is of course complete understeer-o-rama. It feels soooo lazy all the time and theeeen... tries to stab you in the back with fast snap oversteer.
Local track designer hates race engineers IMHO.
Good point on the high coast diff (same part of the track too!
), will try that. Tinkered around with it few days ago but had too much wheelspin going on power, car was too nervous. That can be fixed though.
Low slow bump settings helped a bit too, made the car a bit more stable during braking, but going too low ruined weight transfer once again.
Medium-Hards or what? M-M or S-M get fried in no time (harder springs and ARB do the damage - fast).
Anyway, slow in fast out wins the day, that much I've gathered so far.
And that looooong right hander in 3rd/4th... sweeeeet. Very technical track through and through to be honest. And still a mistery atm.
Oh yeah, to all you sub 2 mins in race pace - stop practicing! Better yet, anyone below 2.03 - stop practicing.