by Blue Dragon Racing

Every instrument alone can sound good.
But only when they play together — that’s when you get music. 🎶

PSI breathes.
Camber grips.
Caster feels.
Toe aligns.
And when they work together, the car stops being a machine — it becomes an orchestra.

This is the Symphony of Speed.

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🎼 Before the First Note – The Safe Preset

Every concert starts with tuning the instruments.
In Assetto Corsa Competizione, that means one thing:
Start with the Safe Preset.

The Safe setup is your neutral orchestra.
The suspension, aero balance, and damping are already in harmony.
It’s not fast — but it’s stable.
And stability is what lets you feel the car,
not fight it.

💡 Before you try to make it faster, learn to make it sing.

All your adjustments — PSI, camber, caster, toe —
should begin from this base.
Because Safe Preset gives you the truth of your driving,
not the illusion of speed.

Once your flow improves — once you can keep your rhythm through every corner —
then you’ll move to the Aggressive Preset or even a custom suspension and aero tune.
But not yet.
For now, the Safe Preset is your conductor’s baton.

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🎻 The First Note – Caster

You begin with the spine — the quiet force that keeps direction alive.
Set 8.7° positive caster.
That’s your baseline. Your center.

Too little, and the car wanders.
Too much, and you fight your own hands.
Perfect caster is invisible — like rhythm.
It doesn’t lead, it follows your intent.

💡 Let it hold the structure, not steal the spotlight.

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🎺 The Second Note – Camber

Now the melody begins — the balance of grip.
Camber decides how your tires lean into the track,
how deep your notes go into the asphalt.

Start slightly beyond neutral — –3.8° front, –3.4° rear.
You’re not chasing numbers. You’re shaping feeling.

When your tires warm up evenly —
inside 88–92 °C, middle 84–88 °C, outside 78–82 °C —
you’ve found harmony across the tread.

Too cold outside? Add camber.
Too hot inside? Take some away.

💬 Camber is the art of leaning without falling.

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🥁 The Third Note – PSI

The rhythm section.
Where everything starts to breathe.

Drive until your tires settle.
Aim for 27.0 PSI front, 26.9 PSI rear.
That’s where the heartbeat feels right — steady, alive, in tempo.

Too low and the beat drags.
Too high and it skips.
When PSI is right, the whole car starts to move like a song in time.

💡 PSI is not pressure — it’s pulse.

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🎹 The Fourth Note – Camber Revisited

As the beat strengthens, the melody shifts.
Heat from the road lifts your PSI by about 0.1 —
bringing you to 27.1 F / 27.0 R.

This is the sweet spot where friction turns to flow.
Now the car doesn’t just grip — it listens.

You’ve stopped tuning setup; you’re tuning motion.

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🎷 The Fifth Note – Testing the Flow

Now drive — truly drive.
Let the rhythm carry you through the corners.

If the car cuts cleanly through mid-speed turns, you’re in sync.
If it resists, your caster sings too loud — bring it back a touch, maybe 8.5°.

Feel it breathe.
Each lap should sound like a smoother version of the last.

💬 When the car starts dancing with you, you’ve found time — not in speed, but in flow.

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🎸 The Sixth Note – Toe

The precision instrument.
Smallest adjustment, biggest consequence.

Set –0.15° front toe-out and +0.10° rear toe-in.
Now the car tracks straight, turns with intent,
and exits calm — no drag, no drama.

If PSI is breath, and camber is voice,
then toe is the word alignment.
It’s what makes all four corners speak the same language.

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🎼 The Final Balance – Speed and Heat

As your speed grows, so does the heat within your tires.
Every kilometer, every braking zone, adds energy.

At 150 km/h, the surface hums around 85 °C.
At 220 km/h, it climbs to 90 °C.
Push lap after lap, and the inner shoulder might glow at 95 °C.

💡 That’s normal — it’s rhythm turning to resonance.

But now, you’ve already tuned the orchestra.
You’re no longer touching camber, caster, or toe.
Now you play only one instrument — PSI.

Use it like a tempo.
If the fronts reach 27.3 and rears 27.1 — perfect.
If they climb past 27.8, slow the beat.
If they fall under 26.8, lift it up.

You’re not adjusting the car anymore —
you’re conducting it.

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🎵 The Moment of Truth

And then it happens — the lap where everything clicks.
No fighting, no guessing, no hesitation.
Just movement.

You’ve found your optimal setup —
the perfect intersection of car, driver, and track.
This is your norm. Your personal baseline.

From here, you drive with:

• TC 4 – balanced, alive, but still safe.
• ABS 2 – short braking, sharp feel, full control.

If you can keep the car steady with these settings,
you’re in harmony.

But if the rear slides too much,
or you catch yourself fighting the wheel,
don’t touch the setup — fix your rhythm.

💬 The car is ready. Now the driver must be too.

Because once the car sings,
the next instrument to master is you. 🏁

💙🐉 Blue Dragon Racing – The Symphony of Speed.

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