Oversteering- set brake balance more to front Understeering- set brake balance more to rear Is always how I understood it

I love your videos man. Jumping straight into the data, and demonstrations of how it's impacting driving, and how to usefully tune under varying conditions.=

great insight, always appreciate the work put in these guides!

Thank you! I know absolutely nothing about tuning the cars in GT in relation to brake balance, sway bars and toe angle etc. I only do BOP races because it’s a more equal playing field for mechanical n00bs like me. Would love it if you had guides just like this for all the tuning options in GT7 👍🏻

I always put it on -2, it works well with every car and it makes the steering a lot easier (I use it only when the car already has it, so only gr. cars as far as I can remember)

This is how I have always understood it. That's why it is called brake balance rather than control or something. We refer to it as brake bias, which to me makes more sense to what it does.

This was the best gt7 video I've seen in a while. Great breakdown!

Good info mate. I've been trying to figure out and test this brake thing for awhile.

Did you notice that stock brake bias on mid engined road cars is always very wrong? Without ABS they lock the front wheels way too early. Even after installing a brake balance controller some cars cannot be corrected enough. Most terrible car is the McLaren F1. I cannot imagine that Gordon Murray made the concept for that car with such a horrible brake balance. Same for many Ferrari's. I wonder what they would think in Maranello if just someone made the effort to test their cars in GT7. They would probably immediately revoke Sony's licence ...

I cannot believe you don't have more views or subscribers. You have the best info, educationally. Mistah_MCA does time saving not describing how to brake trail or ease on throttle "lap guides", but you have like a legit 100% classroom type educational. Professional. And Hawco1338 shows twitch streams, but you never know what he's doing. If you did a lap guide occasionally or a stream of gameplay and tell when you do good or bad or how you think you did and how well such was to do, then you could probably get more viewers and be the GOAT, lol. You're traction circle vid really helped me, though I'd kinda known just didn't think out everything,, I know Calculus and it explains rates of change, like thru a turn and what does what in short,, and i'd already gotten Gold for the Lewis Hamilton Time Trial at Nurburgring Nordschleife (and Monza + Big Willow,, almost Nurburgring GP) in GT Sport. You win the group 1 Mercedes Sauber C9 for getting gold at Nordschleife in that car, but all Golds gets 20mill cred n max creds go to 100mill,, but a Diamond would be awesome( beating Lewis' time)

So helpful thank you!

I think this is very car dependant. The 458 for instance, is extremely difficult to drive on 0 BB. Set it 2 to the front though, the car drives noticeably different.

Gran Turismo’s explanation is not technically wrong, to be honest. It is just really bad written. If you check brake balances in Assetto Corsa Competizione you will notice that front engined cars like the Bentley and the Mercedes have 65 to 60% front brake bias, opposed to mid engined ones like the 488 and the McLaren 720S with 55 to 60% front brake bias (the 911’s wet preset comes at almost 50/50). Mid engined cars actually have more rear brake bias because of the weight of the engine, pressing on the wheels and giving them grip, preventing the lockup a little bit more compared to a Bentley, significantly lighter in the rear. Your tests are absolutely correct and the brakes work like you said, but the in-game explanation is just, like I said, technically right but written really bad for a beginner.

Never understood this regarding BB or other restrictions on the BOP front, why allow us to tune GT cars up add turbos etc increase power and then restrict it all for racing, give us full power let us race them.......great vid and explanation by the way.......

Bang on! Like deployed 👍 😎🎙🏎✅

Thank you 👍

I think you've misunderstood the explanation regarding brake balance and the weight distribution (or PD's description isn't clear) but I think it means the transfer of weight throughout the car under heavy braking affecting the handling rather than general weight distribution. Eg. Front bias will cause the nose to dip heavier than the rear, causing a shift in center of gravity and weight over the front wheels, which in turn asks more of the front tyres whilst braking hence the underseer

Great stuff...I liked the side view to demonstrate what tyres were locking up first. The BB explanation is a weird one, I think it can be interpreted a few ways but definitely not the best explanation from the game Anyway big question is when will we be able to use BB in sport mode again!!

in GT6 you have a system called "Brake pressure" you can set from 0 to 10 on rear/front. (If you set 0-0 you will still brake and slow down but very weak) So you can do like 4 to the front and 4 to the rear with Gr.1-like cars, then you can play without ABS and you won't lock up. in GT3 cars usually you set 3 front and 2 rear (reduce rear for more stability), which means reduce brake pressure due to less downforce to not lock up. And for road cars like a Ferrari you would want 2 front and 1 rear. You can set 0 front and 10 rear and then brakes will work exactly like handbrake for drifting if you use steering wheel and don't have handbrake.

I dont really think they meant to match the weight balance, but using it to counter the weight balance. It's still based on the weight balance. I also think that downforce levels might play a role in how you want to tune it.. if you have loads of rear downforce per a tune to meet a pp level or just how some cars have a much higher rear weight bias, having more towards the rear might help put down more braking force at speed.

Cheers Chris 👌

The way they explained it isn't wrong in real life, because more weight and downforce help not to lock up the wheels in races where ABS isn't allowed, so do that to have maximum braking power without lock up (in real life) Because I have seen a video (can't remember where) of real life Audi R15 TDi Plus (LMP1 car 2010) the driver set more brake pressure to the rear while in the garage. I didn't understand it at first but now I believe because that LMP has more rear downforce, so they pin the rear wheels easier. and since ABS is prohibited for prototypes I think he needs that bias

It's a joke you can't use it in sport mode bop,great tips chris

Is there any correlation between this on BRF setting in fanatec wheel? What is your brf setting if you are using Fanatec?

Idk what it is wit this game but cars darting to the side when hitting the brakes is frustrating

Ok, I'm a bit confused now, I always thought MR cars would benefit more from a forward balance, if I'm understanding you correctly here, in some cases it's more beneficial to have it to the rear? I can't grasp that.

Wonder if there ever gonna finish this game? So I can finally buy it I can’t justify spending what they want for this game if it was cheaper I would have bought it already and I think a lot of other hold outs would have too

What about brake distance? What can we do to help brake distance. My street car really struggles on the distance, I have to feather the hell out of the brake to get it to stop decently

Okay, here is my take on the brake balancing But first…. ….was that car edited, or not? If it wasn’t edited, then I think I understand my results, or rather I think I might know why, but I am not sure. I tuned the weight, the height, and the camber before doing this, so please take that into account. And its the 2015 McLaren 650S GT3 And Racing Softs When all the way forward my braking was able to make tight turns properly a little too much, and coming out of the turn required too much negotiating for me. When I set it all the way to the back it did oversteer, but in a good way. It did better when I brought it down a little bit. I think that it has to do with weight, but it depends on the HP, Displacement, Height, and Cambers effect on that weight…. And possibly something to do with changing the center of gravity. I don’t know, I’ll ask my cousin, he would know. All I can say is if I am right then the brake setting for every car with the flavor preference for the individual driver. (Do you want more Salt or more Pepper with your Steak\Chicken\Pork\Fish) You also might have to do this after adding everything you want on the car EXCEPT for the LDS…. I “think”!!!😝 (Don’t quote me on that!!😂🤣😂🤣) You are right though, but as you said….they didn’t explain anything really, YOU did. So put everything you want on the car that will change HP, then add weight as needed, where needed…..though height maybe should have come before weight…anyway, you know the rest. That is at least what I “THINK”!!!! (No one’s ever accused me of thinking 🤪) Next is LDS

I miss in dailies races

I keep mine at -2

I basically set nearly all cars to rear 3

My question is what ever happened to brake sensitivity adjustment??

I stopped using coz u cant use it in dailies and learned how to handle all cars without so i didnt miss it in dailies wen racing mate 😉

Also if you break at track limits, you can cheat the penalty system, same goes to deceleration. Just club the gears down so it hits the limiter. Unfortunately we can't damage the gearbox lol

i usually change to rear for wet racing or high powered cars, but i find Zero to be poor braking, but ill test later

Does brake balance work in daily race mode

The worst handling car in GT7 stock is the Ferrari F8.... Unbelievably bad

The fact that brake balance can’t be used in sport mode bop races shows what a joke this game is.

Do an updated version of this please....

I hate to burst your whole thing here. But. GT has this weird visual bug where wheels spin incorrectly when you look at them. It's just a visual thing. It's not transferring to mechanical feel.