feck that. It’s S-10 all over again. Spent two hours doing it and only completed about 3 full laps. Half a second off gold. I can do it but everytime I get ahead of my ghost I shit myself. The downhill section is a bitch.
That McLaren is a dog of a car. They've purposefully set the cars up to make the lap difficult.
I've done thousands of laps of this joint over the past 20 years in sims and I struggled with this.
Pretty much, settle the car earlier and brake before the pedestrian bridge on top of the mountain and then if you can, trail brake down into the dipper (the cork screw like bit). Also, you want to track as far right as you can before getting to the dipper. the aim is to straightline the chicane as much as you can.
When you get to the dipper, you want to aim to drop your front left hand wheel over the edge of the ridge and almost get airborne but becareful when lighting up the throttle as it doesn't like the loss of weight over the rear wheel (they've actually simulated this very well). Just be smooth on throttle application.
Now that little right kink before you come down to Forest Elbow (that's the hair pin just before conrod straight (big straight), you want to drop just dab the brake and wipe off a smidge of speed before you over the ridge and then angle the car toward the inside of the corner at the elbow. You want to apex the corner as soon as possible. The earlier the better because taking the wider line there to make it a nicer corner doesn't work down conrod as you make so much more time with a good exit.
One thing about Bathurst is that it rewards bravery when you have the car setup to do it. Otherwise you need to respect it and learn to float the car. The only 2 parts of that track I’ve found you can attack in that McLaren is the Reid park (across the top of the mountain before the left handed onto skyline and the chase.
add a touch of rear bias to settle the rear of the car across the bumps - also these cars have full tanks which doesn’t help.