In theory, maybe. In practice, no.
Have you ever seen someone asking for a setup for a track? Yes.
Have you ever seen someone point someone else to the Inferno website? Yes.
Have you ever seen someone complain that they can't drive the Inferno setups? Probably.
Those 3 things lead me to the following conclusion:
People want the idea of the "best" setup. So irrelevant of whether they can actually drive it or not, they think that just because someone got a WR time with that set that makes it the best in the world.
Most of the time the changes they make are only to tyre pressures to make them last a few more laps. Maybe tyre type on the slick-enabled cars.
And that's a whole issue of driving STYLE. Tuning and modifying are entirely different.
If you can say to someone "hey, this car has 150hp at 2500rpm coming into the Blackwood straight" when someone else is going "mine only gets 100hp at the same time" there is no reason to choose the second setup. The kind of person who thinks like this is not the kind of person to think about whether they're actually AT 2500rpm at that exact moment.
That's the same person who uses the Inferno setups and will complain their time isn't even close to the WR, not thinking that it's down to their driving style ("I followed the line exactly" etc). They don't change the settings because they don't know what they do and they don't want to risk "messing it up" and they're not really interested in learning.
THAT's the average user. Trust me, I've seen plenty of evidence.
Have you ever seen someone asking for a setup for a track? Yes.
Have you ever seen someone point someone else to the Inferno website? Yes.
Have you ever seen someone complain that they can't drive the Inferno setups? Probably.
Those 3 things lead me to the following conclusion:
People want the idea of the "best" setup. So irrelevant of whether they can actually drive it or not, they think that just because someone got a WR time with that set that makes it the best in the world.
Most of the time the changes they make are only to tyre pressures to make them last a few more laps. Maybe tyre type on the slick-enabled cars.
And that's a whole issue of driving STYLE. Tuning and modifying are entirely different.
If you can say to someone "hey, this car has 150hp at 2500rpm coming into the Blackwood straight" when someone else is going "mine only gets 100hp at the same time" there is no reason to choose the second setup. The kind of person who thinks like this is not the kind of person to think about whether they're actually AT 2500rpm at that exact moment.
That's the same person who uses the Inferno setups and will complain their time isn't even close to the WR, not thinking that it's down to their driving style ("I followed the line exactly" etc). They don't change the settings because they don't know what they do and they don't want to risk "messing it up" and they're not really interested in learning.
THAT's the average user. Trust me, I've seen plenty of evidence.
