Ahhh I see - I'm surprised to note that you rate the car setup as such a high proportion of the players laptime.

Perhaps the people who constantly ask for setups have a valid point then ?!

I should also have mentioned that i am assuming that a player has made some effort to obtain a reasonable setup from somewhere like Inferno before doing some tinkering.

I understand enough to know that the out of the box setups (good though they seem to be - i can drive most tracks without meeting the scenery) will never cut-it when up against bespoke setups for a given combo.

Still surprised at how much difference a different setup made to my laptimes.......

As a self confessed rubbish LFS racer i thought until recently that the car setup only played a fairly minor role in determining a laptime.

Aside from the obvious gear ratios and wing settings (where appropriate) the other stuff remains pretty much a mystery to me.
My efforts at 'tweaking' are fairly useless since i cannot drive consistantly enough to determine the small differences between settings.
Doesn't matter i thought - since I was of the opinion that a fast driver would always beat a slow driver in the same car whatever the respective setups were (within reason).

How wrong could i be ?

On my circuit of choice i was using a modified version of the WR setup when I was kindly donated a setup by a 'frontrunner' (out of sympathy i suspect) and without changing my line or driving style i was 1.5sec a lap quicker.

My question is this - as far as is possible to say within the bounds of guesswork - what percentage of a players laptime can be attributed to the car setup as opposed to the players ability ?

I realise it's pretty much an impossible question to answer - however simply trying a new setup has breathed new life into my dented self esteem and i now can't wait to win my first race (j/k)



Oh - and would the person who's stolen my mojo from the first hairpin at Aston Club please return it (leave it in my setup folder) and we'll say nothing more about it OK ?