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Help for a Beginner

Hi everyone,

I just started to play and I have some questions that didn't find answers so far.
My car seems to be the best in my league for acceleration, handling and another couple of features. Although, in qualifying, with same tyres, I am around 0.7-8sec slower than almost everybody else. My driver has also higher talent.
I really do not understand how this is possible.
What should I do to improve my car? Is there any setting which might impact?
Maybe the height or weight of my driver?
Would anyone be able to help?

Thank you very much!

Have you adjusted suspension, ride height and wing levels to ideal values (I mean is your driver saying your settings are perfect)?

Yes, and according to my driver that was the ideal setup.

How can you have the best car if this is your first race? (You are only level 1 so it must be your first)


You can find most of your answers in this thread written by one of iGP's best managers ever.

But anyway, if I look at the monaco practice there are 2 people ahead of you. The one at the top has a talent 18 driver and your drivers are only T3. That makes a HUGE difference. Also, the iGP use real time weather, so doing the practice during different times of the day will make a big impact on practice times depending on the temperature and the water level if it is wet. The track also tends to "rubber in" and will often be faster towards the end of practice before the race starts.

Don't focus too much on the practice times though, they mean little. Make sure that you test super softs, soft and medium tyres to get the tyre wear. If the tyre wear is 10% on a compound, do the calculation like this.

1 lap = 100% - 10% = 90%
2 laps = 90% - 10% = 81%
3 laps = 81% - 10% = 73%

Super softs are fine down to about 30% before they start getting slower.
Softs are fine down to ~40%
Mediums are fine down to ~45%-50%
Hard and wet tyres I do not know because I didn't use them much yet.

A tip for monaco. ONLY run supersofts, unless perhaps the temperature is above 40°C.

Calculate how much fuel you need, it will show in your practice lap times sheet. Use the biggest value in fuel of your laps and multiply it by the amount of laps you are going to run in each stint. and always round it up to the closest full litre.

During the race:
Make sure that you keep the tyre temperature on the dot somewhere on the black area of your tyres, Between the read and blue area. You keep the tyres in good working temperature by changing push levels (it is the slider that you can move back and forth.)

Note that higher push level tends to consume a bit more fuel. so until you get the feel for it I suggest adding an extra litres of fuel to your setup for each stint.

Good luck and hope you win (though it will be difficult against a T18 driver)

Not best car overall, but in some features; in others I am quite behind. I followed a thread and changed engines/fuel/tyres. so that I increased acceleration and handling as much as possible.
Yes it will be my first race this evening, right now I did only the practice tests with super soft and soft tyres.
My driver is T3 (best I could find in the transfer market so far).
Is there a way to find any higher T, or in order to do so, I would need to use tokens somewhere else?
Thank you very much for your reply and for the link to the other thread!

Yeah when you level up a bit you can build your own youth academy and scout for drivers although you need to get to level 13 or so before you can find t20 drivers so ignore that for now.

I found my t19 and t20 drivers quite easy over a weekend in the transfer market. But then I checked that page several times every hour for 2 full days so it depends on how much time you have. If you ever find them though use the 9 token options to buy them instantly. otherwise others will most likely start bidding on them too and they will become super expensive.

Are you using a phone or the PC browser version? By using the browserversion, you can just hover over the drivers in the list with your mouse and you will get all the stats instantly instead of clicking on each driver and check them which takes forever and is very tedious.

AH yes, I forgot to mention the suppliers, they also make quite a huge difference. Good one!

I will try to catch your race and see how you perform. Do NOT expect too much. Do not be disappointed if you don't finish in the points. It will take a few races before you improve your stats enough.

You probably read this already but when you go to Cars - Review. You will see your research power that is the combined power of your Chief designer level and Technical Director (Their levels) You can see that the more boxes you tick the less research power you get in each area. In most cases it is best to research in one area at the time. There are exceptions but it is a bit too technical for your first day, and you will find the answer in Joeys guide anyway.

In short, try to research ACC HAN BRK and DWN. first. Then Fuel and tyre. and you can ignore reliability and cooling as they both make little to no difference at all.

I was watching your race. Well done! It is a shame you didn't manage to grab second place, you where very close. But a third place in your very first race is amazing. 

When you watch someone else you can not see their fuel levels and push level and tyre temp and things like that but it looked like you where doing very well indeed. You made a few longer and a few shorter stints to try things out. If you want to analyze your race closer, go to the home page then click on "previous race results" then next to your name you can see your race finish time. Click on that finish time and you will be able to see how your fuel level and tyre wear was at the end of each stint. You don't really want to end over 1 liter of fuel as you enter the pits, because that mean you was a bit too heavy and lost time because of it.

I reckon you will become a really good manager, just keep testing stuff and read as much as you can in the forums. I can also recommend following these streams and check the chanel for older videos. Peter who is streaming is an extremely good manager and you will learn a lot by watching how he plays.

I am impressed, well done and best of luck.


One more thing, only running super softs basically only work in monaco (depending on the temperature though). Never try that in Monza ;)

Mario, u don't see supplier bonus of your opponent. Just because u might be close on ACC and with suppliers would be in front, doesn't mean u are actually in front.