Nick
Connor
Hello,
Unlike staff, a driver's level doesn't directly affect their performance, however it can have an impact on their training speed.
A driver's performance is more significantly impacted by their attributes - with talent having the largest effect.
So a T20 lvl 18 driver will be significantly faster than a T10 lvl 18 driver. How does that correspond to their individual performance in equal machinery?
I Know you can't get a clear picture by having both of them run a practice session as the times are very dynamic. I do wonder though if there's some sort of fixed value in-game that makes one be like a 100th of a second faster than the other across all setups and tracks etc
Yes, in quite a big simplification; higher talent = higher speed.
I can't find any posts or threads within the forum which definitively say what the time difference is between different talents and there could be a few reasons for this:
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Secrecy - In a couple of the very old threads I looked at, it was noted that the developers may not want to release the exact time loss per tier as they want managers to calculate ut for themselves.
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Driver errors - As you rightfully pointed out, practice times are not a very good way to compare drivers due to driver errors being activated. This is the same for a race, where, as far as I know, driver errors are also activated, so saying that a driver will lose x seconds per lap per talent may not be true in every lap of a race.
That said, some managers may have still done work, compiled data and generated a figure for how much time a drop in talent loses, but unfortunately I don't have those figures.
