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Can we please remove the Ballast that penalizes Elite Tier Champions

Hi there, I can pretty much now confirm there is a very unfair penalty in iGP Manager that is applied to Championship winners.

This became obvious between my drivers.

My Driver 1 won the first Championship in Season 28
My Driver 2 Won the second championship, with Driver 1 severely underperforming in Season 29

Their performances were a complete flip, even when I tried to give my defending champion driver more focus to get them ahead but they were notably slower.

This happened again with 

My Driver 3 won the 3rd championship in Season 30
My Driver 4 won the 4th Championship, with Driver 3 severely under performing in Season 31

In Season 32, Driver 3 is substantially faster than Driver 4. It's clear when you win a championship you have  Ballast Penalty.

Now coming back of 2 Back to Back Team championships, My pace is 35seconds off against people who I was finishing miles ahead. It is so blatantly obvious there is a ballast penalty on Champions cause even when Defending a Team's Championship, in the 2nd Season of my reign (Where I won Season 1, 3 and 4).

In season 32, I have nowhere the pace, despite the best drivers, Pit crew and top in design. But on straights, despite running less fuel, other cars breeze pass me to where I finish 35seconds down in 2 of the 5 races we've completed this season.

Cars finished with 6L spare were faster than my car that finishes 0.3 and 0.4L and on better tiers.

Then explain in the first couple of races how I could with far less fuel than others, be substantially slower to being off the lead by 35seconds after winning the Championship with a dominant run at the end of the season. When most of our cars are equal at the start. :(



Hutchison is the Defending champion, on the same strategy and pitted first, yet his laps and pace is way off. Lap 24/70

Lap 25/70


now he is 10-12secs behind, he had DRS from 11.58 seconds a moment ago. it's now back at 11.49 at the end of lap 26.