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Looking for more info on Research

Can research power and all that be explained? The help guide doesn't provide enough detail. Thanks.

I'll try: Research is essentially the spying feature to even the playing field somewhat for teams. The research power results from the combined star rating of the Chief Designer and Technical Director. It is split up between all the car attributes you select, so for example 60% total would be 60% for one attribute, 30% each for 2 and so on.

That percentage shows how many points of the gap between your car and the best car in the league you gain. So if you have 60% research and 50 acceleration and the best car 60 acceleration you get 6 points (60% of 10 points difference) by putting all research on that attribute. If you have 50 downforce and the best 57 downforce and you choose it additionally to acceleration like before you get 3 acceleration and 2 downforce (probably, I'm not exactly sure how the game handles rounding).

Okay - that makes some good sense to me. Thank you!