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Best setup isn't really the best?

I'm racing in Bahrain. My drivers suggest me a setup, but I notice that another setup is MUCH better (about 0.5s). How should I read this situation?

That other setup is probavly a one-off lap time because normally setups don't make lap times faster ,sometimes they are slower than different setups maybe because the fuel used that lap. like 0.01 litre could also make a HUGE difference in lap times

Nope. I tried two times with a driver and one time with the other. All of these laps were much better then previous.

Go ahead and use the "faster" setup. Just go ahead and use it. See what happens, then you may finally realize the reason for the suggested or ideal setup

Greg, you're not helping me this way. I'm almost a beginner, I'm not able to understand whether a race pace is good or it could be 0.3s better. Are you trying to suggest me that the ideal setup (according to my drivers indications) is always the fastest in race?

I am helping you. If you try the 1 lap "faster" setup and have worse results you learn the reason for listening to your driver. If you have the same or better results, you learn to pay attention to what setup gives you the fastest practice lap. Of course you need to have constant human competition to truly find out for sure.


If you don't like that answer, think of it this way... Why would you pay 3 tokens to get get a setup that wasn't the best possible for the conditions you are doing your test laps (which hopefully is an almost exact match to the race conditions)

I think you should send out one driver with the faster setup, then give the other the setup he thinks is best (the slower one).

Do it for science, plus if you discover something new, it may give you a more upperhand. (and let us know the results)

Practice times are not important, especially since they change with track conditions (temps and weather) and simply other random variables (some say driver mistakes and so on, but I just chalk it up to lottery). Race pace is important, so is qualy position (though the latter can be a lottery at times if car performance is relatively equal). Always listen to your driver regarding setup.

The ideal setup relates to the car's endurance during the race, have you ever seen a suspension failure on the car during the race? Its consequences of not ideal setup.

The suspension failure is not due to the wrong setup.It is due to the car not being fixed for a long time and such example is that at Italy,if you look carefully,most of the suspension failures are due to managers no being active for a month or so and their cars are under 50% health so they broke down near the end of the race

now what u will say
around 1 second faster with wrong setup (suspension increased just by 1) fuel as well bit lower 0.02 ltr less.



m racing with the not the best setup lets see what will be the result

And?

It's a good thing I found this thread, because I used to use the "wrong setup" because I thought it was faster. Considering how trained his drivers are... it might work. I'll run some experiments for a couple races.

and it din worked ;p

but i do have another example of wrong timings with same setup and back to back lap


luckily i was having another chance to test so i got to know the higher one might be wrong data

I'm trying to get relegated to pro, so if you want me to test a setup for Japan, Brazil & Dhabi let me know what to set.