Driver weights.

Does the weight of a driver affect the overall level of the driver. For example if focusnon physical training will the driver gain levels if the driver is just cutting weight?

Yes and time :)

It makes only a little difference to driver level (and therefore training speed). This is why it's a good tactic to train Physical first until weight is minimum and stamina is 20 before moving on to train driving attributes.

Yes also if you do it the other way around by training driving ability etc first and maxing it the weight doesn't always reduce to its lowest possible....Unfortunately did this once and had to move the driver on.

So your saying reducing drivers weight does not gain any extra performance at all?

So when you get driver stamina to 20 leave weight and move over to ability or mental is that a correct understanding

Every 1kg of driver weight extra or less should affect car performance in the same way that fuel does. 

Of course it matters, it wouldnt be trainable if it didnt.

Heavy drivers will always be slower if all other attributes are the same.

@Dan.

I assume you never played the previous version of this game. There were trainable driver attributes in that version which slowed the driver down if you trained them.

That said, I still take my drivers down to minimum weight because.... Well it seems the right thing to do, but I have no evidence it actually makes them any faster. Whereas it appears Gustavo has evidence that it doesn't.

Yeah suppose it's just the done thing....when I was learning the ropes it's something I was told and obviously would make sense...less weight etc

If you work on fuel consumption to lower weight then loweribgva drivers weight mmakes sense too.

Nope i never played the old version but if its true that some training made the driver slower then no wonder thats an old version, thats silly.

That said, this game is from what ive heard is much simpler than the old version, so the 5hings they have left in it must matter or why leave it in.

But who knows on this game.

Yes! but heavier driver are faster in wet weather and other conditions the same as before updates

Poppy Eye, so you could load up with extra fuel, say 20+ litres and manually pit when your tyres are done..the extra weight would counteract your skinny drivers weight disadvantage. Genius.

I dont understand why u guys treat these topics as if we are in formula 1. In igp manager (which is the game we're playing) there is no added weight unless u are too high level for the division u are. No car + driver is 'light' or under minimumweight here and cars are not being balanced. So physics should see 1 kg extra bodyweight the same as 1 kg extra fuel (Imo). Even tho the physics of fluids n bodyweight are not completely the same and the person is not exactly in the same place as the fueltank, but then again. This is not formula 1. So all speculation above can be dismissed, all we want to know is does the code account for driver weight or is it just a cosmetic feature? 


Its such a simple question. The only one with a straight (dont know of its correct or not) answer ive seen so far was gustavo's. And there have been a lot of topics on the subject where admins beat around the bush or, like here, bring up all sorts of aspects from formula1 that have nothing to do with the game or the question...

So. Does driver weight affect the racespeed n laptimes?
I guess ill just have to find n stalk some people with heavy n light drivers n see how they do. Even tho everyone trains all drivers to a minimum weight level cus it should b common sense. 

So far ive noticed my girl (whos lighter) is always faster in training and qualify if setup the same way. Every single time. So common sense again says yes. It does matter. In race it can be affected by a lot of different factors which might not give a clear picture.

Bo. The original question from Dominic was "does the weight of the driver affect their level?" I answered this in the third post.
All this talk about weight influencing speed is off topic. The only people that will be able to give a definitive answer to this are the devs and they're not likely to start telling us all how the game is coded, it's up to us to experiment and find out. So the best answer to the off topic discussion is from Gustavo who's response is evidence based.