James Atkins medal 5032 5 years 183 days ago
Ok, i have a team where one driver is a talent 20 and has around 70kg weight and 20 stamina and an 18 talent with 20 stamina and 51kg. The 18 talent is more leveled. Every single race the 20 talent beats the 18 talent by around 10-20 seconds even though his weight is so much higher. My question is does weight even matter and should I just get my drivers to 20 stamina then move on to driving attributes, or is it just because the driver is 20 talent? Hope to get some replies on this because it's something that should be addressed
Zee Count medal 5000 5 years 183 days ago
What’s the drivers atts. And mental atts. Usually weight is a factor. More u carry like carrying lead But if talent 18 like urs atts and low weight could lose to a talent 20 with weight and high driver atts and mental atts too.
Kevin Bissell medal 5000 Super Mod 5 years 183 days ago
There have been a number of threads discussing the effect of driver weight on lap time. Understandably there has been no "official" response from the developers. However at least one very experienced manager has done extensive testing in an attempt to answer the question and the results from his testing are...
... Currently, driver weight does not influence lap times.
But, because weight also appears to have almost no effect on driver level (and therefore star rating / training speed) it makes sense to train drivers in "Physical" attributes first until their stamina is 20 (which does appear to make them faster) and their weight is minimum just in case the developers change something which brings driver weight into play.
You also need to be aware that once all of the trainable attributes are maximised (everything except Talent and Experience) it becomes impossible to reduce driver weight which is another reason to do this early in a drivers career.
Hamlet Rodriguez medal 5000 5 years 182 days ago
Sorry Kevin, this one I will respectfully beg the dif.
Without going into elaborate details that no doubt you've read a few times. From my personal experience with my own drivers I can safely say that the "weight doesn't matter" statement is largely contradictory.
Kevin Bissell medal 5000 Super Mod 5 years 182 days ago (Last edited by
Gustavo Heiden 5 years 182 days ago)
Personally I always train my drivers to minimum weight before I let them get behind the wheel so have no comparative data to either confirm or deny the theory. If you have data confirming ligher drivers are faster I'm certainly not going to argue against it.
One thing I have noticed, on the occasions I have run two Talent 20 drivers of different gender, the female is not necessarily faster even though she is 5kg lighter.
This is what Gustavo Heiden has to say about the subject...
https://igpmanager.com/forum-thread/16526#108295
Gustavo Heiden medal 5518 5 years 182 days ago (Last edited by
Gustavo Heiden 5 years 182 days ago)
Currently, I am playing in one of my teams with these two drivers:
Daniel de Oliveira
21 years old, lvl 18,
69 kg, maxed on everything except experience (12)
Antônio Tavares
38 years old, lvl 19,
51 kg, maxed on all attributes.
Now let's have a look on their stats:
Oliveira
- Races: 97 *I'll use it to normalize
- Points: 1735/97 ~ 17,89 pts/race
- Wins: 36/97 ~ 0.37 wins/race
- Podiums: 77/97 ~ 0.79 pods/race
Tavares
- Races: 405 *I'll use it to normalize
- Points: 6892/405 ~ 17,01 pts/race
- Wins: 140/405 ~ 0.35 wins/race
- Podiums: 303/405 ~ 0.75 pods/race
When Tavares retires I'll replace him with a girl (46 kg) in order to keep testing it.
Bastian Ba medal 5479 5 years 182 days ago
I neither see a difference, i have a Male and a female driver, all stats maxed out except of experience, weight down to Minimum. experience is 9 for Male and 7 for female.
the male driver is somehow a bit faster in Quali, so gets the slightly better strategy (1 lap overcut to female), due to the starting position and strategy he is outperforming her in race. tried the same with strategy the other way round, last season, but was not that succesful.
Maybe it is like tyre economy, that you need a big improvement to see a difference. in that case 5 kg does not make a difference Maybe 10-15 kg will. i have not and will not test that.
Frank Thomas medal 4983 Moderator 5 years 181 days ago (Last edited by
Frank Thomas 5 years 181 days ago)
Same here, male and female driver as usual. Both fully trained, male (15 exp) 118 races, 1811 points (15.35 pts/race) and 3 DC and female (13 exp) 101 races, 1478 points (14.63 pts/race) and 1 DC (small league that's not comparable to bigger ones). The male is usually a tiny amount faster in training average and as the older number one driver gets traditionally the heavier car at start. At least between male and female I never saw an advantage due to the weight in any of my driver pairs.
Again, as it's the best way to do it, I train physical first and thus have not done any own races using a not fully weight trained driver vs a comparable maxed out one, but so far I have not encountered a team or race that suggests that driver weight does play any (noticeable) role while I did see accounts I know I can trust, like Gustavo, that say it does not.
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