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How does BMI work?

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Cee Mee medal 5215
1 year 287 days ago
 How does it affect the drivers? Specifically, in my league the team Rainbow Racing ask why the low BMI driver is doing better then the high BMI?
How much does it affect the race?
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Skid Solo medal 5000
1 year 287 days ago
Cee
 How does it affect the drivers? Specifically, in my league the team Rainbow Racing ask why the low BMI driver is doing better then the high BMI?
How much does it affect the race?


BMI is a direct replacement for weight.  Every attribute in this game all play a part but it is the combination rather than any single one that is important. All of the new attributes (including Special Abilities and Favourite track have small positive impacts rather than significant ones.



That said rainbow’s driver with low BMI has 28 stamina compared to the other one which is 21.  High Stamina has always been very important as it impacts driver Health which affects speed So this is a likely reason why the driver with a poor BMI has been faster.
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Gert Rose medal 5013 Super Mod
1 year 287 days ago

Cee
 How does it affect the drivers? Specifically, in my league the team Rainbow Racing ask why the low BMI driver is doing better then the high BMI?
How much does it affect the race?


Jack has explained in his last blog that BMI has an impact on stamina: "Being over or under the ideal BMI will impact driver stamina. The two traits are linked."
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Cee Mee medal 5215
1 year 287 days ago
if that's the case, then based on that driver's driving abilities, stamina may have to much of an influence.
 that's what was not making sense...
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Pete Harper medal 5751
1 year 286 days ago
I'm still very unsure how BMI and weight works now. I recently picked up a new driver, got his stamina to 30, weight is 73kg and BMi is 25, showing green for his height of 171cm.

But I have another driver, a female driver, shes at stamina 30, weight is 53kg, height is 169cm but her BMI is 18.5 and green.

I'm not racing either of them yet, just training them up.  I've used 2 or 3 lots of training on the gut to try bring his weight and hence his BMI down but nothing is happening.  Switching to another training path levels him up.

So how does this work?!
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Kevin Bissell medal 5000 Super Mod
1 year 286 days ago
As far as I can tell the final weight depends on the starting weight. 

If you have a legacy driver that you trained pre-L30 update down to minimum weight (51kg male / 46kg female) they will have a low red BMI. In this case as you train them they will gain weight until BMI is green and at this point they will stop gaining weight and have Green BMI at the lower end of the ideal range.

The opposite happens if the driver starts heavy as will be the case if you have recently promoted them from your YDA or is a previously untrained legacy driver. In this case they start with a high red BMI and training will reduce weight until BMI is green and then they will not lose any more weight. In this case they will have green BMI at the upper end of the range and will be heavier than the first example. 

This difference in weight should not matter because driver weight has been turned off for a long time. The Devs say BMI affects stamina so providing the BMI is green the weight is irrelevant. 
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Dick Dastardly medal 5002
1 year 286 days ago

Kevin
As far as I can tell the final weight depends on the starting weight. 

If you have a legacy driver that you trained pre-L30 update down to minimum weight (51kg male / 46kg female) they will have a low red BMI. In this case as you train them they will gain weight until BMI is green and at this point they will stop gaining weight and have Green BMI at the lower end of the ideal range.

The opposite happens if the driver starts heavy as will be the case if you have recently promoted them from your YDA or is a previously untrained legacy driver. In this case they start with a high red BMI and training will reduce weight until BMI is green and then they will not lose any more weight. In this case they will have green BMI at the upper end of the range and will be heavier than the first example. 

This difference in weight should not matter because driver weight has been turned off for a long time. The Devs say BMI affects stamina so providing the BMI is green the weight is irrelevant. 


Kevin I’ve promoted 4 drivers from my academies across a few accounts since the update and the starting BMI was green on each occasion 

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Kevin Bissell medal 5000 Super Mod
1 year 286 days ago
In the case of a driver being promoted from YDA with already green BMI the weight will not change when training.

I have promoted two academy drivers, one the BMI was already green, the other was orange on the high side.
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Pete Harper medal 5751
1 year 286 days ago

Kevin
As far as I can tell the final weight depends on the starting weight. 

If you have a legacy driver that you trained pre-L30 update down to minimum weight (51kg male / 46kg female) they will have a low red BMI. In this case as you train them they will gain weight until BMI is green and at this point they will stop gaining weight and have Green BMI at the lower end of the ideal range.

The opposite happens if the driver starts heavy as will be the case if you have recently promoted them from your YDA or is a previously untrained legacy driver. In this case they start with a high red BMI and training will reduce weight until BMI is green and then they will not lose any more weight. In this case they will have green BMI at the upper end of the range and will be heavier than the first example. 

This difference in weight should not matter because driver weight has been turned off for a long time. The Devs say BMI affects stamina so providing the BMI is green the weight is irrelevant. 


Thanks Kevin, didn't know driver weight wasn't a factor anymore.  If so, why is it still even there?


What about weight due to too much fuel? Cheers.
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Kevin Bissell medal 5000 Super Mod
1 year 286 days ago
Fuel weight influences the cars, too much fuel will definitely slow the car.

It is only Driver weight that has been disabled. It was briefly re-enabled about a year ago and as a result suddenly everyone was running around trying to find tall female drivers who could be trained down to 5kg less than their male equivalents. There was something of an outcry from the community and it was turned back off again.

So in summary, currently:
Fuel weight does affect performance.
Driver weight does not affect performance (but BMI does).
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Dick Dastardly medal 5002
1 year 286 days ago

Pete

Kevin
As far as I can tell the final weight depends on the starting weight. 

If you have a legacy driver that you trained pre-L30 update down to minimum weight (51kg male / 46kg female) they will have a low red BMI. In this case as you train them they will gain weight until BMI is green and at this point they will stop gaining weight and have Green BMI at the lower end of the ideal range.

The opposite happens if the driver starts heavy as will be the case if you have recently promoted them from your YDA or is a previously untrained legacy driver. In this case they start with a high red BMI and training will reduce weight until BMI is green and then they will not lose any more weight. In this case they will have green BMI at the upper end of the range and will be heavier than the first example. 

This difference in weight should not matter because driver weight has been turned off for a long time. The Devs say BMI affects stamina so providing the BMI is green the weight is irrelevant. 


Thanks Kevin, didn't know driver weight wasn't a factor anymore.  If so, why is it still even there?


What about weight due to too much fuel? Cheers.


Without a weight stat you can’t calculate BMI

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Cee Mee medal 5215
1 year 286 days ago
ok,  this got a little off track.     'stamina may have to much of an influence.'  see rainbow racing in my league
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Kevin Bissell medal 5000 Super Mod
1 year 286 days ago
Stamina has always been one of the most important driver attributes. This is the main reason why the advice is to always train Physical first when you get a new driver.

Weight has been irrelevant for a long time, but with BMI also affecting stamina there is even more reason to get those Physical attributes fully trained as soon as possible.
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Cee Mee medal 5215
1 year 286 days ago
not arguing that point. could it be it may be a little to affective? maybe, 'tuned' down abit? it sorta makes the rest irrelevant. 
we have 5, 6 or more active setups and 4, 5 sometimes more participants for every race. you can see the difference.  
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