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Can somebody explain

Why its possible to change your suppliers on a race by race basis?

I guess so you can select the best bonus attributes for the up coming track.

while we are looking for answers!

If suppliers are all equal and it is just the bonuses that set them apart:
why do donelots and komehome both have reliability, should one not be fuel?
why do seashells and beep both have fuel, should one not be tyres or something else?
why do tifosi and murk both have acceleration, should one not be tyres or something else?

Well if suppliers are all equal then my answer is kind of void. However surely with the +1 etc. it gives you for certain car parts, there has to be an ideal combination for each circuit? If so, how is that realistic in any way whatsoever? And by that I mean being allowed to change from race to race.

That was plan I think for different suppliers to work better at different tracks, Jack also said not all suppliers would work well with your cars design. That's part of the reason why I was asking about car designs, having 100% on everything is kind of cancelling out each other so your not really getting the full benefits. 100 acceleration with 100 downforce kind of means 50/50 of each instead of 100% power I think.

It may be possible to change them on a race to race basis but you have to pay the fee to change too them. Even if its a small fee over time that can add up to a big fee, and fast.

it probably works out no more than 3m a season, which is absolutely nothing really. its just completely unrealistic, unless this game isn't based on F1? if an F1 car put 4 different engines in it for race weekends in a season, only one of them would work correctly because the car is built around it. so really it shouldn't benefit you to change your tyre, engine and fuel supplier race to race, one bit. if this was to be kept in the game then they should atleast start charging you A LOT more for constantly breaking contracts

I think it would be nice if you had to resign at the start of the season and that was your part for the seasn but unfortunately that isnt a thing

Yeah, godknows why. On old iGP your relationship would go down every time you broke a contract, if still happened now the relationship you would have is 1/10. So unless its just something thats been missed it seems that it's deliberately been opened up and I don't know why

So nobody an explain this

Somebody complained (in old iGP) about not being able to change suppliers whenever they wanted and without penalty. And so it was implemented.

In which case can I complain that my car (and only my car) doesn't have a 5 second speed advantage over everybody else. I would like this implemented please, since its about as unrealistic as changing suppliers on a daily basis.