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In my 3rd season in the 3rd tier now, 8th 1st season, then 7th 2nd season and halfway through now the 3rd and i'm 5th in a tight midfield race. I always seem to get good results at the start but tail off towards the end where everyone else is developing their car but I seemingly don't have the money for it. Also do I try to upgrade my Hq as quick as possible of wait till I'm in a higher tier?
 
I bought the game at the weekend after some free play, and will be starting with my own team in the 3rd tier. Is there a Steam mod that puts the correct team names in?
 
Chonky said:
Do you have the lap times for those laps? It would be easier to see from them what could have happened. I guess it is possible but after 3 laps, not likely. Also, there are a couple of circuits where the pit lane makes the lap shorter, so even though he was limited in the pit lane and stopped for 4 seconds for tyres, it could have been a very quick stop.
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Yes i will post a video of me showing the lap times for Hamilton, Stroll and a few others.

The only way is possible is if the safety car is holding up the cars from P4 onwards (hamilton comes out pits in P3)
But doesn't the safety car appear just in front of the P1 car (Massa) ???

 
im thinking maybe Hamilton shoved his way at the top end of the pack behind the safety car whereas Stroll got in midway down the pack. I guess that explains it......

Basically i dont want to buy this if the game AI players cheat.
 
What did you do in the pits though? Surely a Safety car comes out, almost everyone goes in. Ideally you don't loose many (if any places). I personally don't believe it cheats.

**EDIT** Okay, seen your vid now, not many came in, but as said, I guess it depends on where the safety car emerged.
 
I think it was virtual safety car. Im not sure. I didnt see Hamilton do all this. I dont think there is a way to watch other cars except your own.

I suspect what has happened, as people have said, Hamilton managed to rejoin ahead of majority of cars because either virtual safety car or safety car held them back. Whilst Stroll only rejoined in the middle of the pack.
 
i think I'm finally starting to 'get' this now. I was way too conservative with tires and fuel which is fine in the first few races where everyone breaks down, later on races I can run high engine mode the whole race. Also my car is quite good on tires so I can rush push most of the time too. Hoping for a 5th place finish this season.
 
MikeTheNative said:
i think I'm finally starting to 'get' this now. I was way too conservative with tires and fuel which is fine in the first few races where everyone breaks down, later on races I can run high engine mode the whole race. Also my car is quite good on tires so I can rush push most of the time too. Hoping for a 5th place finish this season.
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Well i learned the hard way regarding fuel and tyre wear lol.

I change tyres at 20% or thereabouts
I try to keep fuel at no more than -1 lap or -0.9 (but i will generally have it balanced most of the time but thats not the yellow one its the orange push as i still conserve fuel with that)

I have noticed (and maybe this is just the F1 2017 mod being unbalanced) but Hamilton is way way too fast. A previous race he qualifies in 18th and still wins the race. Williams has better straight line speed (2nd best apparently) but they (Mercedes) still overtake me on it no problem.

At the moment upgrading HQ is too expensive so i spend a lot of time just design crap car parts to unlock the next level.
Just click on them in the timing list, you follow whoever you want
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thanks i will give it a try. (ive been clicking on the cars themselves lol)
 
Probably well known, but it's something I came across when reading some tips and tricks. At the end of the season, I'm led to believe that the 2 best performing parts get carried over as next years original parts. What I have been doing is making a few average/good parts for my drivers that year, but all the other time gets devoted to trying to produce as high a base performing part as possible (I don't think it uses the performance figures you improve via your mechanics though) so I go for max base stat and as many risky mods as possibly (they often include the best stats).

Then the next season you have a decent original part and you can do the same, so year on year you increase the performance a lot!
 
Does upping the risk carry over to next season? (e.g. say you have a great performing part with medium risk does that risk still carry over for original next season)
 
Surfer said:
Does upping the risk carry over to next season? (e.g. say you have a great performing part with medium risk does that risk still carry over for original next season)
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That's a good question, I think it has happened to me but I'm not entirely sure. I'm stopped running illegal parts after getting two demotions in a row even though they were both low risk.
 
Lots of good tips coming here, thanks. I'm 5 races in and still struggling with performance although I have made some improvements to my car and staff. Even when the tire setting is in the yellow setting, they still get to max temperature with the drivers eventually saying they need to ease off. Have been running engine on yellow as well as reliability was poor, but that is better now. In some of the longer races, my fuels runs out well before the tyres need changing, but as I said above, I can't run harder on the tyres as the drivers complain about performance.

1 race I did well in was down to very poor AI. Rain was predicted but it wasn't raining yet, but almost every other car went in to the garage to go onto intermediates. My drivers stayed on dry tyres and flew past the now much slower cars with my top driver going from 14th up to 4th before having to pit 3 laps later. He ended up finishing 7th when he's usually around 12th.
 
Currently my drivers are 4th and 5th in championship.

I can usually qualify between 2 and 8th. Never first though.

Yes Mike I think that's right. Re tyre wear

Also ATM I don't think rubber on the track affects performance sadly. I've never had a storming qualifier at the end of q3 session due to trying to maximising this. Hopefully in a future patch


Finally do you guys have ERS on auto or manual?
 
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