From several post (including mine) I got the impression, that the cars were behaving differently than while practicing. How can that be possible? Could it be connected with more cars on server? Sorry if its a dumb question, I'm a hardware noob. Richs knowledge is like a medieval magic for me (Saruman!
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We had this crop up on TPG We think there are a few reasons for this
Regarding Grip level.
You will experience it everytime, with each start of a session the grip level changes. it also chneges if you play Pract 2 on a server, leave it and rejoin it. if now Practice 2 starts again, grip level can be very difficult.
We're talking about Live track technology. Let's say we have 10 ppl without any problems, all doing clean and fast laps, grip level will be very high. if we now have 20 ppl with some not hitting the line perfectly, or being offtrack, grip level won't be any good.
if only 1 person gots trouble with his connection, bad ping to server or anything else, the whole grid will have trouble then
LTT works a bit diffrent !
It doesen`T matter which line 10 or 20 drivers go, LTT in GTR is time based ! sad but true ! it doesen`T matter when you pull of the racing line !
Every session the girp level changes, for example, at the beginning of the race weekend in practice 1 you will have less grip ( a bit slower times ) than in Qually 2, where you have hte most grip ( fastest laptimes possible ) .
Let`s say everybody in a race out of 10 drivers is driving 1 corner completely diffrent to the racing line, which means not the optimum line.
Still the grip level will be the best on the racing line even though you didn`t drive on that line !
This was discussed a very long time ago on RSC, maybe someone feels bored and tries to find the thread, I don`T feel bored ...lol
also the temps of air and track are changing and will give you everytime a bit diffrent feeling on how the car behaves !
also if you have got a racing setup which you tested for let`S say 10 laps, but you are using it for 30 laps, it might happen that the car feels diffrent from lap 20 cause of wearing out tires, fading brakes, grip level of the track and changing temps !
there are so many things that influence the whole car/setup..........