01-10-2021, 06:14 PM
they can really do only 1 hotlap after many attempts ? 
well that is really quite big understimation of the skill and time involved. Also there is experienced drivers and Experienced drivers, even if you drive for few years, you will have very hard time keeping up with someone who has driven milions of km's chasing world records, especially in those cars they like a lot (also they can do more than 1 lap ).
The reason begginers have problems with those setups is mostly pretty simple, they are used to very understeery setups with too much aero because at first glance those are easier to drive and control, and when they get properly set car they just feel it oversteers too much and reacts too fast and are not able to handle it because they are used to something totally different (but in fact its the driver who is just driving the car wrong, getting way too agressive, givin too much gas, or turning way too abrupt and such). Also understeer really kills speed, car that is not turning is never going to be fast. That combined with some mistakes that begginers tend to do a lot(braking too late for example) will result in massive time difference (you gain 0.05s when beggining braking, you cant turn the car, you loose 0.5s midcorner because you have to slow down way too much, you are on super wrong line and you have to turn a lot more to get the car trough the corner, and on the next straight you loose another 0.5s because you are slow exiting the corner). Also there is nothing like perfect setup for a car, this will differ wildly depending on the way you drive (well there are some extremelly broken cars where some absurd setups will get you clear advantage, f310 for example)
well that is really quite big understimation of the skill and time involved. Also there is experienced drivers and Experienced drivers, even if you drive for few years, you will have very hard time keeping up with someone who has driven milions of km's chasing world records, especially in those cars they like a lot (also they can do more than 1 lap ).The reason begginers have problems with those setups is mostly pretty simple, they are used to very understeery setups with too much aero because at first glance those are easier to drive and control, and when they get properly set car they just feel it oversteers too much and reacts too fast and are not able to handle it because they are used to something totally different (but in fact its the driver who is just driving the car wrong, getting way too agressive, givin too much gas, or turning way too abrupt and such). Also understeer really kills speed, car that is not turning is never going to be fast. That combined with some mistakes that begginers tend to do a lot(braking too late for example) will result in massive time difference (you gain 0.05s when beggining braking, you cant turn the car, you loose 0.5s midcorner because you have to slow down way too much, you are on super wrong line and you have to turn a lot more to get the car trough the corner, and on the next straight you loose another 0.5s because you are slow exiting the corner). Also there is nothing like perfect setup for a car, this will differ wildly depending on the way you drive (well there are some extremelly broken cars where some absurd setups will get you clear advantage, f310 for example)