How do the star ratings on a team relate to the car strengths?

[Vlad Tepes]

What does the star rating of a team mean for the car ratings.. Does a 5 star team have 100,100,100 ?? or is it sort of random..
just wondering as I build my team and my cars from 75 .. on up.. 85 ish on just the engine.. and I'm already fairly competitive.

[Moosemedford]

I don't know that anyone here would have a definitive answer for you. I believe you would need someone from the developer to answer this as they would have the inside information. Obviously in career mode we can only pick "easy, normal, hard, legend" difficulty - we don't get that numeric value that you do in a quick race.

Also, by "competitive" - that can vary too. Depending on your settings. Do your tires wear at the same rate as AI? Gas consumption? A lot of what you experience is going to depend on your settings, and thus impact what "competitive" means.

I've ran my own cars, I've joined a CPU team. And obviously when you do a "hot seat" you get a temporary ride on a CPU team - and you can check the number of stars that team has by looking at the "future plans" before starting the race. Comparing the cars I've gotten on CPU teams versus my own, my thoughts are that a 5 star team will give you 95 - 100 cars, 4 star 85 - 90, and 3 star 75 - 80. This is just a best guess based on my hours played.

I have observed that racing against a AI guy who is "hot" and on a 5 star team, I can't keep up even in a 100/100/100 car. So the extra boost they get for that puts them over a 100/100/100 car. I won't say I'm the most awesome driver, but I'm fairly competent.

Hope these observations help.

[Vlad Tepes]

Thanks, that at least gives me some idea. I wasn't paying attention to the team stars when I did two Xfinity hot seats. While just starting out in the truck series, I did my first hot seat and won the race quite easily. Then later on I did another hot seat and barely ran mid-pack.
I understand about the other settings. I guess I shouldn't worry too much about the actual number and focus on improving either way and getting my car as good as I can.