is next years car really that important?

[rainmaster1994]

i mean, if we're just focusing on devolping parts to be comepetive, then why should the next year's car suppliers matter?

[RodHull]

In the ERS it isnt important, none of the stat bonuses are worth it imo for the money, and tyre wear and heat is irrelevant as its the tank that forces you to pit all the time.

In Pacific (as I just found out) it becomes much more important as the tanks are much bigger, my tyre wear and heat is about 1 star below all the other cars we have to pit generally 2 to 3 laps before everyone else and by the end when our tyres are in the red everyone else is still on green %s

Also the better engine suppliers you get to select in pacific can give up to 14 or more base stat and a whole extra star of improvability. That said if your budget is tight its better to focus on parts and the dilemmas during chassis building.

[Z. Ramone]

The next seasons chassis determines how long your tires live, how fast your tires heat up and your fuel burns and how strong the parts developed will be.

The parts determine how fast you are.

[Electrodecay]

Chassis is important, of course it is, its your chassis! It forms the base of your cars potential to deliver the performance of those parts (tyre wear and heating dictates how much you can ask your drivers to push/conserve through a race) you have to spend all that time and money on as well as the development path of the parts themselves (improvability). Like mentioned (by RodHull) above though, it is certainly advisable to sacrifice chassis performance in some situations, like in ERS having good fuel efficiency is entirely pointless IMO (unless re-fueling rules change through politics). Of course all this is really dependant on your long term strategy for the team you run. For example, if you make it to WMC say, with two pay drivers of average skill as your driver pairing, having focused on throwing the big bucks at your design team for years to try to recreate the Starship Enterprise to race in, making your promotion year in all liklihood a cakewalk in an OP car, then when you hit WMC all that investment is lost as the technology and design of your car resets and those two pay drivers find themselves drowning against the top drivers around. So why would you need to invest in a great chassis in that situation? Even a full 5 star chassis (if even possible) will not help you compete in this situation, sure your car will perform better this way, but £50mil is a moumental outlay for a first season in WMC when your car is going to be the worst of the field regardless! First season in the WMC should be all about the "improvability" rating of your chassis and for many years to come in all honesty!!!!!!! ;)

[RodHull]

Originally posted by zaG:

The next seasons chassis determines how long your tires live, how fast your tires heat up and your fuel burns and how strong the parts developed will be.

The parts determine how fast you are.

In the ERS though trust me it makes almost no difference, its barely worth bothering with anything except improvability and base stats. Even then debatable. Better off blowing 4 mill on 2 or 3 engine upgrades than say half a star of fuel efficiency

In Asia and WMC yes it becomes much more important but like tom says only to a point. Like this season Ive got no chance in Asia so I didnt see the point on blowing 20 mill on a chassis when a 9 mill one will see me getting similar results.

[Fritz]

I'd say having good tyre wear is important in ers though. Also by good I mean you're not in the bottom third. This is especially true if you have crap drivers, otherwise you'll see yourself pitting 2-3 laps ahead of everyone else.

[RodHull]

Originally posted by Fritz:

I'd say having good tyre wear is important in ers though. Also by good I mean you're not in the bottom third. This is especially true if you have crap drivers, otherwise you'll see yourself pitting 2-3 laps ahead of everyone else.

I always picked the worst chassis except improvability and promoted in season 4, so tyre wear is ok but not required. If you have decent smoothness its not needed at all imo

[Fritz]

Well if you can manage good smoothness drivers then it's not as important. If smo is in top or middle third, having bottom third chassis balances out tyre wear to 0 or -1 respectively. The case I was cautioning against was getting cheap pay drivers or people with high marketability (common strategies in the ers to earn cash quickly) but might have low smo. That compounded with weak chassis can get you -2 tyre wear and that can hurt.

[RodHull]

Yeah I guess so but I had a smoo 11 driver (so very average) who regularly placed top 5 or 6 with decent parts. Main limiting factor in ERS is the fuel tank basically, you can run 1 stop strats but even with awesome tyre wear it hurts your lap times and a good car running two stops on better tyres will still beat you mostly. Basically in ERS the fuel tank is your bottle neck so tyre wear isnt that important.

Pacific your right though it becomes very important, possibly the most important of all 3 in race modifiers