Car Setup Lottery

hi, im new in here, first season and 3 races after me,my question is how to setup the car for race?thats mean how to set sliders after driver feedback,my first race i tried to do it by myself - my feeling, second time i watched driver feedback really carefully, third time i saved all feedbacks and settings,i thought if follow feedback like “increase by 5” and move slider 5 up will be fine but wasn’t, when driver says “feels good” and not changing this setup after next test can say that’s wrong,for now car setup is like lottery for me,maybe this is one of a points of this game when I find a way how to do it then I can be the good of the best, or maybe this setup depends from driver,i dont now but maybe more experience players can give me answer

You should set up your car up for the race 5 minutes before the race if possible. This will make sure that your setup will work better for the current conditions, which is most likely to resemble the race conditions. Basically, If the forecast for race day is dry, don't set the car up when it is raining, or vice versa. If you haven't done already, buy the simulator in the facilities section. This will generate a better default setup for you to use. You should ideally be looking for "feels good" on everything after your last practice run. Finally, if one part is on feels good, don't alter it unless the driver gives feedback.

What Lee says is right.

This is my rule of thumb for the feedback given:

1. "Increase/Decrease by #" = Move the slider by exact # shown
   
2. "Increase/Decrease a little" = Move the slider by 6-9 clicks
   
3. "Increase/Decrease" = Move the slider by 10-16 clicks
   
4. "Increase/Decrease" a lot" = Move the slider by 20-30 clicks, sometimes more
   

If you use this rule you should get results such as #1 above. Which helps to decrease the amount of guesswork. When you see feedback that says "move by 5" for example, that could very well be exact but once you move other values of the setup it might change the driver's feedback overall, but only by a tiny bit. Just listen to the values given and you should have a 100% "Feels good" setup every time.

And of course, make sure you've trained your driver(s) a few times for "Technical" for better setup feedback. It will help greatly. If you have two drivers you can use your driver with the worst technical training to start the initial setup. Then use your primary driver who has been trained in Technical to finish the setup and be more precise. Then you can load your finished setup for the previous driver to use. But generally you can find a perfect setup with just one driver if you're good at it.

thanks David, i think  this is it what i was talking about, some kind of key to understand our drivers, im gonna test it

i already have a simulator, thanks for advice Lee

David's rule of thumb is actually almost exactly what I've been using since about my second season of racing (currently on my 14th!).

Something to keep in mind at your level, Adam, is that the drivers at the lower levels aren't really any good at giving technical feedback, and so no matter whom you hire, they're going to give you inconsistent feedback. Just try to get it as close as you can. For your first two or three seasons the best you'll get as far as setup is maybe two or three "Feels good" and the rest will be off by a few one way or the other.

There are a few things I have noticed about drivers over my time on the game regarding setups:

1. A driver will like the gear ratio set to a specific value based on their training, and this value will always be a multiple of 5. If you do a setup in the dry, and the gearing is set to 20, and the driver says "Increase by 1," go ahead and set it to 25 for the next test run. More often than not the driver will say it's perfect. Also, as your driver improves via training, this number will go up over time. One of my current drivers likes his gearing at 80 when it's dry, but when I hired him he liked it at about 45. If it is wet, the driver will ask for a lower setting.
   
2. Brake balance works similarly, and as the driver improves he/she will like this number lower. My current lead driver (he of 80 gear ratios) likes his brake balance at 42 right now, and his teammate likes hers at 55 (she's on her second season of racing; he's a veteran of nearly nine seasons). If it's wet, the driver will ask for a lower value than if it were dry.
   
3. If you get both the front and wing values to "Feels good", take note of the difference between the front wing and rear wing settings. This difference will remain the same, within 1 or 2 points, for as long as you have the driver. If your driver asks for a rear wing setting of 50 and the front at 65, that difference of the front being 15 points higher will always be very close your driver's ideal setting. Try to match this in later races. If at say, Italy, your driver asks for the rear wing at 25, try the front wing at 40. If you get inconsisent feedback - say, the rear being too high and the front too low - try to split the difference. If he asks for rear wing +1 and front -3, try going -2 on both. Wet weather will require higher wing settings.
   

Eventually as you increase in ranking and can hire better drivers, you'll start getting drivers that give consistent feedback and this gets a whole lot easier. My current lead driver, I can get his setup to "Feels good" across the board maybe 24 times out of 25. His teammate isn't there yet (she's still relatively untrained).

Hope this helps, Adam. Good luck.

edit: grammar

first set up one car 4x, then copy to other car and change 5x then back to first car and copy second car set up to car number 1.

thanks for more advices guys, curently i have one driver and starting in league for one car

offtipic, is it better for the begining to get two cars or stay in one?

You can make more money in single-car leagues (income is the largely the same but you have half the car expenses), which matters when you're just starting out but not at all later on. Maybe start with just one car and do that for a couple of seasons and then go to two-car racing if you feel like?

i thought exactly the same as You wrote James, thanks for make me sure about this

many thanks for all, i have tested Your rules and ideas, today i have result of that ;]