How to improve pace in qualifying

I'm in my 3rd season at PCGC Racing league and this season, my drivers are doing rather bad in qualifying.

For both races so far, my drivers have qualifyed over a second off of pole, my car is definitly not slow as I got them to 3rd and 4th despite starting 7th and 10th at Australia.

What can be done to make your cars faster in qualifying? For Malaysia, I had them on Push in the setup, but that didn't seem to help, still qualifyed over a second off the pace.

You may find that most drivers qualify using Soft Tires and perform a soft stint for 20% of the race and then go onto hard stints for 40% of each. Using the fuel they decide when they want their tires to be changed.

I have been qualifying very high up than what I should be doing, I have a low end car with level 3 drivers who are qualifying in the front 6 often, but this is usually due to having softs on for the qualifier.

Try running 6-8 laps with softs at the start, you should get a decernable advantage. However Tire grip is lost faster than tire condition. When your tires are red in the display, that means they have minimal grip. At first I thought that was Tire temperature, but it seems it is actually grip levels.

The problem that has though, is that in a field of 16 cars, you get stuck in traffic which is what happened in Australia. I was still over a second off the pole time.

I just had a look at your qualifying in Malaysia. It's clear as day. Two of the three teams who out-qualified you were on softs with what I'm guessing (by looking at their lap times drop off so quickly) was that they were using 5/5 "take big risks" push aswell.

That alone should be worth more than a second.

As for the third team who out qualified you (and won the race), they started on hards aswell, so my guess is they have a higher developed car than yours. That's worth a heap of time aswell.

It's hard to say much about the drivers since I can't see their stats but my guess is his drivers are better than yours too. Yours are heavy with low health.

The bottom line is, the only way you're going to have a shot at pole position is if you're running 5/5 push level with soft tyres. If you still can't qualify on pole then, you can put it down to either a) your drivers or b) your design % is too low.

^ Pretty much the above sums it up
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[*]Go 5/5 [Take big risks] on softs
[*]Work more on idea setup
[*]Get a better car
[*]Get better drivers
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In theory though a good driver with a bad car will still qualify better than a bad driver in a good car, Not much point in having a really fast car if you have no idea how to drive it

Interesting....I had no idea that push level could affect qualifying.

My first driver has always seemed to do better in qualifying than in the race, and I usually use 3/5 push level for her...and qualify on soft tyres. She seems to go backwards in the race, but that could be due to stamina and health (not sure).

Stamina and health are a factor, but it could also be you're overheating the soft tyres (they heat faster than hards). Use the push levels during the race to keep the tyres at the optimal tyre temperature. More tips in this area can be found under "Beginners guide to live racing" here:
http://igpmanager.com/play/?url=guide/racing