OK, Ive posted this in the old thread, but no harm repeating it to give you some idea...
Basically, you set up your car and driving style, qualifying strategy and race strategy. You run practice laps which give you feedback on your setup, and advice to fine tune your settings, and your setup is reflected in your laptimes. Once the game is running, there is a time limit to get all your settings right, then the Qualifying session is simulated, and the results posted. Then there will be a 24 hour timelimit for you to conduct your warmup laps before the race itself. Again you get to tweak your settings.
The race is also simulated, and the results posted, and you can step thru a lap by lap description of what happened thru the race. Then it advances to the next round of the championship where its all repeated.
Things you have to consider with your strategies, are things like Tyre choice, agressiveness, pitstop strategy etc etc.
We will actually start the game when the teams fill up, and it will make more sense as we go.
So to give you a bit of an idea, here is part of the car setup screen :
The top slider sets how much data you get from each test run. Of course the highr you set the slider the moe likely you will have problems or overcook it on the lap etc etc
Next is tyre selection, this is important obviously, and this relates only to your practice/warmup laps. Tyre choice for Qualifying and Race is set up in the corresponding setup menu's
Next are the slider bars for the individual car settings.
There is an ideal number for each setting, and the idea is to try to get as close as possible to this "spot on" figure.
Under each slider is a Min / Max bar, which will tell you where the optimum setting is. As you do your test runs, these max / min bars will slowly narrow in on the ideal setting as you can see on some of mine. When you get the setting spot on, it will tell you, as can be seen on the bottom slider.
That should get you going at least.
Oh and dont bother copying any of my settings. They are different for each team, but both cars in the same team will be identical, so it pays to communicate with your team mate.
After a test run you see how the max / min bar is updated :
So then adjust the slider accordingly, staying inside the max / min reccomendations.
Several runs will zero you in, in no time...
Also, on the car setup screen there is a link to your engineers report. Look at his report because he will give you a very rough idea of where the settings should be...
That'll make 18 participants all up!
