I have ran some time races today. Vintage Touring Cars - Lotus 23 / Interlagos. I'm a little bit perplexed because I'm slower on straight than the other player that I have added as ghost. The other player hasn't changed the setup. Normally I would expect that I have nearby the same speed on straight. But I'm significant slower than the other car and lose some car length on every straight. I have checked my gamepad settings and set up the accerlator sensitivity to 100. Then I have calibrated the accerlator. But the result is the same. If I would solve this issue then I think I could be minimum 1 seconds faster. I'm the user mail2 and the other player with higher speed is kyto.
It's possible - but definitely can't say for sure - that it's a TT time from a previous physics version. Maybe the new tyres have increased rolling resistance for example leading to slower speeds.
I believe he has just hidden his setup, there is some sort of exploit to prevent your setup from showing in Time Trial iirc.
If your game is running at far below 60 fps, your car will be moving in slow motion so doing TT is impossible.
I think that when people do that it also prevents the replay from being uploaded - or if it is uploaded, then others cannot see it. For that reason I believe that players who use that exploit should have their times wiped - they may well be legitimate laps but without the replay it's impossible to judge. The exception for that of course should be laps that are so long that they exceed the file size limit for the replay, not a lot the player can do about that. Anyway chances are that if the time trial lap has a working replay but no setup listed then it was the default setup. At least in my experience, unless a certain now-banned former forum member was using a different exploit anyway. (Edit: And by "replay" I mean "ghost" I guess)
The replay and setup upload are different from each other, there are plenty of leaderboard entries with either no ghost or no setup but I didn't see any where there is neither. There are many of times at the top of leaderboards with no setup showing that certainly have some setupwork done, that's for sure. And if a car is pulling away on the straights no apparent reason with no setup showing for, I'd guess the setup just didn't upload.
OK. I understand. Thx for your anwer. For a newbie like me, it's a bit confusing. Maybe it would be better to remove the setup icon in the list when it can´t be ensure that it is correct.
I did a lot of laps and found out that I can get more speed out of the corner. So it was primarily a driving issue and not a setup issue.
