Best way to set PP, weight or HP?

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So I ran into this problem last night..

I had just finished tuning my non-RM Elise 111R with RKM's tune. Figured it was time to see what it can do online. I find a room for 525PP street cars (Daytona Road Course), the Elise was currently at ~550PP so I dropped the HP down to meet the requirements.

Well, needless to say, I was left in the dust. Lead car gained a few seconds on me every lap.

My thought is that my "lack" of HP essentially slowed me down due to the straights.

So my question is, is it better to adjust PP via weight or HP? I have ran into the same issue with other cars/tracks as well. Again, I was adjusting HP to meet the required PP limit.
 
In the lotus's case yes you coulda added weight but a skyline with 800 hp and 1400kg it'll be better to drop hp.

Every car is different.
 
It largely depends on the track. For tracks like Sarthe, Daytona, and Indianapolis, decreasing power is the last thing you should do. Add weight first, then reduce downforce (within reason), then reduce power if need be.

In your case it would've been much better to add weight for two reasons.
1.) That course favors powerful vehicles.
2.) The Lotus Elise has an excessive rear weight bias. When you add weight to the vehicle, it is placed in the middle by default. Adding weight gives it better weight distribution, so it would have less of a negative effect on the overall performance of the vehicle (if any at all).

If you do production car races where performance points count (an absolute joke for performance regulation), make sure to leave off the rear spoiler when building a car. You'll have to be a good driver, but it will give you a pp advantage to leave your weight lower or your hp higher. Just having the wing on the car automatically gives you downforce and higher pp, so don't even bolt one on to begin with.
 
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It largely depends on the track. For tracks like Sarthe, Daytona, and Indianapolis, decreasing power is the last thing you should do. Add weight first, then reduce downforce (within reason), then reduce power if need be.

In your case it would've been much better to add weight for two reasons.
1.) That course favors powerful vehicles.
2.) The Lotus Elise has an excessive rear weight bias. When you add weight to the vehicle, it is placed in the middle by default. Adding weight gives it better weight distribution, so it would have less of a negative effect on the overall performance of the vehicle (if any at all).

If you do production car races where performance points count (an absolute joke for performance regulation), make sure to leave off the rear spoiler when building a car. You'll have to be a good driver, but it will give you a pp advantage to leave your weight lower or your hp higher. Just having the wing on the car automatically gives you downforce and higher pp, so don't even bolt one on to begin with.
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Yea, that seems to be the issue.

I just finished a 500PP race at Deep Forest and I was constantly losing about 1s a lap to an NSX-R and RS200.

I agree, the aero probably isnt helping me much.
 
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