Do cars wear out online despite chassis / engine rebuild?

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I put approx 1,500km's on the Evora '09 recently, only on the Nur, mainly only online, and I feel that the car no longer handles the same as it did in it's infancy stages. Yes, I have always been driving it since the last update.

I am also miffed at how racing the cars online, doesn't seem to use it's oil and degrade it's chassis, as it does in offline practice sessions.

However, with the recent chassis restore, (still always a mystery, this feature) , I noticed the car to handle a tad unforgivingly, (mainly suspension / handling wise) and will resort to trying out a new one again from the dearlership.

Does anyone feel that cars can go awry online after some time use?

Or, am I perhaps still hungover from these past holidays?
 
In my experience racing in the FGTC (roughly 50 laps in race and 40 laps practice racing per week) over 19 weeks. I noticed that when you rebuild engine on an old car it goes back to its original power BUT the power depletes faster than when new.
For me the chassis rebuild gets done weekly and I never see a problem with it no matter how old the car is.
Hope this helps.
 
Racing cars online DOES put wear on the chassis, oil, and engine. But it has to be an actual RACE.

(Free run mode / qualifying practice does not)

Chassis wears out pretty fast.. what happened is, you probably got used to how the car handles with a worn out chassis, and now that you've refreshed it, it feels weird to you.

I tend to rebuild / refresh my online cars every day
 
What are the symptoms of a worn out chassis? I have been driving my vspec gtr since launch and have never done chassis restore...also how does it differ from the chassis stiffening upgrade? For example if a car has a half worn out chassis if you fit the chassis stiffening upgrade is it the same as it was when new but only half as stiff as that same car new with a chassis rigidity upgrade?
 
I seldom rebuild(or restore) the worn-out engine of my car because it costs too much for regular maintenance per days, but can feel the response is getting slow as I put mileage on the car.
 
If it were to be able to be tested against another X1 accuratley you would find it is turning horribly. All that downforce will mask the sluggish handling anyway.
 

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