This is turning into a witch hunt or a conspiracy theory, depending on how you want to look at it.
From my point of view, it looks like people have not been testing thoroughly during pre-season (some seem to have tried only 1 or 2 cars on 1 track), and now that they are on totally different tracks, are surprised by how some cars have more top speed or are quicker through corners. Well, guess what? People that do their homework will have an advantage, because they will have chosen a car that actually performs well everywhere. For setting up gears, see Praiano's tuning page, Yeratel has already linked to it. That easily can bring a couple of tenths per lap. I also suspect some people are shifting way too late and are not using the power-band of their cars to the maximum. The red line is
not the optimal shifting point in many cars.
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Furinkazen :I think your different times are either due to a placebo-effect, or your car's chassis rigidity has begun to deteriorate. I know my Civic had started to age after Ascari. (It had reached 1.000km - might be the limit)
I find this hysteria quite ridiculous, to be honest.
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