Good day everyone! We had a quick discussion yesterday morning before the race with the Miata at Road Atlanta regarding the use of BOP with Setting Options. I did some research and I have good news and bad news.
The good news is: You can select BOP and still allow items to be modified. This includes the following:
Suspension: Body Height adjustment, Anti-roll bars, Damping Ratio, Natural frequency, Negative Camber, Toe Angle
Differential: Differential, Torque Vectoring Centre Differential
Transmission: Transmission (No final gear), Transmission (Final gear)
Others: Downforce, Anti-lag, Brake Balance
It is an easy way to allow Brake Balance for all BOP races.
The bad news is: Nothing can be loaded from stored data. You cannot change the Setting Sheet. You have to make the changes manually every time. You cannot save the changes you make under the process.
Here's the process. Once the race lobby is setup for a BOP race with some or all setting options, you select your vehicle and under the "Car Settings" it will show the last setting sheet you used for the vehicle. After you have pressed the "Green Check Mark" button, you will see the screen for BOP HP and Weight and your vehicle will be reset to the original settings. If you go back to the "Car Settings" you will get access to the setting screen to make adjustment.
There is no functionality to save the changes or load preset data.
In the case of the Miata Roadster Touring Car, the default suspension is "Height Adjustable Sports Suspension" and therefore Anti-Roll bars changes are not available. In the case of cars with "Normal Suspension" as the default, some don't allow any change, others allow a smaller subset of suspension changes.
My suggestion would be to set the race parameters with HP and Weight reflected from BOP. For the Miata, it would be 215HP and 1753lbs and therefore would allow loading of Setting Sheets and preset suspension adjustments.
Maybe improvements to this option can be passed on to Master to forward to his contact.
