Because it gets less balanced. When PD allowed tuning on Sarthe GR.1, instead of tuning 'fixing' the unbalanced BoP of GR.1, the only viable car ended up being the R18. No point in showing up in anything else as you would be way behind.
Tuning is an essential part of motorsport since no 2 cars are exactly the same. Real parts all fit together slightly differently and need to be tuned to work optimally together. You can't simply copy a tune from one car, apply it to another and expect it to behave exactly the same. Virtual motorsport doesn't simulate that, all carbon copy cars behave exactly the same with the same numbers put into the spreadsheet.
The meta car train will only be more spread out with tuning. Plus you never know if someone beats you on race craft or tune craft. With BoP you can't hide behind, well he must have a better tune than me. It's all about racing, which imo it should be. Tuning for time trial challenges.
Hmm, I’m not sure if the same goes for GR3 to be honest.
The Variety of Cars is somewhat bigger and it shouldn’t be that obvious in that case.
Look, just over the past few Days I did quite a lot of testing and tuning the Gr3 Cars i own.
My Goal was not to make the fastest Tune, my Goal was to make the Cars more drivable and therefore more enjoyable.
I agree that there will eventually ALWAYS be a specific Meta Tune for a specific Meta Car which Suits a specific Track somewhat better, but isn’t it the same as it stands right now?!
When I look up the Leaderboards thesedays, I see 95% of my Homies all using the RCZ for GR3 just as an example.
I tested that Car too and I can confirm that if driven properly it’s without a doubt around 0.5 Seconds to say the least faster than any other GR3 Car I own and have tested.
Why?
Well, because the way it’s set up, it’s just more stable and therefore easier to handle.
So why not giving the People the possibility at least to tune the other Cars in that Group to rival the RCZs‘ dominance.
It should be up to each one, to decide which Car someone prefers.
Not because it’s the fastest, but because it’s the most enjoyable to drive.
I get that many People out there doing Daily Races only care about Competition and I’m fine with that.
But what’s the point in somehow always have an exclusive one make race because of that imbalance?!
Actually like you said, with a Meta Tune for a Meta Car it would obviously be the same.
But isn’t it already like that?!
So to me I still say that tuning gives the People the opportunity to tune and set their Cars they like to drive in a way they want them to behave.
That way everyone is free to choose and enjoy the drive the way we want them to.
And to make it clear, it’s especially needed for the GTWS Manufacturers Series.
Some Cars are in its default Setup so much worse than others that it actually doesn’t even make Sense to drive some Stages.
Just look at the Leaderboard for the upcoming Manufacturers Race at High Speed Ring.
It’s ridiculous how far off most of the Cars are.
To me it’s not because the Drivers are not capable of extracting the most of their Cars.
It’s simply because they are limited to drive them under the locked Setups and therefore not being able to rival the other Cars which just simply have the better Default Settings.
Look, I don’t know if you have tried to drive some MR Gr3 Cars, especially the 458 or the Lambo to only name these two, but trust me these Cars are just a pain in the ass to drive.
So again, my opinion is that it should be up to each one to have the freedom to choose to either tune and setting up the Car they like to enjoy or not.
Me personally, I don’t care if I loose to someone who has a “better tune“ or not.
I just want to set the Car up I like to compete with in the best way I Can do.
If I than should still loose to someone, than I can without a doubt live with that and congratulate the other Guy to have been able to have outperformed me.
Was it his tune or not, in that Situation I don’t care.
He won fair and square, he had the better tune and the Skills to be able to finish in front of me, so be it 😁
