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Originally Posted by SCFD
Trying to optimize the car based on fuel levels is probably highly dependent on the driver's skill and competition. You'd need to be a fast and consistent enough of driver for it to matter. Subjectively, I prefer how the car feels with a full tank compared to one near empty. Although every little bit of advantage adds up, I personally never felt my results would've changed due to the amount of fuel in my gas tank.
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^ this.
I know there's an advantage to less weight for sure and I used to always show up to events on the fuel light. But honestly, I just don't know if I'm consistent and/or fast enough to find the small amounts from something like that. There's always something else I could've done better or worse that makes so much more of a difference in time.
Same with a passenger, I rarely see any improvement with having one or not. Maybe it's that I usually have one, so I'm used to the balance difference. But I've very rarely taken a solo lap and seen a noticeably faster time.
And while I'm probably just not good enough to be running right on the edge of what the car is capable of all the time, I'm not that slow. I'm almost always on the podium in class and often in top 10 PAX with a completely stock GR86 on 225 re71rs.