Tonight's eve I realized that even in equal performance server settings the stupid top cars are still advantaged big time. Did run the first two races with Renault n Force India where the other way up higher online ranked guys where in Ferrari, Mercedes, RedBull ( of course now I know why...). I witnessed their car performance being slightly better in all aspects or rather it appeared so. Third race I took the RedBull car btw first time I took one of the top cars. Did just one mediocre timed quali lap and had a 1.09xx right away. Q ended afair P2 or 3 as the other boys of course did more than one lap. After the usual online T1 contacts (race 1 and 2 were just 4 ppl this 3rd race meanwhile filled up with another 4 ppl) I continued at P2 following the leader with safety distance, clean and in DRIVER view. Then my GFWL shut down, hope my car wasn't still there stuck on the main straight.
Now my question, am I the only one who found out that top cars are still advantaged although in "balanced" settings? Didn't find anything anywhere posted about this. Is it a sort of "unknown known but don't talk about" story? And please don't tell me "cars ARE balanced" as switching from ForceIndia to RedBull was like driving in Time Trial, like no tire/fuel sim on. I'm pretty sure you won't find a "50 online race winner" done it with a HRT.