amouzouris wrote:well...top speed should always be achieved on the end of the straight because if u r hitting the limiter in the middle of the straight this means that you could gear the car for a higher top speed which would be faster...
Partly true, the longest straight is a bit of a grey zone in terms of how you go about your business but your logic is true for every other straight on the track.
It´s impossible to get every straight right but the goal is to set the gearing so that you use all of the gear right before you hit the brakes.
Hit the limiter to early and you have to shift up or stay on the limiter, both will results in time losses.
Isn´t the gearing sort of "fixed" nowadays? Where you can only have a few sets of gearing for all of the tracks?
Doesn´t make life easy for the guy choosing that. And as someone mentioned, DRS and KERS in the picture.