No, I would guess that it was just bad luck combined with your setup being way out.
When you start setting up the car;
1) check whether your team mate is doing practice or has completed practice.
2) Once they have completed, hopefully they would have loaded up their set up values. Copy and paste this into notepad.
3) Go to car setup. If you team mate has already completed practice, load up their settings, check this against the values you have copied into notepad (sometimes they may have already changed their setup for the wet).
4) If you are the first one from your team to complete practice, go to "engineer's advice" and take note of what he is recommending. Then go back and put your settings to 50 if the advice is "medium", 75 if "high", or 25 if "low".
5) Then make sure you have the right risk level (65 is ok to start off with, increase it for the last few laps with the last one run at 100), and the right tyres, and then click on "Test".
6) After every lap, scroll down and see what the recommendations are (higher or lower). Then you have to methodically change your values (don't go making changes greater than 10 between laps) in order to narrow down to the right value.
7) Once you have completed your laps, be a good team mate and share the data with your team mate via "Team Talk" like the following;
Here is the setup after practice
Wings
60-100
56
Suspension
43-45
55-58
Anti-Roll Bar
83
60-70
Ride Height
55-60
52-55
Tyre Pressures
45-50
60-70
Gears
55-60
Brake Bias
40
Anybody else want to add anything I may have missed?
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One should never skimp on the zip ties.
Does this actually mean anything or is it just that you lose practice laps. Do you need to worry about anything to do with costs? I noticed at the start there was a team spending amount or something?
