It's a great idea, but too much hard to do! I'd have to search all results since... since when? 1990?
That's what I am doing:
Best default performance is 16368.
So, pole position and race winner for each race will be always 16368, if they are running with Williams (BMW = 920 bhp, the best engine).
If they are running with other engine (with less power), I have to give more performance, proportional to what they lose with power.
Team BHP
Williams BMW 920
Ferrari 916
McLaren Mercedes 912
Renault 888
BAR Honda 880
Toyota 876
Sauber Petronas 860
Jaguar Cosworth 852
Jordan Ford 848
Minardi Cosworth 840
Arrows Cosworth 836
Inserting these bhp values in gp3edit and giving the same performance for all drivers, I found the "BHP GAP" in %. Of course it's an estimated GAP, but it works fine in the game.
I made some math's in Excel:
Team Code / Team Name / BHP GAP % / BHP GAP Performance / Performance
1 Williams 0,00% 0 16368
2 Ferrari 0,10% 16 16384
3 McLaren 0,19% 31 16399
4 Renault 0,77% 126 16494
5 BAR 0,96% 157 16525
6 Toyota 1,06% 174 16542
7 Sauber 1,45% 237 16605
8 Jaguar 1,64% 268 16636
9 Jordan 1,74% 285 16653
10 Minardi 1,93% 316 16684
11 Arrows 2,03% 332 16700
"BHP GAP Performance" means how much performance I have to add to a team with a worst engine.
Example:
Renault won the Hungarian GP.
Winner have 16368 of performance, but I have to make the Renault more competitive because of its engine. Renault loses something around 0,77% in the engine (gp3edit says it)
With GP3edit I found that I have to increase 126 points of performance to Renault, so the it runs with the same performance of the Williams/920bhp with 16368.
It's hard to explain in English... :/
btw, It's working fine.
If Williams is pole or winner, performance = 16368
If Ferrari is pole or winner, performance = 16384
And so on, like you can see in the table above.
Next step...
This is the data from Melbourne qualify:
Pos. Car # Time GAP %
01º 01 01:27,173 1,0000
02º 02 01:27,418 1,0028
03º 03 01:28,101 1,0106
04º 10 01:28,274 1,0126
05º 20 01:28,288 1,0128
06º 16 01:28,420 1,0143
07º 09 01:28,464 1,0148
08º 17 01:28,682 1,0173
09º 04 01:28,830 1,0190
10º 08 01:28,928 1,0201
11º 05 01:29,105 1,0222
12º 07 01:29,136 1,0225
13º 11 01:29,344 1,0249
14º 14 01:29,367 1,0252
15º 06 01:29,470 1,0263
16º 21 01:29,538 1,0271
17º 12 01:31,242 1,0467
18º 15 01:31,723 1,0522
1,0000 = 0%
1,0028 = 0,28%
etc.
Now I have to search a performance that gives me the correct GAP %.
I did that for Mlbourne qualify and works very very nice.
Melbourne and Sepang's data are already done (qual and race).
When all qual/race performance are done, I'll calculate the average.
Example:
If the best Schumacher's performance is 16384 and the worst is 15384:
Performance = 15884
Range = 1000
Of course it's a weird thing.
Now I have to think how to solve this...
btw, It's my first trial at performance editing.
I have things to learn
See ya