This post really goes for both Horizon 2 and Forza 5, but I’ve never managed to grasp how the top drivers choose the cars that are going to be the best for any particular track. What tells you when choosing a car that it will be best for more top end speed tracks or a car better suited for tracks that require better acceleration?
It’s not really that they choose what car is going to be a leaderboard car. it happens through testing and tuning. I am sure many of them are discovered on accident also. For example - i like the way this car looks im going to tinker with it, now in testing with out spending much time with it “wow im only 1 second off the top time” mess with the build a bit more for that specific track, fine tune it, boom new #1 time, and new lb car.
A lot of it comes simply from playing and testing things out. This is particularly true for the Horizon side. For example, we had a challenge once to use a particular car for no other reason than a) I thought it’d be a good challenge and b) I didn’t expect it to do well. After cleaning up the top couple places, pretty soon it populated the leaderboard.
As racers play and experiment, they also look at the leaderboards and see what others are using. Then they attempt their own builds or look for own to download.
In the Motorsport side of things, a little more could be applied to it. The actual information about the car is a little more pertinent. You can look at the characteristics of the car, the way it behaves itself stock, what kind of track layout you are looking for and then you give it a try. Then, once you’ve done your best, you might look for cars that are similar to the one you chose in some way and see if you can’t build them to shave that last fraction of a second. Other times, you’re just playing or having fun and you notice that the car you’re in drives well or posts fast times and it all goes from there.
Sometimes, it’s not even that complicated. For example, on the Clubbed Up 2 challenge, one person used a particular car and got a good time. Then a second, and a third person used it and soon I think our whole club was in that car. Since the racers using this car were in the top 200 and not getting passed, they decided not to push for a better time and leave it at that. All of a sudden, the top 200 was dominated by this one car because no one could be bothered to try something else in the short amount of time that was available.
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For Clubbed Up 2 I had no idea what car I would end up running.
I now have around 20 or 30 new rwd A class cars sitting in my garage.
I do not look at stats that much.
I have always said the only stat and only science worth looking at is laptimes.
Of course we have leaderboards that show which cars other people have made work on said track but that may not help when you have additional restrictions like the rivals events.
Test, test, test.