Hallo Leute.....ich habe Kontakt zu einem Polen der sehr erfolgreich in Master fährt.....ein ganz netter Typ....nun ist er in seiner 2. Saison und hat schon 2 Rennen gewonnen.....die Konversation ist in Englisch....ich habe ihm Fragen bzg. des Fahrers gestellt und dann noch, ob das testen wichtig ist.....hier die Antwort bzgl. des Fahrers:

"With regards to your question about driver - driver skills distribution is mainly dependent on your current career goals. If you need a driver only for one or two seasons to fight for promotion, then his skills distribution will be different from skills distribution of project driver, projected to fight in Master or Elite in the future.

Talent is definitely very important in higher leagues (like Master and Elite), but if you are fighting for promotion in Pro, then I would say that it is better to have other skills on higher level.

You will probably ask which skills are the important ones when you are fighting in Pro - I cannot say it to you directly, so I'll put it in another words. First of all, there is one particular skill which defines driver base speed. Higher the level of this skill is, better lap times you get. What is interesting, the same skill is also responsible for mistakes during the qualifications. In summary by training this one particualar skill you can make your lap times better, and also you can take more risk in the qualifications, because probability of big driver mistake during qualifications is smaller when this skill level is higher.

The second critical skill is responsible for keeping similar lap times pace over the course of the race. And this second skill is directly linked with driver energy.

To summarize - to be successful in Pro, you need to have driver with good level of those two main skills which I mentioned above, plus decent level of talent (you can check out driver market of Master/Elite, focusing on those drivers which have the bigges number of offers. This should be an indicator for you).

About the setup - as you said, GPRO [Blacklisted] website is a great tool, and should be perfectly sufficiant to fight for promotion to Masters. There are some better tools available, but those tools are not website based, they are developed by some teams, (based on hundret data from past races) therefore they are not publicly available.

I hope that my message helped you at least a bit, but fell free to write again if you need.

Best Regards"

Und hier die Antwort wegen des Testens:

"With regards to your question about testing - yes, it is a very important aspect of the game, especially when it comes to car AND stuff development.

There is this interesting Youtube channel, where on of GPRO managers who playes previouslly in Elite explains shorty how to do testing - just type "How to do Testing - GPRO Testing Tutorial" in Youtube search, and you will find this interesting 8 minutes video. By the way, this guy has a lot more short videos about other aspects of GPRO, I recommend you to check them :)

Talking about the best strategy for the race. In the past (when I had no team), I found on Youtube another channel of GPRO manager. This guy is from Brazil, so I had no idea what he was saying, but in the description of one of his films called "Planilha GPRO - Planilha + Tutorial" I found a link to excel spreadsheet on google docs. This spreadsheet is also in portuguese language, but inside you can find a lot of interesting formulas, to find best strategy for the race. You just need to download this spreadsheet, translate it, and study it for a while. I think that this should help you :)

Best Regards

Ich finde das sehr interessant und werde wohl mal bei Youtube reingucken

Wichtig bei der Effizienz des Testens sind noch zwei Dinge:
1. der technische Direktor und
2. die Stärke deiner technischen und personellen Einrichtung, die aber auch Unterhalt kostet
Beides führt dazu hast du mehr Punkte am Ende der Entwicklung behältst?

So stelle ich mir das vor. Nicht Umsonst haben viele ihre Einrichtungen so gepusht. Denke nen Fahrer mit Erfahrung und guter Technik, plus dann die entsprechenden Einrichtungen und (nachdem was der Dude so schreibt) auch das Personal, führen dann zu deutlich mehr Testpunkten, was am Ende dann wohl preiswerter iss als high Level Teile. Der Ansatz scheint mit da sehr plausibel.