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RR3SeanR wrote: It's actually 8 laps of Suzuka for 10 600 (there's no 10 lap) - but let's go through the figures...

approx 12 minutes (according to the challenge threads) for that - so just under 90 seconds a lap. Anyway... so 1325 per lap, 1325/2.153 miles, so: approx. 615 fame/mile; approx.: 14.7 fame/second

Le Mans: let's say 28 minutes (comparing same racers across). 335 fame/mile; 16.9 fame/second

Daytona: let's say 8:30 (fast laps seem to be around 42 seconds, but can take a bit to get up to speed): 245 fame/mile; 14 fame/second.

So much better fame/mile for Suzuka (but it's got a lot of turns), but better return on time invested for Le Mans.

Returns (ie R$/fame) seem to cluster around "time" as the key variant rather than distance or PR or anything else. It also gets distorted a bit with use of the agent.

Without the agent the undisputed best fame/time is the H2H at Le Mans in Campionato (at near double the next best); however fame/distance - it maps closely to the Suzuka numbers (which is interesting and may warrant additional investigation). Interesting, but lap time inherently depends on the cars' performance and length of the track. I think it'd be much easier for them to work out values based on concrete numbers such as distance and PR, rather than subjective ones like time.

Of course, this can neither be proven, nor disproven, as any argument invalidating time as a basis for rewards automatically invalidates distance, too.

Examples that come to mind are IPM, where the Huracán TT yields higher rewards than the LMS ultra TT, even though lap times are slightly down, based on the leaderboards, or the Le Mans TTs in Endurance Kings, where the one that awards the most R$ is the one which pits all three LMP1s against each other, though they all have an individual TT on the same track.

I still stand by my theory that there are at least two variables involved (distance and performance of the cars), whether it's an automatic calculation or FM set the numbers themselves. There's more to it, but it's hypothetical and not worth going into.