Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-31526827-20200207093248/@comment-28169398-20200207212924

Denizer wrote: What I wonder is if in-race damage is anyway related to out-of-race/menu damage. So, for example, if you got a small damage in the race, does it affect more if you had less green bars to begin with ??? Not according to how repairs are described in game... Any Green bars at the start of the race and the car is entered into the event as if fully repaired.

Try repairing a repair with Green Bars and read the information box that pops up.

As for the effect on service bar as a result of a race:
 * Distance of Race produces a fixed reduction in Service, depending on Track/Car/Series combo.
 * In Race damage and running off track will further reduce the amount of Service. Run a perfectly clean race and you should only be effected by the distance run.
 * FM can tune Service loss for certain events. If, for example, they want player to be able to finish all of Stage 1 of a Race Day SE in one service cycle, they can change how much degradation there is.
 * While I can't be completely certain of this, for shorter events like Speed Snaps and Autocrosses, it appears like you may lose slightly less service if you come in first than if you don't... but that could just be misperception on my part.