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Setups - Max speed vs acceleration - joruss - 11-20-2015 Perhaps I'll be stating the obvious but perhaps someone does not realises this. Anyway. Why having greater top speed is not necessarily better? Let's have a look at the chart below: Fig1. Distance vs Time Fig2. Speed vs Time Now some definitions: "Normal gears" - setup with gears you'd use to maximise end-of-straight speed "Shorter gears" - setup with gears allowing for better acceleration (like for drag racing) - ideal one with unlimited number of gears "Shorter gears (top speed limit)" - same as above but with limited number of gears - top speed is capped As you can see on the images sometimes it really pays of to sacrifice even 20% of top speed in trade for travelled distance time. Admittedly there's a point when this is no longer advantageous and you're just sitting duck at the end of the straight :-) And to back it with some real life testimony I've just (couple hours ago) improved my PB on BL2 by simply reducing tops speed for gears 4 and 5 Attached: spreadsheet to play with if you'd like. RE: Setups - Max speed vs acceleration - Seven - 11-20-2015 This is interesting science, Jo!