InSim taking money for speeding

[[TC]»Elmo«]

If it's painful, slow down a few mph

You don't start losing money at all for speeding, unless you're going at least ~30% over the limit. There are very few places where you can lose anything like that much in a road car (doing nearly twice the speed limit on Hillside Road is one of them).

You don't have to stick to the speed limit to still gain money, and you can go quite a way over and still keep to a net +0 over a lap. There are one or two tracks where you can drive flat out in a TBO and still gain on average.

There are a couple of theories behind the way we do money loss for excessive speeding:
1. It encourages a mix of speeds. People are discouraged from driving flat out all the time. People have to earn the money by driving close to the limit to be able to drive at dangerous speeds for any significant length of time.
2. Less experienced drivers (whether new to our layouts or LFS in general) typically have much less money than those who've been around for a while. Losing money while driving at dangerous speeds discourages them from driving beyond their experience.

Also, losing a lot for driving *very* fast discourages people from driving the race cars all the time.