Nitrous rewards consistency far more than it rewards a clever setting. If your deployment moves around by a moment between runs, no amount of tuning will make results reproducible.
Pick a cue you cannot miss
Choose something fixed: a specific gear change, or a landmark on the track. Avoid cues that depend on reading a number while the car is moving, because under pressure you will read it late.
Drill one: same cue, ten runs
Run the same race ten times deploying at exactly the same cue. Ignore the result. The goal is to remove variance from your own input so future tuning tests mean something.
Drill two: early versus late
Now run five deliberately early and five deliberately late. You will feel which direction hurts more on this car. Most cars punish early deployment harder because the boost lands while traction is still marginal.
Drill three: recovery
Deliberately make a poor launch and then deploy. Learning what nitrous can and cannot rescue stops you from panicking mid-race and burning it at the worst possible moment.
Then, and only then, tune
Once your deployment is stable, changing the nitrous power and duration settings produces readable results. Before that, you are tuning around your own inconsistency.
Log the cue with the tune
A nitrous setting without a deployment cue is half a tune. Record them together.
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