It's starting to get serious in 1/12 at Competition Hobbies in Tucson, I may find myself doing a lot more work on my car than I used to

I found a setup that it likes but I keep deviating from it and needing to go back, or I have to change tires and no two sets are exactly the same. Standard stuff, never quite satisfied.
I love the competition, but its strange, as I'm used to being the slow guy in all of my offroad classes I had somebody tell me that I am their benchmark and their goal to shoot for, and people even ask me (at 23, with less than 1 year of 1/12 scale under my belt) for advice! I'm not used to being the fast guy at my class.