I've tried it both ways (tuning cars, that is ). I'm not a great tuner to begin with and my driving makes it even tougher to tune properly. If you are scrambling to play catch up to the other racers and have two younger kids' cars to work on in addition to your own, its real easy to slip back into copying setups. My setups from Tuning with Camber Links have definitely been different than typical setups. They tend to have stiffer springs out back in most cases with a rear motored car. There's more than one way to skin a cat! At a bare minimum you are smarter and less ignorant about how to tune your car.