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In practical terms, if you are getting beat, the first place to go looking for problems is in the driver; it is the driverwho has the most effect on the car's performance.
The big prtoblem is that most red blooded males think that they spring from the womb the reincarnation of Ayerton Senna (not to mention Cassanova and Sgt. York) but that simply isn't true; driving in competition is a learnt skill and not one that comes naturally to anybody. It must be practiced, practiced, practiced until it is mastered, and until it is mastered, there is very little that car tuning can do for you. There are no shortages of expensive, slow cars out there. No matter how much money and time you spend tweaking the car (and some have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars) money cannot overcome skill and physics.
Most of the times that I go beat, I got beat because I was outdriven, not outengineered. And most of the times I was outdriven; I put in a shitty performance where my opponent put in a good one. I beat myself much more often than I got beat despite my best efforts.
This is, bar none, the single toughest lesson for a driver to learn. Many never learn it. They are easy to recognise; these are the guys who are quickest to cry 'foul!" whenever they think somebody else has a technical advantage over them.
The very first and most important step along the road to becoming truly fast is to get over your own ego, realize that almost everybody out there has more seat time than you, and that until you get that seat time, they will be faster.
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How that sounding like some of our drivers!
good stuff meng..it's brilliant... 
