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- Blackburn
- Furinkazen_54
LMP cars at Le mans - 2 laps and tyres are gone. 10 laps at Daytona and NASCAR tyres are gone.
Wow. The new tyre wear is insane.
Wow. The new tyre wear is insane.
Tyre Wear - OH MY GOD
- Thread starter Furinkazen
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- Birmingham, UK
- GOTMAXPOWER
This is going to be awesome online! I just hope hosts don't turn of tyre wear...
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- Blackburn
- Furinkazen_54
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- FRAG-ME-CG
2 spa laps in a Dunlop Sard and the tyres were far too worn! (Racing Softs)
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- Riverside, Ca
- GTP_Leonidae_MFT
Good. That means that the grip advantage of racing softs lasts shorter amount of time, and as far as I can tell, driving style has even heavier effect on tyres.
shirakawaa
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- GTP_shirakawaa
On the other side, I think that tire wear on Comfort tires has been significantly decreased, but I'll have to investigate more. Are you people only trying Sports and Racing soft tires?
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- Valkyrize92
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- E0nLeader
Blame Pirelli.
That's what I thought as well when I saw I could only get my FTO STC tyres to last 15, not 16 laps around Suzuka. I could see the tyre wear was increased. And the AI was pitting earlier too on RMs, while I was on RH. Almost lost me the race with the extra tyre wear!
But yeah I think the tyre wear is correct now. Before softs wore slower than hard tyres, so it looks like they've fixed that up now.
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- paoloevans
Im gonna have to change my driving style! I already wore out my tyres way before the AI!!
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- MTLclllutch
finally aggressive drivers will be punished
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- Edison NJ
- jdmking13
- Lucid killer 58
Do you think that some people are over pushing it? Can this be the case? Who really drives to make sure their tires last long.
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- Riverside, Ca
- GTP_Leonidae_MFT
yeah, the AI usually can make tyres last longer as they don't push the car all the time.
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- AJ_Foyt_Racing
I can't wait to test this out. I run Supercars at Daytona and have been able to get 35+ laps on a set of racing soft tires on my Enzo before the update. I'm very curious to see how much this has changed. From what I've read there many actually now be an advantage to using racing hard tires and/or medium for endurance racing.
There may be but they still don't last anywhere near long enough. As I said in the other thread in the real Le Mans they make tyres last 12 - 15 laps depending on conditions and how they're driving. People are reporting the hard tyres to last just four laps, five at a push. That's not right, is it? It means pitting becomes far too frequent.
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- pasigiri
This is interesting. I can't wait to try the new update and check this out.
I remember GT3 and 4's tire wear was close to this. If you put racing softs on, you had better be doing a time attack run. Significant amounts of grip was lost by 3 HOT laps. Using mids and or hards at a steady pace seemed to get races won. I think I like this, but of course I need to try it out before passing my opinion off. But, still, I like this idea.
I, for one, typically have always driven using sport softs. Even with the Pagani R (sometimes I would play around the Ring with racing hards with THIS particular car). To be honest, I don't think I've ever raced with racing softs. I've used racing mids once ... maybe twice.
.... huh ....
MAN, this may REALLY play to my driving style.
I remember GT3 and 4's tire wear was close to this. If you put racing softs on, you had better be doing a time attack run. Significant amounts of grip was lost by 3 HOT laps. Using mids and or hards at a steady pace seemed to get races won. I think I like this, but of course I need to try it out before passing my opinion off. But, still, I like this idea.
I, for one, typically have always driven using sport softs. Even with the Pagani R (sometimes I would play around the Ring with racing hards with THIS particular car). To be honest, I don't think I've ever raced with racing softs. I've used racing mids once ... maybe twice.
.... huh ....
MAN, this may REALLY play to my driving style.
Zer0
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That has never been a problem with the grip reduction set to real.
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- Johnnypenso
Depending on how they modelled this it may take a way a bit of an advantage to the smooth driver. In the past, in races long enough to invoke tire wear, being smooth and maintaining grip at both ends of the car helped with tire wear. If PD reduced lost grip away as a factor in tire and made it mainly a function of distance travelled, being smooth may not save tires as much as is used to, allowing drivers to be a little wild and still maintain their tires. Obviously needs some testing...
