Hotlapping, tire choice?

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Hello all.

I have a question regarding tire choice for hotlapping. I like to hotlap cars and compare laptimes, but I sometimes struggle with choice of tires for the N Class cars. Racing cars I always use Racing Hards.

My initial thought is to just go with the game's default tires for each car to maintain neutrality, but driving the Enzo on Sport Hards on Nordschleife made me think twice, as the car was wheelspinning way up to 3rd gear. I tried the Sport Softs just a a little bit and it somehow felt more natural .. although I have no real life comparison to driving such beast of a car :D

What's your take on the matter?
 
I think making an "estimate" of what tire compound is the most similar to the car's real-life equivalent would be a reasonable choice for testing out the N-class cars :)
Famine made a very good estimate of the grip levels of the tires that we have in GTS
There isn't one. GT Sport's tyres - just like every other previous GT game - are fictional.

In essence you could consider Comfort tyres as anything not fitted to performance road cars, with Hard being all about low rolling resistance for eco cars and Soft more of a mainstream brand of street tyre. You could consider Sport tyres as more for anything with a sporty image, with Hard representing an off-the-shelf performance tyre and Soft more like the tyre that car manufacturers pretend is street legal for a Nurburgring lap.

Racing tyres are simply a sliding scale - which the game shows you in the Settings screen - from most life, least grip (Hard) to least life, most grip (Super Soft).


If you're looking for a brand-to-brand, model-to-model equivalent, you're not going to get one - especially with Racing tyres. If you like, you can think of the non-racing tyres as:
CH - Bridgestone Turanza (low RR tyre designed for long life, fuel efficiency, low noise)
CM - Continental ContiPremiumContact (general purpose road tyre)
CS - Avon ZV5 (all-season tyre with improved dry grip)
SH - Toyota Proxes T1R (summer tyre)
SM - Yokohama Advan Neova AD08R (road tyre with track bias, poor wet grip)
SS - Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2 (track tyre homologated for road use)
Of course, these are just estimates and each tire compound doesn't necessarily mean it's that specific compound. Take SS for example, he gave the Michelin Sport Cup 2 as a reference, but I think Pirelli P Zeros are just as valid to be classified as SS as well :)
 
My sort of thinking with GT4 plus cars I always use a RH as a benchmark, this is a good race day tyre.

RS is a qualifying tyre. RM is in between but overall I find RM very manageable on wear.

SS is a supercar type tyre.

SH is a typical performance sedan hot hatch luxury sport coupe type tyre. ie. better than say the legendary Michelin Primacy Prius slash GT86 BRZ tyre.

Anything less isnt usually used at all unlike the GT6 days.

I dont know what people like for drift but I often do SS front, CS rear? or combos of that.
 
I think making an "estimate" of what tire compound is the most similar to the car's real-life equivalent would be a reasonable choice for testing out the N-class cars :)
Famine made a very good estimate of the grip levels of the tires that we have in GTS

Of course, these are just estimates and each tire compound doesn't necessarily mean it's that specific compound. Take SS for example, he gave the Michelin Sport Cup 2 as a reference, but I think Pirelli P Zeros are just as valid to be classified as SS as well :)
I've wondered about this for a while. Thank you for bringing up Famine's post.
 
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