invincible tires

[DeSwyft]

I was playing the Endurance event: El Capitan 200 miles with Chevy Camaro LM Race Car. After a pit stop to renew the rear tires with Economy Tires, I did several laps with it. When the tires reached the conditions of a bright green (with no sign of yellow) they stayed in that condition for about 6-10 laps.I mean like ABSOLOUTELY no change. Is this some sort of bug?

 

[JosX]

Wierd. Never seen this happen before, then again I never use Economy tires for any race.

 

[Famine]

I was playing the Endurance event: El Capitan 200 miles with Chevy Camaro LM Race Car. After a pit stop to renew the rear tires with Economy Tires, I did several laps with it. When the tires reached the conditions of a bright green (with no sign of yellow) they stayed in that condition for about 6-10 laps.I mean like ABSOLOUTELY no change. Is this some sort of bug?

You can change between tyre grades within a type, but not between tyre types in a pit stop.

So though you thought you'd switched to "Economy" tyres, you likely switched to whatever the hardest Race compounds available for your car were (presuming you started on Race tyres).

 

[|ncary]

All green for 6-10 laps isn't much with N1's (Economy) on, assuming you had traction control on, I'd say they would last for farken ages more.

 

[Ford_Fan90]

Remember, he was using the Camaro LM. That in itself took away from probable life span for the tire.

 

[DeSwyft]

Well, El Capitan 200 Miles required, Standard or Sport Tires.. so.. yeah... I wasnt on Race Tires..

 

[SirBerra]

I would say that is likely you could go a long distance on those tires without them changing color. I believe that during the Motegi Speedway 150 Mile Endurance that the Camaro LM is one of the cars that can go many, many laps before pitting for tires (I guess it's using R1 tires). As to why, I can't figure it out since it's not very light and has a high-torque V8. I think that only the Peugot 906 Race Car is better on tire wear as far as high-power racing vehicles go in GT4.

Another car you would find like that would be the Lotus Elan. Racing on N1/N1 tires that car just drives on forever and still has darn good traction from beginning to end. It takes forever just to turn the tires from blue to green.

Still another car would be the Toyota Sports 800 that can sip it's tires. Except that car sux no matter what tires are on it.