I heard sms made a change to the tyrewall flex, I would assume they stiffened it.
I'm in a lotus 72 championship atm and it became very twitchy and 2 seconds a lap slower, after the patch (I did fp before the race on the previous day. When you're fighting for the championship, work on a setup, get it right, then find the tyres changed come quali, was a shock I can tell you). It used to have loads of traction when tamed, now it has none. Also I noticed ALL diff settings in my saved setups for this car have reset to default!
Basically we all now had to use the 30min quali session to relearn and setup the car again. The race was very hard requiring loads of concentration and driving at 90% instead of flat out like I had been doing in previous races. Loads of the top drivers spun. It was almost a mess.
Trouble is, we all had to wait for the patch to install before the race so for many this was the very first car they tried on patch 5. I had only tried the new Ferrari, a new car so no reference point.
Where are these tyre model changes in patch 5 notes?
What was the reason for the change?
Why has the tyre model been changed twice if it was extremely realistic according to their "race driver consultants" Collins and Hamilton (and many of the pros on here)?