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- Rednose58
I jumped into the pits behind you. Had a pretty ****** race. Could not prevent that bimmer from spinning (default loose tune). Tried a hail marry getting into softs and had a different car after that, could enter a corner with confidence the rear would hold. I don't know if it was the softs or the lower pressure in the rear that helped a lot. Looking at @Rednose stream it seams it was the rear pressure. Only if the green, green, green waited a bit...
Funny thing is, the default tune had 26psi in the rear, but when I pitted on default pit strategy it gave me 16psi in the rear, which made the car MUCH better. Wish I had tested..
@sgohsixthree, the random cautions are a nice addition, two thumbs up 👍👍
I was on softs the whole race. It cooked a bit in the first stint, but I was always planning to do a 4 and 6 lap race. Night time was too cold for the hard tires.
I think there is a glitch with the BMW pit strategy. Normally I wait until I'm happy with the car before I set my pit strategy. Then I go in and choose one (say 4 Tires + Fuel) and press the "reset to default" button. The default sets the correct cold tire pressures to your current tuned settings (and resets everything else). Then I go in and select the fuel, tire compound and damage I want. I noted on the BMW that the rear tires were way over 2 Bar in the pit strategy while I have it set at 1.44 Bar (20 psi) cold in the tuning menus. I brought it down to 1.44 Bar and saved the strategy. The car had a slightly different feel to it after the pit stop - smoother and quieter and a bit slippier. I only noted later that the rear tire pressure is at 1.1 Bar (hot) (16 psi) instead of 1.89 - 1.91 (27 psi) as per the first stint. There were no issues with the front tire pressures.
So, the default knew it was going to do the opposite of what logic says.
RACEDAY ALERT!!! 
Thanks again .
