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Real-time Weather: Returns Monday at 11:00 GMT

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CEO & CTO
6 years 316 days ago (edited 6 years 313 days ago)

UPDATE 3 (13:02GMT): Weather is fully live now and has been for a short while.

~~UPDATE 2 (12:11 GMT): Work is still ongoing and being wrapped up. We believe weather will go live shortly, during the longer races which started at 12:00 (e.g. 50%, 100% distance races).~~

~~UPDATE: The maintenance window has moved to 09:30 GMT - 11:30 GMT.~~

On Monday July 16th at 11:00 GMT we will be re-enabling real-time weather on the service. We have been working to iron out some inconsistencies with the weather system and have reduced latency between updates in weather appearing on the website and being reflected in races.

As per the poll results of a recent thread, we will be sticking with our augmented-reality weather system which gets conditions from real-world weather stations.

Races from 09:00 -11:00 GMT on Monday will be postponed to make way for a maintenance window.

Kevin Bissell Super Mod
6 years 316 days ago

Great news Jack. Thank you.

L O L I T A
6 years 316 days ago

Thank you! :)

Peter Man
6 years 316 days ago

Fantastic news! :-) Bring on the crazy rain showers! :D

Jamie R
6 years 316 days ago

Great!!!

Many thanks to you and the team :)

John Doe
6 years 316 days ago

Top !!!

Gert Rose Super Mod
6 years 316 days ago

looking forward :)

Gerard VC I
6 years 316 days ago

Peter

Fantastic news! :-) Bring on the crazy rain showers! :D

Hell yeah! That is awesome notice!!

jerry alberti
6 years 316 days ago

Good to hear

John Doe
6 years 316 days ago

Thanks Jack, for bringing the rains back, I hope one day to work with you.

Jason Chen
6 years 316 days ago

Great to hear! In the past 20 days I've realized how boring this can be if you know the weather won't change.

CEO & CTO
6 years 316 days ago

I forgot to mention, we're also lowering the minimum temperature to 5 degrees celsius (it was formerly 10).

5 celsius is the coldest temperature ever recorded in an F1 race, so it's a realistic minimum benchmark.

The aim there is to create more scenarios where the hard tyres might not be as effective.

Gary Collyer
6 years 316 days ago

Jack

I forgot to mention, we're also lowering the minimum temperature to 5 degrees celsius (it was formerly 10).

5 celsius is the coldest temperature ever recorded in an F1 race, so it's a realistic minimum benchmark.

The aim there is to create more scenarios where the hard tyres might not be as effective.

Good change that although more for winter time, maybe Supersofts wont overheat on 1/5 push everywhere when on a 5c track in winter.

Jason Chen
6 years 316 days ago

Jack

I forgot to mention, we're also lowering the minimum temperature to 5 degrees celsius (it was formerly 10).

5 celsius is the coldest temperature ever recorded in an F1 race, so it's a realistic minimum benchmark.

The aim there is to create more scenarios where the hard tyres might not be as effective.

Love it! It sure offers more variability in cold conditions.

Der Wildeman
6 years 316 days ago

Race day was very cold in Azerbaijan, Baku this year, the drivers struggled to keep their tyres warm.
In contrast, UK, Silverstone the track temperature was 50c+ And many drivers had to use medium and hard tyres.

Urban Ciber
6 years 315 days ago

Jack

I forgot to mention, we're also lowering the minimum temperature to 5 degrees celsius (it was formerly 10).

5 celsius is the coldest temperature ever recorded in an F1 race, so it's a realistic minimum benchmark.

The aim there is to create more scenarios where the hard tyres might not be as effective.

This still doesn't help us because supersofts and soft wear rate is too much. Few % less of tyre wear. and efectivity will be better

James Greer
6 years 315 days ago

Jack

I forgot to mention, we're also lowering the minimum temperature to 5 degrees celsius (it was formerly 10).

5 celsius is the coldest temperature ever recorded in an F1 race, so it's a realistic minimum benchmark.

The aim there is to create more scenarios where the hard tyres might not be as effective.

What about slowing the Hard tyre?

If no slowing how about editing the time gaps between tyres?

John Doe
6 years 315 days ago

Jack

I forgot to mention, we're also lowering the minimum temperature to 5 degrees celsius (it was formerly 10).

5 celsius is the coldest temperature ever recorded in an F1 race, so it's a realistic minimum benchmark.

The aim there is to create more scenarios where the hard tyres might not be as effective.

I like the idea. but I think you should also see about the rhythm and wear that tires have on certain circuits as it may be possible that in Hungary at 10 ° C. being a circuit of little Grip is more effective to go with tires Hard that with Super soft.
This idea can be taken or not. but the best thing would be that in circuits of little grip a Plus will be given to the soft tires and one to the tires Hard. to counter this difference.

Tejas Sharmaaaa
6 years 314 days ago

Hi Jack,

Even if you have reduced the minimum temperature to 5 degrees, my question is have you worked out anything with regard to the tyres esp. hard and mediums. Because mediums just don't work in any circuit whether it is cold or hot. So basically we've to use only 3 tyres, that is SS, S and H.

Will be waiting for your reply.

Thanks and regards
Tejas Sharma

CEO & CTO
6 years 314 days ago (edited 6 years 313 days ago)

We have not changed the tyres yet, we'll get to that after this. If you have something to say about that please add it to this forum thread to avoid derailing this announcement thread.

We've also opened the discussion on tyres among our feedback group consisting of experienced players, on how they would address it. I will be going through all of the information gathered from the forum thread on it and internal discussions this week and looking at how we can re-balance the tyres.

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