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LIVE: Tyre Performance Update

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After the recent tyre wear update, comes the second round of revisions: the tyre performance update.

What has changed?

• Super Soft and Hard tyres are now slower than they were before


• Medium tyres are faster than they were before


• Soft tyres are fractionally faster than they were before - perhaps not even noticeably so, much less of a change than the Mediums received


• All tyres now heat up less, or have to be pushed slightly more to get heat in to them

Why these changes?

These changes are aimed at improving strategy variability in 50% duration races, and finally ending the dominance of Hard tyres at that race duration. Most of the feedback we received after the tyre wear update was that managers in 50% races wanted to see slower Hard tyres. Feedback from 100% duration races has been overwhelmingly positive, and we hope that these changes won't upset that balance too much whilst improving the racing at 50%.

We also wanted to change the 'ideal temperature' of each tyre, however for technical reasons this was not possible without an app update, so instead we opted to adjust the way all tyre compounds generate heat. This was something we could do without updating the app and put live immediately. This achieves almost the same effect and should allow more push options on tyres other than Hards. In addition to the tyre performance changes, this will hopefully have the effect of balancing the pace between the tyres more evenly.

UPDATE: 12:02 GMT - All practice laps have been cleared from the past 2 days to allow everyone to run their laps again and test the new tyres.

Will do, Tejas. Thanks for the feedback.

Maybe we just need to scale the wear less for 100% than we do currently. After all, our aim with scaling wear was to achieve consensus across all race durations - how exactly was less important. So if 100% is the outlier then just changing the scale at 100% would seem to be an obvious solution to achieve the consensus we are aiming for. Maybe it should adopt the scale of 75%, for example. If that worked, then we could go tweaking tyres with everyone in the game unanimously agreeing on the outcomes of the changes, with no more of this 50% saying one thing and 100% saying another.

As a quick follow-up to this, I would reserve judgement until you've done a couple of races at least. Let's see. After all, we did slow down SS and speed up S (a tiny fraction) and M (quite a lot).

But like I said if that is the case, and you are right and as Mike also said Hards are completely out of the picture, we can adjust the wear scale for 100% races specifically to combat that.

@Julián - Please write in English in this forum. I translated your post and understood that some in your league want updates to visuals and circuits, not the tyres. They are concerned that we are somehow moving away from a simulation towards "randomness". While I understand the uncertainty as things change can feel random, that is not the case at all. Let me address these concerns since I can imagine a few people hold them:

Firstly, why not do both visual/content updates and tyre balancing improvements? We are working on the things your league mates want already, at the same time. Also, a much larger portion of the users are concerned about tyre balance than visual updates.

Secondly, it's no less of a race simulation by scaling tyre wear. If F1 takes Hypersoft and Super Soft to Monaco and calls them Soft and Hard for TV, then takes Medium and Hard to Sepang and calls them Soft and Hard, we're not going to say this is not racing anymore because the tyres have the same name but are different. Of course, it's still a race, and of course our races are still a simulation. You can simply view it like F1 - they use different compounds of rubber under the same name for different tracks. The difference with iGP is we also run "short races" and "long races". F1 doesn't need to bring special compounds for "short races" and "long races" at the same track, but we do.