About tyres

Hi,

I have a few questions about tyres...

1) Are softs tyres a good choice when it's very hot (+30ºC)?
2) What's the better tyres temperature (the colour in race live) for a good performance? A little red, white...

Thanks and sorry for my bad English.
Best regards.

Depends on how you look after them. Best I'd say is white to pink-ish, not red

Best temperature is probably between grey and pink. But if that means you will have to let the drivers back off to accomplish that, most likely others who push their drivers a bit harder resulting in warmer tyres will still be faster.

Soft tyres can be run in 30ºC but probably not for a lot of laps.

Personally I like running the tyres grey with a slight blue tinge. They might not be as fast straight away, but they hold up better over a stint. Plus it gives you the safety of being able to 5/5 push for DRS zones etc without overheating your tyres really badly.

It's also the "others are faster so I have to push" dilemma. To keep up in strong fields can be quite a challenge when others are overtaking you on red tyres while you're on grey tyres. But that's the drivers/car performance kicking in. :)

It's give and take. If you're stuck in traffic (say you qualify on P20) there's almost no point pushing. Maybe for the first few turns when your tyres are dead cold, but always back off early and wait for DRS on lap 3 before you do the hard stuff.

Thanks to everybody for the answers.