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Unable to switch starting tyre

What was your tyre selection for stint 1 in the main strategy?

The only "dry" compound that is available on the grid is main strategy, stint 1. If you have selected one of the two wet compounds in the main strategy this is why no dry type tyre is available to you.

Peter

I have never experienced having dry compound available on the grid when a wet compound is selected in the main strategy stint 1. If what you are saying is correct, which dry compound is made available to you? It can't be "select any one from all four dry compounds", so how does the programme work out which of the four to offer you?

IMHO this is not a bug but a misunderstanding of how advanced strategy works. If I'm honest I can appreciate why this  misunderstanding occurs because we have never been given an official explanation from the iGP Team as to the logic behind advanced strategy. So any advice I offer here is simply my experience and lessons learnt from mistakes I and other Mods have made (we discuss these issues in Discord).

In a nutshell, I would recommend you always set your main strategy for a dry race and use advanced strat to accommodate a wet race.

Of course the disadvantage to the above is you really have to be on your toes if you attend the race because A.S. is disabled and if you forget the cars pit at the end of the first stint and switch to slicks... Another mistake I have made on more than one occasion LOL.

Apologies for the long winded response, I'm trying to cover all bases for other members of the community who are reading this.

Quite possibly, because if no announcement is made us Mods won't know either. The advice I gave above is of the "trial and error" variety so if anyone KNOWS it is different please post here.

BTW. I had four teams in a two car "test" league a couple of weeks ago that all qualified and started the race on Inters. I had not set any of them up and the A.S. would have been toggled off. I logged in with another account to watch the race unfold and noticed the track was damp (I think 0.2 mm) but it wasn't raining. All eight cars qualified and started the race on Inters then all eight pitted and fitted Mediums at the end of the first lap.

So even without an A.S. the game still fitted a wet type compound.

Hi Slo.

If you set SS in your main strategy this indeed appears to be a bug, if it wasn't raining at the start of the race you should have had the option to switch to SS on the grid.

I recall another manager recently had the same problem and he found that for him closing down the race viewer and opening it again resolved the problem.

I'm not suggesting that this should be a requirement but may be worth a go if you experience this in future. Meanwhile I have flagged this thread to the iGP Team in the hope they can find time in their busy schedule to investigate.

Hello again Slo.

There is a point at which you can no longer make changes but I think it's more like about 30 seconds before "lights out".

One thing to be aware of, as far as I know it is possible to add fuel but you can't take it back out. So if your first change was to add more fuel 5 minutes before the start and then you had a change of mind and 2 minutes before the start you tried to remove it again this would account for your experience.

OK, I'm officially confused. AFAIK the ability to reduce fuel load was switched off weeks ago but you have now proved otherwise. I give up and will again flag this entire thread for the attention of the devs. 


Thanks for the useful information you have provided.