Suggested

Limited tires selection depending on the racetrack

We've seen a lot of suggestions here to add the new F1 tires of the 2018 season.
So everybody is always asking "Can we add the Ultrasofts tires ?"
We've also seen tons of suggestions asking to balance tires, to be able to use more tires and especially Medium ones.

What could be added to the game about tires, and which is real in F1, is to limit the selection of tires available for a Grand Prix.

At first, let's take a look of all of the tires available in the real F1.


So that's 3 type of tires more than those available in iGP. Don't be afraid of those "SuperHards" they won't wear by 0.5% a lap. This is how it looks like in fact.


What does that suggestion mean ?
It means that depending on the racetrack you will have at your disposal HyperSofts-UltraSofts-SuperSofts or maybe SuperSofts-Softs-Mediums and on racetracks with high tire degradations Mediums-Hards-SuperHards.
(These are not final selections, just examples).
This picture shows you which tires will be allowed on the first 3 Grand Prix of the 2018 season so you can easily imagine how it could work.


Why do so ?
It could allow to balance tires more easily, because all of the tires won't have to work together on the same Grand Prix.
It would change all of the strategies already established. If the harder compound available is Medium, won't you make one more pit stop to keep softer compound, even with balanced tires ? If the softer compound available is Medium, would you qualify with them and make that one more pit stop ?

This is how it could look like for the Italian GP.



Please vote for this suggestion, even if you disagree and please add a comment to your vote to make your point. :)

In principle this sounds like a good idea and I like it. I don't know how difficult it would be for the developers to code but regardless of difficulty in coding there is one fundamental problem.
Because we race 24 hours a day, 365 days a year the wide temperature variations might mean the ideal tyre combination in winter would be different to summer. Also, a set of compounds which is suitable for a league racing in the middle of the day would most likely be unsuitable for a league whose races happen in the middle of the night.

I understand that statement but isn't it what could make that suggestion interesting ?
If you run with higher temperatures then you will use the harder compounds, even if it is the Medium ones :)
If your race is "by night" then you will have to put on softer tires and maybe make one more pit stop...
Do you see my point and how this suggestion could be (very) interesting and change the way you play the game ?

I'm agree with implementing US tyres*° on iGP and I second your proposal Mini_Glue.

* I had put some posts about that
° I'm agree to limit the tyre compounds

Yes, there are a lot of them... For US tires or to balance compounds to be able to use Medium tires.

Thank you.

You're welcome

I'd let managers decide on which 3 tyre compounds they choose out of the 7 for each race..that way it's down to the managers to evaluate which combination is best for the conditions at that particular track, at that particular time of year & day.

I'm torn apart about what you said. From my point of view, I would like it to be fix because it would be about the tire degradation on the racetrack. Here is my example why : You are in a league, you are level 12 and racing against levels 19. They have a better tire economy than you do, they may use softer compounds the way you use harder compounds... So they will always run softer tires and you will never catch them even if they make a mistake...

In real F1, it's Pirelli who says which tires are available for a Grand Prix. Not the teams, the league host or whatever...

Just to remind you that if everybody is forced to use the same tires, then these tires work (or not in your cases) for everybody.
And so, if tires overheat they do for everyone and they do the same way because car stats don't play on that.

Me parece buena idea, de hecho en la liga que yo compito no se pueden utilizar los neumáticos duros.

In fact, in the game Formula 1 on PS4, it's the same as in real. So I guess it can be in a game ^^

No you just don't rename the tyre and change the colour ! lol
Depending of the racetrack if your harder tire is the Yellow one, it won't wear at 2% a lap like an Orange one would, but maybe little less than actually to make even softer tires work.

Truth is, I don't know. It's a suggestion based on real facts and I'm trying to put it into the game... It needs some reflexion. If I could chew it entirely to the devs, well, I would host my own game lol

While I'm not against having more tyres, i think it is more important that the devs get the correct balance, between all the compounds we have already. As for league hosts picking compounds for circuits i believe that is an definite no as it would lead to arguments. However i think a rule that you had to use 2 or different compounds during the race would be a good thing(however this was only brought in in F1 to increase overtaking)