Opinion for Medium tires

From the two options I chose bad, but that word is not entirely justified. The medium is not exactly bad but just almost never good enough. Not soft enough for the kind of track those work better and not that much faster than hard to justify the higher wear and the worse ability in running cool and thus taking push levels. It's more kind of sitting in between the chairs.

Things are sometimes just harder to balance than it looks. Mediums were better some years ago and, according to manager that were playing back then, just overpowered. The following nerf lead to the current situation. 


The problem might be that Hards often hold longer than fuel weight would allow and Softs often wear too fast so that you run them longer than you wish for. Because Mediums wear just in between those it easily could be that if they would be in balance with those other two compounds in terms of speed vs wear their wear would pretty much hit just that sweet spot of ideal stint length due to fuel weight vs pit stop time on a lot of tracks. That would make them to a sure bet choice almost everywhere except on super soft ground. A performance slightly below that and you got our current situation, often not that bad but nowhere truly good.

Hards useless? In 50% races, most of the time they're the best tyre. Rarely does a strategy not involve at least one stint on hard compound, often the optimum strategy is 2 stints on hards. They're possibly the most used tyre in competitive 50% elite leagues.