Tyre Wear - Push Level

Ege

What Herp says might be correct in real life but I don't think it translates into the game mechanics.

Speaking from experience push level has an effect on tyre temperature but I have no evidence that it does anything to alter tyre wear. If PL does influence tyre wear then the effect is imperceptable. I say this because I take note of tyre wear and see very little difference from season to season on any one circuit even though ambient temperature changes mean that I am operating the cars with significantly different push levels.

What I do find is that PL has more of an effect on fuel consumption, and if like me you try to run with bare minimum fuel load it is easy to get it wrong. If it's colder than previous seasons you are likely to push harder so need to be careful you have enough fuel to complete the race.

Hi Herp

I have recorded a lot of race data and my response to Ege's question was based on analysis of this data and many years experience of managing races. You said in your post that you are somewhat new to the game (account created 14th Dec, 17 races in Rookie tier) and asked for experienced managers to add if anything was wrong... So that's what I did :-)

The game is great, I hope you have fun discovering all of the little things that can help you become a competitive Elite tier manager.

Good luck in your iGP career
Kev.

Herp

No offence taken and no apologies needed. You may be right but as I said, any correlation between PL and tyre wear (if it exists) is so small that I can't detect it from my data. If iGP gave us decimal points on tyre wear (the same as fuel consumption) it would help answer the question.

Hi Hamlet
I use my own calculator to predict tyre wear for the race. It's not 100% accurate because as I said above the practice lap tyre wear is not reported to a decimal. There is a significant difference between 8.1% and 8.9% in terms of the number of laps you can get out of a set of tyres but if they're both reported as 8% you can't predict the wear rate accurately. That being said, it's close enough, when I compare post race results with pre-race predictions they're usually not a million miles out.

Here is an example...


And here is an example of the difference between 8.0 and 8.9 but if they're both reported as 8 all you know it the range of wear...

Yes, the game seems to use decimal places, although generally I notice that wear is usually a bit higher than the predictions using the rounded number provided for me. I assume that's connected with my style of racing as I tend to stress those tyres during a race. I haven't noticed much effect of Push Level on the tyre wear but temperature, especially overheating, has a quite noticeable effect.

Btw. if you want to calculate the projected wear after a number of laps but don't want to use a table you can get the result by calculating ((1-[tyre wear])^[number of laps])*100. So for 12% it's 1-12%=0.88 and for 8 laps 0.88^8 is 0.3596 or roughly 36% remaining.