The lack of progressive TCD gaps relative to temperature (tire compound difference) results in very little strategy adjustments, in addition to fairly simple in/out pit gaps.
What I mean by this is that the TCD on a cold day (say 5 celsius) from a ss to a hard compound should get progressively and exponentially larger the harder the compound. They seem to be too consistent right now between the compounds, which when combined with fairly simple in/out times in the pits, means that there is very little variance in strategies that will be successful, or could make for interesting racing.
For instance between a soft and ss, on a cold day maybe a .375 second a lap difference, or whatever based on track length and combination of slow and fast corners. For that same race, to mediums maybe 1 secs a lap from softs and 2 to hards.
Example - last race temps were at 25 def give or take, but the TCD gaps were all roughly the same. Not realistic. It was a relatively high wear track, so how is it that ss were wearing at 12%, softs at 4 and mediums at 3? Makes no logical sense.
There should always be about 3-4 options for evenly matched teams to compete, and from what I can tell, everyone seems to be running pretty much the same strategy, so how is this a strategy game? Additionally by effectively creating 3-4 strategies due to compound differences, that would mean that we would also see more variance in race results due to mistakes made by managers in strats.
Example, longer stints would make sense for someone having to come from deeper in the pack, but right now that doesn’t seem to be an option, as the TCD differences are too linear.
Tracks with more turns would naturally favor the softer compounds, and maybe reduce the TCD’s but the wear component is also not varied enough to make an effective difference.
thoughts?
