I have noticed that my driver seems to be awful on soft tyres. He's pretty good on SS tyres but once we change on to soft tyre I'm at least a second off the pace of everyone else. Anyone know what could be causing this and anyway to potentially fix this? Thanks in advance!
Thanks for your responses. I have noticed this issue on every track and every temperature of the track. I tend to only use the lowest push level on both. I also used a heavier fuel load with the Soft tyre
You have a heavier driver so added fuel will slow your driver. In addition the lowest push level may not get the temp into the tires and depending on tire supply, you may have a very narrow optimal tire temp
Soft tires are naturally going to have less grip than the Super Soft tires (as with any harder tire compound). They can be slower by about .2 seconds per sector depending on the drivers attributes.
Using the lowest push level for each race will produce poor tire temperature management. If your tires are turning grey or blue, they are getting too cold and your lap times will suffer. The same can be said for tires that get too hot. Tires that are extremely saturated in a red color leads to extreme tire wear and your tires will use up all of their grip too early and wear out several laps early. This can lead to maybe .3 or .4 seconds longer sector times.
Setting up your car with more fuel on softs than you would on super softs will also result in slower times, but only by .2 or .3 seconds per sector.
All of these combined can add up to lap times that are slower by over 3/4 of a second or more in comparison to using Super Softs.
