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Amount of laps on tyres

I have been watching like for like race's and can't work out how some people get 11 laps out of ss where I am struggling to get 5 at best. what am I doing wrong?

I assume you do compare only the same tracks. One thing those 5 laps hint at is that you might place your line at 50% where the red area begins and the tyres start to slow noticeably down due to wear. But those up to 11 laps are wearing the tyres to around 30% and sometimes even down to 20% works. Then there's the Tyre Efficiency car stat, but if yours is not extremely low the effect is rather small.

If I'm mistaken with those assumptions above correct me, please.

Jack has tyre wear 17% means he will likely run 7laps
Ricky has tyre wear 15% means he will likely run 8laps
Pete has tyre wear 13% means he will likely run 9laps
Joe has tyre wear 11% means he will likely run 10laps
Me has tyre wear 19% means I will be on soft tyres at 9% doing 12laps instead of 6laps on SS. :P

Forget about what others are doing & use the practice and setup screen to workout what is best for you.

Thank you, yes same track and I have tried to run up to 90% in red and it does slow a lot, so as you say that is what they must be doing, I thought I might of been missing a trick. Thanks again.