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Looking for alittle help from experienced driver

I read Joey's guide. Have a few questions.

1 When is the best time to use your kers (on straights aways? Into corner? Out of corners? Anytime, makes no difference if you're in braking zone?)

2 Is it still true that using medium tyres is bad and you're better off trying something else?

3 When is best time to do your practices. I assume just before a race so you have data based on most recent weather?

4 If you know it's likely to rain how do you go about your practices, and if it's currently raining will that give your dry tyres realistic data (ie: really slow lap times with bad information on your setup).

5 If you're likely to be in a race with rain would you try and get dry tyre and setup information before it rains, then just add +12 to wing/height at race time. It would you still just wait until just before race time, do all your tests with Inter's to get best setup for rain

6 If you join a league mid season (7 races in) will my engine total still reset at end of season or will I be screwed for first 7 races of next season if I don't save up. It says engines will reset in 17 races which would be 7 races into next season...

Thanks a million for whomever can help me out with these questions

I'll try my best because I'm bored and have the day off.

1. I use it to stay within DRS most of the time. sometimes I use it out of a slow corner to get a quick overtake if I'm right behind someone (first 2 turns at Monza). I think it depends on the situation more than where you are on the track. If I was in a situation where I was in clean air the whole race, I probably wouldn't use it until the last lap and I would just run a whole lap with it.

2. I've never had luck with the mediums. There are times where I think they would work, but I would but beng on a worn pair of softs or putting in a longer stint on the hards always comes out better. The mediums are too slow compared to the softs and the hards beat them on any stint that is too long for the softs to work. I have tried them and I feel like they should work when the track is really warm, but they don't. I never see them on anyone that has actually done a setup.

3. I don't think your setups changes, unless the precipitation level changes, so I don't think it matters when you do it as long as the conditions are similar. If I know it's not going to rain, I do it whenever. If I think it might rain I may wait until the last minute. I usually don't worry about any setups until a half an hour or so before the race though. I think practice times may vary based on when you do your runs (this is solely based on who I see at the top of the practice times and when they did their setup so it's speculation and the practice times don't seem to be all that important so whatever), but that wouldn't affect your race pace.

4. The current weather will affect your practice times. If you go out on dry tires in the rain, I'm pretty sure your driver is still going to tell you to put in a wet weather setup. The opposite is also true. The tires don't matter; it's the track that's affecting your setup.

5. Depends on when / how long it's going to rain.

6. Your engine total resets after the 20 races are up regardless of the season. You will start the first race of the season with a new engine in each car though.

1. I usually use it out of the corner but I don't think it matters that much except in braking zones where it naturally shouldn't work and really long straights or DRS because the maximum speed is capped at 350 kph.

2. Mediums usually just don't work except in a tiny temperature window too warm for softs and too cold for hards to reach their full potential but it's too likely you won't hit it, or not even there for that given track, to be worth it. Another potential use would be if you think a lot of other managers will start with hards and your driver is too often a bad qualifier so you choose mediums to give your car an edge in qualification, but that's quite a risky gamble.

3. I usually use the practice laps in the last minutes before the race in case of weather changes, but these days I already setup the cars and make a strategy draft right after the prior race using the know setup data and fuel data from last seasons race there.

4. Yes, practice gives you realistic data for the given conditions. If rain plays a potential role in the race I do the laps as late as possible. One thing to note, the drivers comment is based on if it's currently raining or not, the lap times are based on how much water is on the track. So if it just stopped raining the driver will give you the dry setup but the remaining water causes wets or inters still doing the better lap times. The question is how it'll be in slightly more than 10 minutes at start and the laps of the first stint.

5. No, I wait until right before the lockdown with my laps. As Joey mentioned there are different rain setups, so there's always a chance that the monsoon/'prepare car to go amphibic' variant might be the right one.

6. James said all.

Really appreciate it guys, cant believe I got 2 responses let alone 1 thats awesome. GL in your leagues, and hopefully these tips can help me take a step up in skill

@daniel do you know what temp's would be considered to hot/cold for certain tires?

No, because that's not a fixed value. It depends on the track, your car and, as a strategy, your competition. As a rule of thumb: The higher the tyre wear stat of a track the cooler it can be to make a harder compound work. The same applies for the faster a track is, although that's mostly only Monza or on the opposite (slow) side Monaco where it's super softs as long as the water in the yacht port is not starting to boil (for 50% races at least).

Great. Thx man

yeah, always run the SS at Monaco. The other tracks it depends on my car, the temp, and what I think others will do.