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LIVE: Tyre Wear Update

No changes for 50% races? Will mean hard hard will stay the best strategy

i hopenthe gameplay will be now more realistic as before and not more 3xH at 9° or 7-8 stop strategys at monaco, valencia, hungary or singapur

We will see if the changes are for good.
Thanks for the change Jack!

In my league, we just finished our race and absolutely nothing has changed. And the guys are moaning about the fact that softer tyres seemed to be even slower and Hards seemed to be even faster. But I think they're a bit overreacting by the fact that they were expecting something different, so they're now saying it's even worse. In my opinion, nothing has changed. Hards dominated the 50% German Grand Prix as always.

That will need a different tweak to correct. Pit lane time in Monaco and Valencia is 16s and 13s respectively, so you can run these 5-7 stop strategies.


Perhaps a minimum pit lane time can be set. 17s or 18s could be good start point.

Also the fuel refueling rate could be adjusted. Currently it's 20 litres/second, 2.0s for 40 litre pitstop (It was 12.1 litres/second in F1, before refuelling was banned)

In my league the manager that goes in 1st place uses all the time hard tyres. he only makes 1 pit stop every race. 

Will you think to implement new slick tyres, like the ULTRASOFT (US)?

Would be good if existing practice runs could be removed to re-run on new tyre wear to reconsider strategy

Thank you for replying. I would like for you to take a look at our race results: https://igpmanager.com/app/d=result&id=19356367&tab=race


50% German GP at 23°C

The winner used a S/H strategy, starting in P5, using Softs for 13 laps and Hards for 17 laps.
I finished in P2 using a H/H strategy, 17 laps for the first stint and 13 laps for the second stint. I finished 2.2 seconds behind the winner and I started in P14.
All those who finished from P1 to P11 used a 1 stop strategy, most of them used a H/H strategy and a few others used a S/H strategy. The fastest one using a 2 stops strategy started in Pole Position and finished in P12, out of the points. And so who started in P2, finished in P13 out of the points. The first one used a SS/S/S strategy and the second one used a SS/SS/H strategy. They both finished 15 seconds behind the winner. Then another 5 cars on a 1 stop strategy using Hards and the third one who used a 2 stops strategy finished in P19.

As you can see, Hard was the dominant tyre again.

why the medium and hard tires have the same wear? the hard being harder than the medium should not have less wear?

Just ran some tests with my practice in my 50% league, and it appears the Meds and Hards wear just as fast as usual.  We have a unwritten rule in elite that you must use two compounds unless it rains, and a one stop is almost always the best strategy for every track but monaco with med / hard wear rates never getting low enough to affect performance anyways.  Hards are still the prime tire for 50% races imo, its not the wear that is the problem but rather they need a bit of a tweak on the performance.  When they are consistently as quick or quicker than mediums and often the softs. 

Yes he can win races when he actually attends, but he rarely attends the races so he doesn't win so often. But he's the hightest level manager in our league. The others are between level 15/17.

However, by saying the Hard tyre was the dominant tyre again I didn't mean the H/H won the race, but I meant there were H tyres oll over the place into the points anyway and those who used softer tyres finished out of the points even tho they started in the top positions. And one of them is surely a skilled manager, as he's battling for the Championship and is often winning races. And on another note, yeah the S/H won the race but started in P5, I started in P14 using H/H and finished 2nd only 2.2 seconds behind the winner. If we started closer I would of probably won the race on H/H. And I'm not saying this as a moan cause our league is very competitive and there currently are at least 6/7 managers who can win races. I'm just trying to explain what happened in our race.

What?

As I said earlier in another thread, tyre wear should be the same in different length races.

Now when one makes a point about his 50% races, another manager racing 100% races disagree with him.
And vice versa. Because they have a different experience.
Now when every manager makes a statement in forums about tyres, he should mention the length of races in his league.
This is weird and unrealistic as I've said.

Tyre wear should be the same in every type of races.