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Tyres & racing is just a funny old thing, drivers want to drive and never have to pit, so the FIA jumps in and ok we will use soft compounds this year and force them to stop. Teams then tweak setting on the car and it results in the same as the thing 1 stop 2 max

For years and years Brazil has been Hard tyres sure now they have SS, S & M and they are still 1 stopping. What do we have to do send them out on US to force them to pit?

You have to take those angry posts with a grain of salt. If we ever get a sceeny showing the stats those best teams in league are usually better in 3-4 stats and 2 or 3 other teams get the rest and who's actually best is debateable. Then those 8 laps SS are 6 in reality and he himself did 8 on soft, the other driver was actually roughly 2 seconds faster that lap but so where his own cars the lap before.

So the questions are why was he about 1 second slower on softs each lap and why was the best lap in the stints the first? The super soft driver lost about 1 second(!) every lap and Daniels driver didn't do much better on their softs except stabilizing it in laps 3 and 4. I suppose everyone cooked the tyres into oblivion but I didn't think it could be anything like that bad.

My take on it is the first lap, maybe into the 2nd, is the advantage of super softs plus the 2 laps less fuel weight and after that everyone pretty much killed the tyres already. The super softs just went downhill quite quickly, with around lap 3 hitting the red wear area trading less overheat against loosing grip, and thus went on loosing that 1 second every lap. The softs heated a little bit less and thus closing the gap a little bit but then they hit quite a wall with that first performace falloff around lap 6 loosing that gained second of around lap 4 again.

18% over 6 laps not 8

1st lap 17.5%
2nd lap 17.2%
3rd lap 16.8%
4th lap 16.2%
5th lap 15.6%
6th lap 15%
But I'm just guessing 98.3% wore tyre

Another thing:
10 point stamina loses less health than 8 point stamina. -0.6 Health at the start of the race.

EDIT: in lap was 5th lap crossed the line entering the pits to count as 6 lap stint so he had lower wear
Ask him to post image of the first stint so we all can see

James, I think you need some sleep. He crossed the line in pits but in lap was lap 6. The pit time was lap 7 and thus that was the out lap. He did a full 6 lap stint, but your wear calculation is way off.

As it happens during my last Turkey race one driver did a first stint on super softs and thus I can give you screeny of it. The wear rates are slightly lower but close enough to draw a general picture.

The tyres also suffered somewhat from overheating but by far not as bad.

Edit: If someone wonders, my driver finished 10th (+14.533), so not a really close race. The strategy of the day (50% race) was hard, hard (1st, 2nd, 4th (my other driver) and 9th), followed by super soft, hard, hard (3rd, 5th, 7th, 8th and 10th) and the 6th placed used soft, hard, soft.

The one in his race is the one I wanna see. hehehe


You had 17%

I had to go all the way back to april to find SS in turkey to get this

I just give them benefit of doubt

I would like to do so but unfortunately I found that if I actually want to try to help I have to scale the claims down in line with other, like the ones about the drivers, I can put to a test. If that is actually helpfull others have to decide. Until someone tells me I can just hope so.

Yes, I had 17%, although a bit rounded down. So he had around 1% more wear but since it decreases each lap his final wear can't be more than 6% lower than mine in lap 6.