Jack
From
Monday 10th September @ 11:00 (GMT) tyre wear will be scaled to the duration of the race as follows:
- 100% duration race - tyres wear 0.5 times the current rate
- 75% duration race - tyres wear 0.66 times the current rate
- 50% duration race - no change
- 25% duration race - tyres wear 2 times the current rate
You will be able to preview the new wear rates in your practice laps after the release. We will postpone races for 3 hours after the change, so that anyone preparing for a race has time to preview the wear rates before using them. If you have enough data you could also work out the difference from the numbers above and what the implications will be for strategy.
Where did this idea come from?
In a recent thread about the dominance of hard tyres, I put forward
suggestions to improve the situation which were well received. One of my suggestions was that in order to get an overall consensus on tyre performance, we had to start scaling them to race duration.
The reason for this suggestion is simple. I don't think we can achieve a consensus so long as all tyres wear at the same rate regardless of race duration. For example, you can run an entire 25% duration race on 1 set of hard tyres and never pit. Or, you can 1-stop in a 50% duration race on hards (the one everyone complains about). Therefore, if we scale wear to the race duration, so that 25% races will wear 2 times as fast as 50% races, then we'll have some uniformity across the board when we get feedback on the tyre balance. It should be roughly the same experience in all race durations, just happening at a faster pace in shorter races.
Even if after the change there are complaints about tyre balance, we will be more easily able to address them across the board, since they will likely apply to everyone and not just the leagues at a certain race duration.
Could someone explain it in German, Please?
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CEO & CTO