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LIVE: Tyre Wear Update

Jack, I'd like to know if there will be changes in medium tyres performance... because medium and hard tyres performances are very similar. I suppose that medium tyres could be a little bit faster than hards.

I've also noticed that Hard tyres may have somehow gotten quicker on one-lap pace. I am suspecting that this might have been caused by a bug? Because it's obviously not something that was intended to be modified. The wear rate and scaling are the only intended effects on the Hard tyres in what's been implemented so far.

75% race length
Circuit Hungary
21:30 - Sun - 17°C

Now the SS and S are much more usable, perhaps more real consumption, but the times of the H after half the race are better than the S, which still brings us back to the usual problem ... :/

A small improvement for the tires, but very small

I race in a 2 car 100% length league. the tire scaling is a step in the right direction so thanks for being so active with the community, cant say that for a lot of other games.

Anyways, I for one log in every night to race in person. for me in 100% league I did use Hards a lot. The last race was at European IGP and I ran SS the whole race. Now to my problem, running Hards is fun because I had to constantly manipulate the Push Levels on both cars for optimum performance so it made the racing active and you felt more involved in how well you were racing. But the last race on all SS compound was kinda boring. it was obvious SS was the tire to use, and all I did was set the Push Level to one and used Kers here and there, and the tire still ran in the red after a few laps. Cold season is coming up so it may fix the problem some, but to me its no fun setting the PL to one and just sit there watching. As SS will be used more now in 100% league, I think the temperature of the tires should be looked at at some point so the race doesn't turn out to be just SS or S on PL 1 and hope you get lucky with DRS. That would make for boring live Races if that's how it turns out. 

Same here. Medium right now is still useless and making the current medium to the hard tyre would be a good one because in some temperatures the hard compounds are still quite a bit op. I also like the idea with the ultrasoft. 

Please also think about adding some league options where managers have to use 2 different compounds per race. 

Hi Jack,


Its hard to get through all the info, so you may have answered this already. Do you plan on also look at more than just wear levels, but also look more at the operational temperatures of each of tyre, effect of fuel and maybe the abrasiveness of some of the tracks?

It's certainly made a big difference in terms of addressing the dominance of hard tyres. Our league is 100% distance and the top 10 teams last night all did 4 stops on SS tyres (in Hungary). Nobody used hards at all in the top 10. I would also enthusiastically support an option for league admins to set how many tyre compounds are to be used per race for the league. I think it would make things very interesting

My opinion after first race in Australia: 
The update completely justifies itself at a race distance of 100%. 
It may also be better to increase the dependence of tyre types on temperature and to reduce the nominal speed difference between types. Or just one thing.  
The first step was right - Great job!

We drove the race at 20:30 Central European time so I was able to drive super soft with the lowest push level

Here are some opinions of players in my league (we are a 50% league):
1)well h-h was still the way to go
2)what i notice is  that they dont get that warm...
3)I didnt notice any change.
4)I did note that a big overcut wasnt so effective anymore. You lose too much time as the tyres drop off, hence why PLAYER came out behind both my cars after the pits.

I'm also interested to know 

I have just exited the race in Great Britain because it was so disgusting... 
Hard tyres in practice were 1,5 sec slower than the softs. So I choosed soft tyres. But in the race, hards were almost two seconds faster! That is absolutely ridiculous! I lost the win and also the podium because of your ridiculous changes! 
Disgusting! 
Absolutely disgusting!!!

Me too. I always assumed that tyre wear and the fuel had some effect, but if there is more balance there would be great.


My 2nd driver with 10L more fuel and 5 kg heavier (because it is he) got qualified in front of my 1st driver today. 

With rains in Singapore yesterday and Japan today, certainly we have an entertaining time :)

I personally have really enjoyed the change.  Just having to try new strategies at the last two races has made it interesting and every team in my elite league has tried something different. Last night I won with a five stopper, all SS in Brazil.  Tonight another team won with a 3 stop in Abu Dhabi on S-S-S-SS.  I don’t think hard are overpowered in 100% races and the heat is just fine.  All looks good.  I’d like the tyre performance to have frequent changes to keep everyone guessing at what the best strategy is.  

Yes in 100% hards aren't op at all...but the balance of heat / fuel could do with being looked at for ss and s.

So yeah your suggested change Jack would be very good as at the moment it's pretty much set SS to push L1 and make a cup of tea...as mentioned the fuel needs some attention which would help too....i like that we are getting close to the main tyres/strats used by F1 too...but I like the fact that this game has more pit stops as if it didn't it wouldnt be as good. 

Interesting. These changes are certainly keeping everyone on their toes. It's also made managing a race so much more interesting.

Your post needs more interesting commentary. :D