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The tyre changes are live now (since 14:00 GMT, not 11:00 GMT as originally planned). All practice laps from the last 2 days have been wiped again to allow everyone to re-do their practice laps.
Tomorrow at 11:00 GMT we will be rolling out a further update to tyre wear and performance. These changes are aimed at increasing the variety of strategies in 75% and 100% duration leagues.
What has changed?
- In 100% duration races, tyres will wear at the same rate as 75% duration races used to
- In 75% duration races, tyres will wear at the rate of a "62.5% duration race" on the old scale. In other words, they'll be halfway between where they were before now and a 50% race in terms of wear.
- Hard tyres will be made slightly faster to bring them more in to contention with the other compounds
- Intermediate and Wet tyres will wear slightly faster overall
Our primary goal is to get the wear scaling to a level where there is a general consensus on the balance of the tyres and not this split in the discussions we see now between e.g. 50% and 100% leagues, with the former saying it's great and the latter saying it needs changing. From all the feedback we've received from 100% leagues, it's clear that Super Soft and Soft were overpowered due to their life cycle being too long. These changes are aimed directly at addressing that, by reducing the life cycle of tyres in those race durations the Super Soft and Soft tyre should become less dominant. Increasing the speed of the Hard tyre may also bring them back in to play.
As with all changes to the tyres recently, if any further tweaks are needed, we will read all of your feedback and respond accordingly. We accept that it's something that needs to be tweaked on an ongoing basis and can't just be handled in one update. After all, this is a debate which grips F1 too, the balance of tyre compounds. It's a delicate balancing act.
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