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Topic: Tyre wear necessitating pit stop |
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#1 posted Aug 13th 2017, 12:34:19
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Greetings. Preparing for my first race here. If I understand the rules correctly, during a race, pit stops are automatically triggered based on fuel availability and/or tyre wear; which ever consumes first. For fuel, this is straightforward but what about tyre wear? Is there a specific, definite threshold tyre wear value that compels the driver to pit? Will the driver run the tread completely bare (i.e 100% wear) given a surplus of fuel, or will he pit earlier, at say 90% wear?
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#2 posted Aug 13th 2017, 12:37:06 (last edited Aug 13th 2017, 12:38:03 by Mairo Toom)
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Quote ( Brad Marshall @ August 13th 2017,12:34:19 ) Will the driver run the tread completely bare (i.e 100% wear) Basically this. He (or some cases she) will pit only if the tyres wouldn't make that one extra lap. So you will use them to ribs. 100%, 99%, 98%, depends if they would be 101% or more after the next lap, this ain't allowed. But yeah, to the ribs.
Edit. Like you may figure yourself after you will see your first race, but you will get slower with very worn tyres.
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#3 posted Aug 13th 2017, 12:38:03
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He will pit when the tyres are so close to 0% wear that another lap would make them go below it. Also, when getting closer to 0% they will slow down.
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#4 posted Aug 14th 2017, 03:56:01
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Thank you for your responses.
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#5 posted Aug 14th 2017, 04:52:16
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After the race if you check on the Race Analysis screen u can see each lap and the tyres are in light blue, once it goes grey in colour then u have hit that tyres limit and you will start to lap slower.
Making it easier next time to know roughly how many laps u can ran before u need to pit and change them.
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#6 posted Aug 14th 2017, 09:18:46
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Quote ( David Brister @ August 14th 2017,04:52:16 ) how many laps
Laps are different. I'd rather count wear per km ;-)
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#7 posted Aug 14th 2017, 12:02:39
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Joining a team will also help you with questions like this. ;)
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#8 posted Aug 15th 2017, 01:51:09
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Quote ( Nigel Hartlebury @ August 14th 2017,12:02:39 ) Joining a team will also help you with questions like this. ;)
or simply getting a semi-competent mentor, if you don't want to join a team (yet).
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