I was on wets on dry track my laps were all in the 1:44's so only 2 seconds off average dry pace, the tyres degrade quicker however.
Is it worth doing some testing on that if there's time? Obviously the track'll be different, but you can work out a percentage for how much slower they are.
It seems to be just a few seconds slower depending on what dry tyres you are comparing to(just checked everyone in my group in this last race). But in this track we just raced I reckoned it would be more dry than wet weather, thats why i choose dry tyres to run. I reckon it will be more wet weather for the next race so doing a revers of what I just did might be good. I am only a bit afraid of the tyre wear for wets in dry. ALso, the tyre wear for this track is HIGH so too much dry weather would completely ruin it. I might do a copy of last race trying to run through the race in extra softs regardless of weather. or maybe just play it safe and pit when it changes, praying it wont change too often. GAH this us a tough one.. i need to think about it another 2 days or so.
If tyre deg is high, has anyone got any data to suggest how long tyres (wet or dry) will last? Also, quick question on pit-stops. The driver pits when he has a technical issue, needs new tyres or fuel, right? So if I set loads of stops, he won't necessarily come in for all of them? I'm thinking whether it's worth assuming weather will change (or tyres go) within 10-15 laps each time, meaning I'll need maybe 5 stops, and put in next to no fuel each time. Does that sound logical?
My season is pretty much over. all I can do is collect data for the remaining races. I was getting better results when I was a newbie at the tail end of the previous season Im planning on employing a young driver with 3 races to go and work on him through the following season. Hopefully the season after that I should have a good chance of promotion. I had a bright start at the beginning of the season but some how lost momentum from the leaders. Not sure how, maybe my original driver was starting to fall from grace and he ended up to higher level for me to extend his contract. At least Ive got some data stored up on GO
With regards promotion, I know you can only get promoted if you have a positive balance, but if someone in the top 4 doesn't, does that mean the 5th place driver gets promotion? If it is, that makes me currently 13 points off 4th place, and 15 off third, as most of my league have a negative balance! I don't think that making up those points is likely, but you can dream, eh? I'm just using this season for data collection too, so I've compromised my strategy for the next race slightly so I get data that can be compared more easily. Rather than going for the super-quick dash on extra softs at the beginning, I'm sticking with mediums so I can hopefully see the difference the track makes to tyre life. I'm aiming for a 3 stopper (hopefully with kind rain!), with 72/80/80 fuel loads, anyone else qualified yet? My net time was 3min46.6
I have only done q1 and fastest so far. I am going for the super softs in qualifying because I have no intention of using dry tyres during the whole race. I will start the race on wets to get a nice advantage when everyone boxes for rain tyres (which could happen after lap 1). The rain probability is high for the whole race so im also going 100% wet set up as well. I will either win or come last but I think it is a good strategy.
Does anyone have an idea of how fast the wet tyres degrade on a dry track? Also does anyone know how to work out OA for drivers? Because mine is currently 106 and I was wondering if I can get him back down to below 85 if I make him lose all his motivation.
Just had a look at mine, it's not a mean average of just the characteristics, I think age and weight must come in to it too. Lighter must be better, maybe younger is too? Is there a max weight (might be worth checking the market) and max age (same) that you can minus your figures from, and include that in the average? Edit: 43 is the oldest I've found, and 107kg the heaviest, although that only half fills that bar, so maybe heavier is possible?
If someone is up for some testing, could you try running with 100 risk? I would be interested to see how many mistakes you get from it. Also if you do this could you post up your driver specs.
Rain tyres should last for about 175km in the wet, but not sure how long on a dry track, anyone got any data on it? What are people thinking for how many pitstops? I am thinking of maybe trying to one stop it with rain tyres the entire race.
Just posted wet tyres on a dry track data on the group section as I think this data is gold dust for this race.
Just joined the game and been put in rookie group 201. Halfway through the season so I have a chance to play around a little. From what I've read, I don't need to worry to much about money at this stage. Lets see what happens.
Yeah, I've only had the one race so far, so I'm using it to collect data (download GPRO Organiser - GO), and get a decent driver ahead of next season. Realistically I think it'll be 2 seasons before I can start beginning to challenge, but we'll see. Welcome to the forum by the way! Hopefully you'll hang about here enough to contribute to the F1 debate too.
Thanks for the welcome. Managed to qualify 7th (so far) but a few more to run. Looks like the race will be random looking at the weather. I'll just use this season to learn my way around the game.
Good luck for tonight guys, currently p4 with heavy fuel, but grid position means nothing for a race like this. Going to do the whole race on wet tyres so it should be interesting, next race better be dry though
You should not need that much fuel for the race; if it rains for most of the race then you will probably only need about 210lts. I am starting on the wet tyres with 67lts of fuel and I just left all the other fuel stops empty so every time I stop I will just refuel back up to 67lts.
