Race Strategy practice program

[xX| 1S_C4 |Xx]

I always try to run this practice program twice, 5 laps with the soft compound and 5 laps with the medium compound. I always try to be as consistent as possible, and usually the graph shows me a somewhat straight line, giving me a good idea about how my lap times are.

But when it's race time and you get to personalise your strategy, do the results of this practice program translate into the tyre wear projection or it's always pre-established, hard-coded numbers for each track?

In other words, does that practice program carry on information about your personal driving style into your strategy customization screen before the race?

Am I just wearing my components for no real benefits?

And no, I haven't really tested it, like driving in an absurd way in practice sessions to see if the pre-race strategy screen shows and suggests me weird projections.

[EnZiBm]

Entendi nada kkkk
Aquilo ali é um teste só pra pegar xp pra investir nas peças do carro, fora isso não vejo beneficio, faço 3 voltas e só, na corrida não tem nada haver pq ali tem x de combustivel, dependendo da quantidade de voltas não vai ser aquilo.

[xX| 1S_C4 |Xx]

Originally posted by EnZiBm:

Entendi nada kkkk
Aquilo ali é um teste só pra pegar xp pra investir nas peças do carro, fora isso não vejo beneficio, faço 3 voltas e só, na corrida não tem nada haver pq ali tem x de combustivel, dependendo da quantidade de voltas não vai ser aquilo.

Se você fizer só 3 voltas, você só ganha 25 pontos. Se você fizer 5 voltas, você ganha mais 25, pra um total de 50 pontos pra pesquisa e desenvolvimento do teu carro.

[2Steps]

It will alter your projected fuel and tyre use, yes, and incorporate that into a race strategy. There is a button to toggle standard or customized strategies before the start and you can see it will change your total projected race time and will fairly often shuffle a stop a lap or two earlier or later.

Ultimately it's most useful though to just get a better fuel load and the XP. The actual strategy changes are very minor.

[KRON]

Completing Race Strategy programme definitely affects fuel load for the race(try completing it with lean fuel mix instead of standard and see how much fuel the game will recommend you). It doesn't have much influence on tyre management, though. With maxed out car in My Team mode you will be able to do 1-stop 100% race with medium-soft compounds even though the race strategy before the race wouldn't let you do that.

[EnZiBm]

Originally posted by xX| 1ECR:

Originally posted by EnZiBm:

Entendi nada kkkk
Aquilo ali é um teste só pra pegar xp pra investir nas peças do carro, fora isso não vejo beneficio, faço 3 voltas e só, na corrida não tem nada haver pq ali tem x de combustivel, dependendo da quantidade de voltas não vai ser aquilo.

Se você fizer só 3 voltas, você só ganha 25 pontos. Se você fizer 5 voltas, você ganha mais 25, pra um total de 50 pontos pra pesquisa e desenvolvimento do teu carro.

Ganha não, tem um limite de pontos la, tipo 500 ou 600 na semana, nunca vai ultrapassar o limite.

[xX| 1S_C4 |Xx]

Originally posted by EnZiBm:

Originally posted by xX| 1ECR:

Se você fizer só 3 voltas, você só ganha 25 pontos. Se você fizer 5 voltas, você ganha mais 25, pra um total de 50 pontos pra pesquisa e desenvolvimento do teu carro.

Ganha não, tem um limite de pontos la, tipo 500 ou 600 na semana, nunca vai ultrapassar o limite.

O limite de pontos que você pode ganhar nos treinos é um número que representa o somatório de todos os programas completos de maneira ótima (roxa), mais os objetivos do time. Se você ao término do terceiro treino deixar algum programa completo porém não ótimo (verde), você não vai receber todos os pontos que você poderia receber.

Você ganha uma quantidade se completar no verde, 25 por exemplo, mas ganha também mais outros 25 se completar no roxo, num total de 50 pontos.

O programa Race Strategy fica verde quando você completa 2 voltas, e roxo quando você completa 4. Eu completo todas as 5 disponíveis pra eu poder ver o gráfico depois pra ter uma idéia de como seriam as minhas voltas durante a qualificação e durante a corrida, pra ver quantos segundos eu posso ganhar por volta.

[xX| 1S_C4 |Xx]

Originally posted by 2Steps:

It will alter your projected fuel and tyre use, yes, and incorporate that into a race strategy. There is a button to toggle standard or customized strategies before the start and you can see it will change your total projected race time and will fairly often shuffle a stop a lap or two earlier or later.

Ultimately it's most useful though to just get a better fuel load and the XP. The actual strategy changes are very minor.

I noticed the button, but assuming an unedited race strategy, it usually just moves your pit stop just one lap earlier or one lap later, and if it changes the fuel load too, it must be a very subtle change, because I never really noticed it changing.

But I never thought the Race Strategy practice program was responsible for such change, I just thought the changes were based on how good your car was, how developed your car is compared to the other teams.

Thanks for the help. I guess I can stop feeling bad when one of the practice sessions is rainy and I end up not having enough time to graph the compounds before quali.

[xX| 1S_C4 |Xx]

Originally posted by KRON:

Completing Race Strategy programme definitely affects fuel load for the race(try completing it with lean fuel mix instead of standard and see how much fuel the game will recommend you). It doesn't have much influence on tyre management, though. With maxed out car in My Team mode you will be able to do 1-stop 100% race with medium-soft compounds even though the race strategy before the race wouldn't let you do that.

I have maxed out all R&D. I'm at a point where I can, on most tracks, just fuel my car to the bare minimum and if I race under a standard mix, I can start with +0.01 and have it actually increase as the race goes on.

I do 25% races tho. All strategies are either 1-stop or 2-stop, and I have never picked the 2-stop one. Only weather changes can force me to add an additional pit mid-race to change compounds.

Thanks for telling me that doing a Race Strategy programme with a lean fuel mix will affect the personalized strategy. I usually just do this programme under a rich fuel mix and using all the ERS I'm allowed per lap, because that's how I started to race after I maxed out the durability and powertrain departments.

[Dreagon]

Originally posted by xX| 1ECR:

Originally posted by KRON:

Completing Race Strategy programme definitely affects fuel load for the race(try completing it with lean fuel mix instead of standard and see how much fuel the game will recommend you). It doesn't have much influence on tyre management, though. With maxed out car in My Team mode you will be able to do 1-stop 100% race with medium-soft compounds even though the race strategy before the race wouldn't let you do that.

I have maxed out all R&D. I'm at a point where I can, on most tracks, just fuel my car to the bare minimum and if I race under a standard mix, I can start with +0.01 and have it actually increase as the race goes on.

I do 25% races tho. All strategies are either 1-stop or 2-stop, and I have never picked the 2-stop one. Only weather changes can force me to add an additional pit mid-race to change compounds.

Thanks for telling me that doing a Race Strategy programme with a lean fuel mix will affect the personalized strategy. I usually just do this programme under a rich fuel mix and using all the ERS I'm allowed per lap, because that's how I started to race after I maxed out the durability and powertrain departments.

If you're doing 25% races the race pace program doesn't really matter. I don't know about this years game because I'm doing only 50% races but last year you could do every race in a soft/medium one stop strategy. But in 50% races and 100% races it can make a difference. It might recommend going from a soft/hard to a soft/medium strategy or a 1 stop instead of a 2 stop.

Also, I recommend not doing the entire program in rich mix. It will result in the game loading up more fuel than you need. It also isn't faster. Using rich mix overheats the engine, causing damage and reducing power.

[xX| 1S_C4 |Xx]

Originally posted by Dreagon:

Originally posted by xX| 1ECR:

I have maxed out all R&D. I'm at a point where I can, on most tracks, just fuel my car to the bare minimum and if I race under a standard mix, I can start with +0.01 and have it actually increase as the race goes on.

I do 25% races tho. All strategies are either 1-stop or 2-stop, and I have never picked the 2-stop one. Only weather changes can force me to add an additional pit mid-race to change compounds.

Thanks for telling me that doing a Race Strategy programme with a lean fuel mix will affect the personalized strategy. I usually just do this programme under a rich fuel mix and using all the ERS I'm allowed per lap, because that's how I started to race after I maxed out the durability and powertrain departments.

If you're doing 25% races the race pace program doesn't really matter. I don't know about this years game because I'm doing only 50% races but last year you could do every race in a soft/medium one stop strategy. But in 50% races and 100% races it can make a difference. It might recommend going from a soft/hard to a soft/medium strategy or a 1 stop instead of a 2 stop.

Also, I recommend not doing the entire program in rich mix. It will result in the game loading up more fuel than you need. It also isn't faster. Using rich mix overheats the engine, causing damage and reducing power.

Then what's the point of the rich mix?

[2Steps]

Originally posted by xX| 1ECR:

Then what's the point of the rich mix?

A little bit of extra power now and then to help overtaking, or if for the sake of strategy you need to be a tenth or two quicker now for a few straights and can sacrifice speed later while fuel saving.

[EnZiBm]

Eu só faço o roxo por isso eu falei aquilo kkkkkk