Invalid setup ? (Fuel problem during Free Practice)

[V.Francis]

Hi,

I cannot do a proper run during Free Practice, it always says "Invalid Setup" at the end of the run. When i click to see what the problem is, the fuel reads "2kg" with a "!" red mark.

I dont get it, do i have too much fuel remaining ? Not enough ?

I cant even change the amount of fuel in the car during Free Practice, i can only set an amount of lap.

What should i do ?

Thanks

[spatzii]

"Invalid setup" during practice happens to me because of tyre wear. At the end of the run, you can't do another 10/15/whatever laps on the same compound because it's too old, so you have to pick a new set. Check to see if that fixes it.

[Dalimyr]

I was so confused when this was happening to me. I suspect the game's sometimes failing to refuel the car between stints or something like that? Try changing the run length to however much will cost you the least or second-least amount of time (I haven't tried other teams yet so don't know if this fluctuates at all, but for me, fuelling for 6 or 7 laps would take less than a second and anything else takes longer), then change it to whatever your actual desired run length is. That seemed to fix it for me, but I was sitting for ages trying to figure out why Bottas's car was constantly flagged with "Invalid Configuration" and not letting me put him out on track again.

[V.Francis]

I tried selecting 10 and 5 laps, i still have "Invalid configuration" with a red mark on the fuel.

In the menu it says the team will automatically put the right amount of fuel but even with a run in "fuel economy" mode it does not work...

I think this might just be a game breaking bug in the game.

I would love the game to give me proper information about invalid runs and how to fix it, it lacks a bit of information in this case.

[Nigrinus]

Did you select another set of tires?

[CHIEFSHOTTY]

Basically you can't put more fuel in the car for a given tires life for a stint.
I guess this will prevent your driver from driving around until they destroy the tires.
They only come in at the end of stint/low fuel.
(Immediate retirement if 2 or more of your tires on the car reach 0% wear

Example
Soft tires with 22 laps lifetime
if you try to put 23 laps of fuel in the car, you'll get the invalid configuration message

If you go out for a stint and burn a few laps the tire lifetime will of course decrease.
lets says you set a stint for 22 laps but come in after 8 for setup changes
22-8=14

If you try to do another 22 lap stint in this case, invalid config message will pop
In this example if you try to put more than 14 laps of fuel, you will get the invalid error

S