How to counter tyres overheating?

[UltimateNobody]

Hi guys

So often in Quali my tyres keeps overheating, how do I combat this? Is it even needed to cool down my tyres, or does it have a big impact on my times?

TIA

[The Met4l God]

I'm still figuring it out myself, but your Pace has a big impact on temps. I think a secondary cause is your brake temperature (i.e. increase your brake cooling on the car).

High temps increase tire wear, at least according to what the game told me.

[LIBER-TEA!!!!!]

Originally posted by UltimateNobody:

Hi guys

So often in Quali my tyres keeps overheating, how do I combat this? Is it even needed to cool down my tyres, or does it have a big impact on my times?

TIA

I've always left the qualy on automatic so the drivers deal with the car and I haven't found any issues with doing this.

[dair919]

Originally posted by The Met4l God:

I'm still figuring it out myself, but your Pace has a big impact on temps. I think a secondary cause is your brake temperature (i.e. increase your brake cooling on the car).

High temps increase tire wear, at least according to what the game told me.

Might increase wear but does hardly anything to grip levels... So wouldn't worry too much

[The Met4l God]

Originally posted by dair919:

Originally posted by The Met4l God:

I'm still figuring it out myself, but your Pace has a big impact on temps. I think a secondary cause is your brake temperature (i.e. increase your brake cooling on the car).

High temps increase tire wear, at least according to what the game told me.

Might increase wear but does hardly anything to grip levels... So wouldn't worry too much

No, grip is probably fine, but you'll kill your lap times burning through the tires at least based on what I'm gathering from the post-practice reports.

[Andy]

Not seen any evidence of temps doing anything, at least not significantly.
i have seen for myself that the amount you push on a tire impacts lap times more than anything else. So, as things stand with the game for my mileage, easing off would have a bigger impact on performance than hot tires and on full send.

[CHIEFSHOTTY]

Tires overheat by 2 things

1- Is dictated by the pace. Push hard, tires will heat up, slow down they will get cold.
2- Track temperature will have a big impact. Hot Miami weather will probably melt your soft tires when you push them and wear abnormally fast.

Heat will affect the rate of wear for the most part
Can't say if they hurt your pace. Better to push on hot tires if you need the time.
You just have to mind the accelerated wear rate.

So run the cars in light or conserve pace and then set them to full blast before the last turn to get a running start for qualy.

[Ngoc]

not sure what game some people is playing when tire overheat they consume much much faster

[Gards]

Tyre Camber. More negative angle, more heat. At Monza for instance it's a low downforce circuit so tyres would be 0.0 and not -3.0, for example.

[Dazzed]

just ignore tyre temp in quali, it does not affect pace at all.

tyre temp just makes your tyres degrade faster.

for the race itself, it's currently much faster overall to run a harder tyre and push hard on it, than to run a soft tyre and try to preserve it (kinda realistic actually)

the downside is, on full push mode you'll also use substantially more fuel, and your drivers are more likely to make mistakes. but imo it's very much worth in most situations to have that extra long-term pace.

if you run soft on medium pace you'll easily be slower than hards on full push, and the hards will actually last longer.

of course having more grip is still great for overtaking, but what's the point if you have to pit after 12 laps because your tyres are dead.

also i don't think setup affects anything at all, except giving your driver some extra skill points.

[GodForsaken]

if you are racing try drive in clean air option. if not try reducing the tyre push for 1 lap. Thats help me.

[Frodo]

Originally posted by gaz_savage:

Originally posted by UltimateNobody:

Hi guys

So often in Quali my tyres keeps overheating, how do I combat this? Is it even needed to cool down my tyres, or does it have a big impact on my times?

TIA

I've always left the qualy on automatic so the drivers deal with the car and I haven't found any issues with doing this.

Thats coz its just out lap, flying lap and in lap. So what automatic does is
Outlap: Conserve fuel, conserve tyres, harvest ERS
Flayin lap: Agressive. push, deploy
inlap: back to conserve, conserve,harvest

Same as you would do.