45% tire wear in 8 laps, on hard tire

[水银灯]

Losail International Circuit, Qatar

Is it a bug ?

[Shalltear]

Only explanation I could give is that you race a small lenght race and race the !@#$ outta of these tires lol. But could be a bug indeed.

[水银灯]

Originally posted by Link:

Only explanation I could give is that you race a small lenght race and race the !@#$ outta of these tires lol. But could be a bug indeed.

The race is a 29 laps race.
AI's soft tire can last longer than my hard tire, idk.

[Comanso]

Honestly yeah I did notice Qatar tyre wear seems odd. I'm doing 50% races, and both of my stints I took my tyres over 80% wear to make it to the end, my first set I punctured my front left on my in lap even. I did Mediums to Hards, meanwhile AI did Soft to Medium but there pace still wasn't as good as mine even though my wear was clearly worse. I only noticed some cars got to over 70% wear with 2 laps to go (you see the specs or I guess blisters? forming) with 110% AI.

My wear seemed pretty similar to yours and ironically I took a screenshot after 8 laps (ignore the nudity tag, not sure why this happened) https://imgur.com/a/Xz6NPQ3 and https://imgur.com/a/LsqT2g7. I just so happened to take these screens to show a friend, sorry they aren't perfect.

EDIT: so pitting end of lap 14 with a puncture to hards, ended up at 85% front left last lap. Which then went to 90% and punctured by the time I got to the line.

[kurjala]

Qatar is really tough in terms of tire wear, but 50% wear on hards in 8 laps seems unrealistic. IRL in 2021 where cars were even faster, people did hards for 25-30 laps. This is the problem with F1 games though because instead of having actual tire wear physics, they change the wear rate depending on what track it is. Though, when I raced on Qatar I didn't notice any tire wear bugs. Weird.

[水银灯]

Originally posted by switchf1:

Qatar is really tough in terms of tire wear, but 50% wear on hards in 8 laps seems unrealistic. IRL in 2021 where cars were even faster, people did hards for 25-30 laps. This is the problem with F1 games though because instead of having actual tire wear physics, they change the wear rate depending on what track it is. Though, when I raced on Qatar I didn't notice any tire wear bugs. Weird.

what I was trying to say is that how could soft last longer than hard, tire wear could be tough, but it has to be fair, so i thought there is some kind of bug in Qatar.

[Maya-Neko]

Sounds like you're sliding all over the place, causing the tyres to wear faster, but could also be a bug.

In case of the first one make sure, that your setup is build properly, especially in terms of tyre heat and not being too low (had a problem in austria once, where my car was so low, that a specific road bump caused excessive tyre wear).

[Comanso]

Originally posted by Maya-Neko:

Sounds like you're sliding all over the place, causing the tyres to wear faster, but could also be a bug.

In case of the first one make sure, that your setup is build properly, especially in terms of tyre heat and not being too low (had a problem in austria once, where my car was so low, that a specific road bump caused excessive tyre wear).

In my case the car was pretty stable not much sliding other than the odd too rearward bias as the tyres wore down so the rear axle locked up. There is definitely something weird with Qatar because even default setups result in way worse tyre wear than the AI on softs, when driving in a way that intentionally preserves the tyres. There is just no way to beat the AIs tyre preservation when they're on softs and you're on hards unless you drive like 4 seconds off your usual pace which then you're losing anyway.

I wouldn't mind the bad tyre wear if AI got it too. But they don't, just the user (us) suffers.

[Maya-Neko]

The default setups seem to be very bad with this game in general, at least when driving without assist (feels very unstable with being prone to have lock-ups at the rear constantly, which definitely doesn't help^^)

Though what you could do is starting a new Career and fast forwarding to this race (or starting their directly, if possible with the lowest amounts of races) and if you're lucky, you get the training program for tyre wear tests. Maybe that can give some more insights to where tyre wear the problems occour.

[Comanso]

Originally posted by Maya-Neko:

The default setups seem to be very bad with this game in general, at least when driving without assist (feels very unstable with being prone to have lock-ups at the rear constantly, which definitely doesn't help^^)

Though what you could do is starting a new Career and fast forwarding to this race (or starting their directly, if possible with the lowest amounts of races) and if you're lucky, you get the training program for tyre wear tests. Maybe that can give some more insights to where tyre wear the problems occour.

I've also used custom setups, it was just to say it's not my setup particularly that is wrong as I tried default aswell (with altering brake bias when driving). In the tyre wear test when I was there you just lose every corner unless you go through it very leisurely. Even the race program is broken for the delta time, it just constantly goes up even with hotlap/overtake mode, yet when it came to qualy and the real race I won quite easily with 110% AI considering my car at the time was quite slow but had tyre wear upgrades and others.

It's not like I'm driving badly or anything, nor am I bad at making setups. Otherwise I'd end up with terrible wear at other high speed corner circuits. With the way I drive never should the hards wear faster than the AI on softs.

[;p]

yeah i can't even do a medium to hard strat without my front left exploding in a 29 lap race lol