What types of tires exist in assetto corsa and how do they differ from each other?

[Not-Stal-Dim]

Instead of the usual soft, medium and hard, the game has ciphers that are incomprehensible to me, a beginner. Please, can someone explain to me what sets of tires are in the game and what are the differences between them

[ling.speed]

By ciphers you mean the two letter acronyms?
Full names should be avilable in setup screen where you pick tyres.

SM = semislick
ST = street
SV = street vintage
US SS S M H = ultra soft, super soft, medium, hard. (IRL modern F1 uses these 5 compounds, but recently switched to naming only 3 (S/M/H) which changes on race basis to add to the confusion)

And so on. Older race tyres often are named after the year they were used like GP60 because thats basically how long they lasted on the market. 1 year. They need to be treated like something new every new year.

For modern fat slicks you can expect most to be both sensitive to temperature and speed of wear, with US/SS/S wearing fast and being good at low temperatures, through Mediums being good middle ground and Hards only useful in really long races and if weather is crazy hot.

For older series They often ran qualifying on Softs and race on Hards, so the temp sensitivity difference is smaller but wear (and grip) difference is big.

All GT3 cars run the same tyre type. GT2 while named similarly are more aggresive (both in grip and limitations). Many prototypes, one time race cars etc run those tyres under similar names. So if its 3 tyres to choose its from GT3, if its 4 its from GT2.

Single seaters run their own types that vaugely follow the above but there is tons of exceptions.

Any vintage tyre where modern are also avilable will have poor grip like the cars had at their launch dates. Eco tyres are even worse :P
Very old tyres can be of bias ply construction instead of radial which majorly changes how the car handles too.

Trofeo / Hypercar / Intermediates or whatever names you see on hypercars are generally manufacturers trying to hide they are running their street cars on racing tyres. They usually work like hard slicks, and generally have a semislick companion thats slower (often called "hypercar road" which is another <rolls eyes> moment).

There is more but that basically covers the basics. You have to give more specifics which car, which conditions etc. or we'll be here all day :).

You can also just google the real race series and see info on their tyres... as long as the dates match (article date to ingame car date) it should be pretty close.


ps: seems like you are starting with AC, one tip: make sure whatever tyres you pick to run at correct tyre PRESSURE (hot pressure that is, monitor it with tyres app, green number = happy tyre). Temperatures are inportant but only severe overheat is bad, if the tyres are a bit too cold thats fine. In real life you cant always run tyres at optimum either.

[Not-Stal-Dim]

Thank you very much

[Moga CMDR]

ling.speed always got the info

[Phantomic]

Originally posted by ling.speed:

By ciphers you mean the two letter acronyms?
Full names should be avilable in setup screen where you pick tyres.

SM = semislick
ST = street
SV = street vintage
US SS S M H = ultra soft, super soft, medium, hard. (IRL modern F1 uses these 5 compounds, but recently switched to naming only 3 (S/M/H) which changes on race basis to add to the confusion)

And so on. Older race tyres often are named after the year they were used like GP60 because thats basically how long they lasted on the market. 1 year. They need to be treated like something new every new year.

For modern fat slicks you can expect most to be both sensitive to temperature and speed of wear, with US/SS/S wearing fast and being good at low temperatures, through Mediums being good middle ground and Hards only useful in really long races and if weather is crazy hot.

For older series They often ran qualifying on Softs and race on Hards, so the temp sensitivity difference is smaller but wear (and grip) difference is big.

All GT3 cars run the same tyre type. GT2 while named similarly are more aggresive (both in grip and limitations). Many prototypes, one time race cars etc run those tyres under similar names. So if its 3 tyres to choose its from GT3, if its 4 its from GT2.

Single seaters run their own types that vaugely follow the above but there is tons of exceptions.

Any vintage tyre where modern are also avilable will have poor grip like the cars had at their launch dates. Eco tyres are even worse :P
Very old tyres can be of bias ply construction instead of radial which majorly changes how the car handles too.

Trofeo / Hypercar / Intermediates or whatever names you see on hypercars are generally manufacturers trying to hide they are running their street cars on racing tyres. They usually work like hard slicks, and generally have a semislick companion thats slower (often called "hypercar road" which is another <rolls eyes> moment).

There is more but that basically covers the basics. You have to give more specifics which car, which conditions etc. or we'll be here all day :).

You can also just google the real race series and see info on their tyres... as long as the dates match (article date to ingame car date) it should be pretty close.


ps: seems like you are starting with AC, one tip: make sure whatever tyres you pick to run at correct tyre PRESSURE (hot pressure that is, monitor it with tyres app, green number = happy tyre). Temperatures are inportant but only severe overheat is bad, if the tyres are a bit too cold thats fine. In real life you cant always run tyres at optimum either.

A year later still helpful thank you