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For greater personalization of Pit Strategy, run the tyre wear test with all dry compounds.

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I can't believe it took me this long to even think it was a possibility, but just in case people didn't know I wanted to say it here.

During your practice sessions you can run the tyre wear program as many times as you want, even after passing it or failing it.  You can do it with any tyre of your choice and the performance of each compound will be shown on the graph after you complete your tyre wear test.  Previously I was only running the tyre wear test on the compound I had found to be the best race tyre.  When I was running the test in Baku I randomly wondered if you could run the test multiple times and get better personalization for your pit strategy.  Turns out you can, and you do.  Come race day the suggested strategy was drastically different than my personalized strategy.  My personalized strategy had me do the same amount of stops as the default strategy, but my stints were much longer and the compounds used were different.

If you haven't tried this yet, definitely give it a shot.  It makes your races feel a hell of a lot better.

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That's exactly why I run the tyre wear program for all compounds every weekend. I want the strategy tailored to my driving not some default strategy. I spread them out over all the free practice sessions so I can work on the setup and other things as well. I run the hardest compound first then step down every session.

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Hi guys,

I'm playing on ps4 with controller, but I simply cant complete the test with a postive score. I always end up in the red and get 5 points per lap which adds up to a total of 35 (7laps x 5points). Not enough to complete the test in succes (60 points). Anyone else struggeling with this? Certain corners just eat u your tire life unrealisticly in my opinion. And even if you fail the test, does the data count? I mean in personalised pit strategy. Can someone give me some info or tips, please. 

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@Donone84 just imagine having to do it for 10 laps x 3 compounds, lol. The data should still be relevant for your personalized strategy as it can calculate your pace and wear rate still.

I've found the wear to be believable enough honestly. Keep in mind that the setup and track conditions can help (or hurt) your test results. Keep the inputs smooth. Try to avoid lockups and wheelspin. Be mindful of the steering angle you input. I think where most people get caught on the tests are the high energy corners such as T5 at Australia going up the hill at the end of sector 2 at Bahrain, etc. Just because you can go flat out through there doesn't mean you should when it comes to tyre wear. Take out some steering input and drop the corner speed a little bit.

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Donone84 said:
Hi guys,

I'm playing on ps4 with controller, but I simply cant complete the test with a postive score. I always end up in the red and get 5 points per lap which adds up to a total of 35 (7laps x 5points). Not enough to complete the test in succes (60 points). Anyone else struggeling with this? Certain corners just eat u your tire life unrealisticly in my opinion. And even if you fail the test, does the data count? I mean in personalised pit strategy. Can someone give me some info or tips, please. 
Just try to be as smooth as possible, and be careful on the brakes.  Try braking softer and longer, trail braking into the apex.  Be careful on the accelerator on the way out and don't go full throttle until you're as straight as possible.  In addition when you're going at race pace you're not going to be pushing 100% of the lap.  Copse at Silverstone is a perfect example.  In qualifying you can do a quick tap of the brake, downshift to 7th and then coast into the apex and get hard on the throttle again.  Try doing that 7 times in a row and your tyres are going to be screaming.  Race pace dictates that you take that corner a bit easier.  Brake 50 meters early and carry that braking longer.  Instead of hitting the corner in high 7th gear let the revs drop low, possibly even take it in high 6th.  

Completing the tests is all about being smooth and learning where you can and cannot push the car.  In response to your other question; even if you fail the tyre wear test your time and wear level are still counted and posted in the graph.  If you run the same test again with the same compound your data will be over-written with the new test data for better or worse.

It's also important that you don't just treat the tyre wear test as a "meta-game."  If you're just trying to score R&D points and don't intend on driving the way you did for the test in the real race then the personalized strategy isn't going to mean anything and you're better off just sticking with the default strategy.  If you're having difficulty with either tyre wear or hitting the delta time it's okay, it just means that when you choose your strategy for the race you want to go with the low tyre management option instead of high tyre wear management.  

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Xyadas said:
That's exactly why I run the tyre wear program for all compounds every weekend. I want the strategy tailored to my driving not some default strategy. I spread them out over all the free practice sessions so I can work on the setup and other things as well. I run the hardest compound first then step down every session.
I do this but thinking it maybe best to run the softest tyre in p2. That way you have a fresh set for a quali run in p3 before qualifying. Do you find have similar issue of not enough soft tyres in p3?

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Donone84 said:
Hi guys,

I'm playing on ps4 with controller, but I simply cant complete the test with a postive score. I always end up in the red and get 5 points per lap which adds up to a total of 35 (7laps x 5points). Not enough to complete the test in succes (60 points). Anyone else struggeling with this? Certain corners just eat u your tire life unrealisticly in my opinion. And even if you fail the test, does the data count? I mean in personalised pit strategy. Can someone give me some info or tips, please. 
Just try to be as smooth as possible, and be careful on the brakes.  Try braking softer and longer, trail braking into the apex.  Be careful on the accelerator on the way out and don't go full throttle until you're as straight as possible.  In addition when you're going at race pace you're not going to be pushing 100% of the lap.  Copse at Silverstone is a perfect example.  In qualifying you can do a quick tap of the brake, downshift to 7th and then coast into the apex and get hard on the throttle again.  Try doing that 7 times in a row and your tyres are going to be screaming.  Race pace dictates that you take that corner a bit easier.  Brake 50 meters early and carry that braking longer.  Instead of hitting the corner in high 7th gear let the revs drop low, possibly even take it in high 6th.  

Completing the tests is all about being smooth and learning where you can and cannot push the car.  In response to your other question; even if you fail the tyre wear test your time and wear level are still counted and posted in the graph.  If you run the same test again with the same compound your data will be over-written with the new test data for better or worse.

It's also important that you don't just treat the tyre wear test as a "meta-game."  If you're just trying to score R&D points and don't intend on driving the way you did for the test in the real race then the personalized strategy isn't going to mean anything and you're better off just sticking with the default strategy.  If you're having difficulty with either tyre wear or hitting the delta time it's okay, it just means that when you choose your strategy for the race you want to go with the low tyre management option instead of high tyre wear management.  
The tyre wear test seems a bit inconsistent from track to track though.
 
In Australia, I was coasting and getting purple tyre wear every lap, and being 0.5 to 0.8 seconds inside the target lap.

In Bahrain, I either end up almost a second off the target laptime, or I'm JUST inside but with red tyre wear. No matter how hard I try, I can't seem to complete it.

Surely it should be more achievable than this, especially after 2 car upgrades.

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I would guess the track temperature is a lot higher and so tyres overheating. Try adjusting setup to reduce this

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Tire wear test takes some practice before you get a green lap. One tip that helps is to look at the meter during cornering and see how your driving influences the tire during the corner.  Once you identify which corners you need practice on you will be getting green lap times. 

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Dez0808 said:
Xyadas said:
That's exactly why I run the tyre wear program for all compounds every weekend. I want the strategy tailored to my driving not some default strategy. I spread them out over all the free practice sessions so I can work on the setup and other things as well. I run the hardest compound first then step down every session.
I do this but thinking it maybe best to run the softest tyre in p2. That way you have a fresh set for a quali run in p3 before qualifying. Do you find have similar issue of not enough soft tyres in p3?
I haven't had a problem with not enough of the softest compound yet and I've chosen the harder allocation more often than not. I use two sets of the hardest compound in FP1, two sets of the middle compound in FP2 and two sets of the softest compound in FP3.

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@elaborateruse  Absolutely love the detail you've gone into here, genuinely fascinating reading. And @Xyadas too. I don't recognise your names and I lurk here much more than I post so contributions from people like you two are exactly what this forum needs.

And the final corner in Austria always gets a big amount of kindness to the tyres, you can really salvage a lap there if it's not been great, though Austria is one of the less difficult tracks for tyre wear.

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Thank you @Joethe155 i try! I got a whole driver's handbook of sorts that I'm slowly putting together by myself that should be able to answer absolutely everything concerning the game. This community is great so I feel like putting in the work to create what I hope will be a useful resource for everyone.

Generally speaking if you're "slow in, fast out" you can preserve the tyres and still make time down the straights :)

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Xyadas said:
Dez0808 said:
Xyadas said:
That's exactly why I run the tyre wear program for all compounds every weekend. I want the strategy tailored to my driving not some default strategy. I spread them out over all the free practice sessions so I can work on the setup and other things as well. I run the hardest compound first then step down every session.
I do this but thinking it maybe best to run the softest tyre in p2. That way you have a fresh set for a quali run in p3 before qualifying. Do you find have similar issue of not enough soft tyres in p3?
I haven't had a problem with not enough of the softest compound yet and I've chosen the harder allocation more often than not. I use two sets of the hardest compound in FP1, two sets of the middle compound in FP2 and two sets of the softest compound in FP3.
Ok maybe I need to take a closer look at allocation. I find I get softest sets I need taken away in p1 and p2

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@Dez0808 it doesn't matter where your chief mechanic allocates the 13 sets of dry compounds in the weekend strategy. The two most worn sets get turned in after each free practice session. That's why I don't touch the softest sets until FP3.

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So "projected" is the normal tyre wear, and "personalised" is from the tyre wear test data?
This word choosing confuses me, since personalised data can create a projected line of wear.

- Why is "personalised" not the first pick for us then? It is always picking "projected" as the first and default choice.
This confused me. I thought my tyre wear test data were INCLUDED in projected.
This needs explaining ingame.

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@Bobfromfinance think of "projected" as the result of engineering and simulation data prior to arriving at the track. "Personalized" would be any data you accumulate from the tyre tests throughout the weekend. If you run all 3 compounds on the tests then you can get the data for your average lap times and wear rate and maximize the potential for a strategy tailored to your driving style. Yes, you do need to toggle to the personalized strategy on the tablet as it defaults to projected.

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Ho3n3r said:

In Bahrain, I either end up almost a second off the target laptime, or I'm JUST inside but with red tyre wear. No matter how hard I try, I can't seem to complete it.

Surely it should be more achievable than this, especially after 2 car upgrades.
I felt exactly the same about Bahrain, just couldn't seem to get it after I'd learnt to get comfortable purples in Australia (playing expert difficulty, Renault career).

But keep at it, if necessary replay the track acclimatisation over and over until you find you're driving the exact line it wants you to drive. Like others have said, it's all about being earlier and softer on the braking especially once you're downshifting into 2nd than last year.

Also watch your steering, pay attention to the vibrations because if you push too far on a long fast corner (think the 4th up to 7th gear run up the hill in Bahrain which finishes sector 2) you'll eat your tyres up. But if you take that as you should it'll give you a lot of reward. Then brake just after the second sector time flashes up on your HUD gentle through the corner and braking for the final corner at the 100 metre sign. Even if you start the third sector just in the red you can get a purple by the end of the lap if you take sector 3 smooth and avoid the vibrations.

For me the Bahrain one goes: run rich fuel for sector 1 to get comfortably up on the time needed, standard fuel until past the tight hairpin before the DRS (that's the turn that can ruin the lap completely so take it extra carefully and concentrate on getting your speed down without locking up first before thinking about "how do I take this as fast as I can?") and then rich all the way through to the next sector 2 again.

Also, if you just decide it's too hard right now (in season 1 I'm assuming) think of it as a longer term thing which you'll pass next season when your car is upgraded more and is faster. Give it time, the tyre program seems impossible for ages but enough practice and suddenly you'll be coasting through because you're driving in the needed style for the track in question.

I f***ing love this game, it's magnificent :smile:

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Ho3n3r said:
Donone84 said:
Hi guys,

I'm playing on ps4 with controller, but I simply cant complete the test with a postive score. I always end up in the red and get 5 points per lap which adds up to a total of 35 (7laps x 5points). Not enough to complete the test in succes (60 points). Anyone else struggeling with this? Certain corners just eat u your tire life unrealisticly in my opinion. And even if you fail the test, does the data count? I mean in personalised pit strategy. Can someone give me some info or tips, please. 
Just try to be as smooth as possible, and be careful on the brakes.  Try braking softer and longer, trail braking into the apex.  Be careful on the accelerator on the way out and don't go full throttle until you're as straight as possible.  In addition when you're going at race pace you're not going to be pushing 100% of the lap.  Copse at Silverstone is a perfect example.  In qualifying you can do a quick tap of the brake, downshift to 7th and then coast into the apex and get hard on the throttle again.  Try doing that 7 times in a row and your tyres are going to be screaming.  Race pace dictates that you take that corner a bit easier.  Brake 50 meters early and carry that braking longer.  Instead of hitting the corner in high 7th gear let the revs drop low, possibly even take it in high 6th.  

Completing the tests is all about being smooth and learning where you can and cannot push the car.  In response to your other question; even if you fail the tyre wear test your time and wear level are still counted and posted in the graph.  If you run the same test again with the same compound your data will be over-written with the new test data for better or worse.

It's also important that you don't just treat the tyre wear test as a "meta-game."  If you're just trying to score R&D points and don't intend on driving the way you did for the test in the real race then the personalized strategy isn't going to mean anything and you're better off just sticking with the default strategy.  If you're having difficulty with either tyre wear or hitting the delta time it's okay, it just means that when you choose your strategy for the race you want to go with the low tyre management option instead of high tyre wear management.  
The tyre wear test seems a bit inconsistent from track to track though.
 
In Australia, I was coasting and getting purple tyre wear every lap, and being 0.5 to 0.8 seconds inside the target lap.

In Bahrain, I either end up almost a second off the target laptime, or I'm JUST inside but with red tyre wear. No matter how hard I try, I can't seem to complete it.

Surely it should be more achievable than this, especially after 2 car upgrades.
Thats exaxtly the problem I have. I could manage to stay in green if I really tried real hard, but then theres no wat I'll ever finish within Delta time....for additional info, I have abs and traction control enabled. Brake and steer assistents off and auto gears. 

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Xyadas said:
@Bobfromfinance think of "projected" as the result of engineering and simulation data prior to arriving at the track. "Personalized" would be any data you accumulate from the tyre tests throughout the weekend. If you run all 3 compounds on the tests then you can get the data for your average lap times and wear rate and maximize the potential for a strategy tailored to your driving style. Yes, you do need to toggle to the personalized strategy on the tablet as it defaults to projected.
Let's say each tyre wear test is 7 laps.
Can i do 3 laps in each test, and still get some personalised data out of it?
I hate to do all 7 laps because i play Renault Legend with no Assists, and i have to push my tyres to red to make the delta time on some circuits, and i dont want to do 7 laps in the red, because they are redundant anyway to my resource points (because of the red delta times).

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