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Hi don't know why it does it but when i get to raceday i am always 15 laps of fuel short in spain it's 66 laps but i start with 46 laps how does this work?

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Yeah, and depending on how that went, the egineer comes up with a range. So used to be, at start of my career the race simulation I'd try and make it with only lean mix to save engine, and waste the tyres just to make the times. But for race then it would have some ridiculous amount of underfuelling. If I needed rich mix to make the times, I'd be massively over fuelled, even with the  minimum it would give me, i'd have enough to run rich all day. I've figured it out though, in the race pace it tells you expected fuel usage per lap, I try and remember it and use that to calculate the fuel. 

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Did I mis something? Are you allowed to overfuel? In my opinion teams are allowed to take 100kg (or something like that) of fuel. So, in game doing a 100% race you automaticly get the full amount of fuel and it's up to the driver to manage that. Doing a 50% race you get 50% of fuel. But according to the above rules have apparently changed. Please fill me in. If the above is correct and math is needed I probably skip the careermode. Math is not one of my strong points :/

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Did I mis something? Are you allowed to overfuel? In my opinion teams are allowed to take 100kg (or something like that) of fuel. So, in game doing a 100% race you automaticly get the full amount of fuel and it's up to the driver to manage that. Doing a 50% race you get 50% of fuel. But according to the above rules have apparently changed. Please fill me in. If the above is correct and math is needed I probably skip the careermode. Math is not one of my strong points :/

Where I can make the race pace times in standard it doesn't seem to be an issue, only when I've set unrealistic times either using too little or too much fuel to hit the lap delta, do I need to use the maths. 
It's only an issue where the race pace expected laptimes are too difficult or too easy due to difficulty used. I'm having a blast in career if I'm honest. 


EDIT... Max fuel is 105kg. Certain tracks like Baku IRL I think they start the race with not enough fuel. Same in game.
On 50s and 25s if you get the race simulation wrong you might get fuel issues but nothing major, although if it has to be one, be overfuelled. I think I remember starting a race with the suggested amount which I didn't check, start race, running rich at start, I finish lap one up one position but minus 8 laps in an 18 lap race. Luckily it reported it wrong so running lean was very quickly bringing this figure back to respectability. Like every second, I was gaining back 0.01L of fuel. And by midway of 25% race I was back to even

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You know you can change your fuel amount before the start of the race. For those doing 100% races the max amount is 105 kg but you can easily manage that if the game tells you you are underfueled. In the menu it says for how many laps your amount of fuel will take you. I never had any problems with fuel in a 50% races even when i had to run racing program with rich fuel mix due to the wearing parts 

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It gives you a range of fuel, if you did the practice program using different fuel modes as mentioned above, sometimes it doesn't give you enough fuel in the range to finish the race.

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