Relationship between comfort, sports and real tires

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Hi,

Does somebody knows about the reference relationship between the comfort and sports tires and real life tires?

For example, accoding to tirerack.com, a brand new 2011 Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG is delivered with Continental ContiSportContact 5P tires.

What kind of tire is that in GT5?

comfort or sports hard, medium, soft?

TIA
 
Check Roc's links, that should help some.

Also, on my 1963 Triumph Spitfire race car I run Hoosier Vintage TDs. I find that the Racing Hard compound is the most similar to these in game. That being said, I would equate the tires that are put on cars like the SLS and many of those on the showroom floor to be roughly right in the middle of the Sports Softs and Racing Hards.

Regardless of any of that, Racing Soft tires, depending on the car (I've done a lot of testing here) provide grip equivalent to Pirelli P-Zeros on your generic road cars, to the super soft compounds used for qualifying in Formula 1.
 
Sports hard that comes standard with SLS. Even with those it can be driven faster around Nordschleife than it's real life record. I did 7:36 on one try with the standard car with standard suspension with it's silly zero camber. Real life record is 7:40.

Edit: Tried also Fuji Speedway with SH. In game time was 1:52 and real life time was 1:54

Lap times tend to be faster in games than in real life for many reasons, but i think CS or SH are propably quite close in case of SLS.

This site has many lap time records: http://www.fastestlaps.com/

Search for the car and compare.
 
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