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anyone find theses not so good on durance races? i mean tyre wise..


eventually when i found a suitable car and actually stuck to it without quiting i completed the race(was the other day) and the car i used was the gallardo which is far from stock and i dont touch the setting apart from lower and adjust the braking, however i had to pit more times than i expected mostly due to tyre wear which was suprising :dopey:...

i tried out the hatchback sti, which is also far from stop and set to the same as the gallardo and all my cars infact, before i used the lambo and my front tyre bars were black by lap 16 and tolerated till lap 18 before pitting, lasted a bit longer with the lambo...

surely something is from right there, mean i dont get this issue with other drivetrains...
 
You're most likely running with your brake bias set to the front, so braking puts more wear on the front tyres (it does so anyways, due to a lot of mass being loaded onto the front wheels, but a front-heavy brake ballance increases this occurance).
With a rear wheel driven car, the power being delivered to the rear puts more wear on the rear, thus, balancing the wear on the front and rear again.

With AWD cars, the power is delivered to all four tyres, so that it can't ballance the tyre wear. That's why the front tyres degrade faster than in a rearr wheel driven car.

To compensate fpr this, you could alter your brake ballance; then again, that could mess the handling up, so it's up to you whether it's worth it.
 
You could also buy the VCD and set it for a more rearward torque bias.
 
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