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[Famine]

Depends. No tyre wear means T8s. Other than that, as soft as you can get away with - we got a TVR Speed 12 to survive a 10-lapper happily with T3 front and T7 rear (amazingly).

 

[AzNkiD1123]

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[Famine]

That actually makes it HARDER to understand, as what the NTSC game terms "slick", the PAL game terms "hard"...

No designation = Normal
T0 - Simulation
T1 - Sports
T2 - Super-Slick/Super-Hard
T3 - Slick/Hard
T4 - Medium Slick/Medium Hard
T5 - Medium
T6 - Medium Soft
T7 - Soft
T8 - Supersoft
R - Dirt Tyres

Generally, you ought to test the car on qualifying. You want to set the tyres so they wear evenly (generally harder fronts than rears).

 

[Sage]

Originally posted by Famine
we got a TVR Speed 12 to survive a 10-lapper happily with T3 front and T7 rear (amazingly).

Did you drive the damn thing during those ten laps?

 

[Famine]

Yep. Sometimes in 2nd gear!

 

[T13R]

Originally posted by Famine
You want to set the tyres so they wear evenly (generally harder fronts than rears).

Yes but on an FR or MR car with loads of HP, it would be best to use some harder tires. It might not grip as well as soft tires, but they will last longer. And once the soft tires are "dead", you will go sliding all over the place anyways.

 

[Famine]

Now you know why I used the qualifier "generally"...

Besides, as I said in the above example, two of us, racing independantly - found the best tyres for a TVR Speed 12 on a particular 10-lapper was T3 (Hard) fronts and T7 (Soft) rears - they wore to just about "rouge" by the end, and the last lap was close to the previous fast laps in time. And the Speed 12 at 800hp is a pretty high hp FR car (with no downforce)...

 

[1BlueCar]

Yeesh...now I feel stupid. I usually just slap T5's on the back and front (unless it's really front heavy)

 

[Duke]

Actually, I'm going to dissent against Famine here, because I really don't like to mix tire compounds except in some cases. In my experience it tends to make the existing handling problems worse. I do mix compounds on certain cars, like the MS Elise.

Bear in mine that Famine is one of the fastest GT3 racers in the world, and I'm not.

 

[Famine]

Oh heck... I'm not really... I did pretty crappy at the 9 boards and am getting my ass-kicked by the Germans week-in week-out at the GTL.

But I'm consistently a set amount behind the fastest GT3 racers in the world...

It's generally better to try and tune out the uneven tyre wear - and in most situations I'm rarely running tyre grades more than 2 different front to back - in fact usually T3 and T4 for enduros. But where there' nowt you can do (Trial enduro, Roadster enduro, PD Cup) with settings, your best hope is to mix & match...

 

[kakkarot36]

When your fronts wear faster than the rears, you can set the rear toe to around -2.0 or -1.5, they will wear more evenly and you will corner better.

 

[ving]

mediums i guess... depends on situation

 

[AzNkiD1123]

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[Sage]

Mmm, it takes less time to run the qualifying laps than to post and wait for a response here...

 

[AzNkiD1123]

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