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- Manasseh257
I've read all around the site and it seems that people despise RS tires. My question is in what circumstance do you hate them in?
Because it seems people complain that "Nobody uses those kind of tires in real life" but in reality, LMP1, LMP2, and GTE all have a set of RS tires.
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Also, I can understand why people that race casually with RS tires (I'm one who does not, I casually race with RH or RM at most) but it seems that people hate them in all circumstances.
Now I only use RS tires in endurance races for two reasons and two reasons ONLY!
1. I use them in qualifying to get pole position. After they wear out, I switch to RM or RH depending on how the tire wear is.
2. On the last few minutes of an Endurance race (4-5 minutes left) while I'm only a few seconds behind or a few seconds ahead. I'm trying to race to win.
These are the only two reasons that I use RS tires for. Also, I've read around and that seems to be the reasons that real racecar drivers use their tires for as well. My question is, is it justified to use RS in that manner? Or am I racing "too unrealistic?" because when using RS during qualifying, I can at least match up with real life qualifying times.
(i.e. The No. 95 Aston Martin Vantage GTE ran a qualifying time of 1:59.970 at Silverstone in 2015. I was able to run a 2:01.323 in RS during a testing practice with my tuned Vantage V12. I tried to keep the specs realistic as possible too, as I took all day looking them up)
(BTW I race with no aids except ABS no higher than 2 and sometimes at 0 during Endurance races, so I have no aid help)
Because it seems people complain that "Nobody uses those kind of tires in real life" but in reality, LMP1, LMP2, and GTE all have a set of RS tires.
Link
Also, I can understand why people that race casually with RS tires (I'm one who does not, I casually race with RH or RM at most) but it seems that people hate them in all circumstances.
Now I only use RS tires in endurance races for two reasons and two reasons ONLY!
1. I use them in qualifying to get pole position. After they wear out, I switch to RM or RH depending on how the tire wear is.
2. On the last few minutes of an Endurance race (4-5 minutes left) while I'm only a few seconds behind or a few seconds ahead. I'm trying to race to win.
These are the only two reasons that I use RS tires for. Also, I've read around and that seems to be the reasons that real racecar drivers use their tires for as well. My question is, is it justified to use RS in that manner? Or am I racing "too unrealistic?" because when using RS during qualifying, I can at least match up with real life qualifying times.
(i.e. The No. 95 Aston Martin Vantage GTE ran a qualifying time of 1:59.970 at Silverstone in 2015. I was able to run a 2:01.323 in RS during a testing practice with my tuned Vantage V12. I tried to keep the specs realistic as possible too, as I took all day looking them up)
(BTW I race with no aids except ABS no higher than 2 and sometimes at 0 during Endurance races, so I have no aid help)