Endurance Races Tire Wear Question

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Hey Guys,

I've been reading a bunch of forums about tire wear on endurance races and a common agreement seems to be that racing tires either hard or soft last at least 12-15 laps, and that the rear ones wear out faster on FR cars. I did the Grand Valley Endurance yesterday, not pushing the car to the edge (Mustang GT '08) with soft racing tires, I was getting 6 laps out of each set. As you can imagine I was behind the leader by about 2mins.

Advice?
 
Tire wear varies extremely widely from car to car, there is no rule. Also 10 laps of Grand Valley and 10 laps of Tsukuba and 10 laps of the Nordschleife are not the same.

It can also be affected to a lesser extent by your set-up and your driving style as well as how many mistakes you make.

I'm not sure why you'd be behind on racing softs(which don't last long at all) in a halfway decent car like that though. The AI are all using sports softs which last longer but are much slower. Softer tires are pretty much always faster in GT5, despite the extra stops. Try taking it a bit easier, perhaps. Not spinning is always faster. :)

Hard & soft in each class used to last the same, but that was changed a while back.

EDIT: You say you're not pushing that hard so try the harder tires maybe. Each stop costs about 30 seconds and the bots will only stop once or twice.
 
Glad you can get so many laps out of your tyres, I can only get 1 lap at Spa in my R35 TC and the same at Nurburgring 1 lap, both racing soft. Sucks big time.
 
I think having a wheel helps too. For me before getting the dfgt I seemed to burn tires, but I seem to be a little easier on them know. All though this can be down to experience possibly too. I can get 2/3 laps out of medium/hard on the ring using a 650pp oreca viper.

Just try and be smooth and make sure your chilled out! Try to avoid cars with very 'peaky' power bands.
 
Thanks guys. Billers: how do you mean, peaky power bands?

Also I have taken it as easy as possible, +10 sec on the laps, tires are lasting 8 laps at the most now. I've heard that the rear tires should wear out faster on a FR car, why are my fronts wearing out about twice as fast as the rears?
 
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.....Also I have taken it as easy as possible, +10 sec on the laps, tires are lasting 8 laps at the most now. I've heard that the rear tires should wear out faster on a FR car, why are my fronts wearing out about twice as fast as the rears?
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If your front tires are wearing out faster than your rear tires, its because of the Mustang's understeer. The Mustang is sliding its front tires in the corners and wearing out the front tires. The Mustang is nose heavy with a lot of weight over the front tires.

Are you running your Mustang "stock"?

Some of this understeer can be dialed out with extensive suspension tuning, but some of this is just inherent to the car you are driving. Check the tuning section, maybe someone has a nicely tuned Mustang that you can try.

If you are still running the endurance race at the "Valley", check out this GV thread for some additional info:

Grand Valley 300km Companion

See you on the track!
GTsail
 
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Yes GTsail I'm running it stock, with a sports suspension. I haven't modded any cars in the game because I have no experience with it and would not know where to start. Thanks for the advice though. There definitely is pretty serious understeer with the mustang, especially when you have that much grip with the soft racing tires.

By running it stock I mean I have upgraded the engine and transmission I just haven't modified the settings of the car.
 

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