Even/balanced tyre wear with race cars

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I just thought why not start a thread about what cars are the best for having even wearing tyres over longer runs. Most of the cars I've driven so far in GT3, when the tyres start to go orange/red, it tends to be either the rear or front tyres get the worse deal of wear, so you end up with either horrible oversteer or horrible understeer.

I just drove an untuned Viper GTSR Team Oreca for the first time at Deep Forest II, using medium tyres on a 10 lap run. I didn't change any setup. On the last 2 and a half laps the tyres dropped away, but it was the front left and rear left and right that went red almost simultaneously, with the unloaded front right still orange. As a result the handling was pretty neutral and after briefly struggling getting to grips with the reduced, err... grip, I was able to set laps of 1:14s, only 5 seconds slower than the 1:09s I had been doing initially.

Just wanted to know what other cars have people driven over longer runs and had nicely balanced tyre wear with? I'm talking race cars, preferably, and I'm talking about how *balanced* the handling is as the tyres wear, not how fast the onset of the wear is.
 
Umm, the wear pretty much depends on your driving and the course layout. If your doing somthing like speedway it's obvious that your outside tires will wear more than the inside ones.
 
A Cooper on Test Course has a rather even tyre wear.
But it's off topic since it's no race car.
 
The three JGTC NSXs all wear their tyres in a nice, predictable, even pattern.
 
Seems to me that the low-end, torquey cars cars are more likely to dissolve their rear tires than the high-spinning cars, since you're more likely to spin them when exiting a corner or otherwise accelerating in low gear. The TVR Tuscan can be particularly nasty about this – One time when running SSR5 (or SSR11, can't remember), I had roasted the rears really badly, but the fronts were still greenish. That was quite a long time ago though, and I've gotten used to gradually adding on the power for all the TVRs instead of just mashing it.
 
I would say: 4WD or MR cars should have an even tire wear. I agree with Famine about the JGTC NSX.
Just run the Lotus championship this week and the Lotus Elise fits the bill too ( now, I don't know if it is considered a " race car " ). That car has better "neutral " handling after 7 or 8 laps than after 1 or 2 laps.
P.S. I'm talking about my results with all driving aids OFF here.

I don't know, maybe it should be in the settings subforum. Maybe there should be a " NO BULL " subforum with numbers, just facts and not opinions like : What's the tires color of such a race with such a car and such setting.
 
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tires color of such a race with such a car and such setting.
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what to you mean the tire color?

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lol when I say tyre colour I mean the colour on the little tyre wear indicator in the bottom left I think of the screen. 4 blobs, one for each tyre. Blue = no wear, red = badly worn.
 
4WD cars tend to wear more evenly but it stands to reason that rear-wheel drive cars are going to wear more on the rear. I've found though that if you increase the downforce on the rear end more than on on the front, say 100% on the rear and 75% on the front it does tend to even out pretty well.

EDIT: I'm thinking primarily of FR cars, MR cars are like 4WD in that the tyre wear is more even.
 

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