Fastest wearing tyres?

[TheANiallator]

I'm setting up a few races with friends all using RM Integras, but I want to bring a bit of pitting into it to liven it up, which tyres would wear out quicker? The sports or the racing?

 

[zuperkiwi]

I think there is no difference in tyre wearing.
Racing tyres just have more grip than sports tyres.
I for example noticed no difference in tyre wear between Soft and Hard racing tyres, the only noticeable change was the grip level.

 

[Gedi69]

You would think hard would last longer but hey pd didn't get it right in this series

 

[watermelon punch]

Ironically, hard tires (whatever type), will probably induce more need for pitting. Softs (whatever type) just seem to get a last long plateau that many people can easily drive them a lot longer than should be realistic. It shouldn't be that way, but it is.

That all said, actual wear doesn't seem to vary much between any of the tires, regardless of what type or hard or soft. It's just a difference about how fast they warm up or go past the "ideal" temperature... more than expecting them to "wear out". If that makes any sense? It's 2 different things.

If you want to bring pitting into the equation as a way to liven things up... a better bet is to have damage on heavy. With damage, people can wind up having to pit even if it's only because there was a simple accident, or a minor mistake that caused a collision, or a minor damage to the car that causes them to wear out the tires unevenly, so they're more likely to want to pit just to straighten that out.
This is assuming you're running a clean race of course. I'd say in a reliably clean (no deliberate collisions) race, damage definitely makes it more interesting, and almost guarantees everyone's going to want to pit at some point.
But of course this is NOT the case if you've got a lot of sloppy drivers or anyone up to no good nonsense, then damage can be a miserable thing.

If you depend on tires alone to put pitting into the equation, you then have to set a minimum mandatory pit... Because I've heard some people will just drive tires forever & try to get away with it. I think some odd people have actually learned to drive on worn out tires for just that purpose. Seems kooky to me, & I've never seen it myself, but that's what I've heard. That some people will just refuse to pit. haha.

 

[TheANiallator]

Yeah I'm damage on full and we're trying to maintain relatively clean driving, thanks for the all the answers

 

[MindlessRiff]

If it's a dry race maybe you could try rain tyres? IRL they last no time at all on a dry track, don't know about GT5 however lol. there's no regulation for it either, and grip would be very poor

I'm not sure which out of sports and race would last longer as I almost never run sports and race tyres on 1 car, normally 1 or the other. Racing Soft tyres are least durable out of the lot, but they almost last as long as mediums and hards, probably because of more slip leading to more wear on the hards, which evens them out :/

I would imagine race tyres would last less time than sports, again just based off real life, just down to their purposes, but again, a guess. Good question though!

 

[CMvan46]

You could always set a number of pits you all must make in the race?

 

[MNLumberjack]

Ironically, hard tires (whatever type), will probably induce more need for pitting. Softs (whatever type) just seem to get a last long plateau that many people can easily drive them a lot longer than should be realistic. It shouldn't be that way, but it is.

Is say thats because you generally end up burning hard tires before they heat up. Needless to say they should really work on tire wear not that yoy necessarily have to pit, but that hard are more consistent and soft put up better lap times then began to put up slower lap time as they wear.
There are always comfort hard tires.
Another idea is no abs that will put a major toll on your tires.