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Message: [QUOTE="OutlawQuadrnt, post: 12752314, member: 132169"] Interesting test. The one major caveat on tire wear in general is how it impacts the car's overall performance as the race progresses. One example is the wear rate between front and rears in FR cars. It used to be that they have been closer to even or biased somewhat to the front depending on car and driver. Now the fronts are getting toasted while the rears are still in good shape, leading to understeer that gets progressively worse. On the extreme end are some of the FF/AWD cars where wear looks almost okay for a lap or two and then wear goes on an exponential curve because the rears are doing less or almost none of the work. While red fronts on many FR cars are a pain, they make FF and AWD cars all but undrivable machines ready to straightline into a wall. Similar thing with MR cars. One positive for my Pug VGT is that the wear is almost neutral and the car can still go around the track okay until the rears go below 25%. Same can't be said for a Huracan or the R8. I avoid those cars because once the rears start to wear, they are on ice skates and that only destroys the rubber even more. Long story short, comparing tire wear between cars may not be as relevant since the impact on lap times are going to differ. [/QUOTE]