How realistic is tyre wear?

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I was driving on the Nürburgring Nordschleife recently with all assists off in a Super GT Nissan GT-R with racing hard tyres. I managed to complete four and a half laps before the rear tyres were used up to the limit. It made me wonder how realistic the tyre wear is in GT5? There's also a chance that I wasn't driving economically enough to make them last longer but I successfully did my best to avoid skidding. Well, you could say that they lasted over 80 kilometers of winding roads but it still seems a little too little in my head. All I want to know is how realistic the tyre wear is.
 
It's not. I can hardly do 20 laps in a Triumph Spitfire with racing hards on Laguna Seca, when in real life in my real Triumph Spitfire I can go through two full race weekends (Roughly 6 hours of track time) before I have to get new ones.
 
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It's not. I can hardly do 20 laps in a Triumph Spitfire with racing hards on Laguna Seca, when in real life in my real Triumph Spitfire I can go through two full race weekends (Roughly 6 hours of track time) before I have to get new ones.
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And your sure that the tires on your real-life Spitfire have the same treadwear rating as the RH tires in GT5?

Also, you're surely not driving as hard IRL as you can in GT5. I think Jeremy Clarkson proved that.
 
I'm going on grip levels mostly, but the treadwear ratings on the GT5 tires have got to be horrible.. I suppose they were going for a full race feel in a sprint race environment. I mean even with the Group C cars on Le Mans, they used to get what? 20 or 30 laps in a stint, and I can only make 10 or 15.

I do concede to the point you make about driving as hard. In real life I drive as fast I feel it is safe, for me and for the other drivers. In game I don't have to worry about pushing a little to hard and smacking a wall so naturally I go a bit harder.
 
I don't think it is very realistic but it is a million times better than no tyre wear at all :)
 
Have they resolved the issue with racing softs and hards?

Because softs last as long as hards. Even in full sprint.
 
I liked GT4 tire wear better. Even though Softs would only last like 4-5 laps, it actually made sense to pick Harder compound to trade performance for longer life. And there where actually 5 racing compounds to pick from. And on a 15 laps "semi enduro" online, a shorter tire life would add more strategic to the game, since you won't always have the time to do real 50-70 laps like in F1.

Now they last the same, and it makes no sense to pick harder compound tires, unless they're banned and you are forced to pit in at least once, but normally the tires would not be worn enough to actually make a difference if you pit in or not.

I actually would like the tire life to be "less real", meaning in a 10 lap battle I am forced to choose, should I go the whole race without changing tyres? Should I take that gamble? Should I pit in and play it safe? You know that kind of stuff. For me it's really fun, not just having always full grip on a sprint race, but see the wear and knowing how to get over it.
 
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