Race tires last foreeeeever

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Running my first endurance race in gt5. Doing the grand valley race in a 22b with racing hard tires. My subie lasted 37 laps running consistent 2:13s before I started to run two 2:17s all of a sudden in a row.

If you baby those things they stick to the road forever.
 
Well, they are racing tyres, made to be used with race cars which will punish them far harder than a 22B ever will. It's no wonder they last so long.
 
After the pit I started to push and ran a 2:06. Wonder how many laps they would last at that pace, probably only 20 or so, I could hear em screeching most of the lap.
 
Also, in comparison to Comfort hards, Racing Softs barely last at all. :lol:
 
I think it may depend on the car your using. I found that using racing softs lasted twice as long using a rm z28 as opposed to a ford gt mk iv during the 200 mile Laguna race. Keep in mind this is using the same tcs settings and very similar horsepower numbers.
 
I drive my cars like I stole them and my friend has a much more conservative style of racing. I crush my friends best lap times but I destroy my tires in half the time as my friend.
 
I destroyed some racing softs in 3 laps with some over agressive driving without assists. Managed to make them last 17 laps once I learned to be smooth and fast with the car. I dont use assists but its amazing how much driving style affects tire wear.
 
If you want your tyres gone real fast, just drift through some corner for a few laps. They'll be gone in absolutely no time :lol:
 
It depends a whole lot on the car, how it's set up and how you drive it.

I just ran the endurance indi 500 in the Minolta car and ended up having to pit for my rear right tire more then I was expecting. I knew it would wear, but no where near as quickly as it did. I started with soft and then put on hard rears and those still would only last me 25-30 laps. By the end I would spin out due to it being completely spent. I had raised my downforce in back as part of my testing out the car before hand and I think that had something to do with it wearing so quickly, but that's just my speculation.

I didn't run enough to see how long my tires would last. I am going to do that in the future.
 
Hank.
It depends a whole lot on the car, how it's set up and how you drive it.

I just ran the endurance indi 500 in the Minolta car and ended up having to pit for my rear right tire more then I was expecting. I knew it would wear, but no where near as quickly as it did. I started with soft and then put on hard rears and those still would only last me 25-30 laps. By the end I would spin out due to it being completely spent. I had raised my downforce in back as part of my testing out the car before hand and I think that had something to do with it wearing so quickly, but that's just my speculation.

I didn't run enough to see how long my tires would last. I am going to do that in the future.
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Just done that race in the exact same car. Would assume our tunes were different but I was getting through tyres in around the 25 lap mark as well, could have pushed it but didn't want to spin out.

I found that racing soft tyres lasted long than the racing hard as I was screeching round the corners fighting for grip with the hard tyres but much smoother with the soft.
 
When you use normal stock cars, the effect of race tyres is that you get an arcade-game: cornering speeds become completely unrealistic.

Couldn't win the Tsukuba-event with the RX-7. So I put those softies.
Before I knew it, i was doing laps in less than 1'00, which is faster than any super (street )car ever did (a Radical SR4, a Nismo R34 (500 poneys) or a Gallardo).

See here: http://www.fastestlaps.com/tracks/tsukuba.html

In the list is one 1'04.8 lap for an RX-7, but all the others are above 1'06.
 
turbogeit
When you use normal stock cars, the effect of race tyres is that you get an arcade-game: cornering speeds become completely unrealistic.
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I'm not even sure about whether it's unrealistic. Gaining six seconds around Tsukuba by upgrading your tyres to racing slicks doesn't seem unreasonable.
 
Luminis
I'm not even sure about whether it's unrealistic. Gaining six seconds around Tsukuba by upgrading your tyres to racing slicks doesn't seem unreasonable.
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In any case, it kills the fun. The caracteristics of the car change completely.
 
I love racing soft tires. So much grip. That and higher powered cars in this game seem to slide all over the place on anything but racing tires. I've never driven such high powered cars in real life, so I don't know if that's exactly realistic. As for tire wear. From what I've seen in real races, most GT type cars tend to be able to go about 30 laps on racing slicks. Tire wear seems more realistic now since in GT4 or GT3 racing soft tires would last about 3 laps only.
 
Luminis
I'm not even sure about whether it's unrealistic. Gaining six seconds around Tsukuba by upgrading your tyres to racing slicks doesn't seem unreasonable.
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The unrealistic part is that the cars gain all this grip using suspension designed for road tires. In GT, tires just magically give you grip, when in reality, road cars would need racing suspension and aero parts to really use racing tires to their full potential.


Also

"cars pit in every 55-65 minutes"

http://photos.americanlemans.com/ads/04_Pit_Stop.pdf
 

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