So why aren't the tires fixed?

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Basically, the tire wear is stupidly high and actually sucks... I don't remember GT4 being this bad... Is it that hard for them to just get the tire wear right? It's obviously on some kind of counter which is influenced by other things like wheel spin, sliding, drifting, etc... So why don't they just slow down the base counter to bring it into realistic terms...

This problem only seems to be on the race tyres, cos in sports in the Tsukuba 4hr you can do plenty of laps without wearing the sports down...

And Famine, the leading AI cars in the 24hr I am currently busy with are all pitting either 4, 5 or 6 laps... nothing more... In fact, the R8 Audi, who is my main competitor, is doing the same 5 laps I am doing... I am on Race Mediums... I could do 6 laps, but once the tires get to 30% it's like driving on ice, so I stick to 5... So yeah, the AI running at race pace are also suffering...
 
After watching the Monaco Grand Prix this morning and the Indy 500 this afternoon, my distaste for how fake this game grew. I mean, Schumacher did 35 laps on a set up super soft tires, Vettel did over 40 laps on his first set up prime tires. In the Indy 500 the realism of how draft works made GT5 look so fake. Honestly, you're behind someone in GT5 even with the draft set up low. I just hope in GT6 its not fake like it is in this game.
 
I thought I’d do a test and post some results at the 24hr of Le Mans race. I used my Toyota GT-One on racing hards, brake bias 3/0. I drove the car to a reasonable pace, reasonably smoothly without pitting and continued until the car was uncontrollable. I'd like to think I'm a reasonably smooth driver. Laps were done keeping at least 2 wheels between the white lines as best I could.

The lap times:
Lap 1: 3:37.373 – Traffic. Took the lead before the final 4 corners (beside the pit entry)
Lap 2: 3:27.782
Lap 3: 3:28.183 – Out-braked myself entering turn 2. Could have matched previous lap
Lap 4: 3:28.372 – End of lap: +40 second gap to P2 (Bentley)
Lap 5: 3:29.816
Lap 6: 3:31.022 – Fighting mild oversteer through Porsche curves. Tyres, Front: ~55%, Rear: 25~30%. Fuel exactly 50%
Lap 7: 3:33.955 – Forced the car to understeer through Porsche curves this lap. Car getting a bit twitchy. Tyres, Front: ~50%, Rear: ~20%.
Lap 8: 3:36.798 – Held up slightly lapping the Vipers. Fighting oversteer everywhere. Porsche curves were done almost solely with opposite lock. Rear tyres: 5~10%.
Lap 9: Drifted the first chicane. Car snapped and spun off the road on the downhill after the first chicane. Rear tyres < 5%.

7 laps would have been ok to race on. This was done with 2.04. Waiting for next month to get 2.06.
 

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