Experiment day
The 30 minute PP700 race at Le Mans, in my experience, usually has weather ranging from a few sprinkles and a small amount of standing water to torrential rain resulting in over 2/3 water depth on the HUD gauge
And I often win on tyre choice strategy since the AI cars will tend to go out onto the wet track using RH tyres or worse
SO ... I figured "why not ASSUME rain, fit IM tyres and tune up power to the max?". (Precluding the fitting of dry weather tyres)
Experiment 1 was with the Mazda 787B. Almost no sprinkles, definitely NO standing water. (Never seen such a drought before). Pitted after 2 laps, again after 4 laps and nursed the tyres over the final 3 laps. No refueling. Crossed the line in 4th position with the left rear tyre totally worn out and running on fumes
Experiment 2 was better using the BAC Mono ’16. Easy to get 3 laps out of IM tyres and fuel. Finished 1st by less than 0.4 seconds because again, the water was abnormal. Almost no rain. A brief period of standing water to about 1/6 depth on the HUD gauge.
I suspect that had there been usual rain in these experiments, I would have won both races easily since the IM tyres would have worn more slowly and the competition would have been penalized by the slick conditions
PS my BAC is very non-standard. 368 HP. 243.3 ft-lb. 2,674 cc. Weight = 1279 lbs.
Bored up. Balanced. Ports polished. Titanium pistons and rods
Racing crank. High compression pistons. Racing clutch and flywheel.
Racing air filter and muffler. Drilled disks with Racing pads (despite this the braking is lousy).
