HomeEdit Messages & Buddies My World RankingWR Table My GamesJoin Public GameJoin Mid SeasonPrivate GamesInterested TeamsUpload Helmet [ List All Documents ] This section is contained in ‘Race Strategy’. Half way down the page is a heading titled ‘Tyre Use in Changing Weather Conditions’. This is extremely important, as it decides when you pit to change tyres in changing weather conditions. Getting this wrong could mean you stay on dry tyres in the rain or switch to wet tyres when it’s dry! This is very similar to the Weather Changes I showed earlier. When you first join a season the default says you will switch to Intermediate tyres at the 50 mark. This means that when the weather is above 50% wet you will prefer wet tyres, when it is under 50% you will prefer dry tyres. It is always best for this section to experiment and find out what works best. When you reach a race with changing weather conditions take a close look at the times of drivers on drys and inters, inters and wets, or whatever. Are the drys faster than the inters? Or are the inters faster? Pretty soon you will find the ideal weather point where it is best to switch. One thing is for sure, it is not the default! Below that section is a section titled ‘Changing Tyres’. This decides how long I will wait before switching tyres. It is a fundamental, but often overlooked, part of the strategy. Sometimes, even if you are on the wrong tyres, you may not want to switch tyres straight away. For example, if the weather in a race is changing rapidly you may be able to skip a pitstop by having a moderately high slider. If you had this slider set to 0, as soon as you preferred intermediates you would switch, as soon as you preferred wets you would switch, as soon as you preferred monsoons you would pit. By setting it to a value of around 30-40 you may be able to avoid one or two of these pitstops and save bags of time. It also makes a difference when a race gets wetter and then dryer, or vice versa. In a race such as this you may be able to avoid the pitstop altogether, and, although you may be slower than those who do switch for a brief period, you will have not had to pit twice in quick succession. Document created by Tom Hartley. Last updated 29 Jun 2007. | |||
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