GT Sport Season 12 Car Vote Preliminaries

If you were to end up in that position you could either let all hell break loose and run qually lap after qually lap trying to catch up, or you could take it easy, think about possible strategy positions that would bring you closer. You could try an undercut that would put you with the group but on older rubber, or you could try and run consistent laps saving fuel while everyone ahead is battling.

This...

Though I do have to laugh when you said 'then have a civilised discussion'

What about going half way, have tire wear, so you have to be smart, use a bit of strategy there or risk stuffing you tyres. (Plus u don't loss heaps of time in pits)
But have minimum fuel burn this way if you push hard or are just a heavy fuel user, you won't loss that 4-5 extra seconds in the pits.

Like Murphy said this is about trying to bring things closer, having 1 person pit for 30 secs and 1 person pit for 35 secs doesn't bring things closer.

It's not like adapting your own style to suit the requirements of the car is a lot to work out. This is GT, not iRacing or Assetto, or even ProjCars. There's very little involved in car management.

Tyres have very vague temperature based performance. If you slide through a corner you feel the effects of overheating for a few corners. If you sit in the pits for around 2min they go cold and it takes half a lap to build temperature. It's a very on/off system. No real noticeable scale to manage. The normal operating window is HUGE!

If you brake late into corners you're going to be front limited and wear the outside front heavily. If you use max steering lock you'll scrub the fronts and wear the outside front EVERY TIME. If you run TC you can't use the rears to rotate the car. You actively demand more of the front tyres and in turn suffer understeer and lack of grip sooner than those who don't.

If you run the car to the redline it will burn copious amounts of fuel. If you short shift it saves a lot of fuel. Fuel mix settings are broken, they don't give a fair trade off so Mix 1 is the only sensible option. Drafting doesn't save as much as short shifting. That's about it.

There's no rocket science involved in making the car perform within a strategically achievable window. It's all the most basic management you could ask for. Anything less is just Mario Kart.

Hahahaha - could you imagine it!

Gimme Bullet Bill!

Great tips, thanks

My word is law and no one is allowed to talk about this until I say so. I am super fast and would be even harder to beat if I didn't need to save fuel. End of discussion. Far out that's heavy lol and funny. I guess you could shut me up by going consistently 1.5 seconds faster then you're best lap times this season. I would like to see that. Dude you would of won every race?

Also I have found the more higher the fuel and tyre wear is the more simulated it feels. It honestly seems to compress the field more then it use to. I just struggle with it more that's all. Like I said, it's still fun.

why have you got to carry on like a 3 year old all the time

Let me get my popcorn

Maybe i'm blind or looking at a different thread, But for the most part, I thought this was pretty civil unless asides from the few personal attacks or am I missing something? As I've said the minimal tyre wear is all hypothetical for the Mazda. I've got no issues with running high wear or fuel either, I enjoyed the strategic aspect of it, coming from a high fuel burner, this was just to mix things up a little. I do recall at the very start Hatfield do ask for views on the Mazda tyre fear and fuel?

Caramelised or chocolate coated?