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Assetto Corsa Tyre Compounds - Ross Dowson - 07-04-2019
Hi all, I've been away from SRS for ages and I'm looking at joining in with the Audi TT races as I did those last time.
What I can't remember is whether races are generally run with soft tyres or mediums. I think I remember everyone tending to run softs for the 20min races but I'm not 100% sure.
It'll be helpful to know in order to be able to judge when I'm running at a good enough pace to get into races.
Is there a general rule, or do people vary it themselves depending on whether they want to preserve performance for the end, or hang on with worn tyres until the flag?
RE: Assetto Corsa Tyre Compounds - Pasha Paterson - 07-09-2019
Each car has its own selection of tire compounds that are available. For the 20-minute races, a set of mediums is plenty, but whether you can sustain a set of softs depends largely on the car. I know the Nissan Primera BTCC would chew through soft tires like a kid with unlimited access to his Halloween candy on November 1. For the one-hour races, most of which require a pit stop, and some of which use accelerated tire degradation (170% or 200%), it's a similar story, where two stints on mediums should be easily doable, but one long stint on M followed by a short stint on S is a viable alternate strategy. It's rare that you'd ever go for the hardest compound unless the track itself is particularly abusive.