Re: Tyre Wear at 100% on race starts in F2

Ok.... this is very strange... 

Today on silverstone feature race, I got 2 brand new 0 degredation tires, hard and soft for the entire race. 

Im not sure what the rules are anymore... Or if this is a bug or just different rules for different tracks? 

Or did they fix the bug if it was a bug at all? 

Im not sure anymore. Isn't it mandatory in full f2 career to use practice and quali tires in feature race? Because that was the case for me in the first few races of full f2 career. But now on silver stone it seems I saved my practice and qualifying tires for nothing. Because I got new tires in both sprint and feature race.

I'm completely confused now.

What is going on? Is there a bug that only occurs on certain tracks? Or does every track have a different ruleset for tire usage? 

Or was all f2 career bugged and now fixed? Or is it a bug that simply sometimes doesnt occur? 

@ivun3F2 and the game in general is very bugged + the game doesnt follow every rule from real life, be it F1 or F2

But to give you a little insight, by the actual rules you can use whatever tyre you want whenever you want in real F2. In the game the rules usually are that you can only use 1 tyre in practice and 1 tyre in qualifying, however as F2 in the game is so badly replicated i never tested thoroughly if the tyres used in practice are returned to Pirelli.. The qualifying tyre you can definitely keep for both races.

I found the tire rules for f2, 5 dry weather and 3 wet tires. 

TYRE ALLOCATION

The sporting regulations state that each driver will be allocated five sets of dry-weather tyres per weekend. They will have three “prime” specification sets and two of the “option” specification. Each driver will also be provided with three sets of wet-weather tyres.

The game doesn't make that clear.

In silverstone I used 1 hard tire for practice, 1 soft tire for qualifying, (I used them very little, thinking I had to re use them, 5 laps on the hard tire in practice and 2 flying laps in qualifying on the soft tires), and then used 1 hard tire for the entire sprint race. So 3 tires used. And 2 tires left for feature race; hard and soft.

I don't remember why I had slightly worn tires in first few feature races of the full f2 career.

@Meza994 

So there is no bug? 

@IAGOBERNARDES11

What is really strange is that in your strategy window it shows 100% tire life on starting tires. but when you start the race it shows almost 50% tire degredation.

That is definitely bugged, according to the information you provided. 

@IAGOBERNARDES11

also a question. Did you perhaps use soft tires allot in practice? in that instance you shared. 

@IAGOBERNARDES11

Ah now I understand. 

You are left with 2 hard tires in the feature race, but it is mandatory to use 2 different compound tires. Hence maybe why you were forced to use the sprint tires, even tho they are used. And appearantly the game chooses sprint tire and not qualifying tire. 

Were you not allowed to use 1 hard compound tire for the entire sprint? That way you have one hard and one soft tire left in the feature race, instead of 2 hard tires with mandatory need for another tire. As in feature race the mandatory pit stop also requires one to change to a different compound. 2 times hard or two times soft is not allowed in feature face. One hard and one soft. Or any two different tires that are available. 

It is weird tho, that the game chooses sprint tires instead of qualifying tires. That would make more sense. 

@IAGOBERNARDES11

I had the same experience where the bug occurs to almost all ai players, except a few. Which means they are way quicker.

But if the bug occurs for all ai players too then I assume it doesn't affect race results. You can still win with two overused tires.

I think you didn't understand very well, but you're almost understanding. Look, there's my comment here with the photos, you can see that in the first photo I stop at Qualy (complete) with only one lap the tires were 9% I went to Sprint with the new soft tire as the game says, I can choose a tire hard to Sprint plus the AI ​​goes from new soft to Sprint and only me from hard, finally I did the Sprint with a new soft tire it got 55% wear. I went to the feature race and the game chose the Qualy tire plus it with added damage of 41% as you can see in the fifth photo of the comment the right thing was to have 9% wear and you see in the last photo that I stopped still in feature race to put the used soft tire to see if it was the Sprint one and the Sprint tire as I put it as you can see in the last photo it has the same wear that ended the Sprint race that is the tire we used in the Sprint no gets added damage as the first strategy tire for the feature race

@IAGOBERNARDES11

I play everything at full simulation and length, least assist.

Sprint has to use hardest tire one time, so that you have two full life tires of two different compounds at feature race.

But that is just what I think. I might be wrong. 

Hey there, 

Just to give you an update, that our team will look into reproducing this and hopefully we have some more updates soon as we know that this is a frequent issue if you play the F2 career path or F2 races combined with Sprints. 

-rephii

I found that if you are playing F2 in 35% average races and you have the presentation lap on, the tires will come worn out is a bug, just remove the presentation lap they come with the wear you left in Qualy because in the feature race we used the Qualy tyre. now if you are playing long races 50% and complete 100% you have nothing to do, it's a bug that we can't put the hard tire (or medium depending on the weekend) and the game forces everyone to make 2 stops, use the new soft tyre, make the first stop, put the soft soft used in Qualy, and on the last lap put the only hard available in the feature race which is used in the Sprint, because in races 50% and 100% we use hard (or medium ) in the Sprint, the correct is just 1 stop, start with the new soft and stop to put the new hard, but as the new hard doesn't appear we have to put the used hard in the Sprint. unfortunately it is a bug that does not appear the hard (or medium) left.

@EA_rephii

Manually setting sprint strategy to 0 stop of the hardest compound, solved all the F2 career issues and bugs for me.

but thats for full length and simulation. 

Hi 

is there any chance that alternative strategies for the feature races can be added to the game please 

maybe even formula electric. haha. I can only dream about it. =D

Oh wait... Formula electric already exists in another racing simulator.

Still would be nice to dream about f3 f2 f1 and formula electric. All in one game x)