Tire strategy: No free choice in qualifying, sprint and race

For sprint it’s med(yellow) or hards(white) Qualifying I’ve only used softs(Red)  

For race you can pick softs.  However you can’t change the mediums or hards for softs directly.  As soft/medium or soft/hard won’t last race distance.  You have to add another stop.  Then you can change the mediums or hard option for softs so you can do a soft/soft/medium strategy 

It does for me and even a red/medium but for it to work. Click on personalised strategy on the main strategy page.  As this general returns better wear rates provided you didn’t abuse tyres in race practice program 

You're supposed to be able to choose the tires, I think CM did it wrong this year and didn't keep up with the correct tire rules (could be by design too)

For example, in Bahrain this year Bottas did a S/M/M/S strategy, you can't do that in this game at all because you are limited to only 1 Medium compound during the race

@Nylink  On the tyre allocation screen for imola it says I have 4 sets off mediums and 2 hards

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@ScarDuck14 wrote:

@Nylink  On the tyre allocation screen for imola it says I have 4 sets off mediums and 2 hards

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Try other tracks other than the ones that include sprint races because the allocation there is different.

Tire allocation screen for Austria says 4 red for Q1 and Q2 and yellow and white for race, no red. 

But Pirelli give the team all versions of the tires (Pirelli only chooses which compound C1/C2 and C4/C5) and teams can decide what to do. 

I am still wondering that white and yellow are mandatory (that’s not the case in real F1). Red/white should be fine too. Maybe not the fastest choice but if I drive without all assists I would like to have free choice too, even if it’s nonsens and I need to make another stop because my strategy was crap. I want it so realistic as possible. And: If you choose two stops red is possible but isn’t mentioned in the tire allocation table. That’s weird. 

Still thinking that this is still wrong in the game.

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@IcmanMUC wrote:

Tire allocation screen for Austria says 4 red for Q1 and Q2 and yellow and white for race, no red. 

But Pirelli give the team all versions of the tires (Pirelli only chooses which compound C1/C2 and C4/C5) and teams can decide what to do. 

I am still wondering that white and yellow are mandatory (that’s not the case in real F1). Red/white should be fine too. Maybe not the fastest choice but if I drive without all assists I would like to have free choice too, even if it’s nonsens and I need to make another stop because my strategy was crap. I want it so realistic as possible. And: If you choose two stops red is possible but isn’t mentioned in the tire allocation table. That’s weird. 

Still thinking that this is still wrong in the game.

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It is wrong in the game, as I said above. I haven't seen anyone from EA or CM side acknowledge that it is wrong though, so I think it may be a lost cause for this year.