Tyre temperatures are too high on PAD!
Ever since the performance patch and the tyre temperature changes, the temperatures of the tyres are way too high.
It is important to know when tyres overheat and when not:
Tyres are usually fine in this window: 85°C-100°C
Tyres start to lose incredible amount of grip at 101°C-103°C (we talk about overheating here already)
Tyres are basically not driveable (insane understeer/oversteer, grip loss and tyre wear) 104°C-...
CM intention with this was so that running max pressures isn´t a thing anymore, which is 100% fine and correct. Though what Pad users in particularly have to do now is, put on the lowest tyre pressures at every given circuit. And even then the tyres are still overheating on most circuits. Softs are basically undriveable at any track, but also mediums can overheat.
Now don´t get me wrong, if you´re a casual racer, playing on pad, you most likely will never notice anything, but as someone who plays competetively, tyres are everything. Even the slightest change in pressure can gain lots of time due to more straight line speed or less tyre wear and while pad can not add any, wheel users can and will yet again, have more advantages over pad users.
Why is it that Pad is struggling so much? My only guess is that the angles you steer on controller are either max or 0 angles, which just makes the tyres squirm especially during fast corners. And once you get your tyres up to that temperature it´s impossible to cool them down without going 2-3 seconds slower a lap.
The disadvantages I already have presented, but once again to show how severe it can be:
Lowest tyre pressures add at least 2-3% avg. tyre wear in comparison to medium tyre pressures. This then snowballs into insane tyre degredation which in the later stages (30-40% tyre wear) causes great traction loss. The resulting sliding increases tyre temperatures again and of course we lose incredible amounts of time per lap in comparison to the wheel user that can keep his tyres in check, even with medium tyre pressures, as he can controll his steering angle better.
Moving forward lowest tyre pressures means less straight line speed, which forces the pad user to drive lower wings, which can result in more understeer, also more tyre wear and of course pace.
Now remember, these are just the compromises a pad user has to make in order to not overheat, but in reality he still will, even though they´re trying their best not to. And once tyres overheat, it´s over. We´re speaking off yet again double tyre wear, grip loss and a massive snowball at the end.
PLEASE CM make tyre pressures more lenient. Tyres in real life are so hard to overheat nowadays, that´s what they aimed for with the extra inches and the new philosophy, so aim for that ingame as well for EVERY player, not only wheel. Thank you
