Hey folks,
Thank you for your detailed feedback on this topic. We've shared an update on this which you can find here: Tyre Allocations - Answer HQ.
I think I might have stumbled across what the cause of this is.
So I was watching a guy stream the game, he was at Brazil and had just done the sprint race on a set of mediums. He then went into the feature race strategy window and was still able to choose 2 sets of mediums.
I think the game is prioritizing the tyres for a sprint race weekend. When there isn't one, the game is only allowing the default allocation for the race and nothing from the practice sessions is passed over.
Please look into this @EA_Kent
Edit: Just tested it at Imola in GP mode. Standard weeked = limited tyres, no 2nd set of mediums. Then I did an Authentic weekend including Sprint race. Started on mediums during that, even pitted for a second set of mediums. Went on to the Feature race and sure enough, can choose 2 sets of mediums, including the used set.
Also, Mandatory Tyre was blank - I don't know if this is correct or not. Perhaps it's linked? I don't know enough about tyre rules.
As far as I've seen, all of this is the same in driver career and MyTeam - the guy I was watching stream was playing MyTeam.
Edit 2: In Race Director for the feature race, most of the field started on mediums, a few on hards - I guess that's just the medium-hard strat flipped and strat variation is still an issue at sprint weekends.
Edit 3: I might be mistaken about this being the cause actually, it's probably just because it's a sprint race that there's an extra set of mediums available - there's still no extra hards.
