Ai don't struggle with cold tyre

[worldly bane]

Every track they just have so much speed, what tyre warmers do they have

[dim night]

Cold tires are not a problem in this game

[worldly bane]

For me they are

[dim night]

Do you mean braking and cornering performance on your outlap or specifically time loss exiting the pit lane?

[worldly bane]

Their speed after the first few laps

Stage end, pit under yellow

They so much faster

I lose so much time

[dim night]

On the first two laps of a restart or after that?

[worldly bane]

Depends on track

Glenn is like 2-3

Richmond is like 5-8

Depends on the length

[dim night]

There are known issues with the AI being unrealistically fast to fire off for restarts and getting off of pit lane. Neither of these are related to tire temperature.

Your car is the fastest it will be on your first laps after pitting or after a restart because you can push the tires and not worry about overheating them, which causes a loss of grip. This is why I said cold tires are not an issue, because if you drive the car hard, it’s actually faster to start the lap with tire temperatures below 100° than it is to start the lap with tire temperatures in the normal working window.

[worldly bane]

I have no speed with cold tyres while the ai seem to have no issue, that's what Im confused on

[dim night]

What tire pressures do you run?

[worldly bane]

I run the default setups

I only change Wedge really

[dim night]

Also do you know what lap times you do at Watkins Glen when you’re not suffering from tire temperature issues?

[worldly bane]

At the glenn, Im about 1-1.5 seconds slower on average

Its worse at short tracks

[dim night]

What lap time is that though? 1:12, 1:15, 1:18, 1:20?

[worldly bane]

Richmond Im about 2 seconds slower but then again, I get shoved to the top line

[worldly bane]

Im bad at road courses so I think it's 119 I run on average in trucks

I know YouTuber Gowen has seen this as well, Being stupidly slow on restarts and for a few laps in the same scenario as me

[dim night]

Your issue is certainly a tire pressure issue in part. Running minimum pressures on road courses and short ovals is the fastest way around the track. Perhaps increase the pressure of a tire by 1-2 clicks if you notice you’re overheating it.

The other issue is how the AI makes up lap times at lower skill values. When you drop the AI to a level where it does 1:17’s-1:19’s at Watkins Glen, it loses time on the straights because it doesn’t go full throttle. So if you do a lap at that pace where you are full throttle on the straights, you’ll lose time to the AI in the corners.

[dim night]

Yeah the initial restart acceleration advantage of AI is a known issue, but it completely goes away after the first braking zone.

[worldly bane]

I see this at road courses but not short tracks or inters

[dim night]

Then your setup is just bad or you have the AI turned up too high

[worldly bane]

I run 99 ai

I can fight them really well

I have 8 wins out of 9 races in arca

[dim night]

Thought you said you’re 2s off their pace?

[worldly bane]

Its not the ai

[worldly bane]

After a few laps it goes away

They are stupid fast for the first few laps

[dim night]

So it’s a setup problem. Drop your tire pressures

[worldly bane]

I only lost my pace when the tyres are cold tho

[dim night]

Dropping pressures heats the tires faster

sidewalls flex more in the corner which generates more heat

[worldly bane]

I will keep this in mind for races

[charred thicket]

😂 what are you doing. Thats unrealistically easy

[worldly bane]

I run 98

I have full upgrade