Re: Australasia Joint Series
Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2018 6:22 pm
Bit more testing done tonight, heres my thoughts.
Tracks To Use (Order TBA):
Adelaide
Eastern Creek
Hidden Valley
Hockenheimring
Oschersleben
Road Atlanta
Watkins Glen
Zandvoort
I have completed Fuel & Tyre runs at both Eastern Creek and Watkins. Note these runs have been on default setup, and aren't full blown fast laps, nor a conservative lap. I'd consider them to be a steady race pace. Also all done on the soft tyre.
Eastern Creek: 6-8% per lap tyre wear, fuel 2.2-2.5L/Lap depending on vehicle
Watkins Glen: 5-6% per lap tyre wear, fuel 3-3.5L/Lap depending on vehicle
If we work off around 40 minutes for our feature race, that puts Eastern Creek at 28 Laps, Watkins around 23 Laps.
So from some basic calculations, both circuits will require tyre changes, unless conservative driving is undertaken, or a hard tyre used. Neither track will need a fuel fill.
So my question is, are we all happy just having the Compulsory Pit Stop for tyres only? If we run it like this, it will more or less make everyone use the Soft tyre, which evens the field out as everyone is running the same. There is a couple of seconds to be saved in the pits if you want to only change 2x tyres instead of four but it does throw the vehicle balance out.
Or
Do we run 2x fuel which will then require a fuel top up as well as the tyre change?
Or
We run 2x Tyres as well, which opens up the door for a Hard/Soft combination strategy.
Tracks To Use (Order TBA):
Adelaide
Eastern Creek
Hidden Valley
Hockenheimring
Oschersleben
Road Atlanta
Watkins Glen
Zandvoort
I have completed Fuel & Tyre runs at both Eastern Creek and Watkins. Note these runs have been on default setup, and aren't full blown fast laps, nor a conservative lap. I'd consider them to be a steady race pace. Also all done on the soft tyre.
Eastern Creek: 6-8% per lap tyre wear, fuel 2.2-2.5L/Lap depending on vehicle
Watkins Glen: 5-6% per lap tyre wear, fuel 3-3.5L/Lap depending on vehicle
If we work off around 40 minutes for our feature race, that puts Eastern Creek at 28 Laps, Watkins around 23 Laps.
So from some basic calculations, both circuits will require tyre changes, unless conservative driving is undertaken, or a hard tyre used. Neither track will need a fuel fill.
So my question is, are we all happy just having the Compulsory Pit Stop for tyres only? If we run it like this, it will more or less make everyone use the Soft tyre, which evens the field out as everyone is running the same. There is a couple of seconds to be saved in the pits if you want to only change 2x tyres instead of four but it does throw the vehicle balance out.
Or
Do we run 2x fuel which will then require a fuel top up as well as the tyre change?
Or
We run 2x Tyres as well, which opens up the door for a Hard/Soft combination strategy.