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20 Jun 2024, 21:49 (Ref:4216208) | #1 | ||
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WEC tire compounds
What tire compounds are allowed in WEC races? Is the 24hr allowed different compounds than the other races?
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In regular season rounds, two tire compounds are allocated. At Le Mans, all 3 can be used. For Spa it was S and M. |
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Thank you very much
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21 Jun 2024, 20:22 (Ref:4216334) | #5 | |
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Never got warm enough to use the hard tire. That would have been nice to see at the 24, but the weather had other plans! I hope they do the sensible thing and bring them to Sao Paulo.
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It's already been stolen and used on the Le Mans Ultimate forum.......
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22 Jun 2024, 11:29 (Ref:4216386) | #7 | ||
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I think listening the the obligatory Michelin PR blokes in comms the hard is for the insane heat of Bahrain potentially LM, Fuji etc, to make a tyre work at Spa and then 35 degrees in say Brazil is tough!!
Davidson gave a good prod by saying I think the hard yes would wear less but it would also not really get warm enough to work properly in the cold, so would offer a huge laptime reduction, and would potentially get cold tear etc and more wear as the driver would be trying more to get it to work? |
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22 Jun 2024, 18:56 (Ref:4216431) | #11 | ||
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Nah, Dave'll be too busy driving LMU.......
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I’d love to have a go at LMU but our new babies have taken our office as a bedroom so the PC is sat in my wardrobe at the moment. I’m biding my time though…
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If I were you I would leave it for a bit, it's not great at the moment.
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Back to the point of tyres, going by what the comms team were saying during the lemans broadcast, I had no idea the soft - med - hard tyres were actually not only a different compound but also a different construction, so the soft tyre actually was a softer (springier) tyre with more inherent damping and softer sidewall.
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