I was wondering if there is a form of tirewear in GPL,
when driving a full grand prix the car seems to be handeling different
after a couple of laps. Is this because the tires are getting to hot?
Todd Wasson
Hi!
No, tirewear is not modeled in GPL, i. e. tires don't get washed out during the race. But, yes, the temperature directly effects the handling of the car. For example if you drive at Zandvoort and overcook it too long, then after some 3 or 4 laps you'll not be able to drive further fast laps. Or try the following at Monza: Drive from the pits to the red Coke-sign on the right and gently touch it with the front of the car. Then go into first gear, rev up the engine and break your rear tires loose. Upshift into 2nd, 3rd, 4th and even 5th and keep the tires sqealing for approx. 30 seconds. After this, with tires now at about 300C, try a quick lap. Have fun ;)).
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In the era of GPL tires were often thought to still be "green" if they only
had one race on them. Thus, tire wear isn't really an issue. Heat is though.
I've done some actual scientfic tests of this. Right at about 300 degrees
grip starts to drop off
The actual drop off is actually well under .1 of a g, but if you're at the
limit that feels like the difference between being stuck to the road like
glue and driving on ice.
base_tire_wear = 0.000000 ; wear (as traction circle
coeff.) per kilometer (1000 ms)
Of course, this is for the AI cars and is set to 0 tire wear. I wonder if the
player cars use this file too for anything. I doubt it since the file is
Gpl_AI, but who knows?
Todd Wasson
>>I was wondering if there is a form of tirewear in GPL,
>>when driving a full grand prix the car seems to be handeling different
>>after a couple of laps. Is this because the tires are getting to hot?
>According to others tirewear is NOT modelled. It does however state
>in the manual you received with your sim how many races your tires are
>capable of lasting. Therefore you can only conclude that tire wear
>isn't all that important during this era.
The 300+ Series - only for real Hotshoes ;-)
Jens
On Sun, 18 Jun 2000 22:10:08 +0200, "Joachim Blum"
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tires sqealing for approx. 30 seconds. After this, with tires now at about
300C, try a quick lap. Have fun ;)).
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