Sever graining

Tim Meuris · May 11, 2020

Hi guys, last two races on Paul Ricard and Nurburgring after 12ish laps pace drops off significantly and at the end of my 19lap stint at nurburgring I saw that my front tires had severe graining. Rears were just fine.
Any idea how I can avoid it?
Is it purely driving style or can you tune it out a bit setupwise as well?

Thnx in advance.

cpt_gandy · May 12, 2020

Excessive wear on the tires can cost up to 3 seconds a lap so if you are only using 1 tire set for an hour you need a fast setup that preserves the tires.

DrRob · May 12, 2020

Not an expert on this but you shouldn't overdrive the tyres. If its fronts, you are using too much steering input.
I know Jardier is very aggressive on steering and he complained about graining after the tyres update.

Günthar Rowe · May 12, 2020

I thought I heard Aris saying that pushing too much on first lap or so on cold tyres will cause graining.

Carlo Meller · May 13, 2020

well,that's interesting because i'm really suffering a massive degradation expecially in some tracks.

my worst nightmare is suzuka,both front tyres die after some laps and i tried everything to manage with no good results.

then i tried bmw with Aris' setup he posted under 12h race stream:well,finally i could do 25laps stint with a decent pace from 01 high to mid 02 with a conservative ecu map,pads 2 and open brake ducts it means everything to make car safe and not strictly fast.

so,i think you're right,the most important is being able to adapt driving style on conditions which actually i was not good enough to do,but anyway setup is very important because driving in a similar way thanks that setup i solved a lot of problems.