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Hello there and welcome In this video, we are going to be focusing on the pre-race tire strategies.
Learn pre-race tire strategies for dry races in F1 Manager 24, including calculations and recommendations for tracks like Bahrain and Jeddah.
Key Takeaways
- Use pre-race compound performance charts to calculate tire advantages and degradation differences.
- Soft tires hold an advantage over medium tires for a limited number of laps, influencing stint length decisions.
- Avoid hard tires on tracks like Bahrain unless absolutely necessary due to slower lap times.
- Manage tire temperature carefully to prevent excessive degradation, especially on hot tracks.
- Adjust strategies based on track characteristics, overtaking difficulty, and tire wear patterns.
Summary
- The video focuses on pre-race tire strategies for dry races in F1 Manager 24, excluding in-race tips and wet racing strategies.
- Explains how to use the compound performance chart in pre-race reports to compare tire advantages and degradation.
- Demonstrates a simple calculation method to determine how long a faster tire maintains an advantage over a slower tire.
- Recommends specific tire strategies for Bahrain, emphasizing the use of soft and medium tires and avoiding hard tires.
- Highlights the importance of managing tire degradation and temperature, especially on hot tracks like Jeddah and Qatar.
- Discusses the challenges of overtaking on certain tracks and how that influences strategy choices.
- Suggests using the strategy planner tool to test different tire strategies and optimize race time.
- Mentions the need for manual qualifying to secure optimal tire compounds for race strategy.
- Provides advice on balancing tire usage modes such as attack, aggressive, and conserve to maximize performance.
- Notes that overtaking is easier this year in the game, allowing for more aggressive strategies.
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Basically, I'll be setting up a bunch of different strategies for each race weekend, giving you an idea of some of the different strategies that you can employ.
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Both if you start at the front of grid like we are, or at the back of the grid, and also how you can go into the reports here and kind of calculate which tire is going to hold an advantage over another tire for basically each race.
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I'm going to basically be showing you the method of calculation that you can take advantage of in order to figure this out. As I mentioned here, this video is going to be focusing on the tire strategies themselves.
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So there's not going to be a lot of in-game tips and tricks if any, we're just going to be focusing on setting up a pre-race tire strategy for kind of the race itself begins.
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And race strategy in the race itself is probably going to be a different video, wet racing is also going to be a different video.
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This one is going to be focusing on dry races, so keep that in mind.
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Now, if there's any questions, as usual, feel free to ask them in the comments and I'll do my best to respond.
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I've been a little bit slow lately, so I apologize for that, but hopefully I'll be a little bit quicker this time around.
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So let's just get right into this.
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Before we get into the tire strategies for each track, I want to go over how we can calculate or rather get a good idea of which tire is going to be best for any given track.
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If you go into your pre-race report here, you will get a compound performance chart, which gives you an idea of just how quick a tire is compared to another.
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And also how big the difference is in terms of the time loss per lap.
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In our case, here we can see that the soft tire has almost six tenths advantage over the medium tire.
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And we also see that the degradation between them is like the degradation difference, 0.09 minus 0.06, 0.03.
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So the degradation difference is 300s.
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And the average lap difference starting out is almost six tenths.
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Now, to make the calculation a little bit easier here, we just take those six tenths.
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It's actually a little bit less, but we'll use six tenths to just make the calculation easier.
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And we take those six tenths, which would be 6000s, and we split them on those 300s of difference that the medium and the soft tire has.
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Giving us 20.
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So, with just that simple calculation, if a if a car, or rather two drivers, start on the soft and the medium tire, the soft tire will have an advantage for 20 laps.
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That is when they become equivalent to a medium tire, and after that, the medium tire gains advantage over the soft tire.
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Now, we can of course do the same calculation here for say medium to hard, and in this case, the medium tire is close to five tenths quicker a lap.
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The degradation difference is just 100.
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So again, five tenths is 5000s, degradation difference is 100.
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So the reality of the situation here is a medium tire and a hard tire run on standard, the medium tire will have an advantage for close to 50 laps.
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So, as you can imagine, at Bahrain, we don't want to use a hard tire unless we really, really have to.
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Because there's just no point, the medium and the softs are going to be a lot quicker in most situations.
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And we can actually kind of confirm this by just going into our strategy planner here.
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Which will give us an estimated race time based on the strategy that we have employed.
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And if we pick say the hard tire and the medium tire here and the soft one, we can see that it's going to be for the most part slower than most other strategies with the exception of the one stopper here.
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And that is kind of as we expect with, you know, the difference degradation.
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The strategy that I would recommend to employ around here is actually this one, where you go for two light softs and you try and burn up the medium as quick as possible.
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We need to use the medium tire, so we want to burn it up as quickly as possible.
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Because remember, a soft tire holds advantage of the medium tire for 20 laps.
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So if you can stay on a soft tire for 20 laps, you want to do that.
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And here's also the interesting part, degradation wise, a soft tire around here, you're not really saving much by running say standard over over conserve or rather the light.
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And this also gives you a lot of freedom in our tires towards the end of the stint.
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Basically, with the remaining tire here at the end of the stint, you can go full attack with four or five laps remaining before pit.
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And it also gives you a lot more freedom to use your tires to actually get overtakes going.
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So that is why I would recommend using this strategy.
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But again, you can mess around with the planner as you see fit.
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You can do something like this, but as you can see, second we run aggressive here, we actually start losing a little bit of time.
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And the reason for that is basically the fact that we are speeding up the degradation of the tire a little bit too much here.
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Because the softs are so quick without any sort of without basically the soft tires around Bahrain are quick enough.
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That as long as we don't degrade them too quickly, we're not really going to be losing a lot of time.
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You can even run them conserve if you can keep them within the temperature.
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And in this case, we could try and be super cheeky and do something like this.
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But again, one stops aren't really a thing here, you have to use you will most likely do a two stopper.
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You could try something really, really cheeky like this one, or be something similar, more similar to this though.
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But even then, you're not really going to be saving a huge amount of time, but it is an option.
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And this is probably going to be better simply because, as I mentioned, you have more freedom to run attack, to push, to get overtakes done.
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So this is what I would recommend for Bahrain.
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But a lot of these strategies, just a heads up, is going to require you to run to run quali manually in order to make sure you have two soft tires.
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When it comes to Jeddah, one of the fastest strategies on paper is going to be a hard, medium and soft, all on full attack.
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There's a couple of things that we need to consider before we do a strategy like this.
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Jeddah is generally very hard, so degradation is usually a little bit higher than anticipated.
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Which means that this could very, very well backfire, do keep that in mind.
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Particularly on tracks in the desert or tracks that get really hot like Jeddah and Qatar.
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Barcelona also to some lesser degree.
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Those two have a tendency to not follow the degradation plan, and again, the way that the degradation works here.
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Just to make this absolutely clear, is that this is if you follow the instructions on the tires, if you will.
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Basically, if a tire says that its maximum temperature is 130 degrees, the second you go over 130 degrees, you are going to start just falling off massively.
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So do keep that in mind.
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You have to make sure that the tire stay within the maximum temperature while running full attack to make this work.
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Which can be very difficult in Jeddah.
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Secondly, overtaking is a bit of a problem around this place, so it might be better to do like a one stopper.
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It's about three seconds slower than this strategy.
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But it'll generally get the job done.
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And there are different ways you can do this, but this is generally what I would recommend.
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It is easier to overtake this year in the game, so you can very well go ahead and make strategies that kind of require you to do a little bit more overtaking than last year's game.
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But for Jeddah, I probably recommend one of these two strategies.
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And also just to keep in mind here, there is a bit of a rule in how we want to how we want to set up strategies in terms of what we want to run on attack.
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What we want to run aggressive, what we want to run standard, if that makes sense.
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And I want to give you an idea of what I'm talking about here by showing you all three tires.
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And the expectations that we have from them.
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So, when it comes to degradation, of course, the softs degrade quicker.
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The quickest, mediums degrade in the middle, and hards degrade the slowest.
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Now, what this actually means is that we should, if a strategy requires it, run the hards on attack.
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Basically because we can get most more out of the hards than if we run say a soft tire on attack.
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As you can see, the soft tire here is going to die within 13 laps around this place.
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If we compare that to a hard tire, which can go 25 laps, it's definitely more efficient to use a hard tire for attack or aggressive strategies.
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And the same with the mediums.
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If we have if we have room for burning a tire, like say that this is our strategy.
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This is the strategy that we're going to employ.
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And we have a lot of spare tire here, both for the hard and the medium.
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A general rule of thumb is that we want to burn the harder compound, that is going to save us more time.
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Then if say I flipped this around and we burned the medium compound, as you can see, it's going to be somewhat equal to this one.
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Still about five seconds slower than the bread and butter, I guess you could say.
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So hopefully that has been helpful.
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If you feel like you have a better strategy or a better idea, feel free to let us know in the comments.
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And for those of you who feel like the strategies that you've seen here are too boring, too generic.
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Have a look in the comments and maybe someone else has come up with a genius strategy that is outperforming mine massively.
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We would I would appreciate it if you did.
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Other people who are watching this video would.
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So if you have a good idea for strategy, post it in the comments.
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And we might revisit this video at a later time with an update.
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Or I might use your suggestion.
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Thank you very much for watching.
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Hope you've enjoyed.
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If you did, please like, subscribe.
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And I shall see you next time.
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Bye bye.
Topics:F1 Manager 24tire strategypre-race strategydry racetire degradationBahrain F1Jeddah F1race strategytire temperaturestrategy planner
