Falls off over the stint
Fine for five laps, gone by fifteen. Almost always heat: one axle doing too much work, or pressures climbing out of the window.
Ranked on a free car
This week's rookie circuit is free — these labs open with this symptom at its key corner, already ranked. What is free this week.
The default order
Generic order — open a lab for your car and corner.
- 01Ease the opening laps of the stint3 lapstechnique
Most of a stint's drop-off is decided in its first three laps. Heat put into the tyre early never fully comes back out.
Costs a little early pace for a lot of late pace. Worth it over any race distance.
- 02Fewer, smaller steering correctionshalf as manytechnique
Every correction scrubs the front tyre and puts heat into it. Over a stint, a busy wheel is worth more temperature than any setup change.
None. It is also faster on a single lap.
- 03Lift and coast into the slow corners1 lengthtechnique
Shortening the braking zone takes heat and load out of the fronts on every lap, which is where most of a stint's drop-off comes from.
Costs a tenth or two per lap and returns several over a stint. Only worth it in a race.
- 04Raise cold pressure at the hot end0.5 psityre
Lower pressures build more heat. Coming up a little can be net faster over a stint even though it costs peak grip.
Sharper and less grippy on new tyres.
- 05Soften the opposite end1 clickbar
Spreads the work across all four tyres instead of cooking one axle. Balance fix and degradation fix in one.
Check the balance hasn't gone too far.
- 06Reduce camber slightly0.1°geo
If the inner shoulder is running away from the rest of the tyre, it's taking the whole tyre with it.
Less peak cornering grip.
- 07Set balance at half fuel, not full—driver
The car gets looser as the tail empties, so a car that's neutral on lap one is loose at the end.
Slightly understeery out of the pits.
- 08Take out some rear toe-in0.05°geo
Toe scrubs the tyre in a straight line and adds heat you get nothing for.
Costs the stability it was buying.