Ferrari F2004 - Tire compounds

Hi everybody

I do have a question about the tire compounds for the Ferrari F2004. There is a Soft, Medium and Hard compound available.

Are those compounds temperature based or like the current F1 tires (softer = faster)?

If those tires compounds are temp based, does anybody know the optimal range per compound?

Many thanks in advance for your help guys.

Fabio

 

Im running this car in a league season atm 3 rounds in having raced Barcelona, Silverstone and Spa. So far none of these tracks have really worked on the softs even for a qualy run but we havent had very low temps and all these tracks are pretty high load.

You can use the standard tyres app to see if its in the temp window and also the pressures are there too. If green it means its at optimal with blue too cold or low pressure with red too high or hot.

The mediums have fallen away about 75% of the hards life but even hards dont really go for too long. At Spa the last round we did with temps around 18c ambient track 24c +- 2c, hards were only about .5 slower for me then mediums and the mediums were good for 7 laps then off the cliff by lap 11. The hards were good for about 16 laps then off the cliff by lap 21.

We ran a full gp distance of 44 laps and I found hards best for the race as even a 3 stopper you wanted to get at least 11 laps and a 2 stop about 15 per stint. I found both strategies were pretty close here and dod a practice 2 stopper then on the night went 3 stops and was only 5 seconds slower with lots of traffic while the practice run was pretty much clear track.

I think the softs would work on a slower track without too many high speed corners and possibly much colder temps. Not sure how long they would go as I have yet to run a track where they dont overheat on lap 2 with the weather used.

Key is to find a tyre that works in the temp window and then you need to see which works better for your race distance.

 

Hi martcert, many thanks for the Information. This matches more or less my observations. We run Barcelona at 20 degress at the moment and medium ist the best choice. Softs overheat and I struggle to keep the temp in the hards.