Thanks for the support, Absurdist, 07CobaltGirl, strop, Pyrlix!
strop wrote:And just because something like 98% of users here (just like much of the internet) are presumed to be male, doesn't justify pretending or wanting to pretend that the world is a giant boys' club.
Fully agreed. In fact,
if you look at studies of gamer demographics, it's close to a 50-50 gender ratio - most of the difference in who we see in a given space comes down to "can they safely participate?"
Okay, end of tangent.
DeusExMackia wrote:Need some advice;
I used 0.87kg of fuel per lap in the 10 lap practise session at Snetterton, not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing but I was in the top 10 for 'Fuel'. My current strategy is two scheduled pits, the first one at 33% of the race to refuel and put new tyres on the and the second at 67% to just put on new tyres.
Is it better to refuel later, or maybe even not refuel at all? I'm guessing that if my fuel per lap is so low, my car is running efficiently then?
And another quick question: my tyre wear was at 4.85% and 4.87% for front and rear respectively, would it possibly be worth adding in another stop to change tyres again?
Any help is much appreciated.
You have a 47.0 kg tank and, given your lap-9 lap time (you had an error on lap 10), the race length for you is probably 60 laps max. At that distance, you
will need to pit for fuel at some point, because 60 laps * 0.87 kg/lap = 52.2 kg.
I figure you have two ways you can play it: a two-pit strategy like Riso suggests (17.4 kg of fuel = 8.7 seconds, less than the tyre-change time) or a one-pit strategy like I've been doing. The latter would be one scheduled pit stop for fuel and tyres at 62% of race distance (implies a starting load of 34.1 kg and less than 20 kg of fuel taken at the stop - which means refueling time is strictly less than tyre change time), with an emergency stop replacing the scheduled stop within ... well, it's your choice, but as long as you take your fuel stop no earlier than 13% of the total race distance, you can make it to the end on one stop. So pit window width 49% or less.
If you're concerned about tyre wear - and I usually go by the amount that my laps slow down in practice, which I think was a little over half a second per lap after nine laps in your case (you had an error on your tenth lap) - then I say go for the two-stop strategy. I'm sticking with my one-stop strategy (this course seems to have less tyre wear than Silverstone), but that's a call each person needs to make on their own.
Sun Jan 31, 2016 10:35 pm 
