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2010A7 - Silverstone
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Track guide is up here 2010A7-Silverstone88-TrackGuide-v1
Looks like I need to do some work to get the gearing dead right.
You say tire wear is moderate. Is that assuming 35 or 40 laps? I think this race gets really really interesting at 40 laps, and with Anthony in the 102s and lots of 103s around, it is very possible Hoss goes with 40 laps. We're talking 42 minutes vs 37 minutes on raw laps...probably past the tipping point to get to 40. (Actually, Laguna Seca was even 40 in previous seasons. When you are this close to 1m laps, it can break either way).
Well, on 35 laps, it's an easy 1-stopper. On 40 laps it's probably a 2-stopper, but I get loads of choices of tyres. I did 40 with one stint on each of red, black and blue last evening. I may try again to see whether I can get 20 out of blues. I'm running a 15 RW at the moment, which doesn't seem to be sliding too much.
Front left is the one that goes off first.
Fuel usage was just about 72l for 40 laps at my pedestrian pace. That was being a little bit overgeared in 5th.
Pitstops seem to be pretty expensive in terms of time, especially if you're near the start of the pitlane, as it's very tight on the way in - looks like I was losing up to 20s for a stop.