Hello guys, I was just reading the Live For Speed driving tips in the Manual and I got to the section where it says "Choose your tyres wisely" located here.

Towards the bottom, where it was explaining slick tryes and types, the text contradicted itself. One member said something and then another argued the point calling the first stupid.

Here are the quotes:

Quote :

Sometimes, you can mix tire types to compensate with overheating sets of tires. For example, if you use R2 front and R3 rear on an FZ50 GTR, you can reduce the overheating of the rear tires. However, you will have less grip in the rear, so you need to re-tune the suspension to reduce the oversteer.

Quote :

/edit by scipy - This is stupid, you need to INCREASE oversteer when driving R2 fronts and R3 rears because once the fronts heat up (color wise) 2-3°C more than the rears they will just understeer to death. Please don't try to help people with wrong advice.

I'm really confused as to which of these are right. Could you guys clear this up for me or somehow fix it so only one quote resides in the Manual.

Thanks.

Quote from Myw :

/edit by scipy - This is stupid

Made me LOL.

Sorry, I don't know anything about this myself but I guess the chances are pretty high that scipy is right.

If you take a neutral setup and change the tyre compounds where in this case you need to take care of the front tyres more than the rears, you would want more oversteer as Scipy says, otherwise the fronts will burn up - you have more leeway in the R3s so can use them more.

I'd say it depends on the driver and the rest of the setup. If you are melting rear tyres, chances are you already have an oversteery setup, so by reducing the tyre grip at the rear you'll increase the oversteer. Which might make the rears get even hotter, thus even more oversteer. It would make sense in that regard to add understeer to the setup, so that both tyres get to and stay in the optimum temperature whilst giving handling that is fast and predictable.

Adding understeer doesn't mean making the car understeer. It means reducing the oversteer a bit. Stiffen the front roll bar a little for instance.