Well, it's temp dependant, but usually in the f1 game, lower pressure reduces temp which will reduce wear.
Pressures are actually a balance, on how the tire interacts with the road. A softer pressure will provide more contact patch at the cost of roll speed and temperature. (Also wear pattern, you want wear to be more uniform, on a race track insides will wear more, oh the highway you want optimal pressure to spread wear across the whole tire, mostly controlled by camber but overfilled tires will wear the center more than the outsides, underfilled will wear the outsides more. Race cars intentionally underfill allowing for flex, less heat, and pressures rising)
Tire pressures would be higher at Monza than at Monaco, for example.
More wear in with less tire pressure would indicate to me locking or very high load on that tire in one corner. (High load increases temp, but if you're monitoring it well after that load and there's a bunch of easy corners after, it will lose temp)
In general oversteer setups will burn more rear, understeer will burn more fronts.
The wear I see in the picture indicates a track with high right hand turn loads and lesser left turn loads. And there's definitely been some locking. Honestly I'm trying to figure out which track this was. China or Spain maybe?
This is wrong. Lower pressure means higher temps meaning more wear. You want more pressure to reduce temps as less of the tire touches the track at one time.
... less contact patch can cause wheel spin or locking which will in tern cause more temperature buildup, and uneven wear across the tire. The f1 game only measures wear on a single point. So temperature buildup is the main concern.
Functionally in the f1 game you always run less arb/downforce/tire pressure (and kinda toe, but iirc the fast guys didn't use much anyway, I've stopped the f1 games since 21 due to some incompatibilities of my setup to the game) for temperature control. If you run more pressure at Monaco you're going to have a bad day keeping tires in check.
As with everything, there is an operating window IRL and pressures actually go hand in hand with suspension setup to achieve the greatest amount of contact with the road across the most amount of corners.
Sliding a tire is WAY worse for heat than having it grip to the road, and stiffer tires have less bend, which will less grip, and more heat.
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u/Salty_Saltr Jun 20 '24
so does a lower pressure on the more used tire reduce wear or a high pressure?