As far as I can tell, standard tyres are by far the best in the wet, then all surface tyres narrowly beating out performance, then off road tyres quite a bit worse, and then slicks quite a bit worse again. is this correct?
I'm also curious to know how much better each tyre is than the other in off road conditions
Posted Mar 8, 2020, 12:11 AM UTC
so do cars with slick tyres have any benefits?
They tend to have really good handling for their rq even compared to performance tyre cars on normal (dry asfalt) conditions. So their benefit is being better on dry from the get go, but not any "hidden" advantages.
The benefit is that they have a lower RQ for their stats - the drawback that if it isn’t a dry asphalt track then it won’t work at all.
A car with slick tyres will have similar stats to a car with an RQ that is 1 or 2 points higher. In the same way that cars with 4WD will be one or two RQ points higher than a RWD/FWD car with the same stats. The easy way to see this is to look at the Porsches with the same RQ and check the stats of the RWD v the 4WD cars.
Similar is with slick tyres v performances. The RQ29 Porsche on slicks (2.7 and 95) is better than the best RQ29 RWD performance tyre Porsche, the GT3 RS (2.9 and 93).
No, it's just a balancing thing so it can't be used on anything not dry asphalt.
No one ever prooved slicks have any advantage over any other tires with all other things being equal. I mean take two cars with same parameters including grip and showed that slicks faster. That never was the case. So I assume slicks have only disadvantages on wet.
Well, Slick is disadvantaged on anything except Dry. I know I'm being pedantic but some people would read this and think that it's only bad in Wet and will try to use Slick on Ice or something.
Well performance with 4WD is also good in wet condition, and for sure beats cars with all surface on asphalt. There's also traction control that helps in wet
That is indeed correct. Here is a handy list that was made a long time ago. Not sure how accurate it still is, but it seems correct.
You'd think the slicks and performance tyres would get a boost on dry asphalt, but nope.