Weather

From F1TimeWiki

Rules Getting started guide Game overview FAQ Strategic elements Game elements DRP Fuel Tyres Weather Strategy guides Choosing suppliers Promoting from C4 to C3 Resources

Weather plays an important role in real racing and in F1TIME as well. The track may be dry in practice and qualifying, but pouring rain in the race. Before you head out for practice it is a good idea to take a look at the Race Weekend page and assess the weekend's weather conditions.

Understanding weather in F1TIME

Weather in F1TIME is broken into 3 unequal time periods or phases. It may be raining for a long duration or just the last 10 minutes, or the race could start in 36°C heat and fall to 24°C over the course of 45 minutes. It is important to understand these changes and set your pit strategy around them.

Weather has three variables for each phase:

• Time - The length of the phase.
• Temp - The temperature in Celsius.
• Rain - The amount of rain in mm.

When a weather change occurs it is instantaneous. Weather can go from sunny and 24°C to pouring rain and 14°C the next minute. It is important to plan your race around these weather shifts.

Weather and tyres

Weather plays a big role in deciding the tyres you will use for the race. The hotter the weather the shorter the distance your tyres will last before wearing out and exploding. Don't try and race on soft tyres in 44°C heat unless you plan on visiting the pits frequently. If the weather is cooler you will be able to go much further on the same type of tyres.

The variance in race temperature to your tyres optimal temperature will have an effect on your lap times. The closer the two temperatures are, the faster you will be in the race.

Finally, rain will greatly effect tyre choice. The best tyre when there is rain in the race is something that must be learned through experience. It is important to find when the optimum time is to change between dry, intermediate and wet tyres.