F1 2020 - Tire performances for 50% race length and others mods 2.3

Hello,

This mod is an update of my previous one (made for 25% race lenght) for races set at 50% length.

I reviewed the performances of all tyres and adapted the F1 cars to achieve a good balance between wear and pit stops .

I have been working on the F1 2021 version of the game, but as requested by some people I updated my mod for F1 2020 .
I did all my tests on F1 2021 for the 50% version. But I think it will be fine for F1 2020.
I also kept other mods that I used on the 25% version made for F1 2020.

Tire Compounds part
The grip curves (depending of wear) :



The new grip(wetness) globaly :



The wear (wetness) globaly :

• 1 or 2 pit stops, several strategies used by bots.
• Puncture wear is set to 90%. Why? because IA doesn't have puncture. I have updated the tire mixes to have a strong degradation of tire grip, so you will have to make the right decision whether or not to keep your tires after 65-75%….
• Aero slipstream effect is slightly increased to help for overtake. Lift effect stay globally raisonnable, so keep control of your car when you will try to overtake a slower car which did 1 pit stop only with hard compounds !
• Obviously the prediction is not 100% correct, depending on your skills and your driving behavior, the settings of the car, the weather, the development of the team too…
• Use your soft tires wisely during the qualifying phases ... ... this will have a more or less impact on your options after, at the start or during the race.
• Wet and dry tyres have a very small box of optimum performance. You could be severely penalized with wear or grip if you don't react quickly.
• Focusing on a strategy with only 1 pit stop mainly ... is no longer the only one and best solution in every race.
• i didn't include F2 cars on this version, too much work, sorry .
• Now, the tyres will be cold when you exit the pit stop (~ 20 ° C cooler).
• Season wear upgrades effets has been reduce to keep a good balance after several seasons.

Others mods and changed included

• Sparks reworked. Thanks to Ls_Tech
• Realistic Rain. All credits of the mod goes to vlasovas and guina60.
• Real tire damage for Slicks, Inter and Wets Version 1.3 from micmiller
• Performance mod 1.9 from EnriqueBanderas which included others mods like improved dirty air mod and damage mod from StrongestFish, which i modified for this mod.

Special thanks to them !

Installation

It's a copy & paste installation:
Just copy and paste the directory /2020_asset_groups in the directory of the game. That’s all.

XML file of all cars is included. This can be useful if you want to add (for example) a skin mod for My Team. It's for who wants to work on it with EGO ERP Archiver.

This mod is made for a 50% race time ... you can use it at 25% but with less pit stops obviously.

To uninstall

Steam have special option for it :
Click on game by right mouse button in Steam library
Choose Properties - Local files - Verify integrity of local files. After this Steam will start checking game files and will restore modded files to originals.

This Mod not works in multiplayer (online).

There might still be some weird behavior, I tested it for several days but difficult to check everything.

I made this mod for myself at the start. But if it can help other players, so much the better ...