out for stint 3. with some more action on the track, overlapping, passing from behind due stops of the gts and some battles with position 10-12 after they have pitted, the race was very entertaining. due the cold tires i had to fight with a sliding car more and more and i had at least one spin every second lap. so going for softs on the rear was absolutely necessary. since it was late in the evening i decided to pause the race after stop 3 and went for some tests. i found the tire brand within the car file and tried to change it to another brand. the different tires are defined by files within the gtr-teams folder. the tuned elise comes with gt tires, which are too fat for this small car. so i tested the ngt tires, but they are not equal in diameter. next attempt, the tires of the original elise. they werent bad at all, even diameter differs but i can adjust the final gear ratio to fit the new diameter to the car. testing the bmw tires was not very convincing. so only the gt3 tires are left, which i will test next week. first, i have to write down the diameters with the help of motec and then i can adjust the final gear ratio to get comparable results. but it seems that changing the brand excluding the gt tires will help a little to get usefull tire temps on the nordschleife even if getting optimal temperatur over night seems to be impossible.