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Why disqualified?

In order for Inters to be classed as one of the two allowable compounds, there must be water on the track at "lights out".

If the track is dry at the start of the race, two different "dry compound" tyres must be used to satisfy the tyre rules. 

If rain falls at any point during the race, tyre rules do not apply.

The rule is true, it's just that you presented the game with a peculiar set of circumstances.

I think the most likely reason your second car was not disqualified is that it was three laps behind the winner when the race finished. As a result your car was not considered as completing the race.

There are 3 different positions to Consider when it comes to the two tyre rule.

Dry Race - Only Dry Tyre compounds count towards the two tyre rule.

Wet Race - The Two tyre rule is disabled. A race is classified as wet if rain falls during the race. To be specific, I believe this is from the moment the cars start moving, to the moment the race finishes.

Dry Race with Water on Track - If there is water on the track after the race has started, but rain has not fallen during the race, Intermediate tyres will count towards the two tyre rule.

To be absolutely clear - The race is considered to have started once the lights have gone out and the cars have started moving. Water on the track and rain falling in the 8 minutes between qualifying resolving and the lights going out does not affect the processes above.




On the grid you have a choice of 3 tyres to start from:

The tyre you set in your main strategy for the first stint of the race
Intermediate Tyres
Wet Tyres


If you set the main strategy to run intermediates for the first stint, you lose the ability to select a dry compound. The best thing to do is usually to set a dry strategy and used advanced strategy to handle when to use intermediate or wet tyres.

I agree with Kevin.

As long as rain never fell during the race, and there was never water on the track. In this situation you would usually be removed from the race at the beginning of the final lap. Since you never reached the final lap, this never happened.

It is not supposed to work like this. If this happened it is a bug, are you absolutely sure the water level was 0.3mm as the race started? Do you have a RaceID?


When the cars qualify on one of the wet compounds because of water on the track during qualifying you have the option to change tyres on the grid.

You are allowed to select one of three tyre compounds, Inters, Full Wets or the compound you set for the first stint in your main strategy. If you don't select one of the dry compounds in stint 1 of the main strategy then you only have a choice between Inters and Full Wets, no dry tyre compound is available.

Some months ago?

When you mentioned the 0.3mm water at the beginning of the race I wondered if the Devs had introduced a wet race bug during the iGP2025 update. But "months ago" suggests the race you are talking about was before the update on 5th Feb. and I'm confident that back then the wet race logic was exactly as described above.