Suggested

More laps for free practice 5-->10

I think that having only 5 laps in free practice is not enough.
5 laps are often sufficient only to find the right setup, and not always, I propose to extend to 10 laps available so after finding the optimal setup you can try it with the different tires

No need for that....just keep a record with your settings from previous seasons.

Yes, but this is true if you have a car already at very high levels
My car is in full evolution and in every season it is very different

That is not right. Setups only drastically change due to different weather.

Oh I see, you are level 8 and still training up drivers. Yes it will change, but your setup from last season should get you very close.

This is ok for the setup, but what interests me is ... after finding the best setup with the SS tires, possibly also try the M and the H to see the consumption on the lap, to plan the best strategy

Usually fuel consumption stays exactly the same no matter what tyre your on, because the push level used is always the same. An difference in fuel is randomly generated by the game...

Ok but I was referring to the consumption of tires, not fuel consumption

Hard and Medium are always like 3 to 4% of tire wear

An idea to please everyone, could be to make available additional 5 laps (for a maximum of 10) buying them with tokens, example for 1 or 2 tokens (no more)
The game remains unchanged, and anyone who wants or needs to do more rounds of practice can do them

Yes, but in the future with the development the tires could be differentiated a little bit more
The hard tires for example we all know that they are too performing, too unbalanced
(but this is another question)

However, the consumption of tires is not always a constant, but varies with track characteristics and temperature

Ok, a good manager is writing the data, but I'm going back to say it's worth when the car is already mature and at the highest levels.
During growth, to choose the optimal strategy to use, if a manager is careful, it is important to know how all the tires behave on every track, consumption and timing.
And 5 laps are not enough, sometimes not even enough to find the perfect setup according to the riders.
You do not have to assume that all the managers write the data of each race, this is done only by those who are expert and know how to play seriously, especially the novices do not and do not even think about doing it.
When I started playing is the first "defect" I found, why try only for 5 laps ???
5 laps are nothing!
In reality in free practice I do not know by regulation how many laps can do, and if they are limited, but certainly not only 5 laps

You know you can just change the tire each time you try to find the right setup right? That way you will know everything with just 5 laps

Yes, but if I change the tire every time, the time will be staggered by the tires and I can not know which is the best setup, not always what the riders say is the best choice ...
With 10 laps it would be possible to find the best setup using SS tires, and then try the other tires to see how they behave: consumption difference and lap time difference

I would quite like to have more laps in free practice also. Being a newbie, I find that I'm using all the laps getting my setup about right, but would like to also have some comparative times on different tyres. I can see no downside to having more laps, if you feel you don't need them, don't use them.

Is it really so that what the driver says is optimal is sometimes not optimal? I find that the times fluctuate too much even with the same setup to see what setup would be the best

Real time practices would be far better

here's the thing, yes 10 laps might be better, but then again so is recording data, i'm still growing and yet i've had to change my drivers a fair few times, and each time i always use the previous drivers set up as a base line and all the time the set ups are only 1 or 2 notches out from the old set up, as for knowing the times on different tires, it doesn't really matter, on any of the compounds you are only trying to find out the degradation level of each compound, the only time that time really matters is during Qualifying where your time is determined for the grid position you get. but all the same, there have only been maybe 1 or two times that i've ran out of laps before getting the optimal set up for my driver.

i find if your driver is saying its a little too low/high change it by about 2-3 points, if they are saying its much to high/low change it by about 10-12 you'll find getting the optimal set up much easier. also try recording your set ups even your stint strategy to figure out what strategy works best for what circuit, trust me it WILL help whether your are a seasoned veteran or a newbie just learning the ropes, yes it will take several seasons before you find the best one, but all the same, keep doing it, because you can always tweek and tug at your set ups and strategy to get the best one

Yes, I started to mark everything in an Excel table that I created.
But this, even if very beautiful, is not an immediate thing that you think about.
And before having the necessary data, it takes a long time.
In this way, some races are easily lost due to trivial errors of strategy, which would not have been committed by being able to try more variables.

I agree with what has been said, but if there were 5 more laps, what problem would there be?
For beginners it would be easier and more comfortable.
For the experts, it would not make a difference.
For those in the middle between beginner and expert it might be useful to try experiments.

But even for experts, if you do not have drivers with levels of talent and knowledge at the highest levels, the drivers do not always provide the best setup for the times, have 10 data instead of 5 for statistical purposes would be better for everyone to find the best setup, regardless of the drivers' advice.

Probably the game is then simpler than it may seem, as codes of operation, but I hope it is always developed and this if not needed at this time in the future will serve.

But I come back to say, what would be the problem of having 5 more turns?
Who will not serve ... will not use them

I still think it is a bad idea to decide the setup by the timings in practise rather than what the driver says, because the times just aren't consistant enough. Few races ago I had differences up to .4 sec with the exact same setup, all tested at the same time.
Really, you should just follow your drivers advice, and use SS-S-H at least once while finding the right setup. I have never been able to not find the right setup, and got myself into elite in 3 seasons in an active league.
You are really overthinking the practise setup, unless someone can correct me here

It is totaly useless as long as the race simulation is this, you have all the base setup in the "advance guide" post in this Forum and you have to make 2 or 3 laps to adapt that to your driver

But do you think everyone looks at the forum, and everyone is looking for a guide?
(which should also be updated ...)

Then I do not understand the problem, if you do not need the extra laps you just do not use them
If instead you want to do more laps to try more configurations even with different tires, why should it be forbidden by a ridiculous limit?
The laps of free practice for me could also be unlimited, do not give an advantage on other players, only allow to increase the game

If everyone did as you say, it would be enough to do only one championship ... write all the data ... and every time next, always make the same races ...
At that point where is the fun?
Rather ... I think that the car setup system should be developed more and with more parameters, the current system for veterans who already have all the final data I think becomes even boring