Broken tire selections - manual pit request during rain

This race: https://igpmanager.com/play/?url=race-result/81878/13574
Free client.

Driver G Smith (and L Bennett, though he got pitted an extra time)
I manually pitted both for Wets immediately on race start - game gave me softs. 
Auto-pit kicked in immediately on exit trying to give me inters - I clicked to cancel that pit.
I manually pitted laps later again for wets after seeing ridiculous lap times.  Game gave me softs.
I manually pitted again 2 laps later, asking for wets, and finally got them. 

End of the race my drivers wanted to pit again (a lap or two after rains stopped) - I wasn't sure if it was for fuel or for strategy so I let it happen, but selected inters as the tires.  I got softs. 

The end of race pit was probably the "rain ends" strategy, since I had left that one to choose softs 3 laps after rains stop.

The manual pitting during the race has me boggling.  I selected wet tires for both drivers every manual pit stop and didn't get them until the third try.

Did you untick the "follow weather strategy" box? If you didn't, it has a mind of it's own. You need to untick that box otherwise it will follow the orders of your advanced strategy, even if you have just pit your drivers.

Tbh if you're a 2D user just always untick that box. It causes more trouble than it's worth sometimes.

(disregard last message, just saw you said you were a free user)

Any way, about the bug, there's been about 10 threads over the last few months talking about this bug.

Yes it is common and no, unfortunately at this stage I don't think there is any way to avoid it. Many people are still waiting to hear from the devs as to why this is happening.

Here's hoping it is fixed in the next update or I imagine many free users will stop playing the game. You're basically screwed if it rains during your race and your tyre choice is different to the one shown in your advanced strat.

I'm a free user and I've had this bug a few times. It's very frustrating. One of my Monza races a few seasons ago I pit my driver for wets, and he fit softs, pit him again straight away the following lap and he fits softs again. I just closed my browser and gave up for the day.

"Here's hoping it is fixed in the next update or I imagine many free users will stop playing the game."

Yeah, it had me frustrated with the game yesterday for sure.  I understand I get what I pay for, but when the version that is supposed to entice me to pay for the upgraded fancier version has these kinds of frustrating bugs, it doesn't exactly make me want to open the wallet.

Come on, Bill, just pay for the game already - or are you trying to withhold your referral points from me? :D

This is exactly what I keep saying about. As an advertised F2P game. That side of it is really bad and doesn't make people want to sick around.

I am a regular paying member and if I didn't pay into it, there is no way I would stick around.

I had something like this happen today in a race, It started raining like 5 min before race start, so on lap 1 I told my drivers to pit and put on Full Wets, but they just refitted softs, and I didn't notice until like lap 7, because they were lapping at like 10 sec slower than everyone else. So I had them pit again to swap, and nope, softs AGAIN. Next lap, pit them again, HURRAY WETS, shame I'm like already lapped >.<
Here is the race, I believe it happened to another manager or two in the race as well
http://igpmanager.com/play/?url=race-result/86473/