Feature Change Request

The 5/5 Qualifying has broken the races for many people in our league, people who do not show up, and have their race running set to 1/5 or 2/5 generally, gift free wins to people ahead of them on the grid, and it's not until atleast lap 3 (where as the cars ahead have about an 8-10second gap) or the availability of KERS, can we get pass them, usually worse on difficult overtaking tracks. As such, it generally ruins the race of people who show up and try to catch people they can beat but they are blocked by the team that has a 100% car (bi-seasonally), creating a long train, which has infuriated many managers.

As a racer myself the argument is lacking (about auto 5/5 being a good thing). This is the only positive statement people have for this topic .. that "drivers always push hard in qual" .. It's a pathetic case to argue. Are people trying to say drivers never push hard in races then (eg the way it is now)?

If they are going to set auto 5/5 qual they should let you choose your push levels for every lap. Why was this not introduced? If you're going to let slow people start at the front of the grid (by auto 5/5 qualifying) then let them pre-program their push levels for every lap. Is this possible or not?

I am sorry for sounding so bitter but I am so incredibly sick of people saying 5/5 qual is a good thing. It's ruining the game, it's ruining MANY races, and it's severely pissing ACTIVE/paying managers off. WHY does it make more sense to help the people who don't show up to race and completely ruin the peoples races who actually show up and put in the effort.

It's a complete joke from my POV, and my POV is not biased, because in the last two seasons I have started from P1 more than anyone in my league, so this has affected me the least of any one.

As a racer myself the argument is lacking (about auto 5/5 being a good thing). This is the only positive statement people have for this topic .. that "drivers always push hard in qual" .. It's a pathetic case to argue. Are people trying to say drivers never push hard in races then (eg the way it is now)?



If they are going to set auto 5/5 qual they should let you choose your push levels for every lap. Why was this not introduced? If you're going to let slow people start at the front of the grid (by auto 5/5 qualifying) then let them pre-program their push levels for every lap. Is this possible or not?



I am sorry for sounding so bitter but I am so incredibly sick of people saying 5/5 qual is a good thing. It's ruining the game, it's ruining MANY races, and it's severely pissing ACTIVE/paying managers off. WHY does it make more sense to help the people who don't show up to race and completely ruin the peoples races who actually show up and put in the effort.



It's a complete joke from my POV, and my POV is not biased, because in the last two seasons I have started from P1 more than anyone in my league, so this has affected me the least of any one.

Push levels have nothing to do with it IMO its down to the overtaking on the sim someone with 1/5 push with super cold tyres against a 3/5 or 2/5 with tyres that are swiched on should be easly be overtaken also I think the dirty air that the cars have is a bit excessive but thats a different post.

As a racer myself the argument is lacking (about auto 5/5 being a good thing). This is the only positive statement people have for this topic .. that "drivers always push hard in qual" .. It's a pathetic case to argue. Are people trying to say drivers never push hard in races then (eg the way it is now)?



If they are going to set auto 5/5 qual they should let you choose your push levels for every lap. Why was this not introduced? If you're going to let slow people start at the front of the grid (by auto 5/5 qualifying) then let them pre-program their push levels for every lap. Is this possible or not?



I am sorry for sounding so bitter but I am so incredibly sick of people saying 5/5 qual is a good thing. It's ruining the game, it's ruining MANY races, and it's severely pissing ACTIVE/paying managers off. WHY does it make more sense to help the people who don't show up to race and completely ruin the peoples races who actually show up and put in the effort.



It's a complete joke from my POV, and my POV is not biased, because in the last two seasons I have started from P1 more than anyone in my league, so this has affected me the least of any one.

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I'm sorry but it is the truth. If you can win the race when you are not there then your opponents have no idea what they are doing, so that is no comparison. I bet I could beat any 100% team in the game with a 50% car if I was here and they weren't, even if they had the "ideal afk" push levels set (obviously ofcourse I am talking about tracks that require you to change your push levels, not tracks like Monaco)
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While this is down to personal mistake, I find that the change to my tires was rather disappointing when it came to qualifying. Like most mondays, I cannot attend the race due to commitments. To the issue: I had a wet weather setup and it changed to dry, to which it changed to the default tire option for Dry Weather (Hards). This ruined my race considerably and I wish for a change to make the default tire changes for all races to be Soft and Full Wets.

Reason being, particularly at this time of the year, both these tires are generally the only tire you will ever need.

In the long run, a two tire rule for 50% and above leagues would be a more fun idea to freshen strategies much further down the line.
(Any arguements regarding tire heating, should wait until future updates are applied, that may effect tire temperatures)