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Everybody talk about random quals and of course, my small expirience can not give precise judgment but for now, my quals working pretty realistic. Every time I reach perfect setup (with or without using tokens) and run quals on SS, I make good lap time in top 3. One time when I missed setup, I was 14, or 16.
But I have to admit that in my league, there is not much activity of other managers and last two races I won only because of that. It was very obvious and I hope I will find competition with full activity of others next season.
You are right Stevan, it's all about competitors being weaker than you or just inactive. You will truly face this randomness in qualification only when you get to race against players of roughly same strength as you, e.g. at the end of a season when everyone have equal cars.