Frank
Currently, due to the lowered impact of car development points in Elite because of the doubling of the development range, which made Qualifications between competitive teams mostly a matter of luck with driver error, those driver errors are disabled. So differences in Qualifications should be only due to your teams performance (which is the same for fully trained, or otherwise same skilled, drivers), fuel load and the tiny influence of different ideal setups (Ride Height due to driver height).
And in this user's opinion, this all could be vastly improved. I want to live to see live, real-time qualifying and ability to choose tires and PL during live qualifying. This would be huge!
PL means a LOT in this game. Why wouldn't that be a great thing to incorporate into the qualifying session?