Suggested

AI Racers

I suggest the bots that race for you when you are not there are fixed.
 At the moment they are barely customizable and incapable of thinking for themselves: Just run Pl3 regardless of tyre temp, boost on lap 3 and mess people's race up.

I propose you add a feature (obviously server permitting) whereby you can:
-Set target laps for your bot to boost
-Turn bot should have autokers on or off, in case you want to join mid-race
-Modulate push (to some degree) according to tyre temp and set target push (E.g: It runs Pl3 for laps 1-5 but the tyres start to overheat so it reduces to Pl1 until they are better, before moving back to ideal push)
I realize this is really wordy, feel free to ask and questions :)

I agree, and there are rare occasions where you can get extremely lucky with your AI. If you select a push level that happens to be perfect for the track and conditions, keeping the tyres in the optimal zone, you can get good results. I'm in an extremely competitive elite league and I've scored a 6th place that way, one of my rivals got a podium without being there. You are right, there should generally be a disadvantage to not being live for the races 

:)