Is There A Flaw With The Way Qualifying Works?

In the Rules & Regulations handbook, it states that qualifying is performed on low fuel with tyres at the optimal temperatures.

My best interpretation of this is that with the tyres chosen from the first stint, the car and driver are sent out on to the track with the tyres at a temperature and wear point that will deliver the most grip.

In my opinion, this is not the ideal way qualifying should work. I have noticed that in my league some of our strategies differ at certain races. At Singapore, several of my league's managers will opt for short stints (three to four stops) completed on Super Soft tyres, whereas I will opt for Mediums because of the 31 celsius temperature at this track.

I've won at Singapore two times with no issues in these temperatures in Season 8 and 10 of our league. However, when I won those two times, I was competing against overheating Super Softs that were ahead of me. With the way I think qualifying works, what is not taken into account is the temperature of the track which will cause the tyres to heat up, depending on the compound. I think this should be a factor in qualifying. Another factor to qualifying ought to be the push level.

What do you guys think? I would prefer some replies and feedback from the more experienced managers of this game, especially those who have been playing for at least two years or more.

Think about it. IRL the people who qualify on harder compounds are further down. It is basic logic.  And anyway, even at Singapore, the tyres could survive 1 lap! (just)

In a single lap, every tyre will function without any problems and the speed will depend on the compound. As for the temperature of tyres, I think it will be similar as in the race where you also won't start at complete cold tyres as used to be the case some time ago.

The mistake that is made a lot still, is setting push levels to high on softer tyres. Most of the time 1/5 will do perfectly on ss and s tyres. When done properly, soft tyres will beat medium tyres on a 2 stop strategy in a 50% race and even ss should be able to do so in 3 stops.

Push level isn't part of the qualifying by the way. No matter how high or low you set it, it won't influence the qualifying time. Onc upon a time it used to be the case but think thats gone for 1,5 - 2 years now.

Yeah, what he said. Also I can do (for most races) a 2 stop SS, SS, SS 50% race EASILY