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Quali and race stints in practise

I have a new idea i would like to propose to you all here, i’ll keep it short and sweet, the choice of race stints or qualifying stints in practise , you get to allocate them to your 5 practise runs!

race stints in practise. What could happen is you could send your car out for a stint on a set of tyres up to a certain amount of laps ( could be a choice of 4,8,12) when the car returns the fastest lap of the stint would be put on the practise leaderboard, you would see the average lap, fastest lap, slowest lap and tyre wear for those laps allowing you to compare tyres and fuel load gaps in game!

In addition to this you could add qualifying stints, as you wouldn’t need knowledge of this ( you would always quali on the softest tyre in your race plan ) perhaps it could add knowledge to the driver, the more quali stints, the better his qualifying will be, you would only get the fastest time of the chosen laps (perhaps only 1,2 or 3 for this type of lap)
 
This would allow for another choice of balancing a good race or a good quali!!

Thank you for your time.

so something like motorsport manager???

Its a good idea/concept tho

Thats pretty much what it’s based on as i have just downloaded MM and i would love a practise session similar to it

We essentially already have this... We only have 5 laps tho to get it right, and if we are given more laps everyone will have 100% setup which is boring.
I think practice and quali are fine as they are changing up quali won't be fair if someone cannot get online for it.
I do like the idea you suggest but imo wouldn't work here

The point is you still only have 5 attempts, but the way they are layered out changes, this means that people can do a race run of up to some amount of laps on 1 compound, then again to measure which 1 is faster, as for quali, i’m not suggesting changing quali, just changing practise so you driver can practise qualifying laps. These stints would happen as soon as you press ‘try setup’ just as it does now, you just gain more data

The game is 90% luck so I'm not sure the extra data would make any difference.

Not sure it’s that much luck, i changed my design strategy this season and went from 16 points to 228 with 5 races to go, so there must be something other than luck ? 

I have long suggested doing online qualifying and practice instead of fast races, since practice and qualification do not match the data obtained for the race and you can only trust and rely on your memory))