F1 23 Career: Qatar Balancing?

Not sure if I'm the only person, or if it's just the fact that it's a "new" track that I don't 100% understand yet. I was doing practice programs for a My Team Career in F1 23 and noticed that the deltas were very high compared to my pace in previous races. I found that I was losing ~0.200 seconds on the start finish straight before T1 and by the end of each practice run I was ~2.2 seconds off the delta pace. I'd understand making a couple mistakes here and there and losing out on a couple rounds but for 5 of my 5 race strategy runs to be over 2 seconds off is a bit of a red flag to me. I went on to do practice runs at COTA with the same settings from Qatar and it was right back to what I was used to.

Has anyone else felt this way about Qatar? Like I said at the top it could be just me, but I figured I'd toss the question out there.