Is the AI straight line speed "bug" back?

Ill check that next race.

I was constantly checking if they were using ERS or not and well if they used it i basically had no chance.

Teammate (Leclerc) was similarly fast as them (Mercedes, RBR).

EDIT: I remember one kph number Russel vs. me, i was leading, had DRS from a backmarker, he was out of DRS and with DRS i only hit like 310kmh while Russel had 305 without DRS and no real slipstream (Melbourne, back straight before the end of sector 2)

Seemed kinda weird and got me thinking about F1 22.

@PBR3491Would be good to know for that case if Russel had used ERS, if he did then the 305 are totally fine, considering he might have a more slippery car that is possibly a few kph + ERS is 10kph more on many straights too so being 5 slower could be fine, just depends on the exact circumstances

But definitely give more feedback from your next race, ideally multiple instances so we can analyse the situation better 🙂

The AI seems to use weird burst of ERS in a chaotic fashion if they are not going for an overtake, like on/off in rapid random sucession.

I use the same tactic but only out of corners or when shifting into 8 gear for a bit more momentum, but they just turn it on/off.

Did 2 races: Miami, Imola (partly rain)

 
In Miami i was equally fast on the straights, i have no idea whats the difference, again no change to the setup. In fact Charles was slower in the straights 2-3kph.

Imola: Rain race and i love Imola, so they stood no chance anyway. But in the first few laps they definitely had an edge again but that is 100% due to my setup.

Maybe its just Melbourne or i had a fault that my engineer did not tell me? I have to try melbourne again (next season or start a new season at least)

Will come back to you.

I find it isn’t even above 100AI. I am finding on high speed tracks especially I seem to be fine through practice and quali then when the race starts I struggle to keep up through the corners and have to run full ERS down the straights so that the AI doesn’t drive around me like I’m standing still. 
Once DRS is active then it’s an even bigger nightmare.

Trying to run a race at Jeddah right now where I have been within 0.2 seconds of the fastest time, if not the fastest, every session. Made a mistake in quali and got 6th, still only 0.4 seconds off pole. The race starts and the AI is just as fast through sector 1 as I am but as soon as I get on the straight I am being driven past despite having full Overtake mode on, it’s like the AI has DRS all the time.  
The bigger joke out of all of this is that I dropped my difficulty setting from 95 in quali to 90 for the race and it still feels like in the race I am running an F2 car. Also, according to the “R&D comparison” I have the best car on the grid but I still get swamped during the race in a straight line.

I had one race at Qatar where with DRS open AND full ERS during the race I couldn’t catch the car in front that had no DRS, I mean that the time difference between us didn’t change, and the car behind with DRS open as well gained 0.7 seconds on me. I qualified second for the race.

The AI straight line speed is a joke in this game, as it was in 22, but I’m not totally sure why I expected anything to be different given that it is the same game as 22, oh except for the return of Braking Point (didn’t care in 21, still don’t) and the revamped F1 World which I don’t find enjoyable either as it’s not what I want from an F1 game.