@apollojeff24 wrote:
Personally I adjust the AI level to match my performance at each track. It’s less than ideal, but it ruins the realism for me when I am competing for a podium at one track and then running seconds behind the worst car at the next track. Sometimes I’ll still end up slightly off with the AI level and finish higher or lower than I probably should have in my car, but I think it beats the wild swings that have occurred when I leave the AI unchanged from track to track
Exact same for me. I know I'm not very consistent or terribly good. My average AI Difficulty on F1 23 across all tracks using TT on F1 Laps is 72 but my range is from 62 all the way up to 93.
Like you said, if I use 72, I'll win some circuits super easily and others, the Williams car would probably lap me, so it's terribly unrealistic to do every race at 72 but I do recognize that issue is on my end and not the game.
I keep my levels for each circuit in a spreadsheet. I do a little tweaking as well in practice mode compared to my teammate. I keep 0.5 seconds as a buffer in either direction so if I'm, say, 0.8 seconds faster than my teammate in FP1, I'll take that 0.3 seconds up to the 0.5 buffer and increase Difficulty by 3 points. Then for the race, I'll always drop the Difficulty 5 points from Quali, which I learned from a ton of discussions on that here.