I still believe that both should still remain available during qualifying, however should hotlap be available during the race?
I feel like it's absurd the fact that we can just run hotlap pretty much every lap of the race, and it seems to me that this is one of the problems on why the ERS is easily harvested during a race.
I cant use hotlap every lap if I want to use overtake as well otherwise battery is empty. I tend to run medium in the race with good amount of overtake. Medium is tuned for better traction as well. Hotlap i mainly use in qualy sometimes on longer straights in the race to avoid the clipping that medium does at high speed
I want to use medium during the race too, but the only way I can hold to the AI in the straights seems to be by only using hotlap. Like @Meza994 said, hotlap is indeed a good use for inlaps or outlaps for undercut or overcut, but than it's impossible to keep up with the AI. The recovery is broken and need's to be looked into. The way ERS worked before was way more balanced.
The ers behavior has been made to more closely match real world so to day its broken isnt really true. It just takes more understanding and practice of where and when to deploy and regen. Use overtake to defend but regen in twisty sections by using medium or none - sector 2 in Bahrain for example, sector 3 in melbourne
The 2MJ per lap recovery is the ers-k the turbo recovery is unlimited recovery per lap, although what the capability of that is i dont know - by now i suspect its a lot
however i agree the ai seems to have a lot of overtake available
Plus the engine braking makes this way to easy to recover. I run 100% at every track and can routinely run overtake mode for a fair portion of a lap while recovering it all in the corners
