Impeding penalties in Quali in F124 STILL

Nice to see EA continues their wonderful trend of realism and immersion in their games.

AI cars impeding in qualifying is STILL not a thing for the last 4 (at least) F1 games. 

Starting my flying lap in Spain, see an AI car leaving the pits and am expecting it to slow and allow me through. Turn into the first turn and, lo and behold, the AI car is nearly STOPPED on the apex of turn 1. I hit the brakes, back end sliding, and make contact with the back of the AI car breaking my front wing. Thankfully, in this year’s game at least, I didn’t get a penalty for making contact with another car. Laughably however the AI car following me into turn 1 that hit me DID get a 5 place grid penalty for hitting me despite that car having as much of a place to go as I did.

In an actual F1 quali session the car going slow on the racing line in front of two cars on flying laps would have received an impeding penalty. In game however impeding isn’t a thing still apparently.