Slow AI on Quali and super fast during Race

I honestly don't think what type of qualifying session it is matters in my experience.

I can definitely say the AI are too slow in a full and short session. I never do a one shot qualifying.

For me the reason is pointing to the fact that as a player we now have the option to use the overtake deployment in all types of qualifying, which depending on the track can give the player a huge advantage over the AI as I believe this is something AI don't use? Or if they do then not to it's full potential?

I personally much preferred it when the overtake deployment option was not available in qualifying and just used solely for practice and the race.

I don't understand why the overtake deployment option was implemented into qualifying as we never had this before?

As a general rule of thumb, I'm on average around half a second to one second a lap faster than the AI on most tracks on my difficulty setting.

Then come the races they are the same speed as me. It makes the whole experience so completely unrealistic.

Some may say the answer is not to use the overtake deployment then. To be honest I think that will be the outcome. But to be absolutely honest even using the hotlap deployment only, the AI still struggle to challenge still at times.

I'm really happy this is being looked into. I just hope that if any adjustments are implemented going forward the balance is correct.