AI pace in free practice sessions

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Is it too much to ask that the AI gives some form of representative pace on free practice sessions? I have absolutely no idea where I stand on my pace until quali and by then it’s too late to do anything about it.

I’m not saying that the AI should be setting quali lap times in free practice, just a more representative pace to what they will be doing when it matters.

Running the fourth slowest car according to the performance graph and an always near the top of timing in FP. I use FP to try and give myself a decent race car so outside of one session where I do a proper quali sim I am really just trying to run race pace. It seems to me that the AI never runs a quali sim in practice, which I suppose is what I am looking for really. Get to quali and suddenly the AI is running 2+ seconds faster than at any time in free practice.

On a related note, a little more AI consistency over tracks would be nice. Some tracks I have to run 101-105 difficulty to be in a reasonable position for my car and other tracks I need to run as low as 95 or I am getting smoked by my teammate. I get that my ability on any given track will be different depending on how good I am at that track, but some tracks the AI in season 1 is beating the real cars lap times and on others they are slower than the real cars.

aef251 · Answer

What I think we really need is the Qualifying programme to be at every race and give a true estimate of where we’ll be on the grid and how far off pole (or the second car if we’re fastest) we’ll be. That and race should be at all tracks, they can rotate the third one between the rest although I’m bored of them now.&nbsp;

gladystonff93 · Answer

The AI is very slow in free practice; even in an Alpine, I finished first, almost a second ahead of the second-place driver. In qualifying, it returned to normal, and I was a tenth behind Gasly, in the middle of the grid. The times are very fast in free practice, with the last-place driver almost four seconds behind the leader. The race task is also very easy to complete, with over a two-second advantage over the required time. This isn't the case in F1 24, which is why I abandoned 25. The game is broken, without AI fixes in the wet and without the performance patch.

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