I dunno if this is an issue or not but compare to F1 25 AI that are slightly better, the F1 26 AI feels way too OP. On the straights, they somehow pulled away and sometimes hard to pull a gap from them despite managing the battery mode. Is it an AI bug or something else?
Are you using custom car setups? Can you describe in more detail how you are managing the battery? I play on 95 and haven't noticed an issue with the AI.
I was running a custom setup on Madrid Street Circuit and was running on 80 (mostly I play against AI between high 60 to around 80 to 81). For the battery I usually use normal battery deployment then at the Detection Point, I used the boost deployment. Probably it's only that circuit that they are overpowered? But on the other circuits it seems they are also overpowered (edited)
I haven't tried Madrid myself outside of time trial, but yes, I've heard a couple of people say the AI are fast there so it might need a balance pass.
Other than that I would just say make sure your lifting and coasting often to keep the battery up because the way the power mapping is set up it will deploy different energy levels in different parts of the circuit. So even if you think you've got some left it might be about to eat all of that.
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No, it's not that, the AI is completely broken here and has infinite ERS/boost in quali, which makes you qualify behind the top 10. Even worse is that in the race, the AI is so slow even on max difficulty.
Yes, the AI seem overpowered in qualifying, but OP was talking about battling with the AI in the race, so I was giving them advice on better managing their battery because the race AI is fine.
I don't know if this is just me, but the race AI on my end are very slow and can sometimes be 10-20 seconds behind when I finish the race. Maybe it's the same for some of you?
Last year I was usually racing at 95 and now I'm generally racing at 100 so the AI might be a bit easier this year, but I don't think anything is fundamentally wrong with the AI in race trim like there is in qualifying.
Could be that too, I haven't really changed my difficulty from F1 25 too much.
My biggest issue is AI is way to strong in quali I race at 94 AI can catch up during the race but can never qualify better then 8th and some tracks I am a 1 second behind and also in the rain the AI seem to never run out of battery down the straights
