F1 Driver Career Options for people who only want a pure driving mode?

F1 Driver Career has a few "mini-games" with the: car upgrades, staff missions, departments objectives, practice objectives, etc.

I would like to be able to ignore all of that and only do racing without losing stats. In other words, I would like for the car upgrades, staff missions, practice objectives (everything that is not about the race) to not matter in whether you remain competitive or not. To only worry about the driving.

I am basically asking for "pure driving mode" in Driver Career.

There are a few things I do to mitigate this is, but it cripples your car long-term:

1. Turn on Automatic Development -> This is the biggest one, in career settings, car development. The game handles upgrades for you, you don’t need to do practice objectives or micromanage departments, this alone removes 70% of the mini-game burden. But, it's very inefficient and you will fall behind. When you're doing a career mode with Automated R&D and the team refuse to do a power unit upgrade that is 98% discounted and costs 14 resource points. I wish this was more balanced. Not getting ahead but not falling behind either, just doing a decent job.

2. Quick Practice -> For the least interaction, but to still: earn resource points, complete development objectives, so that I would not fall behind and **bleep** your car long-term. I wish when you skipped practice you would not lose this but randomly get some of those points & objectives as if you have already made them, basically an "automatic practice" but without having to go into the Quick Practice interface and waste time there.

It's strange that if I want a "pure driving mode" I can actually get that in My Team, where you can set everything to automatic, focus only on driving and tune difficulty for realism.