AI Difficulty calculator

Then keep on working mate. 1st season i had 80 AI, finished the season with a 2 pts difference to Vettel. After 1.08 i am going with 83 - Bahrain i had a 0.15 sec difference to Vettel in qualy. Do not use GP mode to find your level. Actually pretty stable the AI level once you have found it.

I’m going to copy and paste and save this to make life easier for me

Last year best way and probably still the best way to calculate your ai is.   In career or my team mode if your teammate has a pace rating off 85+. During practice go to race director and compare your time with his when his lap times when on mediums.  For every second your faster/slower increase/decrease ai by 10.  If your teammate has a lower rating.  Go to the closest team in the rankings that has a Driver with 85+ and compare with him  Won’t be perfect but will put you in the ball park. Then just fine tune.

Cant be sure this will work as well as last year because off the ai being out off whack.  But like I’ve said many a time whenever lando or button were my teammate I’d qualify within half a second off him.  And we would finish a 50% race within a few seconds off eachother.  

As for F1 2021 I used to run Race Strategy Programme e tune de AI level so I finish every lap +0.3s above target. For shorter or low speed tracks I dropped it to 0/+0.1s, for longer or faster track I let it raise to +0.5s or so. This year I'm letting this times a bit higher as I'm still learning the handlig model.

With some practive I was able to fine tune with 2 FP sessions and worked alright for me.

I build the graph below from my laptimes so I can place a track properly in terms os being short/long and slow/fast.

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@gladystonff93 wrote:

Does anyone know of a difficulty calculation? This very confusing, the difficulty I found in Grand Prix mode, is too weak for career mode. Bahrain 86 GP mode, in career mode it was 90 and it's still not very good.

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The F1 Laps calculator worked very well for me in F1 2021:  https://www.f1laps.com/ai-difficulty-calculator/

For F1 2022, especially since we just got the 1.08 patch that states to turn the Diff up 5 notches, the AI Difficulty in the link above still works well but whatever number it gives you, just move it up 5 points.  This is just until enough testing is done post 1.08 patch.

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@gladystonff93 wrote:
Does anyone know of any difficulty guides?

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I posted one right above your post. 🙂

I use F1 laps but EA cbanges the difficultly every two weeks so it makes it pretty pointless now. 

Go onto Time Trial and set Car Performance to Equal. Get your setups and so on and set the fastest lap times you can. Use the guide attached below to see your speed in comparison to AI difficulty. Portimão isn’t on there however the other 22 tracks should give enough of an answer as to your level. 

Credit to u/phail216 on the r/F1Game subreddit.

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An added note for those who may not understand: time trial setups are often very aggressive in terms of suspension, pressures and sometimes wings.

With suspension, on the suspension screen of the setup menu, on Bahrain you may have Front Supsension: 7, Rear Suspension: 1. This allows for a lot of rotation, which in time trial is great because there is no tyre wear or tyre temperature changes. If you ran this setup in a race, with higher fuel loads, your tyre will degrade faster (also known as  ‘higher deg’) and can also cause temperatures to go too high, losing optimal performance. Tyres on this game work best between 93°C and 97°C. To make it closer to a race setup you could change to Front Suspension: 7, Rear Suspension: 2/3. This adds a lot of stability, causing less degradation (also known as ‘lower deg’) and makes it easier to keep temperatures in an operating window. It will be slower over a single lap, however overall race pace will be increased

Tyre Pressures on Time Trial setups will often have the bars pushed all the way to the right. This again only works because tyre wear and tyre temperatures are controlled. To make it more of a race setup, push the Front Right and Left Tyre Pressures all the way left, which is the lowest tyre pressures (this works on all tracks). For the Rear Right and Left Tyre Pressures, the lower the pressure, the lower the temperatures stay. However this can affect performance and you may not be getting the best from your tyres. I suggest that, in Grand Prix Mode, you do a qualifying session with lower Rear Right and Left Tyre Pressures, and make a note of your time, the tyre wear and tyre temperatures. Then restart the session and do another lap with the pressures increased by one click right and make a note of that time, tyre wear and tyre temperatures. Keep doing this until your times start to decrease. Compare the results and find the best compromise. You want the pressures that keep the tyres in their optimal temperature range (93°C-97°C), have low wear (remember lowest isn’t always optimal for performance) and also provide a competitive and sustainable pace.

Bahrain or Spain are the best tracks to do this because they both have good amounts of low, medium and high speed corners. You wouldn’t have to do with with every track because after a few difference circuits you’ll get a feeling for what might work best, neglecting the need to practice every track.