AI gaining Massive Speed on the straights

@EA_Hux I have the same problem, I play PC career mode with Alfa Romeo team, without assists and level 90, the problem happens in all tracks, and it's not just in My Team, career mode happens too, it's clear to me that the problem is at the exits of the curves, the AI seems to have incredible traction and gains great distances of advantage right at the exit of the curve, they have an incredible speed recovery, and at the end of the straights it reaches a higher speed, even using DRS and overtaking mode is the AI without DRS I can't overtake, The problem is clearer when I come out of a low turn and soon after there's a big straight, like the exit of turn 16 with the Miami circuit for example, it's frustrating to play F1 2022, lots of bugs.
Please identify this problem and fix it.

I forgot to specify, I only play in pilot career, no my team for me I expect F1 m***ger for that xD

When I started My Team, I selected Renault engine, In the first race I thinked this is the problem of low speed on straights, and also thought I had * traction.
I started using low downforce setup, upgrading my rear and with a lot of ERS now I can keep up with AI.

Now I think maybe this is the reason, especially out of slow corners.

I’ve just started another my team career but this time as I chose Renault a started as a mid  team but as I suspected I’m same starting rank as I am as a newcomer when picking redbull down in 8th in team rankings just above McLaren 

And obviously can’t directly compare my team car has a few extra starting upgrades but I assume so have the ai teams.

So I find it bizarre Just done race pace on medium  in fp2  and finished top beating second place Perez by a tenth and he had softs fitted…. whereas as a newcomer it’s normally  12th -18th  

My brain is freaking out:  it doesn’t fair well when it can’t find a pattern:, gunna  be 🤪 night  

@ScarDuck14  Are you sure the AI didn't reset itself to a lower difficulty when starting the new career?

I feel alittle silly:  in my defence over 2 days without sleep. What I thought my blurry vision said 80 was infact 60.

And as My reactions are also seriously lacking. I went full traction control at Bahrain.  Coulthard is my teammate and all race he was just ahead.  Ridiculously slow going into and through corners. But accelerating out off  turns 1 and 10 I had no chance off catching until he went ridiculously slow into the next corner.  

But the whole race what was really irritating was the sound off the engine revving when accelerating but   every  gear 1 to 5  TC would cause the revs sound like they were screaming in agony for a second. So curious as Coulthard was infront off me. Both using i assume default 4 setup.  I hit replay and jump into his car and  I compared how his car sounded accelerating out off the same corners.  Out off every corner. Smooth as silk no screaming revs.  Optimal nice  acceleration  and every gear change perfect.   Sounded like two different cars.  And this is why the ai is killing pad users who use assists… Well just lower the ai and it will be ok I hear the get gooders scream…. Doesn’t work.  Why? Cause it’s only out off slow to medium corners that your massively slower.   Whereas into and through corners the ai are ridiculously slow.  But it always impossible to make the pass because they get enough off a lead out off the previous corner:

Yes last years game did the same and the year before etc:  but never to these extremes 

No need to do a deep dive investigation  hoping to become our saviour.  the CM devs have already identified and told us the issue and they are already  working on a fix.  And once the update is dropped it will also mean we can increase  the ai difficulty as they will seem slower. But infact it’s cause us poor pad users will be smoother.   Slow is smooth. Smooth is fast🥱 I am all knowing 🥳

Also as I mentioned in a previous post.  Renault  power train gave good top speed  in last years game:  Bahrain without Drs coulthard on a few different laps I’ve checked on replay has highest speed on main straight then  alonso  then me,  

To be honest, after about 100 hours of playing and getting used to the physics, I personally think the issue isn't as significant as I've felt from the beginning. At the moment I've been running only 100 AI and finished about 10 100% distance races (from two 2 different careers), the only tracks that I felt completely eaten up by AI were Imola and Spain (so far). But the thing is, I at worst still finished 11 with the second/third worst car while my teammate (Sato) consistently finished 16 or worse and was only faster than me at Imola and Spain (but ruined by bad strategy).

My experience with the AI is that their pace seem to be periodic, usually at the beginning of each stint and the final lap are where they're at the strongest, but in the middle of those periods their pace could sometimes drop like falling off a cliff, especially after they're under pressure for a bit. I felt that their acceleration is kind of just how on point the AI uses their ERS combined with the tire differences in lots of cases, with some good setup, preservative driving, and clever usage of ERS you could match their pace pretty well.

I've also found out that in this year's physics, you can't rely on short shifting too much because the acceleration gets bog down quite significantly at low rpm, which kinda gave you an illusion of fixing the wheelspin but is actually you going very slow off the corners, and the sudden kicks-in of power sometimes actually made the wheel spin problem even worse and unpredictable.

@Apophis-STR  Nice post:   As vast majority off people who play this game will use pad.  Me being one:  I’d really like to see more controller settings.  Most pad users will use either medium or full TC, ABS and the big one for me is auto gears if I use manual gears for any length off time results then stiffening up  then agony.  Think it’s actually a result 40 years off gaming.

I’d love Adjustable  final drive  or something like lean mode as it short shifts in auto. When you could select it during race: made car so much easier to manage in the rain.  

Engine braking option and being able to adjust amount off wheel slip  if using TC:  They more accessibility options rather than assists.  For old broken or braking folk such as myself.

I used to always be  play multiplayer games dominating all no matter the game when online became big during ps3 era. But now I’m old and slow I won’t go anywhere near any multiplayer game.  Just the thought off getting beaten and killed and teabagged over and over by kids who’s things havnt dropped  is humiliating 

for me it’s not about getting good anymore it’s more about slowing down how quickly I get worse