@LiavealYup.. Or ideally with Focus and Consistency working properly in the game you would only need to drop Ricciardos Focus and this in turn would make him much more inconsistent which is his true problem since 2021. He is occasionally beating Norris but then someimes 7 tenths off, best replicated by consistency.
@gizt7in theory a nice idea but it wouldnt work well. Certain drivers would get on average the same results ingame although even the difference in 2 pace can lead to one having the slightly upper hand and especially with F2 drivers ranging usually from mid 50 to 85 or 90 pace (by my way of rating) its tough to put them all into the same sub group and get good results by the AI..
Yes its never gonna work to find common ground about +1 or -2 or something but certain gaps can be matched fairly well by this and the rest edited by player to personal opinion. For example strictly going by the pace gaps between teammates i posted at the start Stroll would need 5 less pace than Vettel (1 pace roughly equals 0.04s laptime ingame) for Sainz the same to Leclerc but only because he had worse qualifying the past 2 races (worse consistency stat :P) Anyway im gonna edit my rating a bit as you got a point for small tweaks but yea never gonna be perfekt but 1-100 is the best way for accurate representation in the game sadly
And yes absolutely agree on the part about gauging the cars pace and how the car influences the drivers pace, im personally gauging them on the gaps known well, for example Bottas is on average ~0.1-0.15s slower in quali than Hamilton which would then mean if they do on average the same quali times this season that Alfa is ~0.15s faster than Merc (hypothetical speaking). Of course this ignores how well a driver comes along with a car but usually they got 2 drivers which are known for certain pace (not 2 rookies as Haas last year) so most of the time its possible to still find a fairly relialbe source for comparison but yes its very possible to have a tenth wrong here and there