Driver ratings - the logic behind it?

@Hempyjr  just fyi heres the differences the ratings make compared to the actual gaps that happened IRL between the teammates for dry qualifying and only taking into consideration when they both took part in a session, so not comparing Q2 times to Q1 times..

For the asterisks i would have normally excluded the Monaco results as they were not representative but like this its generally close to what Codemasters did but without the gaps would be smaller (Ocon closer to Alonso, Zhou closer to Bottas even before Baku and Canada)

Surely 0.25s per lap is completely negligible for F1 drivers (Perez to Verstappen) or 0.28s (Bottas to Zhou), and especially 0.15s at the front wouldnt change any results (Leclerc  to Sainz) so you are right, theres nothing wrong.. Sorry for the sarcasm but thats laughable not even going into the problem of balancing car pace with driver pace causing Albon now to be slower compared to Verstappen than 2020 average (by my method - only dry and same session) which was 0.522s gap and by the current ratings its 0.64s while Albon is performing equally as Russel compared to Latifi.. And when even the drivers joke about the ratings because they think otherwise you know theres something not right..

Its a factual problem that drivers get only rated without the car being calculated out of it to 100% which results in ratings like last year Russel 84 pace and now magically jumping to 93.. Vettel performing better compared to Stroll and all expectations, team is happy yet he is supposed to have lost 0.2s according to this game.. Criticism is required for these things to get realistic but if you dont care for realistic results than thats fine for you.. Btw i didnt call the ratings a joke in this whole thread, was just replying to Mario but okay buddy😂

@mariohomohi think its just personal interpretation.. For instance when i say "If they reply" then i mean - in case anyone is willing to discuss this it will be a respectful discussion - what i felt was needed after people have attacked devs on this forum personally and i was ranting a bit too much recently.. Not making any indication that i will be disrespectful towards the algorithm or dear Mr. Crofty for his well founded knowledge if nobody replies, that one was just you expecting the worst from me.. Hope that cleared it up for you.