That's something however that shouldn't happen, and incidentally such a behavior also reduces the skill gap between players as throttle management becomes much less important. High gears should not result in similar traction speed (or even worse better) as low gears and you should lose a lot of time by doing such a thing, but in F1 22 (and also older titles) there is too much similarity in traction speed between low gears and high ones, so that the end result is that it is much more beneficial to upshift to a high gear so you don't risk losing the rear and the throttle can be applied with more consistency. In this way you don't even need to manage the throttle well to have good traction and speed out of a corner, as using high gears negate much of the risk of bad throttle management.
There's a reason as to why in real life you use - for example - 1st/2nd gear in corners in which you instead use 4th gear in F1 22, and that's because in reality if you used such a high gear out of a hairpin you would lose an absurd amount of time, but in this game instead you actually gain time since the traction speed loss for using a high gear is not enough to compensate the much higher traction stability and consistency you have by doing so, hence the end result is that you are actually faster. It doesn't make any sense that it works in this way but yet it does.
I continue to use low gears because I prefer to simulate driving a real F1 car more than doing faster lap times, but I fully understand why esports players do so.
@AmioramBut for pretty much all off us stamping on your accelerator from a low gear in most cars other than hyper cars or cars that rely on downforce won’t result in instant snap spin. I drove high performance cars pretty everyday for 26 years even without TC (didn’t have it such a thing back in the day) But in terms off power in low gears my RS4 which had a high revving V8 420bhp torque monster. And granted it had benefit off 4WD but with TC off on a wet day with ice cold tyres. You could stamp on the throttle and maybe get a slight squeak from the tyres. So in real life in low gears cars are very forgiving esp these days.
@ScarDuck14For what I know F1 cars do snap spin at low gears if yo don't manage throttle properly (and sometimes you can see it happening on the start grid or in slow corners even with professional drivers). Before patch 1.06 the spin was excessive, but right now apart from maybe the snap spin you have between the 3rd and 4th gear I think it is very similar to real life.
I've never driven myself a F1 car (it's very difficult to have the opportunity to drive even an old formula car, as it requires a lot of money and/or the right connections to the proper people to do so) but I've heard interviews from pilots on the matter and watched plenty of onboard cameras and videos to be almost certain that you need good throttle management on a formula car at low gears to not have the rear snap on you.
Even in other sim racing titles that have the same exact F1 model as in F1 22 it works in the same exact way and I sincerely doubt that every physical model is wrong on the matter. However only in CM games it is more beneficial to upshift to high gears out of slow corners to have better lap times and I never saw a F1 pilot double upshift to 4th out of a hairpin in real life as it constantly happens in F1 games when you watch esports players (as Jarno) drive.
What I’m pointing to is only those who drive f1 cars or anything with extreme performance and those who have to the time to get really good or those you are naturally blessed. Are at ease with managing throttle inputs. I understand there needs to be a skill gap. But it shouldn’t be so big where the majority who bought and payed £60 for the game and use a pad have to rely heavily on assists.
