Qualifying Practice Programme Issues

@grainphNot knowing the true reason behind it, but the qualifying program had been broken since F1 2020 from my personnel experience. Except, now it's even more broken since the v1.06 patch.

My suggestion is don't bother with completing that program, just use the opportunity on tracks to compare your laptime with the AI on the same tires. I found that if you could match your closest rivals' actual lap times (on the time board) in FP, you could match them comfortably in the same difficulty setting for both quali and race, it's a much better tool for finding difficulty setting references than using GP mode.

@Apophis-STR , thank you for taking the time to join the conversation and for your insightful thoughts. I do agree with your approach and is indeed the one I am forced to use. Having said that, I was hoping we could get some clarification from the team at EA as to why the game logic cannot yet determine this, as the resource points help with the development of the My Team progress. Hopefully we will see this fix in future patches.

@grainphYea it was an very annoying thing, sadly I think the only time CM actually mention about practice program rebalancing was from the last patch, which still didn't fix the quali program for some reason (The despair of seeing the whole map still being red...lol)

At the moment we could only try to go around the issues ourselves, but at least they're definitely working on fixing issues raised by the community, albeit a slow progress.

@Apophis-STR I am patient as F1 is life lol. I think the new game is appealing to a broader market of gamers but moving forward, I want to see the focus on the true simulation of the driving and the physics. Would be nice is EA lasered the tracks like iRacing. Have every detail be a true representation of the circuit.

On 21 (90 difficulty), I never had any issue with practice programs and could always get them in the green at least. 

In 22, at 90 difficulty I was always about 1s off the qualy lap time, and about 0.5s up in race pace program. So lowered my difficulty to 85.

Since patch 1.07, on 85 I am about 0.5s off in qualy practice and still 0.5 up on race pace programme - so it has balanced out a bit. 

Haven’t tried the new 1.08 patch yet, but am hoping I can achieve a similar result on 90 as I am on 85 currently.

@TomasSlb24You can't actually compare the times between FP and quali/race because the track condition influences the pace for both you and the AI themselves.

I know it sounded not very helpful, but it really is about how consistent you are with maintaining a certain lap time vs their lap times on the board to determine which difficulty really suits you. If at any point of the practice where you felt you need to flash back multiple times just to match your teammate's speed, or just to stay on track, then the difficulty setting is probably already too high. 

One thing though, make sure you don't ever use the practice program delta as reference, it's all over the place. 

In F1 2020, AI in FP were super slow compare to their actual pace in race and quali, their pace is definitely a lot closer and is somewhat a reliable reference now in F1 22. I mean, if you're worry about the AI being too slow in race, in general, 1-2 clicks up on the setting is a good range, it would already make them about 0.1-0.2 sec faster per lap. 

So I recently did the qualifying practice program & got purple with a suggested P1 time.

when it came to qualifying i did a faster time and didnt even get out of Q1. 🤷🏼‍♂️

i guess things like track evolution are not taken into account. So no point reading into the results too much. Just take the r&d points and move on…