this is true as well but what I was trying to say is that I'm still driving the base Alfa Romeo car despite buying 15+ upgrades while the AI got significant lap times improvement with their own upgrades. For example on the first 3-4 races I was able to match my team mate and get into Q3 easily but it's been 3 races (Monaco-Baku-Canada) where the IA had a lot of upgrades and now I can't even get out of Q1 and I'm more than 1 second of my team mate
I'm in the same situation mate on copp career with Mt brother. Both started at Williams and upgraded the car loads, then contract renewals came along, and he moved to alpine I opted to stay with Williams. A rookie driver came in alongside me, and before I started the first race, I checked r and d, and Williams where 4th quickest car. Frist race with a rookie driver seated with me, he qualified 8th and finished 5th, while I qualified 19th and finished 18th. He seemed to have a quicker cars. All the other cars seem to be upgrading, just not any user controlled cars.
