Seriously considering turning off wet weather

I'm yet to play F1-22 (I get to experience it in 2-days), but the Wet Weather Racing in F1-2021 was my biggest disappointment. I'm sad to read that the unbeatable, and seamingly perfect AI in the wet has carried over to F1-22 too 😢

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@tn132 wrote:

I like the full immersion of changing weather but since wet weather seems to get worse with every new F1 game, and this one is easily no exception, I am actually considering turning it off in career mode.

I am struggling to get the power down and the AI cars are driving past me like it’s dry. Granted it’s a compromised setup because the race is supposed to be dry, but I have lowered tire pressures to increase rear grip and set differential to 50 and still I have nothing exiting corners while I am getting driven around by cars that aren’t even seeming to notice the rain.

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Is that an option they have added this year? As in previous games we were unable to turn weather off in career modes.

That's the beautiful part of this game (unless you wanted perfect prediction, that must've been bugged then), that you have that shifting element calling on you to make some strategical decisions, not just race.

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@rayloriga wrote:
@ajobling1983Nope, you can't. As usual you can only choose "perfect" weather prediction, which of course in the end isn't perfect at all. I had planned my race according to "wet weather" prediction at the last third of the race (so, medium tyres until that stage so I could change to intermmediate and have just one pit stop), and it didn't rain at all!

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Shame. Being able to choose weather in career modes is an option I'd really like to see, and many others have posted the same over the years.

I find it odd in this game actually.  I had a career race in Austria where qualy was in the rain.  It was my first rain experience in F1 22 and I was surprised how much grip and traction I had in the wet in my Mercedes.  I still took the pole but by only about a tenth of a second.  Once race hit though; it was in the dry and I was blowing away the AI on the setting I was at by about a second a lap.  So clearly the AI wasn't hurting in the wet as much as me.   I just ran a one off GP race in the rain at Spain though; and yeah the AI just blows you away as if they're driving on a dry track compared to you.  It's always been an issue I find.

That being said what is up with the AI's qualy pace versus race pace?  In qualy I find that I have my AI setting a a nice spot that can place me in and around my teams performance order on the grid, but once the race hits the AI is far slower than they were in qualy and before I know it my mid field car is only trailing the superior Ferrari's on track.  I dont understand why there is such a pace difference between qualifying and race. My lap times are consistent on the softs from qualy to my first stint, so it's not me suddenly going faster it's the AI just being unbalanced apparently between qualifying and race pace.