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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.
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.