Play in a league and you fixed it.
@Robbe800I do play in a league. But I do enjoy a 5 hour online play with 5 lap settings where people in the lobby behave.
But these are not solutions to what I am asking.
For example, if I play another game -say Counter Strike- I get what I hope for: A competitive environment. If someone misbehaves, there's a mechanism to punish him or make him align. So misbehaviour is pretty rare compared to F1 series. People who misbehave know the repercussions.
I think, only EA has the answer to this problem and only EA can solve this problem.
Just put a feature that if someone gets reported for misconduct more frequently than 30% of his races, he gets temporary ban from social or ranked racing. If the behaviour is repeated after the end of ban, a longer ban may be given. And if the rate of misconduct continues after 2 bans, ban that account forever from social racing. (Don't argue with the numbers, they are subject to change, I don't know the statistics so numbers are just there for explanation.)
Other games do things like this. Why not F1?
Banning those that are repeatedly reported above a certain threshold sounds like a good idea but that can fail badly as just like anything, some would abuse the feature and just report someone repeatedly just because they lost or just don’t like them. The penalty system is pants anyway and that would be the first thing to get right. Only the other day I was watching a video about a racer on iRacing who got a permanent ban for an incident that wasn’t his fault, he got brake checked at Imola on the main straight just after the chequered flag
However you decide to play the game, keep on enjoying it 👍🏼
