AI straight line speed.

at tracks like suzuka, silverstone, circuit of the americas, mexico and china, even when running extremely low downforce setups, i get absolutely destroyed by the AI in straights, even when deploying full ers and activating drs. its gotten to a point where even when running the game's own presets i seem to be slow in the straights compared to the AI. i dont really know a solution to their speed because it seems like i am not the only one suffering from the extreme speed of the AI in straights and nobody knows a solution.

Apophis-STR​ 110 other comments seem to disagree. 

I am having this very same problem with AI at 66. It is ridiculous. It is impossible to defend on straights even having DRS and a supposedly faster car (Me on Mercedes, AI on Alpine) and I get passed easily on straights. Please fix it fast as it is boring to play that way.

Because most players were not well-informed enough about the mechanics, I came from that same place in the past so I know what's going on. 

I mean, just go onto Reddit and watch those who uploaded videos complaining about AI being too fast on the straight, it's either because they're part of the DRS train, or you'll see inefficient uses of ERS, or simply accelerated too late after a turn, some didn't even take slipstream like they should.  

I’m playing in the 85-95 range and have the same problem.. it’s like they have rocketships on the straights, they make up 5-7tenths halfway on the “straight” before the last corner in Jeddah and pass me with ease it’s insane and totally not enjoyable/playable

EA_Groguet​ let me make this crystal clear. 

The way you as EA treat us as CUSTOMERS is nothing short of a joke. Let me also spell it out for you without customers you have no business. 

From this thread, it is absolute evident There ​is a clear issue with the AI straight line speed, regardless of difficulty, track & game mode this is clear. (This also has been a common theme for previous games) the disrespect that you have labelled this as ‘needs info’ is borderline disrespectful. This should be under investigation and clearly stated on the official community feed.

Having the same problem, no matter which AI level. AI, especially Verstappen is way to fast on straights. Racing in Quatar is a pain in the **bleep** with that. Every quick Qualifying is hoping that i can come closer to them in a turn, but at turn exit the AI always does hyper speed.

But i understand. As F1 25 is just F1 24 with updates, which is F1 23 with update, which is etc., we get recurring Bugs every 1-2 years. It's pathetic for EA but we all know this company, selling minimal updates for full price.

You do know dirty air is a thing right?

And you don’t know difficulty setting does not affect their car performance, only how they perform in/out of corners? 

This is not an full arcade racer, where a boost button will instantly make you faster than others, they have the same tool as you, and are preprogrammed to be using them in near optimal fashion on each session of a track, so players will have to up their game to match them. 

I know this is hard to swallow, but the more I played in both single player and multiplayer, the more I realized how little most people actually knows how to optimize the tools and mechanics that were given to them.

You don’t just brake, turn and accelerate in this game, there’re a lot more things you need to manage

So what about those loosing over a second when the car behind does not have DRS, while the player have DRS and slipstream and dumps its entire battery and still get overtaken by set car behind?

It has nothing to do about ERS and DRS trains, corner exit speed and such. Also on reddit, the amount of posts and clips regarding the problem for multiple users flooded the Subreddit, especially at launch.

I really don't know what the actual situation you have.

Your setup? Your battery capacity at the time? Engine heat? Timing of when you use the battery for the acceleration? What car is following you? Are they in better car, tire situation?

Also, you should never ever drain the entire battery for any situation unless you're about the cross the line, especially not when the car you're following has DRS too. It's wasteful on the battery and heats up your PU further unnecessarily.

You and the AI ahead of you are stuck in the dirty air of a DRS train, whilst the car behind you further back was in clean air, exiting the corner at like 20kph faster and used the Overtake right at the same location as you did, do you know how long it takes for you to recover that 20kph (if not more) advantage that they had within that duration? And that's excluding tire situation, car performances, etc. 

Also, whilst important, slipstream only has 10% drag reduction in this game, so until you've reached the DRS zone, your rate of acceleration is still only marginally better than that car further behind you.