Why does the safety car not exist?
How can it be that on 'increased', when two AI cars have stopped on track and there are two sets of yellow flags in different sectors, the game still does not deploy the safety car? Every race, at least one AI car breaks down in track causing yellows and there is never a safety car.Downshifting
I checked the forum and couldn't find anything about this. Asked all my guys in our league to make sure it wasn't just me having this issue. What physics were changed for downshifting aggressively at high rpms/speed? Example, I'm coming into a corner, braking lightly and downshifting quickly, but the gears don't go down to where I wanted them to be. They'll get stuck it seems. Say around 3rd-4th depending on how fast slow. I thought my paddles weren't working right. That said I did do some trial and error. If speeds/rpms are not high, I can go from 8th to 2nd quickly. If at speed and rpms up over say 10.5k ish, it will only allow a few gears down until speed drops. Is this something that changed? If so, what are the parameters for the rpm/shifting? I thought it may be because I was on TC. Seems that is not the case because others in my league are not using TC and still have that hesitation. Can anyone elaborate on this?
Battery Management in Time Trial
EA_Groguet I know your going to be busy chasing down bugs for a while but when the dev team gets a chance here's a suggestion. Given how critical managing the battery is in these regulations, give us a toggle in time trial mode (like the one for equal performance) so that the battery isn't always locked at 100%. This way we can practice different deployment strategies and see what works best. Currently the best way to do this is to start a race in grand prix mode but there's a lot of other variables in play in that situation (tyres / fuel / other cars) which makes it a bit more difficult to judge performance.F1 26 season Pack: Engine sound Audi and Honda
Let’s talk about the new engine sound of the 2026 cars. In my opinion Honda and especially the Audi engine are far off their originals. The Honda sounds like a 2018 Renault engine. And the Audi sounds 1:1 similar to the Mercedes engine. But that’s not realistic. The real Audi engine sounds more like the RB Ford engine in the game imo. It has a rough sound kind of the 2015 McLaren/Honda engine. And the current Honda engine also sounds completely different. Will there be updates for that? Comparison: https://youtu.be/OvZFQXttd70?is=7pg2SvGYAaJOyXH8 https://youtu.be/UfJO5onKXcI?is=vuq9tPis_fqJt6gG