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With a decent setup it can be taken at around 90% throttle even in heavy rain. You just need to be super smooth on entry and open up the corner enough on the first left-handed kink. If you're having trouble going through the corner flat in the dry, you should look into some setup changes. Too low rear ride height will mean you bottom out and can easily lose control.

Being red-green colour blind I pay no attention to colour coding of any kind. In general I upshift when the rev lights go all the way to the right, just at the point when the last ones would start "flashing". At this point I just use my ears for it, though.

Yes, provided that you finish in the Top 10. Instead of going 4 laps with one set and 2 laps with another, it'd be better for you to use three sets and even out the wear, so you're not in a pressure to get the best lap on a certain set.

It's also very track dependent. On some street circuits you might well get away with under-fueling, using lean in corners and standard on straights. Then, on tracks like Monza or Spa you absolutely need the extra fuel and Mix 3. It's not a great idea to go with it for several laps in a row as you will overheat your engine and lose power. Use it on the straights and very fast sectors as suggested by @Sir_Overtakesalot. If it's a wet race you don't need as much fuel, and having less weight on low grip conditions can be very useful. Now that the ERS hustle of the past is done for, I regularly use all three mixes on all laps, except during qualifying. Always consider Safety Cars when deciding fuel. If the SC is on, you will very likely need less fuel.

The AI cars are almost immune to tyre temperatures. I'm sure they get tyre wear for lock-ups, though.

A lot of useful things have already been said, so instead of repeating them I'll just add an observation or two. Especially in the Zandvoort video you had several corners, especially T1, where you are applying both throttle and brake simultaneously. The technique can be useful in some circumstances, but it's rather advanced and almost always it's better to not to do it. After reading some posts in this thread I decided to try out the upshift tone for the first time. To me it feels like the beep comes about 500 RPM too early. I tried starting shifting on the beep but I was losing time to my personal bests. I have a feeling the upshift tone is on the conservative side to help protect components.

Thanks! I had a telemetry software for 2019 but it wasn't exactly stable so I didn't bother much with it. In terms of gear I play on console, but my PC is readily available. Being a sort of an oddball I've never owned a smartphone and I don't think that will be changing any time soon. If you need someone for a case study you can count me in. Time Trial, league racing - those are what I love enough to put 30-50 hours a week into them. Is your plan to concentrate on F1 or are you going to do other things such as rallying?

Right, well thanks for clearing that up guys. Related though, right? @cgfdoo which program would you recommend for recording telemetry?

There are professional and semi-professional people that do it. Try searching for "Scott Mansell" or "Driver61" (the same person). He's a driver coach, used to race himself. Son of a certain Nigel. Plenty of people are willing to help for free though. You will become faster once you get rid off traction control. ABS is pretty borderline. If you really want to take your driving to the next level you should also turn off the racing line. It teaches you bad habits and the longer you stick with it, the harder it will be to start driving without. Are you referring to short-shifting or what? Is that even a thing with traction control?

I'm quite sure it scales with R&D if you don't follow a balanced development programme, like upgrading downforce components without drag reduction and/or engine power. Personally I've not gone that far yet with My Team, but what I've done is I've mostly neglected engine development and invested in the chassis and drag reduction. In any case that's probably what's not going on here as the effects sound quite severe. There's a major difference between the race, qualifying and practice though, and that's DRS. On a high downforce setup one might only suffer effects such as this when there is no DRS available.

This is not true. Not in the game nor in real F1. The gearing they use is designed to achieve a certain top speed at certain drag levels. If you put in more drag, you will run out of torque against the air resistance at close to max speeds, and acceleration stalls before reaching the highest revs. In the game you can easily test this: go to TT in Monza and drive with you normal setup without DRS. Then drive the same straight with your Monaco setup. My Monaco setup capped at 10835 RPM at the end of the straight, and it would not have gone higher had the straight been longer. With my Monza setup the RPMs were at 11600 and climbing when hitting the end of the straight. In real life too you can clearly hear on onboard footage when a car pulls out of slipstream - the revs drop considerably.

I admire your determination! Unfortunately I cannot give any advice on this track. I've only lapped in 5 times since it was introduced. Just makes me sick somehow. I don't know if it's the weird astroturf or the lack of reference points or what. It's also way too wide for my taste, and frankly, the few laps I did I got lost on most of them and turned into a dead-end. In terms of the questions outlined at the end, I can concur with Bahrain. I feel fast driving it, but the stopwatch tells a whole different story. No matter how much I try I'm just way off on one-lap pace, which is weird since I was better at it in previous iterations of the game compared to the competition. Other problematic tracks for me include China, USA, Mexico and Abu Dhabi. What do they have in common? Hermann Tilke. It's kind of funny, because on Tilke's street circuits like Sochi, Baku and Singapore I seem to thrive. The difference is that the latter have natural corners not drawn by the designer himself. Somehow these long tightening radial curves and sharp-angle turns that Tilke likes to draw just don't suit my style.

I'm sure you are right. I suppose what I referred to was "casual" in overall experience of the game series for the past 4-5 years. I do acknowledge to having put a huge amount of hours into the game for the past few months so it kind of skews my definition of casual. Be as it may, I never tried to do the challenges but they were completed in two weeks anyways. Or well, the challenges were far from completed but the XP or whatever accumulates even just for lapping in TT. That I think is very good. I have no interest in trying to win a French GP with Pierre Gasly against the AI, for example. To summarize, I don't think there's anything wrong with the reward system of the Podium Pass. I just think it'd be nice to have some separate incentives for the Weekly Events that's all.

Oh, right. I doubt they would bring tracks in '21 that were only raced in '20. There could be licensing issues, plus it's a ton of work doing tracks from scratch.

The answer from CM has been an unequivocal no.

Sure, it's clearly designed for casual players. Those who put in more hours would generally like to have a possibility of being rewarded for it. Just like in every aspect of life I guess. There's another problem for such an idea though. Right on PS4 there's one player with 3 accounts occupying the top 3 of the qualifying leaderboard. Cheeky but impressive I must say.

I'd be great to be rewarded PitCoins for success in weekly events. They'd need to get a working system to clean the bugs / cheats from the leaderboard first though.

I think the feedback from F1 drivers such as Russel was that the brakes locked up too easily in F1 2019. In general I like the changes, but I do agree that it feels a bit off, especially with the brake bias. There should be more of a trade off; more braking power with bias to the front and better rotation with rear bias. Right now it feels like there's more rotation with rear but no meaningful trade off in braking power.

A detailed description of the issue. I went for a pit stop in Monaco but the crew wasn't ready. It took them about 10 seconds to even start working on the car. I had no penalties to serve either. Platform PS4 What version of the game you are using (Shown on the start screen in the bottom left corner of the screen) 1.09 Ranked/Unranked/Leagues Unranked multiplayer lobby Wired or Wireless Connection? Wireless 4G wired to PS4 The amount of players in your session? 15 Were you the host? No. My friend was (whom I had a perfect connection to) Did this issue happens for everyone in the session, just some people or just yourself? What did they see? I didn't see it happening to anyone else. My friend was spectating me and he saw the entire thing. The pit crew went to get a wing from the garage, even though there was one waiting right in front of me. We need to be able to make your problem happen internally so we can fix the issue. Can you make the problem happen again? No, I don't know how to make it happen. It has happened before though - not to me, but the same friend who hosted the lobby this time. That happened in a league race in Baku. How do you make the problem happen? I don't know. I didn't do anything differently to normal. Can you add a report code. How to find this is in Main Menu > Game Options > Settings > 16 digit code in the bottom left of the screen. Please make sure that this is the code from the session you had the issue in. Adding report codes from as many users in your session as possible would be really helpful here. I don't have a report code. Saved the clip and closed the game out of frustration. Video of the issue, including timestamps. Did you stream the session? The video is 36 seconds long and shows the entire thing from entering the pit lane to being released from pit box. I didn't stream the session, just saved the clip afterwards.

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That only holds true if you can actually see your virtual wheel. My rig setup + FOV is such that I get an overlap with the physical wheel and the virtual, thus rendering any info on the virtual wheel useless. I'm very happy to have the HUD with cockpit.

I see what you mean. My pit crew just went on strike in Monaco:

Agreed. Especially ABS on tracks like this is very powerful. Medium traction control seems to be well balanced I think.

I agree but that's also what boggles me the most. There are always only a handful of these unrealistic scores and they vacate the top of the leaderboards. It should be extremely easy to clean them up, yet nothing happens.

To be fair, Barry told us last week or so that they have acknowledged the issue. I just hope action doesn't take as long as acknowledging. Note, this is a weekly event and not the TT leaderboards. There must be someone who designs these events. Pay him/her an hour of overtime to clean this mess and that should do it.. For most people the issue is very trivial. Either they don't take part in these events or never see the top 20 anyway. However, when they put in a competitive element such as this, and hand out exclusive trophies for success in them, they should be obliged to police them too and make sure it stays fair. Some people can put in tens of hours of practice a week for this, only to get s*** on by bugs or cheats. Of course it ****** people off. Imagine a 100m sprinter smashing the World Record with 25 doping needles hanging on him and getting a trophy for it in front of everyone.