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Has the glitch where no grid penalty is applied when switching gearboxes between qualifying and race been fixed?

Just watched Aarava's Abu Dhabi race and he had the glitch as well. He changed gearboxes between quali and the race.

To be honest, the differences are very minimal and after Spain the cars have been upgraded anyway.

Check this video out. Racing Point is the fastest car on the straight and Mercedes is faster than Ferrari on the straight. I know that that should not be the case.

No, I was giving you a counterexample on what you said " IRL Ferrari don't have the best engine on race day as they cannot maintain their qualifying advantage over a race distance " They are certainly capable of doing so. Not every weekend of course due to different track characteristics that have different effects on the tires, but that wasn't the point. Also, what the source of that Mercedes couldn't get the tires to work? I watched the videos on Youtube, including the Pure Pitwall and never did they mention they had a problem with their tires compared to Ferrari. I mean, Bahrain is very hard on the tires due to its characteristics, but that counts for all teams.

Have you watched the Bahrain GP and seen how Leclerc performed before he got the problem?

The patch could modify the current performance levels.

They definitely had different personalities last year. The most obvious ones were Magnussen and Grosjean, who were a tad more aggressive than the others. That was also linked to the interview afterwards, were you could say that you were an idiot magnet if there was contact between you and them.

Maybe the different driver behaviours will be included in this patch.

I agree. Now it's like there is fog everywhere that is being lit up by the lights.

I actually like being able to hear the crowd.

2017. Toro Rosso ended with different drivers than that they started with.

I think the current concept is okay, but that it should be refined much more, such as with a check as whether a mid-season change will be beneficial to the WDC position of a driver or not.

It looks to me that Mercedes wanted Verstappen instead of Hamilton wanting to move to Red Bull.

There is definitely an FOV thing going on, because I am watching career mode gameplay of Aarava and the tires are not nearly that big in the video. In fact, they look just like F1 2018 tires.