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Racing pit-stops in quali

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One gripe I have with the F1 games is how your team never shows any urgency close to the end of qualifying when you want to do another run. When I get to my pit box with 2+ minutes left to go and I intend to set another lap, I wish that they did a racing pit-stop (as seen in the days of F1 during fuel burn phase in Q3). This means you get out a whole minute faster than you would do using the current cumbersome method, but you do not get access to your telemetry/session data/setup. It could be added as a direction pad option and/or radio command.

tldr; I'd like the option of a racing pit-stop made available in quali.

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I hated how long everything took on '15. Even with closer to 3 minutes left, the amount of time it took to ask for the tablet, make a setup change, pass the tablet back and try to exit the pits just wasn't enough. Old menu was better suited to online racing because you cannot pause and have time stop. The stuff was all there in front of you on screen.

Flying stops would be great

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Its a cool idea but you would need to carry 6-8 laps worth of fuel to be able to do it so would it really be used much? Id rather be pushed back in the garage so I could run a lighter car tbh. Guess the excuse for the time it takes is refuelling the car isn't simulated so its ok imo. I never see someone pit with only 2 mins left in quali anyways :) Imo quali is about getting the timing right as well as the lap so maybe go out earlier for the first run?  

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Just pointing out there are several reasons they do quali like that in real F1. None of which you need to worry about in the game so you dont need to do quali like that in the game unless you have a "drying" track. You don't have to bank a lap then put on soft tires. There isn't going to be a yellow or something like another car crashing preventing you from making a timed lap causing you to fall back on the banked lap you did with harder tires like in real life. Unless you just want to do it because you see it on tv of course 

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kevinkirk said:
Just pointing out there are several reasons they do quali like that in real F1. None of which you need to worry about in the game so you dont need to do quali like that in the game unless you have a "drying" track. You don't have to bank a lap then put on soft tires. There isn't going to be a yellow or something like another car crashing preventing you from making a timed lap causing you to fall back on the banked lap you did with harder tires like in real life. Unless you just want to do it because you see it on tv of course 
They used to do it to be last car over the line specially for track like canada where track evolution is massive  i dont think they still do but it would be nice if youve made a mistake or perhaps you do change ur mind after the out lap and decide you can run slicks and wanna change but dont have time to go into the garage i can see so many situations where doing a pitstop in qualy would be helpful in game, things like a drying track and you wanna gamble, someone else has held you up, a crash has made you slow down to avoid or maybe you just made a mistake or just to get clean air and be the last car over the line

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They do in practice never qually 
Is it against regulations to do so 
No its not? Is it? I thought id seen teams do it this season

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I thought i only seen it in practice i could be wrong i probably am but there has been times this season it would have came in handy for teams and they didnt do it 

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I thought i only seen it in practice i could be wrong i probably am but there has been times this season it would have came in handy for teams and they didnt do it 
That's probably because they are too low on fuel and have to refuel. But all-in-all, teams do use race pitstops in qualifying. Many times it's in drying conditions or if the driver makes a mistake in his lap.

It would be really cool if this was implemented to the game but I doubt it. Hated that I made a big mistake on my lap and would have a new set for use in the pits. Arrived back to the pits when there was 3 minutes and did not have enough time to get pushed back to the pitbox, change tires and get back out.

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I dont need it, but I need a quicker pitstop in qualy if it is like in the real life. Of course, if the time spend in the pitstop is more or less in the reality than in the F1 2015, for me is all right like it is currently.

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I don't think the problem is being pushed back ok it takes a while but it's that bloody tablet that irks me, selecting new tires by tbe time he passes it over the quali is done. The tablet is completely unnecassry imo

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It would be very good,because you don't have to wait till you are in the garage and it's very usefull when there are only 2-3 min remaining!!! And in real life they did it sometimes ,because of an red flag or something else ....

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