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got the game early today from simplygames

started a career with Renault with Palmer as my team mate on Expert Difficulty, did practice and the track accumulation which is actually quite fun, then tried the tyre management and that was a nightmare, was nowhere near the time, nor the tyre wear required, did the qualifying simulation ok though.

then went to qualifying and this is where ive seen my only glitch so far, i did a quali lap and was 17, was accelerating the time and in the last second Palmer goes quickest, 20 seconds faster than Hamilton! knocking me down to 18th and out of Q1, now im hoping this is a 1 time glitch and wont happen every time, so i started 18th

so the race, it started in heavy rain (yay) formation lap is cool, helped me get used to the wet conditions, and the manual start is really interesting as well, even if i didnt get a great start, the race was interesting, was in 18th position for all of the first stint and then it changed to inters, where i managed to gain a few places, it then dried up and i managed to gain up to 7th position by pitting a couple of laps earlier, even though it meant my dry tyres would be screwed come the last few laps, Vettel caught and passed me easily, and so did Verstappen, but thankfully i managed to hold Massa off to finish 9th on my debut, i found the AI very racy even on Expert, i was 2 seconds a lap off Hamilton on dry tyres, 

I was using a Pad, but i do have a wheel which i will be trying tomorrow just wanted to get a race done and dusted, overall very impressed and a massive improvement over last year

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ah sorry its late haha i couldnt remember if it was 16th or 17th, but either way Palmer shouldnt be doing a 1.06 on Australia 

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How are the AI in qualifying? I mean, when you are on a flying lap and if they are on their out lap, will they move out of the way? Sometimes in F1 2015 they used to park up on the apex for me :neutral:

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there not too bad, Vettel moved out of the way for me, even though i ended up running into the back of him, but that was my first ever lap on the game, so ill put it down to it being my fault

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