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I'm on Legend up to Austria and really struggling to get and decent finishes I'm in a Renault, Expert was too easy for me though 

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Starting a new career mode and dont know which difficulty to pick.

Which have you started and how is it going?

the best thing is to do a few practice races first and judge your pace in comparison to the AI ideally you want a difficulty thast allows you to match or be close to your teammate whoever that is. For example your racing the Williams as Massa you want a setting that'll allow you to at least match Bottas. I'm on Easy but then I'm not super quick and I do have a disability which can make playing games like this quite hard. But I do seem to be coping quite well with Easy atm. So I'll likely stick with that for career when I get round to starting it. At most tracks so far there's been about half a second between me and Bottas as he's my teammate per lap so I think I've found my difficulty setting or got as close as I'm going to. But obviously different people have different pace so you'll need to find yours before starting

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I'm on Legend up to Austria and really struggling to get and decent finishes I'm in a Renault, Expert was too easy for me though 
Pretty much the same problem a lot of other people are having. Devs say they are 'investigating' but I doubt anything will be done.

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I'm on expert AI for practice and qualifying but legend in the race because I think it's a glitch that the AI are just to good in practice and qualifying 

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I am on Legend. There are some tracks I find the tyre management and qualifying test a bit more difficult on.. But practice makes perfect. 
Legend seems to be the right difficulty for me right now. I drive for Haas and I pretty much get results varying from 7th to 13th. My teammate is usually 1 place ahead or behind me after qualifying, only differing like 2-3 tenths. 
I will most likely step up to Ultimate once I start driving for a team like Mercedes. 

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Started on expert with renault.

 qualifying pace is just about right but race abit too easy so went to legend. Now qualifying pace is way too hard but race is just about right.

 seems wierd this year is this happening to anyone else?

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Yeah, i started on legend and switched diwn to expert because i couldnt get close to any of the ai, pace wise. However on expert im out performing my teammate by a long way and getting unrealistic results.

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In a McLaren, started on Legend but switched to Ultimate after Monaco.  Legend was just allowing me to progress in R&D faster than I'd like.  Being able to get the maximum R&D points every weekend is nice, but it ultimately felt like I was cheating my way to the front of the field.  I won at Monaco, that was mostly because it was a wet qualifying (which helped me sit on the front row in 2nd), and then a wet race.  The two races before that I finished 6th and 7th.  I figured that would be where I'd wind up by the end of the season, not a few races in.  Since I've gone to Ultimate I pulled in 10th at Baku, 8th at Austria and a very surprising 3rd at Silverstone (thanks to a very well timed stop onto the Mediums just 2 laps before a safety car came out which let me go the rest of the race without another stop).  I just ran the first practice session at the Hungaroring and just didn't have any pace, so I think I'm finally going to have a race that gives me real problems, but I'm going to enjoy it because I want to be evenly matched and Ultimate looks like it will provide the kind of pace I'm looking for.

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I agree 100%! Racing on expert and I'm consistently faster than Button in all 3 sessions to the point where I've taken 2 victories in 4 races and vettel is now my rival! Bumped it up to legend and it's way too hard! The race pace for the ai is just dreadful. Something needs to be done really, I can't be winning races in a mclaren on expert but then qualifying last on legend 

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Dez0808 said:
Can you add/remove assists to change your pace?
Yes, that's what I did when I took off traction control and the biggest assist in the game, the driving line

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I'm the odd man out this year it seems.  I was in-between difficulties last year but expert is right on this year.  

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