AI in Rallycross

[Julo264 1]

After doing several rallycross events, I have noticed something strange with the AI. Every time on top spots are drivers like Chcicherit, Gronholm, or Marklund, while the better drivers IRL like Solberg , Loeb or Bakkerud, never make it into top 10. Does anybody have the same bug?

[madwak 0]

Nope.                                                                                         

[Roggenbr0t 0]

Yeah, I've noticed this on my end as well, but mostly in the results of simulated heats/semi-finals (as in: not the one you are racing in yourself).
I also remember me wondering why Solberg, Hansen and especially Bakkerud were being quite low on the Heat-Table regularly when I was doing RX.
On the other hand, the few times I was in a race together with Bakkerud-AI, it was bloody fast - that's why I'm wondering whether it only is a thing in "simulated" races.

I don't know, not sure how much I like the way the AI works in Rallycross in general:
In my experience, you've mostly got one (random?) driver who's being possessed by the spirit of the Alvarez-dude of Rally-events (the one that obliterates every other AI on the timesheet) miles ahead, while the other cars are rather slow compared to him - resulting in a stretched field of cars and not a lot of battling after the start.
As I said, I'm also not sure how I feel about the heat-time-simulation for the AI either. It seems...rather random in terms of which drivers are the "fast ones" in a session at times. And then again, it seems these chosen "fast ones" of each session are quick more consistently throughout the heats. But then it usually was not a Solberg, Hansen, Bakkerud, etc. who was up there in most session I played, but as you said, names like Chicherit, Grönholm or Ericsson.

(That doesn't mean that I feel there shouldn't be any variation in the pace of a driver between heats/between events, but it feels weird if drivers that consistently place rather high IRL struggle to make the semi-finals reliably in-game more regularly than drivers you'd expect struggling more to qualify IRL,but are in turn topping the Heat-Leaderboards more consistently in-game instead.)

I mean it's way better than Dirt Rally was in these aspects, but still, I think there's stuff that could be improved here, yes.