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Impossible to drive in the rain

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In dry, I play on 101 difficulty, but in the rain its impossible to keep up with the AI. The car is too slippery and the AI seems to get traction like if it was dry. Every year codemasters makes driving in the rain worse

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In full wet conditions I'm much faster. When I have the inters on the AI is quite a bit faster 

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It requires practice to be fast in rain. The main thing to keep in mind, the faster you go is not always the quickest. Even more when raining, the most important factor that will determine if you do a good lap time or not, is how fast you straighten out your car on corner exit, to be able to throttle up. Not the speed you enter the corner.

When I first encountered rain in the game, it was in China. I was 3 seconds slower than my team mate. I practiced during several days in time trial in rain on this track. Now I can do 1 sec faster than my team mate in a good lap, more if perfect lap, and about -0.300 / 0-.500 if a normal lap. Very rewarding.

Often you will have the feeling that you are going too slow or waiting too much to apply throttle. It is a habit to take, it pays out.

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Here’s a few tips.. drive as slow as you absolutely have to sometimes, to properly learn the limits of how much you can push the car around each corner. Feather the throttle about halfway when accelerating, and when the car is straight & finding some grip you can increase speed a bit faster. On a straight, you can be harder on the throttle. And when you are braking in to corners, never brake late. Brake either perfectly on time, or brake early. If you fail to do so, let go off the throttle, brake as hard as possible, but don’t let the car slide forward.. that will make things worse. Also if you normally take a certain corner in 2nd gear, take it one gear higher in 3rd gear instead, so the car does not rev-up and spin out. Higher gears will be smoother. This should help you improve your times. I am not the fastest on wet but like you I am above Ultimate on dry so this is how o survive when it is wet. Slow, straight and smooth..

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Yeah I think it's been since 2017 that if you carry too much speed into a corner in the rain it won't work out well for you.

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As some of you know I am a pilot who runs without help. The other day I did a test and I ran 25% in China in a qualifying room and it was the whole race with rain tires. I finished third because I had to enter the pits to change spoiler but I got the fastest second lap and my aerodynamics was 1-1. I really do not find it hard to run in water and for me personally it is the easiest Codemasters F1 to run in water and be competitive.

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