How to simulate qualifications in career mode?

[Geralog 0]

Does anyone know how to simulate qualifications in career mode? Why is it possible to simulate free practices and race, but can not simulate qualifications? I like to play fast, race after race, without practices and qualifications, am I the only one?

[2Pacalypse 108]

after you simulate free practise you can jump directly to the race. I dont know if you skip the Q or it will be simulate. In any case you dont have to drive it.

And if you like to play fast, set Qualifying to shortest one with one lap.

[Geralog 0]

If you go directly to the race, you have to start last.

[svensenk86 133]

why is someone playing the game like this? 🤨

[Morsify 121]

Because they want to maybe?

[svensenk86 133]

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Because they want to maybe?

I guess so 🤨 😄

[sloppysmusic 1,650]

Nothing wrong in playing like this. After all it as the much acclaimed Gran Turismo method for nearly 2 decades! Start last and make your way through the pack one by one, can be a lot of fun. Of course you have to lower the ai difficulty to make this possible and probably lower damage or turn it off. I mean we've all had bad qualifying sessions where we crashed, incurred penalties or had car problems and had to start in last place. Admit that it's actually quite fun trying to pass as many as cars as possible to get in the points or even a podium place. Except at Monaco. Definitely not fun there starting last!

[brsteg 35]

Here is something I would like to see added to the game:

I'd like to see an option for single race or season mode:

• That we can use our avatar and number. Just keep yourself more immersed in the game even if you aren't a career mode player or are one wanting to go outside of career mode. On the driver selection, make it like career mode and pick your teammate. 
• The option to do custom grids, and decide where I start and any AI cars start on the grid, with ability to put as many cars (up to full grid) or as few cars as I want (as little as 2, yourself and one AI). This feature was in the EA release F1 2000 and I loved being able to set up reverse grids, or grids without the top teams just for giggles.

All play modes:

• More race length options! Personally I don't know why we can't just pick any number of laps that we want up to full race. But at least I'd like more options with amount of laps and also more choices for percents of race.

More to OT (I felt it was kinda related but with a tangent), I'm not sure why a career mode player would really want to just start in a random grid spot (single player sure); but the ability to sim Q is already in the game in instances where the player misses Q2 &/or Q3. (There is legacy bugs with this sim system where it sims the base car models and not the updated developed career mode models.) So I guess why not add a button and a separate loop to just sim Q1 also?

Edited February 26 by brsteg

[Ukbordoy 16]

Definitely more race options would be good. Things like random grids or reverse grids as well would be interesting.