Choose weekend length and format

[joetoml1n 42]

It’d be nice to have full customisation over the full weekend length. Yes I know you can select the race length, but that in turn sets the P length. Probably like most of you, the 50% I run means I have 3x 45 min P sessions. I do not however need all of this time and 45 mins is ample. So, in a nut shell, I’d like to be able to select just 1 Practice session.. 

I personally don’t need the extra time on track, and of course the car doesn’t react to climatic/temp conditions like in real life so that’s one less thing to adapt the car to in P. So really, there no incentive for me to run any more time in P than 8 laps. 1x flying lap for each of the first 5 Practice Programs and 3x on the Race Strategy Program (though admittedly Sometimes I will stretch that to the full 5). To this end, I’ve completed the full practice goals in P1 and I press skip to Qualy. Yes Jeff moans at me for missing P sessions but it has no actual impact. 
I’m pretty sure the ability to just run 1 P session was in previous games (at least 5 or so iterations ago though if I remember correctly - but I could be mistaken). 

I know the way I do it works, but it really slows down the whole process. Loading times in the game are fairly long (considering how frequent they are). But it’s hardly surprising seeing as after every session, we have to go back to the motor home and then go back to the track. Loading and unloading from memory or gpu, the different  graphical areas must be pretty intensive as it always seems to take long enough to feel disjointed. I just want to go straight to my next session.. That’s another suggestion I’ve raised too - the ability to skip to session or proceed to motorhome.

While I’m mentioning streamlining the process, why do I need to view my podium pass after every session?! I don’t like the seasons or battle pass concept anyway, but why does it have to be so in your face? If it’s going to be in the game, once at the end of a race weekend would be fine surely? I don’t need to know I’ve unlocked new gloves or an emote after P1 in Montreal, as there’s nothing I can do about it, as you have to be back in the HQ, not the motorhome, to do anything with the unlocks! Not that I’d want to anyway as almost everything in the pass and the shop looks childish (especially the podium celebrations - god how fortnite has ruined everything for us) and also very little of it looks like it’d be designed for actual use in F1. 

Edited August 29 by joetoml1n