Drive-through-Penalty

[Pauxi]

Hello, how to switch between Drive-through-Penalty and pit stop? It ist always the Pitstop first, next round i can make the Penalty ...

[Oggmeista]

yeah used to have this confusion issue with previous f1 games, even other race driving sims. As i see it the logic works like this, if you need to serve a pen and you are within the conditions for doing so just drive into the pit lane and the AI coding should detect what for, if on the other hand you want to make a pitstop either scheduled or unscheduled, then you need to make a pit request, what you don't want to do is signal a pit request and then expect the ai to understand you actually want to clear a drive thru, because that won't work!, do not signal for a stop instead just drive in and the ai will then take that as an instruction to serve the drive thru.. there are times though where even the game logic doesn't function as intended, eg, during a safety car period...p because according to FIA rules you cannot serve penaties during these periods, however the permissable window for serving them is still restricted
There was also that famous time when Michael Schumacher whilst in the lead came into the pits to serve a penalty on the final lap,exploiting what i can only say was an embarressing loophole in the rules, much confusion followed after that i can tell you jeje.