Qualify FAST but race pace...

[fbieren]

Hey guys, Im faster than AI in Q sessions but in the race back of the grids overtakes me ım always fight with back what can ı do about that?

[ST Ry]

Set your car up better for the race. You wanna have low tyre wear/fuel load.

A quick one lap car is not the aim for the race. Aiming for a balance obviously.

I find the opposite to what you described.

[Free]

lower your down force, quaily u get drs all the time. in race u dont...

[Moga CMDR]

Originally posted by ST Ry:

I find the opposite to what you described.

Thats what I was thinking too. The Q times are not in sync with the race for me. The Q times make me work, and then in the race everyone shows no signs they could hit the Q times, and then the race is dry.

At least for me, Q seems tougher than the actual race. Which is kind of annoying.

[Ngoc]

no car in normal race should hit the Q time but between 1 and 1.5 second slower depending if you do the faster lap toward the end when you have little gasoline using new red tired (so around +/-70% of the race) at the end or if you use white at the end and red mid-way with half a tank of gas (around 45-50% of the race)

[Moga CMDR]

Originally posted by Ngoc:

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I get that. Im not thinking about times so much, but more the ranking position. (I did say Q times, but I really meant their performance. That's my mistake. I don't actually memorize the times between P, Q and the race tbh.)

If I qualify 20th, and am 2 seconds slower than the AI in Quali, it makes no sense that I am 2 seconds faster in the race than them.

If you qualify 20th, you would expect it to be hard to overcome. Instead, the AI end up performing really poorly compared to their quaily ranks.

[Ngoc]

well the speed in race is a relative thing if you are at 37 lap the AI is using yellow tire with usages around 40-45% you come out of the box with fresh new red tire yeah you probably are 2 second faster. So if you tell me your best lap vs AI best lap maybe but even in that case i had race that AI won with a car doing .5 s slower best lap than the 2nd or the 3rd because he had a better overall consistency and probably did less pit stop.
Many things can go down in race sometimes you run with a new engine and AI has a engine that just passed the 55% or whatever cliff is and if during qualif was still okayish in race lost some performance and you gain with your fresh engine.

So many variable I don't know how you guys can be sure of one thing or the opposite when your analysis feel so superficial.