Clueless about how to qualify!

[SnowLeopard]

People are so clueless about how to do a qualifying session! So many have obviously never watched a qualifying session from any real racing series.
Everybody rushing out of the pits at once, driving the out lap like a race lap, bumper-to-bumper or worse side-by-side.... zero attempts at leaving decent gaps to be able to put in clean lap. Out of the 20 cars, maybe 3 or 4 seem to know what they're doing.

 

[jlachenal]

Yes I was telling my girlfriend the same yesterday evening. Luckily I could qualify in 3rd place at brandshatch

 

[RedlineRacer]

Its quite annoying to be blocked by someone who just re-entered the track while they're going 30-40 MPH slower. Its almost like they think its a race and they have to be the first place car in track position...

 

[Never2fast1]

Its quite annoying to be blocked by someone who just re-entered the track while they're going 30-40 MPH slower. Its almost like they think its a race and they have to be the first place car in track position...

Had a top 3 qualify run ruined by this last night, ended up in 8th, still got 4th place in the race though

 

[SCCAdeanRX-7]

It doesn't bother me too much. Almost everyone leaves right away and I wait about 30 seconds to leave the pits and have an open course to qualify

 

[xJildertx]

Still even if everyone would actually search for a gap. The matchmaking is still a problem. When DR A and D are matched together you gonna have problems with the A guy being like 6~10 seconds faster or more then some D's. Especially on some shorter tracks. You need a really big gap to account for that. Which could be a problem with 19 others.

 

[covan2306]

Still even if everyone would actually search for a gap. The matchmaking is still a problem. When DR A and D are matched together you gonna have problems with the A guy being like 6~10 seconds faster or more then some D's. Especially on some shorter tracks. You need a really big gap to account for that. Which could be a problem with 19 others.

The SR being the god code for matchmaking is hurting the game, especially with how easy that rank is to decrease/increase. Driver rank+lap time in dailies and DR in FIA should take priority.


As for the OP, yes yes yes I was shocked at the contact, closeness and moronicness of the drivers during qualifying, was stupid.

 

[PJTierney]

People are so clueless about how to do a qualifying session! So many have obviously never watched a qualifying session from any real racing series.
Everybody rushing out of the pits at once, driving the out lap like a race lap, bumper-to-bumper or worse side-by-side.... zero attempts at leaving decent gaps to be able to put in clean lap. Out of the 20 cars, maybe 3 or 4 seem to know what they're doing.

That's all on them for being eager and not having that "racing brain".

I did the Gr.3 race at Suzuka on Saturday night and was the last out of the garage for Qualifying, had about a kilometre either side of me of clean air. I wasn't very quick but the clean lap put me in 7th place, and I was fighting for 4th throught the race itself.

If I ran out when the session started I may have qualified much lower down.

 

[Deadheadbill]

Haha. It was sooo bad in the mfg cup last night.

 

[MikeTheHockeyFan]

Anyone who has watched 1 Formula 1 qualifying session knows what to do.

In my Manufacturer's Cup last night, I and around 5-6 other drivers let the others go out and then left the pits late, drove a very slow Sector 3 and all had gaps of 5ish seconds between us.

 

[machine1121]

I like the idea of qualifying with everyone on track because it makes it feel more like real motor racing. While starting pit lane is much more realistic, it's clear that a large portion of the players don't understand how to leave proper gaps. Maybe qualifying could use a rolling start with 5 sec gaps in future events.

 

[Adrenaline]

Just make all cars ghost like gt6.