A quick suggestion, what about dropping the designated qualifying session and set room to "practice/race". When its time for qualifying, reset the room by changing minimum tire compound, then message everyone that when the room resets, the 10 min qualifying officially starts. Use your timer on your smartphone. When the 10 minutes is up, message all drivers that qualifying is finished and to finish current lap and remain on track. All drivers should remain on track to maintain their placement. If no qualifying times are necessary to be recorded, start race after all drivers are verified to be out of pits and past 1st sector line. If you
@paoloevans, have to go to pits to record qualifying times by the lap data feature, record them with a screen shot, then proceed past the first sector line to re-establish your position...then start race.
I have used this sequence in my series, and have had zero issues. In the crazy chance it does occur, that one driver can exit, clear cache/whatever, then re-enter and try again to enter the track. If successful, he can run laps to qualify with the time remaining. All the while, everyone was still actively qualifying.
This could be a way to avoid this issue altogether. It stinks having to see dedicated drivers have to retire over a stupid game bug.
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