F1 2018 Practice/Quali Strategies

[dazzadp]

Does anyone have any practice/Quali procedures/rule of thumbs to make the career mode more realistic for them? Example: Allow 5mins to amend the setup, practice programme procedure etc?

 

[dazzadp]

So far I, (a) Allow 5mins between runs, (b) Only go out on track when track is not busy

 

[Bruce Banner]

I use P1 to do the practice programs ( bar the quali test ) . I use P2 to do the quali test and fine tune which set up I'll use without doing a lot of laps and I just set a lap time in P3 and that's it to save wear on the engine parts and the event gearbox . Obviously weather can affect this routine . In Q1 I always just go for the softest tyre , set a time and then stay in the garage for the rest of it ( Im in a Merc so usually comfortably safe without the need to go back out . In Q2 I go for the harder tyre to give me a 1 stop strategy in the race if I can and then in Q3 I use the softest mandatory set that gets handed back at the end of quali . In Q3 I go out as early as poss for my first run and then for my second run I go out immediately after my first run so I get an empty track while they wait for the last moment .