Yeah the AI is shocking.
A good example of the phony AI / rubber banding is in qualifying.
I go out as soon as qualy starts, I set a 1:41 early and Jarno pips me by 0.108 sec late in the session, we qualified 18th and 19th.
I restart the session, and sit in my pit box until there is 3 mins to go, Sebastian Vettel style. At this point, Jarno is in 20th with a 1:43. I set another 1:41 in the dying seconds and the session ends with me in 13th with the same time I set before, and Jarno hasn't come near the time he set before and finishes 20th.
And it's repeatable.
For some of us, the sense of achievement comes knowing you have worked towards something and achieved it fairly, not through having to work around a bunch of glitches. For example, no amount of fine tuning your car will move you up the grid in qualifying as much as waiting in the pit lane until the end of the session and posting a lap so late that the AI can't rubber band the results in time. That, to me, stinks.
You have to plan every single session you participate in to avoid the glitches, nothing else. For example, waiting late in qualifying to avoid the unfair rubber banding, timing your pit stop in the race not for any sort of tyre strategy, but rather when you think you won't get stuck in the pit lane forever.
:doh
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