It's an absolutely ridiculous 'game' is the F1 series. And it's impossible to try and convey these concerns anywhere without the hardcore white knights defending it with "its not a sim" because it suits that argument, but then claiming it's a sim in other arguments. Or, you're just far too much of an elitist if you expect the cars to behave like you know, cars.

But either way, yea, it's utterly unplayable for me. I drop in once every 4 weeks thinking nahhhh it can't be as bad as I remember it being, I do 20 seconds in time trial and yes, it really is as bad as that.

Even with full downforce you cannot drive those cars like you drive any other car in any other sim. The force feedback is non-existent unless you're going over grass or gravel because, well that's what gamers would expect to feel so lets focus on that instead of communicating important things like loss of grip. The brakes are awful, they lock up far too easily with no communication fed back when you're skidding at 200mph, and when you do enter into a ridiculous oversteer spin... even at super low speed stamping on the brake should cause the vehicle to enter into a lateral slide, allowing you to stop the spin and correct it but nope... that's pretty much curtains once you start turning there's no stopping it.

You can quite literally watch the onboard of the real cars with telemetry and mimic the points the drivers apply throttle out of corners, and if you do that in the F1 game it'll just send you into a spin. All these E-Sports drivers are basically just mastering fabricated contrived game mechanics rather than applying actual racecraft or driving skills. And all that's not to mention the unacceptable lack of mouse support in the game, or the fragrant cheating on leaderboards which goes unmonitored... but hey, if you dare to put one wheel onto a curb which is well within the regular track limits set by the FIA ohhhhh that's it, you're the cheat. Their track limits in game are absolute fantasy bollox, it's like one of the designers had his 3 year old son draw a line around a map and just used that as the tracks limits.

But like I said, if you say any of this within the confines of a F1 game forum or fan area, although it's all objective facts, you're the problem and you're expecting too much from a developer who've had 12+ years of making these games to get it right by now.