Career Mode settings for a more Sim Experience

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I’m new to the series with 25 and I started a career mode on more or less default settings. Now I’ve got the hang of things I’m wanting to restart with a more “sim” like experience in terms of the AI and the race settings (laps, etc). The default 5 lap removes any need for pits or strategy, and the default AI is easy to blow by.

And good recs on the settings? I don’t want to do 2 hour 70 lap races, but something longer that requires some pit strategy and real racing would be better.
 
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I like 50% races with all practice and qualifying sessions. Each race takes around 40 mins, I spend an additional 30-40 mins doing practice and qualifying. AI level and assists is all up to you, do whatever is the most fun.

I have been playing for many years with a wheel setup so I wouldn't recommend these settings to everyone. But I always use cockpit view with the ghosted halo column, limited hud, no assists and the lowest flashback setting. 95 AI difficulty is the sweet spot for me, not so hard that I have to sweat it out like I'm in an iRacing lobby, but not too easy either.
 
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I’m new to the series with 25 and I started a career mode on more or less default settings. Now I’ve got the hang of things I’m wanting to restart with a more “sim” like experience in terms of the AI and the race settings (laps, etc). The default 5 lap removes any need for pits or strategy, and the default AI is easy to blow by.

And good recs on the settings? I don’t want to do 2 hour 70 lap races, but something longer that requires some pit strategy and real racing would be better.
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Personally I have it set to 50% races for best balance of time and strategy, it also then allows you to have safety cars and red flags turned on, this also gives I believe 30 minute practice sessions, I do full qualifying as well. AI is going to be specific to each player, I personally have it on 95 currently, but note that the AI performance can shift slightly depending on the circuit. Use this tool to calculate the best AI difficulty for you: https://www.f1laps.com/ai-difficulty-calculator/

It's good because it will give you the best setting for competitive AI racing but also show you the adjustment needed circuit to circuit. For example, my difficulty for Imola is 89, but for Monaco it's 104.

The difficulty calculator doesn't apply to F2 so you'll have to experiment with F2, but I found 95 to be a solid test in those cars. For full simulation I ran a full season of F2 with 50% race length, I did however select one shot qualifying as I found F2 qualifying to be a bit tedious in full. It's fun to do a full season rather than partial as you get to experiment a bit with the feature race strategy and the reverse grid sprint races are good fun.

Elsewhere, I have race starts and pit stops set to manual, immersive setting on for formation laps and safety cars, with safety car and red flags set to increased. Damage I have at standard rather than simulation, full tyre simulation on (surface and carcass temp), mechanical issues set to full.

In driver career I turn off the R&D stuff, I find it more realistic in that mode to focus on the driving rather than having to do the car development as well, I leave all that to MyTeam. It also places more emphasis on earning favour within the team to get preferential treatment on new parts etc.
 
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