Unresolved

Problem with qualifying

So ... I'm reporting this problem again ...
Race 1: free practice 1st place, qualifying 12th place, after the start they return to 18th place ...
Race 2: free practice 1st place, qualifying 14th place, after the start they return to 18th place ...
Does anyone else see this connection, or do I just see it wrong ?!  I would like to ask the esteemed game developers, what is this constant "anomaly" in me?  WHY do I have to constantly struggle with this?  I would ask for a proper answer to this at last!
If the car is on the best 1 lap in free practice, on the time trial where I also go 1 lap, WHY is this the big difference ?!  What is changing that makes me lose so much ???
And that's all season ... HELP!

Do you attend the races? Do you start with PL5?
Do you use "Advanced Options"? Even though it shouldn't, setting PL5 in adv. options might help in qualifying.

Free practice results do not say a lot...
How do you do free practice, Design points allocated, with full drivers health, 1 lap of free practice or 5 laps?
There are already so many variables which can mislead...
How do your opponents do free practice? 

I for example always sandbag in free practice with different Methods.....

Bastian, I used all the planning points, I go 5 laps in free practice in 99% and I set the push letter to qualify after free practice.  Fitness is always full.

What is a sandbag? ?

Don't showing the Real Pace.

For example doing the free practice without repairing the car or without deploying the Design points, especially the Design points can be valueable. If you deploy them 1 miunte before changes are locked, you give your opponents less opportunity to spy.

I for example go for just one lap on Supersoft and one lap on soft, because the additional laps are pointless for the race. Because of the driver error factor it is likely if others just do one lap on the supers that they might have an error in the lap and your result looks better than it really is.