To be honest I like the fact that there is no way of changing gear ratios in previous games this alone made a huge difference in league races. I no in the real world this is pre-set from race 1 and I hope it remains that way fro0m now on, its brought the cars closer together (which has always been Bernie ecclestone's aim) in turn this has made for more fun in the league races aswell because of no gear ratio tricks that was obvious in previous games.
This year its all about traction, the ability to carry the speed through corners and have little to no traction problems in or around the corner is where the time is to be found. I still feel thouh that its un fair how pad users have such a traction control buff (I understand codies are trying to balance wheel and pad users out so its not one sided, but sadly it is one sided right now) I also expect many pad users are happy that for once they have the upper hand over wheel users, but codies need to remember racing games are meant for wheels not pads and you can't fully balance them out (if this is there way of accepting that then they have messed up big time) personally I found f1 2013 to be mch better for pad users and if they improved that a little more they would have had a much more balanced game (not like it is right now though with pad users getting that traction buff out of corners).
Rant over, patch please, hurry codies (don't break any other parts of the game as you often do in patches).