F1 Laps Data
Which driving assists do F1 26 players actually turn on? This page shows the real mix, measured from the telemetry racers upload to F1Laps. It refreshes on its own as new laps come in, so the numbers move with the community.
22%
race with no driving assists: traction control, ABS, steering and braking assist all off, shifting the gearbox themselves.
12%
go fully bare, with the racing line off too.
That's about 1 in 5 F1 26 players running clean, no help from the car.
Each bar is the share of players by their usual setting for that assist. Off is the leftmost band.
Time Trial is pure hotlapping with no AI and the same car for everyone, so it pulls the pace-focused crowd who tend to run leaner assists. This split is share of laps, not players: Time Trial laps run far fewer assists than laps in career and Grand Prix modes.
Off
Medium
Full
Manual
Manual & Suggested
Automatic
Assist-free players tend to be the ones running higher AI difficulty. Here's how far ahead each group sits, in AI difficulty levels, based on the pace they lap at.
+6
levels
Manual gearbox: players who shift manually run about 6 AI difficulty levels higher than players who let the game shift for them.
+4
levels
Traction control off: players who run traction control off run about 4 AI difficulty levels higher than players who run it on full.
+3
levels
Fully assist-free: players who race with no driving assists run about 3 AI difficulty levels higher than everyone else.
These ranges overlap heavily. There are plenty of quick assist-free drivers and plenty of quick racers who run assists — this is where the groups sit on average, not a rule about any one player.
These numbers come straight from real players' telemetry, across thousands of F1 26 laps, and refresh automatically as more laps land.
We don't publish a lap-time cost per assist on purpose. Players tend to switch an assist on exactly when the lap is already harder, so any on-versus-off time we measured would tell you about the circumstances, not the assist.
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