First off i am LOVING this game but one thing is totally broken, Pitstops. 
 
essentially if you pit when the game tells you to pit, no matter your position going into the pits, you will leave the pits last. This is because on the default race length 20%, all the drivers pit at the same time. This in itself wouldnt be a problem but your pit team wont release you back into the pits while another car is cruising past. This means your forced to watch a progression of cars cruise past as your finally released from your pits as the end of the chain. 
 
That said it is possible to get round it by holding off for an extra lap to pit but its just really weird that the game prompts your to pit only to place you in last position. 
 
Other than that though...amazing racing game, amazing sense of speed, amazing sense of being on the absolute edge at all time. 
 
Fully recommended 

My copy should show up tomorrow with any luck :D 
 
How are the pitstops on a full length race? I plan to switch it to full length right away.

The game just dropped through the post box and I've had to go to work now so I only had a chance to play a couple races so can't comment on full length. I'd like to play full length races of there was an option to save state half way through a race. I love the idea of full length races but just can't afford the hour and a half session. Full qualifying is awesome too.

I have not actually tried pitting a lap later yet as I had to go to work but your not forced to pit when your engineer tells you to. if you pit by yourself your not left waiting as cars stroll by. It should work in theory and I like the thought of trying to nail a flying lap as everyone else is in the pits.

Have to say I have never played a racing game that has made me focus so much on lap times and incremental improvements. The practice, qualify, then race model really makes you feel like your getting better with every lap and equipped to improve every corner next time round.

Want to leave work now and get back to playing.

My gamer tag is delta kil0 if any one wants to race online at some point.

"Want to leave work now and get back to playing."

@Bouke

It's handled the same way as dirt handles rewinds. You only get a limited amount of rewinds dictated by your difficulty level. It's not as slick as forza

pitstops in games never work. if you play against CPU opponents, they tend to never have to pit.

Yeah, the pit bug has cost me a good race several times now. It's really annoying. Also, I seem to get a lot of punctures. It's frustrating as hell. Final lap, Monza, 8th place with Lotus, puncture. Ended up finishing 22nd.

The reason they have done this pitstop thing is because in real life there is a rule saying the car should not be released from the pits if there is another on e coming within 60 metres or something. They always ignore the rule however. I'll remember to always pit a lap late.

The reason they have done this pitstop thing is because in real life there is a rule saying the car should not be released from the pits if there is another on e coming within 60 metres or something. They always ignore the rule however. I'll remember to always pit a lap late.

By the way, something that took me forever to work out was why the cars feel so heavy during the race compared to qualifying. Fuel. No refueling means a massive increase in weight to accommodate for all that extra fuel, and handling really suffers from it.
 
Also, I haven't found any way to skip to the next qualifying phase. So I end up just sitting in the pit, waiting for the time to run out. Realistic, yes. Fun, no. Of course I may just be an idiot and haven't noticed a way to do it. I played for 10 hours before I noticed the advanced car settings.

there are some bugs and glitches i hope CM will patch. the pitstop thing is really annoying. i also think the penalty system is way to strict on most realistic. You dont see a stop and go just in real f1 just because two cars  rubbed wheels in the first corner. 

It ain't just the pitstops that are broken. Check out the sticky thread on the Codemasters F1 2010 forums. 50 pages in just over 8 hours. And they're actually deleting posts as they cut n paste new bugs. 
 
I love the game but am also so very disappointed that a marque game could ship with such poor QA testing.

" @ZimboDK: Did Codemaster make it that the top 10 qualifying is with race weight / enough fuel to finish the race? The last qualifying session; only the top 10 cars race for the pole, but they already have all the fuel for the race onboard, since the top 10 cars go to Parc Fermé after qualifying until the race. It is cool that Codemasters really put an effort into this licensed release; previous F1 games were pretty shitty. "

I'm loving the game too. Fingers crossed for a patch soon!

" Does the pitstop problem only occure when you do a shorter race? "

 
Its unfortunate that the game shipped with something like this, you would think testers would've found this problem. Lets hope Codemasters will patch it out, because it is anoying; for me its not a reason to not buy the game though. I like to race longer races myself, but that does make the chance of a crash bigger.

It's not completely broken, it doesn't happen every time, if you are unlucky and pit at the same time as everyone else then you will get caught out.