Codemasters has issued a detailed response to allegations that racing against the AI in F1 2010 is faked and that the game is riddled with bugs.

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In a very thorough post on the official forum the publisher states why the qualifying system isn't simulated by driving the AI cars:

"The jump-to-sector feature necessarily simulates teleporting a car instantly to a position while the fast-forward feature allows the player to speed up time. The latter prevents us from simulating the actual AI travelling around the track 100% of the time as we cannot accurately simulate 24 cars where we have accelerated the passage of time by as much as a factor of 30."

That the race is not at all faked:

"As none of the above feature restrictions are relevant in the race itself, we DO NOT use any other systems in the race other than the AI cars all physically driving the race just as the player does...We have seen several email and forum threads which suggest that an AI car’s performance is determined by where they are positioned currently in the race, or where they are in relation to the player which absolutely isn’t the case."

And that bugs will be fixed:

"We have already made significant advances against some of the issues thanks to those of you who have contributed a clear and comprehensive account of problems. We will let you know the full details of what the patch will include and when you can expect it as soon as possible."

All credit to Codemasters. Many developers/publishers wouldn't have made such a response. If these issues are solved we'll happily reassess our review score.