Continued Impressions - EA Sports F1 24 (PS5)

I continue to have a great time in F1 24. But I did hit up some nits tonight. S'ok. All part of the drama.
It's been a while since I've played an F1 game for a bunch of time in a single sitting, so there are definitely little details that I forget. I could've sworn that when it starts raining, the Engineer offers you an updated race strategy that pops in your MFD if he wants you to pit to change tires. I probably got that confused in my memory of what happens when you get damaged.
I also thought that if you do pit when it is raining that the crew automatically puts you on Intermediates or Full-wets. Not the case, at least not now.
When these two misconceptions on my part went wrong, I also didn't notice it, until I started getting overtaken by drivers I normally wouldn't. Another critical error. I'd already pitted an extra time beyond what my one-stopper strategy had called for. Now I needed to go back in again to get intermediates. I came out at 14th and took 3 places back before I just ran out of laps. With a 29 lap race I was not running that session over 😭.
Verstappen gets away with a freebie, after I'd successfully fought him off for half the race. Needless to say, Suzuka will be interesting. Deciding not to replay the race over and taking finishing 11th, out of the points, after getting on pole out of qualifying...at least I will be unlikely to forget this the next time it happens.
On any given Sunday I could score this scenario as a positive; an indication of the game's depth. Or could see it as a negative; a quality of life thing that should have been more automated. For now I'm gonna shrug, just call it a lesson learned, and not let it interfere with how much I am enjoying the game.