I was about to answer you, then my phone rang!
You don't need to press any buttons to go to next session or anything. However, when the server moves from Warm Up to Race. You have 1 minute to press "race" to get on to the grid. If you don't press race within than minute, you will start from pit-lane, waiting for the red light to turn green on pit exit. It's not like some other games where the timer runs down and then puts you on the grid. Here you need to press "race" to join the grid.
We will also do a formation lap and a rolling start. We have turned off the Safety Car (as that can cause some issues). So the polesitter will dictate the speed on the formation lap. That tends to be a bit faster than the Safety Car, but should not be done too fast. After all, it's to get us in to formation.
Also. Do not pass anyone before the start/finish line.
When you start in practice/qual/warm up sessions, you need to turn on the pit-limiter manually (and then turn it off again when you pass the pit exit line), even though you drive from the garage, the pit-limiter is not automagically on.
While soft tyres and fuel, like Jan said, will last a race. If you for some reason should need a pit-stop. You again need to manually turn on and off the limiter when entering and exiting. However, opposed to e.g AC:C, here in rF2 you can turn the limiter on when in a gear higher than 1st. You can also shift gears etc. in the pit-lane without the speed limiter disengaging
If you for some reason get a drive through or stop and go in practice/qual/warm-up (like, if you forget your speed limiter). This will not carry on to the race session. Also, if you get it in qualifying. You don't need to serve it. You will get counting laptimes, even if you have a penalty looming over your head.
Other than that, I tend to give a reminder on stuff (like the formation lap, and caution in to T1 etc.) in the warm-up session. If anything happens, it's an advantage being on Discord. We have waited (restarted warm-up session) in some situations when people have had a game crash and told me on Discord. However, if a driver is not on Discord, or not saying anything while being on Discord. I will consider "left the game" as a "oh, something happened and I have to leave, bye!" Not as a "game crashed, please wait 2 min".
We will in 99.99% of the cases not restart a race due to a start incident either. If something happens, the damage should be set low enough that you can just keep on racing, and it's better to file an incident report post-race
Usually the only reason to restart is if something happens with the rolling start (like in our Nürburgring GP race, we suddenly never got the green flag). Then we restart with a standing start.
Any specific questions? Bring'em on!
And of course, you are in the race!!
