How in the world do i receive a penalty for going off track in PRACTICE for literally 0.000001 seconds and get a fat .500 second penalty but somehow i can get rammed 100 times per RACE and then not get penalties this is just actually insane.
i complain a lot about stuff in this game and the way it works but this by far has to be the worst. why am i started a half second behind for simple trying to push for practice its not even qualifying like what is that. IT MAKES 0 SENSE
Yeah, most of the time for me the off-track penalties make no sense. They usually happen if I screw up and they’re costing me time without any penalty on top of it.
Doesn’t “off-track” mean three wheels beyond the track limits? As in you’re already flirting with the limit and half your car off the track before the game actually flags you.
Not in this game, last chicane on lime rock in the BRZ spec series last night, half a tyre off track ( front and rear tyre ), i even lifted off the throttle to make sure i gained no time, 2.7 sec penalty, did it a second time later in the same race, another 1.4 seconds.
Worst ones are the one where you avoid a crash and go a bit out and you get a fat penalty. Guess it’s better to just crash into them 
It’s not that I don’t believe you believe that’s how it happened, it’s just that doesn’t align in any way with my experience. The game knows where your wheels are at all time, and I doing some testing at Lime Rock, I couldn’t manage to get a flag without putting three wheels fully out of the track. Even two wheels off and two wheels half on the line doesn’t give a flag.
That penalties are inconsistent is a different issue. But off-track detection should be trivial, and as far as I’ve experienced that works perfectly fine.
Ok, i lied 
Just turn on the track limits if you are unsure what is fair play
I haven’t yet turned on the limits to actually see what they look like in this game on various tracks, but based on how they feel I wouldn’t be surprised if there are some inconsistencies in how they are set (which may, in fact, line up with how it works in the real world). Like the chicane at the end of… Spa, I think… seems to be more lax about cutting than most others in the game. And then there’s the first turn at… Mid-Ohio?.. but I think that’s an issue with not being able to make the pit lane exit off limits to people racing on track.
Lets say how did i get a 105 second penalty for cutting one corner
Lime Rock last chicane you can cut it slightly but too much and the penalty is harsh. I’ve recieved some big penalties from that one. I think the biggest problem for me with the track limit penalties is the inconsistencies with track limits. Some tracks you can really cut the corners, beyond what you’d think acceptable, and it remain clean others, like lime rock, you can barely get two wheels over and its a penalty.
That being said its not much of a problem once you learn the tracks and their limits. I actually think this forza is all the better for it the previous titles were terrible for the amount of people corner cutting.