First welcome to the game and have fun.

2ND. Pick a team you want to enjoy.

3rd read for an incredibly in depth guide for developing your car and game strategies.
Spoiles warnings https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3011054831/

4th use this site for car setups during practices https://f1setup.it/

More notes: FP guide short

FP1: use the site above https://f1setup.it/ Run your stints in 15 laps. By FP2: You should have finished your car setups. And start the track acclamation. This works best in long stints maximize tires life during this session. By FP3 you should just have clean up for track acc then run a couple practice quail session.

Hope this helps all of yall and lmk if you have any questions . Or even corrections. Most of my info comes from the above mentioned articles and time in game.