Finally, an F1 game stripped of all the boring driving nonsense. F1 Manager 2022 gives you all the decision-making power and overwhelming responsibility of a team principal, but doesn’t ask you to get your hands dirty in the cockpit.
Your first season can be a real journey of discovery, and if you realize too late that you should have developed a new front wing years ago, your list of what-ifs will gradually grow. It floats.
Don’t worry if you are a first-time F1 manager. Think of this guide as a handoff document from the boss of the team you replaced. This is a cheat sheet that teaches you all the important aspects of your job, how to manage it effectively and, most importantly, how to win the race.
F1 manager 2022 tips
Start designing new parts before the first race weekend
Above all, F1 Manager 2022 is a race to develop the best auto parts and install them in your car the fastest. All other teams are constantly iterating on their designs, so if you don’t, you’re not just sitting still, you’re going backwards.
If you’re on a team like Red Bull, Ferrari, Mercedes or even Alpine or McLaren with some cash in your pocket, starting a new design project is one of the first things you should do. This ensures that no one develops faster than you.
This is a management game, so it’s not that simple.Every team has its own strengths and weaknesses in the car they develop, and depending on whether “Normal” or “Rush” is selected in the menu when setting up the project, it takes time to design and manufacture parts. If there is, hurry through first season upgradeYou’ll be missing out on extra XP for your staff, but on the plus side, you’ll get new parts for your car faster.
As for what needs to be designed and manufactured first, the following should be your priorities:
Underfloor, front and rear wing priority
There are several areas of the car that can be redesigned throughout the season.
- front wing
- rear wing
- under the floor
- chassis
- side pod
- suspension
Again, every team has some areas where they are better than others. For example, on the grid he’s 3rd best front with his wing, but engine cooling is only his 9th best. After setting up a new design project and entering the part selection menu, press ‘E’ to see how the components stack up with the rest of the grid.
There is a dilemma here. Do you develop your weakest areas in hopes of catching up, or do you focus on improving your best areas even further so as not to lose your edge in that area?
do not have.Simply Front and rear wings and underfloor. These three parts have the most performance gains with each upgrade, as they affect the car’s performance criteria more than any other part.
New suspension, chassis and sidepods are definitely worth working on as well, but I’d like to spend less time with the designers, CFD and wind tunnel than anything else to help push what’s important at a faster rate. Please complete the
Don’t save CFD and wind tunnel time
Regardless of the team’s budget or lofty goals, testing time is limited throughout the season. This is actually a good thing if you’re managing a team at the back of the grid. Because you don’t get penalized for having a small budget in this area. Red Bull can’t put any more money into the wind tunnel to get more time.
However, it’s worth knowing that the time allotted for computer simulation and wind tunnel testing is replenished approximately every 40 days. The numbers displayed are not seasonal allocations. It cannot be carried over to the next period. In that sense, it’s a lot like annual leave.
start the race at a loss
A race is a moment in a team manager’s life when his shirt armpits are drenched, his knees start shaking nervously, and a glorious win can turn into a disgraceful fourth place with a few bad strategy calls. Just ask Ferrari on Sunday.
It takes a lot to get good results on race day. Most important is all the development work we do during the race weekend. However, by setting the driving mode to all-out attack before the lights turn blue, you can give both drivers a fighting chance.
In the same menu where you set your tire strategy before the race, driver settings menu. From here you can access pace, fuel consumption and ERS settings that you normally access during a race.
Set pace to full red, set fuel to max burn and deploy ERS. Previous The race starts and leaves both drivers alone for the entire first lap. Trust me — every other driver around you is doing it, so attack or be attacked this very early in the race.
Tires don’t wear out in one lap of a full attack. It also burns a little more fuel on the first lap and doesn’t require you to go into dreadful saving mode afterwards. If you keep using these settings every time the race starts, you can avoid going off the line and losing your position in Turn 1.
Tweaking the setup is a hassle, but worth it
One of the more gamified aspects of Frontier being Christian Horner is the car setup system. As drivers accumulate laps in practice sessions, we see a narrower range of ideal setup settings for each car. What’s interesting, though, is that reaching all these ranges isn’t as easy as dragging sliders.
Instead, the settings are all interconnected, so changing toe-in also changes ride height. Playing around with the sliders to make sure they fit within the narrowing range feels like unlocking in a clunky old RPG from the ’90s, but if you can put up with it, the performance gains are worth it.
Each driver has a maximum of 15 performance points that can be achieved before qualifying. These are unlocked through a combination of proficiency with car parts and confidence in setup. Don’t worry about other parts for now. New parts need to be installed on the car on a regular basis. However, setup confidence is a big deal, and the difference between someone loitering at performance level 7 and sending it outright at performance level 12 or higher can be a factor of tenths. It’s much easier to win that time with a proper setup than with a few upgrades.
Use safety car and VSC to collect ERS and save fuel
Racing is always a balancing act of resource management, and fuel and ERS battery levels are both critical resources for maintaining pace, defending attacks, and making overtakes. In that case, it makes sense to reserve some.
The safety car and virtual safety car scenarios are a good time to do that and also a good time to extend the life of the tyres. As soon as I hear from the race engineer that the safety car or his VSC has been deployed, I change all driver settings to minimum (tires, fuel, ERS in harvest mode). This gives you extra performance in the second half of the race, even if you spend half a lap in this mode, whether you intend to pit soon or not.
But remember to warm everything up before the race resumes.You don’t want to get caught in cold tires. As soon as we hear the safety car is coming on this lap, we will set the drivers pace to attack and also set the ERS to deploy so that when the race resumes they will not be overtaken in the first few corners. Please consider Basically treat it like a race start.
Get everything out of the tire with the in-wrap
If you’ve been watching the sport for a while, you’ve probably heard race engineer Peter ‘Bono’ Bonington tell Lewis Hamilton it’s ‘hammer time’. Unfortunately, it didn’t result in the seven-time world champion showing off his dance flair on the track with his moves, but the tires were all set for the fastest lap at the end of his stint. drove him. As it turns out, it’s more effective than the former.
Once you reach the pitstop window, don’t worry too much about saving tires. So you can get everything out of them completely in-wrap and even pre-wrap. It is often worth increasing fuel consumption and deploying an extra of his ERS on these laps as well.
Because those crucial laps before and after the pit stop are the best chances to improve your position in the race. Opponents around you may have just pitted and are on cold, fresh tires, or they may be running around for grip on worn tires at the end of a stint. In both scenarios, you need to extract maximum pace from your car to take advantage.
