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I have high hopes for F1 2015 so I’d love it to be like this.
Three modes:
Career: The tutorial is the final 10 laps of a junior series race. At the end your the champion and you get given offers from multiple teams depending on how well you did in that race. Some offers allow you to jump straight in to small teams like Caterham, Marrusia, Sauber or Toro Rosso, while others allow you to become a test driver for Mclaren, Ferrari, Williams etc. The second season is 2015 and you can then sign for a new team. You can do 3 more seasons afterwards, with driver and team performance changing throughout. For example Raikkonen is quite slow in the fifth season while Verstappen is much faster than he was in 2015. I hope the cars encounter reliabilty issues similar to real life and different teams have different pit stop stats. For example Mercedes are the most consistent, Red Bull the quickest, Williams the highest chance of messing it up, Lotus the worst.
Challenge: These are challenges that you jump into and have to recreate moments from 2014 and new 2015 challenges get added as the real season progresses. Some challenges could be win the Bahrain race as Hamilton, build a gap over the 5 second penalty as Bianchi in Monaco, overtake Hamilton and Alonso in Hungary as Ricciardo, hold Massa off as Perez in Russia etc.
Online: Choose between separate playlists. Social is a playlist that you have to complete one hour in before access to others. This is one just for fun and the races are only 3 laps long. Competitive are 25% races where drivers can get points on their license if other players decide to give them one. If you get 12 points you are banned for a day. The goal is to get more serious racing online. The third playlist is Pro, these are 100% races with Practice and qualifying. To play in this playlist you must reach a certain rank in Competitive. It should be easy to create your own league or join a current one. The biggest leagues should have viewable championship tables for everyone to see. Hopefully there is some sort of theatre mode similar to Halo, but one that also allows you to watch any race live.
If I was in charge of both sides it would be:
BBC Abu Dhabi
BBC Britain
BBC Canada
Sky Belgium
Sky Monaco
Sky Melbourne
BBC Japan
Sky Mexico
BBC Monza
Sky Germany
BBC Brazil
Sky U.S.A
BBC Austria
Sky Bahrain
BBC Malaysia
Sky Russia
BBC Spain
Sky Hungary
BBC KoreaI wish Mclaren went with white and Red but I expect them to substitute their chrome for the racing colour of Japan white, so they’ll have a Black and white Livery.
I normally like to watch an old F1 season over the course of a month. Preferably a season I have nostalgia for or know little about.
Hulkenberg has a great chance. Ferrari and Williams will moat likely have a seat available. Hopefully these teams are considered ‘Top Teams’ in 2016.
Ricciardo- Came in and dominated a 4 time world champion the whole season and capped his season off with a superb recovery drive.
Hamilton- Overcame adversity and was cool under pressure to dominate large parts of the championship. Great speed in the wet and wheel to wheel racing skills.
Alonso- Not sure if he was good or Raikkonen was bad. His podiums did amaze me though, so he still deserves loads of credit.
Bottas- Amazing in qualifying but not quite as quick in the races. But still, he was very consistent and kept it clean.
Button- Even though his career was in trouble he continued to perform at a high level and soundly beat his teammate.
Rosberg- Excellent in qualifying and was very good at forcing Hamilton into errors mid season, but he capitulated after Spa.
Hulkenberg- As the car’s performance decreased, so did his but his form returned later on. He beat Perez more impressively than Button did last year.
Vettel- He always struggled with the car but still drove very well, just not as well as Ricciardo.
Massa- Had good speed and adapted well to a new setting, but has more than bad luck to blame for his gap to Bottas. He has to do more than not causing incidents, he has to avoid them.
Vergne- Ricciardo this year proved Vergne caliber. I think the slow Toro Rosso’s made him look closer to Ricciardo than he was, but his races this year show he is a high quality driver.
Bianchi- Outstanding race in Monaco and generally drove impressively in every race. Like Alonso, it is hard to say if he was good or Chilton was bad.
Perez- Pushed Hulkenberg hard in the middle of the season but lost ground when the car was at its best.
Grosjean- Dominated Maldonado at first and drove greatly in Spain and Monaco. He still failed to capture his 2013 form though.
Kvyat- Amazing qualifying speed but needs to learn tyre management to beat Ricciardo next year.
Magnussen- Great start but slowly ebbed away into nothingness.
Raikkonen- Very disappointing season. Some highlight but overall lacked composure.
Kobayashi- Showed that he is a good driver but was largely anonymous for the most part.
Sutil- Aside for Cota qualifying, never did anything special.
Maldonado- Much better later on in the season but showed why he has so many doubters in the first half.
Gutierrez- Like Sutil never did anything memorable and was overall slow.
Ericsson- Got humiliated by many teammates and only had 2 good races.
Chilton- Never was on the pace, but this year he also crashed out of races by himself.@hunocsi Mercedes might want their car to have a number one on it.
@ME4ME If you don’t like British coverage don’t watch it then.