F1 Manager 2023 Review

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Ever since the debut of Netflix’s Drive to Survive four years ago, Team Principles have been turned into stars of Formula 1 that shine almost as brightly as the drivers themselves. Sure, they’ve always shown their faces in race broadcasts and interviews, but the behind-the-scenes view that the documentary series brought revealed so much more of their personalities, as well as revealing more of the almost ceaseless work that gets these marvelous machines running out on track. F1 Manager 2023 is Frontier’s second attempt at capturing what really goes into running a successful Formula 1 team.

A lot of F1 Manager 2023 will be familiar to players of last year’s game, F1 Manager 2022 providing those base foundations that Frontier will build and iterate upon for years to come. As with Football Manager, EA Sports FC (née FIFA), NBA 2K and Codemasters’ F1 racing game series, there’s upsides and downsides to a yearly release cycle as certain areas of the game will remain fairly static while others are improved. It’s almost always a case of evolution over revolution, and that’s absolutely the case here.

But that’s not to say there aren’t big new features and improvements. There’s a more nuanced tyre simulation, driver and staff development options, the cost cap, a flashy new visor cam and more added to the management and race simulation. For people just wanting to hop in and manage a race, there’s also the new Race Replay mode, which features bespoke scenarios lifted from real-world events and gives you the opportunity to rewrite history – Deluxe Edition buyers also get some scenarios with quirkier rules and situations, like having only one of each compound to use.

Key examples include trying to get Alonso through to win in Monaco,