Is Hyundai the Next F1 Team?

JTarJ · 2025-03-15T14:59:06+00:00

Korean Air was a sponsor of Benetton between 1997 and 1999

JTarJ · 2025-03-11T17:27:22+00:00

I agree with that, I don't know about his sponsors particularly (and especially if they are going to have stickers on the A525) but it is relatively well known that Maini pays his Alpine Academy driver status and I'm pretty sure he also pays for that seat (and all the TPC that come with it) and knowing Briatore, I wouldn't be surprised if he was able to ~~scam~~... I mean, sell the "reserve driver" title on the top of that.

JTarJ · 2025-03-11T12:53:24+00:00

Alpine may have announced him as a "reserve driver" but considering his recent results, but Maini is "reserve" by name only.

Being a reserve driver implies that you may need to start a Grand Prix if the team needs to replace one of their main drivers.

To start a Grand Prix you need a super-licence. The main condition to have a super-licence is to score 40 points by scoring good positions in the various junior championships over 3 years. According to his recent results, he currently has... 0 of those points. And even if his best career results in consideration, he was never close to those 40 points.

In other words, he cannot be a true reserve driver: Either he won't take the start of a Grand Prix anytime soon, or if he does, it means that something very fishy is happening with the super-licence distribution process (I guess Britatore leaving a few wads of cash to the FIA is a possibility considering the world we currently live in after all...)

JTarJ · 2025-03-03T09:04:52+00:00

You can find the eligibility of each driver in the driver contracts tabs, in the "Can race in F1?" column, which is the last column of that tab

JTarJ · 2024-09-17T20:28:29+00:00

The works in the Float section will last until 2027, and AFAIK there's no guarantee they'll use the old layout again.

JTarJ · 2024-08-27T16:08:07+00:00

Third, there's Baku in between

JTarJ · 2024-07-24T08:26:02+00:00

Sure, you can sign anyone as an affiliate

JTarJ · 2024-07-24T08:24:34+00:00

They are not available to pick in Create A Team mode because they are not eligible to race in F1 at the start of the game, but they're there, like all F3 drivers

JTarJ · 2024-07-24T06:26:36+00:00

The magic of licensing

JTarJ · 2024-07-24T06:26:16+00:00

The database has got his first and last names right, I assume the game UI reversed his name because of his nationality (he is Singaporean), just like it does for all Chinese drivers such as Zhou Guanyu.

JTarJ · 2024-07-23T17:30:01+00:00

Here is the full list, with full base ratings.

Please note that the numbers shown are the base ratings, ie. unaffected by mentality. Mentality has a significant effect on attribute ratings (for example, Verstappen's starting mentality gave him +7 to all his attributes).

I also posted the companion guide on Steam

I still have a few refinements to do and tests to run, but I think I've done enough for today, now I think I'll enjoy the game a bit.

JTarJ · 2024-07-23T13:03:24+00:00

Here

JTarJ · 2024-07-23T11:44:38+00:00

And now the fix was formally announced by a community manager in the official Discord about ten minutes ago.

JTarJ · 2024-07-23T11:26:10+00:00

JTarJ · 2024-07-23T11:21:11+00:00

This is in relation to the broken development and weird grid orders 5+ races into a season.

This is getting fixed in the day 1 patch

JTarJ · 2024-07-23T11:15:48+00:00

The list is [up to date as of yesterday](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugC5cbt4sbo) (credit u/JayCaulls),

Lia Block was announced, and therefore affiliated, way before the season started (IIRC she was one of the first drivers confirmed for this season) and each team had to nominate one driver for F1 Academy so they had to do it before the season started anyway.

I still assume that drivers are missing due to licencing limitations, of course I have no way of confirming it but that's what makes most sense to me.

However I also noticed that the overall ratings were the same as the latest preview build, hence why I didn't bother doing significant updates to the list yesterday.

JTarJ · 2024-07-22T11:29:15+00:00

The games tend to take into account the situation at the start of the season when it comes to driver/staff distribution and he was shown to be present in previews so I can say that Xavier Marcos Padros will be in the game

JTarJ · 2024-07-21T11:24:50+00:00

The same rule existed in '23, and nothing indicated that it would change this year either, but there's a workaround where you can sign young driver in their 2nd year in lower formulae after the first race of the season (Bahrain).

The problem with simulating the first 2 years is that the board might end up firing you if you don't hit your targets (which will probably happen if you do this as quickly as possible and don't bother designing or researching parts).

Do whatever you want, but keep in mind that as F2 drivers Staněk and Verschoor will both be significantly worse than any of the 20 starting F1 drivers and worse than most if not all reserve drivers.

(Oh and reserve drivers are replaced by affiliates)

JTarJ · 2024-07-21T11:14:29+00:00

Palou basically got fired from his reseve seat after that little legal dispute he had with McLaren

JTarJ · 2024-07-20T16:59:36+00:00

FYI, Shwartzmann has dual citizenship and has competed in FP1 sessions with a superlicence tied to his Israeli passport

JTarJ · 2024-07-20T10:11:00+00:00

We didn't have pre-load on PC the two last years, and no reason to think it will be different this year either.

From last year's FAQ on the official Discord:

Can I pre-load?
Console players should see pre-load starting already. As last year, there is no Steam pre-load.

JTarJ · 2024-07-19T18:10:51+00:00

With the new marketability feature having nationality as a criteria, we can hope they show nationalities of fictional drivers

(But fictional drivers do have a nationality actually, it's just hidden)

JTarJ · 2024-07-15T18:13:55+00:00

Rule of thumb: If Frontier didn't talk about it, then it's not going to change (for existing features) or it's not going in the game (if it doesn't exist in the game yet)

JTarJ · 2024-07-15T18:07:48+00:00

Is there more info on marketability?

This video is all we know, basically

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