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So you bought the Motorsport Manager and are now at the beginning of your career as the leader of your own team. At first glance, it looks as if the numerous options could overwhelm you, especially if you are not that familiar with motorsport. In order for you to have a good start and to cope well in the future, we give you a few useful tips on various important areas of the game in this guide.

Further development of the car

New parts

One of your most important tasks is the development of new parts for your vehicles. Especially at the beginning you should concentrate on the cheapest and weakest areas, i.e. brakes and suspensions, then you can devote yourself to the gearbox and the engine.

Note that you may not be able to make certain parts yourself if all teams there have to use unit parts. Sometimes it is voted on.

Improve parts

You can instruct your employees to further improve parts that have already been manufactured. It works like this: Depending on which category you put the parts in, the reliability or the performance improves a little each day. With a slider you assign your crew to one of the two areas.

Reliability is particularly important at the beginning of a season, so you should focus on it first so that you don’t have to waste valuable time on repairs during the races. First dedicate yourself to the parts with the lowest reliability and improve them.

First of all, you should make sure that the red area of ​​the parts is as small as possible. Otherwise, you can focus on getting about 65 percent reliability before moving on to performance. Over time, reliability will not be a problem. Just make sure your mechanics are always busy because you can always improve something.

Risky parts

Difficult subject. When developing new parts, you can use components that increase the risk level. This means that this increases the risk that your vehicle will be blown up during inspection after the race. As a result, you risk losing positions, being fined and being banned from the relevant part, which can cost you money and valuable championship points.

Sometimes, however, you can also install components that reduce the risk level again, but for this you need engineers who can, for example, the corresponding construction plans. If you go undetected, such parts can really help you, but the risk is great and you have to weigh whether it is worthwhile for you. If you have the right staff, you can use more high-risk parts and make up for it.

Stop development

Around the middle of the season, you should stop developing new parts and save your money for the next season, because you always have to design a new car, which is not a cheap proposition. So start saving around the middle of the season so that you have more money to invest in the break between the seasons.

They run

training

There is no qualifying in the European Racing Series, just practice, so you don’t have to focus on the best possible lap time there either. Since the training is short, you should send your drivers out and call them back to the pits immediately afterwards. This also gives you feedback on the vehicle configuration without letting the drivers complete a complete stint.

Work on the vehicle configuration and what the individual parts do

During the training you can work on perfecting the vehicle configuration and adapting it to the respective route. Before each race, you can see what is particularly important there, for example the top speed or whether there are many corners.

Orientate yourself to the green area, in this area you will find the optimum. Adjust the car according to the track characteristics until your drivers are satisfied with it. If you can, you should send your drivers to training with different configurations, you can then learn from both.

What the individual parts and areas do and what effects they have, you can read below:

Downforce

Front wing: The higher the angle of the front wing, the faster your car will move through slow turns.

Rear wing: The higher the angle of the rear wing, the faster your car will move through fast corners.

If possible, the rear wing should always have a higher angle than the front wing.

Driving behavior

Understeer: Make your vehicle slower because the front wheels lose grip and you slide around corners. But you get more speed, so it is more suitable for fast corners.

Oversteer: Here the rear wheels lose grip. More oversteer gives you better acceleration, which is good for slow corners.

Speed ​​balance

Top speed: You should gear the car more towards top speed when there are a lot of long straight and fast corners.

Acceleration: If you expect a lot of slow corners on the track, you should put more emphasis on acceleration.

Qualifying

If you start in the European Racing Series, there is no qualifying, just practice and the race. Accordingly, you don’t have to worry about it. This only comes into play when you move up to a higher racing league or change teams. In that case, you have to adjust your car as well as possible to the track and choose the fastest tires so that your drivers achieve the best possible results. But make sure that you don’t waste too many tires.

The tire choice

If you are in the middle of the starting field, you should rather rely on the slower tires with more stamina, because you cannot really use the effect of the softer tires in the middle of traffic. Be more likely to use these when starting near the top.

The start of the race

You should behave aggressively at the start of the race. Of course, this leads to greater wear on the tires, so you can also adjust the amount of fuel accordingly (and tease out some speed), because aggressive driving can achieve half the life of a tire. Also watch out for the competition. If this shifts down a gear, so should you.

Keep an eye on the weather

The weather plays a not insignificant role. The location of the race is also reflected in the weather conditions. In Spain it is dry, in Belgium or England it likes to rain and on some routes both are conceivable. At the top of the screen you can see the weather forecast and can estimate whether it might start to rain. Take a look at it every now and then so as not to be surprised.

When switching to intermediates, you shouldn’t necessarily listen to your drivers, they ask for it far too quickly. If the track is only “wet”, you can continue to use the normal tires, only if the track is “wet” or if the competition starts to change, you should do the same.

In order to switch to pure rain tires, it has to rain a lot. If you have any doubts, it is better to stick to the intermediates and also follow the competition here.

Pit stops

During the pit stop you can choose whether you want to take more risk or not, which also increases the likelihood of errors. In the best case scenario, you save two seconds in the pit stop, in the worst case scenario you lose some time. You have to know for yourself whether it is worth it to you in the end.

If the safety car arrives on the track, you should make a pit stop, unless you were in the pit exactly before that.

Gasoline and tire temperature

In the final stint you should be shown that you have more than enough gasoline in the car. Just be careful not to slip into the red area, otherwise your driver will run out of fuel and crawl to the finish, possibly losing valuable positions. If that is the case, you have to drive more fuel-efficiently. If you want to really accelerate in the last stint, you should fill the tank with more gasoline than necessary (if it is feasible).

The tire temperature also plays a not insignificant role. It should be roughly in the middle, so make sure your tires don’t get too cold or too hot. If the temperature is too low, you have graining and are traveling more slowly. If the tires are too hot, the wear increases.

In order to regulate the temperature accordingly, you adapt the strategy and instruct your driver to drive more gently or more aggressively.

Repairs in the running

Especially at the beginning of a season, the reliability of your parts is still low and it is likely that you will have to pit for repairs during a race.

The performance of your car will only be affected if the condition of a part falls within the red zone. Here you should weigh up what you want to do based on the current racing situation and the state.

If there are only a few laps left, your car could still make it over the finish line. However, if the part fails completely, you will slow down significantly or fall out of the running completely.

Repairing parts can take a long time, so you should really think twice about sending a driver into the pits and thereby falling far behind.

In the later course of the season, reliability is less of a problem, you only have to worry about collisions that can damage the wings, for example.

The driver

Having good drivers can definitely make a noticeable difference. The chances are high that you don’t have really good drivers at the beginning. Use scouting for this and look at the drivers who are 20 years or younger. There you can find some really good talent who are better than your starting drivers.

In the European Racing Series you should rely on drivers who have at least three stars and do not yet have an employer, as you do not have to pay any severance pay. If possible, you should give the drivers the same status, but you should find a good balance when distributing the vehicle parts so that nobody is dissatisfied.

General tips

When negotiating a contract, you should negotiate with several drivers or employees at the same time, then you can pick the best offer. For example, if someone doesn’t think a bonus payment or hand money is necessary, you shouldn’t offer them either.

Factory level 2 is definitely a must when expanding your headquarters, it helps you to develop new parts. In addition, the scouting office will activate additional drivers for you to scout. Note, however, that some buildings and improvements cost a lot of money. So think carefully about what you really need and what could help you.

You shouldn’t accept the first offer from the sponsors. Sometimes it pays to wait a bit because you might get a better deal. By building a helipad in your HQ you will get access to more and better sponsors.

Better mechanics meanwhile give you a boost in performance and sometimes bring special properties or components with them. It can definitely be worth it to hire better ones.

When voting in the motorsport association, your own interests should of course be in the foreground. You can partly see whether a rule change could harm or benefit you, so vote accordingly. In all other decisions, you simply choose what suits you best.

Success is important and you have to please your chairman, otherwise you may be able to find a new job soon. To make the chairman happy, one or two good results are enough and you won’t be automatically fired just because you missed your season goal. The main thing is that you get some good results.