Motorsport Manager - anyone play this?

[MadMullah]

found this game by chance and bought it off steam

its quite a good manager sim for what it is. f1, f2 and f3 though there is dlc for gt series too

apparently the makers are working on allowing mods which should allow official names and liveries to be designed

[LeeThr]

Heads up for anyone wanting to give it a go, it's free to play on steam for the next 5 days, ive got it downloading currently.

Plus also on sale For just short of £13 as well currently.

[born2bslow]

Just picked it up and started a career...chose the lowest team as I like a challenge.

I played the iPad version to death and this looks just as addictive, good for breaks between vr racing sessions.

Will make a start on the challenges once I've got the hang of it.

[Fast Bug]

It's free in the play store too

[LeeThr]

Well 6:30 this morning I turned the Pc off

Did a complete season, and 3 races into my second, and it's going downhill. Picked the top team in the European series with the two best drivers, and both of them retired at the end of the season.

[Zetec-S]

On sale with Steam (£6.24) if anyone's interested.

Wasn't sure at first, but once you get into it it's quite addictive.

[LilPeteMordino]

Have played a few seasons on it. It's all fun until your strategy fails on the last lap

I really enjoy it as a management simulator.

[JB!]

Massively hooked on this.

Trying to get Archer to the F1 Constructor's championship

[sgtBerbatov]

I haven't played it on the PC, I played it on the mobile though when it first came out.

I will have to give it a go on the PC, but it'll have to be amazing to beat my personal favourites of Grand Prix Manager and Grand Prix World.

[chris285]

Played more over the weekend, quite tricky but i think i am making some headway with it now as won my first race with the worst car on the grid haha

[Zetec-S]

Started off with the tutorial running the Scuderia Rossini team (basically Ferrari) and making a bit of a hash of it. Ended up with one of my drivers getting lapped by everyone in a 17 lap race after bringing them into the pits 4 times And then the next race both finished outside the top 10 again, so rather than wait to get sacked decided to restart, and set up my own team. So ZS Racing was born, and managed to get 1st and 4th in practice at the first race of the season

followed by last/2nd to last in qualifying, then 17th/19th finish in the race

[JB!]

chris285 said:

Played more over the weekend, quite tricky but i think i am making some headway with it now as won my first race with the worst car on the grid haha

don't forget to build 1x mega powerful risky part for each component towards the end of the season, it will transfer the ACTUAL performance, not potential, when it gets homologated next season, and gives you 1x better car off the bat.

[chris285]

JB! said:

don't forget to build 1x mega powerful risky part for each component towards the end of the season, it will transfer the ACTUAL performance, not potential, when it gets homologated next season, and gives you 1x better car off the bat.

This i didn't know, thanks for the tip. I've won by strategy usually, but now in top 10 usually for qualifying and higher a lot of the time

I tend to get reliability good at the start of the season but will make some risky parts, trying to get the infrastructure in place currently at HQ and staff and not risked parts much

[JB!]

Infrastructure is a massive black hole!

Level 2 factory and design centre, level 1 everything else.

Also engines are key to winning any championship where they aren't spec.


Looks like there is a multiplayer mod, so if enough of us wanted we could do our own season/s.

[chris285]

I haven't gone much beyond that on infrastructure so far, but still haven't got all the builds but i am not putting in ones that only apply to shared parts

I think the built parts for me are suspension, brakes and gearbox from memory and i am building a brake facility currently

Got a better designer than i start with, decentish driver on one but low stats on the other that doesn't seem to make a huge difference from what i have seen

[Zetec-S]

Struggling to get to grips with qualifying at the moment. My custom team (worst on the grid) managed 6th and 12th in practice (and were only 1/4s off fastest time), yet in qualifying came 19th/20th more than 2 seconds off the pace?

[chris285]

It's taken me a few seasons to get into the top 10-15, i got a good driver rated for setup and that i think has helped me out

[sgtBerbatov]

Zetec-S said:

Struggling to get to grips with qualifying at the moment. My custom team (worst on the grid) managed 6th and 12th in practice (and were only 1/4s off fastest time), yet in qualifying came 19th/20th more than 2 seconds off the pace?

Are you secretly recreating Toro Rosso?

[StuTheGrouch]

Am I looking at the wrong game on Steam? It's £24.99 from what I can see

[Zetec-S]

StuTheGrouch said:

Am I looking at the wrong game on Steam? It's £24.99 from what I can see

Yes, but I think it was only on sale over the weekend, now back at full price.