![]() ![]() I think it’s a clever and credible way of getting these old cars out on modern circuits, but the limited, greatest hits-style approach results in copies of the same car out on track whenever they’re all out racing. They’re a bit like the Showcase Events in Forza Motorsport 6. This Ferrari still holds a host of current lap records, 13 years later.į1 2017’s classic cars are weaved through the career mode in a series of invitational events, which vary between overtaking challenges, checkpoint challenges, and handicap and multiclass races. They also sound fantastic, but I don’t know whether or not that’s just because contemporary F1 cars sound like an angry blowfly trying to escape from an upturned bucket in comparison. ![]() They do feel very distinct from the modern cars, and each other, and it’s fun to compare and contrast them. The sense of weight is terrific.Īlso featured is a smattering of retro rides from yesteryear, with 11 (or 12, with the special edition) extra F1 icons from five teams included (from Senna’s championship-winning 1991 McLaren to Schumacher’s beastly 2004 Ferrari). The 2017 cars feel like they’re clinging to the road a fraction more tenaciously than their 2016 counterparts. On a steering wheel it’s probably the best force feedback I’ve ever felt in a Codemasters game and the sense of weight is terrific, but even on a pad the extra bite is noticeable. Codemasters has responded, bringing all of that extra girth, grip, and speed to the new cars in F1 2017. Basically, the cars are heavier but faster. This year’s Formula One season saw a massive shake-up in car regulations, which has resulted in bigger cars with wider tyres and improved aero. It’s not the dramatic improvement that last year’s instalment was over the disappointing F1 2015 – overall there’s more iteration than innovation this year – but it definitely usurps F1 2016 as Codemasters’ greatest F1 game to date. It challenges us with volatile racing but rewards consistency, patience, and strategy. F1 2017 is a confident and comprehensive racer that succeeds by embracing all of modern F1’s idiosyncratic rules and regulations, as well as its danger, and baking it all into a truly great sports sim. This kind of split-second unpredictability is a staple of real F1 and Codemasters continues to capture it. ![]() It’s still very early days but the championship has pivoted in an instant. I manage to extract my driver from the mess, grazing the wall and losing part of the front wing in the process, but Hamilton and Vettel’s cars are toast a snarl of carbon fibre shards and loose wheels. He’s turned into Hamilton at race pace and managed to tangle himself, Lewis, and my F1 wunderkind Jackie Speedweasel together for a date with the wall. During the Russian Grand Prix, in the first year of my F1 2017 career, he’s done something similar. As ever Sky Sports F1 will show them all with 10 also broadcast live on Channel 4.In this year’s Azerbaijan Grand Prix Ferrari driver Sebastian Vettel had a real brain snap on track, pulling up alongside rival Lewis Hamilton’s Mercedes and steering into him during a safety car restart. Hungaroring: Tuesday August 1-Wednesday August 2Īfter last year's record-breaking 21 races, the 2017 calendar is back down to 20.Bahrain: Tuesday April 18-Wednesday April 19.This year will also include two mid-season tests. Barcelona: Tuesday March 7-Friday March 10.Barcelona: Monday February 27-Thursday March 1.After the last of the launches at Barcelona on Sunday, testing starts at the Spanish track the following day. ![]()
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