How F1 2023 has better balanced the handling conundrum of racing games

On the one hand, they want to produce a car that feels real and challenging to the hardcore sim-racers, but if they do that too well then it risks alienating the casual gamer who just wants to jump in and have some immediate fun. It’s a balancing act that the official F1 games have had to tread in recent years, and it’s something that was central to one of the big changes made to this …Keep reading
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Ricciardo never wants to go back to McLaren F1 level of driving style detail

Ricciardo’s three-year McLaren contract was ended one year early last winter after the Australian struggled to get on with the team’s F1 cars.In the difficult-to-handle McLaren, Ricciardo was consistently behind team-mate Lando Norris during his two seasons in Woking, despite taking a shock win at the 2021 Italian Grand Prix.Ricciardo was then snapped up by Red Bull as a third driver during his …Keep reading
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How the downwash solution ended up winning F1’s sidepod war

However, despite some clearly more prescriptive regulations, there were distinct differences between each machine, with the sidepods, in particular, offering a wide variety of design solutions.Now, a year and a half into this regulatory era, we have started to see a wholesale shift towards one of these concepts – the downwash solution – as teams realise it best serves the overall aerodynamic …Keep reading
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F1 side of Honda now involved in ending its MotoGP “stagnation”

Honda continues to languish in second-to-last in the constructors’ standings ahead of only Yamaha, after both marques combined to score just three points from the recent British Grand Prix weekend.Read more: The forgotten trooper of Honda’s MotoGP miseryHRC has scored a victory in 2023 courtesy of Alex Rins at the Americas GP, but this has so far proven to be an outlier result – with the …Keep reading
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Ferrari F1 recovery being helped by protective “bubble”, says Leclerc 

The Maranello squad has endured a difficult 2023 campaign where its hopes of challenging for the championship quickly evaporated off the back of race struggles with its SF-23 car. But, under new team boss Vasseur, the squad has made a number of infrastructure changes and car tweaks that appear to have helped turn things around – with Leclerc back on the podium at the recent Belgian Grand …Keep reading
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Piastri: Fighting for F1 podiums a “distant dream” at the start of 2023

Piastri looked set for a low-key debut season with McLaren as his team missed its development targets for its 2023 car and started off the season on the back foot.The MCL60’s deficiencies only allowed the Australian to score five points in the first nine races, while experienced team-mate Lando Norris similarly failed to wring a string of results out of the relatively inefficient and hard-to-drive …Keep reading
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