![]() Perhaps best of all, however, is the return of split-screen. There is no shortage of content in F1 2020. Zandvoort and Hanoi make their debut and, while the latter is a little plain to look at from track level, a pair of long straights and some gently snaking S-sections that you can basically straightline through contribute to a pretty wicked sense of speed. You know, the one that was going to start in Australia instead of Austria. ![]() Failing that, there’s still the regular Championship mode, where you play as a real driver in a fantasy version of the 2020 season. Like last year you can start with a small F2 appetiser, though you can also complete a full season of it this time, if you wish. Time to SplitIf additional team micromanagement isn’t your bag, or you just bleed Ferrari red and could never imagine racing against them, My Team hasn’t replaced the traditional Career Mode it still exists as a separate mode. But, minor grievances aside, mixing a robust motorsports management experience with the series’ existing brand of excellent on-track action means My Team isn’t just the best thing Codemasters has ever added to its F1 franchise – it may be the best addition to any F1 game since Psygnosis coaxed Murray Walker into a sound booth back in the late ’90s. ![]() Yes, some of the recycled cutscenes clash a bit with the fantasy of you being the boss now. Yes, it’s a bit silly that showing any kind of specific attention to one department makes the rest of your staff grumpy, like they’re a bunch of five-year-olds who missed out on a cookie. Yes, the livery selection scope is ultimately pretty narrow. How dare he? After everything Jack Speedweasel Racing did for him! Seeing him finish last in the first round after leaving my team was surprisingly satisfying. When my first driver refused to re-sign after our debut season – after all the time I dedicated to boosting his stats via training – I was pretty bent out of shape. Previous F1 career modes simply haven’t been able to produce the same emotional connection. It’s because the sense of ownership over the destiny of my race team is something unique to F1 2020. And it’s not just because the finite number of days in the F1 calendar means it’s a constant juggling act to schedule everything from training for your second driver to team building activities for your various R&D departments. And it’s not just because there are visible things to spend vast sums of your sponsorship bucks on – like upgrades to various parts of your business, including bigger and better simulators and fancy wind tunnels for your aero boffins. I’ve never hit the 10-year mark in previous F1 games, but I could here. ![]() “My Team adds a huge amount of longevity to F1 2020. That means choosing team colours, assembling a logo, signing a power unit, securing sponsors, honing a livery and matching race suits, contracting a second driver, and watching your finances as you attempt to grow your organisation into an outfit that can challenge the established powerhouses. You need to build a brand new team from the ground up, effectively becoming the 11th team within the F1 championship. While past F1 career modes have allowed us to control car upgrade R&D on behalf of our employers, giving drivers at least some influence on what happens off the circuit, My Team massively eclipses this. Where previously we’ve needed to choose and join an existing team as a driver-for-hire, and hop between them as the opportunities arise, F1 2020 allows players to follow in the footsteps of greats like Sir Jack Brabham and Bruce McLaren and build their own personal race teams around them – all while still taking to the track every weekend. Leading by ExampleMy Team stands apart from past F1 career modes by casting players as not just a driver, but as a team owner, too. It’s organisation versus organisation in a chequebook-shattering technological arms race, and F1 2020’s fantastic new My Team mode is a wonderful and addictive representation of this war over precious milliseconds. Formula One really is much, much more than just driver versus driver.
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