Understanding Design and Development - F1 Manager 2023 

i feel you, zhou did the same to my poor alpha remeo team.

For Quali the AI will now send the cars out more randomly as they are looking for good windows which makes Qualifying a bit more chaotic. For the race itself the AI will push fuel/ERS/Attack at the start of the race for a few laps, and use it as they see fit for the remaining race, they will be proactive in pitting behind safety cars even with 70% or higher tyres if they think they will see a benefit. So the AI has had drastic improvements compared to 22 to make them far more competitive. They will still use damaged parts, but the impact of the damaged parts has been drastically lessened, where a yellow engine will cost you about a tenth a lap vs. half a second it did in 22.

The expertise gain will be applied to the next part

The expertise gains from using intense, would only take effect once you designed the "next" part, not the one being designed under intense. Remember, each newly designed part uses the expertise of the engineers at the beginning of the design stage

I'd probably use the first couple ATR periods on the underfloor to develop a good base to work on the rest of the car from.

@@NeroBax but do you mean using all of the cfd and wind tunnel hours on it

You can make specialized parts no problem, as parts will get equal expertise in all categories from design. Because of this you can safely make as specialized parts as you want no problem.

Mainly dependent on your money and regulations. You want to have 100% slot uptime for your design/research slot.

I mainly just put them into 1 project to make my life a bit easier. You can split them up if you prefer it.

I'd probably stick with cornering until I'd reach top 3 in those stats before starting to catch up on top speed/dirty air cornering.

@@NeroBaxso just all corner sliders to the right on every part?

The rear wing alone makes up for it

Top speed isn't that important for the car, you will have more benefit from being quicker in the corners. As long as you make up for the loss of top speed with DRS gains you should be fine.

it works

@@NeroBax aye I get you pal gonna start a fresh save with Mercedes see how this development works with them I used your other development method and worked like a charm I won everything in season one with Mercedes.

Acceleration will be mainly down to your engine choice, other than that it is drag reduction/airflow on other parts that will help with it.

It's made with a deeper understanding on how things work, the video 8 days ago overvalued I'd say the intense development for 1, but it is generally a video made with a much better understanding of development than the one before.

Downforce airflow refers your cars ability to handle corners. Airflow sensitivity refers to the cars ability to follow other cars without losing pace.

Durability has gotten a small tweak but as long as your factory is lv 3 you will mostly be fine and I'd say the performance gain is worth the lower lifetime. Front wings you might wanna consider upping a little bit on the durability.

Thanks

For design you can place the sliders as you wish, as the expertise gain will be equal across the part no matter where the slider is.

​@@NeroBaxthanks for the quick response, goat got a new sub

I keep the underfloor balanced, except minimum durability. It gives decent gains alround so that why it's kept balanced.

That's what I thought, based on your previous videos, but I wasn't sure if that had changed. A lot of what is "optimal" for the first set of parts seems to have changed in the initial weeks. Cheers.

No matter how you put your sliders, you will get just as much expertise for a maxed slider as you will for a minimum slider, so making specialized parts is definitively possible.

I generally use the underfloor as a base, meaning I prefer to keep the sliders balanced, except for minimum durability.

@@NeroBax thank you

Does not affect time nor money or have any affect for design as the stats will be the same as balanced.

@@NeroBax so basically, having the slider all on the middle is the same as having it all on the right?

Yes. All sliders to the right will be the same as balanced.

Race Engineers, Sporting Director, and scout/pit/engineer teams all count against the cap, all other drivers and staff do not count

Yes they do, but I wouldn't worry about going over as long as you can pay the fines and no go into debt the board don't care. As long as you are on target for the bored objectives

Driver salaries are exempt from the cost cap, and by the looks of it so are your two most expensive staff members. In the Alpha Tauri save we are paying 3.145.000 to the cost cap for staff salaries, which adds up to our 3 cheapest members contracts. So drivers + 2 most expensive staff members should not have an effect on your cost cap.

That is not how weight saving works. These cars weigh a minimum of 798 kgs. Removing 20kg or less than 2,5% of the weight will not allow you to cut your fuel usage by 10+%. The main thing you will get from cutting weight is part performance.

​@@NeroBaxk

You can find a link to discord in the description.

Yes, research has now been fixed so it is now very important for expertise distribution, slider will now have an effect on what you get a gain from.