#Supercars racing room driver

The new ’22 spec Formula One car is a different, arguably more challenging beast from previous years lower on downforce and more clumsy on turn-in. The supercar challenges remain a diverting palate cleanser in the middle of a long season, but you’re unlikely to fire up the game specifically to play them.įortunately, what the F1 series does best… err, F1, is still absolutely brilliant. This is clearly a game whose physics model is very specifically tuned for stiffly sprung, lightweight racing cars and the introduction of road cars exposes that deficiency somewhat. While the inclusion of supercars isn’t fundamentally a bad idea, it’s hamstrung by the fact, compared to something like Gran Turismo 7, that they handle with all the grace and poise of a broken shopping trolley.

The new F1 Life mode allows you to customise a fancy living room, which is more The Sims than driving sim, and there’s now a modest stable of road-going supercars that can be used in a series of ‘Pirelli Hot Laps’ challenges. Strangely enough, the biggest new additions to F1 22 are very little to do with actually driving Formula One cars. We’re not so interested in the bit where they pop to the shops for a pint of milk in their daily or browse material swatches for a new rug in their minimalist living room.

#Supercars racing room driver

We’re not sure about you, but the bit of being an F1 driver we’re interested in is the bit where they’re placed in the cockpit of an unattainable 20 million quid racing car and told to have at it.