Anyone with a passing interest in F1 surely knows the broad strokes of Frontier’s F1 Manager series by now—you take control of a real team, you build and design new parts for your car, and then you take that car to race weekends and oversee the events in pleasingly granular detail. That’s just as true of this year’s sophomore release as it was of the debut, except that in F1 Manager 2023 you also have the option of getting stuck straight into races.
‘Race moments’ and ‘starting grid’ scenarios effectively strip away the long game, all the interstitial material between races, and allow you to jump into the fun bit immediately. In the case of race moments, that means reliving a real moment from the 2023 season and trying to change the course of history by righting one of those heartbreaking stories—Lando’s 2021 Sochi grand prix is the obvious example, although the race moments in this game are from 2023 only. Starting grid scenarios, meanwhile, don’t have any historical context—they’re essentially the quick race mode equivalent for a management sim.
