Another F1 championship soon finished. 2007. Driving as Raikkonen/Ferrari and just one point gap to Fernando Alonso when there's only China and Interlagos left.
I tweaked the champs files for a month by trial and error to achieve realistic results. I have Alonso ai skill at 95 and Hamilton at 96. Screenshot has them at 93 but I set them to 95-96 to increase the challenge. Lower tier drivers have low aggression on purpose because I've found out that it makes qualifying much easier when they're not pushing you off the track constantly. I also limited the grid to 19 cars because 22 is too excessive and it creates very, very difficult QF sessions, especially on tracks like Monaco and Hungaroring.
All tracks in correct order as they were in the real 2007 season.
"track": "albert-park_acu",
"track": "sepang",
"track": "bahrain_2020",
"track": "ks_barcelona",
"track": "monaco_gp21-layout_gp_2022",
"track": "gilles-villeneuve",
"track": "indianapolis2001",
"track": "magnycours21",
"track": "ks_silverstone",
"track": "ks_nurburgring",
"track": "acu_hungaroring",
"track": "acu_istanbul-park",
"track": "monza",
"track": "spa1988",
"track": "fuji_speedway_mts",
"track": "china-gp",
"track": "interlagos",
Very, very challenging to get poles and wins but it's possible on every track. Only Monaco is rather slow (as usual). Ai can only achieve about 1:22-1:23 with these general settings. But if you increase the ai to 100 it becomes insanely fast on other tracks. I have used the 2022 layout because on 2002 track ai cars didn't leave the pits with the cars I used. Same with Fuji. Every single track has been tested separately. All work perfectly. If someone wants to try these settings here you go.
I have no idea what I can share here. I shared some hard to find tracks at Racedepartment and it was forbidden but sharing these settings should cause no problem.
Don't do ANY changes to CM ballast/restrictor settings. That way the ai skill level will be consistent all through the season. I've found out that if you set the ai skill on the champs file and make any simultaneous ballast/restrictor changes it will screw things up after the 1st race.
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I have done excessive playtesting for months and I have fully working and rather realistic champs settings for F1 seasons:
1982
1986
1988
1991
1998
Let me know if you want them.
I don't know if I can share the 2007 F1 car and skins. Let me know if it's possible. It's all in one download that I found elsewhere. I'm not really familiar with the politics part of these mods. I just play and enjoy.