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So, a couple things I've learned (or will have to come back and edit later if it turns out that I think I've learned them but I'm wrong) that may be helpful to others...
When you get to the point of choosing a car for the first phase of your career, there is no option that I could find to back out of that screen to try some of the cars out before deciding (usually on XBOX the "B" will pop you back to the previous screen, but no luck here). So, check out the list of car options in advance (noting which are available depending on which tier you hit) and get an idea of which car you'll be comfortable with... there is no test drive. I didn't see any of the cars I usually prefer driving (Lambo and Lexus are my favorites so far, and I don't mind the Audi), so I chose the Aston V12 after reading that it was easy to control. It turns out that, at the first event, the Aston and I discovered that we don't actually get along, primarily because I'd like it to go around the turns but it would prefer to either just go past them or turn around and go home. Looks like I'm going back to redo the Youngsters test if I want to drive something else (and to try to get gold if I want to drive something I'm already familiar with, since neither of my preferred cars is an option if you're a silver driver, like me).
And when you create your team, I assumed (since I'm going to be on the team) that I was a team mate. So I put my gamer tag in for the first driver spot, and used a made-up name for the second driver spot. Well, it turns out that even though there are only two drivers shown on the screen, there are supposed to be three drivers in total, and the game will use your gamer tag to automatically create one of them. Why are there two drivers displayed and three on the team? I don't know, and so far I don't think Aris has covered that in one of his videos. Adding yourself in one of the two available slots seems to cause some kind of bug because when I got to my first pit stop that required a driver change I navigated down in the MFD screen and... there was no driver available, just a completely empty spot where it looked like a name should be. So, you will be on the team (the coach promised) but don't put your own name down when creating your team.
And, as others have pointed out in this thread, a little voice inside you may say "hey, a race in heavy rain? That would be an ideal time to try out your wet-weather tires". Don't listen to that voice. We don't know yet when those tires will be needed, but it's apparently not in heavy rain.
When you get to the point of choosing a car for the first phase of your career, there is no option that I could find to back out of that screen to try some of the cars out before deciding (usually on XBOX the "B" will pop you back to the previous screen, but no luck here). So, check out the list of car options in advance (noting which are available depending on which tier you hit) and get an idea of which car you'll be comfortable with... there is no test drive. I didn't see any of the cars I usually prefer driving (Lambo and Lexus are my favorites so far, and I don't mind the Audi), so I chose the Aston V12 after reading that it was easy to control. It turns out that, at the first event, the Aston and I discovered that we don't actually get along, primarily because I'd like it to go around the turns but it would prefer to either just go past them or turn around and go home. Looks like I'm going back to redo the Youngsters test if I want to drive something else (and to try to get gold if I want to drive something I'm already familiar with, since neither of my preferred cars is an option if you're a silver driver, like me).
And when you create your team, I assumed (since I'm going to be on the team) that I was a team mate. So I put my gamer tag in for the first driver spot, and used a made-up name for the second driver spot. Well, it turns out that even though there are only two drivers shown on the screen, there are supposed to be three drivers in total, and the game will use your gamer tag to automatically create one of them. Why are there two drivers displayed and three on the team? I don't know, and so far I don't think Aris has covered that in one of his videos. Adding yourself in one of the two available slots seems to cause some kind of bug because when I got to my first pit stop that required a driver change I navigated down in the MFD screen and... there was no driver available, just a completely empty spot where it looked like a name should be. So, you will be on the team (the coach promised) but don't put your own name down when creating your team.
And, as others have pointed out in this thread, a little voice inside you may say "hey, a race in heavy rain? That would be an ideal time to try out your wet-weather tires". Don't listen to that voice. We don't know yet when those tires will be needed, but it's apparently not in heavy rain.
. It won't last but I'll take it!
how come I couldn't use the driver with his name highlighted then? 
