Got this game a few days ago on PS4 and boy have I been missing out.
Started a career with
Manor on hard difficulty, inexplicably qualified in 5th position for Australia - this was after achieving the team expectations in practices.
Anyway at race start I immediately crashed into Ricciardo and had to pit for repairs, came back out under the safety car in last place, clawed my way back up to about 9th... and then done it again
I eventually finished 15th just ahead of my rival
Wehrlein and the team were delighted with me.
This game is amazing. I haven't played an F1 game since, jeez.. about 2002 or something. The racing is so genuinely tense, I have everything set to manual (pits, starts and whatever else I can) and I'm having an absolute blast. Can't ever remember being thrilled to finish in 15th place in a racing game. So much fun.
The only thing that really confuses me is giving the radio instructions - I just can't concentrate on the MFSW enough to answer questions while driving at those speeds. So I ignore it.
*edited to correct team and driver names. I was confused earlier.
................ [update] ..................
WON the Bahrain GP
I think I need to up the difficulty level as I should be nowhere near the front in a Manor.
Started on pole almost a second ahead of Hamilton, and despite a bizarre safety car session and slipping down to 18th after an early pit stop, I won by about 2 seconds from Hamilton.
How does the SC work? The flags came out and "no overtaking" was displayed, and as I was trying to get my delta into the green I was overtaken by Verstappen. When I tried to regain my place I was warned not to overtake. What?
Then he pitted and Lewis Hamilton overtook me into pole (I was then warned not to overtake Hamilton). This was all going on behind the safety car. When the race restarted I had 4 laps left and eventually took pole to win but even so, why are the AI drivers allowed to overtake while the safety car is out?