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Perhaps one of the most important keys to your success in F1T is your driver. They are the ones that will step into your car and win you races or leave you struggling at the back of the pack. The driver page contains information about your driver’s contract, salary, skills and statistics.

Contents 1 Contract 1.1 Drivers market 1.2 Contract extension 2 Skills 2.1 Primary skills 2.2 Secondary skills 2.3 Form 2.4 Experience 2.5 Motivation 3 Stats 4 Favourite tracks 5 Random driver

Contract

The contract shows you the terms you have agreed to with your current driver. This includes the salary costs, length, and the number of races remaining.

Eventually the contract will expire or you will decide you do not want your current driver. When this happens there are a number of options you can take.

Drivers market

When the your driver’s contract is in its final season you have the option to try and resign them from the drivers market. If they are happy with the team it may not be difficult, but if they are unhappy with the results they may choose to go elsewhere or ask for much more money. If you no longer want to (or can’t) resign your driver you can let their contract expire and hire a new one when they are in the final season of their contract. You also have the option to sign a new driver and break the current driver's contract before the final season by signing a driver immediately. The new driver will start one race after they are signed, but breaking the contract of the current driver will cost you the equivalent of three races of their salary.

Contract extension

During the final year of a driver's contract you have the option to extend their contract. The terms of this extension are not negotiable except for the team goal. The length of the contract will always be for one year and the salary increase per race is a set rate of increase. The only allowance for altering the contract is to re-evaluate the team goals for the next season. The benefit of extending a driver contract is that they can not be signed by any other manager as could happen by allowing them back onto the open market.

You can extend your driver's contract at any point up until they enter negotiations with other managers. Once they enter the negotiation phase of contract talks they can no longer be renewed.

Skills

The driver skills will give you a very good indication of how your driver will perform. The more a driver races, the more they will learn, but as they get older, or during the off season, some skills may in fact decrease. Before each race or test session the manager can select a skill for the driver to focus their training on. This will usually help the driver improve their skill in that area.

Primary skills

There are four primary driver skills that contribute to the driver's DRP.

• Concentration – The ability of the driver to focus lap after lap.
• Speed – How far the driver is willing to push the limits. Some drivers just don’t have what it takes to push as much as others.
• Racing Line – The way in which a driver uses the race track. A driver with great natural talent may do well, but can never go as fast as their full potential without good technique.
• Stamina – The ability of the driver to keep going, especially late in the race.

Secondary skills

There are seven secondary skills that each provide some advantage to the driver during the race weekend.

• Skill – The overall talent of your driver.
• Starting – The reaction time at the start of the race. Skilled drivers can make up positions at the start while lesser drivers may fall back.
• Pole – The ability of the driver to go extremely fast over a single lap of qualifying.
• Reporting – The amount of driver feedback during practice, warm up, and qualifying is dependent on reporting. Drivers with a poor reporting skill will provide less setup information.
• Overtaking – The ability to pass other cars on track.
• Blocking – The skill of holding up faster cars and not allowing them past.
• Wet driving – The ability to drive well in wet conditions.

Form

If a driver fails to finish a race, performs badly, blows tyres, or has a poor DRP their form will drop. Form is tied to DRP, so if it drops the driver’s DRP will also be reduced until they regain their form.

Experience

Experience is not a primary or secondary skill and can not be trained. Experience is gained solely by participating in races. Experience, along with the primary skills, contributes to the driver's DRP and as experience grows, so does the driver's DRPP.

Motivation

Motivation is the basic desire to race and succeed. Drivers will lose motivation from poor results and it will take time for them to become completely motivated again. Motivation can not be trained as a skill.

Stats

The driver stats keep track of the driver’s career results.

Favourite tracks

The better a driver does at a particular track, the more they will like it and the better they will be when they return to race again. Drivers can gain up to 20 points of improvement at each race depending on how well they finish, but can also lose points for poor results.

Random driver

If you fail to secure a new driver from the drivers market before your current driver's contract runs out or you are starting new in Class 4 you will be assigned a random driver. Random drivers always cost $1 million per race and they are usually not very good, but good enough for Class 4.