F1 Changes for Next Season

Because you are the ones who play and suport this game, we always care about your opinion. Few days ago I announced changes for the soon future. Some of those ideas was not final at that moment and I wanted to listen your thoughts to see what you think would imporve the game and what would not. Now after some time you were able to give your feedback and we had chace to rethink our ideas. So here is summary how I decided.

For more details check the previous news with more explanaton about the changes.

1. Minimum team value set to 5000 coins - this stands with no changes.

2. Driver contracts for next season can be cancelled before series finalization - this stands too, but I would like to clarify it a little. It is possible only in case something big was changed since the contract signing. For example if driver retires, team management can request this. Or team promissed to driver that he will make the best possible car for next season, but then after signing contract team started to save money and stop improving car for next season to make stronger push in further future. In this case driver can request to cancel contract. F1 commissioner will look at the case and after investigating all the evidence, he will decide if he approves the contract cancelation. Don`t expect us to cancel contract just because you changed your prefferences.

3. If team does not have signed 2 drivers for next season, team is disqualified from the game - also stands and possible multiplaying will be punished as announced.

4. Downgrade F1 facility penalty - stands as announced and will be applied from the start of season 19.

5. New qualification format in F1 - stands as announced, we will use the real F1 qualification from 2015.

6. Lower number of tyres for F1 - stands as announced, we will have 4 softs, 4 hards, 5 intermediates, 5 wets for one F1 race.

7. Changing the share auction system - we will not implement this at the moment, but we will punish heavily any attempt to demotivate others to bid in the auction.

8. Wrong tyres in testing penalty - we will not disable using wrong tyres for testing but there will be penaly in form of much worse feedback. Lap times and tyre wear will not be changed bacause we think it is already implemented well, but if you use wrong tyres you will get much less advices than now.

9. Revolutionary parts - it will not be implemented for the start of next season, but we will continue to build this idea for the future. It will be started when we think it is the right time for that so not neccessarily at the begining of any season. The right time for this will come only when we start to believe that this is the best possibility to improve excitement in F1.

10. DRS Improvement - this was not announced but requested by you. Until now DRS was just a part which improved the car speed in all situations. Something like we had in the past in real F1 qualifications. That means better downforce in curves and better max speed on straights. Now we decided to implement DRS zones to the F1 tracks and DRS will be used in F1 only when previous driver is less than 1 second ahead of you. We will be thinking about adding this feature to some other series where overtaking is very difficult, maybe Formula E can be the next one in the future.