Motorsport Manager is a simplified version of Football Manager, except its about racing Formula 1/ GT cars instead. To say this was originally a mobile game shows as because of it providing a fairly simple interface with helpful tooltips whenever hovering over any of the names/icons whilst retaining key/important information.

The gameplay side is split into two sections, pre/post-race team management and actual raceday management with you in control of both, although you can refer some decisions to the computer/staff such as, the 'new' pit crew update. The only issues I have with pre/post-race team management is why certain people don't want to join your team without a real reason other than, "I'm not interested", yet they are unemployed at a young-ish age.

Race-day management is simple, yet allows for strategy, for example, if it going to rain through the race, you can plan around it, however the forcasting is unreliable sometimes (as it should be.) However, you really only have limited control over your drivers, except for telling them to push their tyres or the engine as well as setting pit-stops, the rest is up to the stats of the car and the drivers which, early game (especially when creating your own team) is going to be very low so getting decent place finishes can be a struggle.

Another criticism of the game is the randomness of events that can happen with no real explanation, such as drivers getting caught by the media doing something illegal or suddenly deciding to go for a career in modeling, or even when there is no positive/neutral answer during an interview, which end up turning into the same questions. "Why did you go for a fast pitstop" "Why are your parts so rubbish and holding 'Driver' back?" etc.

Even with the problems it has, the dev team have pushed out some nice updates and QoL fixes, such as saving practice setups and tweaks to the AI so they respond to changes in the weather better, it continues to be a fun game in small bursts. Plus it got me interested even though i'm not interested in actual Formula 1 racing.

I would say to pick this up on sale (like at the moment) if you enjoy management games or even Formula 1 racing games.