For all the lads saying Honda is too strong: you're probably picking Ross Brawn as engineer, but in reality he was the Team Principal, the car was actually made by Jorg Zander, so that's the one you should pick. I've done careers with other teams and Honda's performance was mostly accurate with Zander

Honda seams much to strong. Win every race...

Karun Chandock got injured for a few weeks and Latifi joined the team LMAO this mod is golden

I wish this was about 11 earlier! Berger was always my favourite driver, haha. I'm sure it's great and I'm def gonna try it though.

It usually isn't that easy, there is a range for the car performance which depends on the chief designer's ability, but of you're lucky and average designer night produce a good car and viceversa. That said, Honda usually overperforms compared to real life, but that's because their designer was generally pretty good and just got 2007 and 2008 quite wrong, so i didn't want to nerf him for the rest of the career.

I don't know if it is just me, if I was really lucky or anything else, but I decided to try this mod. I do not know anything about F1 racing outside of this game pretty much.
I started my campaign, decided to go with Honda, because I wanted a challenge and it was expected 9th/10. I searched google for what team members I should hire, to go with what Honda would've had in 2008 and found an exact match, and within the team's budget.
Already here I thought that these members, except the team leader, seemed very strong for an expected 9th place. But then my cars were built, the mechanic being very skilled, I got 2/3 parts at near maximul (2800 if I recall) and the third one closer to the min (2200).

First race, qualif placed my drivers 1st and 2nd, actual race went the same without much effort... Is there a balancing issue, was I really lucky, I really don't believe it was skill on my part, not on the first race.

Lewis way too strong

This mod is worth its weight in gold
Great great work

Hi, very good mod that works perfectly without anything to do. Great job, thanks a lot. The only "negative" thing is that, I find at least, Hamilton way too strong

Best mod i've tried for this game

It's 4 a.m. and I'm in tears of joy.

This mode is the funniest thing I saw in a long while. Totally addictive and unpredictable which makes playing alternate F1 history a satisfying experience. Hamilton won S1 and joined Massa at Ferrari. Red Bull hired Vettel and Rosberg and MSC made his return with Williams to pair up with Kazuki Nakajima.

Yeah I noticed that too, it happens because he has the RichParents trait and the game takes 4 drivers with that trait to be randomly available at all times so that even if teams run out of budget they can replace injured or dead drivers and the game can go on. I had to put several paydrivers under this category, also I think something similar happens for privateers. I'll try assigning him the privateer trait and see what happens, but due to the game's nature you will still have some drivers showing up early as I can't control when that happens but I can only decide if they are available at the start of the career or not, but after that they appear randomly

i love the idea of the mod but it seems a little flawed still - started a new career and in the second race Bourdais was killed and Toro Rosso replaced him with Latifi who would've been 13 at the time?? would be great if it could get a future update smoothing out the rough edges

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Okay so final update, apparently the reason why Kimi was so dominant (and Alonso too btw) is the AeroMaster trait, which gives drivers a huge advantage, resulting in the top drivers with the trait lapping everyone. I've removed it for the three drivers that have it at the start of career (Kimi, Alonso and Schumacher), I'll now start a new career to see if any other drivers have it in order to remove it (I don't remember who I gave it to anymore :)) So now you should have closer races, with Hamilton having the slight advantage over everyone else.

Hi y'all, sorry for not updating the game in a while. I've now fixed both issues you had brought up. I don't know why Kimi was so OP, cause he had 9/7 for speed and focus, which is lower than Hamilton, but it might have somenthing to do with his traits. I've tried to fix it, let me know if it's all good now and if you find any more problems with the mod. Also, thanks for your support on the mod, I'm glad you like it, I stopped playing the game for quite a while but I thing I'll get back to spending quite a few hours on it.

Hey man, i love your mod and the dedication you putted into it, for example having your driver in the right team outfit is very cool but please, please, put an update for Kimi Raikonnen, he is too powerfull, even with the best car and drivers at the same time (hamilton and alonso), raikonnen is flying and outmatch everyone by 4 seconds per lap

I know he was very fast at the beginning of its career but he also lacked consistency and the driver you created is like Senna, Schumacher, Hamilton if they fusionned into the ultimate apex f1 driver

Its my favorite mod on this game and every drivers are cool but Raikonnen is killing the entertainment. Could you do something about it mate please ? :)

Yeah I'll change them in a coming update

That's fair, although with Kubica, players could do alternate history and roleplay that he doesn't have an accident. Because even with mid career trait, its possible he is still around 2012 and beyond.

Yeah fair enough, Kubica was Just due to his lack of longevity in F1, although it was due to the accident. Rosberg must've been a mistake

I would suggest giving Nico Rosberg and Robert Kubica "early career" traits, as 2008 was only their 3rd season in Formula 1.