You’ll move to F1 regardless of how you perform in these set-ups but, depending on your decisions and finishing positions, your first-person cutscenes with Weber and Butler will change. Here Codemasters introduces a pair of fantasy drivers – the shrewd but sportsmanlike German Lukas Weber and the cocksure Devon Butler, an arrogant Brit who appears to be using his racing career as an audition to appear as the next Die Hard villain. If you want to hop straight into the regular career mode, however, F1 2019 condenses a season of F2 down into a brief string of three late-race scenarios plucked from what’s destined to be your racer’s final year in the feeder series before snaring a contact in the big leagues. Unlike F1, F2 is a spec series so all the cars are identical in terms of performance. They’re not as fast as F1 cars but they have less downforce, so they’re actually slightly trickier to drive in certain situations.
“Codemasters has been adding retro F1 cars to the F1 series for some time now, all with their own handling nuances that set them apart from today’s bleeding-edge F1 cars, so it’s no surprise the studio has been able to squeeze in the Dallara F2 chassis and have it feel equally distinct.
