Grand Prix Manager (1984) is probably the first F1 manager game ever made. We will also mainly look at “feature-games” that has been released, and not look closely at the vast amount of free and/or unreleased games. It will not cover all games, and we will probably skip a game or two that someone feels strongly should be included. One for F1 Manager 23, perhaps.In a series of articles here at RaceDepartment, we will try to go through the history of F1 management games.
The only thing missing is a minigame where you go on an awkward horse ride with your former-Spice-Girl wife. While management games are slower paced than racing games by design, and occasionally you will wish you could wrestle control from your drivers and get the overtake done yourself, there's definitely something to be said for a game where you can wander to the fridge for a snack or idly thumb through your social media feed during a race without a catastrophic accident happening. The connective tissue between those weekends is suitably engaging as well, with curveballs like regulation changes thrown in to prevent your finely honed development plan from going too smoothly. If the last time you played a management game it looked like a jumped up Excel spreadsheet, you'll be blown away by the efforts to make every event feel like a real race weekend. Like its more driving-focussed stablemate F1 22, F1 Manager 22's triumph is in its atmosphere of absolute authenticity. It's easy to spend two hours attempting to micromanage every on-track battle, when actually you're scrapping over tiny gains and the real meaningful results will come from ensuring the hundred or so plates spinning back at the factory don't become a smashed crockery carpet. The trap, though, is that it's so detailed you'll be tempted to watch it like a real grand prix. In a neat touch, there are even samples of real team radio for each driver as your instructions are relayed to the cockpit. You watch every race as if it's a live broadcast, flicking between television and onboard camera positions to keep an eye on your two drivers.
Presentationally, the game looks stunning. The game's tutorial eases you in gently with race weekend strategy guidance, but then cuts you loose in a galaxy of seemingly tiny engineering decisions, all of which add up to potentially seconds worth of pace on the track. As you might expect from a sport that is highly technical, in F1M 22 there are a staggering number of variables that you'll be tinkering with in your quest for world championships.
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