Much is being made of the new
Young Drivers mode, which is a method used in the real life championship to discover new racing talent from lower tiers such as GP2.
Not exact matches
Teen
Driver mode is an innovative safety feature designed to help encourage safer habits in
younger drivers.
The tests begin simple enough but quickly advance, guiding you through the basics of cornering and into using the likes of KERS and DRS. Thankfully this year you can skip through the
Young Drivers test, allowing those who are already familiar with the game to get on with it, although do bear in mind that completing all of the challenges will present you with a wider choice of staring team for career
mode.
The demo will let you have a taste of two new game
modes:
Young Driver Test and Season Challenge.
Multiple play
modes include an expanded
Young Drivers Test and carry - over Career, Time Trial, Time Attack, and Season Challenge options.
For veterans of the series the
Young Driver test doesn't offer a whole lot except for a short amount of boredom as the career
mode is inaccessible until you've completed it, but for newcomers it takes you through simple things like driving in a straight line to learning how KERS and DRS works.
Players should begin their career
mode by having to earn a race seat at one of the teams towards the back of the grid or earning a race seat at a team via the
young driver development programme hosted by such teams as Mercedes, Ferrari, Red Bull, Williams and McLaren Honda.
There's also the career
mode which starts with the
Young Drivers Test, a sort of tutorial that gets you up to speed with the controls of a Formula 1 car.
Boot up F1 2013, negotiate the
Young Driver Test (which dictates the car you will be allowed to pilot in Career
mode), and you will find a new menu item entitled F1 Classics.