u/KyleNewZealand

Will likely ask for some testers for iPhone and Android in the coming week :)

Hi all,

Apologies for the lack of updates the last couple of weeks. I've been overhauling everything about the game, so hoping to be able to be in a position to release it in the next 24 hours. Everytime I go to release it, I find a few bugs.

Will leave this here for you as a teaser..

In the middle of a marathon plan, and had a 5KM time trial last week where I managed a new PB (sub 20 yay!).

However, when I go to my plan and estimated race times, this hasn’t been updated. I understand Runna will review after the next interval session, but it seems odd to obtain a new PB but then see “current” 5k time to be nearly two mins slower than what I just ran.

Hi all

4 weeks ago I posted my free F1 manager game on here, and got a lot of great feedback! Since then I have updated the game every day, that's over 32 days of updates, specifically including the requests from this community and those on r/f1dynasty

For those that don't know, I was inspired by dumbmatter and his r/BasketballGM (BBGM) game, which I have played for 8+ years. I have tried my best to honour a F1 game while keeping it somewhat simple. It's not for diehard purists, but for those who want to have a bit of fun and to pass some time while at work, or "watching" something on TV (hopefully F1 soon!)

 https://f1dynasty.com/ is the link

Thanks to this community the game now has:

• Create Your Own Team, build a custom constructor from scratch on the career screen. Set your team name, nation, colour, engine supplier, and starting tier. Your team joins the grid alongside the real constructors, competes in standings, earns sponsorship, has board objectives, and participates in every game system just like any other team.
• Car development, allocate resources across performance attributes, with regulation changes shaking up the competitive order between seasons. Mid-season upgrade windows let you invest during the year, with real variance in outcomes.
• Driver management, sign and release drivers, approach contracted rivals, track form dips, injuries, and career peaks, and build your roster through a transfer market. Pre-sign feeder series prospects to a race or reserve seat before they hit free agency.
• Race simulation, full season race-by-race with safety cars, DNFs, pit strategy decisions, sprint weekends, and weather. Watch races live with real pit call prompts or simulate instantly.
• Race penalties, drivers receive 5s or 10s time penalties based on aggression, close battles, and conditions. Penalty incidents appear live in Watch Race with the infraction reason and show as badges on race results.
• Academy system, recruit young prospects as young as 14, develop them over seasons, promote them or loan them out. Strong reserves now contribute to car development through simulator feedback.
• Engine contracts, choose your power unit supplier, sign multi-year deals, watch the market evolve as AI teams switch suppliers. Invest in PU development to recover degraded stats over a long career.
• Sponsorship, manage contracts and keep sponsors happy to fund your operation. Goals now show clearly as "Top 5 in Constructors" rather than cryptic position numbers.
• Board objectives, meet your season targets or face consequences, with pressure that scales as your prestige and dominance grows.
• Setup system, develop circuit-specific knowledge that improves over time, with regulation resets sending everyone back to square one.
• Watch Race mode, live lap-by-lap with pit decisions, safety car windows, weather calls, and penalty incidents in the feed.
• Roster Editor, fully customise the starting grid: team names, colours, drivers, stats, engine suppliers, and a custom points system for larger grids. Save up to 3 named templates. Add, delete, and edit engine manufacturers. Create entirely custom teams and add them to the grid.
• History tracking, Race Grid history, Hall of Fame, and season stats to look back on your dynasty.
• Late-game economy, salary demands, operating costs, and dominance overhead all scale with career length so money stays relevant deep into a long save.

Right now there's about ~300-450 users a day which I think is genuinely cool.

Now I'm not a coder by any stretch, so have used Claude and codex to help which I think has done a pretty good job. I have been putting a lot of time in (yes not as much as a dev coding everything, but time nevertheless) with 32 days of straight updates based on feedback from users. I will continue to develop and over the next few days and weeks move to "generic" teams to combat the inevitable IP clashes (but I have made an editor where you can create your own drivers and rosters, similar to BBGM).

If you don’t like AI or AI created games, cool, this isn’t for you. For those of you who want to try a nice fun game without too much “thinking”, check it out.

Thanks again