
Each session can be run in real time if you’ve got a few hours to burn, but you can also fast-forward time up to 16x speed to move things along in the quieter sessions. Sprint races, a format introduced to the real-world series in 2021, are sadly missing, and it’s disappointing they’re not included given how they’ve shaken up the qualifying format since their introduction. Race weekends are busy and lively affairs, with three one-hour sessions of practice followed by another three sessions of elimination qualifying – and then, finally, the race. After the first race is where you’re encouraged to look around some more, with each screen briefly but helpfully explained through a fully-voiced tutorial. Instead, it helpfully grabs you by the hand from the beginning and offers you a simple path forward to a race weekend, which is where the majority of your time in F1 Manager 2022 is spent. It doesn’t throw you straight into deep and prolonged explanations of what you’re looking at either, unless you go digging for them.
