Motorsport Manager - My 2023 season

Okay this season I remember as being good for some reason. I don't know if it's because we were competitive or because I felt comfortable with how I was playing the game. I started by having the livery be primarily black because the team's designated colour in the time sheets is black. In 2022 it was yellow because we're supposed to be the yellow team. So I started the style of having primarily black cars with a little yellow to reflect the time sheet colour and then the team colour. 

We started the season off the pace, just outside the top ten.

Round 2 was Munich and it was also wet, so we raced our way into the top ten.

Milan was very memorable, risking the 1 stop strategy with Nick Chu in the 13 lap race and pulling it off for a podium.🏆 Again, not qualifying higher than 10th.

We shocked with a 2nd and 3rd in qualifying at Ardennes. Then we went all out on dry tyres in the race, knowing that it was going to get wet, but pitted too early. Maybe the pace wasn't there, and Stef was bad on tyres again. Chu was best in 9th. Stef in 19th.

I don't know what happened at Munich 2, but after poor qualifying we raced our way into the top ten in a half-wet race.

Round 7 was Guildford, and after an okay intermediate qualifying with Stef starting 7th, we raced our way nicely into the top ten.

Then we went to Tondela again, where Stef shocked us all with an incredible start in the race, going from 12th to 3rd on the first lap and we managed to stay there for the rest of the race and score a podium.🏆 Chu didn't have the pace to get up the front with Stef, so he finished 11th.

After another race in Milan where we pushed into the top ten, I got to try out my reserve driver Kaori Aoto in Chu's car because he was incapacitated for a bit. I haven't forgotten that Black Sea race where she stuffed it up at turn 1 and I had to strategise her back to where she should have been. Last to 12th for her, Stef finished 9th because her tyre wear sucked.

Round 11 was Pheonix, where we qualified just outside the top ten and raced there too. Aori was okay and mixed it with Stef for the whole race, but wasn't as good as I thought she was. Her morale was falling rapidly too.

Aori's last chance to prove her worth was Doha, where Stef started on the front row and finished second too.🏆 Aori started back in 16th and I couldn't get her much further than 12th. The two races before, you could say that the cars weren't equal, but I gave Aori the best car possible for Doha.

Then Chu was back in the car for Cape Town, where we had a great qualifying with both cars in the top ten. Chu came 2nd and Stef fell down the order because her tyre life sucked. Then Chu was bumped up to 1st for both his and my first win after Santore was given a penalty for having an illegal part.🏆

Round 14 was Sydney, where for some reason the media thought Aori was going to race and so they thought that she would get pole position even though... Ugh. She just wasn't living up to her performances in practice. Chu and Stef qualified in the top ten, and Chu finished 3rd 🏆 while Stef had an issue at the end and had to pit, but stole the fastest lap anyway.

Beijing was strong for us. Chu qualified 3rd and Stef in the top ten too. We finished with both cars nicely in the top ten, but no trophy. Oh well. Nice race. I tend to go well at Beijing.

The final round was at Dubai and we just weren't on the pace. Stef qualified 7th, but that was the best that we had. Chu got our best race result in 9th, Stef 12th.

Chu was 10th in the championship, Stef 11th, and the team 5th.

I failed to resign Aori for the following season because her morale was shot. I wasn't going to sign her as a main driver, but her feedback was really good so I wanted her for practice sessions as a reserve.

Motorsport Manager - My 2022 season

Currently I am in the 2027 season, so 2022 was a long time ago in the game. This means that my understanding of that season is less about how I feel and more about what I think happened based on the screenshots that I took at the time.

First of all, I won manager of the season, so it must have been a good one.

We were really strong in pre-season testing, with Nick Chu 2nd and Cindi Stefanowski 10th. I still don't know how to capitalise on a strong pre-season test. It just gives you an idea of where your car's at heading into the new season, but at the end of the day your reliability is rubbish and you have to manage that. Looking at that screenshot, Stefanowski was really young when I joined the team. I don't normally sign really young drivers unless they're really talented, so 17 year old Stef was impressive at a young age.

We started the season well at Black Sea with both cars in the top ten and the team 5th in the standings. I've always managed to shine in wet qualifying and races. I think the AI suck at it. We had Kaori Aoto as the reserve driver, and she was always fast and good with feedback I think.

While I often shine in wet qualifying and races, sometimes I screw up the strategy and we have a miserable race. It doesn't help when your driver wrecks tyres too quickly, as must have happened in round 2 at Munich.

By the third round at Milan it's clear that 2022 was a grind. Barely in the top ten. I probably wasn't getting enough money to build new parts.

Tondela might have been the fourth round, and it was a shocker. Not in the top ten at any stage.

We bounced back massively with a double podium at Ardennes.🏆

I must have put new parts in the cars at Ardennes, because we continued our form with top ten capable cars at Munich 2. Aoto showed the world how good she can be by topping practice, as she tended to do on occasion. Moments like those got me excited about running her if one of the main drivers was injured or unwell.

Guildford was round 7, and Stefanowski beat Chu fair and square with 5th. I had to pit Chu at the end. His tyres were probably shot or I screwed up the fuel count. It was a wet race that started dry and got wet, then dried, then wet again. I probably ruined Chu's strategy with tyres, but Stefanowski had probably ruined her tyres and I didn't know it was going to get wet again.Stefanowski ahead of Chu in the drivers championship.

We returned to Tondela, struggled in qualifying, but got Chu to 6th while Stefanowski most likely ruined her tyres. Chu put himself within striking distance of Stef in the championship, which was disappointing. I always like to believe that my drivers are equally talented and that given the right opportunity they will get the same results, but sometimes Stef let me down. She was consistently behind Chu during the race, and I couldn't strategise her out of it because her tyres wore out too quickly.

Then we went back to Milan. We qualified on the edge of the ten, and raced forwards. Chu finished 5th while I had to pit Stef a few laps from the end. She should have been either immediately in front or behind Chu. Tyre life again.

Round 10 was the Black Sea again. It was mixed qualifying with Chu ahead in the ten and Stef down in 16th. That meant that unless Stef had stellar first stint or Chu had a shocker, they could be on the same strategy due to the gap between cars. We finished with both cars in the top ten, and Chu overtook Stef in the championship.

Round 11 was Pheonix. The standard layout of that track is always my Achilles heel. I don't know how to make it work. My engines are probably never good enough, and it's a power track so if you're not fast then you're gonna struggle. Just outside the top ten all weekend.

At Doha Stef showed how good she could be, keeping up with Chu and even beating him. We started outside the ten and got both cars in the back of the ten.

Then we went to Cape Town. Chu on the front row, Stef in the mid-pack. We simply didn't have great pace. Chu was up front until after his second stop. Then he couldn't get back. He finished 7th. Stef was in the top ten, but her tyres died in the last few laps and she fell backwards.

It looks like we were on for double top tens at Sydney, but Chu lost a wheel or wheelnut and had to make another pit stop. It was another wet-dry-wet race.

At the final race in Beijing, we were on the pace all race and got a double podium from top ten starts.🏆

 

Chu was 7th in the championship and Stef 9th. The team finished 4th. As I said before, I won manager of the season. Other teams must have had very mixed results, because 2022 wasn't my best year. Maybe because it was my first year starting with Archer.

My best FNF in ages!

 The Zuma part starts at 26:50.

I talk about when I first played Zuma on my late Grandad's computer, Ms. Pat and giving people as many chances as they need, and saving up for a house so that's why I'm not buying a new microphone or anything.

I'm proud of this episode and would love it if you could watch it and hear my stories and thoughts on life.

I don't like the SuperLite video

Hey guys,

I just watched my latest Supercars video which is about the SuperLite entry run by Matt Stone Racing in 2020. It's been six months since I made it. Back then I was happy enough with it, but now I'm not. I think that my next Supercars video will be different in terms of the way that I edit and structure it. I think that even though I stayed on the subject of SuperLite and similar programs, I maybe spent too much time talking about things that were a little complicated and unnecessary.

The section where I talk about the three MSR drivers and their Supercars racing experience is a little messy. The bit where I talk about how many years each driver had done was overcomplicated by talking about how Garry Jacobson had done 5 years of Super2 and 2 years of main game cars, and the same analysis for Jake Kostecki and Zane Goddard. The audio sucked, and I'm definitely really keen on improving it to be as good as SAIM console gaming videos are. 

I should have structured the video more step by step like I'd done in previous videos, just so that people know where the video is headed. 

I also will change the font that I use in the opening titles to one that you can read easily.

Ihasnotomato made comments in a Mab and Tom recording, and I will definitely consider and probably implement everything that he says to do.

That's it from me.

See Ya!

PS: Still playing heaps of Motorsport Manager, currently in 2027 with over 200 hours played.