Community ManagerThe "SimRacingTelemetry" app even records and displays real time telemetry lap by lap showing your traces for acceleration, braking, steering and even load and forces through each tyre around the lap. This is incredibly useful for competitive players to help them adjust and adapt to looking after tyres, creating setups and improving race pace. It even shows you how each aspect of the car setup effects performance.
With the new F1 regulations, I'm sure it's a horrendous challenge for the devs, and I'm sure there are concerns that players will not enjoy driving these cars off the limit and having to adapt to battery charging and deployment. Accessing and using the telemetry is a great way to help competitive players understand what is happening with the car and how to optimise race pace.
On a basic level it would also help casual players understand how to improve and not get frustrated with their cars constantly losing power.
Over the last few years there has been far too much focus on OFF-Track new features, and I really fear that the franchise is heading towards the EA FC style focus on how your driver is dressed in the game menus rather than focusing on the ON-track racing features that put the player in the cockpit of an F1 car in a race.
I don't expect the franchise to go full sim, like iRacing, but with the tech and resources available, and a competitive league racing community that keeps this franchise alive all year round, there is so much more to offer, especially with the UPD telemetry features.
