Grand Prix Mode Enhancement
Would it be possible to provide an option to control any driver at any time during the Grand Prix mode? It would be better than being able to create new saves, the championship would be more fun and ...
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It's more complicated than you think. The CPU would have to be programmed to take over and control the driver you leave behind in any situation that it inherits. That runs a very high risk of creating conflicting statements in the AI's brain and causing weird behavior.
In other sports games we can change teams or characters at any time, I imagined that the same thing could happen in F1.
The physics going into a car model are more complicated than an individual player in say EAFC. The "cost" of something going wrong is also more significant. If you hand over the car to the AI in a situation it's not prepared for and it causes a multi-car pile up and brings out a SC/ RF that has significant implications for the race result. Compared to in say EAFC when you change a player, most of the time the player you're leaving behind is no longer close to the action so anything silly they might do while the AI sorts itself out has minimal impact.
This driver swap happened at Breaking Point, at the Austrian GP, which means it's possible!
