It’s neither fun, nor informative – and if anything, it makes it more difficult to get to grips with the new rules. In its place is a one lap evaluation around Monza, which basically amounts to you doing a spot of driving, and the game suggesting a difficulty based on your time. While the mode was seen as laborious by some, it gave newcomers a full guide to how the cars handled and the rules, something that would be invaluable in a year where almost everything has changed. So, with all of these changes to the sport and the cars, it’s utterly bizarre that the Young Driver’s Test has been removed this year. The result is a driving model that feels familiar, but offers a fresh challenge, and that’s sure to be something that fans of the series will be keen to overcome. There’s now far more skill required when manoeuvring cars out of corners smoothly, and with new brakes in F1 this year, even slowing them down poses a change of tactic. It’s in this area that Codemasters has excelled, replicating the real-life challenge of controlling the new power units, even with traction control turned on.

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