F1 Career Challenge

The EA Sports-published follow up to F1 Racing 2002. It was the last F1 game released by EA Sports.

PlayStation 2

GameCube

Xbox

History

The game was originally scheduled to be released on all then current platforms (PC, Playstation 2, XBOX and Game Cube) world wide. The XBOX and Game Cube versions where later dropped in the US, do to lack of interest in F1 racing compared to Europe. This game was the last in the series of F1 games from EA Sports. They lost the official F1 license to Sony, who signed a multi year exclusive deal for there Formula One series.

Gameplay Modes

Career Mode

The career mode has a very realistic F1 driving experience and is therefor also a very hard and challinging racing mode. In career mode the player creates its own driver and race four season from the official F1 calender, from the '99 to the '02 season.
The first step is to the racer. Choose the racers name, country, likeness and helmet.To become a F1 driver a Superlicense must first be obtained. This is done by passing a series of tests.The tests a split into three blocks. The first block teaches the basic like starting, stopping and cornering. The second block teaches more advance cornering. The final block teaches handling during rain, overtaking and

pit stopping. At the end of the tests a couple of teams will ofter you a contract, the teams quality depends on the drivers performance during these test. This does not lock the driver to the one team for the duration of the four seasons, during or at the end of each season the driver will receive offers from other teams depending on the drivers race performance.
The actual Grand Prix races in career mode is split into three parts. A 60 minutes practices session where the driver can learn the track, a 60 minutes qualifying session where the driver has 12 laps to set the best possible single lap time and the race it self. During the races the driver will earn points for completing different challenges and feats. These points can be spend on car upgrades and more.

Quick Race

Jump straight into a race. Choose one for the four season to select team, driver and circuit from. Qualifying can be enabled to decides your position on the starting grid. It is possible to customize the racing experience in a variant of ways. Besides the standard racing setup like opponent difficulty, weather and race length, it is possible to change settings to get a more or less realistic racing experience. These includes car damage, fuel use, tire ware and gear shifting. Interactive pit stops ( A "quick time events" like mode to get the fastest possible pit stop), slipstreaming (drafting) and the strictness of the racing rule set. Gamebreakers are back. When a major event occur during a race, like a huge crash, the game will enter a instant replay mode where the event is shown from multiple angles in a mix of real time and slow motions.

Multiplayer

Multiplayer is not a big part of the game. It has been criticized for not being very deep and for laggy races. It consists of two modes:

Split screen. A two player local multiplayer mode. Race head-to-head or against a full grid of racers.
Online. Online multiplayer is a time trail mode for up to 8 players. Choose a track and try to set the best lap time one by one.

Modding

The game has a fairly large modding community, largely because it is so easily modded. The game use various known standards for storing data. Player and team data is accessible via simple text file and for the circuit geometry an industry known format is used. There are many types of mods, including modes that depicts the seasons from 1968 all the way up to the 2009 season, including the look of the cars and tracks from the particle era.

Grand Prix

1999 Season

Round	Grand Prix	Circuit
1	Australian	Albert Park Grand Prix Circuit, Melbourne
2	Brazilian	Autódromo José Carlos Pace, São Paulo
3	San Marino	Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari, Imola
4	Monaco	Circuit de Monaco, Monte-Carlo
5	Spanish	Circuit de Catalunya, Barcelona
6	Canadian	Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, Montreal
7	French	Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours
8	British	Silverstone Circuit
9	Austrian	A1-Ring, Spielberg
10	German	Hockenheimring
11	Hungarian	Hungaroring, Budapest
12	Belgian	Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, Spa
13	Italian	Autodromo Nazionale Monza
14	European	Nürburgring
15	Malaysian	Sepang International Circuit, Kuala Lumpur
16	Japanese	Suzuka Circuit, Suzuka

2000 Season

Round	Grand Prix	Circuit
1	Australian	Albert Park Circuit, Melbourne
2	Brazilian	Autódromo José Carlos Pace, São Paulo
3	San Marino	Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari, Imola
4	British	Silverstone Circuit
5	Spanish	Circuit de Catalunya, Barcelona
6	European	Nürburgring
7	Monaco	Circuit de Monaco, Monte-Carlo
8	Canadian	Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, Montreal
9	French	Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours
10	Austrian	A1-Ring, Spielberg
11	German	Hockenheimring
12	Hungarian	Hungaroring, Budapest
13	Belgian	Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, Spa
14	Italian	Autodromo Nazionale Monza
15	United States	Indianapolis Motor Speedway
16	Japanese	Suzuka Circuit
17	Malaysian	Sepang International Circuit, Kuala Lumpur

2001 Season

Round	Grand Prix	Circuit
1	Australian	Melbourne Grand Prix Circuit, Melbourne
2	Malaysian	Sepang International Circuit, Kuala Lumpur
3	Brazilian	Autódromo José Carlos Pace, São Paulo
4	San Marino	Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari, Imola
5	Spanish	Circuit de Catalunya, Barcelona
6	Austrian	A1-Ring, Spielberg
7	Monaco	Circuit de Monaco, Monte Carlo
8	Canadian	Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, Montreal
9	European	Nürburgring
10	French	Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours, Magny-Cours
11	British	Silverstone Circuit
12	German	Hockenheimring
13	Hungarian	Hungaroring, Budapest
14	Belgian	Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, Spa
15	Italian	Autodromo Nazionale Monza
16	United States	Indianapolis Motor Speedway
17	Japanese	Suzuka Circuit

2002 Season

Round	Grand Prix	Circuit
1	Australian	Melbourne Grand Prix Circuit, Melbourne
2	Malaysian	Sepang International Circuit, Kuala Lumpur
3	Brazilian	Autódromo José Carlos Pace, São Paulo
4	San Marino	Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari, Imola
5	Spanish	Circuit de Catalunya, Barcelona
6	Austrian	A1-Ring, Spielberg
7	Monaco	Circuit de Monaco, Monte Carlo
8	Canadian	Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, Montreal
9	European	Nürburgring
10	British	Silverstone Circuit
11	French	Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours, Magny-Cours
12	German	Hockenheimring
13	Hungarian	Hungaroring, Budapest
14	Belgian	Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, Spa
15	Italian	Autodromo Nazionale Monza
16	United States	Indianapolis Motor Speedway
17	Japanese	Suzuka Circuit