So, it simulates every race no matter what distance you go, so there’ll be marginal two or one stops, or whatever you want to risk. Pirelli are very closed on the information they give about the tyres, so you don’t get much from them, but we bought tyre scaling back. There’s a far more pronounced difference with the tyres, how much of that was inspired by the data from Pirelli and how much to spice up gameplay? One of the early Williams has active suspension, so it’s like driving a Scalextric around the track it just stays there. We’ve just tried to give a better identity to each of the teams, and after that most of the resources have gone on the Classics mode, because the difference between years is incredible. We’ve seen McLaren drop to the middle of the table, so they’ve taken a hit in the game early on in the season Mercedes were struggling with tyres, so if you play as their car they’re generally far more aggressive on them, and the Red Bulls have better traction coming out of corners.

Quite a lot, because the season’s changed quite a bit this year. With new rule-sets in place for this year, specifically DRS only being used on selected straights rather than everywhere on the circuit during practice and qualifying, what kind of changes to the handling have you made this year?

With F1 2013 launching itself off the grid on the 4th of October, I caught up with Greg Pryjmachuk of Codemasters, and scrutinised him about the difficulties of balancing simulation and gameplay, team orders and the possibility of an F1 management sim.

F1 2013 player one fix