Power Unit and Gearbox Wear

[esala12]

Hi. Just bought this game and I wanted to know is there anyway to minimize the wear for engine, ers, and gearbox throughout the season to avoid grid penalty? Maybe upgrading the facilities?

To share, compare the F1 22/23, the upgrade in F1 Manager 22 and 23 seems quite odd. In the racing version of the game, we can minimize the wear and tear by upgrading the durability. Thus, the wear and tear will go at reduced rate.

I'm a bit confused here, which games are closer to the reality of the F1 season, the racing version or the manager version?

Thanks.

[Robique]

To minimize drive train wear:
(in order of importance)

1. Use already degraded parts (40-50%) only for practice. New parts for races.
2. Low engine mode in practice. This will make the degraded practice parts last long enough till the race parts degrade enough. And the cycle continues.
3. "Avoid high risk kerbs" and "Drive in clean air" driver orders in practice.
4. Underfuel for races to avoid having to run on high engine mode for half the race, because safety car occured and now you have lots of extra weight on your car. This can backfire tho.
5. Engine cooling stat on your aero parts. Definitely the last thing you should go for, since it takes away from other, way more important aero stats.

Follow this and without any super unlucky crashes you'll only have to buy one new ERS per season.
There's also a regulation change that occurs around July that increases available starting engine parts by 1 for no extra cost. The other teams tend to vote favorably for this change.

Facilities have no effect on your engine.
There's no way to upgrade inherent durability on your 1st season engine. However between season 1 and 2 you can change your engine supplier, each with different advantages and disadvantages.

[esala12]

Now I see. I use Ferrari. My engine condition is now at 60% after 3 races, only ERS is still safe at 80%. I'll try to use your suggestion. I hope To avoid grid penaltiws or at most only purchase one new engine.

[Pickle Peky]

Grid penalties really don't matter since you will overtake everyone with a slower car than yours

[Ngoc]

It’s really hard to finish 23 races using only 3 engine and 2 ers

I have done 3 times the first season one and I always had to get at least 1 extra engine and 1 extra ers

But you shouldn’t need more than 1 extra if you end up needing more maybe you can tune your play style to manage them better

[amstrich]

What i've been doing is that I damaged part in practice until it's completely broken. If you don't crash out too much you should be able to manage with that. I simulate my practice programs

[esala12]

I'm quite realistic, so I avoid simulating the session albeit I do fast-forward during the session when I finished my run (I usually do 2 runs in one practice session). So, I think it'll contribute to the part wear. However, I'd like to know, in average, how much wear do the power unit and gearbox get during one race weekend? In f1 manager 22, if I'm not mistaken it's around 12% in average for engine,ers, and gearbox.

[148KgWatermelon]

Originally posted by esala12:

Now I see. I use Ferrari. My engine condition is now at 60% after 3 races, only ERS is still safe at 80%. I'll try to use your suggestion. I hope To avoid grid penaltiws or at most only purchase one new engine.

bit late but use different engines and ers for races/quali than for your practice sessions

[Drysyn]

only thing I ever have to buy is a new ERS for each car, I usually manage with the 3 engines and 4 gearboxes

[Zarppi]

use yellow parts onli in practice and use them to below 5%. in qualy and races only white parts. mayby 1-2 last races u can use yellow parts if u have to