AI Driver Guide

If you're tired of always racing against Arron Barnes and Martin Giles this guide is for you. Learn how to assign any AI driver to the team of your choice, including the elusive Santiago Moreno!

Introduction

Welcome to the only Steam guide for F1 2019 filed under the category "Characters".

This guide will show Multiplayer hosts how to add the AI drivers they want, to the teams they want. This is purely for variety and role-playing purposes. You will not win more races or become a better driver after reading this guide.

"AI driver" here refers to the fictional drivers that you race against in Classic F1 races and Multiplayer Car races. Real life F1 and F2 drivers under AI control are fixed to their respective teams, so they are outside the scope of this guide.

AI Driver List

Here is the full list of AI drivers with their country flags and mug shots. I've included Multiplayer car livery and car number just for fun. The most important part of this table is the roster number and driver ordering, as we'll see in the next sections.

The Multiplayer car livery is assigned to two drivers each, top to bottom, in the order they appear in the non-premium car livery section within the game.

Roster Number	Name	Country	Picture	MP Car Livery	MP Car No.
1	Arron BARNES			Venus - Default	71
2	Martin GILES			Venus - Default	70
3	Alex MURRAY			Tristar - Default	40
4	Lucas ROTH			Tristar - Default	95
5	Igor CORREIA			Sunburst - Default	79
6	Sophie LEVASSEUR			Sunburst - Default	53
7	Jonas SCHIFFER			AVAX - G-Sync	76
8	Alain FOREST			AVAX - G-Sync	80
9	Jay LETOURNEAU			XENON - Bisect	68
10	Esto SAARI			XENON - Bisect	28
11	Yawar ATIYEH			Blue Star - New Wave	45
12	Callisto CALABRESI			Blue Star - New Wave	73
13	Naota IZUMI			Atlantic - Vostok	42
14	Howard CLARKE			Atlantic - Vostok	58
15	Wilhelm KAUFMANN			Zanzare -Flow	47
16	Marie LAURSEN			Zanzare -Flow	65
17	Flavio NIEVES			VENUS - Datastripe	36
18	Peter BELOUSOV			VENUS - Datastripe	87
19	Klimek MICHALSKI			XENON - Dorsal	32
20	Santiago MORENO			XENON - Dorsal	60

Santiago Moreno!?

Observant readers may have noticed an unfamiliar name on the roster: Santiago Moreno. Santiago Moreno is the 20th AI driver and the last name on the roster.


The reason you may not have seen him is because races are capped at 20 drivers, the game only allows hosts to add up to 19 AI drivers (1 host + 19 AI = 20 drivers).

There is a workaround though. If you become a spectator before adding the AI drivers, the game allows you to add 20 AI, even though the denominator says 19. Weird eh?



Once you have added 20 AI drivers and confirmed Santiago Moreno in the Lobby, you can go back to the Add/Remove AI tab and remove some drivers. The AI drivers higher up on the list will be culled first. Convenient!

Finally, cancel being a spectator (hit ESC (keyboard) or B button (controller) while "Spectate" is highlighted) and you're ready to race against Santiago Moreno as the host!

TLDR Version の投稿を引用：

How to add Santiago Moreno in Multiplayer Car race

1. Host a Multiplayer Car race as you normally do
   
2. Become a spectator on the Lobby screen
   
3. Go to Host Options -> Add/Remove AI tab
   
4. Add 20 AI drivers
   
5. Go back to Lobby (this step is required). You should see all 20 AI drivers from the roster added.
   
6. Go to Host Options -> Add/Remove AI tab again
   
7. Remove 19 AI drivers (remove less if you want more AI drivers left)
   
8. Go back to Lobby. Santiago Moreno should still be there.
   
9. Cancel being a spectator

What's going on?

Think of the team (=car) on the Add/Remove AI tab as as a "bucket" that can be filled with AI drivers. There is a pool of available AI drivers that are waiting to be added. If you add 4 drivers to a certain team on the Add/Remove AI tab, 4 drivers with the smallest roster numbers will be drawn from the pool and added to the team when you go back to the Lobby.



When you remove AI drivers from a team (=car) on the Add/Remove AI tab, they will be removed from the team in the order they appear on the Lobby screen. Higher up in Lobby = removed first.

In the Santiago Moreno exercise, we initially filled the Multiplayer Car bucket with 20 drivers, then removed the first 19 from the list, leaving Santiago Moreno. The important part is going back to the Lobby between adding and removing. If you add 20 and subtract 19 without going back to the Lobby, the game will decide you're only adding 1 AI driver and add Aaron Barnes.

How to Assign Drivers to Classic F1 Teams

Before we proceed, it's recommended that readers try adding Santiago Moreno for themselves as described in the previous section so they understand how adding and removing works.

Classic F1 gives us the flexibility of storing AI drivers in temporary buckets (teams), which allows adding drivers individually to teams at will. Here is the basic flow:

Example

Let's say we want Flavio Nieves (roster #17) and Igor Correia (roster #5) on Ferrari F10. We start with Flavio Nieves because his roster number is higher. Add all the AI drivers before Flavio's roster number (#1-16) to a temporary bucket. Let's use Williams FW25. Go back to the Lobby so they are assigned that way.

Go back to the Add/remove AI tab. Since drivers #1-16 are already out of the pool, Flavio Nieves is up next. +1 to Ferrari F10 and this will add Flavio when you go back to the Lobby.



Go back to the Add/remove AI tab and remove 16 drivers from the Williams FW25 temporary bucket. Go back to the Lobby and you should see Flavio Nieves assigned to Ferrari F10.


Repeat this process for Igor Correia (roster #5). Add 4 to temporary bucket, go to Lobby, add 1 to Ferrari F10, go to Lobby, remove 4 from temporary bucket.


Final result:


Repeat this process for other teams and drivers as needed.

Notes

• In above example, you can start with Igor Coerreia but remember he's no longer in the pool when adding Flavio Nieves. i.e. One less driver in the temporary bucket before it's Flavio's turn to be added. This is why in the example I started with the higher roster number.
  
• Yes, you don't need to bother using the temporary bucket when adding the first driver ("+17 to F10, Lobby, -16 to F10, Lobby" will also add Flavio Nieves to Ferrari F10), but you will have to use the temporary bucket method when adding more drivers to the same team.
  
• You can also skip going back to the Lobby after adding to the temporary bucket, but only in cases where the team you want to add the driver to is lower on the list than the temporary bucket.
  
• Because we cannot use the temporary bucket method for Multiplayer Car, we can only add a segment of the roster, plus optionally the top segment of the roster starting with #1 Aaron Barnes. Try it yourself to see what I mean: Try hosting a Multiplayer Car race with only Sophie Levasseur and Alain Forest.