Guide: Racing Drivers — Skills and Development

Drivers — Your Primary Assets

In Race Manager, a driver is not just a set of numbers, but a complex personality with unique characteristics, physical parameters, and shifting moods. The way you develop your drivers determines the success of your entire team.

Racing Skills

Each driver has 6 key racing attributes:

Speed: Determines the base lap time. The most important skill for qualifications.
Consistency: Reduces the variance between lap times and the probability of minor mistakes.
Aggression: Helps with overtakes but increases the risk of accidents and tire wear.
Tire Management: Directly affects how long a driver can maintain a high pace on a single set of tires.
Overtaking: Specialized skill for successful attacks.
Defending: Allows holding a position under pressure from opponents.

[IMAGE_DRIVER_STATS: Driver stats screen]

Analyze your drivers strengths and weaknesses before every race.

Physics and Mentality

In addition to racing skills, "hidden" factors influence performance:

Endurance (Fitness): Reduces pace drop and the risk of fatal mistakes towards the end of a long race. This is the only skill that can be trained at the headquarters.
Morale: A global modifier. High morale gives a bonus to all actions on the track. It grows with good results and falls when losing to a teammate or with an expiring contract.
Weight and Height: We strive for realism. Heavy and tall drivers receive small lap time penalties (~0.1s for every 10kg over 70kg).

Development and Experience (XP)

Drivers earn experience for every race. The higher the finish position, the more XP earned.

How to improve skills?

Training: In the headquarters sports center, you can specifically develop Fitness.
Race Experience: After each race, a driver has a chance to improve one random racing skill. This chance directly depends on the drivers Potential.

⚠️ Important: Age matters! Young drivers (up to 24 years old) develop much faster, while veterans (after 32 years old) gradually begin to lose their skills, although they earn more experience per race.

Contracts and Levels

Remember that you cannot hire a driver whose level is higher than your team level. Keep an eye on the contract duration: when there are fewer than 3 races left, the drivers morale begins to drop, which can negatively affect their performance!

Prepare your champions wisely!