It felt good, but it was significantly lacking elsewhere. F1 2016 has made its case, and it’s definitely worth the aching hands afterwards.Ĭodemasters has always felt like a fine home for the F1 franchise but, in its haste to bring the series to the current generation of consoles F1 2015 was a step backwards. My tyres are trash and there’s less than a quarter of a lap’s worth of fuel left over, but top spot on the podium is secured – the perfect end to a successful race weekend. I stay ahead long enough to pass the chequered flag in P1 after an hour and a half of total focus. The straights are trickier to defend but slowly tracing from one side of the road to the other before darting back over, just inside the racing line, seems to be stopping him from galloping past me in the DRS zones. Rosberg closes fast but I shut the door on him on every bend.

I dial down the fuel to its leanest setting, tell Jeff to shut up via the handy voice commands, and focus on making my car as wide as possible. The difference here, however, is that I’m in the lead with a several second gap back to Nico Rosberg in his purportedly untouchable Merc. Jeff, my race engineer, wants me to pit because he knows as well as I do that a puncture is imminent a similar scenario last round at Melbourne turned my scrappy top-10 finish into a disappointing 17th as I limped around the last sector of Albert Park and sheepishly slunk into the pits with just a single lap to go. Back in Bahrain I’m losing grip and the sharpness has gone from the steering.

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