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Before I get started let me say that I do not usually post in forums to complain, but this time I feel something needs to be said.

I got the game yesterday after a very exciting wait, hoping as an avid fan that it would fulfil what I've been waiting for. Unfortunately, this game falls way short. The lack of a career option is for me a great loss, especially as F1 Championship Edition had a full career mode, where you could progress based on your abilities in the tests. This and the ACTUAL full weekend leave me puzzles as to why coddies could not get the same licence. As a sim f1 games are meant to be realistic, and one practice is not realistic!

Going on, while the graphics are good, the frame lag is shocking! Lap acter lap through turns 1 2 and 3 at kuala lumpar my car is lagging, making it impossible to apply the throttle, and them making me edge around the track hoping another lag wont send me into a spin. Seeing as it is at the same corner lap after lap, I do not think this is an issue with my console. Furthermore to everyone saying they were time constrained, it does not excuse releasing an unfinished product, its like going to the print shop and the guy printing half your page and saying come back tomorrow for the second half. Quite simply, if the product is not finished in such a core way, then they should not be able to sell it.

The car set up is also seriously lagging on F1 Champ edition, where members of the community were uploading 20+ page set up guides; here a page will suffice as the options are so limited. I also have still to figure out how to change strategy pre-race, as my engineers meep saying only one strategy is correct.

I could go on; the incredibly short start lights sequence, lack of formation lap, lack of tyre monitor when in cockpit view. F1 fans are true sim racers, we like driving around in circles for and hour and a half, replicating our dreams, we are not arcade players, to get amazed at an iPad being put into the cockpit.

What I do not understand is how was such an amazing game released in 2006, yet in 2015 we are behind it. If my ps3 hadn't given up on me, it would be in use now on champ edition.

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All your points about the game are perfectly valid, and you're not the first person to make any of them on here... and I'm sure many more will tomorrow, when the game is officially released. 

That said, however much we want it to be true, most F1 fans who buy the game just aren't sim racers. If we're to believe Lee Mather, at least, over 95% of players play the game with a pad, and the majority play in chase cam mode. While some of the fastest racers out there use pads, and some of those probably class themselves as sim racers (even though many wheel-only sim racers would scoff at that!), those stats alone makes it more likely that the vast majority of F1 gamer players are casual gamers, many of whom have probably never even tweaked a car setup in the game before.

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