Changes to Post-Race Scenes

[Thorne92 15]

Suggestion:

This may already be in the works as i know Codemasters are keen to freshen up the animations, etc after a few years of similar looking things, but the post-race scenes that play out could be changed up to make for a more authentic experience. Having said this, the new podium celebrations have been absolutely brilliant to see, so a big thanks before this for implementing these!

My suggestion is that if you qualify or finish the race in the top 3, you are interviewed immediately after getting out of the car in parc-ferme (or on the grid for qualifying as they park on the pit straight now), either by Claire or Will Buxton. It would also be amazing to see the pit straights flooded with fans, flags, banners, etc after a race and you are on the podium. At the moment, we see the pit crew below the podium and the celebrations, but it would be awesome to see the fans up and down the main straight, just like they do at Monza for Ferrari and Britain. 

My final suggestion in this section would be national anthems and trophies to reflect the real life ones. National anthems are always brought up so i won't discuss this too much, but trophies such as Sir Jack Brabham's wheel at Australia (i'm sure this was on the game once?) and the Austrian layout trophy at Austria would be awesome, even those weird gorilla ones in France last year would be cool! 

Rationale:

As mentioned above, the post-race scenes are a symbol of all of your hard work in the race weekend, so it would be great to be rewarded with a decent cut-scene of these things above. I feel across all sports games, this is an area which really lets sports games down. FIFA and PES poth have such poor scenes for the trophy celebrations, but i feel like the F1 games could really push this to make this so special. The podium celebrations in this year's game certainly works so to flesh this out even more with the atmospheres you see at Monza for example, would be amazing and really provide that authenticity that i think lacks slightly on the podium at the moment.

How would this work?

Interviews after qualifying and the race: These could be altered to asking you specific questions regarding the session. For example, after qualifying, you may be asked where you found the pace from (answers can influence departments) or where you can finish the race tomorrow (affect your driver acclaim if you achieve this or not). After a race, these will likely make sense to stay similar to what they are now, where you are asked about your performance throughout the race and any noteworthy moments.

Trophies - I'm not sure if there are restrictions on what trophies can be used, but it would be great to see all of the official ones in the game, or at least some fresh ones which can be displayed in a trophy cabinet at your teams headquarters. I'm 99% certain on old F1 games, you could view the trophies you won glistening on a little turntable and really see them up close, so something like that in the Showroom tab once you win them on your Career mode would be good too.

Would love to hear your thoughts below!