Weber and Butler will make the leap alongside you (at the expense of the number two drivers for the teams they join) but the animated interactions cease and are replaced with the occasional text interview emailed through to your inbox by your agent.
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It’s the closest Codemasters has flirted to an engaging story mode within a racer since the Race Driver days, but don’t get used to it unfortunately, it all dries up following your driver’s promotion to F1. You’ll move to F1 regardless of how you perform in these set-ups but, depending on your decisions and finishing positions, your first-person cutscenes with Weber and Butler will change. Here Codemasters introduces a pair of fantasy drivers – the shrewd but sportsmanlike German Lukas Weber and the cocksure Devon Butler, an arrogant Brit who appears to be using his racing career as an audition to appear as the next Die Hard villain. If you want to hop straight into the regular career mode, however, F1 2019 condenses a season of F2 down into a brief string of three late-race scenarios plucked from what’s destined to be your racer’s final year in the feeder series before snaring a contact in the big leagues. Unlike F1, F2 is a spec series so all the cars are identical in terms of performance. They’re not as fast as F1 cars but they have less downforce, so they’re actually slightly trickier to drive in certain situations. It's no surprise the studio has been able to squeeze in the Dallara F2 chassis and have it feel equally distinctCodemasters has been adding retro F1 cars to the F1 series for some time now, all with their own handling nuances that set them apart from today’s bleeding-edge F1 cars, so it’s no surprise the studio has been able to squeeze in the Dallara F2 chassis and have it feel equally distinct. It even comes with its own bespoke commentary duo. Tackled separately, all the unique elements that distinguish F2 from F1 seem to have been captured here, from its two-races-per-round format to its spectator-friendly reverse grids. This year’s biggest bullet point is the addition of the Formula 2 World Championship, which exists in F1 2019 as both a standalone championship to complete a full season within, and also as a heavily-truncated appetiser to kick-off F1 2019’s returning 10-season career mode.