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A comprehensive list of drivers and key staff present in the game with their starting ratings and contracts as well as a breakdown of attributes.

Race Engineer Ratings

Those are the Race Engineer attributes, do note that the Pit Crew Management attribute from F1M 22 has been replaced by Composure (as pit crew management is now under the scope of the new Sporting Director role), this new Composure attribute will affect driver confidence:

Attribute	In-game Description
Communication	The ability to communicate clearly and effectively. A higher rating means faster affinity growth between the race engineer and their paired driver.
Feedback	The ability to give and understand feedback on the car’s set-up during practice sessions. A higher rating means quicker feedback on improving the car set-up during practice.
Composure	The ability the remain focused in high-stress environments and to keep others focused. A higher rating means less driver confidence loss from negative events on track, and more driver confidence gain from positive events on way.

Each RE has a driver affinity attribute that is determined by the amount of time spent with the partnered driver (in weeks) and his communication ability. Drivers who have just joined their team (e.g. Alonso, Gasly) have 6 weeks paired with their RE and a low affinity at the start of the game, those who have spent a season with their team (e.g. Albon, Bottas) have 52 weeks and a good affinity, and those who have been with their team two seasons or more have a great affinity. Kevin Magnussen is the only outlier, as he received a new Race Engineer in the middle of last year, and this is reflected in the game.

Driver affinity is more essential than ever in F1M 23 since it influences the “shape” of the driver confidence bar during race weekends: the stronger the affinity, the larger the high and very high confidence bars will be, while the lower and shallow confidence bars will be smaller.

Here’s an example with De Vries (who just joined the team and therefore has a low affinity with his race engineer) and Tsunoda (who has been with the team for 2 years and enjoys a maxed-out affinity with his race engineer). They both have similar race preparation but De Vries has a lower confidence which gives him lower attribute bonuses for the rest of the race weekend.

Race Engineers have 4 development focuses (including Balanced):

Development Focus	Attributes improved	In-game Description
Balanced	All attributes	Focus on training all skills equally, leading to more balanced development over time
Car Analysis	Communication Feedback	Focus training on better analyzing the car to improve set-up feedback during practice and improve general communication with drivers throughout the race weekend.
Driver comms	Feedback Composure	Focus training on better communicating with drivers during sessions, both in maintaining and increasing their confidence and in developing their feedback on the car’s set-up during practice.
Responsiveness	Communication Composure	Focus training on communicating race events to drivers with clarity and composure to help manage driver confidence throughout a race weekend.

 

Technical Chief Ratings

Not much to say about Technical Chiefs’ ratings as they are pretty straightforward, each attributes corresponds to a car part, the better the attribute the better the TC is at Developing the corresponding car part:

• Chassis
• Front Wing
• Rear Wing
• Sidepods
• Underfloor
• Suspensions

I haven’t noticed any changes on how they work compared to last year’s game.

Tech Chiefs have 7 development focuses (including Balanced):

Development Focus	Attributes improved	In-game Description
Balanced	All attributes	Focus on training all skills equally, leading to more balanced development over time
Aero Principles	Chassis Front Wing Rear Wing	Focus training on designing car parts that shape airflow over the car.
Bodywork	Chassis Sidepods Suspensions	Focus training on the ability to design car parts that make up the core body of the car.
Grip and Traction	Front wing Rear wing Suspension	Focus training on the design of car parts involved in generating grip and traction, either through aerodynamic means like the wings, or mechanical means like the suspension.
Ground Effect	Front wing Sidepods Underfloor	Focus training on the design of car parts involved in generating ground effect downforce, including car parts that help feed the underfloor airflow to improve downforce generation.
Downstream Airflow	Rear wing Sidepods Underfloor	Focus training on the design of car parts that heavily influence airflow behind the car, including airflow used to generate downforce via the underfloor and rear wing, and exhaust airflow from the sidepods.
Structure	Chassis Underfloor Suspension	Focus training on the design of car parts that influence the overall structural integrity of the car.

 

Head of Aerodynamics Ratings

Same thing as Technical Chiefs, there’s not much to say, Head of Aerodynamics has an impact on car attributes, the difference being each car attribute are affected by different car parts:

• Cooling: Brake cooling (Front Wing and Suspensions) and Engine cooling (Chassis and Sidepods)
• DRS Delta (Rear Wing)
• High-Speed Downforce (Front Wing, Rear Wing, Underfloor, and Suspensions)
• Medium Speed Downforce (Front Wing, Rear Wing, Underfloor, and Suspensions)
• Low-Speed Downforce (Front Wing, Rear Wing, Underfloor, and Suspensions)
• Drag Reduction (Chassis, Rear Wing, Sidepods, Underfloor, and Suspensions)
• Airflow Management: Airflow Front (Front Wing, Sidepods, and Suspensions) and Airflow Middle (Chassis and Sidepods)
• Airflow Sensitivity (Front Wing, Rear Wing, and Underfloor)

I haven’t noticed any changes on how they work compared to last year’s game.

Head of Aerodynamics have 7 development focuses (including Balanced):

Development Focus	Attributes improved	In-game Description
Balanced	All attributes	Focus on training all skills equally, leading to more balanced development over time
Aero Principles	Cooling High Speed Downforce Low Speed Downforce Airflow Sensitivity	Focus training on the ability to design car parts that perform well in core aerodynamic areas, primarily low and high speed downforce generation, cooling and sensitivity to dirty air.
Bodywork	Cooling DRS Delta Low Speed Downforce Airflow Management	Focus training on improving the aerodynamic performance of the car’s bodywork, especially in managing airflow towards the rear wing to improve DRS speeds, towards cooling ducts, and in optimising downforce generation.
Grip and Traction	High Speed Downforce Medium Speed Downforce Low Speed Downforce Airflow Sensitivity	Focus training on the design of car parts that generate grip and traction through downforce, and lose less traction while driving in dirty air.
Ground Effect	High Speed Downforce Medium Speed Downforce Drag Reduction Airflow Management	Focus training on the design of car parts that better manage airflow for the purpose of generating ground effect downforce.
Airflow Intake	Cooling DRS Delta Drag Reduction Airflow Management	Focus training on the design of car parts that gain greater aerodynamic benefits from incoming airflow, while suffering less from the effects of drag.
Simulations	DRS Delta Medium Speed Downforce Drag Reduction Airflow Sensitivity	Focus training on using aerodynamic simulation data more effectively for the purpose of improving DRS speeds and medium speed downforce, and reducing the effect of drag and dirty air on the car.

 

Sporting Director Ratings

A new role in F1M 23, the Sporting Director trains the pit crew, allowing it to do faster pit stops and to minimise pit stop mistakes.

Sporting Directors have 4 performance attributes:

Attribute	In-game Description
Training	The ability to efficiently develop the skill of the team mechanics. The higher the rating, the faster the pit crew develop through training sessions, and the less performance they lose between sessions
Aptitude	The ability to help mechanics reach their full potential. A higher rating means a higher upper limit to the pit crew’s potential skill The pit crew’s attributes can only improve up to the Sporting Director’s aptitude
Leadership	The ability to manage the team through high-pressure situations. A higher rating means a greater chance to minimise the delay from pit stop mistakes
Processes	The ability to develop and refine efficient workflows. The higher the rating, the less fatigue the pit crew gains from race weekends and training sessions

The attribute’s names might not be straightforward but basically:

• Training=Skill and Skill attrition between seasons
• Aptitude=Max potential
• Leadership=Time lost during pit stop mistakes
• Processes=Fatigue

Sporting Directors have 5 development focuses (including Balanced):

Development Focus	Attributes improved	In-game Description
Balanced	All attributes	Focus on training all skills equally, leading to more balanced development over time
Communication techniques	Aptitude Leadership	Focus skills that benefit meaningful communication, allowing them to develop the pit crew to a higher standard and to maintain their focus during pit stop mistakes
Drill planning	Training Leadership	Focus on improving the ability to develop the pit crew through training sessions, increasing how fast they develop and their ability to respond to pit stop mistakes
Industry standards	Aptitude Processes	Focus on reinforcing core industry standards, allowing them to improve the workflow and speed of the pit crew and the upper limit of the pit crew’s skills
Innovation	Training Processes	Focus on improving the ability to invent and test new workflows in order to increase the speed and the development rate of the pit crew

After looking at what the different attributes do and the pit crew starting attributes, I would prioritize Training and Processes, using the Innovation development focus, because the pit crew attributes are low enough at the start of the game (they all sit between 50 and 60) that Aptitude should not be a concern in the short term, and I believe that the Leadership attribute can be ignored because if you have pit stop mistakes, it is better to minimize their occurrence rather than eliminate them.

Pit Crews attribute

The pit crews have their own characteristics, which are enhanced by the Sporting Director’s characteristics and their training regimen.

On the doc, I created a pit crew attributes sheet; all of the visible attributes appear to begin between 50 and 60, indicating that they are still fairly far from their sports director’s aptitude rating (which is the attribute that limits their potential).

Most attributes affect pit stop mistakes rather than pit stop duration; pit stop time appears to be determined by a hidden speed attribute. At the stage when all pit crews lounge about at the start of the game, each speed point appears to yield roughly 0.028s on pit stop time, but it appears to have diminishing returns since the lowest pit stop time that you can theoretically attain is 1.799s with a maxed out speed attribute.

The Car Building attribute has no effect on pit stops but does affect setup changes during practice sessions. However, as of version 1.5, this attribute is BUGGED and does the opposite of what it should do, which means that the better the Car Building attribute, the longer it will take to make setup changes.

Finally, fatigue has an effect on pit stop mistakes. A tired pit crew will give a small penalty on mistake chances (less than a percent usually, which may not even be noticeable), but as the pit crew becomes weary, the penalty becomes much larger (about 20%) and even more significant (about 45%) when the pit crew is exhausted.

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