Today Codemasters released three videos featuring the first F1 2016 gameplay footage with Daniel Ricciardo and Jolyon Palmer at the Baku F1 street circuit, located in the Eastern European country of Azerbaijan. The Baku street circuit is making its maiden appearance on the 2016 FIA F1 calendar and has been dubbed ”The 2016 Grand Prix Of Europe.”
The new videos feature Red Bull Racing’s Daniel Ricciardo and Jolyon Palmer from Renault Sport Formula One™ Team as they complete their first simulated laps of the Baku City Street Circuit. Both drivers give us their thoughts of this challenging new street circuit.
The circuit offers some very fast sections, as well as a lot of stop and go corners, which should be conducive to overtaking. Additionally, the backdrops for this race are quite stunning, from the seaside promenade past 21st century architecture and through the medieval streets of the old town of Baku.
The first of the three videos you see here above is entitled ”Welcome To Baku.” The video has some cool footage of Daniel Ricciardo and Jolyon Palmer taking to separate sim racing rigs, which are both decked out with Thrustmaster sim racing equipment.
Daniel Ricciardo’s take on the new Baku street circuit:
“I can’t think of anything like Baku… For the corners it looks like you want to have maximum downforce but I don’t think you can afford to run it because of the long straight. I think we will have to sacrifice some grip in the corners to keep up on the straight.”
Commenting on Baku’s soon to be famous Turn 5, Jolyon Palmer had this to say:
“There’s some crazy corners and maybe the craziest there is in FORMULA ONE with the up the hill left and then straight into a blind right hander… It’s going to be easy to hit a wall. It’s very high speed. The challenge is huge!” Jolyon also said that practicing on the new circuit in the new F1 2016 videogame before the race itself meant that he now knows “…probably more than most others, maybe everyone in the field so, it’s going to give me a little advantage.”
Codemasters’ Announcement Regarding A Limited Edition Version Of The Game:
There will be a Limited Edition of the game to pre-order which includes the F1 2016‘CAREER BOOSTER’ DLC PACK, which will give players a head start in their F1 career. It gives the user a ‘Research and Development boost’ that applies a percentage increase to all research and development credits earned by the player in each session in the new career mode. Exclusive Career Helmet and Laptop designs are also included. Once the player has selected their choice for their Career Helmet, this design is then applied to the laptop located within the Career hub.
F1 2016 features the most in-depth career mode ever seen in the series, allowing players to create their own legend over the course of ten seasons dealing with life and drama both on and off the track. The recreation of the sport will be enhanced by the addition of the sport’s iconic Safety Car and Virtual Safety Car and also includes the new American Haas F1 Team. A number of yet to be announced features are also due to be unveiled in the coming weeks.
Codemasters has announced that F1 2016 will release for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Windows PC on August 19, 2016.
