My Racing Career Magazine - Issue 1

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IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE JUST A SMALL PROJECT TO HAVE SOME FUN... A NEW SEASON

FORMULA E COMES TO MRC PLUS DETAILS OF NEW DEVELOPMENT...

FORMULA 1

FUTURE STARS TO CHALLENGE OLD GUNS IN TOP RACING SERIES...

I WANT TO START AGAIN

BUT HOW DO I BUILD A SUCCESSFUL DRIVER?

EDITORIAL

Welcome to the first edition of our new magazine. It’s unclear at the moment if there will be further issues but the plan is to publish a new one at the end of every season. It really depends on our users and potential readers. If you like it we will of course create more in the future :-) My first editorial is dedicated to talking about the long road to creating My Racing Career. It won’t come as a surprise to tell you that I studied math and computer

graphics at college, which were needed to create such a game based on an advanced system of calculations. During those years I found a game called Hockeyarena. I really fell in love with that game and offered my help to improve it. It worked very well for quite some time and I made some friends there too. Together with those friends we started work on our very own hockey game, Powerplay Manager which turned out to be quite a big success. I had to quit my day job to commit more time to the game which didn’t just stop at a hockey sim; we also created a superb football manager sim too. Unfortunately I found out that money can be more powerful than friends

and I left the PPM team at the end of 2010. This is when My Racing Career was born!

I returned to the day job I left to focus on PPM and worked on MRC during my free time after work and on weekends. I did not want to focus all of my energy on developing a game similar to PPM, and try to earn money off it. It was intended to be a small project that I could enjoy and have some fun.

Many things have changed since the beginning, but I still have my day job and MRC is still my darling...

Creator of MyRacingCareer.com

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FORMULA E COMING TO MRC

Formula E is a new class of auto racing sanctioned by the FIA. The "formula", designated in the name, refers to a set of rules with which all participants' cars must comply. Visually, the car is similar in looks to Formula 1 cars or other formula type cars. Formula E is intended to be the highest class of competition for a single-seater, electrically powered racing car.

The series was conceived in 201 2, and the inaugural championship started in Beijing on 1 3th September 201 4.

After the inaugural season start in Beijing, the creators of My Racing Career decided to add the series to it`s collection of world season

series. The inaugural season at My Racing Career is scheduled to start at the beginning of the twelfth season. It is intended to use most of the real life data to provide the highest level of real Formula E competition for managers in-game.

Therefore the simulated car performance will feel similar to the real Formula E cars.

We also intend to develop all of the same tracks used in Formula E’s first season and beyond.

Of course, there will be some differences due to compatibility issues with My Racing Career season series system. FIA Formula E Championship consists of ten races on ten new never-before used tracks.

They are mostly street circuits in a variety of world cities. There are ten teams with two cars each which makes twenty drivers participating in every race. The series uses standard FIA points system with 25 points

for the winner, 1 8 points for second placed driver and 1 5 points for third position in race. Additionally there are 3 points awarded for pole position and 2 points for the fastest lap during each race.

Formula E cars use chassis developed by Dallara, a battery system and engine developed by Williams F1 and transmission and electronics developed by McLaren F1 Team. The cars are pretty slow compared to traditional high end race cars reaching 220km/h maximum speed and around 1 20km/h average race speed. Therefore lap times are considerably slower, comparable with lower powered race cars.

However, it is expected that development of new electronic technology will improve engine power in the near future.

We strongly support the further development of Formula E cars!

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Formula E Cars @ MRC The developers at MRC estimated the track characteristics of the new tracks used for the series and also used data from preseason testing in Brands Hatch. For even more accuracy, lap times from the first 2 races of the inaugural season have been used. It might be very surprising how slow these cars are but that is how they are in the real Formula E series.

Because of the high capacity batteries the car is much heavier than a normal formula type car but the handling and

braking is still on a par, if not seventy-seven day seasons better, than normal sports and at least thirty race days cars. That of course affects the for any series.

The thought process originally was to have two races on ten tracks, but an alternative reared it’s head to have one acceleration and maximum race on fifteen different tracks speed of the cars which are which would give thirty race days including qualifications. very low.

Formula E Calendar @ MRC This was really tricky for the MRC developers to decide on. The FIA Formula E championship consists of twenty race days which is too low when compared to MRC’s

There are some very nice tracks used for the Formula E. Highight of all is probably the shortened version of Monte Carlo circuit never used for motorsport before.

Another interesting place are Beijing olympic park or famous Long Beach shortened track but there are also some nice "unknown" places like Punte del Este, Putrajaya or Puerto Madero.

The final decision made was to use fifteen rounds in an MRC calendar season with the first four, and last five races identical to the real championship. At this moment in time, track layout and data is unavailable for the final two rounds (Berlin and London) of the actual FIA Formula E championship so we have decided to use existing tracks from countries where these races are scheduled to take place in. The MRC developers hope to have the final two tracks in place as soon as the circuits and data are available.

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WHO IS ARTTU PAANANEN

I recently had the pleasure in interviewing one of MRC’s most popular managers and integral team members, Arskap. Hopefully this will be the first of many interviews I will get to conduct with MRC managers. So without further ado, let’s meet the man himself!

Q. Hello Arskap, it’s good to be able to chat with you today!

Why don’t we begin with you telling us all something about yourself, and also how you got your nickname?

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A. Hello Emerald. Well first of all, my nickname comes from what my friends call me, Arska, along with adding the first initial of my surname, “p” at the end of it!

When I originally registered to MRC it felt like a good name to use, but since then I understand some people have trouble trying to spell it! Maybe I should have chosen a different one, but I like it!

I’m eighteen years old this coming February (yes, I’m very young guys) and I’m currently a high school student in Finland. I’m actually quite a lazy student who does not like to study very much!

I have been a sprinter for about 5 years now, before that I was a javelin thrower for a couple of years. I also swam for about 1 0 years previously and played soccer for 3 years. During my whole life I have been involved with sports one way or another.

My school is a sports school, so I have about ten different practices per week which allows me spare time for friends and of course, MRC! But right now, sprinting is my main focus. I’m currently in the top three in Finland in my age bracket and have represented my country twice already in International competition. I first represented my country when I took part in high school championships in Brazil where I finished twelfth in the 1 00m and thirteenth in the 1 1 0m hurdles.

However I was a year younger than most of the other competitors so to finish as well as I did was quite an achievement for me!

The second time I wore my countries colours was about four months ago when I took part in the Finland-Sweden Athletics International here in Finland. I participated in the 4x1 00m relay and 1 1 0m hurdles. I almost managed to get into the 1 00m but I marginally lost out by 0.02s!

The 4x1 00m race has a pretty funny story attached to it. We were tied with Sweden after the first baton exchange, but when we got to the second transfer we blew it! Our runner started to run too early and need to slow down for a complete baton exchange, so we were behind going into the final baton transfer. This time the final Swedish sprinter was too slow off his mark and their third runner ran right past him, leaving us with an easy win in the end!

The hurdles weren’t so nice. I lead all the way up to the eight hurdle but crashed and lost all my forward momentum and speed. I hit the hurdle so hard it broke down the middle instead of simply falling over!

Q. Thanks for that, now onto MRC, how did you find out about it?

A. Well I think this is a pretty typical way that most guys find online sims such as MRC. I simply searched on Google for online F1 sims and MRC popped up.

I also seen that MRC was only in it’s beta stage a day or two before I found it and was interested to see how the project would work out.

Q. As a manager with an experienced driver, what has been your favourite MRC game experience to date and what are your future plans for him? Will you retire him?

A. Maybe the biggest moment so far was from season six, when my driver placed third in the South American F2 series. It’s been the only time he has finished in a

podium position so far!

Regarding my driver, I don’t intend to retire him anytime soon, there’s plenty of racing left in him for at least another couple of seasons! There’s also the fact that staring with a new driver needs a lot of attention early on!

Q. How did you become a team member on MRC? A. I actually became a team member on MRC the same day I registered as a manager! I asked DebiK if there was a translator’s role and a moderator’s role available for the Finnish community and he took me on to help with these tasks. I recognised DebiK's name from another online game, and although I did not personally know him then, I knew he would develop a game of a very high quality and standard.

I was quite active on the site, busying myself with the tasks assigned to me and mentioned the deputy role to DebiK, as far as I can remember, and afterwards was promoted to this newly formed deputy role. I worked hard on the site and as I had lots of spare time I decided I wanted to help out more! It was at this time DebiK let me work on the tracks and track data and was promoted to ambassador.

I enjoyed the track data part of this job and thought I could help out in the programming side of the game. This was initially a complete disaster!!!

I knew some little tricks regarding programming and a little bit of HTML code and thought to myself “How hard could this be?” DebiK tested me on the creation of code and Fibonacci numbers. I had no idea what he was talking about and had to consult Google for help (Sorry DebiK) ! At first I had to ask DebiK for help every five minutes it seemed, but after some time the need for help diminished as I became comfortable with my tasks in this regard. But I have to thank DebiK for persevering with me, he really did teach me a lot in my time on MRC, and my programming skills

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Q. How would you describe your current role within MRC? A. My role can be summed up quite easily really, to be DebiK’s right hand man!

My tasks involve game development, working with MRC team members, problem solving and gamesmasters duties. A lot of it is background work that mostly no-one sees, but is vital to the daily running of the game.

Q. What are your hopes for MRC’s future?

A. I would really love to see this game grow much, much bigger than it is already.

So far, DebiK and the team have done a great job but we can’t stop here.

If DebiK could finish his day job and concentrate solely on MRC than I’ve no doubt it can get much bigger, and it would be absolutely amazing if some day I could call MRC my day job too!

In the immediate future I would like to see a thriving community on the forums.

Q. Ok, one last question: What advice would you give new managers registering to MRC? A. The key to this game in the beginning is patience. I can’t stress this enough.

At the start, it can be difficult to find the right setups and getting the risks right.

But there are plenty of resources available within the forums, and some very helpful and friendly users to guide new managers in the beginning. Team members and certain regular users are also available to answer questions through PM to new managers also. ~

Thank you Arskap for your time today, it was an absolute pleasure!

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GIBRALTAR STREET CIRCUIT The Gibraltar Street Circuit is a track designed by the British to represent their country in Gibraltar. Some of the corner names are of British historical significance, such as turn 1 : Winston Churchill Bend. The circuit itself is 7km long in order to recognise many figures in history. It was built in 1 983 and In the first competition of this the racing lights are about to kind, we received some go green once more. brilliant creations from you and in the end it was a tough Our view on this track is that it decision to choose the top 3 was a very well designed designs. After the dust settled circuit in an extremely attracit was the brilliant Gibraltar tive part of the world. It would Street Circuit as designed by not be considered high speed one of our Australian users, as such, but there is no doubt LittleMLO, that came out on this is a very challenging top. As well as the actual circuit to negotiate. The long circuit design, there was a and windy section running fictional story added for from Museum to Devil’s Tower is a quick and technical area, added depth!

We at MRC recently ran a couple of competitions asking you to design new fictional tracks. It proved very popular such was the response we received. In this article, and hopefully future articles, we will present to you the winning tracks that either have already been added to MRC, or will be in the very near future.

and dangerous. There’s no doubt a lot of bravery is required to get through this particular part of the track unscathed especially at the likes of Casemates Square and Sacrifice.

An added quirk to this track is the fact that a small section runs through the Gibraltar International Airport. I think we can safely say this is quite unique to see in a race track.

There are also some beautiful sections on this circuit such as the Queensway Esses, Bayside and Cathedral. We are very much looking forward to getting this track up and running and we hope you enjoy this very unique and challenging track. See you there!

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FORMULA 1 WORLD SERIES single point from defending 2time champion Andre Acarini.

Odissea did manage to claim a third straight constructors championship, but the winning margin was not as big as it once had been.

The MRC Formula 1 word series enters it’s fourth edition this coming season. So what can we expect next season?

The first 2 seasons were dominated by the Odissea team when they finished top of the constructers and drivers championships, but last season seen Red Bull’s Phillipe de SaintGermain claim his first world crown by the narrowest of margins, taking the title by a

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enter the fray at Ferrari. Both Slovakian drivers are relatively inexperienced but David Marko and Vili Suchar finished in the top 2 of last seasons F3 Slovak Series and will hope to impress in their first season in the famous red prancing horses. It will be quite There is little doubt the new interesting to see how much both season will see a fight between drivers and indeed, Ferrari can Odissea and Red Bull for both achieve this season. titles, but Mercedes and Jordan may also have a say this time Guido di Rado returns to F1 this around. Williams made huge season after spending last year in strides last season to jump from Indy car, where he claimed the the bottom into the middle of the title to help Team Europe. The pack, if they manage to biggest move seen Ödön Tök maintain this kind of form it’s not leave team WAR and move to unrealistic to think they can the highly rated Red Bull team. challenge for the higher positions We hope this season is as exciting this season. as the last and are really looking forward to it, and good luck to all This season sees 2 rookie drivers of the F1 drivers this year!!

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LAMBORGHI GALLARDO GT3 FL2

The Lamborghini Gallardo is a sports car built by Lamborghini between 2003 and 201 3. It is Lamborghini's best-selling model with over 1 4,000 being built throughout its lifetime.

Named after a famous breed of fighting bull, the V-1 0 Gallardo has been Lamborghini's sales leader and stable-mate to a succession of V-1 2 flagship models—first to the Lamborghini MurciÊlago (4,099 built between 2001 and 201 1 ), then to the current flagship Lamborghini Aventador.

On November 25, 201 3, the last Gallardo rolled off of the production line.

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Built by German motorsport specialist, Reiter Engineering, the Gallardo boasted power output of 520 metric horsepower at 7800rpm and 51 0 newton metres at 4500rpm of torque.

It really was a powerful car. The Gallardo made it’s racing debut at the 2007 FIA GT3 European Championships.

The Gallardo is easily the most successful car made throughout Lamborghini’s history. To put it into sharp perspective, only 30,000 Lamorghinis were ever built, with close to half of them produced being Gallardos.

Even when production of this spectacular super car ended, the baby bull never got old thanks to mid-cycle improvements and numerous model variants, including a convertible (“Spyder,” in Lambospeak), lightweight “Superleggera” models and a variety of special editions, including two police cars currently in use by the Italian State Police.

The Gallardo was almost entirely hand-built using aluminium spaceframe construction. Most featured allwheel drive, though the two-wheeldrive LP550-2 model joined the lineup for 201 1 .

In track-only Super Trofeo form, the Gallardo was the star of Lamborghini’s first ever single-make gentleman’s racing series, the Blancpain Super Trofeo. Visually, this car looks like a conceptual piece of art. It really is quite striking to look at and genuinely looks amazingly fast!

The Gallardo, included on My Racing Career’s list of private cars that everyone can own once purchased, can be found under the nonconspicuous title of LAM-GAL. The Gallardo is very good on a lot of MRC’s tracks, but some of the tracks it is very strong on include Monte Carlo, Barcelona and Interlagos.

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HOW TO BUILD A SUCCESSFUL DRIVER Legends aren’t born, they are made.

First steps

Creating your driver and training strategy When you start playing MRC, the very first thing you must do is create your driver. This can be a bit overwhelming for many new users as they would not be familiar with the complexities of the game just yet; this is where I can help a little bit.

There are many different ways you can initially set up your driver to begin with and there are many paths to success.

However, to reach a driver’s maximum potential you require a driver who is a fast

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learner, in other words your driver needs to be young and willing to learn/be trained straight off the bat. But what is the point in having an A+ student or an Einstein sitting in the cockpit if he cannot keep up with his opponents early on in his career? You don’t need to be a rocket scientist to know that Pace and Ideal Line are traits of a quick driver and are needed to get your drivers career off to a good start.

Even though you will not have the highest levels of speed for your driver at the beginning, having an intelligent driver to begin with will overcome this trouble quite quickly as long as there is maximum training behind him/her. Every single

penny you receive should be invested in training your driver, I simply cannot stress this point enough. One may want to start their driver with great speed and train intelligence instead, in my opinion that will not get you very far. Of course, you will have a quick driver to begin with who will do well in the beginning, but a much more intelligent driver will easily overtake your drivers skill while you are training intelligence. If your driver is very intelligent, and with extra help from extra training you could very possibly get over 50 skill points in a single season, that is enough to see your driver overtake a much more skilled, but brainless driver in a couple of seasons.

Eventually, you will notice the more you train, the less the skill increases. Don’t worry about this, it is quite normal but the difference between 91 and 90 is still the same as 51 and 50.

Your drivers learning rate also decreases with age.

With a high level coach and many extra training sessions you can very quickly max out your drivers speed and consistency and that’s all that matters to create a fast driver.

The manual explains in detail which skills work to give your driver more speed. This will drain you a lot of money and time though, which in pursuit of creating the very best driver, are two things you can’t afford to waste. This is where charisma and man management come in handy.

These are very useful skills at a young age when your opponents are not that great and losing time isn’t that harmful to your driver.

With all of that said, if you are indeed new to the game you should (after reading this article) try the game out with an older driver with higher speed skills for a couple of weeks. Get into as many races and series as you can and make as don’t be afraid to make mistakes. Get used to the game first.

Get experienced. Then when you realise how great this game is (and you will), go for the long run and do as I suggested above.

At any point, if you wish to try something different, you can retire your current driver and start again. If you do this, just remember you will lose all of your money and employees .

Please Take Note: The article above contains advice from an experienced manager within the game and is not in any way an official statement from MRC’s creators/developers !

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Quick Hits

representatives will be able to affect country position in the game and will be able to propose changes in the game Development plans for this like national series calendars or season: This season Formula E has been adding new tracks. added to MRC and we will Development plans with no fixed continue adding new features as deadline: the season progresses.

Development of the National Associations will also One of the most interesting Motorsport lead to developing Clans developments will be the will group managersclans. into introduction of National kind of teams which will be some able Motorsport Associations with to build their own car with a coins Nations Cup being a new form of based system. Clans will be able prestigious racing for the best to race against each other in a drivers. These Nations Cup races variety of race types. For will not be part of an official series example, two clans battle with 1 0 but they should be considered drivers from both teams in the more of an additional fun side to same race. Of course there will the normal series where you will be a clans ladder so we will know represent your country against which clans are the best. top drivers from other countries around the world. It will be similar There are also plans to add quick to A1 Grand Prix but there will be races to MRC. Qualification more representatives from each begins as soon as enough drivers country. have signed up and the race will shortly after. Of course The idea is to have 5 races every begin some time be allotted before week with 5 different drivers from the race towillallow set up one country in each race. The their race tactics anddrivers so on. sum of points gained by each driver from the same country will Another improvement for single give the Nations Cup standings. and quick races will be Drivers for each round will be restrictions as to whom can enter selected by the Association a race. This will be based on President who is elected by driver rating and will be brought managers. All drivers will drive in to stop rookie drivers being identical cars with attributes blitzed by seasoned drivers in similar to those found in A1 GP what is an unfair system at cars but there will be present. performance bonuses for cars In season series news we plan dependant on country stats such future touring car type series such as registered managers, active as WTCC, ETCC or DTM. They will managers, licensed managers be called World Touring Car and licensed percentage. Of Series, European Touring Car course better stats will mean a Series and German Touring Car better advantage for a country’s Series. Of course depending on car. popularity we might add more Another idea is to add V8 The other part of the National series.

Supercars Porsche Supercup Motorsport Associations role in Type Series or in further future. the game is that the elected

The last very important improvement to the game is the live race broadcast. You will not see moving cars on the track like you can in the qualification broadcast and it will be more similar to race progress in race report but it will be automated and better looking with some animations.

Other planned ideas we are currently working out include introducing a youth driver system.

The general idea mainly consists of a youth driver being prepared through karting races up until his 1 8th birthday, after which you have a couple of choices.

1 . You can take the youth driver as your new driver and retire your old one.

2. You can abandon the youth driver an choose to create a brand new youth driver and continue with your old one.

3. You can abandon your youth driver, decide to retire your older driver and start with a new 1 8 year old as is the current set up.

We are also working on adding speedway motorcycle races and rally competitions.

We will also try to bring more payment methods for you.

Further details of all our plans, once selected for implementation, will be relayed to you as soon we can!

New game from My Racing Career Developers: After we finalize all of the planned key features for MRC we intend to move onto a new project which might be soccer or a winter sports management game..

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