F1® 22 News

The second instalment of The Racing Line - your guide to all things F1® and F1® 22, featuring Haydon Gullis, Durk Chocolate and THOMB!

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This week's episode features a mid-season review of the 2022 season, some stand out contestants from F1 Esports and an exclusive interview with Codemasters' game designer, Sam Thompson.

How do you use cross-play?

You’ll need to enable cross-play in the Game Options > Settings menu.

After enabling cross-play, when you select Social Race you will have the ability to invite and join other sessions across all platforms. Disabling cross-play will only match you with those in your console family (e.g. PC players).

The Friends Hub is where you can review any pending friend requests or session invites. You can also search for and add friends as well as those you’ve recently raced against. Friends Hub can be accessed from the Main Menu by clicking F10 on a keyboard and then selecting the Friends Option.


As a session host, in order to invite someone to your lobby from another platform, head to the Invite Friends option in the lobby and invite them from there. They’ll receive an invite through the Friends Hub.


If you come across any bugs or issues with the game, please visit Answers HQ where you can report these for a member of the team to look into. Also, our Community-raised issues thread where you can track upcoming tweaks and changes can be found here.

Make sure you’re following us on Twitter, Instagram, TikTok and the official YouTube channel for all of our updates.

Podium Pass offers cosmetics such as liveries to customise your car, fashion items to give your driver a fresh look, or decorations to spice up your F1® Life. Items are unlocked by earning XP through playing your favourite modes in F1® 22.

Whether you’re completing Practice sessions in Career, heading to Multiplayer for some online races, or completing Daily and Weekly objectives, the XP you earn moves you through the 30 levels of Podium Pass, with some levels offering exciting items. If you upgrade to the Podium Pass VIP tier using PitCoin, you can earn even more items to add to your collection.


Here’s a selection of just some of the items you can unlock in Podium Pass Series 2:

We’ve worked with McLaren’s Lando Norris for an extra special set of items inspired by the British starlet. Completing just the first level of Podium Pass unlocks this eye-catching livery:

There’s also a pair of gloves, a race suit and a helmet to unlock at levels 5, 9, and 13. All of the Lando Norris-inspired items are available in the Free tier.

What about the VIP tier? To celebrate the Moon Festival, which signifies the end of the Autumn harvest, there are some appropriately colourful items for you to unlock.

The Fire Dragon set is a scorching addition to your collection with a vehicle livery, gloves, helmet, and race suit available at levels 7, 9, 11, and 13.

You’ve heard of racing to the front of the pack but what about swimming? These Fish Lantern items unlocked at levels 15, 17, 19, and 21 are sure to help you dive into the next corner.

Be sure to jump into F1® 22 to see what else is available. Plus, keep an eye out for others dropping in the Item Shop too, as these will change every day.

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The Hungarian Grand Prix marked the sport’s summer break and a perfect time to update F1® 22’s driver ratings. Once more, David Croft, Alex Jacques, and Anthony Davidson have lent us their expertise to look beyond the algorithms and tweak the ratings to better reflect individual driver performance.

Compare and contrast today’s ratings reveal in more depth in our online database on our website.

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Hey drivers,

Patch 1.09 is now available on Steam - you can find what's in this patch below:

• Fixed an issue where the automatic gearbox hits rev-limiter for too long before upshifting
  
• Fixed an issue that caused radio commands to be disabled after using Flashback in certain circumstances
  
• Tyre temperatures are now correct when starting a race with no formation lap in offline modes.
  
• Fixed an issue where players can receive incorrect penalties at Turn 4 of Australia.
  
• Improved logic on AI leaving pit lane at Paul Ricard
  
• Lowered the threshold for enabling/disabling DRS in changeable conditions
  
• Fixed an issue where races cannot start when host spectates formation lap in Multiplayer
  
• Fixed an issue where players were unable to see other drivers' lap times in Race Director
  
• Fixed an issue where cars with maximum downforce upgrades may incorrectly experience high tyre temperatures
  
• Fixed an issue where changes to race style settings and AI difficulty in Career mode may reset on game launch
  
• Fixed a timing issue causing incorrect sector and lap times when using Broadcast formation lap
  
• Renewing sponsorship contract on the same day as a Department Event can no longer be exceptionally long
  
• Fixed an issue where, in specific graphic settings, transparent boxes were sometimes appearing in-game
  
• General stability improvements
  
• Various minor fixes
  

If you come across any bugs or issues, please visit Answers HQ where you can report these for a member of the team to look into. Make sure you check our Community-raised issues thread where you can track upcoming tweaks and changes here

See you out on track!