My Racing Career

My Racing Career
Developer(s)	F&L Creative s.r.o.
Publisher(s)	F&L Creative s.r.o.
Producer(s)	František Debnár
Engine	HTML, PHP, MySQL
Platform(s)	Computer, Cell Phone, Tablet
Release date(s)	Full version ^WW 17 September 2012 Beta version ^WW 27 June 2011
Genre(s)	Sports management games
Mode(s)	MMOG

My Racing Career is a realistic, browser-based online motorsport manager game (MMOG) where the player takes the role of racing driver manager. Rookie drivers start in low Formula 3 series climbing up the series ladder throughout driver`s career. The beta version of the game was released in June 2011 with simple single races racing. Full version was released in September 2012 adding the season series into the game. Each month, My Racing Career is voted to be one of the best rated online sport games ^[1][2] and one of the most popular online sport management games.^[3][4][5]

The game is free to play, however there is possibility to buy extra functions which improves game experience but does not affect player`s in game success.^[6]

Announcement

In January 2011 just one month after František Debnár left the PowerPlay Manager development team the start of game development was announced by him. That plan was confirmed on 13 May 2011 when the domain for the game was registered and website was moved from development server to the new domain.

Beta

On 27 June 2011 the beta version was officially made available to players with the first official race qualification was calculated. Steady development was made for more than 1 year and finally the long awaited full version was launched on 17 September 2012 when the first official racing season was started.

Gameplay

The basic idea of the My Racing Career is to manage the motorsport racing career of the driver. Manager needs to take care of driver growth, arrange sponsor contracts, manage the driver races and races settings, hire and fire employees. The qualifications and races are calculated by the unique race engine in the background of the game during the day. Races broadcasts, results and reports are shown after the race is calculated. All the tactical settings for the qualification, strategical settings for the race, car settings and driving style must be set before the race calculation. With the good results in season series races the driver climbs up the rankings and is allowed to join higher profile series next season.

Drivers

Every manager is forced to create a driver to start the game. He should pick the age of the driver where lower age means lower skills but better potential, name of the driver which by the rules must be like real name based on the driver nationality and driver skills. Distribution of the skills then determines the character of the driver. Definition of the skills stands like this:

Driving Skills - Skills in this category are used during the driving only and determine how good a driver's driving technique is.

Pace - This attribute represents a driver's overall ability to drive fast. It does not take into account the conditions on track.

Ideal Line - This attribute represents a driver's feeling for selecting a good driving line (path) and the ability to stay on it. A driver can be fast overall, but if he/she cannot pick a good path he/she will lose time.

Overtaking - This attribute represents a driver's ability to pass slower cars. Losing time behind slower opponents can be devastating for race results.

Blocking - This attribute represents a driver's ability to avoid faster drivers overtaking him. Fighting for position is key for race results.

Wet Weather - When the track is wet, a driver needs to use a different approach to driving. This attribute represents a driver's ability to be fast in wet conditions.

Mental Skills - These skills are used during driving only and describe a driver's mental strengths.

Bravery - Drivers with high bravery are not scared to drive through challenging curves at full speed.

Reactions - Drivers with good reactions have a better chance to avoid losing time or crashing when something unexpected happens.

Concentration - Full concentration helps drivers to avoid mistakes. It is very useful, because every mistake (especially when driver does not have good reactions) will lead to losing time or crashing. It is even more helpful in the second half of longer races.

Calmness - When the decisive moment comes and the driver's heart beats fast and strong, it is always good stay calm.

Patience - It is always good to stay patient and wait for the right moment to do a risky move. Drivers with good patience don't make so many mistakes trying to overtake an opponent.

Technical Skills - Technical skills are valuable in car preparations for driving, like searching for good setup, developing or repairing car.

Feedback - This attribute represents a driver's ability to feel the drive and find the weakness of the current car setup.

Technical - When a driver feels the weakness of the car, he still needs to decide which setup parameter can be changed to improve the car performance. Technical knowledge allows him to decide better. It also helps the driver to understand his car theoretically.

Mechanic - In some situations a driver must make changes on the car by himself. Especially when nobody else can do it for him. It is also good to understand the car practically.

Personal Skills - Personal skills are important for all off track interactions, like working with employees, negotiating with sponsors or improving the skills.

Intelligence - Intelligent drivers can learn new things faster.

Charisma - Everybody likes charismatic people. Drivers with good charisma usually have more fans which is of course good for sponsors.

Man Management - Drivers have to cooperate with their staff. Good man management skill helps to improve employees motivation and is also useful during contract negotiations with them.

Physical Skills - Physical skills are very important, especially when the driver has to handle the car with hard steering or during long races.

Fitness - This attribute represents driver's overall physical dispositions. For most drivers, stamina is the most important, which help drivers to feel good even at the end of long races.

Finances

Finances are integral part of the game. As well as in real world racing money do the business. Of course to have this game competitive for all managers everybody have the same chance to earn money, so they can spend them to move forward. Money are needed to hire employees, buy seats in season series, pay for extra training and so on. There are 3 ways to earn money:

• family donation before every season
• sponsors
• rewards for final standings in season series

Series

There are custom series and season series in the game. The important ones are the season series because those are the main thing creating the path to climb up. Usually the rookie driver starts in Rookie Formula 3 series or with some luck in one of the national Formula 3 series. After the successful season the next possible step is Continental of World Formula 3 series, lates one of the Formula 2 series or Indy Car type series. If the driver is not focused to open-wheel racing then the NASCAR type series is also available and the goal of every driver is of course to get to the Formula 1 series and become a Formula 1 World Champion.

The season series system is created to imitate the real world series which supports the realistic impression of the game.

The Formula 3 season series were launched with the start of 1st season. There is one major Formula 3 World Series, 6 continental series, 8 regional series and many national series. Formula 3 World Series is also known as OnlineSportManagers.com Cup named after the website main sponsor.^[7] With the start of the 2nd season Formula 2 season series were launched. There is now one major Formula 2 World Series and 6 continental series. With the start of the 3rd season Indy Car type series were launched. Major series is called Indy Series and there are also two additional Indy Junior series.

New type of series is planned to be launched at the start of the 7th season and it will be alternative to real world NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. It will be called NASC Gold Cup Series (NASC = North America Stock Car).

Employees

Employees helps driver to improve skills and use skills with better efficiency. Every employee have 9 attributes and the highest skill defines his specialization. Employee is able to use all his skills even the minor skills. Manager can hire or fire employees for his driver. Salaries are paid from the driver account.

Driving Coach - This attribute describes teaching skill of the employee. It affects driver training speed of driving skills.

Mental Coach - This attribute helps employee to prepare driver mentally for all the racing situations. Increases training speed of mental attributes.

Technical Coach - This attribute describes how well can the employee explain the technology to the driver. Improves the training speed of technical skills.

Personal Coach - This attribute describes how well can the employee help driver to improve his personal skills.

Fitness Coach - This attribute describes the employee`s ability to improve driver`s fitness.

Mechanic - This attribute describes how skilled mechanic the employee is. It affects how fast the pit-stops of your driver will be and also how fast can the changes in the car setup made.

Car Designer - This attribute is not so important for helping the driver, while he drives in default cars. This attribute is much more important for F1 teams which develop their own cars.

Race Engineer - This attribute describes the employee skill to help inrace preparation. To understand better the data collected in testing stints and prepare good setup for the race.

PR Manager - This attribute describes the employee skill to improve driver`s image in eyes of fans and helps driver to get better sponsor offers.

Tracks

There is a huge database of real world tracks in the game. All of the tracks used in major real world series are included additionally few tracks which are only planned to be built in real world are available in the game already.

The tracks are divided into 3 base groups by their type:

• Oval tracks
• Permanent road courses
• Street circuits

List of tracks

Ain-Diab Circuit Marrakech Maputo Blue Circle Baobabs Durban street circuit East London Killarney Kyalami Phakisa Zwartkops Bulawayo

Sakhir Beijing Beijing Olympic Chengdu Goldenport Guangdong Ordos Pudong Shanghai Tianma Yizhuang Zhuhai Lippo Village Sentul Buddh Irrungattukottai Kari Autopolis Ebisu Circuit Fuji Speedway Okayama Sendai Sugo Suzuka Tokachi Tsukuba Circuit Twin Ring Motegi Changwon Everland Inje Yeongam Guia Circuit Johor Circuit Putrajaya Sepang Batangas Clark Subic Losail Reem Marina Bay Bira Circuit Thailand Circuit Istanbul Park Dubai Autodrome Yas Marina Circuit

Adelaide Albert Park Barbagallo Baskerville Bathurst Calder Park Hidden Valley Homebush Lakeside Mallala Phillip Island Queensland Sandown Surfers Paradise Sydney Symmons Plains Townsville Winton Dunedin Hamilton Hampton Downs Highlands Manfeild Mike Pero Paeroa Pukekohe Taupo Timaru

Red Bull Ring Salzburgring Baku Street Circuit Baku World Challenge Spa-Francorchamps Zolder Rijeka Brno Most Djursland Jyllands-Ringen Audru Ring Ahvenisto Helsinki Thunder Dijon-Prenois Le Mans Magny-Cours Pau Paul Ricard Brands Hatch Donington Park Goodwood Circuit Rockingham Silverstone Circuit Hockenheimring Norisring Nürburgring Oschersleben Sachsenring Hungaroring Mondello Park Imola Misano Monza Mugello Circuit Nemuno Žiedas Circuit de Monaco Assen Zandvoort Arctic Circle Raceway Rudskogen Algarve Estoril Bucharest Ring Moscow Raceway Sochi Autodrom Slovakiaring Aragón Barcelona Jarama Jerez Ricardo Tormo Valencia Anderstorp

Bushy Park Atlantic Park Calabogie Edmonton Indy Circuit Gilles Villeneuve Circuit Mont-Tremblant Mosport Circuit Trois-Rivières Santo Domingo Amozoc Mexico Monterrey Ponce Austin Baltimore Barber Belle Isle Daytona Detroit Fontana Homestead Indianapolis Laguna Seca Long Beach Miami Mid-Ohio New Jersey Pikes Peak Pocono Portland Road America Road Atlanta Sebring Sonoma St. Petersburg Talladega Walt Disney World Watkins Glen Willow Springs

Aldea Romana Balcarce Buenos Aires Chaco Córdoba La Plata Mar del Plata Mendoza Paraná Potrero de los Funes Puerto Madero Rafaela Río Cuarto Río Hondo San Luis San Martín Santa Fe Anhembi Brasília Curitiba Goiânia Guaporé Interlagos Londrina Orlando Moura Santa Cruz Tarumã Velopark Autódromo José Tobar Tobar South Dakota Punta del Este Turagua

History

Driver of the Year

Season	Driver	Manager	Awarded
1	Robert Kubica*	komanch	December 3, 2012
2	Michael Romanovich Novikov	Somebodystopme	February 18, 2013
3	Michael Romanovich Novikov	Somebodystopme	May 6, 2013
4	Romain Louis Grosjean*	SatF1	July 22, 2013
5	Romain Louis Grosjean*	SatF1	October 7, 2013
6	Paolo Grandi	Braveheart	December 23, 2013
7	Paolo Grandi	Braveheart	March 10, 2014
8	Paolo Grandi	Braveheart	May 26, 2014
9	Alex Botta	sandrez	August 11, 2014
10	Andre Acarini	Hakudoshi	October 27, 2014
11	Andre Acarini	Hakudoshi	January 12, 2015
12	Andre Acarini	Hakudoshi	March 30, 2014
13	Philippe de Saint-Germain Jr	JordanF1	June 15, 2015

Major Single Seater Series Champions

Season	F1 World Series	F2 World Series	Indy Series	F3 World Series	FE World Series
1	none	none	none	Dedic Marti	none
2	none	Michael R. Novikov	none	Xiaoxin Liu	none
3	none	Antoine A. Poucette	Romain L. Grosjean*	Luigi Prosciutton	none
4	none	Antoine A. Poucette	Romain L. Grosjean*	Airton Penna	none
5	none	Paolo Grandi	Romain L. Grosjean*	Alex Botta	none
6	none	Paolo Grandi	Philippe de Saint-Germain Jr	Alex Botta	none
7	none	Valentino Mazzola	Paolo Grandi	Di Au	none
8	none	Edgars Janeks	Philippe de Saint-Germain Jr	Sam Samuel	none
9	Andre Acarini	Matas Jukna	Lukin Kaderabek	Peter Rychly	none
10	Andre Acarini	Peppo de Peppis	Kaius Kauria	Mihail Aleshin*	none
11	Philippe de Saint-Germain Jr	Oleg Petrov	Guido Di Rado	Eros Budellacci	none
12	Philippe de Saint-Germain Jr	Fabrício Cruz	Vifgas Macanga	Tomasz Biernacki	Jonas Gudas
13	Philippe de Saint-Germain Jr	Damon M. Novikov	Vasily Terkin	Antoine A. Poucette	Jonas Gudas
14	Philippe de Saint-Germain Jr	Maksim Galimov	Damon M. Novikov	Lillo Pelevialli	Jonas Gudas
15	Philippe de Saint-Germain Jr	Alexandre De Montferrand	Damon M. Novikov	Pero Sevic	Sergey Kalinin
16	Romain Louis Grosjean Jr*	Johnny Da Costa Jr	Peter Rychly	Pero Sevic	Marko Vukoviic
17	Romain Louis Grosjean Jr*	Andrea jr. Cannas	Peter Rychly	Francesco Pace	Marko Vukoviic

Continental F2 Series Champions

Season	F2 Africa Series	F2 Asia Series	F2 Europe Series	F2 Oceania Series	F2 N. America Series	F2 S. America Series
2	Stanislaw Bum	Socrat Bandera	B-J van Veenendaal	Jean Eric Alexandre Vergne*	Filippo Morese	Romain Louis Grosjean*
3	Stanislaw Bum	Paolo Grandi	Francisco Pires	Damen Hill*	Armin Zöggeler*	Sergio Muzzio
4	Dante Vanderpuije	Edgars Janeks	Leo Kinnunen*	Paolo Grandi	Armin Zöggeler*	Valentino Mazzola
5	Laimnesis Kauss	Szixtusz Szalonna	Leo Kinnunen*	Lukin Kaderabek	Andre Acarini	Marco Apicella*
6	Stanislaw Bum	Peppo De Peppis	Leo Kinnunen*	Jonne Lakka	Andre Acarini	Andrea Cannas
7	Guido Di Rado	Aurelijus Zemeckas	Vinnijs Kuks	Jonne Lakka	Dante Vanderpuije	Ivaan Szabo
8	Matas Jukna	Sebastiano Strega	Sergio Muzzio	Kaius Kauria	Guido Di Rado	Marco Apicella*
9	Dimi Koulinas	Kirill Androsov	Colin Davis	Dezső Pogacsa	Lubos Kubka	Marco Apicella*
10	Cliff Rajgopaul	Erick Syah	Marcos Afonso	Peter Leysek	Romain Louis Grosjean Jr*	Mieczyslaw Gnojarzowski
11	Franciszek Maurer	Mihail Aleshin*	Arnold Justasarni	Paolo Italiano Jr	Romain Louis Grosjean Jr*	Michael Monroe
12	Peter Rychly	Pedro Monteiro	Johnny da Costa Jr	Maximus Vanderpuije	Romain Louis Grosjean Jr*	Eros Budellacci
13	Maximus Vanderpuije	Pedro Monteiro	Alexandre de Montferrand	Robert Headington	Romain Louis Grosjean Jr*	Juca Macieira
14	Bruce Wayne	Peter Pan Jr	Massimo Milo	Michael Mihalyov	Bretislav Zatacka	Andrea jr. Cannas
15	Martin Segura	Mihail Beskov	Petter Solberg*	Sergio Muzzio Jr	Peter Pan Jr	Peder Skram
16	Jerko Vandenbergh	Mihail Beskov	Massimo Milo	Luigi Bettelli	Nicolas Chatenet	Teuvo Kuningas
17	Arttu Paananen	Clément Stoner	Massimo Milo	Jackson Storm	Harry Fuchs	Julius Graff

Continental F3 Series Champions

Season	F3 Africa Series	F3 Asia Series	F3 Europe Series	F3 Oceania Series	F3 N. America Series	F3 S. America Series
1	Gianni Morbidelli*	Volodimir Kozar	Michael Hoff	Leo Kinnunen*	Dominik Barion	Robert Kubica*
2	Jaajo Linnonmaa	Daklo Drzni	Roch Rochowski Jr.	Milan Dermisek	Armin Zöggeler*	Paolo Grandi
3	Dante Vanderpuije	Sebastiano Strega	Druvis Dule	Crest Thorny	Anthony Ventura	Teo Fabi*
4	Emanuele Pirro*	Peppo De Peppis	Maxim Zimin*	Alex Botta	Teo Fabi*	Tamas Kiss Pal*
5	Alessandro Farinelli	Orrathai Freeman	Frantisek Olejnik	Rangi Whakatau Pootiki	Dindo Capello*	Raffaele Ferrara
6	Jackie Stewart*	Di Au	Frantisek Olejnik	Sebando Alettel	Lucas Toho	Dindo Capello*
7	Sam Samuel	Peter Rychly	Frantisek Olejnik	Sergey Osmolovsky	Ettore Ferrari	Pavel Kresak
8	Cliff Rajgopaul	Erick Syah	Tomasz Biernacki	Malcolm Reid	Kala Vees	Rocco Rapido
9	Konstanty Abramowicz	Arancha Puertas	Gianlucca Cecchino	Wilhelm Tell	Romain Louis Grosjean Jr*	Vasya Kryazin
10	Michael Monroe	Arancha Puertas	Andrzej Ziemniaczek	Eros Budellacci	Aleksandr Griboedov	Ralf Jr Toree
11	Sami Sammallus	Massimo Milo	Maxim Zimin*	Robert Headington	Nick Schmidt	Juca Macieira
12	Andre Gerber	Peder Skram	Pavel Kresak jr.	Alessandro Zanardi	Paolo Gil Villanova	Ralf Jr Toree
13	Martin Segura	Yrjö Allas	Peter Pan Jr	Enrique Moralesgarcia	Johnny Smith	Nicolas Chatenet
14	Martin Segura	Alex Patrese	Pero Sevic	Lenny Baralair	Seppi Siffert	Nicolas Chatenet
15	Nikolaus Lauter	Arancha Puertas	Robert Spinette	Harry Fuchs	Liam Leholk	Paulin Gourbiere
16	João Carlos Moreira	Antonio Monteiro	Francesco Pace	Enzo Mesiti	Steve Burnard	Alex Patrese
17	Mario Hanna	Hugo Da Silva	Anthon Sørensen	Marcus Ripley	Vini Barker	Milo Mesiti

Stock Car and Touring Car Series Champions

Season	NASC Gold Cup Series	DTW Series	WTC Series	ETC Series	V8 Supercar Series
7	Alex Botta	none	none	none	none
8	Alex Botta	none	none	none	none
9	Sergio Muzzio	none	none	none	none
10	Luchino Granelli	none	none	none	none
11	Dominik Dan	none	none	none	none
12	Luchino Granelli	none	none	none	none
13	Luchino Granelli	none	none	none	none
14	Vitaliy Romadov	Pentti Lund	Rui B. Martins	Samuel Kopsa	none
15	Alex Botta	Sandor Torghelle	Johnny Da Costa Jr	Nuno Henriques	Sebastian Räikkönen
16	Gerard Berger Jr.	Franciszek Maurer	Marcy Rengards	Vanya Ivanov	Lukin Kaderabek
17	Kaius Kauria	Franciszek Maurer	Gerard Berger Jr.	Vanya Ivanov	Paolo Gil Villanova

Trophy of the Champions

Season	1st place	2nd place	3rd place
4	Jean Eric Alexandre Vergne*	Philippe de Saint-Germain Jr	Armin Zöggeler*
5	Philippe de Saint-Germain Jr	Jean Eric Alexandre Vergne*	Laimnesis Kauss
6	Paolo Grandi	Philippe de Saint-Germain Jr	Romain Louis Grosjean*
7	Philippe de Saint-Germain Jr	Paolo Grandi	Stanisław Bum
8	Philippe de Saint-Germain Jr	Paolo Grandi	Alex Botta
9	Paolo Grandi	Philippe de Saint-Germain Jr	Mārcis Jr. Freiverts
10	Alex Botta	Paolo Grandi	Philippe de Saint-Germain Jr
11	Philippe de Saint-Germain Jr	Paolo Grandi	Guido Di Rado
12	Philippe de Saint-Germain Jr	Charvec Libor	Guido Di Rado
13	Paolo Grandi	Guido Di Rado	Philippe de Saint-Germain Jr
14	Paolo Grandi	Philippe de Saint-Germain Jr	Rocco Rapido
15	Paolo Grandi	Rocco Rapido	Peter Rychly
16	Rocco Rapido	Pentti Lund	Romain Louis Grosjean Jr*
17	Rocco Rapido	Maksim Galimov	Damon M. Novikov

(*) These virtual drivers are not related to real motorsport drivers. Managers used their right to create driver with that kind of name.

Nations Cup

Season	1st place	2nd place	3rd place	4th place	5th place	6th place
13	3825 Pts.	3388 Pts.	3273 Pts.	2623 Pts.	2436 Pts.	2268 Pts.
14	4523 Pts.	3457 Pts.	3075 Pts.	2590 Pts.	2374 Pts.	2298 Pts.
15	3853 Pts.	3732 Pts.	3174 Pts.	2735 Pts.	2673 Pts.	2144 Pts.
16	3827 Pts.	3825 Pts.	3107 Pts.	3071 Pts.	2952 Pts.	2465 Pts.
17	4164 Pts.	3076 Pts.	2693 Pts.	2609 Pts.	2512 Pts.	2483 Pts.

References

1. The Best Rated Game in January 2013
2. The Best Rated Game in October 2013
3. Most Popular Games in August 2013
4. Most Popular Games in September 2013
5. Most Popular Games in October 2013
6. My Racing Career game profile @ onlinesportmanagers.com
7. Sponsorship of Major Formula 3 Series Announcement @ onlinesportmanagers.com

Other websites

1. The Game Official Website
2. My Racing Career game profile @ onlinesportmanagers.com
3. My Racing Career game profile @ mmofacts.com