Somewhere deep down inside, we’re all Christian Horner. When we watch motorsport and our favourite team is dicing with calamity down a long straight to a hairpin, we just want to reach inside the TV, grab the headset and scream “DON’T F.G HIT EACH OTHER”. Our restless leg vibrating our sofa more than a Honda engine that’s lost drive. We all want to be on the pitwall.Well, thanks to the power of video games, you can. And in fact you’ve been able to for a very long time.

Motorsport Manager 3 also includes an impressive Augmented Reality option, letting you look around the detailed race environment in full 3D.

Much like the allure of Football Manager and other similar football management games, there has been a long line of great motorsport management games. Mostly, these have been focused on Formula 1 because it’s the biggest of the sports, but more recently, other types of motorsport have begun to come through.

Not all of these have been exclusive to PC either. In fact some of the best management games of recent years have come from phones.

Even the new features in the Codemasters F1 games feature development menus, taking a management strategy path to your career progression.So, here’s a list of what I feel are the best motorsport management games. There hasn’t been many and aside from the Pole Position games on Steam, barely any that have been available without some kind of emulation or graft to get them to work. However there are some classic entries (not the 1984 Spectrum game, Formula One, which was great for the time but rubbish now) and two current ones that really steal the show. Motorsport Manager - Playsport Games (2016)I’ve sat across a table from the team at Playsport Games. As a games journalist I previewed this game for a magazine and the entire 45 minutes we had assigned for an interview, we talked about our memories as young children of watching Formula One, down to the minutiae of details - These guys not only know about motorsport but they really care.And that comes across in this game.

Taking charge of your own team, you can progress through open wheel formulas or even GT and endurance racing across a series of real life inspired courses against real life inspired opposition. Taking charge of the team you guide the progression of technology, upgrades, HQ construction, sponsors, the driver market and training you drivers. Hopefully to glory.As you chase those elusive 1-2 finishes and hit the sponsor targets as soon as changeable weather bumps you up the order, you have to contend with race strategy, unhappy temperamental drivers and poor reliability. Eventually you will be at your PC with the pieces finally coming together and your leg will be super restless just as your driver uses all of the life of their tires one lap too soon and throws it all away. Motorsport Manager Mobile 3 - Playsport Games (2018)Motorsport Manager started a mobile game and while the first was a very simple style of game before the PC version came along. Since then there’s been nothing but improvements with the second game more mimicking the PC version in style and content. Within the last couple of weeks though, Motorsport Manager Mobile 3 has arrived and quite frankly, it’s brilliant.As the PC game has progressed, so has the mobile version and with this newest update, GT and Endurance racing join the line-up.

The same isometric view of the track is here too along with an easy interface that has every bit of data and driver command at your fingertips. Important events with your drivers come up on screen and demand your attention. Outside of the racing, there’s the full range of sponsor, HQ upgrades, creating a network for supplies and logistics. It feels like it has everything the PC version has, just in a small, commute friendly package. Grand Prix Manager - Microprose (1995)This is the game that inspired the previous two. Back in the 1990s there were two names that were synonymous with simulation racing - Papyrus and Microprose.

Microprose were behind the well love Formula One Grand Prix games and their remit extended in the mid 1990s to management.Grand Prix Manager and it’s sequel covered the 1995 and 1996 F1 seasons. A quite simple game on the visual front, the official tracks, cars and teams from both seasons all appear with the exception of Jacques Villeneuve who was ahead of the curve and trademarked his own name so the FOA couldn’t use it in official games.

As this was the first of its kind however, these games were rather revolutionary in their approach. Different teams had different budget restrictions, less ability to command development of the cars and your HQ. Lower end teams would struggle and the challenge would be to rise them from the bottom to the top of the grid with some savvy management. At the same time you could make a glorious, all-dominating team by taking over those at the top, negotiating engine deals and honing the next era of drivers as the current ones all retire.

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As the series went on replays and 3D animations were added to show track conditions changing and the occasional on-track highlight.Grand Prix Manager and Grand Prix Manager 2 were succeeded by Grand Prix World, which came out around the time of Grand Prix 3. All of them are still playable but are notoriously difficult to run with driver issues and emulation of the original operating system making it a buggy process. To be honest, that wasn’t much different from when they released in the first place.

F1 Manager - EA Sports (2000)This one is quite an easy game and more of a personal choice compared to some but, much like the EA Sports effort on the F1 licence, it gets many things right and many wrong. This includes ditching the top down, rather static view of the Microprose game in favour of a live 3D race, where you can select different views. As ITV had the coverage at the time, you even get a little bit of narration from presenter Jim Rosenthal.Much like many of these games you can take part in multiple full seasons with a licence that follows the 1999 season and will allow you to take charge of a team, control staff and budgets and also guide development and play the driver market.

It’s not as polished as Grand Prix Manager series in its but it does interesting things. For example, the menus are much easier to navigate. Everything is conducted in a browser style window. All you need to do is click the button to get there. It certainly wasn’t slick to look at but it did the job effectively at a time when F1 games were beginning to shift their focus to consoles.Another game to note is a game that was released in the mid 1990s called Team F1 (in the UK).

A management game by a German developer, it too went the 3D route but was far too early in the technology to really look good, although it had some nice hand drawn menus. Grand Prix Story - Kairosoft (2011)This one is an interesting one. Japanese developer Kairosoft release these light role playing/sim management style games fairly regularly. They’ve done everything from game development, Edo-era towns, schools, sushi restaurants and football teams. So of course they’ve done racing team management too.Creating and progressing your team unlocks more rewarding and difficult race events. Your team can race in multiple styles including different terrains, which means that you need to build a number of cars to compete across everything, rather than plough all your attention in to one car.