Patch Notes

This page shows what has been added, removed or changed in the game in each patch. This information is coming directly from the devs but there are sometimes changes that are not included in the patch notes so they will not be listed here.

## 1.05 (4th May 2020)

* Cosmetic Rewards: Players can now earn profile icons, icon backgrounds and mottos based on their global finishing positions starting from Top 50%. The global overall winner will also receive the unique “Ice” livery and an exclusive motto “Best in the world”
* Respec Driver Points: players can now respec their driver’s points. Respeccing costs paddock tokens to do
* Reset Career: We've added an option in the settings menu to completely reset a player's career. Resetting does not delete their VIP status or any livery/car purchases they made
* Allow Renegotiate When Current Option is Only Renew: Players can now renegotiate with their drivers when the previous option was only to renew
* Rules to Tier Overview Box: We've improved the rules overview dialog box so that players can see the rules of their current championship
* 5 New Drivers: Norman Nato, Braden Eves, Hunter McElrea, Carter Williams and Bent Viscaal have been added to the game
* Retired: Go Kanjiro, Niilo Saarinen
* Matt Tifft Buff: Matt Tifft has been buffed by 1 OVR, putting his starting OVR at 69
* New Trait: Quali Setup has been applied to new driver Norman Nato: When in best car: QLY:10, EE:-10/ QLY:20, EE:-10/ QLY:30, EE:-10
* Tinkerer Trait Buffed: REL:10, EE:10/ REL:15, EE:15/ REL:20, EE:20
* Matchmaking: Increased wait times in higher tiers to increase the chance of more players (T5/T6/T7)
* Nerfed Minimum Engineer Pitstop Time: The best pitstop time an engineer can get is now 1.5 secs (instead of 0.5). However, overall minimum pitstop time is still 0.5
* Potential Fix To Quali: Fixed the issue where qualifying results were inaccurate
* Real Driver Mottos: We’ve also given out exclusive mottos for real FE drivers who play the game, so look out for “Real (Driver Name)” when you’re playing races!

## 1.04 (6th April 2020)

* New driver: Max Hart with an OVR of 55
* Driver Kelvin Van Der Linde has had his short name in race standings changed to VDL
* Driver trait Team Chemistry has been changed to provide +4 at trait level 2 and +5 at trait level 3
* The Steinmann engine has had its stats changed to Performance: 210, Reliability: 70, Fuel Efficiency: 50
* Strategy Number 1 Driver has been changed to provide +6 to driver and -3 to teammate
* Strategy Number 2 Driver has been changed to provide -3 to driver and +6 to teammate
* The Driver XP Boost store item now costs 35 Paddock Tokens
* The Fearless driver trait now impacts Overtaking, Race and Race Starts
* The Feedback Pro driver trait now adds +15 Fuel Efficiency at level 1, +25 at level 2 and +35 at level 3
* The Tenacious driver trait now adds +25 Performance/+10 Fuel efficiency at level 1, +50 Performance/+15 Fuel efficiency at level 2, +75 Performance/+20 Fuel efficiency at level 3
* Harry Chapman has a new driver trait called Rock Solid which gives the car no red zone until the first pitstop of the race is made
* The driver trait Engineer synergy has changed to add +25 Performance/+5 Reliability at level 1, +50 Performance/+10 Reliability at level 2,+75 Performance/+15 Reliability at level 3
* The driver trait pitstop pro has changed to now give -1 second to pitstop times at level 1, -1.5 seconds to pitstop times at level 2, -2 seconds to pitstop times at level 3
* The driver trait Technical now adds +15 Reliability at level 1, +25 Reliability at level 2 and +35 Reliability at level 3
* The driver trait Competitive now impacts Overtaking, Race Starts and Race