Braking Point

***Braking Point*** is a story-driven game mode introduced in F1 2021. It is a medium length story with two major arcs, the first half focusing on F1 newcomer Aiden Jackson, with the second half mainly focusing on his older teammate Casper Akkerman. The story takes place over three years, from 2019 to 2021, which are split into seventeen parts in the game, namely Prologue and Chapter 1-16. Devon Butler makes a return from F1 2019 and plays a major role as the main antagonist.

## Main Story

### Prologue - 2019 Formula 2 Finale

At the start of Braking Point, the player is given a choice between five F1 teams, Alpha Tauri, Aston Martin, Alfa Romeo, Haas, and Williams. This choice decides which team the Aiden and Casper will be driving for, and which opposing team Devon Butler will be driving for during the main chapters. If the player chooses Aston Martin, their team during the first half (2020 part) of the story will be Racing Point, mirroring the team's changing branding in real life during the same period that the story is set in.

The racing begins at the final round of the 2019 Formula 2 season. The scenario starts with the player in a Carlin in fourth place, on lap four of six, and in order to complete the scenario the player must finish first, as Aiden needs to win the race to become the F2 champion to step up to F1. The drivers the player is required to pass, in order, are: Sergio Sette-Camara, Nicholas Latifi, and Luca Ghiotto.

The prologue ends with the standard race win animation, followed by an animated cutscene of Aiden celebrating on the podium.

### Chapter 1 - 2020 Australian GP

Chapter 1 starts with an animated cutscene of Aiden Jackson, alongside Esteban Ocon and Lando Norris, participating in a press conference, where WIll Buxton asks Aiden about his relationship with Casper, and then another interviewer asks Aiden his thoughts about being called "the new Devon Butler". It is then followed by another animated cutscene, this time with Aiden getting reassured by Brian Doyle that he has nothing to worry about as he is confident that Aiden will perform well in his first race.

Following this, the player is introduced to Aiden's room within the paddock, where the player can interect with the phone, email, and scroll through a Twitter-style social media app that contains tweets from in-universe and real people. Brian then calls Aiden, followed by Aiden's mum who gives him some encouragement.

After this, the first part of the scenario begins. Aiden is in fourteenth place on lap six, and the player's objective is to get him to catch up to Casper before lap eleven, who is in tenth place. As the player catches up to Casper, one of the cars that both they and Casper pass is Devon.

Once the objective is reached, an animated cutscene plays. Aiden is desperate to overtake Casper as he thinks he is faster, but is unable to find a way past, and this allows Devon to catch them back up. Aiden then attempts a risky move on Capser into a high speed chicane, and Devon joins in on the action making in three-wide, however as there is not enough room for all three cars to safely make it through the corner, Aiden and Casper collide, while Devon slides through, ahead of both teammates.

The second part of scenario requires that the player finishes the race. The chapter then ends with another animated cutscene, with Casper being annoyed at Aiden for making a dangerous move and not admitting it, followed by Aiden running into Devon, who winds him up about the incident, also suggesting it is Aiden's fault. Following the cutscene, Brain calls Aiden, and tells him not to worry about the incident or Devon too much and to not repeat that sort of incident again with his teammate.

## Achievements

Four achievements are able to be earned by playing through the Braking Point story mode.