F1 Manager 2024: Best Race Engineers to Optimize Your Strategy

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By George HowsonSenior Writer

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F1 Manager 2024 is here, and to create and implement the best strategies, you'll need to hire the best Race Engineers in the game.

In F1 Manager 2024, you can create a team and join the 2024 Formula 1 grid. To succeed, you'll need to have the right strategy and your Race Engineers are crucial to this.

Race Engineers provide the important link between the team's strategists and the drivers out on track. Excellent communication skills and staying cool under pressure are vitally important for this.

So, with that in mind, here are the best Race Engineers you can hire in F1 Manager 2024.

The Winning Strategy

Before we dive into the best Race Engineers in F1 Manager 2024, you need to know which attributes these staff members are ranked on. Three stats contribute to the overall rating for Race Engineers.

These all relate to different aspects of communication between the team and driver. In general, their overall rating is a good guide of quality, but some attributes are more important than others.

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Each Race Engineer has three attributes: Communication, Feedback, and Composure. Out of all of these, the Communication and Feedback stats are the most important, but Composure cannot be ignored.

You can be the most intelligent and experienced Race Engineer around, but if a last-minute strategy call needs to be communicated to the driver, their composure will be key in delivering that information.

Best Race Engineer in F1 Manager

When you think of Formula 1 Race Engineers, the most iconic of the F1 Hybrid era is without a doubt Peter 'Bono' Bonnington. Bono has been the Race Engineer for Sir Lewis Hamilton's 11 seasons at Mercedes-AMG.

Hamilton and Mercedes are the most successful driver-team combination in F1 history, and Bono has delivered winning celebrations on the radio almost 100 times.

Bono's catchphrase "Get in there, Lewis!" was heard again recently at the 2024 British Grand Prix.

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With an overall rating of 92, Bono is one overall point higher than Max Verstappen's Race Engineer, Gianpiero Lambiase. Bono has 94 Communication, 90 Feedback, and 89 Composure.

Other top Race Engineers include Mercedes' Marcus Dudley and Ferrari's Riccardo Adami. A good budget option is Hugh Bird, who works for Red Bull.

You can see the top five best Race Engineers for the best, cheap, and road-to-glory categories below:

Best of the best

Name
Age
Team
OVR
Cooling
DRS Delta
High Speed Downforce
Peter Bonnington
48
Mercedes
92
94
90
89
Gianpiero Lambiase
44
Red Bull
91
100
96
97
Marcus Dudley
40
Mercedes
90
98
95
100
Riccardo Adami
50
Ferrari
90
92
91
91
Mark Slade
56
Haas
87
68
91
80

Cheapest (Formula 2 Engineers)

Name
Age
Team
OVR
Cooling
DRS Delta
High Speed Downforce
Pau Rivera
38
Invicta
78
78
72
84
Paolo Angilella
52
MP Motorsport
77
78
76
76
Mathew Ogle
42
Rodin Motorsport
76
76
73
79
Stuart King
47
Rodin Motorsport
76
80
74
75
Pedro Matos
31
Prema
75
86
80
90

Road-to-glory

Name
Age
Team
OVR
Cooling
DRS Delta
High Speed Downforce
Hugh Bird
35
Red Bull
86
94
91
93
Xavier Marcos Padros
44
Ferrari
86
94
91
93
William Joseph
40
McLaren
85
86
87
82
Tom Stallard
45
McLaren
85
86
87
82
Ben Michell
51
Aston Martin
84
84
78
90

Which Race Engineer will you be targeting in F1 Manager 2024? Let us know in the comments below!

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