F1 Manager 2024: Best Sporting Director to Train Your Pit Crews

Published: Jul 23, 2024, 9:30 am Updated: Jul 23, 2024, 9:30 am

F1 Manager 2024 is here, with players flocking to become the best leader on the grid. Taking advantage of pit stops is key to snatching victory, and for that, you need a good sporting director to help shave those precious seconds.

Let's take a look at the best sporting directors in F1 Manager 2024.

Sporting superiority

Before we recommend which sporting director is best, let's first take a look at how they are rated in F1 Manager 2024. Each is rated across four stats, with an overall calculated based on these.

Each stat relates to how well they can train the pit crews, with players requiring the best in order to achieve greatness.

The stats rated are the following: Training, Aptitude, Leadership, and Processes.

Training directly affects pit crew speed, as well as performance across a season. Aptitude impacts the maximum ability of the pit crew, as it is limited to this number.

Leadership demonstrates how likely pit crews will be to make mistakes. In the key part of a race, you want your crew to be on point every time, so this is a crucial stat to study.

Best Sporting Director in F1 Manager

Once again, Red Bull boasts the number one staff member in the paddock. Jonathan Wheatley is a familiar voice to F1 fans, in particular those who still remember Abu Dhabi in 2021.

Wheatley maxes out his stats pretty much across the board, but he's a tough one to recruit. After all, why would you leave the best team on the grid?

For an easier-to-recruit option, McLaren's Randeep Singh is a great choice. His stats are low but he's at the younger end of the spectrum so has plenty of time to develop.

Aurelien Pallier is also a good option if you have a limited budget. Working in F2, he's easy to recruit to the top table even if you're managing a backmarker.

You can see the top five sporting directors below:

Name	Age	Team	OVR	Training	Aptitude	Leadership	Processes
Jonathan Wheatley	58	Red Bull	94	100	100	99	100
Diego Ioverno	48	Ferrari	92	99	100	99	100
Ron Meadows	59	Mercedes	90	100	92	97	98
Andy Stevenson	56	Aston Martin	88	88	86	94	92
Randeep Singh	37	McLaren	86	94	96	90	91

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Mark is the Senior Staff Writer and can normally be found either facing the wrong way in F1 games or recreating a Ferrari strategy in F1 Manager. He's also a big fan of Forza Motorsport and Horizon and still thinks Lego Racers 2 is when racing games peaked.