A deep yet accessible motorsport management sandbox inspired by the 1990s games of this genre. Manage teams, drivers, finances, engines, and regulations in a fully customizable, ever-changing world where no two seasons play out the same.
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Welcome to Team Principal: A Racing Manager. Initially a passion project, this game has become much more for me. It is a completely customizable grand prix/motorsport manager game, with a simplistic top down 2d race view. Most of the game is in the in-depth management aspect. Some key features include:
- An ever-changing grid: Teams & engines can leave, go bankrupt, join, rebrand, get bought out, fluctuate season to season. No two seasons will ever be the same, with a virtually limitless grid size.
- Simplistic, yet in-depth race simulation complete with customizable temperature, weather, dirty air, tire wear, fuel consumption, safety cars, mechanical wear, and realistic results, with both simulated and non-simulated options available.
- In-Depth finance system with stock, ownership, and ability to purchase stakes in rivals.
- Completely in-depth academy pipe-line system with ability to pay to assign your rookie drivers in junior series teams, have them test for you, learn the ropes in rival junior teams you own, and eventually promote them to your team.
- In-depth regulatory system that can change the environment of the game season to season.
- In-depth negotiation system for tyres, parts, sponsorship, works engines, customer engines, and drivers.
- Ability to build and sell your own engines through an engine plant, or partner with an existing engine supplier.
- Extremely intelligent AI who are truly difficult to beat.
- Fully fleshed out car attributes, driver attributes, staff attributes, headquarters, etc.
- In-depth chassis, aero, engine, and tyre development.
This game aims to be a simplistic, yet fully customizable racing management sandbox experience for racing in every era, with almost every aspect of the game able to be edited and changed. Team names, performance, dirty air, tire model, points model, anything one can think of can be edited to your liking.
This game is in active development & will receive extremely frequently updates. Please join the game's discord server, wherein I will share future plans, update timelines, provide bug support, as well as the track editor. This game is extremely mod friendly, and an open canvas for any situations one wishes to develop.
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Languages: English
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If you think you'll like it, you probably will. Basically F1 Manager but on steroids. Super highly customizable and has a tight-knit community pumping out mods which make it infinitely more enjoyable. Im only a few hours in and have no idea what im doing, but watching the world build storylines as I try to figure it out has been really fun so far. Excited to see where this game goes.
This game has huge potential. It's still early access, but the developer is dedicated. The game is highly moddable. It is very basic, so there is virtually no feature or complexity that couldn't be implemented due game engine limitations. It is relatively basic as of March 2026, so it's easy to learn, and even to master. But new features and updates coming roughly every month, so I expect it to become gradually harder and more complex. The potential in this game is huge, the greatest since Grand Prix Manager 2 from 1996! Yes, it's not pretty, it doesn't have fancy 3D animations, nor it most likely will have in the future. But if you are looking for a pure, retro management game, if you want to have a great challenge, or if you just want to create your own dreamed-up championship with custom rules, this is the game for you! Very highly recommended!
nice
Good game.
great game with even greater potential
Great Job. Triggers all the right elements for enthusiasts. Great Bridge between economics and results on track. Elements of surprise combined with the logics of motorsports. Beats all the high polish products.
El mejor manager de monoplazas que vas a encontrar.
Una carta de amor a la F1. Su punto principal es que busca la inmersión a través de las mecánicas del juego intentando recrear de la forma más balanceada y profunda posible los entresijos de la F1. Haciendo el símil facilon, este juego es el Football Manager de la F1 y los demás juegos que he probado del género serian un modo carrera del FIFA. Además, cabe destacar que desde que lo compré en mayo hasta ahora (junio) el juego ha evolucionado tanto que parece otro. El desarrollador está mimando el juego y ampliándolo a pasos agigantados en una dirección muy ilusionante. El potencial de este juego es infinito, y aún más infinito con lo fácil de modear que es
Great game and only getting better. No flashy graphics, but good depth and detail where it is needed. Highly recommend downloading the mods offered by the community. Strong thumbs up if you like F1 or sports management games in general.
A great racing management game. Very in depth with a very interactive developer behind it.
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