F1 2018

In Career Mode you can upgrade your car with Upgrade Points which are earned by completing Practice Programmes during Free Training, Completing Qualifying session and the Race itself. These points can then be spent towards upgrades.

Between races when you open your laptop, go to the ‘Research and Development’ tab with and select ‘View R&D Tree’ with . In the following menu you can select upgrades that will be developed by your team outfit’s R&D employees. For this trophy just concentrate on one department (e.g. Powertrain) and purchase every node in that department. Note that it can take up to a couple of weeks for an upgrade to get developed and that the development can fail too. In the latter case the next you purchase it it will be cheaper though.

The fastest way to rack up resource points is by getting the full 325 points you can get out of practice programs. Here’s an overview of the different programmes and how to beat them:

• Track Acclimatisation - You will need to complete a round driving the perfect line with a good pace. You do this by driving through the gates that are projected on the track and you will be allocated points not only by driving through them, but also for going through them at the right speed. If the gate turns red after passing it, it means you’ve missed it. For a good pass it turns green and if done at the right speed too it will turn purple to indicate you’ve perfectly done it. To get a ‘perfect’ on this test you will have to pass through virtually every gate in a perfect way. You can have a few ‘green’ ones, but try to perfect almost all of them. Remember you can make use of replays for this if you fail a gate.
• Tyre Management - The objective of this programme is to prevent tyre wear. To do this you need to be easy on the throttle and moreover, easy on the brakes. Try to coast through the corners as much as possible by letting go off the gas before the normal braking point and simply steer through the bend without braking. There is a time constraint, but since this is very generous you can take your time and coast through most corners without braking hardly at all and easily complete this.
• Fuel Saving - This objective is to save fuel and is in practice not so different from the tyre management. To get a perfect on this objective let go off your gas way before the normal braking points and be easy on the throttle while accelerating to save lots of fuel. The time constraint feels a bit tighter on this one than it does with tyre management, but you should still be able to do this applying the same tactics.
• ERS Management – This program makes you find a good balance between generating energy for your ERS battery and deploying it when accelerating and on the straights. You can make it as easy or hard on yourself if you like by switching modes, but I found that if you set your ERS deployment on “Low (1)” you’ll complete this program with a perfect rating on every track.
• Qualifying Pace – Simply drive as fast as you can fort his objective. Luckily the projected time isn’t very hard to achieve so you won’t have any difficulties completing this.
• Racing Strategy – Again fort his objective simply drive as fast as you can. If you complete 3 laps within the projected time you’ll get a ‘perfect’ in this programme.

Since your resource points max out when you reach 325 points and you can’t obtain any more after that, I recommend skipping the Racing Strategy Program because it takes the most time by far. The other Programmes are easily enough to get you to 325 points.