Automobilista 2 - Discussion Thread

[MagpieRacer]

Renato has now updated on the forums that McLaren Racing themselves are not the stumbling block, it sounds to me like as they are a current F1 team, there's some F1 licensing issue about them specifically being featured alongside other official F1 cars.:

Development update part 2 now available to read.

Automobilista 2 June 2026 Development Update - Pt 2

[ATTACH] Greetings Everyone! Here we go then for Pt2 of the June Development Update – this complements Part 1 posted last Saturday. We are on the...

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Highlights:

• Hungaroring (at last)
• Tyre wars (Michelin and Bridgestone where applicable)
• Tyre graining (not this update but next)
• Improved AI racecraft as well as AI using different setups to eachother
• Customisable team performance, adjust performance per team/livery

Post ends with a tease of the next GT content, showing a notFerrari 550M and a Lister Storm GT.

 

[Beezer215]

Wonderful stuff!
Mods are going to break again but I'll gladly take that for the amount of amazing work they're putting in. If they get all these AI updates working, I can't imagine how cool that's going to be.

 

[OooAhh Cantona]

For the F1 lovers, this is your update!

Automobilista 2 V1.6.9.8, Hungaroring & Historic Track Pack Pt4 RELEASED!!

[ATTACH] Automobilista 2 V1.6.9.8 is Now Live! The new update is packed with exciting new content and features, including the two world-championship...

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[MroczMR]

notFerrari 550M and a Lister Storm GT.
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Oh god! This is epic! I know this is knock off ferrari but it is still incredible to get

 

[MagpieRacer]

The new F1 cars are already my favourites, so, so good. The Renault's are fantastic but they've done a great job with the generic cars too, plus they have Michelin and Bridgestone variants which is awesome to see.

There's a 2006 skin pack out already for V8 Gen 1, first pack to utilise the new team performance scalers, so the Super Aguri is slower than the Ferrari and Renault, a great new feature that will add a lot more realism to these skin packs.

 

[DK]

Issues with McLaren licensing holding up this update. It sounds as though McLaren don't want to be licensed alongside other F1 cars in the same categories and this will affect the potential upcoming and existing content.



Basically we have to either lose McLaren, or lose Lotus, Brabham and Renault. If McLaren are going to be playing silly buggers then I don't mind seeing them go. Sounds like it would only be new purchases that would be affected but that's unconfirmed.

He also confirmed in the above quote that the Renault F1 cars will now be offered for free as an apology for what sounds like the loss of McLaren, rather than it being a paid pack.

You can't hate Zak "McLaren CEO | Sky F1 Thought Leader" Brown enough. I don't care if the issue is actually with Liberty Media, as long as I can have a go at someone who's just LinkedIn poured into a human-shaped container.