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Drivers' World Champion (Hard) achievement in F1 2011

Drivers' World Champion (Hard)

Win the Drivers' World Championship in Career on Hard or Expert Difficulty

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How to unlock the Drivers' World Champion (Hard) achievement

  • BongoBongo
    23 Sep 2011 24 Sep 2011 06 Oct 2011
    For the most part I used the guide from F1 2010, but I wanted to add everything I know to make it easy. Here we go....

    PLAYING ON HARD

    If your going to try this on hard without switching assists, there's not much I can do to help besides telling you to know the tracks well and be able to manually shift. Plus, qualifying is very important.

    ASSIST SWITCHING

    If your starting a new career, I would suggest selecting Williams as your team.

    If your at the beginning of a new season with a better team, like Red Bull or Ferrari, even better.

    Go to my F1 and turn autosave off and then manually save it to make sure it doesn't come back on if you reloaded before saving. VulturousPiano and RaucousRichard confirmed that autosave DOES NOT have to be off.

    When at the calendar, select the difficulty to Hard, race weekend to short, and distance three laps.

    Skip practice unless you want to try it out, but I'd suggest going to qualifying.

    For qualifying (and practice if your doing it) pause the game when they give you control of the car and switch manual to automatic, turn the suggested line on to always, and traction from medium to full. Keep auto brake off for now. Go ahead and qualify, by running decent laps and never going off track, I almost always managed to get 18th. There was usually a three to four second gap from 17th to 18th. If for some reason you have to go back to the garage or your satisfied with your time, pause the game and switch everything back until it says hard instead of custom. (a few times I forgot to do this but I still managed to get the achievement, so I'm not positive if you have to switch it back, but I did it to be safe). On to the race....

    Again, once you get control of the car switch the same things that you did before. Now here's the most important part to winning the races, most tracks have a sharp turn at the beginning, so your going to want to try and get to at least the top 5 by charging through the field and braking late, hoping to bank off someone with out destroying your wing or getting a penalty and hope for another turn shortly or else they will get away. Also, I used KERS at the beginning to get more positions. Only twice did I get it on my first try, so it will take practice. (remember to switch everything back before restarting). Some tracks I knew I wouldn't win, so I was happy with a top five. Once your happy where you are settled, turn auto brake on and block as best that you can. (remember that you have two rewinds if someone gets by or you get a penalty). If you know the track well and feel comfortable without it, this isn't necessary, I just did it to prevent any slip ups and wasting my rewinds.

    Before you cross the line on lap three, switch everything back so it says hard instead of custom and manually save it after the race if your happy with your result. (I forgot to do this once and dashboarded it before I got back to the menu just to be safe even though I had auto save off).

    Overall it wasn't bad, I'm not sure how tough it will be with Williams, but I found it not too challenging with Red Bull. I won the championship on the fourth of last race and found that usually one or two guys will always win when you don't, so wrecking them and still winning without a penalty helps a ton. I would suggest focusing on winning though unless your only a few points away from clinching and want to get it over with quicker.

    If you can shift well and know the tracks, you may be able to do hard without switching the assists.

    Vytenis on x360a mentioned that the assist switching works as well, but I thought I'd put everything I know :)

    If you still need help, leave a comment or PM me and I'll get back to you as soon as possible.

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    PaulRKraftStill works as of August 2022
    Posted by PaulRKraft on 07 Aug 22 at 01:30
    Inferno i7And can confirm still works as of August 2023. I mean why wouldn't it, when was the last update for this game? Some time in 2011? Haha! Nice one, thanks for the solution.
    Posted by Inferno i7 on 10 Aug 23 at 18:38
    FiteTalk YTDo you have to switch back to default hard assists when restarting a race or restarting a qualifying session? I will find out soon
    Posted by FiteTalk YT on 21 Jan at 16:42
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  • MartinhoRHMartinhoRH
    Locked 08 Feb 2024 08 Feb 2024
    This isn't a guide, it's just a tip for those, like me, who want to do this the legit way.

    One thing that wasn't referred on any of the guides above is that there are plenty of setups out there to help you be faster. To edit your setup: while in the garage, go to the Car Monitor, then all the way to the right and then just follow the video. (Don't forget to save them so you can load them for each session, instead of doing everything all over again)

    Here are the ones I used for each track:

    - Australia (Credits to F1pateli)


    - Malaysia (Credits to F1pateli)


    - China (Credits to F1pateli)


    - Turkey (Credits to SoCanadianGamer)


    - Spain (Credits to F1pateli)


    - Monaco (Credits to SoCanadianGamer)


    - Canada (Credits to SoCanadianGamer)


    - Europe (Credits to Stefan Corba)


    - United Kingdom (Credits to F1pateli)


    - Germany (Credits to rakka84)
    *** Spoiler - click to reveal ***


    - Hungary (Credits to letmeknownowhow)


    - Belgium (Credits to F1pateli)


    - Italy (Credits to rakka84)
    *** Spoiler - click to reveal ***


    - Singapore (Credits to F1pateli)


    - Japan (Credits to rakka84)
    *** Spoiler - click to reveal ***


    - South Korea (Credits to F1pateli)


    - India (Credits to F1pateli)


    - Abu Dhabi (Credits to F1pateli)


    - Brazil (Credits to rakka84)


    Good Luck! toast
  • ChockaShockaChockaShocka
    19 Apr 2013 18 Apr 2013
    A game patch or update must have changed things because leaving Autosave on does not work any longer. cry

    Using the above solution I left Autosave on and when I came back to the game my difficulty was changed from Hard to Custom. compute

    I will attempt it next time with Autosave turned off. smile
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    ChockaShockaIt worked with Autosave off and manually saving whenever. I only changed Assists once I was on track and I had control of the car, then changed Assists back to Hard before leaving the track or crossing the finish line to finish a race. I always Dashboarded the game when wrecking or forgetting to change Assists back to Hard. smile
    Posted by ChockaShocka on 19 Apr 13 at 19:38
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