Confirmed: NO 'random' mechanical failures.

So you will have to drive in first gear for the half of the race and you will get a engire failure. Whooptie **** doo.

So that means:  No mechanical failures, only for AI. ( OH THAT MAKES SENSE!!!)

Too bad they didn't listen to this:
http://forums.codemasters.com/discussion/42123/mechanical-failures-over-race-weekend/p1

Better play Geoff Crammond's GP4 instead of F1 2016.

Now you have a 100% guarantee that you will get to the finish line, that sounds really exiting! 

GREAT JOB. 

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Britpoint said:

vvvili said:

Britpoint said:

Runalf said:

Nevermind, the AI got an engine failure which is nothing new  

You can have an engine failure, but they're not entirely random for the player. You'll get them once you've significantly worn out your engine.

Is there a reason why is it like that? Would be awesome (and really annoying at the same time ) that you could get a completely random failure sometimes.

That's why

It's important to remember that nothing in Formula One is really random. If an engine fails it's because there was a problem in the manufacturing process, a mistake by a mechanic of a driver, or any number of other things that someone somewhere has some control over, which isn't necessarily true in game. I have no issue with the idea of failures, but not when it's purely reliant on a dice roll.