F1 2019 To Be Released Two Months Earlier

How soon will racing fans get their mitts on F1 2019? Sooner than they figured. Codemasters and Koch Media announced today that the official videogame of the 2019 FIA Formula One World Championship will ship two months earlier than expected, launching on June 28.

This means the game will be available in the middle of the F1 season, not immediately after. And there’s more: E1 2019 is the first game in the series where the development team will be working in partnership with the real F1 organization. The regulation car in the game is being designed in conjunction with Ross Brawn and Pat Symonds of F1’s technical team. The liveries on the car will be updated in the final code to match whatever is decorating the actual regulation car in real life.

“The exciting collaboration with Ross Brawn and Pat Symonds has created new levels of player personalization in F1 2019 through the inclusion of the new regulation car,” said Lee Mather, game director at Codemasters. “With the continued growth of the F1 series, it’s great to give players more control and new levels of car and driver customisation and we can’t wait to talk more about this alongside the new multiplayer features in the coming months.”

We’ll see how it all looks this June. In the meantime, here’s the European announcement trailer: