As well as the new young driver test mode, F1 2012 features a new
"Champions Mode", in which the six World Champions competing in the 2012
season — Kimi Räikkönen, Lewis Hamilton, Jenson Button, Sebastian Vettel, Fernando
Alonso and Michael Schumacher — will be styled after traditional end-of-level video
gaming bosses, with the player challenged to beat them while racing in conditions that
suit each driver. Another new mode introduced, is the "Season Challenge"
mode. Feedback given to Codemasters was that players only played the game when they had
a few hours to play. In response, Codemasters brought in this mode so that players could
simply play for a short amount of time. In this mode the player will start as a team
lower down the field, and over a ten race season the player will move teams mid-season,
depending on their ability to beat rival drivers and objectives. Codemasters also
introduced "One-Shot Qualifying", whereby a player has a single lap to
qualify for the race. The three stage knock out session is still an option, however the
single 20 minute session is no longer available in career mode. There is no longer an
option to include all three practice sessions in a race weekend, but instead only a
single hour session is available.
