My memory of them is hazy, but I think I remember that you could race against yourself (as you can in FM23 rivals), and the game gave you detailed corner-by-corner feedback about how you were performing relative to your drivatar.
I suppose we still have some form of this now, but if I’m not misremembering, FM1 was quite engaging in this regard.
Yes, you could race with them, but you had to train them by running some laps around the track.
I remember trainning my Driveatar, and setting him loose on a short career event. I had high hopes for the youngster.
After his abysmal performance and very costly damage to the car, I promptly fired him and had to salvage a terrible start to those events.
And yes, they were called driveatars back then. FM3 Dan Greenwalt announced the Driveatars will fill in for you on your friends single player career races. IIRC there were threads asking for the return of M. Rossi and company to replace the Driveatars. Good times… Lots of locked and merged therads.
