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Youth Academy

Is it worth investing in a youth academy. I personally don't see it worthwhile but if the games in beta mode still, it's there for a reason.

Can someone help

When i upgrade my academy to level 8, better drivers started to appear, i got one with talent 18 and another with talent 17, but you need to spend 1 token to search for a driver, and 15 tokens to bring the driver to the team.

Usually at level 10 is a good time to begin investing in the Youth Academy. Once it is at level 10 you can spend a token here and there occasionally and find a driver with good talent. As Eduardo says, it'll be 15 tokens to hire the driver directly to the team, but there's no signing fees and their salary is $312k per race. It's a win-win once you score a talented driver. Young, cheap, and talented.

Perfect thanks, it's just that I never turn a profit and use all tokens on finance. So it think I'll have to skip using 16 tokens for a driver for now

Good choice. Also keep in mind you're not guaranteed to find a good driver right away when scouting. It's a randomly generated driver, where you are rolling the dice.

So there's no point at all in upgrading it further if it's random

Kind of. It's the type of facility that you use invest in as you get into the later, deeper stages of the game.

I recommend switching to Cosworth engine supplier. It's 150k in savings per race, which is quite a large margin in the long run.

This is definitely a must! You can save 2.55m per season by using Cosworth engine.

I think I'll do this, did it once before but I was not in the best of positions. Lost a few places but I can probably handle it now. Thanks

Get your youth academy to level 10 and then you can start to get 20 Talents, then as you further increase your Academy level you will increase your chances of obtaining a 20 talent. I got one of my teams Academy to level 10 and then after 3 tokens I was offered a talent 20 driver and then I tried again but the 2nd time it took 49 tokens before I was offered another 20 talent.