F1 2016 Manor Racing's Rio Haryanto will not be replaced when F1 2016 releases

[Graham Laing]

In th real world, Rio Haryanto has been replaced by Esteban Ocon in the Manor Racing team.

Codemasters state that it is too late and too close to release for the driver to be changed in the game.

Codemasters say :-

Adding a new driver is a complex process; we have no current way of adding an update partially through the season; it’s either one or the other. For each driver in game we need to capture them using head-scanning photography, and re-record all the in-game voiceover characters in all supported languages. With no opportunity to do all of that until much later in the season, and with just 9 days until the game is out, and since Rio Haryanto has spent the majority of the 2016 season driving for Manor Racing, he will remain a Manor driver in F1 2016.