Grand Prix Rejects

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Aerond wrote:The people have spoken! 27th and worse will DNQ. If I DNQ, I will probably turn invincibility on and try to take off as many DNQ's as possible, so we reduce the chance of those spoiling the proper race.

That actually sounds really fun challenge to take.

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Collieafc wrote:Is it too late to join? If so,could I try my hand at the tough end and take Theodore?

Welcome, welcome! Theodore is yours

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1st R&D Period Results Team - Investment - Gains (0-5*) FITTIPALDI - 250 cr - 5* McLAREN - 750 cr - 3* RENAULT - 750 cr - 3* FERRARI - 1000 cr - 2* ALFA ROMEO - 1000 cr - 2* WILLIAMS - 1000 cr - 0* BRABHAM - 1000 cr - 0* LOTUS - 500 cr - 0* OSELLA - 250 cr - 0* Fittipaldi struck gold in their R...

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1981 ROUND 1 - KYALAMI 31 drivers are entered but only 30 can enter the qualifying session for the 26-car grid. Top-14 teams (thanks to ATS and Ensign being single car teams) have an automatic place in the qualifying session which leaves the newcomers March, Toleman and Theodore to duel it out in t...

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[b]GARAJE SABADELL[/b]

Driver 1: Roberto Merhi
Number: 83
Nationality: ESP
Driver 2: Dani Clos
Number: 84
Nationality: ESP

Car: Renault R28

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DRIVER BIDS pt. 2 Jacques Villeneuve tops Osella's list for their second seat. 1-90 Osella 91-100 Better use for my money, says Jacques 63! Villeneuve completes Osella's line-up. - Theodore are offering a contract for former European F2 champion Bruno Giacomelli. 1-75 Last chance to remain in F1, g...

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Theodore driver bids
1: Bruno Giacomelli, 1500, 1y
2: Jan Lammers, 200, 1y
3: Manfred WInkelhock, 400, 1y

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Ensign and Theodore do not do any R&D investments.

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CHASSIS DEVELOPMENT Like mentioned in the first post , each season consists of three R&D periods during the season on which the teams can develop their chassis. A single period is 4-5 races long after which potential upgrades are installed to the chassis. Before each R&D period the teams ha...

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DRIVER BIDS Defending champion Alan Jones has one offer. It's good money for one year at Williams. 1-95 Williams 96-100 Time to call it a day 4! Jones doesn't hesitate and signs with Williams. - 1978 champion Mario Andretti has a 2-year offer to continue at Lotus. 1-95 Lotus 96-100 Return to USA is...

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I think i'm over my februari dip a bit so i'll slowly return if allowed. Glad to hear that! Consider Ligier yours yo is any team vacant? Arrows is yours. Unfortunately you just missed the bidding train so you'll be stuck with Brian Henton and Siegfried Stohr dream team for 1981 but at least you've ...

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I'll continue babysitting Ligier , Arrows , Ensign and Theodore for the time being. Team: Ligier (copied and slightly altered Butterfox' bids from the OG thread) DRIVER 1 DRIVER 1 Bid 1: Jacques Lafitte 5000, 3 Years. Bid 2: René Arnoux, 4500, 3 years Bid 3: Alain Prost, 5500 3 years Bid 4: Didier P...

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DRIVER BIDDING We have our chassis, engine and tyres. All we need now are drivers! As ever, your budgets and the drivers and their respective expected salaries are listed IN THIS SPREADSHEET . --- --- --- Drivers can be signed to 1-3 years long contracts. Drivers' salaries aren't fixed but instead ...

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Here are the results of the engine and tyre supplier RNG's. ENGINES Brian Hart is making the jump up from Formula 2 where his engines won the title with Toleman. Toleman is eager to continue with a 3-year deal but ATS are also interested. 1-75 Toleman 76-100 ATS 32! Toleman get Hart engines for the ...

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Just ATS and Renault missing. You have 24 hours to submit your bids. If you fail to do so I'll just use your bids from the previous edition of the supplier bidding from last summer.

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takagi_for_the_win wrote:Oooooh yes, don't mind if I do

Would your bids for McLaren be locked in, or am I free to make my own bids?

You are free to make any changes you want to them. Great to have you onboard!

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Teams that I babysit make the following bids. These teams are still up for grabs if anyone wants assume control of one of them. Team: Ensign Engine 1: Ford, 3200, 1 year Tyres 1: Michelin, 600, 1 year Tyres 2: Avon, 800, 1 year Tyres 3: Pirelli, 600, 1 year Team: Arrows Engine 1: Ford, 3200, 1 year ...

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bids Thank you for your bids. I will make a note of your driver bids for the future when it's time for them. I am sorry if I have been unclear but Renault and Ferrari are in fact not supplying customer teams at this moment. The 1 in their quota column marks the engine used by their own team, as opp...

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TYRE & ENGINE SUPPLIER BIDDING The time has come. Let's sign some tyres and engines! Each team is expected to sign one supplier for both tyres and engines. Ferrari, Renault and Alfa Romeo don't have to bother with engine bids. Driver bidding process will begin after the suppliers have been sign...

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I'm not returning for now, i sitll have to get used to things being back so i won't log in enough to do a proper job. Once i'm back in the groove i'll probably return, you could put me on a waiting list the next season or such. Thanks for informing! I've placed you on the waiting list and you are f...

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All the choices so far have been confirmed. I will keep the previously claimed teams reserved until Friday when they will be made free for all.

We shall begin the bidding process for engine and tyre manufacturers as well on Friday.

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SCUDERIA FERRARI Team: Driver 1 1st choice: Michael Schumacher (14m) 2nd choice: Greg Moore (11m) 3rd choice: Mika Häkkinen (11m) 4th choice: Giancarlo Fisichella (9m) Driver 2 1st choice: Giancarlo Fisichella (8,5m) [The new management at Ferrari is not convinced by Fisico's late season performanc...

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All right ladies and gents, this is the redux of my alternative F1 management game that never got off the ground after the forum went under last summer. However, now we are back! I will be running this game on my self-constructed excel spreadsheet(s). The first season will be based on real life valu...

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A heads-up for everyone involved; I plan to continue running this thing in the near future. I will however start everything over from scratch since we never got going here before the forum borked and there are some changes I've refined during this time. Everyone who signed up will however have an op...

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Ever since I took the reigns at Ferrari, Fisichella scored zero points. Nice one, mate.

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I guess that leaves Ferrari for me.

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You have, on one side, the nephew of Alessandro Nannini, Matteo Nannini, who last year only scored twice in F3 and on the other side.... a guy who didn't score a single point last year in F3 and who made headlines across 2020 for all the wrong reasons . That might be a candidate for the worst F2/GP...

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hey ho I'm a reserve

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CHASSIS DEVELOPMENT Like mentioned in the first post , each season consists of three R&D periods during the season on which the teams can develop their chassis. A single period is 4-5 races long after which potential upgrades are installed to the chassis. Before each R&D period the teams ha...

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I'm really happy with Osella's driver line-up; hopefully they can really help build the team up over the next few seasons as we try hard not to bankrupt ourselves (Remaining budget: 200) One thing I did notice in the spreadsheet was that Ghinzani was listed as only being contracted to us for one ye...

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1. Hamilton 2. Bottas 3. Vettel 4. Pérez 5. Verstappen 6. Ricciardo 7. Albon 8. Ocon 9. Kvjat 10 Räikkönen. Pole: Hamilton Fastest lap: Bottas First retirement: Stroll Reject of the Race: Haas Infinite Improbability Drive of the Race: Pérez Deadbeat Teammate of the Race: Giovinazzi Number of Safety ...

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DRIVERS RNG ALAN JONES & CARLOS REUTEMANN Williams is the only team interested in Jones and Reutemann's services that secured them both World Championships last year. The duo are happy to sign. --- NELSON PIQUET 1-50 Brabham (7100, 3 years) 51-100 McLaren (7500, 2 years) 80! Piquet had two offe...

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I will babysit Williams in case no one claims them before the deadline tomorrow. Team: Williams DRIVER 1 Bid 1: Alan Jones - 6600 - 1y Bid 2: Carlos Reutemann - 4600 - 1y Bid 3: Mario Andretti - 5200 - 1y Bid 4: Jacques Laffite - 4200 - 1y Bid 5: Didier Pironi - 4400 - 1y DRIVER 2 Bid 1: Carlos Reut...

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F1 Livery Histories wrote:Very sorry Carlo but I'm going to have to drop out of this one :-/

I will still watch the series with interest though!

Sad to hear but you are welcome back at any point!

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WIlliams, ATS, Alfa Romeo and Arrows are missing their driver bids. I'll give you until Friday before I go forward with the RNG for the bids I've received by then.

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Just a general question as this alternate universe goes from season to season will there be things like calendar changes? (races being added/removed from the calendar.) It will most probably follow the RL calendars through the years. I'm too lazy to come up with any huge changes so it'll be 16 race...

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I'll continue babysitting Fittipaldi and Theodore for the time being. Team: Fittipaldi DRIVER 1 Bid 1: Keke Rosberg - 1000 - 1y Bid 2: Chico Serra - pay 40/race - 1y Bid 3: Eliseo Salazar - pay 60/race - 1y DRIVER 2 Bid 1: Chico Serra - pay 40/race - 1y Bid 2: Eliseo Salazar - pay 60/race - 1y Bid 3...

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Hopefully its not too late to sign up, haven't done anything like this before but I really like management games so I'll take Ensign if that's ok, a single car team seems like a good idea to learn the ropes. If I may join the party a little late, please may I pick up the one... The only... https://...

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DRIVER BIDDING We have our chassis, engine and tyres. All we need now are drivers! As ever, your budgets and the drivers and their respective expected salaries are listed IN THIS SPREADSHEET . --- --- --- Drivers can be signed to 1-3 years long contracts. Drivers' salaries aren't fixed but instead ...

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ENGINES RNG Renault, Alfa Romeo and Ferrari use in-house engines. MATRA Tyrrell, ATS, March and Ligier have bid for Matra. Tyrrell's bid is clearly the best but they also have a preference towards Ligier. 1-40 Tyrrell 41-70 Ligier 71-90 ATS 91-100 March 20 and 85! Matra go for the highest bidders i...

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F1 Livery Histories wrote:Team: Williams
Engine 1: Ford, 1 year
Engine 2:
Engine 3:
Tyres 1: Goodyear, 1 year
Tyres 2: Michelin, 1 year
Tyres 3: Pirelli, 1 year

I assume these bids are for the minimum price.

ATS and March are still left. I'll give you 24 hours and will run the RNG tomorrow for engines & tyres.

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