KL-racer's F1 2009 ROTY Podium FINALLY UP!

KL-racer · Post by **KL-racer** » 17 Jul 2015, 22:10

KL’S F1 Management 2009: A bold new era!

Alright, welcome everyone to a bold new era in this management game. It’s 2009, and a bunch of new teams will enter the series, and in addition, Ross Brawn bought out Super Aguri for $30 million and renamed it Brawn GP. Your defending WDC is Robert Kubica, and the defending team’s champion is Sauber, both were epic upsets that nobody saw coming. First off, the entry list as of now, and yes before you ask, the Number 13 will be in use from this point forward!

Here's the entry list as of now!

Williams-Renault (K) $5 million – W12

1 Robert Kubica
2 Timo Glock

Sauber-BMW (K) $32.75 million – Redeyes504

3 Nick Heidfeld
4 Nico Rosberg

Ferrari (K) $4.9 million – roblomas52

5 Michael Schumacher
6 Felipe Massa

Renault (K) $12.5 million - TBD

7 Pedro De La Rosa
8 Giancarlo Fisichella
Nelson Piquet Jr.

Force India-Mercedes (K) $3.8 million - Collieafc

9 Lewis Hamilton (2 year deal)
10 Kamui Kobayashi (Signed for this year)

McLaren-Renault (K) $9.9 million – Normal32

11 Kimi Raikkonen
12 Fernando Alonso

Toyota (K) $56.4 million - Klon

13 Ralf Schumacher (Signed until the end of the 2010 season)
14 Sebastian Vettel (signed for this year, traded from Force India)

Prodrive-Mercedes (K) $0.3 million – Miguel98

15 Jenson Button
16 Andre Lotterer

Honda (K) $0.5 million – Peteroli34

17 Christian Klien
18 Nico Hulkenberg

MSR-Spyker (K) $14.5 million - mrfakeboullier

19 Jarno Trulli
20 Sebastien Bourdais
Alvaro Parente

Carlin-BMW (K) $3.05 million – Ice1racing

21 Heikki Kovalainen
22 Adrian Sutil
Ho-Pin Tung (was brought in because of funds)

Red Bull-Toyota (K) $25 million – TBD

23 Kazuya Oshima
24 Karun Chadhok

Brawn GP-Honda (K) $9.4 million – theflyingcaterham

25 Rubens Barrichello
26 Bruno Senna

Lola-Cosworth (K) $12 million – TBD

27 Kaz Nakajima
28 Narain Karthikeyan

Epsilon Euskadi-BMW (K) $4.5 million - Rabbi Gordon

29 Giedo Van der Garde
30 Giorgio Pantano

DAMS-Cosworth (K) $4.65 million - FantometteBR

31 Vitaly Petrov
32 Romain Grosjean

Manor-Toyota (K) $3.4 million - Reject_Dom

33 Mark Webber
34 Pastor Maldonado

Caterham-Honda (K) $0.2 million - Novitopoli

35 Davide Valsecchi
36 Luca Filippi

Campos-Ferrari $1.75 million - AdrianBelmonte_

37 Jaime Algersauri (will race for the remaining rounds of 2009)
38 Javier Villa
Mike Conway

US F1-Cosworth $3.15 million - Samster

39 Jose Maria Lopez
40 James Rossiter

Final Driver’s standings

Massa 250
M. Schumacher 178
Hamilton 153
Heidfeld 129
Button 102
Kovalainen 81
Klien 65
R. Schumacher 40
Rosberg 33
Lotterer 31
Kobayashi 26
Pantano 22
Barrichello 22
Kubica 15
Alonso 11
Webber 10
Vettel 9
Van der Garde 8
Filippi 6
Raikkonen 4
Petrov 2
De la Rosa 2
Nakajima 1

Final Teams Standings

1 Ferrari 428
2 Force India-Mercedes 179
3 Sauber-BMW 162
4 Prodrive-Mercedes 133
5 Carlin-BMW 81
6 Honda 65
7 Toyota 49
8 Epsilon Esukadi-BMW 30
9 Brawn GP-Honda 19
10 McLaren-Renault 15 (wins the tiebreak thanks to a 6th place finish in Barcelona from Alonso)
11 Williams-Renault 15
12 Manor-Toyota 10
13 Caterham-Honda 6
14 DAMS-Cosworth 2
15 Renault 2
16 Lola-Cosworth 1
17 Red Bull-Toyota 0
18 MSR-Spyker 0
19 Campos-Ferrari 0
20 USF1-Cosworth 0

Next, the rule changes for this season

The race calendar will be cut to 16 races, to make it a little easier on the paddock. Here’s the new order

Melbourne
Sepang
Shanghai
Monaco
Catalunya
Valencia Street Circuit
Montreal
Sliverstone
Hungaroring
Spa
Monza
Singapore
Suzuka
Interlagos
Bahrain (the short layout) that we are been using anyway, because grandprix2.de doesn't have the long layout, thanks klon for bringing it to attention!
Abu Dhabi

The points system will be changed to 20-15-11-8-6-5-4-3-2-1.

Qualifying rules

Despite all of the new entries, the race grid will still be capped at 26 cars, due to the limitations of Grand Prix 2, which means the qualifying process will be changed for the first time in this alternate universe. A Pre-Q session will be held initially among the seven successful new entries and the three lowest teams in the 2008 team’s standings. The teams that will have to participate in the Pre-Q session will be updated after every 4 races and it will involve the bottom 10 teams in the team’s standings. Hence, the reason why the points system got changed, because of the added possibility of being demoted to Pre-Q.

Testing

One pre-season test will be conducted at Catalunya, and then you can post your first upgrades before the season opener. After that, three in-season tests will happen. They will take place after the races at Catalunya, Spa, and Bahrain.

Upgrade rules

As for the upgrades, the only change that was made was the removal of Engine power and replacing it with KERS power. Please note, if you don’t have KERS installed, you can’t do the KERS power upgrade obviously. The other four areas are still unchanged. They are, Qual. pace (makes the car quicker in Qualifying runs), Race Pace (makes the car quicker in Race conditions), Aero (increases the overall consistency of the car), and Reliability (decreases the failure rate). One area will cost you $500k, and two areas will cost you $900k.

Good luck!

FantometteBR · Post by **FantometteBR** » 17 Jul 2015, 22:14

Caterham or DAMS interests me

Normal32 · Post by **Normal32** » 17 Jul 2015, 22:22

Here at McLaren we are prepared for a less... sucky season.

KL-racer · Post by **KL-racer** » 17 Jul 2015, 22:24

FantometteBR wrote:Caterham or DAMS interests me

Hey, welcome back! One question for you, do you want to use KERS at a cost of $10 million or not? I went to RNG and it came out to be a even number so you are taking over DAMS, Good luck!

And yes, for Normal 32, that's some positive thinking you got over here! Hope it comes out true!

Rabbi Gordon · Post by **Rabbi Gordon** » 17 Jul 2015, 22:57

Epsilon Euskadi seems nice.
I'll take them and maybe I'll start looking for a Basque driver.

FantometteBR · Post by **FantometteBR** » 17 Jul 2015, 23:24

KL-racer wrote:
FantometteBR wrote:Caterham or DAMS interests me

Hey, welcome back! One question for you, do you want to use KERS at a cost of $10 million or not? I went to RNG and it came out to be a even number so you are taking over DAMS, Good luck!

And yes, for Normal 32, that's some positive thinking you got over here! Hope it comes out true!

Guess I am going to take that KERS

KL-racer · Post by **KL-racer** » 17 Jul 2015, 23:28

Rabbi Gordon wrote:Epsilon Euskadi seems nice.
I'll take them and maybe I'll start looking for a Basque driver.

Welcome to the fun! Same question that I asked FantometteBR, do you want to spend $10 million on KERS or not?

Rabbi Gordon · Post by **Rabbi Gordon** » 18 Jul 2015, 01:10

KL-racer wrote:
Rabbi Gordon wrote:Epsilon Euskadi seems nice.
I'll take them and maybe I'll start looking for a Basque driver.

Welcome to the fun! Same question that I asked FantometteBR, do you want to spend $10 million on KERS or not?

Thanks.
Yeah, let's have some KERS.
(Are there any Basque drivers better than Ander Vilarino and Anthony Gandon? I don't believe they could make the cut, comes driver selection

)

Klon · Post by **Klon** » 18 Jul 2015, 01:16

KL-racer wrote:Bahrain (using the brand new Enduro layout now, hence it got moved back later in the season)

Wow, wow, wow, back the heck up. You said you are using Grand Prix 2, yet you have the endurance layout? Would you happen to share the link with a brother?

Edit: Obviously, Toyota is ready to rock.

Dom_Wings · Post by **Dom_Wings** » 18 Jul 2015, 05:32

I can finally give it a shot.

Can I take a spot at Manor or do I still have to wait?

novitopoli · Post by **novitopoli** » 18 Jul 2015, 08:40

Can I take on Caterham?

AdrianBelmonte_ · Post by **AdrianBelmonte_** » 18 Jul 2015, 08:48

Can i take on Campos? please...

Collieafc · Post by **Collieafc** » 18 Jul 2015, 09:38

To confirm, Force India will be competing this season, and aim to crack the top 4.

RedEyes504 · Post by **RedEyes504** » 18 Jul 2015, 10:58

BMW-Sauber will return to defend their title and we'll also take the KERS

W12 · Post by **W12** » 18 Jul 2015, 11:32

Williams will return.

Peteroli34 · Post by **Peteroli34** » 18 Jul 2015, 14:39

For reasons only known to them Honda's top brass have confirmed that they will stay in Formula 1 for at least 2009

KL-racer · Post by **KL-racer** » 18 Jul 2015, 18:33

For Reject_Dom, Novitopoli and AdrianBelmonte_ do you want to spend $10 million on KERS?

And just in case, you haven't noticed on the opening post, we will be using the Short version of Bahrain, because as Klon hinted at the long version doesn't exist on the site grandprix2.de. That was a massive facepalm on my part.

Finally, one team is open, so if you are interested to join, hurry up!

novitopoli · Post by **novitopoli** » 18 Jul 2015, 18:38

KL-racer wrote:For Reject_Dom, Novitopoli and AdrianBelmonte_ do you want to spend $10 million on KERS?

Well, I definitely want to get somewhere out of pre-qualifying, so I do

AdrianBelmonte_ · Post by **AdrianBelmonte_** » 18 Jul 2015, 19:50

KL-racer wrote:For Reject_Dom, Novitopoli and AdrianBelmonte_ do you want to spend $10 million on KERS?

No thanks, but thanks

Ice1Racing · Post by **Ice1Racing** » 18 Jul 2015, 22:28

Carlin will use KERS

Dom_Wings · Post by **Dom_Wings** » 18 Jul 2015, 23:45

KL-racer wrote:For Reject_Dom, Novitopoli and AdrianBelmonte_ do you want to spend $10 million on KERS?

Absolutely yes.

Klon · Post by **Klon** » 19 Jul 2015, 17:41

KL-racer wrote:And just in case, you haven't noticed on the opening post, we will be using the Short version of Bahrain, because as Klon hinted at the long version doesn't exist on the site grandprix2.de. That was a massive facepalm on my part.

Well, I am not aware of any alternate track of Bahrain existing, that is why I am so curious.

Samster · Post by **Samster** » 21 Jul 2015, 11:48

I will take US F1.

KL-racer · Post by **KL-racer** » 21 Jul 2015, 16:05

Bidding information:

Well, it certainly took a while to fill up the open slots! But they got filled, so yay for us, which means we get to move to the bidding!

Step 1: Chassis Tiers

Well, this determines your initial reliability stat, so pick wisely, because to be able to score points, first you must finish!

Tier 1: $25 million
Tier 2: $22 million
Tier 3: $19 million
Tier 4: $16 million
Tier 5: $13 million
Tier 6: $10 million

Step 2: Engine bids

Well, for beginners the Engine power is sealed after putting an air restrictor as of this season, so pick wisely. But keep in mind, if you do decide to use KERS, the amount of extra power will be done via RNG, set from 50-100, so factor that in as well.

Anyways, each engine maker can now supply a maximum of 3 teams due to the extra teams joining in.

Ferrari $17.5 million Prefers Prodrive
Renault $14 million Prefers Williams
Mercedes $14 million Prefers McLaren
BMW $12 million Prefers Carlin
Honda $11 million
Spyker $10.5 million Prefers MSR
Toyota $10 million Prefers Force India
Cosworth $10 million

Step 3 Driver bids

Well, this is when it gets fun, you can bid for up to 3 drivers for each race seat, but you can’t sign a reserve driver, which means if one of your drivers gets injured, which can still happen in this series, you must sign another one who is out as a free agent. Obviously, according to the entry list, Toyota already got their two drivers under contract, and Force India needs to sign only one driver. Everyone else needs to somehow sign two drivers.

Michael Schumacher $10 million Demands #1 status
Fernando Alonso $9 million Demands #1 status
Robert Kubica $8 million Defending WDC, demands #1 status
Lewis Hamilton $7 million Demands #1 Status
Kimi Raikkonen $6 million Demands #1 status
Nick Heidfeld $5 million
Felipe Massa $4 million
TImo Glock $3 million
Pedro De La Rosa $2 million
Jarno Trulli $1.5 million
Nico Rosberg $1 million
Rubens Barichello $0.9 million
Giancarlo Fisichella $0.8 million (This is going to be his final season in F1, hence the discount)
Heikki Kovalainen $0.75 million
Christian Klien $0.7 million
Jenson Button $0.65 million
Giorgio Pantano $0.6 million The 2008 GP2 series champion, looking for an another crack at F1
Nelson Piquet $0.6 million
Alvaro Parente $0.6 million
Javier Villa $0.55 million
Jose Maria Lopez $0.55 million
Nico Hulkenberg $0.55 million
Mark Webber $0.5 million (coming back from injury, hence the discount)
Sebastien Bourdais $0.5 million
Kaz Nakajima $0.5 million
Jaime Algersauri $0.5 million
Jerome D’Ambrosio $0.45 million
Romain Grosjean $0.45 million
Luca Filippi $0.45 million
Bruno Senna $0.4 million
Sebastien Buemi $0.4 million
Lucas Di Grassi $0.4 million
Andy Soucek $0.35 million
Stefano Coletti $0.35 million
Davide Valsecchi $0.35 million
Mike Conway $0.3 million
Adam Carroll $0.3 million
James Rossiter $0.3 million
Kazuya Oshima Discount off Toyota Engines
Pastor Maldonado PD $6 million
Narain Karthikeyan PD $5.5 million
Karun Chandhok PD $5 million
Ho-Pin Tung PD $4.5 million
Vitaly Petrov PD $4 million
Giedo Van Der Garde PD $3.5 million
Adrian Sutil PD $3 million

Finally, you must send your bids via PM! Good luck!

FantometteBR · Post by **FantometteBR** » 21 Jul 2015, 17:15

The PD means that the drivers we ask about that level will bring cash, correct?

KL-racer · Post by **KL-racer** » 21 Jul 2015, 18:16

FantometteBR wrote:The PD means that the drivers we ask about that level will bring cash, correct?

Yes, you are indeed correct! Thanks for asking!

TheFlyingCaterham · Post by **TheFlyingCaterham** » 21 Jul 2015, 21:09

Brawn GP shall indeed use KERS for this season.

As for our car bids, I shall bid for a Tier 3 chassis and Honda engine power.

Driver Bids:

1st Driver:
Rubens Barrichello
Jenson Button
Mark Webber

2nd Driver:
Giorgio Pantano
Vitaly Petrov
Bruno Senna

AdrianBelmonte_ · Post by **AdrianBelmonte_** » 21 Jul 2015, 22:15

Car bids: tier 4 chassis and a Ferrari engine

1st driver bids: Mike Conway, Adam Carroll and James Rossiter

2nd driver bids: Javier Villa, Pedro de la Rosa and Andy Soucek

Klon · Post by **Klon** » 21 Jul 2015, 23:11

KL-racer wrote:Finally, you must send your bids via PM! Good luck!

*Ahem*

Toyota's bids have been send. 2009 will see the conclusion of our plan with hopefully results as well as we expect.

Post by **Miguel98** » 22 Jul 2015, 07:46

Prodrives bids were sent yesterday Kl-Racer. Now, praying for the RNG not to screw me over!

Rabbi Gordon · Post by **Rabbi Gordon** » 22 Jul 2015, 17:48

Epsilon Euskadi also sent their bids yesterday.

good_Ralf · Post by **good_Ralf** » 23 Jul 2015, 15:43

I will withdraw from ownership of Red Bull. It's not that I think I've done a bad job, but the current situation has leveled my interest in running the team.

Samster · Post by **Samster** » 24 Jul 2015, 19:10

US F1 will gamble and go for a Tier 3 chassis with good old fashioned 'Murican Cosworth engines.

Alternatively, how much would it cost us to just enter a pair of toasters on wheels? We have a warehouse full of em just sitting there. :geek:

Do we have to choose from the list? Only we would like to remain the ultimate 'Murican national team and bid for a suiting driver lineup.

novitopoli · Post by **novitopoli** » 24 Jul 2015, 20:26

Samster wrote:US F1 will gamble and go for a Tier 3 chassis with good old fashioned 'Murican Cosworth engines.

Alternatively, how much would it cost us to just enter a pair of toasters on wheels? We have a warehouse full of em just sitting there.

Do we have to choose from the list? Only we would like to remain the ultimate 'Murican national team and bid for a suiting driver lineup.

I bet Osella still has some sort of copyright over the name.

KL-racer · Post by **KL-racer** » 24 Jul 2015, 22:17

Samster wrote:US F1 will gamble and go for a Tier 3 chassis with good old fashioned 'Murican Cosworth engines.

Alternatively, how much would it cost us to just enter a pair of toasters on wheels? We have a warehouse full of em just sitting there.

Do we have to choose from the list? Only we would like to remain the ultimate 'Murican national team and bid for a suiting driver lineup.

In terms of choosing drivers. Yes, you must choose from the list, at least initially during the first batch of bids. If I ended needing to conduct a second round of bids, then maybe we can expand the list just a little bit! Thanks for asking!

EDIT: I still have NOT received bids from the following teams as of right now: Ferrari, Renault, MSR, Carlin, Red Bull (which still needs someone to take over), Lola, and US F1 which has posted Engine and Chassis bids but no drivers bids yet. And before you are wondering if Red Bull will be on the grid in 2009, this is just in!

BREAKING NEWS: Red Bull decides to sell 33% of the team to Alexander Wurz and the Superfund group!

In Milton Keyes, the much troubled Red Bull team finally found some new money thanks to Superfund and Alex Wurz. According to the early PR releases from the team, the team name will NOT change, but in exchange of Alex Wurz taking over day-to-day management of the team on track, he will bring $3 million to the team, while Superfund will contribute $16.1 million for this season, bringing their current budget to $30 million. In addition, rumors are spreading that they are willing to sign Kazuya Oshima and with it free Toyota Engines. The identity of their other race driver remains to be determined.

KL-racer · Post by **KL-racer** » 29 Jul 2015, 19:53

Engine Bids

Okay, I have given you guys more than enough time to send bids to me. Since no one else has bothered to send bids in over the past few days. I have made a tough decision to "fill" the missing bids for them. Yes, you know who you are that didn’t send in bids in a timely fashion! The only reason why I have to do this right now, is that my job resumes on the fifth of august and as you may know my job is kind of busy sometimes, and I want to get all of the bids and the pre-season test done before that date. Anyways, here’s the engine RNG’S for you guys to read through. And if you did send in bids to me, good job on your part to remember to do so!

Ferrari

Well, Ferrari supplies Ferrari of course! And it so happens that Campos will use Ferrari’s in 2009 being the only other team that had it as their first choice.

Renault

Obviously, Renault supplies themselves and since Williams decided to bid on them. They will take the second batch of Renault engines. The final batch of these engines will go to either Force India or McLaren, with Force India bidding $1 million more than McLaren. It’s a 70-30 split on this one

Force India 1-70, McLaren 71-100

The number is . . . 83, so McLaren ends their 13-year partnership with Mercedes and jumps to Renault!

Mercedes

Only two teams happened to bid for Mercedes motors: Force India and Prodrive, so they both will get them!

BMW

Sauber will obviously get these engines, they are the works team. Carlin will also get them being a preferred customer after scoring their first points last season. Which means one more batch remains, which goes to Epsilon Esukadi.

Honda

Honda supplies themselves, and three other teams bid for these motors, but only two will get them. These three teams were, Brawn GP, Manor and Caterham.

Here’s the first RNG

Brawn GP 1-50, Manor 51-75, Caterham 76-100

The number is . . . 91, so Caterham will use Honda’s.

Here’s the second RNG

Brawn GP 1-75, Manor 76-100

Number is . . . 54 so Brawn GP will get the final batch of Honda's

Spyker

Odd that the only team that bid for Spyker’s V8 was MSR. So they are still the only team to use Spyker’s V8 for the time being

Toyota

Toyota supplies Toyota, duh. In addition, Red Bull will get their Toyota engines for Free by signing Kazuya Oshima to a race seat.

Cosworth

Finally, Cosworth had three bidders for their engines. Lola, DAMS and US F1. All three will get these motors at list price of $10 million.

Which means that Manor has no engine deal from this RNG, after subtracting their Chassis bid, they have $12 million left, so which means they can either buy Toyota’s or Spyker’s at list price. I am guessing reject_dom you want the Toyota engine? Anyways after he answers this question we are off to the driver bids!

Dom_Wings · Post by **Dom_Wings** » 30 Jul 2015, 00:12

I will keep the Toyota, thank you very much.

KL-racer · Post by **KL-racer** » 30 Jul 2015, 00:13

Driver Bids
Okay, guess it’s time for who’s going where for 2009. Of course, we will start with the top team from the 2008 team’s championship (Sauber-BMW) and work our way down the field. Let’s see what the RNG gods have in store for us!
Nick Heidfeld 1st choice at Sauber-BMW #1 seat, 1st choice at Williams-Renault #2 seat, 1st choice at McLaren-Renault #2 seat
Alright, the first one up is Nick Heidfeld, who had three solid offers, McLaren offered him the most money but it’s for a #2 seat, Sauber-BMW is the only one of these three that offered him a #1 role. Williams-Renault looks like a long shot at this point.
Stays at Sauber 1-60, Goes to McLaren 61-90, Goes to Williams 91-100
Number is . . . 28, he stays put at Sauber
Timo Glock Part 1 1st choice at Sauber #2 seat, 3rd choice at Williams-Renault #2 seat, 3rd choice at McLaren #2 seat.
This driver surprised everyone last season, he also had three offers but Sauber is the only one that offered him 1st choice, the other two teams Williams and McLaren have to wait.
Stays at Sauber 1-80, Waits for Williams 81-90, Waits for McLaren 91-100
Number is . . . 90, he waits for Williams to respond
Nico Rosberg 2nd choice at Sauber #2 seat
After struggling with the Red Bull last season, he got only one offer, which is a chance to be with fellow German Heidfeld at Sauber. He gladly takes it!
Michael Schumacher 1st choice at Ferrari #1 seat.
After Sauber re-signed Heidfeld, Michael Schumacher only had one offer to stay at Ferrari. He accepts it.
Felipe Massa 1st choice at Ferrari #2 seat, 2nd choice at Williams #2 seat, 3rd choice at Force India #1 seat, 2nd choice at McLaren #2 seat
After last season that saw him outscore Vettel at Force India, he gathered plenty of attention.
Signs with Ferrari 1-35, Signs with Williams 36-70, Signs with McLaren 71-85, Waits for Force India 86-100
Number is . . . 20, he signs with Ferrari
Robert Kubica 1st choice at Williams #1 seat
With only one offer to his name, Kubica stays put at Williams, hoping to be successful at defending his WDC title.
Timo Glock Part 2
After waiting patiently from Williams to call back, they did indeed call him and he was signed to be Kubica’s new teammate.
Fernando Alonso Part 1 1st choice at Renault #1 seat, 2nd choice at Force India #1 seat, 3rd choice at McLaren #1 seat
After losing out on a 4-peat of WDC, he is now not so sure if Renault is still committed to winning.
Stays at Renault 1-35, waits for Force India 36-75, Waits for McLaren 76-100
Number is . . . 53, he waits for Force India
Pedro De La Rosa 2nd Choice at Renault #1 seat, 1st choice at MSR #1 seat, 2nd choice at Campos #2 seat
This veteran Spainard had three offers, Renault, MSR and Campos.
Stays at Renault 1-55, Signs with MSR 56-80, Waits for Campos 81-100
Number is . . . 33, he stays put at Renault.
Nelson Piquet Jr. 1st choice at #2 seat at Renault, 1st choice at #2 seat at US F1
After spending a season learning as a reserve driver, he is deemed ready for a race seat, but he only had two offers, Renault and newcomers US F1.
Signs with Renault 1-80, Signs with US F1 81-100
Number is . . . 29, he signs with Renault.
Kimi Raikkonen 1st choice at McLaren #1 seat
With all of his other offers already been removed, the iceman stays put at McLaren.
Fernando Alonso Part 2: The 3-time WDC has decided to give up demanding a #1 seat to sign with McLaren to be the iceman’s new teammate.
Jenson Button 1st choice at Prodrive #1 seat, 2nd choice at Honda #1 seat, 2nd choice at Brawn GP #1 seat
Well, after struggling with Red Bull last year, button had received three offers
Signs with Prodrive 1-60, Waits for Honda 61-85, Waits for Brawn GP 86-100
Number is . . . 26, he signs with Prodrive
Pastor Maldonado Part 1 1st choice for Prodrive #2 seat, 3rd choice for Honda #2 seat, 3rd choice for #2 seat at Red Bull, 2nd choice at Manor #2 seat
This pay-driver bought along the most cash among the pay-drivers looking to sign a race seat.
Signs with Prodrive 1-50, Waits for Honda 51-80, Waits for Red Bull 81-95, Waits for Manor 96-100
Number is . . . 78, he waits for Honda to call back
Adrian Sutil 2nd choice for Prodrive #2 seat, 1st choice for Carlin #2 seat, 3rd choice for Esukadi #1 seat, 1st choice at DAMS #2 seat, 1st choice for Manor #2 seat, 2nd choice for Caterham #2 seat
After filling in for an injured Alonso last year, he received several offers about racing full-time again
Signs with Prodrive 1-25, Signs with Carlin 21-50, Signs with DAMS 51-70, Signs with Manor 71-85, Waits for Caterham 86-95, Waits for Esukadi 96-100
Number is . . . 46, he signs with Carlin.
Andre Lotterer: Which means that this converted LMES driver will once again be in F1 with Prodrive, for the time being.
Christian Klien 1st choice at Honda #1 seat, 3rd choice at MSR #2 seat
He only had two offers staying put at Honda or waiting for MSR to respond
Stays with Honda 1-90, Waits for MSR 91-100
Number is . . . 90, he stays put at Honda.
Nico Hulkenberg 1st choice at Honda #2 seat, 1st choice at Caterham #1 seat
The Euro F3 champion in 2008, only had two offers, sign with Honda or sign with Caterham. Honda did offer him more money but Caterham provided him with a #1 seat.
Signs with Honda 1-85, Signs with Caterham 86-100
Number is . . . 33, he signs with Honda for his rookie F1 season, which means Pastor never received the phone call back from Honda.
Heikki Kovalainen 2nd choice at MSR #1 seat, #1 choice at Carlin #1 seat
After scoring Carlin’s first ever points last year, he is looking forward for year 2. But he has received an offer from MSR that looks promising
Signs with MSR 1-50, Stays at Carlin 51-100
Number is . . . 90, he stays at Carlin
Alvaro Parente: 3rd choice at MSR #1 seat
Which means this Journeyman GP2 series driver finally gets a shot at F1, with MSR
Sebastien Bourdais 1st choice for #2 seat at MSR, 1st choice for #2 seat at Esukadi, 3rd choice for #2 seat at DAMS, 2nd choice for #1 seat at Manor.
After barely getting 2 points last season with MSR, he is open to other offers.
Stays with MSR 1-30, Signs with Esukadi 31-70, Waits for Manor 71-90, Waits for DAMS 91-100
Number is . . . 13, he stays put at MSR
Karun Chadhok: Only received one offer from Red Bull as their #2 driver, he takes it
Rubens Barrichello: Only received an offer from Brawn GP as their #1 driver, he also takes it
Giorgio Pantano: 1st choice at Brawn GP #2 seat, 2nd Choice at Esukadi #2 seat
The 2008 GP2 series champion, is looking for one final crack at F1. He has received two offers, from Brawn GP and from Esukadi
Signs with Brawn GP 1-55, Signs with Esukadi 56-100
Number is . . . 71, he signs with Esukadi
Vitaly Petrov 2nd choice at #2 seat for Brawn GP, 1st choice for #1 seat at Esukadi, 1st choice for #1 seat at DAMS, 3rd choice for #2 seat at Manor, 3rd Choice for #2 seat at Caterham.
This Russian pay-driver had 5 offers total
Signs with Brawn GP 1-30, Signs with Esukadi 31-60, Signs with DAMS 61-80, Waits for Manor 81-90, Waits for Caterham 91-100
Number is . . . 64, he signs with DAMS
Bruno Senna 3rd choice at Brawn GP #2 seat, 2nd choice at Lola #1 seat, 2nd choice at US F1 #1 seat
After hitting some struggles in his rookie year, he is hoping to bounce back in year 2
Signs with Brawn GP 1-50, Waits for Lola 51-75, Waits for US F1 76-100
Number is . . . 26, he signs with Brawn GP
Kaz Nakajima and Narain Karthikeyan: Both of them only had one offer to join Lola, and both of them accepted their offers.
Giedo Van der Garde: he only had one offer left, Esukadi’s #1 seat, he gladly pays his deposit.
Romain Grosjean 2nd choice at DAMS #2 seat, 2nd choice at Caterham #1 seat
This Frenchman had two offers. He slightly favors his home country team DAMS though
Signs with DAMS 1-60, Signs with Caterham 61-100
Number is . . . 12, he does sign with DAMS.
Mark Webber: He only had a single offer from Manor. He gladly signs with them
Pastor Maldonado Part 2
After some time waiting, Manor finally called him and asked him to pony up his PDVSA cash to them. He gladly does that.
Davide Valseechi and Luca Filippi: Both Italians accepted their offers from Caterham.
Mike Conway and Javier Villa: Both of them accepted their offers from Campos
Jose Maria Lopez and James Rossiter: To conclude matters, both of these drivers accepted their offers from US F1.
Wow! That’s just a long list to type it out! The pre-season test will be posted sometime Tomorrow afternoon!

Rabbi Gordon · Post by **Rabbi Gordon** » 30 Jul 2015, 01:00

KL-racer wrote:Odd that the only team that bid for Spyker’s V8 was MSR.

That ain't true! Spyker was my #2 bid in hopes of using them badged as Saab, if BMW turned us down. They didn't... I guess those mail bombs will remain in Azkoitia.

Looks like the idea to attract a good pay driver with the premise of a #1 seat didn't work too well though. At least van der Garde received no other bids.

We'd like to designate our 1st F1 chassis as the Euskadi eeL in reference to its preseason performance. :pantano:

Dom_Wings · Post by **Dom_Wings** » 30 Jul 2015, 09:14

Well, at least I'll be upgrading a fair bit.