Alt-F3000: The 1988 Season - Season over!

Post by **Ataxia** » 03 Jan 2016, 17:15

This will resume once the wiki's back, sorry for the lack of activity here.

Post by **Bobby Doorknobs** » 03 Jan 2016, 20:46

Jordan would like to renegotiate Grouillard's contract. How much money would he bring in as a pay driver?

Post by **Ataxia** » 09 Jan 2016, 19:54

We are back! Time to sort some things...

peteroli34 wrote:Good race for Gugelmin to score a podium. Bromley will contact Cosworth asking them to deliver a fresh powerplant ASAP

SuperAguri wrote:Middlebridge are cursing their luck, 2 mechanical retirements for Donnoley. We will spend 26k repairing the March 88-B/3.

Budgets updated.

Normal32 wrote:FIRST will reduce Amati's contract to 4 races, and after that, she will be replaced by 20 year old Nicholas Griffith. Will be payed on a race per race basis. At minimum wage and no additional clauses. If possible of course

That's fine, but you'll be required to pay £95.5k back to Amati, since she paid for the whole season up front.

SuperAguri wrote:We would also like to offer Mauro Martini another chance to pay for a drive.

Martini is delighted with his pace at Imola, and feels he can achieve a points-finish next time out.

1-90: Will return to Middlebridge again at some point in the season
91-100: Holds out for a long-term seat.

57, Martini will accept any further call-ups from Middlebridge.

Simtek wrote:Jordan would like to renegotiate Grouillard's contract. How much money would he bring in as a pay driver?

Grouillard would be able to bring £13.6k per race...whether he wants to is a different matter entirely.

Madgwick International also submitted an offer for Eric van de Poele to finish the season with the team under the current terms.

1-90: Van de Poele is happy to keep paying for his drive.
91-100: He decides to try his luck in DTM after his 4 races are up.

16, EVDP stays at Madgwick for the rest of 1988.

Normal32 · Post by **Normal32** » 09 Jan 2016, 21:37

FIRST would instead like to hire Michel Ferte as a pay-driver, starting from Pau.

Post by **Ataxia** » 09 Jan 2016, 21:45

Normal32 wrote:FIRST would instead like to hire Michel Ferte as a pay-driver, starting from Pau.

Ferte welcomes the offer, as he seeks to continue in F3000 for another year.

1-90: Ferte joins FIRST.
91-100: Ferte decides to go endurance racing instead.

44, Ferte gets back into F3000, and will bring £13.6k per race. He can pay this race-by-race or upfront to cover what Amati would take back, it's up to you.

Normal32 · Post by **Normal32** » 09 Jan 2016, 21:50

Ataxia wrote:
Normal32 wrote:FIRST would instead like to hire Michel Ferte as a pay-driver, starting from Pau.

Ferte welcomes the offer, as he seeks to continue in F3000 for another year.

1-90: Ferte joins FIRST.
91-100: Ferte decides to go endurance racing instead.

44, Ferte gets back into F3000, and will bring £13.6k per race. He can pay this race-by-race or upfront to cover what Amati would take back, it's up to you.

He will pay upfront.

Post by **Ataxia** » 12 Jan 2016, 13:01

Pau Grand Prix, Round 3, May 23rd 1988

Pau by name, pow! by nature.

Qualifying

Race

Everything will be updated through the course of the day. A memorial will be held for any engines lost in today's combat on French soil.

DOTR: Michel Ferté - An excellent (if not lucky) 4th place on his return to the series.
ROTR: Cosworth - Six failures at Pau, producing a fireworks show worthy of New Year's Eve.

Post by **Bobby Doorknobs** » 12 Jan 2016, 13:08

Ok, forget everything I said about renegotiating Grouillard's contract!

Post by **DemocalypseNow** » 12 Jan 2016, 15:44

Double engine failure?! A fa nabila! :facepalm:

pi314159 · Post by **pi314159** » 12 Jan 2016, 19:14

ORECA will buy a new engine for Alesi and repair his chassis. (Remove as much wear as possible)

Post by **Ataxia** » 12 Jan 2016, 19:18

Budgets are now updated, please check and make the required changes. If you do not have enough engines in your inventory, you must buy more; you can switch supplier if you wish, but the same engine must be in both cars.

I've added the car numbers to each asset so you know which driver is running which chassis/engine. Corresponding numbers are on the wiki page, as are the current standings.

Post by **Miguel98** » 12 Jan 2016, 19:23

We'll buy a new engine to place on Herbert's car.

Post by **Bobby Doorknobs** » 12 Jan 2016, 19:45

I'm going to ask this now so I don't forget later: Does regenerating the engine lower the CFP in the same way it replenishes power?

Post by **Ataxia** » 12 Jan 2016, 20:00

Simtek wrote:I'm going to ask this now so I don't forget later: Does regenerating the engine lower the CFP in the same way it replenishes power?

Reconditioned engines remove all the associated CFP points, but only half the lost power. So, it makes sense to recondition an engine as late as possible, but obviously there's more risk of losing it to a blowout.

Post by **Bobby Doorknobs** » 12 Jan 2016, 20:08

Ataxia wrote:
Simtek wrote:I'm going to ask this now so I don't forget later: Does regenerating the engine lower the CFP in the same way it replenishes power?

Reconditioned engines remove all the associated CFP points, but only half the lost power. So, it makes sense to recondition an engine as late as possible, but obviously there's more risk of losing it to a blowout.

Ok, cheers

Post by **DemocalypseNow** » 12 Jan 2016, 20:57

IBR will spend 10K repairing the Lola T88/50/11 chassis (Pirro).

Post by **Ataxia** » 12 Jan 2016, 21:02

Slight tweak to the rules too; teams will now be allowed to keep engines at the end of the season rather than have to trade them in at a loss. As a result, buying engines next season will be slightly less expensive since reliability should ideally be at a level between the attrition at Pau and the previous two races. Other tweaks will be made to some of the other mechanics to improve realism (with an emphasis on retaining the overall challenge); feedback is certainly welcome.

Also for 1989, there will also be a third engine supplied by Mugen Honda, and Mooncraft chassis will replace the current Ralt offering. Switching engine/chassis supplier would be the same protocol detailed within the rules post on page 1.

Peteroli34 · Post by **Peteroli34** » 12 Jan 2016, 21:51

Bromley will tell Cosworth to stick their engines up their proverbial and will re eqip our 2 chassis with Judd Power

AndreaModa · Post by **AndreaModa** » 12 Jan 2016, 22:53

One new Judd for Spirit, plus £20,000 spent on repairing Gachot's chassis. Deletraz can go suck it!

FantometteBR · Post by **FantometteBR** » 13 Jan 2016, 19:50

One new Cosworth engine for Onyx please

Post by **Ataxia** » 29 Jan 2016, 15:16

Budgets updated; Middlebridge must still purchase an engine.

SuperAguri · Post by **SuperAguri** » 03 Feb 2016, 11:23

Middlebridge will reluctantly purchase another Cosworth engine but will tell Cosworth to look at their engines as certain teams are getting a lot of failures and others are getting none.

Post by **Ataxia** » 12 Feb 2016, 20:38

Silverstone Circuit, Round 4, June 5th 1988

Qualifying

Race

DOTR: Martin Donnelly - put the disappointment of the last few races behind him to dominate the weekend.
ROTR: Mark Blundell - beached his car in the dying laps, choking away a 2nd place.

Post by **Bobby Doorknobs** » 12 Feb 2016, 21:02

My worst fears realised! I was hoping to somehow eke out another race or two before reconditioning both engines. However, Jordan will now replace Christopherson's engine and recondition Grouillard's.

FantometteBR · Post by **FantometteBR** » 13 Feb 2016, 03:20

Oh heck... don't do that again Mark...

pi314159 · Post by **pi314159** » 14 Feb 2016, 09:42

I've got the cash, so why not risk it? Two Cosworths for Oreca, please.

Rated · Post by **Rated** » 14 Feb 2016, 15:11

GDBA Motorsports will recondition both their chassis. The Cosworth DFY/16 engine will be fitted in Bernard's car, and the Cosworth DFY/17 engine in Fabron's car.

Post by **Ataxia** » 15 Feb 2016, 12:17

Budgets have now been updated to this point, including the few posts above. Please take any required action.

Normal32 · Post by **Normal32** » 15 Feb 2016, 12:25

FIRST will repair all their chassis wear

Post by **Miguel98** » 15 Feb 2016, 14:13

We decide to buy two Cosworth's engines, one for EVdP and one for Herbert

SuperAguri · Post by **SuperAguri** » 15 Feb 2016, 22:06

To keep the Middlebridge momentum going, we want to spend

13k on repairing the March 88-B/3
12k on repairing the March 88-B/4

And another Cosworth lump at 70K to go into Donnoleys car and the other least used engine in Andrettis car.

We thank Thomas Danielsson for his great drive and was sad that he failed to score points and look forward to Jeff Andretti at Monza, hoping his Indy Lights racing will help at the high speed Monza track.

We are also going to offer Mauro Martini two more races at Pergusa and Birmingham with Rickard Rydell driving at Brands and Bugatti and Ross Cheever ending the season at Zolder and Dijon.

Post by **Ataxia** » 21 Mar 2016, 16:38

Autodromo Nazionale Monza, Round 5, June 26th 1988

Qualifying

Race

DOTR: Jeff Andretti - scores points first time out.
ROTR: Martin Donnelly - hero to zero performance saw the Northern Irishman throw it into the gravel.

Post by **Ataxia** » 24 Mar 2016, 22:54

Budgets are finally updated and ready for you to take action.

pi314159 · Post by **pi314159** » 24 Mar 2016, 22:55

Oreca will repair both chassis.

Post by **Bobby Doorknobs** » 25 Mar 2016, 20:05

Jordan will purchase another new engine and will spend the required funds to peg back the wear on both chassis to 10%.

And with that we are in debt... Please donate.

Peteroli34 · Post by **Peteroli34** » 25 Mar 2016, 20:48

Bromley will spend money reducing each chassis to 30% wear

FantometteBR · Post by **FantometteBR** » 26 Mar 2016, 16:47

Onyx would like to purchase a new Cosworth engine for our #1 car

AndreaModa · Post by **AndreaModa** » 27 Mar 2016, 00:01

Spirit will get the tools out for a change and repair all the wear on both chassis. That should be £46k.

If possible, I'd also like to buy a new Judd engine for Gachot to replace his current one which has done two races. Can I keep his current engine as a spare for use when the next one fails?

V8fan12 · Post by **V8fan12** » 28 Mar 2016, 04:17

GA Motorsport will splash out our reserves of cash and recondition both engines and completely repair our Lola chassis

Post by **Ataxia** » 26 Apr 2016, 19:32

Autodromo di Pergusa, Round 6, July 17th 1988

Qualifying

Race

DOTR: Sophie Fabron - manages her first points of the year.
ROTR: Oreca Racing - failed to capitalise on a good qualifying performance, and ended up outside the points.

How many engine failures will we have in the whole of 1988?