Budgets after the Sponsorship Choice (only Tier Gamma sponsors accounted for) and Lead Designer Market:
+ Andretti (miguel98) - €198,000,000
+ Caterham (kevinbotz) - €205,000,000
+ Dawson (petoli) - €78,000,000
+ FAST (CaptainGetz) - €160,500,000
+ Ferrari (Pasta) - €171,500,000
+ Loonmotor (frogfoot) - €98,500,000
+ McEwan (aislabie) - €128,000,000
+ MRT (Wazzle) - €107,500,000
+ Red Bull (pinkd56) - €170,500,000
+ Rookie Racing (RealRacingRoots) - €149,000,000
+ Sauber (Hermann) - €90,000,000
+ Toyota (Reject_Dom) - €106,000,000
+ Williams (Gertrand Bachot) - €157,500,000
Each team must employ 2 racing drivers and may employ either 1 sim driver or 1 driver coach; both real-life drivers and fictional drivers are permitted. The performance of a driver is determined by the administration on basis of previous achievements in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era, any series sharing a fictional universe with Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era and real-life performance for real-life drivers. The 2 racing drivers are the drivers that actively compete during the Grand Prix weekend. Hiring a driver as sim tester gives a team a qualifying performance boost of 30 grip points and improves future RNG values for real-life drivers. Hiring a driver as a driver coach reduces the random grip range of the racing drivers by 30 points.
To be eligible to be signed as a racing driver in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era, a driver must either
* have competed in 90% of a full season or 18 races, whichever number is lower, in 1 one of the last 3 simulated seasons of Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era or the ARWS.
* have finished in the top 6 in 1 of the last 3 simulated seasons of the FIA Formula 2 World Championship or the FIA Formula 3 World Cup.
* have achieved 4 pole positions and/or race victories in other series sharing a fictional universe with Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era during the previous 4 seasons
* have achieved 8 pole positions and/or race victories in real-life series during the previous 3 years based on the start of the driver market of the season the driver is set to compete in (real-life drivers)
* have been employed as a sim driver or as a driver coach in the previous simulated season of Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era
* have a contract as full-time racing driver with a Formula 1 or Formula E team in real-life at the start of the driver market of the season the driver is set to compete in (real-life drivers)
To be eligible to be signed as a sim driver in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era, a driver must either
* be over the age of 16 and be under the age of 26 at the start of the calendar year of the season the driver is hired for
* have competed in less than 5 races in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era or less than 10 races in the ARWS
To be eligible to be signed as a driver coach in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era, a driver must either
* be over the age of 32 and under the age of 52 at the start of the calendar year of the season the driver is hired for
* have competed in more than 50 races in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era or more than 25 races in the ARWS or the GT Super Series
* have achieved 12 pole positions and/or race victories in real-life series during the previous 3 years based on the start of the driver market of the season the driver is set to compete in (real-life drivers)
A fictional driver can be declared eligible at request despite not meeting any of these conditions if the driver market falls in a period where a series sharing a fictional universe with Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era has not concluded a season yet and it can be considered possible that the driver in question may have fulfilled the requirements by the conclusion of that season. If the driver is declared eligible using that method fails to achieve the requirements to be declared eligible, his eligibility is not revoked.
Any driver currently under contract that would not be eligible for his position will be permitted to remain in that position for the 2022 season, but their contract will be voided after the conclusion of the 2022 season.
Drivers can be signed at the start of the year as well as at any point during the season, except during a Grand Prix weekend. However, no driver can be hired while the position he is to be hired for is still occupied by another driver. A driver under contract as a sim driver or driver coach can be turned into a contract as a racing driver if a position as a racing driver is not occupied, if the driver is eligible to be hired as a racing driver. Each team is limited to 5 racing drivers throughout the season unless force majeure forces a team to hire more drivers. There is no limit to the amounts of offers a team can make to free agents. These contracts must specify the role of the driver, the driver's wage, the contract duration and state additional clauses.
Contract duration must be stated in a number of years. The minimum contract length is 1 year, the maximum contract length is 6 years (including any driver or team options). Contracts may not be prematurely extended. Teams may clarify through the use of an additional clause if they do not plan to use a driver for an entire season. Wages are separately agreed on for every year of a multi-year contract. Clauses specify additional conditions and privileges of the contract sides not covered in other parts of the contract.
Teams may only offer a financial bonus to a driver for WDC and/or WCC position. Any bonus may not be staggered and can only be paid out a lump sum for any given achievement.
If the administration considers a clause unclear, the administration will interpret the clause with the most driver-friendly interpretation possible.
For real-life drivers, a RNG will determine whether they sign the contract. The RNG values will be determined by the administration based on the real-life public persona if the driver and their previous business agreements in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era.
After posting their offers, any team looking to re-sign a driver that was under contract with the team in the previous season can request the administration to assess the offer from the point of view of the real-life driver and offer advice to improve their RNG odds.
Any RNG result is final, unless there is reasonable doubt about the quality of the RNG values and 5 or more users running a team in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era request a reroll.
For fictional drivers, the respective DEC holder determines whether a contract offer is accepted. Should a fictional driver that has either contemporary narrative importance to Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era or achieved exceptional results in other series have its DEC abandoned, the administration can accept a contract in place of the DEC holder. Drivers signed in that way may only sign 1-year contracts without any option years. Fictional drivers must be between the ages of 17 and 42 years at the start of the calendar year of the current Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era season. A fictional driver that turns 43 during a running contract is entitled to compete for the remaining seasons of his contract, but all potential team or driver options are automatically declined. Fictional drivers whose DEC is held by administration may only be signed if 5 or more users running a team in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era agree to the signing.
Should a previously signed contract violate any rules or a new contract be found to violate these rules, the administration is entitled to change the contract as it sees fit without informing the team owner or the DEC holder in case of fictional drivers. The administration can modify contracts and contract offers with fictional drivers if it considers the contract either unfairly advantageous to the team hiring the driver or egregiously inconsistent with the actions of the character in previous appearances. The team owner must be informed of those changes.
A driver can be terminated before the start of any Grand Prix weekend. Any driver terminated must be paid a compensation, which equals the lump sum of the wages a driver in future seasons (driver option years included) and all possible bonus payments. If a team temporarily replaces a driver before his contract is over, he is entitled to the same compensation, unless a clause justifies his replacement. Either compensation can be voided if the driver has scored less than 10% of the points of his teammate after 8 Grand Prix weekends after the start of his contract if said teammate has scored at least 25 points or if the DEC owner of a fictional driver has made in-character comments that can be interpreted as a desire to leave the team or excessive criticism of the team as defined by the administration. To return a driver to his role, no additional wage must be paid. During an unjustified temporary replacement, any other team may sign the driver as if they were a free agent. The original team is given €2,000,000 as compensation by the administration in case that driver is signed by a different team.
If the administration has signed a driver on behalf of a user failing to meet a deadline, that driver contract can be terminated by the user in question until the conclusion of the 2nd Grand Prix weekend of the season without paying compensation.
Active Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era drivers can freely participate in other series as well. It is the responsibility of the involved users to avoid schedule conflicts. Any time paradoxes resulting as a consequence of double-dutying will be punished by having said driver banned from Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era for 5 years and any other DECs (in case of fictional drivers) by said user being banned for the rest of the currently running season. In case of a real-life driver having an unresolved schedule conflict, the team-owning user in question will be excluded from the game, regardless of whether he owns the team in the other series causing the paradox unless the series owner of that series has caused the paradox by allowing the driver in question to sign in the series despite having known about the driver's Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era commitment, running the real-life driver in a race he was not supposed to and refusing to rerun the race or modifying their schedule to deal with the time paradox.
Any driver, at the start of their career in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era can pick freely any unused racing number from 2-99 to represent them for the entirety of their entire career. The number selection for real-life drivers is undertaken by the administration. The reigning World Drivers Champion will run racing number 1 for the entirety of the season after winning the World Drivers Championship. His standard racing number will not be available for use by any driver beginning their career in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era. Any replacement driver that is to replace the World Drivers Champion is treated as if he has signed his first contract or uses his reserved racing number, regardless of the length of the replacement.
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After reading through that, you will now be asked to fill out the following until
January 1, 10:30 p.m. CET:
Code: Select all
Racing Driver #1
Name:
DEC Holder: Only for fictional drivers
Number: 2-99, Only for fictional drivers (please note three suggestions and check the wiki for overlap)
Contract Length:
Wage Year 1:
Wage Year 2:
Wage Year 3:
Wage Year 4:
Wage Year 5:
Wage Year 6:
Additional Clauses:
(Repeat as often as you need to)
Racing Driver #2
Name:
DEC Holder: Only for fictional drivers
Number: 2-99, Only for fictional drivers (please note three suggestions and check the wiki for overlap)
Contract Length:
Wage Year 1:
Wage Year 2:
Wage Year 3:
Wage Year 4:
Wage Year 5:
Wage Year 6:
Additional Clauses:
(Repeat as often as you need to)
Third Driver (optional)
Name:
Role: Sim Driver/Driver Coach
DEC Holder: Only for fictional drivers
Contract Length:
Wage Year 1:
Wage Year 2:
Wage Year 3:
Wage Year 4:
Wage Year 5:
Wage Year 6:
Additional Clauses:
McEwan and MRT only need to post if they desire a Third Driver, Red Bull and Williams do not need to post anything.
If you have questions, feel free to ask me.