F1/GP2 Manager - 2007 Season - American GP -F1 Race Page 34!

F1/GP2 Manager - 2007 Season - American GP -F1 Race Page 34!
Date: June 25, 2014 10:03PM
Posted by: F1_Manager

Registered: 11 years ago

F1 Manager

This series (originally established by Chris 2k6) gives 11 lucky players the chance to guide a Formula One team to success, whether it be Ferrari or Minardi. The game started in the 2003 season and has already developed greatly thanks to the choices each manager has made. Also real life events will come in to play, such as Red Bull wanting to take over Jaguar etc but, that doesn’t guarantee you success. Managers will also have to negotiate contracts with drivers and engine suppliers along with making many other decisions along the way.

Teams

At the start teams were randomly assigned between the applicants. Here is the current entry list:

2007 Lineups

Team 1: McLaren
Team Manager: kedy89
Driver 1: #1 Kimi Raikkonen
Driver 2: #2 Robert Kubica
Test Driver: Ryan Briscoe
Engine: Mercedes
Brakes: Brembo

Team 2: Ferrari
Team Manager: MDBSnake
Driver 1: #3 Felipe Massa
Driver 2: #4 Ralf Schumacher
Test Driver: Alexander Wurz
Engine: Ferrari
Brakes: Brembo

Team 3: Toyota
Team Manager: Alesi no1
Driver 1: #5 Cristiano Da Matta
Driver 2: #6 Jarno Trulli
Test Driver: Vitantonio Liuzzi
Engine: Toyota
Brakes: Brembo

Team 4: BMW Sauber
Team Manager: Bandon23
Driver 1: #7 Juan P Montoya
Driver 2: #8 David Coulthard
Test Driver #1: Robert Doornbos
Test Driver #2: Pedro de la Rosa
Engine: BMW
Brakes: Brembo

Team 5: Toro Rosso
Team Manager: ginnerchris
Driver 1: #9 Franck Montagny
Driver 2: #10 Rubens Barrichello
Test Driver #1: Vitaly Petrov
Test Driver #2: Nick Heidfeld
Engine: Ferrari
Brakes: Brembo

Team 6: Williams
Team Manager: natasp
Driver 1: #11 Jacques Villeneuve
Driver 2: #12 Giancarlo Fisichella
Test Driver: Christian Klien
Engine: Mercedes
Brakes: Brembo

Team 7: Honda
Team Manager: ricktworick1
Driver 1: #14 Anthony Davidson
Driver 2: #15 Lewis Hamilton
Test Driver: Bas Leinders
Engine: Honda
Brakes: Brembo

Team 8: Renault
Team Manager: giomich
Driver 1: #16 Michael Schumacher
Driver 2: #17 Fernando Alonso
Test Driver: Jenson Button
Engine: Renault
Brakes: Brembo

Team 9: Spyker
Team Manager: RegularJohn
Driver 1: #18 Andre Lotterer
Driver 2: #19 Adrian Sutil
Test Driver: Takuma Sato
Engine: Renault
Brakes: Brembo

Team 10: Super Aguri
Team Manager: KimiHeikki
Driver 1: #20 Jos Verstappen
Driver 2: #21 Timo Glock
Test Driver #1: Gary Paffett
Test Driver #2: Heikki Kovalainen
Engine: Mercedes
Brakes: Brembo

Team 11: Red Bull
Team Manager: Ferrari2007
Driver 1: #22 Sebastian Vettel
Driver 2: #23 Mark Webber
Test Driver: Nico Rosberg
Engine: Ferrari
Brakes: Brembo

Reserve Managers:

Waiting List

1. miki2000milos
2. thor553
3. NickJW
4. fandericciardo93
5. JohnWarrington
6. Twigster151

When a team becomes available the first manage on the list will be offered the job, if he rejects the offer the next person on the list will be offered the job. If more than one team is available the first person on the list can choose which team to sign for. When a manager inherits a team they must aware that they will also inherit any drivers or team takeovers (such as Red Bulls takeover at Jaguar) as well as the team’s current budget.

2007 Calender

Race Calendar

1 - Australian Grand Prix

Pole Position : Felipe Massa - Ferrari - 1:26.410
Race Winner: Juan Pablo Montoya - BMW Sauber - 1:26:33.893
Fastest Lap: Adrian Sutil - Spyker - 1:24.828

2 - Malaysian Grand Prix

Pole Position : Alexander Wurz - Ferrari - 1:33.219
Race Winner: Felipe Massa - Ferrari - 1:28:44.810
Fastest Lap: Felipe Massa - Ferrari - 1:33.060

3 - Bahrain Grand Prix

Pole Position : Kimi Raikkonen - McLaren - 1:30.512
Race Winner: Ralf Schumacher - Ferrari - 1:27:57.465
Fastest Lap: Robert Kubica - McLaren - 1:30.597

4 - Spanish Grand Prix

Pole Position : Felipe Massa - Ferrari - 1:21.166
Race Winner: Kimi Raikkonen - McLaren - 1:30:21.827
Fastest Lap: Robert Kubica - McLaren - 1:21.768

5 - Monaco Grand Prix

Pole Position : Kimi Raikkonen - McLaren Mercedes - 1:13.794
Race Winner: Kimi Raikkonen - McLaren Mercedes - 1:22:17.618
Fastest Lap: Kimi Raikkonen - McLaren Mercedes - 1:14.061

6 - Canadian Grand Prix

Pole Position : Kimi Raikkonen - McLaren Mercedes - 1:13.796
Race Winner: Kimi Raikkonen - McLaren Mercedes - 1:27:30.119
Fastest Lap: Robert Kubica - McLaren Mercedes - 1:13.655

7 - American Grand Prix

Pole Position : Ralf Schumacher - Ferrari - 1:11.630
Race Winner: Kimi Raikkonen - McLaren Mercedes - 1:29:42.929
Fastest Lap: Kimi Raikkonen - McLaren Mercedes 1:12.135

8 - French Grand Prix

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9 - British Grand Prix

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10 - European Grand Prix

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11 - Hungarian Grand Prix

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12 - Turkish Grand Prix

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13 - Italian Grand Prix

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14 – Belgian Grand Prix

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15 - Japanese Grand Prix

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16 - Chinese Grand Prix

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17 - Brazilian Grand Prix

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Current Standings

The Rules and Regulations

1) Race Weekend

A) Free Practice

- Each race weekend starts with a 30 minute free practice session

- A setup bonus is available every race weekend during free practice. The closer you're two drivers times are the better the reward. The top 3 teams get a 30 driver performance bonus and a 5 bhp boost for qualifying and the race whilst places 4th to 6th get 15 driver performance bonus and 3 bhp boost.The performances then return to default ready

B) Qualifying

- Qualifying is run using the current F1 knockout system.

- In Q1 all 22 cars compete with the slowest 6 drivers are elminated from the session.

- In Q2 the remaining 16 cars compete with the slowest 6 drivers dropping out of the session.

- In Q3 the final 10 cars compete for pole position.

C) Race

- Races are run at 100% race distance with points being awarded to the top 8 finishers as below:

1st / 10pts
2nd / 8pts
3rd / 6pts
4th / 5pts
5th / 4pts
6th / 3pts
7th / 2pts
8th / 1pt

- Soft + Hard Compound Tyres

- Prior to a race weekend each manager may choose whether they want to use soft, medium or hard compound tyres which have the following effects.

Soft Compound Tyres: +50 Driver Qualifying Perf, -50 Driver Race Perf
Hard Compound Tyres: -50 Driver Qualifying Perf, +50 Driver Race Perf
Medium Compound Tyres: No Effect

- Should a manager not submit a choice in time, they will automatically be assigned with Medium Compound Tyres.

- Driver Bias/ Number One Drivers

- Prior to a race weekend each team manager can nominate one of their two race drivers to be their 'Number 1 Driver' for that race weekend, by sending a pm to the F1_Manager account stating their preferred driver.

- By selecting to prioritizing one driver managers can reallocate performance points from their second driver and award them to their chosen driver as follows:

For example, a teams perf is as follows:

[Team #XX]
Name=N/A,
Performance=800,800,1000
First Driver=11,Driver A,15000,100,15000,100
Second Driver=12,Driver B,15000,100,15000,100

If the manager of Team XX were to nominate Driver A as his number 1 driver, and boost his perf by 50 points, the perf would look like this:

[Team #XX]
Name=N/A,
Performance=800,800,1000
First Driver=11,Driver A,15050,100,15050,100
Second Driver=12,Driver B,14950,100,14950,100

- For 2007, managers will only be able to reallocate a maximum of 100 perf points in total per event.

2) Performances

A) Team Performances

- Each team performance is calculated based on their position in the previous year's Constructor's Championship, as well as which engine and brake manufacturer they use and their pre-season testing plans.

- Team are awarded the following base BHP values according to their final positions:

1st / 590
2nd / 585
3rd / 585
4th / 580
5th / 580
6th / 580
7th / 575
8th / 575
9th / 575
10th / 570
11th / 570

- Every teams starts the season with a base reliability value of 3000.

Brand/Driver Loyalty:

- Teams who choose to stay with the same engine manufacturer for multiple consecutive seasons receive a 5% BHP boost and a 5% reliability decreases for every season they stay with the same manufacturer.

- Teams who produce their own engines such as Ferrari, Renault, Toyota, Honda and BMW and those who are long time customers in real life aka McLaren, will receive a 2% bonus instead.

- This system is also extended to Brake Manufacturers as well with all teams receiving a 5% bonus here.

B) Driver Performances

- Performance points are awarded to the top 15 finishers in all three sessions during a race weekend.

1st / 15pts
2nd / 14pts
3rd / 13pts
4th / 12pts
5th / 11pts
6th / 10pts
7th / 9pts
8th / 8pts
9th / 7pts
10th / 6pts
11th / 5pts
12th / 4pts
13th / 3pts
14th / 2pts
15th / 1pt

- All performance points earned in qualifying will go into the driver’s qualifying performance

- All performance points earned in the race will go into the driver’s race performance.

- Performance points earned in Free Practice is split with half of the points being added to the driver’s qualifying performance, and the other being added to the driver’s race performance.

- At the end of each season, the amount of performance points each driver has earned during the season is divided by 10 to level the field

- Drivers who continue to take part in Formula One past their IRL retirement date from all forms of professional motorsport will gain performance points at half the rate and loose twice the amount of performance points at the end of each season.

C) Car Upgrades

- Team managers have to opportunity to improve their cars in-between race weekends by purchasing upgrades. The upgrades available are as follows:

+ 1 Race BHP – £1,000,000
+1 Quali BHP – £1,000,000
- 100 COF – £1,000,000

3) Managers and Managing

- Originally all managers were randomly assigned to their teams.

- If space becomes available in the series the space is offered to the first person on the waiting list.

- Anyone current managing in the series may also apply for any vacant seats. In this case the person who is offered the position is chosen at random.

4) Actvity Checks

- Activity checks are carried out on a bi-weekly basis in order to encourage managers to engage with the series.

- All Managers will be required to post at least once during this period in order to avoid picking up activity penalties.

- If a manager fails to post within the activity window, they will incur the following penalties:

1st Warning - 10 Point WCC Deduction
2nd Warning - 15 Points WCC Deduction and £5m fine
3rd Warning - Expulsion from the series

- Warnings can be avoided by informing us beforehand that you are going to be inactive.

- If a manager is removed from the series all penalties applied to their team will be rescinded once a new manager is appointed.

- Any posts which are regarded as spam or clearly have only been posted in order to circumvent the activity penalties will not be counted in the activity check.

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F1 Budgets

Engine/Brake Manufacturers

- Each team must sign an engine and brake supplier each season.

- Ferrari, Renault, Toyota, Honda and BMW all have the option to stick with their traditional engine providers, however all other teams must bid for their desired engine in the same way managers bid for drivers

- Managers bid for engine suppliers in the same way they do for drivers, the only requirement is that they must better the the minimum contract offer.

- At the present time, engine deals may only be signed for a single season.

- There are no limitations to the number of teams each brake manufacturer can supply.

- Each engine and brake type has a reliabilty and a BHP setting which is chosen at random from within a specific range at the start of each season.

Drivers Market

- Each team must have at least three drivers, but can also sign a second test driver if they so wish.

- Drivers will be ready at random times throughout the season for contract negotiations,

- Each team must have at least three drivers (2 race drivers, 1 test/third driver), but can also sign a second test driver if they so wish.

- Once a driver becomes available for contract negotiations send a pm to the F1_Manager account with your offer and for which driver you wish to sign.

- Drivers will begin to accept offers two races after they first become open for contract negotiations. If a driver has no offer by this point they will remain available for contract talks and will accept contracts on a race by race basis.

Terminating Contracts

- Managers are able to terminate any of their drivers contracts at any time.

- There is no fee for terminating drivers on one year deals as their salary has already been paid in full

- If a manager wishes to release the driver after one year they must pay the fee the driver in question would normally receive for a one year contract. For example:

Driver X's contract prices are as follows:

1 year contract: $15.000.000,00
2 year contract: $25.000.000,00
3 year contract: $30.000.000,00

The fee for the driver by a 3 year deal is $10m a season. So after one season he as been paid $10m, thus in order to release him you must pay a total of $15m (1 year contract fee). Therefore the manager must pay £5m to make up the difference.

- If the manager has already paid more than the required fee to terminate the contract, no extra fee must be paid and no refund will be rewarded.

- When terminating contracts, the price the manager must pay is determined by the driver in questions contract prices from the season when he first signed to his team.

WCC Rewards

- Teams will receive the following rewards at the end of the season according to where they finish.

Past Seasons

2003: [www.grandprixgames.org]
2004: [www.grandprixgames.org]
2005: [www.grandprixgames.org]
2006: [www.grandprixgames.org]

Edited 52 time(s). Last edit at 12/16/2015 12:59PM by F1_Manager.