Signing after the next race Available drivers (name, salary, age) Michael Schumacher 18M 36 Giancarlo Fisichella 11.5M 32 Felipe Massa 11M 24 Dario Franchitti 4.75M 32 Helio Castro-Neves 4M 30 Timo Glock 3.25M 23 Ricardo Zonta 2.75M 29 Anthony Davidson 2M 26 Luca Badoer 1.25M 34 Heikki Kovalainen 1M 24 Tomas Enge 1M 29 Jose Maria Lopez 0.75M 22 Franck Montagny 0.75M 27 Neel Jani 0.by Syvis - Grand Prix 4
Jarno Trulli replaces Giancarlo Fisichella at McLaren McLaren has made a decision to replace Giancarlo Fisichella with another Italian, Jarno Trulli, for the rest of the 2004 season. Fisichella hasn't been able to hang with the teams another driver, Fernando Alonso, this season and with the battle tightening for the third position, they want to try something different. Jarno Trulli will mby Syvis - Grand Prix 4
2004 British Grand Prix Welcome to recap of the 2004 British Grand Prix raced on the Silverstone Circuit. It’s the eleventh round of the 2004 season. Lap #1 Fernando Alonso gets away well at the start and takes the lead. Juan-Pablo Montoya also overtakes Takuma Sato for the second place. Lap #2 Felipe Massa and Giancarlo Fisichella both overtake Rubens Barrichello. Lap #3 Takuma Saby Syvis - Grand Prix 4
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Lucasinio is the new manager of McLaren. Welcome aboard!by Syvis - Grand Prix 4
Signing after the next race Available drivers (name, salary, age) Michael Schumacher 18M 36 Dan Wheldon 4.75M 27 Dario Franchitti 4.75M 32 Helio Castro-Neves 4M 30 Anthony Davidson 2M 26 Heikki Kovalainen 1M 24 Jose Maria Lopez 0.75M 22 Franck Montagny 0.75M 27 Neel Jani 0.75M 22 Enrico Toccacelo 0.5M 27 Sam Hornish 0.5M 26 Jerome d'Ambrosio 0.5M 20 Giedo van der Garde 0.5M 20by Syvis - Grand Prix 4
Sauber extends Klien, Hamilton stays with Toyota The first driver dominoes for the 2005 season fell as Sauber announced they have re-signed Christian Klien for the upcoming season. Sauber has reportedly been content with Klien's performances this season and the amount of money he brings to the team probably brought his value for the team up. Toyota team also announced they have extendeby Syvis - Grand Prix 4
2004 French Grand Prix Welcome to recap of the 2004 French Grand Prix raced on the Magny-Cours circuit. It’s the tenth round of the 2004 season. Lap #1 There are no changes in the lead during the start or the first lap. Lap #2 Juan-Pablo Montoya goes wide and drops down to 5th place. Lap #4 Heikki Kovalainen slips wide and he drops down to 19th place. Lap #5 Takuma Sato isby Syvis - Grand Prix 4
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Happy new year everyone! Can't be worse than 2020, at least I hope soby Syvis - Grand Prix 4
Parachki Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > BTW how is Renault ahead of Jaguar with 31 points, > while Jaguar has 32 I probably forgot to sort the table.by Syvis - Grand Prix 4
JohnWarrington Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The reliability settings in this series are beyond > a joke. Can't wait to be rid of the Toyota > engine. > > In other news, Lewis Hamilton will be replacing > Mark Webber for the British Grand Prix (Only) Yeah, I realize they're high. It brings some nice drama to the races butby Syvis - Grand Prix 4
Signing after the next race Available drivers (name, salary, age) Michael Schumacher 18M 36 Anthony Davidson 2M 26 Heikki Kovalainen 1M 24 Jose Maria Lopez 0.75M 22 Lewis Hamilton 0.75M 20 Franck Montagny 0.75M 27 Scott Speed 0.5M 22 Michael Ammermuller 0.5M 19 Nico Hulkenberg 0.5M 18 Sakon Yamamoto -3M 23 Ralph Firman -3M 30 Christian Klien -8.25M 22 Signing after two races Avaiby Syvis - Grand Prix 4
2004 United States Grand Prix Welcome to recap of the 2004 United States Grand Prix raced on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. It’s the seventh round of the 2004 season. Lap #1 Felipe Massa has the lead going into the first turn. He keeps his lead too for the whole lap. Lap #2 Juan-Pablo Montoya overtakes Dan Wheldon for the 3rd place. Ralf Schumacher tries to make a move on Wheldonby Syvis - Grand Prix 4
Some rather interesting results from the qualifying were because of rainy session.by Syvis - Grand Prix 4
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JohnWarrington Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Is there any way of knowing how much our teams > will have to spend on our budget? That massively > affects driver choices. Well, you can make a pretty good estimate based on your team's current placement in the standings. For example Toyota is third in the championship and you currently have 12.7by Syvis - Grand Prix 4
The first batch of drivers is now available for bidding. Every batch will have a initial negotiation period of two races so these drivers will sign contracts after the French GP, the second batch after British GP etc. After the initial two week period the drivers will sign on weekly basis. Available drivers (name, salary, age) Michael Schumacher 18M 36 Anthony Davidson 2M 26 Heikki Kovalainby Syvis - Grand Prix 4
I've meant to respond to this so here goes. Calligaris Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------ > I agree about bidding for the drivers, maybe I'd > say designer too, basically bid for personnel > during season, and for tech and parts between > season. That's a good idea. I'll have the technical directors available for bids later inby Syvis - Grand Prix 4
You can now PM me if you want to participate in the test session. Every team except Minardi and Arrows have the money to do so. It's the usual drill: just let me know which two drivers will take part and if you test for power or reliability. The first batch of drivers that you can bid for next season will become available sometime tomorrow. I'll probably make technical directors avaby Syvis - Grand Prix 4
2004 Canadian Grand Prix Welcome to recap of the 2004 Canadian Grand Prix raced on the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve. It’s the eight round of the 2004 season. Lap #1 Fernando Alonso gets going better than Kimi Räikkönen and he jumps to the third position. He tries to overtake Juan-Pablo Montoya too in the last turn of the track but he hits Montoya’s Ferari and Alonso spins dropping bacby Syvis - Grand Prix 4
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Hmm. They aren't even close to that high but it still happened. I guess I'll just have to test it before the race to make sure.by Syvis - Grand Prix 4
2004 European Grand Prix Welcome to recap of the 2004 European Grand Prix raced on the Nurburgring Circuit. It’s the seventh round of the 2004 season. Lap #1 Takuma Sato takes the lead after the first corner. Kimi Räikkönen also gets a good start and he is 3rd after the start. Lap #2 Juan-Pablo Montoya overtakes Kimi Räikkönen and is now back in 3rd in his first race of the season. Nicby Syvis - Grand Prix 4
I'll put out a new list with current prices when the bidding starts.by Syvis - Grand Prix 4
Exactly. Since there's 76% of the season to go after Monaco Montoya will cost 12.5 million for Ferrari. Just to make it clear, you don't get anything back from the driver you fire.by Syvis - Grand Prix 4
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I've decided to make McLaren available as I haven't heard from KimiHeikki since his first bids and it would be a shame to have a big team without an active manager. I've also though about starting bidding for next years contracts after the Canadian GP. The system I was thinking about would be that a batch of drivers would become available to bid for after every race. One batchby Syvis - Grand Prix 4
2004 Monaco Grand Prix Welcome to recap of the 2004 Monaco Grand Prix raced on the streets of Monaco. It’s the sixth round of the 2004 season. Lap #1 Kimi Räikkönen gets a good start and keeps his first place. His team mate Rubens Barrichello passes Takuma Sato in the start so it’s a great start to the race for the Williams team. Felipe Massa is also able to get past Michael Schumacher durby Syvis - Grand Prix 4
Kimi Räikkönen took his first pole position of the year beating Ralf Schumacher by 0.007 seconds. The margins were small all around as the top 16 all finished inside one second. So, the plan is to have the race up tomorrow, then post the Canadian GP qualifying results on Thursday and the race on Friday. Next week we'll have the "race weekend" on Monday and Tuesday sby Syvis - Grand Prix 4