1978 Virtual F1 - Pryce and Arrows champions

[pi314159]

Ground effect upgrades (If you invest more than 300.000 at once in ground effect, I am randomizing the effect of the upgrade in parts).
Arrows:
300.000: success

Ligier:
first 300.000: success
300.001-450.000: success

Kojima:
first 300.000: success
300.001-400.000: fail

Renault:
first 300.000: success
300.001-600.000: fail

others to follow.

Ensign:
first 300k: success
301-600k: success
601-800k: success

Martini:
150k: success

Penske
first 300k: fail
301-600k: success

Fittipaldi:
first 300k: success
301k-600k: fail
601k-700k: success

Boro:
250k: success

Shadow:
first 300k: fail
301-600k: success
601-800k: success

Tyrrell:
first 300k: fail
301-600k: fail

Theodore
first 300k: success
301-350k: fail

March:
first 300k: fail
301-600k: success

ATS:
first 300k: fail
301-500k: success

Williams:
first 300k: success
301-600k: success
601-800k: fail

[SeedStriker]

Hell yeah, Ensign starts with the right foot the pre-season! Now, if the Alfa engine is good, maybe we can be the surprise of the championship.

[pi314159]

I have one question for you all: Shall I make the car stats public or not?

[pi314159]

By the way, here are the grid sizes for the races:

Since no one asked for changes, I'll just go with the original calendar. But there will be an NC round at Suzuka at the end of the season.

Argentine GP - Buenos Aires - 30 starters
Brazilian GP - Jacarepagua - 28 starters
South African GP - Kyalami - 28 starters
US GP West - Long Beach - 28 starters
Monaco GP - Monaco - 24 starters
Belgian GP - Zolder - 28 starters
Spanish GP - Jarama - 26 starters
Swedish GP - Anderstorp - 28 starters
French GP - Paul Ricard - 30 starters
British GP - Brands Hatch - 28 starters
German GP - Hockenheim - 32 starters
Austrian GP - Österreichring - 30 starters
Dutch GP - Zandvoort - 28 starters
Italian GP - Monza - 30 starters
US GP East - Watkins Glen - 28 starters
Canadian GP - Montreal - 28 starters

Japanese GP (NC) - Suzuka - 30 starters

Are you OK with that or would you like any changes?

[Salamander]

I have one question for you all: Shall I make the car stats public or not?

No.

Also McLaren approve of the schedule as proposed.

[pasta_maldonado]

By the way, here are the grid sizes for the races:

Since no one asked for changes, I'll just go with the original calendar. But there will be an NC round at Suzuka at the end of the season.

Argentine GP - Buenos Aires - 30 starters
Brazilian GP - Jacarepagua - 28 starters
South African GP - Kyalami - 28 starters
US GP West - Long Beach - 28 starters
Monaco GP - Monaco - 24 starters
Belgian GP - Zolder - 28 starters
Spanish GP - Jarama - 26 starters
Swedish GP - Anderstorp - 28 starters
French GP - Paul Ricard - 30 starters
British GP - Brands Hatch - 28 starters
German GP - Hockenheim - 32 starters
Austrian GP - Österreichring - 30 starters
Dutch GP - Zandvoort - 28 starters
Italian GP - Monza - 30 starters
US GP East - Watkins Glen - 28 starters
Canadian GP - Montreal - 28 starters

Japanese GP (NC) - Suzuka - 30 starters

Are you OK with that or would you like any changes?

Replace the Swedish GP with a Swiss GP at Dijon and I'd be perfectly happy with that calendar.

[pycku]

Maybe you can make a classifications based on acceleration, on top speed and on reliability, without disclosing any numbers.
As for callendar - i'm just fine with this

[Salamander]

Maybe you can make a classifications based on acceleration, on top speed and on reliability, without disclosing any numbers.

I still don't think that's a good idea; I prefer trying to make the judgement myself on what I should be developing.

[TomWazzleshaw]

Maybe you can make a classifications based on acceleration, on top speed and on reliability, without disclosing any numbers.

I still don't think that's a good idea; I prefer trying to make the judgement myself on what I should be developing.

Or maybe each team owner can be emailed the stats for their car, without revealing anything about other teams.

[pi314159]

Brabham will spend

1.000.000 on Ground effects
250.000 on reliability
650.000 on Handling
500.000 on top speed

We would like to focus on ground effects at the Pre season test, where we will run our two race drivers

Brabham will spend

800.000 on grip
600.000 on top speed
500.000 on reliability

We'd like to attend the test wherever it is, with both of our race drivers. We'll be focusing on top speed at the test, and after the first race, we'd like a 1,500,000 upgrade on reliability please

So, which one is correct now? Although I wouldn't recommend you to spend 1.5 Mio on reliability.

[pasta_maldonado]

Brabham will spend

1.000.000 on Ground effects
250.000 on reliability
650.000 on Handling
500.000 on top speed

We would like to focus on ground effects at the Pre season test, where we will run our two race drivers

Brabham will spend

800.000 on grip
600.000 on top speed
500.000 on reliability

We'd like to attend the test wherever it is, with both of our race drivers. We'll be focusing on top speed at the test, and after the first race, we'd like a 1,500,000 upgrade on reliability please

So, which one is correct now? Although I wouldn't recommend you to spend 1.5 Mio on reliability.

Second one, but where I said 1.5 mil on reliability I meant ground effects

[pi314159]

Everone who hasn't spent the full 2.4 Mio still has time until the first race on Wednesday to buy upgrades (especially Williams springs to my mind).

[RonDenisDeletraz]

Is it ok if I spend:

800,000 on Handling
800,000 on Top speed
600,000 on Ground Effects
And the rest on reliability

[pi314159]

Is it ok if I spend:

800,000 on Handling
800,000 on Top speed
600,000 on Ground Effects
And the rest on reliability

No problem. That's 200,000 on reliability, for your information.

[pi314159]

Pre-season testing in Brands Hatch - Day 1

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1. Carlos Pace (Williams FW06) +0:0.000
2. Emerson Fittipaldi (Arrows A1) +0.096
3. Tom Pryce (McLaren M26B) +0.229
4. Danny Ongais (McLaren M26B) +0.295
5. Carlos Reutemann (Williams FW06) +0.460
6. James Hunt (McLaren M26B) +0.539
7. Chris Amon (Surtees TS20) +0.738
8. Patrick Depailler (Tyrrell 008) +0.760
9. Jacques Laffite (Arrows A1) +0.795
10. Didier Pironi (Shadow DN9) +0.830
11. Ronnie Peterson (Shadow DN9) +0.917
12. Nelson Piquet (Shadow DN9) +1.061

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13. David Purley (Wolf WR5) +1.068
14. Jean-Pierre Jarier (Tyrrell 008) +1.121
15. Patrick Tambay (Penske PC6) +1.217
16. Jacky Ickx (Wolf WR5) +1.301
17. Geoff Brabham (Fittipaldi F5A) +1.404
18. Tom Sneva (Penske PC6) +1.420
19. Jochen Mass (ATS HS1) +1.767
20. Hans Heyer (ATS HS1) +1.997
21. Masahiro Hasemi (Kojima KE009B) +0:2.001
22. Rupert Keegan (Theodore TR01) +2.139
23. Brian Henton (Kojima KE009B) +2.303
24. Brett Lunger (Theodore TR01) +2.464

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25. Kazuyoshi Hoshino (Kojima KE009B) +2.560
26. Geoff Lees (Theodore TR01) +2.958
27. Ricardo Zunino (Boro 002) +3.051

[pi314159]

Paul Ricard Day 1:

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1. Riccardo Patrese (Ferrari 312T3) +0:0.000
2. Alan Jones (March 781) +0.269
3. Niki Lauda (Lotus 79) +0.401
4. Gilles Villeneuve (Ferrari 312T3) +0.432
5. Vittorio Brambilla (Ferrari 312T3) +0.511
6. Keke Rosberg (Brabham BT46) +0.749
7. Bruno Giacomelli (Ensign N177B) +0.779
8. Elio de Angelis (Ligier JS9) +0.779
9. Clay Regazzoni (Ensign N177B) +1.117
10. Jody Scheckter (Brabham BT46) +1.188
11. Jean-Pierre Jabouille (Renault RS01B) +1.200
12. Mario Andretti (March 781) +1.223

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13. Gijs van Lennep (Ligier JS9) +1.242
14. Rick Mears (Lotus 79) +1.328
15. Rene Arnoux (Renault RS01B) +1.387
16. Henri Pescarolo (Martini MK23) +2.917
17. Harald Ertl (Apollon Fly 2) +3.726
18. Arturo Merzario (Merzario A1) +4.599
19. Loris Kessel (Apollon Fly 2) +4.690
20. Patrick Studer (Merzario A1) +5.540

[Salamander]

Not sure if Williams' pace is genuine.... or if they're going on glory runs...

[pycku]

wow, we hope Emerson can show that pace not only in testing. More than happy, Arrows will surely be point pretender from the start of the season.

[takagi_for_the_win]

Oh dear. Not a terribly good start to testing, being beaten by a Surtees. On the bright side, all 3 drivers look very consistant.

[SeedStriker]

Not bad at all. We're on well paired with Brabham in the internal Alfa Romeo struggle and not so far away from the Ferraris. The power is there, and if the ground effects updates work as well as I expect, Ensign will not oly battle for the top 10, but the top 5

[FloProAct]

Well, we're a decent way ahead of the Apollons and Merzarios, so not too bad. Still some way away from the lower midfield though.

[DemocalypseNow]

GV not quite as fast as I had hoped, but still, Patrese looking racy. It will be an interesting year ahead.

[pi314159]

I'd like to run the Argentine GP as soon as possible, so I need the #28 Boro and #41 Theodore drivers for Argentina.

[Samster]

I'd like to run the Argentine GP as soon as possible, so I need the #28 Boro and #41 Theodore drivers for Argentina.

Ricardo Zunino will run both Argentina and Brazil.

[SuperAguri]

Theodore will run Keegan and Lunger for the next 2 GPs.

[HawkAussie]

300K - Top Speed
300K - Handling
300K - ground effects
300K - Reliability

Update for Merzario

[pi314159]

Ricardo Zunino will run both Argentina and Brazil.

Theodore will run Keegan and Lunger for the next 2 GPs.

OK

300K - Top Speed
300K - Handling
300K - ground effects
300K - Reliability

Update for Merzario

Ground Effect update: success

Also, thank you Matt121 for adding the calendar to the wiki.

[pi314159]

With 41 entrants and 30 race starters, only the eleven drivers of the new teams had to go through friday morning's pre-qualifying. The weekend of Rupert Keegan was over after just two laps, when he crashed out. He escaped the accident unhurt, as well as Patrick Studer, who crashed 20 minutes later on his 12th lap. As expected, the Williams and Arrows cars made it into main qualifying without problems. The only interesting battle was between Pescarolo, Heyer and Lunger for 6th.

1. Carlos Pace (Williams FW06) +0:0.000
2. Carlos Reutemann (Williams FW06) +0.069
3. Emerson Fittipaldi (Arrows A1) +0.373
4. Jacques Laffite (Arrows A1) +0.973
5. Jochen Mass (ATS HS1) +1.487
6. Henri Pescarolo (Martini MK23) +2.374
DNPQ:
7. Hans Heyer (ATS HS1) +2.510
8. Brett Lunger (Theodore TR01) +2.999
9. Arturo Merzario (Merzario A1) +3.409
10. Rupert Keegan (Theodore TR01) +6.621
11. Patrick Studer (Merzario A1) +6.678

[pi314159]

1978 Argentine GP - Qualifying:

1. Gilles Villeneuve (Ferrari 312T3) +0:0.000
2. James Hunt (McLaren M26B) +0.088
3. Tom Pryce (McLaren M26B) +0.185
4. Clay Regazzoni (Ensign N177B) +0.505
5. Carlos Reutemann (Williams FW06) +0.551
6. Carlos Pace (Williams FW06) +0.684
7. Riccardo Patrese (Ferrari 312T3) +0.810
8. Rick Mears (Lotus 79) +0.885
9. Keke Rosberg (Brabham BT46) +0.927
10. Jacques Laffite (Arrows A1) +0.960
11. Ronnie Peterson (Shadow DN9) +1.083
12. Mario Andretti (March 781) +1.102
13. Gijs van Lennep (Ligier JS9) +1.135
14. Patrick Tambay (Penske PC6) +1.197
15. Jody Scheckter (Brabham BT46) +1.222
16. Niki Lauda (Lotus 79) +1.254
17. Didier Pironi (Shadow DN9) +1.268
18. Jean-Pierre Jabouille (Renault RS01B) +1.389
19. Rene Arnoux (Renault RS01B) +1.457
20. Bruno Giacomelli (Ensign N177B) +1.468
21. Patrick Depailler (Tyrrell 008) +1.488
22. Alan Jones (March 781) +1.517
23. Elio de Angelis (Ligier JS9) +1.563
24. Jean-Pierre Jarier (Tyrrell 008) +1.580
25. David Purley (Wolf WR5) +1.582
26. Emerson Fittipaldi (Arrows A1) +1.597
27. Jacky Ickx (Wolf WR5) +1.711
28. Chris Amon (Surtees TS20) +1.760
29. Geoff Brabham (Fittipaldi F5A) +2.496
30. Brian Henton (Kojima KE009B) +2.498
DNQ:
31. Jochen Mass (ATS HS1) +2.775
32. Henri Pescarolo (Martini MK23) +3.170
33. Masahiro Hasemi (Kojima KE009B) +3.185
34. Tom Sneva (Penske PC6) +3.741
35. Ricardo Zunino (Boro 002) +3.915
36. Harald Ertl (Apollon Fly 2) +4.282

[FantometteBR]

Get ready to spend, sir...

[SeedStriker]

Great qualify effort from Clay! The man knows his moves. Youngster Giacomelli did well by getting accustomed to the machine.

[Salamander]

Great qualify effort from Clay! The man knows his moves. Youngster Giacomelli did well by getting accustomed to the machine.

Here's some free advice; if you can keep this level of performance up, try and steal Tom Sneva off of Penske for 1979.

Also this looks like it's going to be a very interesting year... especially considering this is Villeneuve's first race in a top machine and he's already got a pole. I'd still bet on Hunt or Pryce taking the title - they've both done it before.

[FloProAct]

An entirely competent start. Shame we couldn't qualify, but we were near enough that I'm optimistic about the season, and it will probably get a lot easier once Williams and Arrows are out of pre-qualifying. Onwards and upwards...

[pasta_maldonado]

Pasta : Driving Brabham into the ground through sheer incompetence since 2013

[Ataxia]

Not the leap forward we wanted/expected to get. We're going to have to be wiser this year with our updates because we've got quite a tight budget...

[SeedStriker]

Great qualify effort from Clay! The man knows his moves. Youngster Giacomelli did well by getting accustomed to the machine.

Here's some free advice; if you can keep this level of performance up, try and steal Tom Sneva off of Penske for 1979.

Also this looks like it's going to be a very interesting year... especially considering this is Villeneuve's first race in a top machine and he's already got a pole. I'd still bet on Hunt or Pryce taking the title - they've both done it before.

I know that Sneva is a competent driver, but since he DNF while Patrick Tambay put the other Penske in 14 on the grid... And while Ensign acquired Parnelli's assets, we're still with a somewhat tight budget. Depending of the results, there can be hope though.
The McLaren duo have done it before, but Gilles unleashed is a force to be reckoned.

[Salamander]

Great qualify effort from Clay! The man knows his moves. Youngster Giacomelli did well by getting accustomed to the machine.

Here's some free advice; if you can keep this level of performance up, try and steal Tom Sneva off of Penske for 1979.

Also this looks like it's going to be a very interesting year... especially considering this is Villeneuve's first race in a top machine and he's already got a pole. I'd still bet on Hunt or Pryce taking the title - they've both done it before.

I know that Sneva is a competent driver, but since he DNF while Patrick Tambay put the other Penske in 14 on the grid... And while Ensign acquired Parnelli's assets, we're still with a somewhat tight budget. Depending of the results, there can be hope though.
The McLaren duo have done it before, but Gilles unleashed is a force to be reckoned.

Sneva won a race last year. And he beat Tom Pryce to do it. If for some unknown reason Hunt or Pryce left, he was the guy I was looking to to replace them. Hell, I might sign him anyway when Hunt retires after 1979.

[Nessafox]

It probably wasn't a good idea to be the only backmarker that actually pays its drivers...
Well, at least the performance is as expected, some races i'll make the cut, some races i won't. Willy Kauhsen promises developments!

[pycku]

Damn Fittipaldi didn't get the best qualification, but at least it is a long race and everything can happen. Pushing for some points, that is what we are doing this race and season...

[pi314159]

First race of the season, and the results are far less predictable than last year:

1. Tom Pryce (McLaren-Cosworth) 52 Laps
2. Clay Regazzoni (Ensign-Alfa Romeo) +4.150
3. Emerson Fittipaldi (Arrows-Cosworth) +6.807
4. James Hunt (McLaren-Cosworth) +10.359
5. Gilles Villeneuve (Ferrari) +21.516
6. Riccardo Patrese (Ferrari) +21.549
7. Carlos Reutemann (Williams-Cosworth) +40.408
8. Jody Scheckter (Brabham-Alfa Romeo) +54.586
9. Rene Arnoux (Renault) +1:01.559
10. Bruno Giacomelli (Ensign-Alfa Romeo) +1:02.588
11. Patrick Tambay (Penske-Cosworth) +1:03.285
12. Niki Lauda (Lotus-Renault) +1:09.494
13. Ronnie Peterson (Shadow-Cosworth) +1:10.590
14. Rick Mears (Lotus-Renault) +1:11:686
15. Chris Amon (Surtees-Cosworth) +1:17.895
16. Jacques Laffite (Arrows-Cosworth) +1:23.307
17. Elio de Angelis (Ligier-Ferrari) +1 Lap
18. Jean Pierre Jarier (Tyrrell-Cosworth) +1 Lap
19. Geoff Brabham (Fittipaldi-Cosworth) +1 Lap
20. Brian Henton (Kojima-BRM) +1 Lap
Retired:
Jean-Pierre Jabouille (Renault) 42 Laps / Engine
David Purley (Wolf-Cosworth) 40 Laps / Engine
Didier Pironi (Shadow-Cosworth) 27 Laps / Accident
Carlos Pace (Williams-Cosworth) 26 Laps / Suspension
Gijs van Lennep (Ligier-Ferrari) 8 Laps / Accident
Mario Andretti (March-Ferrari) 8 Laps / Suspension
Keke Rosberg (Brabham-Alfa Romeo) 6 Laps / Suspension
Jacky Ickx (Wolf-Cosworth) 6 Laps / Clutch
Patrick Depailler (Tyrrell-Cosworth) 4 Laps / Accident
Alan Jones (March-Ferrari) 3 Laps / Gearbox

FL: Emerson Fittipaldi (Arrows-Cosworth) 1:47.298

Positives:
Ensign: The second place of Clay Regazzoni is a great result for a team who failed to score any points in 1977.

Emerson Fittipaldi: He was the fastest car in the field, but had to fight his way to the top after a bad qualifying.

Negatives:
Tyrrell: The new Tyrrell 008 is a complete failure. It will be a hard way back to the top.

Wolf: Slow car, double retirement.