1978 Virtual F1 - Pryce and Arrows champions

pi314159 · Post by **pi314159** » 19 Apr 2013, 21:26

1978 South African GP - Race:
1. Tom Pryce (McLaren-Cosworth) 78 Laps
2. Gilles Villeneuve (Ferrari) +12.272
3. Emerson Fittipaldi (Arrows-Cosworth) +19.879
4. Jacques Laffite (Arrows-Cosworth) +29.989
5. Tom Sneva (Penske-Cosworth) +1 Lap
6. Elio de Angelis (Ligier-Ferrari) + 1 Lap
7. Jean-Pierre Jabouille (Renault) + 1 Lap
8. Rene Arnoux (Renault) + 1 Lap
9. Patrick Depailler (Tyrrell-Cosworth) + 1 Lap
10. David Purley (Wolf-Cosworth) + 1 Lap
11. Jean-Pierre Jarier (Tyrrell-Cosworth) + 1 Lap
12. Ronnie Peterson (Shadow-Cosworth) +2 Laps
13. Geoff Brabham (Fittipaldi-Cosworth) +2 Laps
14. Clay Regazzoni (Ensign-Alfa Romeo) +5 Laps / Gearbox
DNF James Hunt (McLaren-Cosworth) 61 Laps / Accident
DNF Didier Pironi (Shadow-Cosworth) 57 Laps / Accident
DNF Carlos Pace (Williams-Cosworth) 53 Laps / Suspension
DNF Gijs van Lennep (Ligier-Ferrari) 49 Laps / Suspension
DNF Bruno Giacomelli (Ensign-Alfa Romeo) 48 Laps / Transmission
DNF Jacky Ickx (Wolf-Cosworth) 40 Laps / Engine
DNF Patrick Tambay (Penske-Cosworth) 38 Laps / Transmission
DNF Keke Rosberg (Brabham-Alfa Romeo) 12 Laps / Engine
DNF Alan Jones (March-Ferrari) 10 Laps / Engine
DNF Niki Lauda (Lotus-Renault) 9 Laps / Clutch
DNF Riccardo Patrese (Ferrari) 9 Laps / Engine
DNF Rick Mears (Lotus-Renault) 8 Laps / Transmission
DNF Jody Scheckter (Brabham-Alfa Romeo) 7 Laps / Clutch
DNF Chris Amon (Surtees-Cosworth) 5 Laps / Gearbox

Fastest Lap : Tom Pryce (1:14.760)
DOTR: Tom Pryce (pole, win and fastest lap)
ROTR: Lotus reliability (both Lotus cars retired from the lead)

FantometteBR · Post by **FantometteBR** » 19 Apr 2013, 21:31

Tyrrell will spend 200k at handling and 150k at topspeed

pi314159 · Post by **pi314159** » 19 Apr 2013, 21:35

I tried a bit of commentary, you can read it here: http://mibpaste.com/AeTBJq

Salamander · Post by **Salamander** » 19 Apr 2013, 21:54

McLaren will have another test at Brands Hatch, with Pryce, Hunt, and Ongais. We will be testing a 400k ground effect upgrade.

Post by **Londoner** » 19 Apr 2013, 22:18

Oh bugger.

March will spend 400K on ground effects, and 150K on reliability.

SeedStriker · Post by **SeedStriker** » 19 Apr 2013, 22:20

Damn, for what I read in the comments, Clay was running in the points again when the gearbox expired! With Bruno also with transmission problems, a 150K upgrade on reliability is needed. At least the car can fight with the big guns.

BTW, where was Bruno when he retired?

HawkAussie · Post by **HawkAussie** » 19 Apr 2013, 23:03

Patrick Studer will be replace by Bruno Giacomelli after shocking results in the Merzario

TomWazzleshaw · Post by **TomWazzleshaw** » 19 Apr 2013, 23:19

Ligier will have 300k into Reliability, 300k into Ground Effects, 200k into handling and 200k into top speed. This will be our last upgrade package for the first half of the year.

Samster · Post by **Samster** » 19 Apr 2013, 23:32

Boro would like to spend 300k on handling.

SuperAguri · Post by **SuperAguri** » 20 Apr 2013, 05:39

Theodore will spend 300K on Ground Effects

pycku · Post by **pycku** » 20 Apr 2013, 05:51

We will upgrade like that:

300 k on top speed
300 k on acceleration
450 k on ground effect
150 k on reliability

Up to now we seem to have a good and reliable car. Not the best, though, so we have to improve on all 4 areas.

pycku · Post by **pycku** » 20 Apr 2013, 05:53

As for the race - a quiet race for Arrows and we did what was planned - both cars into the points. Well done for Emerson and Jacques! We are more than happy with that result and we hope our form continues!

I believe we have 1 more race and a upgrade limit of 1.2 mln, that is why I'm using it as mentioned above.

PS it gave me an error message so i separated my post in two. Sorry for spamming.

pi314159 · Post by **pi314159** » 20 Apr 2013, 06:39

Matt121 wrote:Patrick Studer will be replace by Bruno Giacomelli after shocking results in the Merzario

Giacomelli has a contract with Ensign. You'll need to look for a different driver.

TomWazzleshaw · Post by **TomWazzleshaw** » 20 Apr 2013, 07:09

pi314159 wrote:
Matt121 wrote:Patrick Studer will be replace by Bruno Giacomelli after shocking results in the Merzario

Giacomelli has a contract with Ensign. You'll need to look for a different driver.

Speaking of contracts, can someone explain to me just what the situation at Boro is? It looks like an absolute mess on the wiki page and I want to clean it up soon.

In other news, if Pryce loses the title from here, it'll be one of the biggest chokes in history :lol:

pi314159 · Post by **pi314159** » 20 Apr 2013, 07:46

Wizzie wrote:
pi314159 wrote:
Matt121 wrote:Patrick Studer will be replace by Bruno Giacomelli after shocking results in the Merzario

Giacomelli has a contract with Ensign. You'll need to look for a different driver.

Speaking of contracts, can someone explain to me just what the situation at Boro is? It looks like an absolute mess on the wiki page and I want to clean it up soon.

In other news, if Pryce loses the title from here, it'll be one of the biggest chokes in history

Boro have sold their cockpit on a race per race basis to a lot of different pay drivers. The 29 Boro hasn't been used yet, the #28 has been driven by Ricardo Zunino for the South American rounds, and by Piercarlo Ghinzani in Kyalami, who will also drive the Boro in Long Beach and Monaco.

TomWazzleshaw · Post by **TomWazzleshaw** » 20 Apr 2013, 07:52

pi314159 wrote:
Wizzie wrote:
pi314159 wrote:Giacomelli has a contract with Ensign. You'll need to look for a different driver.

Speaking of contracts, can someone explain to me just what the situation at Boro is? It looks like an absolute mess on the wiki page and I want to clean it up soon.

In other news, if Pryce loses the title from here, it'll be one of the biggest chokes in history

Boro have sold their cockpit on a race per race basis to a lot of different pay drivers. The 29 Boro hasn't been used yet, the #28 has been driven by Ricardo Zunino for the South American rounds, and by Piercarlo Ghinzani in Kyalami, who will also drive the Boro in Long Beach and Monaco.

Ah, ok. I assume there's a full list of who's driving what car on any given weekend on here, correct?

pi314159 · Post by **pi314159** » 20 Apr 2013, 07:58

Wizzie wrote:
pi314159 wrote:
Wizzie wrote:Speaking of contracts, can someone explain to me just what the situation at Boro is? It looks like an absolute mess on the wiki page and I want to clean it up soon.

In other news, if Pryce loses the title from here, it'll be one of the biggest chokes in history

Boro have sold their cockpit on a race per race basis to a lot of different pay drivers. The 29 Boro hasn't been used yet, the #28 has been driven by Ricardo Zunino for the South American rounds, and by Piercarlo Ghinzani in Kyalami, who will also drive the Boro in Long Beach and Monaco.

Ah, ok. I assume there's a full list of who's driving what car on any given weekend on here, correct?

No, on page 3 (viewtopic.php?f=8&t=5550&start=80#p214892) there's a list of which drivers have come up with the required funding to buy a Boro drive, but Samster has only decided for the first five races who exactly is driving the car.

TomWazzleshaw · Post by **TomWazzleshaw** » 20 Apr 2013, 08:01

pi314159 wrote:
Wizzie wrote:
pi314159 wrote:Boro have sold their cockpit on a race per race basis to a lot of different pay drivers. The 29 Boro hasn't been used yet, the #28 has been driven by Ricardo Zunino for the South American rounds, and by Piercarlo Ghinzani in Kyalami, who will also drive the Boro in Long Beach and Monaco.

Ah, ok. I assume there's a full list of who's driving what car on any given weekend on here, correct?

No, on page 3 (viewtopic.php?f=8&t=5550&start=80#p214892) there's a list of which drivers have come up with the required funding to buy a Boro drive, but Samster has only decided for the first five races who exactly is driving the car.

Fair enough then. I'll just update it as the season goes along then

HawkAussie · Post by **HawkAussie** » 20 Apr 2013, 10:03

After realising the contract, Bernard Darniche has made the move into F1, Crazy I know but it's worth a shot

pi314159 · Post by **pi314159** » 20 Apr 2013, 10:07

Matt121 wrote:After realising the contract, Bernard Darniche has made the move into F1, Crazy I know but it's worth a shot

Considering his Le Mans expierience, he can drive for Merzario.

Salamander · Post by **Salamander** » 20 Apr 2013, 11:49

Wizzie wrote:In other news, if Pryce loses the title from here, it'll be one of the biggest chokes in history

Indeed. I don't think there's ever been a driver in such a dominant position so early in the season, in any series - real or fictional.

takagi_for_the_win · Post by **takagi_for_the_win** » 20 Apr 2013, 12:33

Bugger

How much money do Shadow have? The car needs massive upgrades, but I really don't want to run the team into debt again

pi314159 · Post by **pi314159** » 20 Apr 2013, 12:46

takagi_for_the_win wrote:Bugger

How much money do Shadow have? The car needs massive upgrades, but I really don't want to run the team into debt again

Look at page one. You've got a bit more than 1.5 million.

pasta_maldonado · Post by **pasta_maldonado** » 20 Apr 2013, 12:50

Oosh. Yet more unreliability. Can Brabham spend 800k on reliability and 200k on ground effects please?

pi314159 · Post by **pi314159** » 20 Apr 2013, 12:51

pasta_maldonado wrote:Oosh. Yet more unreliability. Can Brabham spend 800k on reliability and 200k on ground effects please?

No, you've already spent 2.3 million this quarter of the season, so you have to wait until after Long Beach if you want to buy a larger update.

pasta_maldonado · Post by **pasta_maldonado** » 20 Apr 2013, 12:59

pi314159 wrote:
pasta_maldonado wrote:Oosh. Yet more unreliability. Can Brabham spend 800k on reliability and 200k on ground effects please?

No, you've already spent 2.3 million this quarter of the season, so you have to wait until after Long Beach if you want to buy a larger update.

Fair enough, we'll wait.

Post by **DemocalypseNow** » 20 Apr 2013, 13:51

Can Ferrari spend any more money before Long Beach?

Post by **Ataxia** » 20 Apr 2013, 14:20

Due to the fact we are quite hard up financially, and I don't particularly wish to go into debt, Renault would like to ask about the possibility of replacing a driver with someone who brings money for Long Beach.

takagi_for_the_win · Post by **takagi_for_the_win** » 20 Apr 2013, 20:20

Right then, Shadow will spend 300k on reliability and 300k on ground effects, please

Nessafox · Post by **Nessafox** » 20 Apr 2013, 22:15

Kojima is also interested of putting in a few pay-drivers now and then. (rotating with the current drivers, who will still receive their contractually agreed salary, but will do less races) What would Hiroshi Fushida, Masami Kuwashima, Noritake Takahare, Guy Edwards, Teddy Pilette, Patrick Nève, Conny Andersson or Gianfranco Brancatelli be willing to pay for a seat? (all of them have been actual Japanese, Stanley BRM or Kauhsen drivers in real life)

pi314159 · Post by **pi314159** » 20 Apr 2013, 22:25

This wrote:Kojima is also interested of putting in a few pay-drivers now and then. (rotating with the current drivers, who will still receive their contractually agreed salary, but will do less races) What would Hiroshi Fushida, Masami Kuwashima, Noritake Takahare, Guy Edwards, Teddy Pilette, Patrick Nève, Conny Andersson or Gianfranco Brancatelli be willing to pay for a seat? (all of them have been actual Japanese, Stanley BRM or Kauhsen drivers in real life)

So Hasemi will keep his race contract for races without pay drivers?

Brancatelli and Takahashi have already used up their fundings for racing for Boro.

Fushida: Max 50k: 40k
Masami Kuwashima: Max 25k: 15k
Guy Edwards: Max. 50k: 20k
Noritake Takahara: Max 75k: 50k
Teddy Pilette: Max. 50k: 45k
Patrick Neve: Max. 50k: 25k
Conny Anderson: Max. 25k: 5k

It's up to you to decide now how many races they'll get.

Nessafox · Post by **Nessafox** » 20 Apr 2013, 22:38

pi314159 wrote:
This wrote:Kojima is also interested of putting in a few pay-drivers now and then. (rotating with the current drivers, who will still receive their contractually agreed salary, but will do less races) What would Hiroshi Fushida, Masami Kuwashima, Noritake Takahare, Guy Edwards, Teddy Pilette, Patrick Nève, Conny Andersson or Gianfranco Brancatelli be willing to pay for a seat? (all of them have been actual Japanese, Stanley BRM or Kauhsen drivers in real life)

So Hasemi will keep his race contract for races without pay drivers?

Indeed.
Hasemi, Hoshino and Henton will be payed as contractually agreed, but might now and then be replaced by pay-drivers, while still receiving their salary. It is most likely that i's going to be Hasemi that has to make place for the pay-drivers, but he will not be sacked. Kojima is not a team that treats its drivers like garbage. It all will depend on how much races i can get from mentioned pay-drivers. I hope this doesnt sound too complicated.

Result is that these the 3H's are available for other teams to drive for free at races where they get replaced, as their salary is already paid. (but why would for example Renault go for Hasemi if they could have Ongais? Well, you never know)

pi314159 · Post by **pi314159** » 21 Apr 2013, 17:39

McLaren test at Brands Hatch:

Ground Effect upgrade: 1-17 fail, 18-100 success
0-300k: 13, fail
300k-400k: 76, success

1. Tom Pryce (McLaren M26B) 1:18.944
2. Danny Ongais (McLaren M26B) +0.086
3. James Hunt (McLaren M26B) +0.719

pi314159 · Post by **pi314159** » 21 Apr 2013, 17:56

The other ground effect upgrades: (1-33 failure, 34-100 success)
March:
0-300k: 91, success
300k-400k 87, success

Ligier:
300k: 55, success

Theodore:
300k: 49, success

Arrows:
0-300k: 98, success
300k-450k: 43, success

Shadow:
300k: 88, success

the probability for 7 consecutive updates to be successful is 6%, by the way.

Post by **Ataxia** » 21 Apr 2013, 19:07

So at Renault, we'd like to see if Lamberto Leoni will join us for the next two races. We'd like to see if he can come up with £25,000 per race.

He would replace Jabouille in the next race, and Arnoux in the race after.

pi314159 · Post by **pi314159** » 21 Apr 2013, 19:26

1978 United States West GP - pre-qualifying:
1. Jacques Laffite (Arrows A1) 1:20.289
2. Emerson Fittipaldi (Arrows A1) +0.434
3. Carlos Pace (Williams FW06) +1.604
4. Jochen Mass (ATS HS1) +2.185
5. Carlos Reutemann (Williams FW06) +2.234
6. Hans Heyer (ATS HS1) +2.868
____________________________________
7. Henri Pescarolo (Martini MK23) +3.049
8. Piercarlo Ghinzani (Boro 002) +3.135
9. Derek Daly (Theodore TR01) +3.204
10. Arturo Merzario (Merzario A1) +3.513
11. Bernard Darniche (Merzario A1) +3.654
12. Geoff Lees (Theodore TR01) +4.613
13. Harald Ertl (Apollon Fly 2) +4.938

pi314159 · Post by **pi314159** » 21 Apr 2013, 19:42

Ataxia wrote:So at Renault, we'd like to see if Lamberto Leoni will join us for the next two races. We'd like to see if he can come up with £25,000 per race.

He would replace Jabouille in the next race, and Arnoux in the race after.

0-25: no money
26-50: 25.000
51-100: 50.000

74, Leoni comes up with 50.000 to do two races for Renault.

pi314159 · Post by **pi314159** » 21 Apr 2013, 20:12

1. Elio de Angelis (Ligier JS9) 1:19.926
2. James Hunt (McLaren M26B) +0.401
3. Emerson Fittipaldi (Arrows A1) +0.417
4. Niki Lauda (Lotus 79) +0.695
5. Keke Rosberg (Brabham BT46) +0.901
6. Gilles Villeneuve (Ferrari 312T3) +0.978
7. Tom Pryce (McLaren M26B) +1.136
8. Jacques Laffite (Arrows A1) +1.164
9. Clay Regazzoni (Ensign N177B) +1.165
10. Rick Mears (Lotus 79) +1.223
11. Riccardo Patrese (Ferrari 312T3) +1.306
12. Bruno Giacomelli (Ensign N177B) +1.348
13. Patrick Tambay (Penske PC6) +1.552
14. Jody Scheckter (Brabham BT46) +1.719
15. Mario Andretti (March 781) +1.769
16. Tom Sneva (Penske PC6) +1.828
17. Patrick Depailler (Tyrrell 008) +1.902
18. Carlos Reutemann (Williams FW06) +1.938
19. Carlos Pace (Williams FW06) +2.072
20. Gijs van Lennep (Ligier JS9) +2.095
21. Jean-Pierre Jarier (Tyrrell 008) +2.390
22. Chris Amon (Surtees TS20) +2.452
23. Ronnie Peterson (Shadow DN9) +2.572
24. Lamberto Leoni (Renault RS01B) +2.617
25. Rene Arnoux (Renault RS01B) +2.871
26. Jacky Ickx (Wolf WR5) +2.896
27. Didier Pironi (Shadow DN9) +2.915
28. Jochen Mass (ATS HS1) +3.059
DNQ:
29. David Purley (Wolf WR5) +3.105
30. Alan Jones (March 781) +3.435
31. Geoff Brabham (Fittipaldi F5A) +3.455
32. Hans Heyer (ATS HS1) +3.869
33. Masahiro Hasemi (Kojima KE009B) +4.431
34. Brian Henton (Kojima KE009B) +4.850

Post by **DemocalypseNow** » 21 Apr 2013, 20:19

pi314159 wrote:1. Elio de Angelis (Ligier JS9) 1:19.926

Elio, you have Ferrari's attention.

pycku · Post by **pycku** » 21 Apr 2013, 20:25

Once again a good qualification by both Arrows drivers. We hope for a good race with no reliability issues and who knows - maybe we would be able to battle for the victory!

PS Will there be live chat channel for the race (and when it will be held)?