pycku wrote:Does that mean that I have to pay 4.5 mln every time to test it or just 500 k ?
You have to pay the 4.5m just once! After you payed and testet it for the first time you only have to pay 500k!
Thanks for explanation, just one more question - obviously by testing with 3 cars there isn't 70% chance of active suspension working (it is lower). What is the chance of successful testing active suspension with tests and does it grow with every next test?
Do these high techincal upgrades have a better chance of being successfull quicker with some of the bigger teams then the smaller teams. as teams likes Mclaren and Ferrari surely have better resources then teams like Onyx and Minardi
pycku wrote:Does that mean that I have to pay 4.5 mln every time to test it or just 500 k ?
You have to pay the 4.5m just once! After you payed and testet it for the first time you only have to pay 500k!
Thanks for explanation, just one more question - obviously by testing with 3 cars there isn't 70% chance of active suspension working (it is lower). What is the chance of successful testing active suspension with tests and does it grow with every next test?
During the development stage you earn delevopment progress(calculatet in %). This depends on amount of cars testing, team status and luck! Once you've reached 100% it will say: Systems worked! from than you can use this things an delevop them like standart parts!
Last! My total and utter inexperience at these things has sealed my team ROTY already!
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Allard Kalff in 1994 wrote:OH!! Schumacher in the wall! Right in front of us, Michael Schumacher is in the wall! He's hit the pitwall, he c... Ah, it's Jos Verstappen.
The car needs a lot more work if we're going to be regular fixtures out of pre-qualifying. Luckily, we have a healthy budget to fall back on so we can develop over the year.
Caffi's proving to be quite the acquisition too.
Mitch Hedberg wrote:I want to be a race car passenger: just a guy who bugs the driver. Say man, can I turn on the radio? You should slow down. Why do we gotta keep going in circles? Man, you really like Tide...
Freeze-O-Kimi wrote:Larrouse AGS and Eurobrun in terms of 2 car teams and Osella Coloni and Life in terms of 1 car teams
Oh goody, 32 DNPQ's coming up.
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Allard Kalff in 1994 wrote:OH!! Schumacher in the wall! Right in front of us, Michael Schumacher is in the wall! He's hit the pitwall, he c... Ah, it's Jos Verstappen.
Is there a chance AGS can make an investment in a test before the season opens?
Mitch Hedberg wrote:I want to be a race car passenger: just a guy who bugs the driver. Say man, can I turn on the radio? You should slow down. Why do we gotta keep going in circles? Man, you really like Tide...
Autosport wrote:F1 Alternative 1990 season preview After pre season testings are over we can give a quike look on team performances and expectations for the 1990 season. After analysing the pre season testing time tables we can say the following:
Mclaren Alain Prost the defending world champion is still driving for the team. They look very competative and set the fastest times at Jerez and Hockenheim. Prost's teammate will be the young frenchman Jean Alesi. He surprised everyone with setting the fastest time at Hockenheim!
Ferrari Ferrari managed to set the fastest time at Imola and the second fastest at Hockenheim. t looks like they are very close to Mclaren and most experts think that it will be a fight for the Championship between this two teams. 3 times world Champion Nelson Piquet will be their greatest weapon.
Benneton 1988 champion Ayrton Senna is the new star at Benneton. He sayed that the car handles well but they also have a big problem: The engine! Benneton didn't managed to get a new engine for this season resulting in driving with the old Cosworth 89' spec engines. There is a massive lack of power in the Benneton car but they can hope to get some decent results especially at tracks like monaco.
Williams Williams made some good pre season testings. Thierry Boutson was fastest at Silverstone. They look very close to the Benneton's fighting for the 3rd place in the constructors chamionship but they have a much stronger engine which will give big advantages on fast tracks.
Tyrell Tyrell is able to fight for points in nearly every race. Powerd with strong Renault engines they look compatative everywhere. Mark Blundell set the fastest time at Le Castellet which proofed the good performance they have.
Larrouse They have to compete in pre-qualifying. Despite that they lokked very competative and are supposed to score points during the season.
Leyton House Experts say that Leyton House could be a surprise this season. They had a pretty good test at imola which proofed that they are close to Lotus and Larrouse.
Lotus With their new star Gerhard Berger they lokk very competative to score points and maybe even podiums this season. If they make some progress during the season they could even fight the Tyrell's.
Footwork Arrows Arrow's surprisingly showed an active suspension construction during pre season testing. If they get theyr things together and success in developing this ambitious thing they may even fight for podiums. Otherwise they will fight with Leyton House and Larrouse.
Brabham Nigel Mansell surprisingly signed with Brabham. He proofed that the Brabham BT59 isn't a bad car and that the team will be able to score points.
Ligier The French team was abit slower than minardi during pre season testing. The chance of scorung points isn't really high.
Minardi Minardi could be able to score some points, but only if the top and top-midfielder teams strugle.
Onyx They where a bit slower than Minardi and will compete against them and Ligier in the Lower-Midfield.
AGS They have to compete in pre-qualifying. We think they will make it the most time but they could have some troubles to qualify for the race.
Dallara They made some good progress during pre season but don't look competative eneough for points. Maybe they could surprise with some top10 results.
Osella They will compete during pre qualifying but experts say that they will have some serious problems to make it!
Eurobrun Looks the same as for Osella but they are a bit faster. However, they tried a new power steering system and a sequential gearbox. If they can run those things they won't have troubles to participate in races we think but some say that Eurobrun have very big financial problems.
Coloni They where as slow as expectet. It is still posibble that they run only one car during the season whichwill very likely not make it trough pre-qualifying.
We are very excited about the season start. Hopefully it will be a very exciting and gripping season.
Speaking of preq, will you shuffle the participants mid-season? I do believe it's fair, if for example Larrousse goes 1-2 in the first half, while smaller teams have less chance because of this.
Shizuka wrote:Speaking of preq, will you shuffle the participants mid-season? I do believe it's fair, if for example Larrousse goes 1-2 in the first half, while smaller teams have less chance because of this.
Yeah, after the 8th race they will be changed. Top 13 teams in the constructors championship don't have to prequalify. The rest will have to.
pycku wrote:I predict very poor season for Arrows, if Ford '90 doesn't prove to be a wonderful engine...
As said in the text. If you can develop the active suspension it could be good. Otherwise....
Shizuka wrote:Speaking of preq, will you shuffle the participants mid-season? I do believe it's fair, if for example Larrousse goes 1-2 in the first half, while smaller teams have less chance because of this.
Yeah, after the 8th race they will be changed. Top 13 teams in the constructors championship don't have to prequalify. The rest will have to.
pycku wrote:I predict very poor season for Arrows, if Ford '90 doesn't prove to be a wonderful engine...
As said in the text. If you can develop the active suspension it could be good. Otherwise....
Looking how it was in real-life, I believe it was last 8 races of 1989+first 8 races of 1990.
In 1990 first half, 10 teams had scored. Additionally Monteverdi and Minardi who had 7th place were in (both had points from the latter half 1989). Dallara had the advantage over Ligier although they had 11th and Ligier 9th as the best result of 1990. Dallara had three 7ths in 1989 latter half. Ligier stayed in the pre-qualifying for two races until Monteverdi pulled out of F1.
Shizuka wrote:Speaking of preq, will you shuffle the participants mid-season? I do believe it's fair, if for example Larrousse goes 1-2 in the first half, while smaller teams have less chance because of this.
Yeah, after the 8th race they will be changed. Top 13 teams in the constructors championship don't have to prequalify. The rest will have to.
pycku wrote:I predict very poor season for Arrows, if Ford '90 doesn't prove to be a wonderful engine...
As said in the text. If you can develop the active suspension it could be good. Otherwise....
Looking how it was in real-life, I believe it was last 8 races of 1989+first 8 races of 1990.
In 1990 first half, 10 teams had scored. Additionally Monteverdi and Minardi who had 7th place were in (both had points from the latter half 1989). Dallara had the advantage over Ligier although they had 11th and Ligier 9th as the best result of 1990. Dallara had three 7ths in 1989 latter half. Ligier stayed in the pre-qualifying for two races until Monteverdi pulled out of F1.
Yeah, so McLaren, Williams, Ferrari and Benetton will be safe no matter what as they all managed wins in the second half of 1989. So should Tyrrell, Arrows and Lotus as they got decent points. Onyx got a podium so they should be safe.
I changed some numbers in the entry list. Since Osella is with two cars (one in real-life), I moved them to 17/18, the place they held in 1989. AGS took 31/32 (Coloni's 1989 numbers) and Coloni, having single car is number 14. Just so that each team has successive numbers and not like Osella was, listed with 14&37.
Bleu wrote:I changed some numbers in the entry list. Since Osella is with two cars (one in real-life), I moved them to 17/18, the place they held in 1989. AGS took 31/32 (Coloni's 1989 numbers) and Coloni, having single car is number 14. Just so that each team has successive numbers and not like Osella was, listed with 14&37.
Thank's for this. I consider to move to the newer number system(the 1995 one) next season. Bt this is also up to all competitors if they want it.
It was a very exciting race here at Phoenix. From the start Alain Prost took the lead. 2nd Piquet and 3rd Alesi. Senna came 4th and Nakajima 5th. Nannini had a bad start putting him back in 13th position. In lap 19 de Cesaris tryed to overtake Nannini but failed. Both cars had to ritire. Prost had a very comfortable lead as he came in to take some fresh rubber. All top drivers did the same, except Senna. He stayed out and took the lead. Prost was much faster than Senna and chased him a few rounds. Than he made a mistake. In lap 48 he didn't saw the very slow Onyx from Stefan Johannson(who had a gearbox failure). He damaged his front wing and a flat left front tyre. He had to pit again. Ayrton Senna now had a compfortable lead. New 2nd was pole-sitter Nelson Piquet. He had some trubble to hold the young frenchman Jean Alesi behind him. It was an epic battle and Piquet won it. In lap 65(of72) Ivan Capelli and mark Blundell ended up their hard fight for the 6th place by colliding and smashing into the barriers. Lukily no one was injured. This caused that Michele Alboreto, who didn't made a pit stop, was new 6th. He managed to bring the car home and scored 1 piont for Minardi. Ricardo Patrese had some seriuos problams to hold the pace of the other cars around him, causing him to only finish 17th. Same for Arnoux who finished 20th. He was outperformed by his teammate Mika Häkkinen who finished 11.
1 Ayrton Senna (Benneton-Ford) 2:00:25.254 2 Nelson Piquet (Ferrari) 2:00:52.381 3 Jean Alesi (Meclaren-Honda) 2:00:53.536 4 Satoru Nakajima (Ferrari) 2:01:42.602 5 Thierry Boutsen (Williams-Renault) -1 lap 6 Michele Alboreto (Minardi-Judd) -1 lap 7 Gerhard Berger (Lotus-Judd) -1 lap 8 Eric van der Poele (Lotus-Judd) -1 lap 9 Alain Prost (Meclaren-Honda) -1 lap 10 Martin Brundle (Tyrell-Renault) -1 lap 11 Mika Häkkinen (Footwork Arrows-Ford) -1 lap 12 Nigel Mansell (Brabham-Ford) -1 lap 13 Stefano Modena (Williams-Renault) -1 lap 14 Roberto Moreno (Ligier-Ford) -1 lap 15 Alessandro Zanardi (Larrouse-Ford) -1 lap 16 Nicola Larini (Dallara-Lamborghini) -2 laps 17 Ricardo Patrese (Leyton House-Ford) -2 laps 18 Pierluigi Martini (Larrousse-Ford) -2 laps 19 Fabricio Giovanardi (Minardi-Judd) -2 laps 20 Rene Arnoux (Footwork Arrows-Ford) -2 laps 21 Derek Warwick (Ligier-Ford) -2 laps — Mark Blundell (Tyrell-Renault) DNF lap 65/Collision Ivan Capelli (Leyton House-Ford) DNF lap 65/Collision Stefan Johansson (Onyx-Ford) DNF lap 48/Gearbox Alessandro Nannini (Benneton-Ford) DNF lap 19/Collision Andrea de Cesaris (Brabham-Ford) DNF lap 19/Collision EDIT: Fastest Lap: Alain Prost 1:32:216
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Getting out of prequalifying was good, but we aim to be a regular fixture on the grid and not DNQ-fodder. Some investments have to be made...
Mitch Hedberg wrote:I want to be a race car passenger: just a guy who bugs the driver. Say man, can I turn on the radio? You should slow down. Why do we gotta keep going in circles? Man, you really like Tide...