2020 Airbnb IndyCar Series - THE RETURN

Post by **Ataxia** » 05 Dec 2017, 10:32

After two years away, IndyCar made a much-welcomed (I think) return to lead American open-wheel racing in 2019. Now, the saga continues.

Last year, a three-way battle for the championship between Will Power, Simon Pagenaud and Graham Rahal was won by Ryan Hunter-Reay, who came out of nowhere to win the final two races and the championship. Chip Ganassi Racing continued to sweep the awards ceremony, as Canada's Lance Stroll took Rookie of the Year ahead of European open-wheel veterans Thomas De Bock and Felipe Massa.

2019 thread
2019 wiki
2020 wiki

Teams & Drivers

A. J. Foyt Enterprises (TheFlyingCaterham) - Money: $4,139,000
#4 // Matheus Leist // ABC Supply Co.
#14 // Collin Pratchett // ABC Supply Co.
Engine: Mazda (Level 2) / Mechanics: Level 0 / Marketing: Level 0

Andretti Autosport (Pinkd56 & GertrandBachot) - Money: $8,262,000
#26 // Felipe Massa // HP Enterprise
#27 // Marco Andretti // Mazda
#28 // Scott Dixon // Coca-Cola
#98 // Alexander Rossi // Best Buy
Engine: Mazda (Level 3) / Mechanics: Level 3 / Marketing: Level 0

Cassidy Racing (Normal32) - Money: $6,742,000
#64 // Ashley Cassidy // Exide
#65 // Nicholas Latifi // pay-driver
Engine: Chevrolet (Level 2) / Mechanics: Level 1 / Marketing: Level 0

Chip Ganassi Racing (pi314159) - Money: $4,162,000
#8 // Ryan Hunter-Reay // DHL
#9 // Josef Newgarden // Keurig
#10 // Patricio O'Ward // Tecate
#83 // Carlos Munoz // Compuware
Engine: Chevrolet (Level 3) / Mechanics: Level 5 / Marketing: Level 0

Dale Coyne Racing (Wizzie) - Money: $1,446,000
#18 // Jack Harvey // Nationwide
#19 // Ryan Tveter / Sage Karam // Smithfield
Engine: Honda (Level 3) / Mechanics: Level 1 / Marketing: Level 0

Ed Carpenter Racing (Reject_Dom) - Money: $1,242,000
#20 // Robert Wickens / Ed Carpenter // Patron
#21 // Sergio Sette Camara // pay-driver
Engine: Honda (Level 3) / Mechanics: Level 3 / Marketing: Level 0

Carlin (Miguel98) - Money: $3,842,000
#11 // Ed Jones // United Rivers
#13 // Antonio Felix da Costa // GSK
Engine: Honda (Level 0) / Mechanics: Level 1 / Marketing: Level 0

Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing (SeedStriker) - Money: $4,542,000
#15 // Graham Rahal // GE
#16 // Esteban Guerrieri // YPF
Engine: Chevrolet (Level 3) / Mechanics: Level 3 / Marketing: Level 2

Schmidt Peterson Motorsport (pasta_maldonado) - Money: $3,352,000
#5 // Ryan McReynolds // MasterCard
#7 // Jack Christopherson Jr. // pay-driver
Engine: Chevrolet (Level 2) / Mechanics: Level 0 / Marketing: Level 1

Team Penske (kevinbotz) - Money: $5,752,000
#2 // Simon Pagenaud // Verizon
#3 // Will Power // Verizon
#12 // James Hinchcliffe // Arrow Electronics
#22 // Thomas De Bock // Hydroxycut
Engine: Honda (Level 3) / Mechanics: Level 8 / Marketing: Level 8

Pinkd56 · Post by **Pinkd56** » 05 Dec 2017, 11:19

If there's any new teams available I'd like to take one of those

If not, I'll keep the Herta car (if Klon is cool with that)

pasta_maldonado · Post by **pasta_maldonado** » 05 Dec 2017, 12:35

SPM will return, and hopefully improve, in 2020.

Post by **kevinbotz** » 05 Dec 2017, 14:09

Penske will proceed to continue into 2020.

SeedStriker · Post by **SeedStriker** » 05 Dec 2017, 14:21

Rahal Lannigan also confirms it's presence

Normal32 · Post by **Normal32** » 05 Dec 2017, 16:24

Yo, Cassidy in.

TomWazzleshaw · Post by **TomWazzleshaw** » 05 Dec 2017, 19:20

Dale Coyne will return for another year

pi314159 · Post by **pi314159** » 05 Dec 2017, 21:49

Ganassi will continue with four cars.

TheFlyingCaterham · Post by **TheFlyingCaterham** » 05 Dec 2017, 22:14

A.J. Foyt will continue into 2020.

Klon · Post by **Klon** » 06 Dec 2017, 17:31

Andretti is around and the arrangement with Herta Autosport will be continued for a final year in 2020.

Post by **Ataxia** » 17 Dec 2017, 18:36

Reject_Dom will replace RonDenisDeletraz in charge of Ed Carpenter Racing.

Post by **Miguel98** » 18 Dec 2017, 17:22

Carlin present itself in service

Post by **Ataxia** » 19 Dec 2017, 16:27

Excellent, we're all good to move on with the next part.

First, Carlin needs to select either Mazda or Honda engines. Here's the info you'll need, Miguel.

Secondly, it's time to open up the sponsor signing process! It works in much the same way as last season, except there's a few differences...

1) There's more performance dependent criteria offering pay-outs, meaning you'll have to take some thought into which direction you'd like to go with your sponsor choices.
2) Pay-drivers now offer more cash, providing you with an option of skipping the sponsor signing phase and going for a guaranteed revenue stream.
3) Keep "promoted drivers" in mind. These drivers offer extra cash, which can be stacked on top of a sponsor's pay-out if they meet the criteria.
4) Some teams offer budget towards a third-car Indy 500 entry. Applying for Indy 500 entries will be similar to last season but, instead of me picking them, you have to fulfil 100% of the total budget from the Indy 500 sponsors sheet. This will come at a later time.

Here's what to do now.

- Pick three sponsors per car, using the following form:

Code: Select all

Team:
Car #:
Sponsor choice 1:
Sponsor choice 2:
Sponsor choice 3:

(repeat for as many cars as you have)

- Teams must sign sponsors belonging to different industries, for example, it is not possible to have two "Retail" sponsors in a team.

- Make sure to note the pay-out criteria, because this will shape your driver selections down the line.

- If you would prefer to sign a pay-driver to a car, simply state "PAY-DRIVER" in the sponsor choice bit. Pay-drivers are signed IN LIEU OF sponsorship, and cannot stack unlike the promoted drivers.

>>Here is the spreadsheet with everything you need. <<

And these are the US sponsor regions.

Any questions, please ask.

Post by **Miguel98** » 19 Dec 2017, 16:39

Carlin will go for Honda engines. We'll post our stuff later.

Dom_Wings · Post by **Dom_Wings** » 19 Dec 2017, 17:23

Team: Ed Carpenter Racing
Car #: 20
Sponsor choice 1: Patrón
Sponsor choice 2: Duramax
Sponsor choice 3: Novo Nordisk

Car #: 21
gib shit-ass PD pls

SeedStriker · Post by **SeedStriker** » 19 Dec 2017, 17:26

Team: Rahal Letterman Lannigan
Car #: 15
Sponsor choice 1: GE
Sponsor choice 2: FedEx
Sponsor choice 3: Steak & Shake

Car #: 16
Sponsor choice 1: YPF
Sponsor choice 2: Compuware
Sponsor choice 3: NAPA

Post by **Miguel98** » 19 Dec 2017, 17:29

Team: Carlin
Car #: 11
Sponsor choice 1: United Rivers
Sponsor choice 2: Petrobas
Sponsor choice 3: HP Enterprise

Car #: 13
Sponsor choice 1: HP Enterprise
Sponsor choice 2: GSK
Sponsor choice 3: NAPA Auto Parts

Klon · Post by **Klon** » 19 Dec 2017, 17:38

Team: Andretti
Car #:
Sponsor choice 1: HP Enterprise
Sponsor choice 2: Petrobras
Sponsor choice 3: NTT Data

Team:
Car #:
Sponsor choice 1: Mazda
Sponsor choice 2: IHG Rewards Club
Sponsor choice 3: Nationwide

Team:
Car #: 28
Sponsor choice 1: DHL
Sponsor choice 2: GE
Sponsor choice 3: Coca-Cola

Also, we request engine upgrade 3 as soon as humanly possible.

Post by **Miguel98** » 19 Dec 2017, 19:59

Ryan McReynolds is available for anyone to hire.

pasta_maldonado · Post by **pasta_maldonado** » 19 Dec 2017, 20:42

Team:
Car #: 5
Sponsor choice 1: MasterCard
Sponsor choice 2: Bombardier
Sponsor choice 3: IHG Rewards Club

Driver: Ryan McReynolds (agreed with Miguel98, authorised by black cab himself)

Car #: 7
Pay Driver: Jack Christopherson Jr (agreed with Biscione, authorised by the hackney carriage himself)

Autosport wrote:Christopherson Jr joins SPM for 2020

Schmidt Peterson Motorsports have announced that Jack Christopherson Jr. will join the team for the 2020 IndyCar season. The Brit, 31, has been linked to a possible move to IndyCar since early 2019, with rumours regarding a possible Carlin seat failing to materialise after the team could not find the funds for a 2019 entry.

"[Christopherson Jr]'s really impressed us in the simulator, and we're confident he can turn this into results on the track" said team owner Sam Schmidt. "He's got all the right qualities we were looking for in a driver and we are truly delighted to have him on board"

It remains to be seen whether Sergio Perez or Karun Chandhok will be retained by the team after they failed to impress Schmidt last season.

Autosport wrote:Ryan McReynolds completes SPM line-up

Schmidt Peterson Motorsports have announced that former F1RICS driver Ryan McReynolds will join the team for 2020, completing their line up for the new season. McReynolds, who won 5 races in F1RICS, competed in AutoReject 3.5 in 2019 after failing to secure an IndyCar drive.

"Ryan [McReynolds] has proved to us that he has lost none of the speed from his F1RICS days" said team owner Sam Schmidt. "He's proved to us that he can compete at the sharp end of this highly competitive series"

McReynolds will partner Jack Christopherson Jr in an all new lineup for SPM, leaving Sergio Perez and Karun Chandhok out of a drive for 2020.

TomWazzleshaw · Post by **TomWazzleshaw** » 19 Dec 2017, 20:53

Team: Dale Coyne Racing
Car #: 18
Sponsor choice 1: Nationwide
Sponsor choice 2: Duramax
Sponsor choice 3: Keurig

Team: Dale Coyne Racing
Car #: 19
Sponsor choice 1: Smithfield
Sponsor choice 2: Tecate
Sponsor choice 3: ANCAP

TheFlyingCaterham · Post by **TheFlyingCaterham** » 21 Dec 2017, 19:15

Team: A.J. Foyt Enterprises

Car #14
Sponsor Choice 1: ABC Supply Co.
Sponsor Choice 2: Coca-Cola
Sponsor Choice 3: Mastercard

Car #41
Sponsor Choice 1: Mazda
Sponsor Choice 2: NAPA Auto Parts
Sponsor Choice 3: Nationwide

RonDenisDeletraz · Post by **RonDenisDeletraz** » 22 Dec 2017, 01:14

Sorry I forgot about this for a while, all the best to Reject_Dom to try and drag ECR out of the mess I put them in.

Post by **kevinbotz** » 28 Dec 2017, 18:07

Team: Team Penske

Car #: 2
Sponsor choice 1: Verizon
Sponsor choice 2: DHL
Sponsor choice 3: Coca-Cola

Car #: 3
Sponsor choice 1: Verizon
Sponsor choice 2: GE
Sponsor choice 3: Panasonic

Car #: 12
Sponsor choice 1: HP Enterprise
Sponsor choice 2: Arrow
Sponsor choice 3: Petrobras

Car #: 22
Sponsor choice 1: Hydroxycut
Sponsor choice 2: GSK
Sponsor choice 3: NAPA Auto Parts

Normal32 · Post by **Normal32** » 30 Dec 2017, 21:12

Team: Cassidy Racing

Car: #64

Sponsor 1: Exide

Car: #65

Sponsor 1: HP Enterprise
Sponsor 2: GSK
Sponsor 3: PD (later)

pi314159 · Post by **pi314159** » 06 Jan 2018, 19:18

Car #1 (or #8, depending on RHR signing or not)
1. DHL
2. Hydroxycut
3. Arrow

Car #9
1. Keurig
2. Nationwide
3. Compuware

Car #10
1. Tecate
2. Telmex
3. Nationwide

Car #83
1. Coca-Cola
2. GE
3. Compuware

Pinkd56 · Post by **Pinkd56** » 06 Jan 2018, 23:37

Team: Andretti Herta
Car #: 98
Sponsor choice 1: Miller Lite
Sponsor choice 2: Best Buy
Sponsor choice 3: McAfee

Post by **Ataxia** » 07 Jan 2018, 13:07

Sponsorship RNGs

Smithfield
Offered deals: Dale Coyne Racing #19 (1st)
1-90: Dale Coyne brings home the bacon
91-100: Smithfield gets beef with Coyne's terms, and hopes to meet with a bigger team
81! Dale Coyne hams it up with Smithfield for 2020.

Best Buy
Offered deals: Andretti Herta Autosport #98 (1st)
1-90: Herta's team becomes the official on-track Geek Squad
91-100: Best Buy flicks the switch off on the deal.
40, Best Buy plugs in with Herta.

United Rivers
Offered deals: Carlin #11 (1st)
1-90: Carlin become the Jean Genies
91-100: United Rivers tears a hole in the deal
66! Trevor's going to be kitted out in free denim for the next year.

Exide
Offered deals: Cassidy Racing #64 (1st, continuation bonus)
1-95: Exide are excited about sticking with Cassidy
96-100: The long-standing partnership suddenly loses all charge.
35! Exide and Cassidy continues its positive relationship.

HP Enterprise
Offered deals: Andretti Autosport #26 (1st, +10% continuation bonus), Team Penske #12 (1st, +20% Level 4 marketing bonus), Cassidy Racing #65 (1st), Carlin #13 (1st).
1-30: Andretti
31-60: Penske
61-85: Cassidy
86-100: Carlin
(bonus) 101-110: Andretti
(bonus) 111-130: Penske
107! HP Enterprise is happy with its current relationship with Andretti.

Patrón
Offered deals: Ed Carpenter Racing #20 (1st)
1-90: Patrón decides to take a shot with Ed.
91-100: ECR bottles it.
31! Patrón becomes a patron of the #20.

YPF
Offered deals: Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing #16 (1st, continuation bonus)
1-95: YPF continues to fuel RLL's IndyCar aspirations
96-100: Argentina stops pumping money into US motorsport.
58! Is Esteban Guerrieri about to get retained?

Verizon
Offered deals: Team Penske #2 & #3 (1st, continuation bonus)
1-95: Verizon stays connected to Penske
96-100: Penske loses signal with the telecoms company
93! Verizon continues with two of Penske's cars for 2020.

ABC Supply Co.
Offered deals: AJ Foyt Racing, #4 & #14 (1st)
1-90: ABC raises the roof with a return to Foyt's team.
91-100: The deal for two cars hits the gutter.
76! Easy as 1, 2, 3. ABC sponsors both AJ Foyt cars for 2020.

Mazda
Offered deals: Andretti Autosport #27 (1st)
1-90: Mazda sponsors Andretti in their pursuit of su-Premacy
91-100: Mazda decides to con-Demio the deal.
42! Andretti and Mazda continues its Familia ties.

MasterCard
Offered deals: Schmidt Peterson Motorsports #5 (1st)
1-90: Signing Ryan McReynolds: priceless. For everything else, there's MasterCard.
91-100: Transaction declined.
12! SPM has been credited with MasterCard's money.

DHL
Offered deals: Chip Ganassi Racing #8 (1st, +10% continuation bonus), Andretti Autosport #28 (1st)
1-55: Ganassi
56-100: Andretti
101-110: Ganassi
18! DHL trusts in Ganassi's ability to deliver another championship.

Hydroxycut
Offered deals: Team Penske #22 (1st, continuation bonus)
1-95: Hydroxycut continues to bulk up Penske's coffers
96-100: Penske doesn't have the muscle to keep the deal doing.
73! Hydroxycut supplements Penske's income.

GSK
Offered deals: Carlin #13, Cassidy Racing #65 (both 2nd)
Odd number: Carlin
Even number: Cassidy
25! Carlin takes the GSK sponsorship, leaving Cassidy to pursue a pay-driver option.

Arrow Electronics
Offered deals: Team Penske #12 (2nd)
1-95: Arrow decides to get on board with Penske for another season.
96-100: Penske presents a deal, but with great resistance to Arrow.
11! It appears that Penske is one step away from retaining Hinchcliffe...

Keurig
Offered deals: Chip Ganassi Racing #9 (1st), Dale Coyne Racing #18 (3rd)
1-90: Keurig continues to brew a storm with Ganassi's team.
91-100: They decide to make a latte decision to wait for Dale Coyne's team.
5! How much money will Ganassi extract from the Keurig deal this time?

Nationwide
Offered deals: Dale Coyne Racing #18 (1st), Chip Ganassi Racing #10 (3rd)
1-80: Nationwide invests its time with Dale Coyne's team.
81-100: Nationwide keeps its interest in Ganassi's affairs.
96! A shock! Nationwide decides to wait for Ganassi.

Tecate
Offered deals: Dale Coyne Racing #18 (2nd), Chip Ganassi Racing #10 (1st)
1-75: Ganassi
76-95: Dale Coyne
96-100: Tecate cans all desire to get involved with IndyCar.
55!

Nationwide (II)
Offered deals: Dale Coyne Racing #18 (1st)
1-90: Nationwide makes a long-awaited deposit in Dale Coyne's account.
91-100: Nationwide refuses to pay out.
45! I bet Dale Coyne's bank manager was beginning to sweat a little...

GE
Offered deals: Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing #15 (1st, +5% marketing bonus), Andretti Autosport #28 (2nd),
Chip Ganassi Racing #83 (2nd)
1-70: RLL
71-90: Andretti
91-100: Waits for Ganassi
101-105: RLL
64! GE remains with Bobby Rahal's team.

Coca-Cola
Offered deals: Chip Ganassi Racing #83 (1st), Andretti Autosport #28 (3rd)
1-70: Ganassi
71-100: Andretti
83! Coca-Cola gets fizzy about a deal with Andretti.

Compuware
Offered deals: Chip Ganassi Racing #83 (3rd)
1-80: Ganassi
81-100: None
63! Ganassi completes its roster of sponsors with Compuware's signing.

Ed Carpenter's #21 and Cassidy Racing's #65 will be occupied by pay-drivers in 2020.

Post by **Ataxia** » 10 Jan 2018, 12:14

Since I've got some time to address this, I thought I'd detail the driver signing process for 2020. To clarify, this is NOT YET OPEN and any submitted bids (other than agreed contracts for fictional, DEC-owned drivers) will be promptly copy-pasted and sent 100 times to your GPR inbox to give you the inconvenience of having to clear it.

First of all, as last year, your sponsors will front you the cash to sign their desired drivers. If you fail to meet the given criteria, you'll be forced to pay the sponsors their money back in full.

Currently, budgets for the signing process are:
AJ Foyt - $5,842,000
Andretti - $16,862,000
Carlin - $4,642,000
Cassidy - $3,142,000
Ganassi - $13,892,000
Dale Coyne - $3,692,000
Ed Carpenter - $1,642,000
Penske - $19,552,000
RLL - $8,442,000
SPM - $3,702,000

Regular and Promoted drivers must be paid a minimum of $1m (unless otherwise stated in the Driver Discounts tab) for a season. IndyCar will cover some of the budget for Promoted drivers, eg. if you offer the minimum $1m to Promoted Driver A, you'll get $500k back at the end of the signing process.

Pay-drivers do not require a wage, instead they just need to be offered the seat. You can only sign pay-drivers if you explicitly stated your wish to in the sponsor signing phase (ie. Cassidy #65, SPM #7, ECR #21).

You may wish to modify your bids for a driver having seen your competition, but you must do that with a separate post instead of editing your original post (I will be keeping track of bids).

Alternatively, if you intend to sign more than one driver to drive the car over the year, then you must state the overall wage you wish to pay and then offer drivers individually the chance to drive for a part of the season.

Top-level regular drivers have a high chance of declining drives if a derisory salary is offered.

Fictional drivers:
Drivers must be paid a minimum of $1m for a season as a base fee. Each fictional driver will be assigned a tier, and this reflects the past successes of a driver. The tiers will also be assigned a multiplier, which multiplies the base wage to a figure more representative of the driver's ability. These are as follows:

Tier 1 (Title or regular race winner in top-level series) - 2.5x
Tier 2 (Occasional race winner/frequent point scorer in top/mid-level series) - 2.0x
Tier 3 (Proven points-scorer in mid-level series) - 1.5x
Tier 4 (Scrubs) - 1.0x

Note: Ashley Cassidy is not subject to the multiplier if she is offered the Cassidy Racing drive.

Bids will open when we've determined the setup for real-life driver transfers, so now's the time to ponder.

pasta_maldonado · Post by **pasta_maldonado** » 10 Jan 2018, 21:56

As both of my drivers have been signed and ratified, I should avoid the 100 PM penalty...

Team: Schmidt-Peterson Motorsport
User: Barilla

Driver 1: Ryan McReynolds (CAN)
DEC: Miguel98 (signing agreed)
Wage: $1 million dollars

Driver 2: Jack Christopherson Jr. (GBR)
DEC: Biscione (signing agreed)
Wage: Pay driver

Post by **Ataxia** » 25 Jan 2018, 22:32

Dear all,

It is with a heavy heart that I must terminate my stewardship of canon's replication of IndyCar. With my schedule becoming increasingly more busy and my enthusiasm for the PMMF waning, it is with regret that I cannot afford the time that IndyCar requires.

I really hope that, with whatever changes are deemed necessary to make this an easy series to manage, someone else is able to take on the series and provide the representation of American open-wheel racing that I think the canon series benefits from. If anyone wishes to discuss taking it over, please feel free to let me know.

Thank you all for playing, and I hope you're able to keep going!

Pilot · Post by **Pilot** » 27 Feb 2018, 00:56

I was talking with Taxi about me taking over this series to run, and, while both I and he are fine with this, I'd just like to make sure the participants are also in agreement with this.

pasta_maldonado · Post by **pasta_maldonado** » 27 Feb 2018, 01:38

Pilot wrote:I was talking with Taxi about me taking over this series to run, and, while both I and he are fine with this, I'd just like to make sure the participants are also in agreement with this.

What's your plan for taking the series forward?

Pilot · Post by **Pilot** » 27 Feb 2018, 03:13

pasta_maldonado wrote:
Pilot wrote:I was talking with Taxi about me taking over this series to run, and, while both I and he are fine with this, I'd just like to make sure the participants are also in agreement with this.

What's your plan for taking the series forward?

Honestly? I'll be honest. I plan just to finish the season out, and we'll go from there. I'll also point out that the commitment that Ataxia posted, won't be here. Which is why I'm completely fine if y'all say no. I understand, really.

Dom_Wings · Post by **Dom_Wings** » 27 Feb 2018, 10:25

I was thinking about running it on NR2003, but decided that someone more experienced at hosting should run this instead.

Pilot · Post by **Pilot** » 27 Feb 2018, 21:18

Reject_Dom wrote:I was thinking about running it on NR2003, but decided that someone more experienced at hosting should run this instead.

That’s probably the best idea.

mike robers · Post by **mike robers** » 18 Mar 2018, 20:34

Any updates on who's running the series?

Gertrand Bachot · Post by **Gertrand Bachot** » 18 Mar 2018, 20:40

mike robers wrote:Any updates on who's running the series?

Nope, not at the moment.

Post by **Ataxia** » 15 Apr 2018, 17:52

Now that I've had a bit of a break, I'm considering keeping this going after all. There's going to be a period of time where things get really busy for me (looking at you, Paul Ricard-Red Bull Ring-Silverstone triple-header), but I'll be upfront as and when that happens.

I'll update budgets when I have a minute, and press on with things after the Azerbaijan GP. Sound okay?

pasta_maldonado · Post by **pasta_maldonado** » 15 Apr 2018, 18:07

Ataxia wrote:Now that I've had a bit of a break, I'm considering keeping this going after all. There's going to be a period of time where things get really busy for me (looking at you, Paul Ricard-Red Bull Ring-Silverstone triple-header), but I'll be upfront as and when that happens.

I'll update budgets when I have a minute, and press on with things after the Azerbaijan GP. Sound okay?

Christmas in April?