Everything is like before: I will be running this game on my self-constructed excel spreadsheet(s)and the further we go into the alternative future, the more random this universe will get. Here is the 1981 thread to refresh your memories: https://gprejects.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=8727
WIKI: https://formularejects.com/wiki/1982_CarloSpace_F1_season
1982 TEAMS & PARTICIPANTS
Williams - Aislabie
Tyrrell - Ataxia
Brabham - Gertrand Bachot
McLaren - takagi_for_the_win
Lotus - Shawn040217
Renault - Bleu
March - TCBY
Fittipaldi - Frogfoot9013
Alfa Romeo - Dom_Wings
Toleman - Iso Masa
Ligier - Butterfox
Ferrari - Kinnikuniverse
Arrows - Spooder918
Osella - Pilot
Ensign - Hermann95
ATS - (single car team) pi314159
Theodore (single car team) Collieafc
Waiting list:
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SEASON STRUCTURE
Pick teams
Sign engine & tyre suppliers
Sign drivers
--- Season start ---
First R&D period
--- Races 1-3 ---
Second R&D period
--- Races 4-8 ---
Third R&D period
--- Races 9-12 ---
Next season chassis R&D period
--- Races 13-16 ---
--- Season end ---
--- Prize money is paid out ---
CONTRACTS
A season begins with signing of engine & tyre suppliers. The listed supplier prices are minimum asking prices but teams can of course offer more money to a supplier. Teams can attempt to sign suppliers for 1-3 years long contracts. The price of engine/tyres will remain the same for the duration of the contract even if the manufacturer changes the price in the upcoming seasons.
Driver signing works largely the same way. Drivers can be signed to 1-3 years long contracts. Drivers' salaries aren't fixed but instead have expected salaries that they are asking from their future employers. Teams can offer lower salaries than the drivers are expecting but doing so will make the driver more likely to refuse the offer. Conversely a higher than expected salary will make the driver more likely to sign.
Pay drivers (listed with negative salaries) can only be signed to max. 1-year contracts. The negative salary next to their name implies the maximum amount they can pay for their seat per race.
The prices and salaries of multi-year contracts are paid yearly, not in one lump sum.
All the available suppliers, drivers and their respective prices/salaries are listed IN THIS SPREADSHEET.
The driver list contains only the most notable drivers but you are able to offer a contract to drivers also not on the list.
LOAN DEALS
Teams are allowed to sign more than two drivers to their team on the condition that the drivers are loaned out to other teams and land a racing seat for the season. Failure to land a racing seat will release a driver from their contract.
A team wishing to sign extra drivers to be loaned out must bid for them during driver bidding process separately from their main drivers' bids.
- Extra drivers must be offered a salary greater than 0cr even if they were a pay-driver.
- Offered contract length can be 1-3 years.
- Loan team must be included in the bid.
- The length of a loan deal is always a maximum of 1 season.
- No extra monetary compensation between the two teams is allowed.
A team wishing to loan a driver from another team must bid for them during driver bidding process regularly among their other driver bids.
- Loan drivers don't have to be offered salary since the owning team pays for their salary.
- If the loaned driver is a pay-driver, the loaning team will receive a portion of their salary as a compensation. A portion of the driver's salary up to the amount they would bring as a pay-driver will go to the loaning team.
- E.g. Team A signs pay-driver A. Stooge for a salary of 400cr and loans them to Team B. As a pay-driver A. Stooge would be able to bring Team B 20cr/race. Team B will receive 20cr x 16 races = 320cr as a compensation for the loan deal. Rest of the salary is kept by A.Stooge - The owning team of the driver must be included in the bid.
- The length of a loan deal is always a maximum of 1 season.
- No extra monetary compensation between the two teams is allowed.
The team bidding for extra drivers must co-operate with the team they intend to loan the driver to. Both teams will have to indicate in their bids that the driver is to be loaned from/to another team.
MID-SEASON R&D
There are three R&D periods during the season on which the teams can develop their chassis. A single period is 4-5 races long after which potential upgrades are installed to the chassis.
Before each R&D period the teams have to commit to developing their chassis by choosing their level of investment. Higher levels increase the chance for greater performance gain.
The levels and their prices are:
No R&D - 0 cr
Low - 250 cr
Moderate - 500 cr
High - 750 cr
All-in - 1000 cr
NEW CHASSIS R&D
Last R&D period of the season is reserved for development of next season’s chassis. Each team can spend between 2500-5000cr on R&D for a new chassis. Alternatively teams can develop an evolution of their previous chassis for prices between 1500-2500cr (smaller performance gain) or decide to race for another year with the same chassis (not recommended unless your team is on the brink of bankruptcy).
For single car teams these figures are: 2000-4000cr for new chassis, 1200-2000cr for chassis evolution. A single car team can expand to two cars for a one time cost of 1500cr.
DEBT AND BANKRUPTCY
Teams can go into debt during and in between seasons.
A team will be declared bankrupt if it is in debt at the end of a season for two years in a row.
BUDGETS, DRIVERS AND OTHER IMPORTANT STUFF
All the important information about teams will be found
IN THIS SPREADSHEET