Rules
Budgets
- Budget spreadsheet is in the first post
- Budgets
should be updated after each race, but I am lazy. For up-to-the-minute information, visit the discord and ask me.
- More information is provided on the Budgets tab of the spreadsheet.
- Opening budgets include any current driver contracts and engine contracts for works teams and pre-signed customers.. Anything else is
not included.
Team Stats
- Team Stats describe your ability to build grounds effects chassis, as well as your reputation towards drivers.
- Team stats are now visible on the Budgets tab of the spreadsheet.
- Reputation is affected both by the historical relevance of your team, and by WCC finishing order.
- Nationality bonus only affects drivers of the same nationality as your team.
- Reputation and nationality bonuses affect the RNG odds when you sign drivers, designers, suppliers, and tyres.
Alignment
- NEW: There is no alignment choice for 1982.
Engines
- All teams must renew their engine supply.
- NEW: Engine manufacturers are controlled by users. Each manufacturer is allocated a works team.
- NEW: Users must negotiate with the manufacturers to gain an engine supply.
- NEW: Manufacturers cannot change the price of the engines, but they can impose any Terms they wish on customers.
- NEW: Customers can sign a 1 year engine contract with an option to extend for a second year
- NEW: Customers and manufacturers must post in the thread to confirm a supply.
- NEW: Towards the end of the season, manufacturers will have 10 tokens to spend to upgrade their engines for the next season.
- Ford Cosworth remain free to sign anybody.
- More information is provided on the Engines tab and Engine Contract tab of the spreadsheet.
Chassis
- Chassis generation table has been updated with 1982 ranges.
- NEW: Grounds Effects chassis can no longer be constructed.
- A team can use the chassis they used in 1981 for 1982. However, they MUST purchase the B (or C!) spec chassis conversion (on the Chassis tab) to run the old chassis.
- A team may introduce a new chassis mid season
- Teams can sell custom chassis to collectors for 10% of it's build price.
- NEW: A team cannot sell their chassis to collectors if they plan on upgrading it and running it this season...
- Each team MUST build it's own chassis
- The cost of each chassis is for TWO chassis.
- More information is provided on the Chassis tab of the spreadsheet.
Designers
- Designers are like drivers – they have team preferences, must be paid a wage, can be hired for a maximum of 1 year, and are subject to RNG.
- Designer contracts are 1-year.
- Designers do not affect mid-season upgrades.
- You must pick one bonus and one penalty for your chosen designer. This cannot be changed after they have been hired.
- You can get 2 bonuses for double the designers wage, but you also get 2 penalties.
- A designer can only be offered the wage stated on the spreadsheet OR double the wage stated on the spreadsheet.
- All teams must sign a designer to build and upgrade chassis.
- NEW: If you select the ???? Designer bonus, you will be PM'd the results on discord or the forums.
- More information is provided on the Designers tab of the spreadsheet.
Travel Costs
- All teams must pay some form of travel costs.
- NEW: Full season travel package for all teams is £400,000.
- Part-time European travel is no longer available
- More information is provided on the Tyres and Travel Costs tab of the spreadsheet.
Sponsors
- NEW: Sponsor tier goal payments have been updated with 1982 values.
- Sponsors provide money in three tiers in return for goals being achieved.
- Each team has one sponsor with three goals, Tier 1 goals offering the most money (and are the hardest to achieve) and Tier 3 goals offer the least money (and are the easiest to achieve).
- You may only target one tier at a time, even if your choices fulfill all three tiers. This must be stated.
- NEW: Tiers 1 and 2 have two goals to fulfil. To appease the sponsor, you must achieve both the performance and driver goal by the end of the season.
- More information is provided on the Sponsors tab of the spreadsheet.
- NEW: Tobacco sponsors will be banned for the 1981 British and German Grands Prix. Any team with a tobacco sponsor will run a non-tobacco livery.
Suppliers
- NEW: Suppliers will not be a game mechanic for 1982.
Chassis Upgrades
- The upgrade system has been altered. Instead of slots and tiers, you can make up to ten upgrades to your chassis in the areas of Grip, Weight, Drag and Handling
- Each upgrade costs exponentially more than the last.
- You can make 1 upgrade in each area between races, and 1 pre-season
- NEW: The upgrade ranges have been adjusted for 1982.
Drivers
- Drivers are paid up front for their contracted wages
- If a driver is sacked, you do not get repaid their wages. (Severance fee)
- If a driver on a two season contract is sacked in the first year of his contract (defined as any time until the first round of the second season of the contract), you must pay him the rest of the first season’s wages only.
- Minimum wage for the season is £50,000 for paid drivers - That is £2,941 per race.
- A team MUST
enter TWO drivers into each race weekend they enter in order to be eligible for both championship points and all prize money
- The maximum contract length is 2 years.
- Wages deemed to be grossly unfair (£50,000 for a championship winner, for instance) will be blocked.
- You do not pay the wages of an injured driver. (This is covered by insurance)
Pay Drivers
- All young drivers start as pay drivers, until their success warrants a paid wage.
- NEW: All drivers start as Tier 2 pay drivers.
- NEW: The Pay Driver tiers have been slightly adjusted. Tier 1 drivers can be signed for 2 years, Tier 2 can only be signed for 1 year (unless given a paid offer), and Tier 3 drivers cannot be signed for the whole season.
- A pay driver may be offered a paid wage to double your odds of securing them in the RNG. However, this transforms a driver from a pay to a normal driver for the rest of their careers.
- NEW: I reserve the right to move drivers from a pay driver to a paid driver based on their success and/or storyline purposes.
- A RNG will be conducted once a driver receives an offer to see how much money they will bring for the season.
- If you wish to hire a pay driver for less than the full season (16 races), his/her money pot will be divided by 16, and then multiplied by the length of his/her contract.
- All pay drivers pay their money up front.
- If a pay driver is sacked, your forfeit the money they would have paid for the duration of their contract.
Debt
- A team may not go into debt. Any team that cannot purchase a chassis (if applicable) or engine is declared bankrupt.
- I reserve the right to remove struggling teams from the game, if their presence is not historically accurate.
Injuries
- Drivers signed to replace injured drivers may be signed on the injured driver's terms, or may be signed to a new contract,
- You do not pay the wages of an injured driver. (This is covered by insurance)
- Injuries are decided by RNG.
Entries
- I reserve the right to refuse unrealistic/ill-thought out entries of any description.
- Each team can enter a maximum of TWO cars into every race weekend.
- There will be 26 starters for every Grand Prix. In the case of attracting more than 28 entries, a Pre-Qualifying session will be run, with the fastest teams on combined times going through to Qualifying.
Prize Money
- NEW: Prize Money has been revised for 1982.
Race Prize Money
Point Scorers: £75,000
Top 10, but no points: £40,000
Top 15: £20,000
Below 15, finish: £15,000
DNF: £7,500
DNQ: £5,000
DNPQ: £2,000
DSQ: -£100,000
-Prize money is does not double. I.e. Two point scorers =/= £200,000
End of Season Prize Money
- NEW: Thanks to the Concorde Agreement, end of season prize money is fixed, as shown below.
1 £3,000,000
2 £2,600,000
3 £2,400,000
4 £2,200,000
5 £2,000,000
6 £1,800,000
7 £1,600,000
8 £1,400,000
9 £1,200,000
10 £1,000,000
11 £800,000
12 £700,000
13 £600,000
14 £500,000
15 £400,000
16 £300,000
17 £200,000
- NEW: Signing a new Concorde Agreement can change the value of the prize money awarded.
Points System
9-6-4-3-2-1, with the best 11 results counting towards the championship.
Calendar
Robert Kagan (DEC: Tommykl)
Francois Castaing