Grand Prix Rejects

Low from Osella?

Struggling but we need points

High R&D from Renault.

Moderate R&D for Ligier this time.

McLaren will go high again.

Is it too late to join? If so,could I try my hand at the tough end and take Theodore?

Collieafc wrote:Is it too late to join? If so,could I try my hand at the tough end and take Theodore?

Welcome, welcome! Theodore is yours

CarloSpace wrote:

Collieafc wrote:Is it too late to join? If so,could I try my hand at the tough end and take Theodore?

Welcome, welcome! Theodore is yours

Excellent. In that case, Theodore elect to skip the current R&D session to conserve our resources for next years car

Oh my, we are so slow...

Toleman needs High R&D. Hoping for lucky results...

March will do All-In R&D at the next available oppurtunity

1981 ROUND 5 - IMOLA

The championship moves to Europe and a few teams have installed upgrades to their chassis. Pre-qualifying starts the weekend as usual.

Weather is dry.


Daly well off the pace and does not pre-qualify.


Renault was among the teams to bring upgrades to Imola and it shows; they lock the front row. Double DNQ for Fittipaldi despite the upgrades they got for this race.



Imola Notes
- Villeneuve scores his first points of the season with P2
- Renaults can't hold on to their quali advantage
- Williams struggling in the race and fail to score any points

1981 ROUND 6 - ZOLDER

Weather is dry.


Daly again slowest. It's the third time in a row he does not pre-qualify


This time around Ferrari were the fastest in qualifying. Andretti is the star of qualifying with a brilliant 4th place in a Lotus.



Zolder Notes
- Ferrari pair cruises to a dominant 1-2 finish
- Crazy lap 11 sees four drivers retire
- Prost and Andretti collide on lap 48 while fighting for P3

1981 ROUND 7 - MONACO

Weather is dry.


Very thight pre-qualifying but it's Thackwell that is left out.


Brabham nails the setup for the tight streets and sweeps the front row. Gilles a lowly 19th after the perfect Zolder weekend.



Monaco Notes
- Brabhams bin it to the wall, gifting Jones the victory
- Reutemann caps off an excellent weekend with a podium finish
- Jabouille gets March's best result so far but it won't help them in the pre-Q battle

1981 ROUND 8 - JARAMA

Weather is dry.


As per usual, Daly is the slowest in pre-qualifying.


Piquet dominates again ahead of Ferraris and Williams. Johansson struggling a lot, third straight DNQ in the Ensign.



Jarama Notes
- Eventful race sees John Watson take a surprise win for McLaren
- Andrea de Cesaris scores Alfa Romeo's first point of the season which might prove useful come season end
- Brian Henton crashes heavily on lap 57 and is injured. He will miss the next 5 races
- Jabouille's 9th place finish takes March up to 12th in the constructors, dropping Fittipaldi down to the pre-qualifying for the second half of the season. ATS and Toleman are the other teams taking part in pre-qualifying from round 9 forwards.

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Standings have been updated on the wiki page.

2nd R&D Period Results

Team - Investment - Gains (0-5*)
BRABHAM - 1000 cr - 3*
FITTIPALDI - 250 cr - 3*
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LIGIER - 500 cr - 2*
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WILLIAMS - 500 cr - 1*
McLAREN - 750 cr - 1*
RENAULT - 750 cr - 1*
FERRARI - 750 cr - 1*
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ALFA ROMEO - 750 cr - 0*
LOTUS - 750 cr - 0*
OSELLA - 250 cr - 0*


Fittipaldi's R&D team continues their amazing work and made good progress on their chassis. Brabham as well makes good progress in their bid to take Nelson Piquet to the title.

Ligier, Williams, McLaren, Renault and Ferrari got some performance gains through their R&D.

Alfa Romeo got no performance gains, as well as Lotus and Osella's who have had no luck in R&D this season.

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Budgets have been updated IN THIS SPREADSHEET.

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This marks the end of the 2nd R&D Period. 3rd R&D period begins now - info about R&D can be found in this post.

PLEASE POST YOUR PLANS FOR 3rd R&D PERIOD NOW
These upgrades will be installed to your cars for round 13 of the championship (Netherlands).

The deadline for investments is on 4th of March.
Toleman and March plans have been noted for the 4rd period already.

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Due to Brian Henton's 5 race injury in Jarama, ARROWS MUST BID FOR A REPLACEMENT DRIVER.
Insurance will compensate 75% of Henton's salary back to Arrows for the duration of his absence. This figure amount to 140 cr.

Ferrari goes high again

Arrows has finally decided to do something!

Bid 1: Jean-Pierre Jarier, 240 cr
Bid 2: Manfred Winkelhock, 120 cr
Bid 3: Hans-Joachim Stuck, 300 cr

Also we'll be going high in the next dev

Renault takes moderate R&D

Lotus shall go for High R&D.

Osella, low

Brabham will go all-in again.

Spooder918 wrote:Arrows has finally decided to do something!

Bid 1: Jean-Pierre Jarier, 240 cr
Bid 2: Manfred Winkelhock, 120 cr
Bid 3: Hans-Joachim Stuck, 300 cr

Fresh off of driving a BMW M1 in the Le Mans 24h a month earlier, J-P Jarier is offered to sub in for Brian Henton at Arrows.

1-90 Accepts
91-100 Not convinced
61!

Jarier will sub in for Henton.

Theodore will again pass up R&D to conserve resources for next season

Good man Wattie, not sure where that came from but I'm not going to say no to a win at this stage.

We'll go for moderate R&D, seems as if we're too unreliable for it to be worth throwing any serious money into the chassis with 1982 around the corner.

Tyrrell would like a 500cr upgrade please.

Alfa Romeo will spend 750cr again, and will hope for a better R&D result.

If Ensign is still available i'd like to run them.

1981 ROUND 9 - DIJON-PRENOIS

Calendars are turned to July as the caravan arrives in France. Many teams have brought in upgraded chassis with Brabham and Fittipaldi reporting the most notable increases in performance.

Weather for pre-qualifying is dry. Moderate rain is expected for qualifying and race.
Results show Henton driving for Arrows but really it is Jarier behind the wheel. The French didn't update their standings system which caused the error.


Fittipaldi and ATS showing they don't belong in pre-Q as Daly drops out.


Prost takes the pole position in rainy conditions. Lotus struggle but otherwise no major surprises. Johansson continues his poor form with fourth consecutive DNQ.



Dijon Notes
- Intermittent rain shuffles the pack
- Surer takes his maiden victory
- Elio de Angelis finally scores points with a strong second place finish

1981 ROUND 10 - SILVERSTONE

Weather is dry.


DNPQ King Daly reigns slowest again.


Qualifying had light rain which looked to have hindered the Williams pair the most. Jones 15th and Elio "Dumfries" only 21st.



Silverstone Notes
- Piquet closes Jones' gap in the standings to two points
- Both Renaults blow their engines in the first lap
- Jones fights back to 5th to hold on to the championship lead

1981 ROUND 11 - HOCKENHEIMRING

Weather is dry.


Fittipaldi good, Daly bad. No surprises here.


Piquet takes his 5th pole position of the year with championship rival Jones in second. Ferrari have a bad session as they struggle with technical issues.



Hockenheim Notes
- Jones takes the win and increases his gap over Piquet in the standings
- Prost and Tambay bounce back after poor qualis
- Rothengatter's 8th place finish elevates Fittipaldi to 12th in the constructors' standings

1981 ROUND 12 - ÖSTERREICHRING

Weather is dry.


Daly out first again.


Prost crushes everyone else with a blinding lap in qualifying. Jacques Villeneuve ends his DNQ streak with a decent 23rd place.



Österreichring Notes
- Out of nowhere Elio de Angelis wins the Austrian GP
- Piquet is now one point behind Jones after the Australian fails to score
- Tambay takes third in the standings after yet another 2nd place finish

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Standings have been updated on the wiki page.

3rd R&D Period Results

Team - Investment - Gains (0-5*)
LOTUS - 1000 cr - 5*
ALFA ROMEO - 750 cr - 5*
McLAREN - 500 cr - 5*
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ARROWS - 750 cr - 4*
OSELLA - 250 cr - 4*
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BRABHAM - 1000 cr - 3*
MARCH - 1000 cr - 3*
RENAULT - 500 cr - 3*
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FERRARI - 750 cr - 2*
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TOLEMAN - 750 cr - 1*
TYRRELL - 500 cr - 1*

It might be late in the season but that doesn't matter as the teams throw money at chassis upgrades.
All the teams got at least some performance gains with Lotus, Alfa Romeo and McLaren the biggest winners.

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Budgets have been updated IN THIS SPREADSHEET.

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This marks the end of the 3rd R&D Period. Next up is the R&D for your 1982 chassis.

Each team can spend anywhere between 2500-5000cr on R&D for a new chassis.

Alternatively teams can develop an evolution of their 1981 chassis for prices between 1500-2500cr (smaller performance gain) or decide to race for another year with the same chassis (no performance gain).

For single car teams these figures are: 2000-4000cr for new chassis, 1200-2000cr for chassis evolution.

PLEASE POST YOUR PLANS FOR 1982 CHASSIS R&D PERIOD NOW

Hermann95 wrote:If Ensign is still available i'd like to run them.

Happy to have you on board, welcome! Ensign is in a decent position after Johansson scored them a point in Argentina!

Williams will be developing a 5000 cr car please

Arrows shall make a stronk 4500cr chassis

Renault uses 5000cr for 1982 chassis.

Ferrari will spend 4000Cr on next year's car.

Osella sticks with the 81 chassis

McLaren will throw the full 5k into next season's car.

Brabham will spend 2.5k on upgrading our current car for 1982.

Ensign will use the maximum amount of 2k to upgrade our chassis for the next season.

Hopefully this will keep us out of pre-qualify for some time.

Yeah not much other choice than keeping to run the same car next year.

Butterfox wrote:Yeah not much other choice than keeping to run the same car next year.

You are allowed to go into debt so you do in fact have options

CarloSpace wrote:

Butterfox wrote:Yeah not much other choice than keeping to run the same car next year.

You are allowed to go into debt so you do in fact have options

Then i'll do a 2500 cr. upgrade of the current chassis. Don't want the debts to become too much.

Theodore will go for a new chassis at 2500. We will remain a one car operation at this time.

CarloSpace wrote:

Butterfox wrote:Yeah not much other choice than keeping to run the same car next year.

You are allowed to go into debt so you do in fact have options

In that case, Osella spends 2.5k as well to improve this years chassis

As we're allowed to go into debt, Tyrrell will build a 4500cr car for '82.