Alternate F1 - The Current Era - 2017 Season

[Klon]

Complete Results
1. Daniil Kwjat / Caterham-Judd - 1:12.060
2. Jules Bianchi / Precision-Mercedes - 1:12.197
3. Rosco Vantini / Williams-Peugeot - 1:12.303
4. Simon Pagenaud / Sauber-Judd - 1:12.308
5. Esteban Ocon / Precision-Mercedes - 1:12.375
6. Daniel Ricciardo / Mahindra-Mercedes - 1:12.528
7. Raffaele Marciello / Caterham-Judd - 1:12.535
8. Stoffel Vandoorne / Haas-Ferrari - 1:12.622
9. Kyle Miyata Larson / Williams-Peugeot - 1:12.654
10. Nathan McKane / Ferrari - 1:12.693
11. Marko Jantschee / Haas-Ferrari - 1:12.771
12. Kevin Magnussen / DGN-Judd - 1:12.783
13. Conor Daly / Mahindra-Mercedes - 1:12.821
14. Romain Grosjean / Peugeot - 1:12.840
15. Fernando Alonso / Red Bull-Ferrari - 1:12.901
16. Sebastién Bourdais / Ferrari - 1:13.000
17. Pierre Gasly / Red Bull-Ferrari - 1:13.024
18. Robin Frijns / Brabham-Ferrari - 1:13.083
19. Matthieu Vaxivière / Sauber-Judd - 1:13.137
20. Luiz Razia / Peugeot - 1:13.169
21. Nyck de Fries / Brabham-Ferrari - 1:13.208
22. Max Verstappen / Calinetic-Mercedes - 1:13.296
23. Ryo Hirakawa / DGN-Judd - 1:13.315
24. Dean Stoneman / Calinetic-Mercedes - 1:13.501
25. Ryan Cotman / Valerian-Ferrari - 1:13.682
26. Kevin Valerian / Valerian-Ferrari - 1:13.790

Test Results:

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Williams (SuperAguri) - No grip points added
Sauber (East Londoner) - No grip points added
Valerian (normal32) - No grip points added
Brabham (HawkAussie) - No grip points added
Peugeot (Aeroracing) - No grip points added
Caterham (kevinbotz) - No grip points added
Haas (Ataxia) - 220 grip points added
Red Bull (roblomas) - No grip points added
Ferrari (pasta_maldonado) - 210 grip points added
Mahindra (tmlw) - 200 grip points added
Precision (wizzie) - No grip points added
Calinetic (miguel98) - 80 grip points added 
DGN (Salamander) - 60 grip points added

[Klon]

For July 4, the F1 teams will move the Sachsenring for the second official mid-season test.

Basically all you have to do is decide how much money you wish to invest in testing new parts: you can choose to buy a five-percent chance at improving your car for €4,000,000, up to seventy-five percent, i.e. €56,000,000 (the first five percent are for free)

A successful upgrade will then involve a RNG roll to determine the added grip - it can go from 20 to 250 grip points.

You can choose to run different drivers than your normal drivers at the test if you wish, they will not cost anything nor pay anything nor will they influence your upgrades in any way, i.e. only serve to test out the skill of new drivers

Just fill this out and we are ready to go.

Team: Well, duh
Drivers: Well, duh²
Investment: Please only use prices rounded up to the full million

Please post your testing plans by March 12, 11:30 p.m. CET

[TomWazzleshaw]

Team: Precision Motorsport
Drivers: Valtteri Bottas, Esteban Ocon
Investment: Nil

[Salamander]

Team: DGNgineering
Drivers: Kevin Magnussen/Anton de Pasquale
Investment: A time machine to transport us back to 2015. Wait, you meant actual money? Fuuuuuuuu

[roblo97]

Team: Red Bull
Drivers: Fernando Alonso and Jolyon Palmer
Investment: £0

[Normal32]

Team: Eni Valerian Formula
Drivers: Sergio Perez and Shad Griffith
Investement: 0

[Miguel98]

Team: Petronas Calinetic Mercedes
Drivers: Dean Stoneman and Salvatore de Plano
Investment: Big fat zero

[Ataxia]

Team: Haas F1 Team
Drivers: Matty Brabham, Emil Bernstorff
Investment: none

[kevinbotz]

Team: Caterham F1 Team
Drivers: Sebastian Vettel, Raffaele Marciello
Investment: $0

[pasta_maldonado]

Team: Scuderia Ferrari
Drivers: Nathan McKane, Einar Ármannsson
Investment: Sod all

[the Masked Lapwing]

Team: Mahindra Racing
Drivers: Daniel Ricciardo, Conor Daly
Investment: 0

[Londoner]

Team: Canal+ Sauber F1
Drivers: Pastor Maldonado, Matthieu Vaxiviere
Investment: £0

[Phoenix]

Team: Peugeot.
Drivers: Romain Grosjean, Luiz Razia.
Investment: €0.

[HawkAussie]

Can I bring in Robin Frijns into my lineup and move Nico Rosberg down to a test role.

[Klon]

Can I bring in Robin Frijns into my lineup and move Nico Rosberg down to a test role.

Edit: actually, no, since right now your funding is not sufficient to cover for the loss of sponsorship induced by Rosberg's demotion

[pycku]

Team: Brabham
Drivers: Nikola Nikolov, Hristo Nikolov
Investment: 0

[Klon]

Team: Brabham
Drivers: Nikola Nikolov, Hristo Nikolov
Investment: 0

I'm sorry to have to tell you that, but I asked people to report back until last week and you kind of did not. That is why Brabham's fate lies with HawkAussie now. However, you are of course free to join the waiting list and get another shot down the line.

[SuperAguri]

Team: Williams Engineering
Drivers: Rosco Vantini, Shinobu Katayama
Investment: The same as Caterham

[pycku]

OOps, I seem to find the new forum too late. Okay then, I am willing to join the waiting list.

[Klon]

Race Report

Penalty Points after the race:
#5 - Will Power - 15
#7 - Pastor Maldonado - 5
#9 - Davide Valsecchi - 10
#10 - Sergio Pérez - 6
#11 - Nico Rosberg - 3 (+3 for causing an avoidable accident involving the driver of car #26 (Pierre Gasly))
#22 - Robert Kubica - 3
#25 - Fernando Alonso - 11
#27 - Sébastien Bourdais - 3
#52 - Conor Daly - 9 (+5 for causing an avoidable accident involving the driver of car #27 (Sébastien Bourdais))
#62 - Jules Bianchi - 5 (+5 for causing an avoidable accident involving the driver of car #5 (Will Power))
#63 - Valtteri Bottas - 10
#91 - Jazeman Jaafar - 8
#98 - Bradley Dagnall - 10

Budgets, price money and sponsorship after the 13th race of the 2017 season:
+ Williams (SuperAguri) - €65,000,000
+ Sauber (East Londoner) - €15,000,000
+ Valerian (normal32) - €43,000,000
+ Brabham (hawkaussie) - €10,000,000
+ Peugeot (Aeroracing) - €9,000,000
+ Caterham (kevinbotz) - €73,000,000
+ Haas (Ataxia) - €39,000,000
+ Red Bull (roblomas) - €29,000,000
+ Ferrari (pasta_maldonado) - €19,000,000
+ Mahindra (the Masked Lapwing) - €32,000,000
+ Precision (wizzie) - €40,000,000
+ Calinetic (miguel98) - €28,000,000
+ DGN (Salamander) - €64,000,000

[Klon]

Race Report

Penalty Points after the race:
#5 - Will Power - 15
#7 - Pastor Maldonado - 5
#9 - Davide Valsecchi - 10
#10 - Sergio Pérez - 6
#11 - Nico Rosberg - 3
#15 - Luiz Razia - 3 (+3 for causing an avoidable accident involving the driver of car #26 (Pierre Gasly))
#22 - Robert Kubica - 3
#25 - Fernando Alonso - 11
#27 - Sébastien Bourdais - 3
#52 - Conor Daly - 9
#62 - Jules Bianchi - 5
#63 - Valtteri Bottas - 10
#91 - Jazeman Jaafar - 8
#98 - Bradley Dagnall - 13 (+3 for causing an avoidable accident involving the driver of car #26 (Pierre Gasly))

Budgets, price money and sponsorship after the 14th race of the 2017 season:
+ Williams (SuperAguri) - €68,000,000
+ Sauber (East Londoner) - €18,000,000
+ Valerian (normal32) - €45,000,000
+ Brabham (hawkaussie) - €12,000,000
+ Peugeot (Aeroracing) - €10,000,000
+ Caterham (kevinbotz) - €77,000,000
+ Haas (Ataxia) - €42,000,000
+ Red Bull (roblomas) - €30,000,000
+ Ferrari (pasta_maldonado) - €22,000,000
+ Mahindra (the Masked Lapwing) - €35,000,000
+ Precision (wizzie) - €42,000,000
+ Calinetic (miguel98) - €30,000,000
+ DGN (Salamander) - €65,000,000

[Salamander]

Whoever voted for a tyre war, I just want to let you know, you're a damn fool. Tyre wars have never made racing more interesting, and they won't now.

I gotta say, the progress we've been making with upgrades is leaving me a bit disheartened. All the teams have the opportunity to make gains in the mid-season tests, and we have not made the most of it. Knowing the talent that's in the engineering department as well makes it so much tougher to see us fall behind like this. We can all do a better job than what we have been doing - we've got to pull together now and remind everyone why Williams is the best racing team in the world.

[HawkAussie]

Team: Brabham
Drivers: Nyck de Vries, Robin Frijns
Investment: Zero

[Salamander]

Klon has released some preliminary calendar information in the chat, and one track he currently has down is the Autódromo Miguel E. Abed in Mexico, a 1.25 mile paperclip (Martinsville-style) oval. Now, I don't know about you guys, but running the Silverstone National circuit was horrifically bad enough, and now we're going to a 1.25 mile oval? That's just silly for Formula 1. Anyone else agree?

[roblo97]

Klon has released some preliminary calendar information in the chat, and one track he currently has down is the Autódromo Miguel E. Abed in Mexico, a 1.25 mile paperclip (Martinsville-style) oval. Now, I don't know about you guys, but running the Silverstone National circuit was horrifically bad enough, and now we're going to a 1.25 mile oval? That's just silly for Formula 1. Anyone else agree?

It does seem rather stupid to me.

[Klon]

As result of the criticism recieved for the inclusion of the Autódromo Miguel E. Abed, I have decided to instead hold a street race in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on the same date.

Furthermore, as consequence of the poll being not well-planned and its result being rejected by the core audience of my game, I have decided to put an improved version of it online, Please note that it is not my intention to disregard any opinion, anyone of you is more than welcome to take part in the second running. It is just that I personally believed the project to have suffered from failed planning.

Please take the time to vote again: http://goo.gl/forms/R0M4yz9CTC

[roblo97]

One beta upgrade for Red Bull please.

[Klon]

Race Report

Penalty Points after the race:
#5 - Will Power - 15
#7 - Pastor Maldonado - 5
#9 - Davide Valsecchi - 10
#10 - Sergio Pérez - 6
#11 - Nico Rosberg - 3
#15 - Luiz Razia - 3
#22 - Robert Kubica - 3
#25 - Fernando Alonso - 11
#27 - Sébastien Bourdais - 3
#52 - Conor Daly - 9
#62 - Jules Bianchi - 5
#63 - Valtteri Bottas - 10
#91 - Jazeman Jaafar - 8
#98 - Bradley Dagnall - 13

Budgets, price money and sponsorship after the 15th race of the 2017 season:
+ Williams (SuperAguri) - €71,000,000
+ Sauber (East Londoner) - €20,000,000
+ Valerian (normal32) - €48,000,000
+ Brabham (hawkaussie) - €12,000,000
+ Peugeot (Aeroracing) - €13,000,000
+ Caterham (kevinbotz) - €80,000,000
+ Haas (Ataxia) - €45,000,000
+ Red Bull (roblomas) - €32,000,000
+ Ferrari (pasta_maldonado) - €25,000,000
+ Mahindra (the Masked Lapwing) - €37,000,000
+ Precision (wizzie) - €46,000,000
+ Calinetic (miguel98) - €31,000,000
+ DGN (Salamander) - €67,000,000

[Klon]

Race Report

Penalty Points after the race:
#5 - Will Power - 15
#6 - Dave Cassidy - 3 (+3 for causing an avoidable accident involving the drivers of car #9 (Davide Valsecchi) and car #52 (Conor Daly))
#7 - Pastor Maldonado - 5
#9 - Davide Valsecchi - 10
#10 - Sergio Pérez - 6
#11 - Nico Rosberg - 3
#15 - Luiz Razia - 3
#22 - Robert Kubica - 3
#25 - Fernando Alonso - 11
#27 - Sébastien Bourdais - 3
#52 - Conor Daly - 9
#62 - Jules Bianchi - 5
#63 - Valtteri Bottas - 10
#91 - Jazeman Jaafar - 8
#98 - Bradley Dagnall - 13

The driver of car #12 (Nyck de Vries) is out for the next two races with a sprained ankle. Brabham have until March 25, 2015 (4:00 p.m., CET) to name a replacement for him. The wage of the replacement will be covered by de Vries' wage. Real-life drivers will be decided by RNG, fictional drivers require user approval. If a replacement is not announced until the deadline, Adriano Nicchi will drive the car.

Budgets, price money and sponsorship after the 16th race of the 2017 season:
+ Williams (SuperAguri) - €72,000,000
+ Sauber (East Londoner) - €23,000,000
+ Valerian (normal32) - €50,000,000
+ Brabham (hawkaussie) - €14,000,000
+ Peugeot (Aeroracing) - €15,000,000
+ Caterham (kevinbotz) - €84,000,000
+ Haas (Ataxia) - €48,000,000
+ Red Bull (roblomas) - €8,000,000
+ Ferrari (pasta_maldonado) - €28,000,000
+ Mahindra (the Masked Lapwing) - €40,000,000
+ Precision (wizzie) - €49,000,000
+ Calinetic (miguel98) - €33,000,000
+ DGN (Salamander) - €68,000,000

Furthermore, please vote in the new Alt-F1 poll. Voting will be open until tomorrow evening.

[DemocalypseNow]

Experienced F1RWRS racer Benoit Voeckler will throw his hat into the ring for the Brabham sub gig.

[HawkAussie]

We would like to bring in Robin Frijns into our squad.

Could Flanders Racing be a reality???
There have been talks around the paddock that a team from the flanders region of Belgium could enter F1 to replace Brabham at the end of the season.

The team which was formed in 2015 after MP Motorsport and KTR merged under a deal to get a team based out of the two nations for the first time since 2007 where a Dutch team was in Formula One. But after the new leader of the Netherlands and Belgium decided to collborate in getting Formula One back in their home countries, the team was formed.

The confusion in the paddock saying that its a late April Fools joke, but sometimes the fool can become the prankster and with the backing of two governments, this could be a team that will bring the new in 2018.

[Ataxia]

We would like to bring in Robin Frijns into our squad.

Could Flanders Racing be a reality???

[Salamander]

Today, I am making an announcement that has been a very difficult one to make for me; I will be leaving Williams F1 effective immediately. Simply put, this is not the same team that dominated 2016, as is patently clear by the on-track results. They are letting other teams get the better of them and instead of buckling down and giving back as good as we get, Frank's seemingly simply content to engage in wars of words as Williams tumbles down the Constructors' Championship. I was promised a title-capable car this year... I'm not winning any titles when the car's got worse reliability than Caterham and is much slower. I'm not winning any titles when myself and the Peugeot engines are the only reasons Williams are anything resembling a threat to the teams ahead.

So, I had a long think, and I came up with the only solution to this: I had to leave. There is no alternative - Williams is stuck in a rut and will be no matter what I try and do. And after last year, I'm not interested in an inter-team battle; I've tried it before with Bourdais and Hamilton, and both times they've raced me dirty. Never again will I let that happen, so that ruled out Caterham or Ferrari. That left me with something I never thought I'd do after 2015... I called Jeroen Krautmeir and told him I wanted to drive for him. It was pretty straightforward after that - Jeroen was very pleased to have a driver of my capabilities racing for him, I was very interested in driving for a team focused on moving forward, so we just decided mutually to move things along quickly. I'll be driving for Precision Motorsport next time out.

[SuperAguri]

Cassidy move blocked

Williams have stopped Dave Cassidy from leaving the team. Williams lawyers, the firm, Sue, Grabbitt and Runne made a statement on behalf of the team. "Dave Cassidy is under contract to Williams for the 2017 and 2018 seasons, his contract has no performances clauses and has no grounds to break contract. Precision have not made an official approach to Williams apart from sending an unsolicited cheque for 2 million euros. This cheque has been returned to them. We have approached Precision to open negoiations but until such time that Williams sell the contract, Dave Cassidy will be racing for Williams for the foreseeable future.".

The FIA have stated that contracts signed must be honoured by both sides and that only the team can break the contract. Dave Cassidy has hinted he will take Williams to court, but as the rule book is pretty clear it does not look likely to leave Williams any time soon.

Williams have struggled as late, the new regulations hit Williams harder then the three works teams of Caterham (Judd), Ferrari and Precision (Mercedes), however Williams are best of the independents and have won more races then Precisions with 3 wins to 1 (all scored by Dave Cassidy).

[Salamander]

I wanted to deal with this quickly and calmly - trust Frank to never take the easy option. The situation is black-and-white - my contract is worth 2 million Euros, this was agreed between myself and the team management as the value of what my driving is worth to them for these 2 years. I no longer wish to drive for Williams and so I'm paying the money back. And if Frank was sensible, this is where it would end; what could you possibly hope to gain by keeping a driver in your team who doesn't want to be there?

There's really no way around it - my contract is worth 2 million Euros and not a cent more. I don't see what other money Frank could possibly get out of this. I have bonuses available to be paid out to me, but as they've not been triggered, and aren't likely to, they're not worth anything.

[Klon]

Race Report

Penalty Points after the race:
#5 - Will Power - 15
#6 - Dave Cassidy - 13 (+10 for ignoring blue flags shown in regard to the drivers of car #7 (Pastor Maldonado) and car #18 (Sebastian Vettel))
#7 - Pastor Maldonado - 5
#9 - Davide Valsecchi - 10
#10 - Sergio Pérez - 6
#11 - Nico Rosberg - 3
#15 - Luiz Razia - 8 (+5 for causing an avoidable accident involving the driver of car #52 (Conor Daly))
#22 - Robert Kubica - 3
#25 - Fernando Alonso - 11
#27 - Sébastien Bourdais - 3
#51 - Daniel Ricciardo - 5 (+5 for causing an avoidable accident involving the driver of car #63 (Esteban Ocon))
#52 - Conor Daly - 9
#62 - Jules Bianchi - 5
#63 - Valtteri Bottas - 10
#91 - Jazeman Jaafar - 8
#98 - Bradley Dagnall - 13

In addition to the penalty points assigned to the driver of car #5 (Dave Cassidy), he has also been banned from the 2017 Kawasaki Pacific Grands Prix. Williams have until March 29, 2015 (1:45 a.m., CET) to name a replacement for him. The wage of the replacement will be covered by de Vries' wage. Real-life drivers will be decided by RNG, fictional drivers require user approval. If a replacement is not announced until the deadline, Shinobu Katayama will drive the car.

Budgets, price money and sponsorship after the 17th race of the 2017 season:
+ Williams (SuperAguri) - €73,000,000
+ Sauber (East Londoner) - €26,000,000
+ Valerian (normal32) - €51,000,000
+ Brabham (hawkaussie) - €16,000,000
+ Peugeot (Aeroracing) - €17,000,000
+ Caterham (kevinbotz) - €88,000,000
+ Haas (Ataxia) - €51,000,000
+ Red Bull (roblomas) - €11,000,000
+ Ferrari (pasta_maldonado) - €31,000,000
+ Mahindra (the Masked Lapwing) - €42,000,000
+ Precision (wizzie) - €52,000,000
+ Calinetic (miguel98) - €36,000,000
+ DGN (Salamander) - €71,000,000

[SuperAguri]

Dave Cassidy to enter Chelsea flower show

With the all enforced time off that Dave Cassidy has been given by Williams and FIA after his brain fade in Australia, he has been tending his garden and will be entering a plot at the Chelsea Flower Show. More information can be found in our sister magazine Fauna Fancier.

[Salamander]

Lies and slander. Everyone knows I'm too busy tending to my budgies to bother with gardening.

[Miguel98]

Calinetic's boss excited after first points of the season
This weekend's round of the F1 World Champioship was marked by three things: William's chaotic management finally bitting them in the ass, with Dave Cassidy beeing forced to drive in a car he doesn't want to, resulting in him driving really slow and causing mayhem in Race 1 of the weekend. The other was the return of Daniel Melrose to F1, his 8th stint in the sport, resulting in him scoring more points to his tally with the Valerian. And the last one was Calinetic scoring his first points of the season.
While everyone is busy looking at the Vettel's streak, at the back of the grid two teams are fighting to avoid beeing the wooden spoon in the sport: Brabham, who once we're a great team, and Calinetic, a team that came last year, with a troublesome year, proven by many changes in it's staff. Both teams hadn't scored any points up until this weekend, with Max Verstappen's effort in Germany I the closer both teams got to score points. This weekend though, Calinetic finally broke the curse that seemed to be above them, and scored points, that came from a great drive from Dean Stoneman into 10th place. While the team's financial struggle is evident, the team's owner, businessman Miguel Rocha said that "It's a good sucess. I took over this team at the end of last season, after two changes of ownership across a season. And it's finally great to see some sucess to come from it." He also added that he hopes that the team can survive, and also made a comment regarding the voting made by the FIA: "When the first vote came along, it had something called "Budget Cap" in it, which was voted in favour by most teams. But a certain team, which we won't reveal who, was against it, and changed the FIA's mind regarding it. So, we got called again to vote, and that time, there was no Budget Cap vote. It is sad. The small teams of this sport are the ones who make it survive, by beeing the underdogs. And a budget cap would avoid that the Manufacturer teams overspend across a season."
The next race weekend in in two weeks time, in Sonoma, for the Pacific Grand Prix.

[Klon]

Race Report

Penalty Points after the race:
#5 - Will Power - 15
#6 - Dave Cassidy - 13
#7 - Pastor Maldonado - 5
#9 - Davide Valsecchi - 10
#10 - Sergio Pérez - 6
#11 - Nico Rosberg - 3
#15 - Luiz Razia - 8
#22 - Robert Kubica - 3
#25 - Fernando Alonso - 11
#27 - Sébastien Bourdais - 3
#51 - Daniel Ricciardo - 10 (+5 for causing an avoidable accident involving the driver of car #22 (Robert Kubica))
#52 - Conor Daly - 9
#62 - Jules Bianchi - 5
#63 - Valtteri Bottas - 10
#91 - Jazeman Jaafar - 8
#98 - Bradley Dagnall - 13

Budgets, price money and sponsorship after the 18th race of the 2017 season:
+ Williams (SuperAguri) - €76,000,000
+ Sauber (East Londoner) - €29,000,000
+ Valerian (normal32) - €54,000,000
+ Brabham (hawkaussie) - €17,000,000
+ Peugeot (Aeroracing) - €20,000,000
+ Caterham (kevinbotz) - €92,000,000
+ Haas (Ataxia) - €54,000,000
+ Red Bull (roblomas) - €12,000,000
+ Ferrari (pasta_maldonado) - €34,000,000
+ Mahindra (the Masked Lapwing) - €45,000,000
+ Precision (wizzie) - €53,000,000
+ Calinetic (miguel98) - €38,000,000
+ DGN (Salamander) - €72,000,000