Grand Prix Rejects

It is with great pleasure that I can announce that FM2000 is back.
The game has been rebalanced with altered rules, prices, and things like that.
As this is a fresh start, teams are not guaranteed to be ran by the same users as before.

Take a look at these:
Series spreadsheet: (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... edit#gid=0)
Rules: (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1M9X ... fb87M/edit).

Go ahead and officially claim your team on this thread! You have until 00:00 UTC on the 1st of June.

Championship Standings: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... sp=sharing

I'll claim Arrows Grand Prix International

Ferrari please

Having crushed the opposition with Ferrari last time around, I shall pick a different team this time (plus Aislabie already took Ferrari).

Benetton for me please.

For me there's only one option: Prost

I won't forget to enter this time. I shall represent Jaguar Racing & hopefully manage them better than Ford did IRL.

I was McLaren and thus I shall remain McLaren.

Minardi please

Eddie Jordan shall return

I'll take Williams.

The game is going to begin in about a day or so, and there are three teams available.

Sauber F1 Team are coming off of another average season. They may not have the most money, but have an established connections with Red Bull and Petronas, who are viable long term partners. Staying with Red Bull also grants them control over Red Bull’s junior drivers.

British American Racing enters with low expectations after being absolutely humbled in their horrendous 1999 rookie campaign. Backers BAT are willing to pay high amounts for achieving relatively easy goals in comparison to the demands of rival sponsors for the same amount. They also have deep connections to Jacques Villeneuve, and he’s bound to rejoin them.

Honda Racing F1 Team is a new works team under the eye of tech director Harvey Postelthwaite, whose health issues were threatening the entire project from continuing. He’s made it here though, and with a high budget and successful tests last year, expectations are high for a strong rookie year.

I posted this with former FM2000 managers Getz, Hermann, Dom, Shawn, and Takagi in mind. If you’d like to return (or join for the first time) then please go ahead and claim your team on the thread. If you’re too late then you’ll end up on the waiting list.

- Forti

I’ll just swoop in and nab Honda Racing so, anything to give Tora a competitive car!

Well, I had Sauber the last time out... so let's stay with Sauber

I'll grab BAR.

That was quick! Looks like we're into our first pre-season decision: sponsors.

The Sponsor Rules (from the rulebook)
When signing a sponsor, you must specify which Deal (A-E, or 5-1 stars) you intend to aim for.
Sponsor money is paid up-front to help your team as soon as you sign your sponsor.
Should you fail to achieve your sponsor goal over the course of the season, you will have to repay the sponsor and it will greatly hurt your chances of signing with them again the following season.
Sponsors higher up on the list will also avoid sponsor-carneying (see Zakspeed with Marlboro and Monteverdi with Canon in Scrub Era) by backmarkers.
Sponsor criteria that requires hiring specific drivers will only be fulfilled if that driver is in an F1 race (not reserve) seat.
To encourage long-term partnerships, sponsors will give a 10% bonus if you stick with them for each year you are with them past the first year of sponsorship.
If a sponsor goal is failed, but you manage to keep working with them, the bonus is reset back to zero.
Manufacturers, McLaren, and Williams cannot rename their teams as part of sponsor deals.
All RNGs will use Aislabie’s First-Choice-First™ system.

Follow this example:
Team: (team name)
Bid 1: Moneytron (Deal A/5 stars)
Bid 2: Rich Energy (Deal B/4 stars)
Bid 3: Andrea Moda (Deal C/3 stars)

Additionally, we need to hear from the manufacturers regarding the availability of their engines:

Ferrari: 049 (1 available by default, required to be used by Ferrari), 048 (1 available by default)
Honda: RA000E (1 available by default, required to be used by Honda)
Jaguar: Cosworth CR-2 (1 available by default, required to be ran by Jaguar), Cosworth CR-1 (2 available by default), Ford VJM2 (1 available by default)

Teams can distribute up to three sets of each engine, and will profit half of the cost for every purchase by a customer team. Manufacturers can also remove the availability of their engines entirely to customers.

Team: Arrows Grand Prix International
Bid 1: Mild Seven (Deal A/5, either name is acceptable)
Bid 2: Red Bull (Deal B/4, Red Bull Arrows Grand Prix)
Bid 3: European (Deal D,2, European Arrows Grand Prix)

Team: Scuderia Ferrari
_________________________________

Bid 1: Mild Seven (Deal A | 5 stars) ("Scuderia Ferrari Mild Seven")
Bid 2: Marlboro (Deal A | 5 stars) ("Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro")
__________________________________

Engine Availability:

• Ferrari 049 3.0 V10 (2000) - Only available to Ferrari
• Ferrari 048 3.0 V10 (1999) - Unlimited availability: Conditions: Ferrari must be able to direct your bids for one seat; engines cannot be rebadged.

Team: Sauber
Bid 1: Red Bull (B/4) - becomes "Red Bull Racing"
Bid 2: Petronas (C/3)
Bid 3: Orange (D/2)

Team: BAR
Bid 1: BAT (B/4)

We would like to enquiry about the feasibility of a customer Honda deal.

Team: Benetton
Bid 1: Mild Seven (A/5)
Bid 2: Warsteiner (B/4)
Bid 3: HSBC (C/3)

Benetton are also very interested in Ferrari engines. Flavio Briatore is said to have been at Maranello over the weekend.

Team: Jaguar Racing
Bid 1: HSBC (C/3)
Bid 2: Warsteiner (C/3)
Bid 3: Mild Seven (C/3)

There will be two Cosworth CR-1 contracts & one Ford VJM2 contract available, just as listed.

Williams sponsor bids:
Mild Seven (A) Team named Mild Seven Williams X (X being engine manufacturer)
HSBC (C)
Orange (D)

Minardi:
Petronas (C/3) - Rename the engines as Petronas
Telefonica (D/4)
Fondmetal (E/5)

Enquire about the Supertecs

Team: Prost Grand Prix
Bid 1: Gaulioses deal C/3 stars
Bid 2: Orange deal D/2 stars
Bid 3: European deal E/1 star

You have until 19:00 UTC on the 5th of June to bring in driver bids and determine engine availability. Just waiting on Honda (Takagi) and Jordan (CarloSpace). Driver and sponsor RNGs will be done together once the driver signing has been completed.

Team: McLaren
Bid 1: West (Deal B)
Bid 2: Warsteiner (Deal B)
Bid 3: HSBC (Deal E)

Jordan will take tier C sponsorship from B&H.

Bollocks, sorry Forti, it’s been a bank holiday weekend here and I’ve not been in any state to check the forum! Fully understand if you’ve RNG’ed some bids for me, but I can have something up in 20 minutes if that’s okay?

Ninja edit if it’s allowed, disregard if not!

Honda bids:

Warsteiner (C)
HSBC (C)
Orange (D)

We’d be happy to supply BAR with engines for 2000 - no rebadging, and for the first year no conditions attached to engine supply.

takagi_for_the_win wrote: ↑05 Jun 2023, 18:58 Bollocks, sorry Forti, it’s been a bank holiday weekend here and I’ve not been in any state to check the forum! Fully understand if you’ve RNG’ed some bids for me, but I can have something up in 20 minutes if that’s okay?

Ninja edit if it’s allowed, disregard if not!

Honda bids:

Warsteiner (C)
HSBC (C)
Orange (D)

We’d be happy to supply BAR with engines for 2000 - no rebadging, and for the first year no conditions attached to engine supply.

You're on time actually, no RNGs have been done yet. Your engine availability has been noted on the spreadsheet.

Anyway, it is time to sign your F1 drivers.

Refer to this section (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1M9X ... qn36p3pew7) of the rules for F1 driver signing. You will need 2 drivers and a reserve as well. Specify how long their contract is (up to 2002), otherwise the bid will be defaulted to one year.

For now, you will be bidding for F1 drivers only. Any Formula 2 driver signings will be done after the first RNG (sponsors and drivers) of the series.

Lastly, you may notice that you all have an extra million in your team budget. This was done for purposes of balancing the game, as suggested by CarloSpace.

Go bid for your drivers, using this example:
Team: (Team Name)
Driver 1
Bid 1: Firstname Lastname (put their yearly salary here, or PD if they are a pay driver, contract length)
Bid 2: Firstname Lastname (put their yearly salary here, or PD if they are a pay driver, contract length)
Bid 3: Firstname Lastname (put their yearly salary here, or PD if they are a pay driver, contract length)
Driver 2
Bid 1: Firstname Lastname (put their yearly salary here, or PD if they are a pay driver, contract length)
Bid 2: Firstname Lastname (put their yearly salary here, or PD if they are a pay driver, contract length)
Bid 3: Firstname Lastname (put their yearly salary here, or PD if they are a pay driver, contract length)
Reserve Driver
Bid 1: Firstname Lastname (put their yearly salary here, or PD if they are a pay driver, contract length)
Bid 2: Firstname Lastname (put their yearly salary here, or PD if they are a pay driver, contract length)
Bid 3: Firstname Lastname (put their yearly salary here, or PD if they are a pay driver, contract length)

You have until 0:00 UTC on the 9th of June, otherwise your bids may end up getting autopiloted.

Team: Prost Grand Prix
Driver 1
Bid 1: Olivier Panis 500,000, 2 years
Bid 2: Jarno Trulli 600,000, 2 years
Bid 3: Soheil Ayari Gib francs
Driver 2
Bid 1: Stéphane Sarrazin 40,000, 2 years
Bid 2: Sebastian Bourdais 20,000 + costs of a test for superlicence. 2 years
Bid 3: Nicolas Minassian Gib Francs
Reserve Driver,
Bid 1: Franck Montagny Gib Francs
Bid 2: Fabrice Walfisch Gib francs
Bid 3: Viktor Maslov Gib at least 1,000,000

Team: Arrows Grand Prix International

Driver 1:

Bid 1: Pedro de la Rosa (180K)
Bid 2: Pedro Diniz (PD, only if Pedro de la Rosa does not sign for us)
Bid 3: Christian Fittipaldi (200k)

Driver 2:

Bid 1: Ricardo Rosset (PD)
Bid 2: Ricardo Zonta (PD)
Bid 3: Shinji Nakano (PD)

Reserve Driver:

Bid 1: Pedro Diniz (If he is selected for #1 driver, skip this)
Bid 2: Tora Takagi
Bid 3: Marc Gene

Team: Scuderia Ferrari

Driver 1
Bid 1: Michael Schumacher (3 years at 1,000,000)
Bid 2: Eddie Irvine (500,000)
Bid 3: David Coulthard (500,000)

Driver 2
Bid 1: Fernando Alonso (3 years at 100,000 + 5,000 for the test)
Bid 2: David Coulthard (3 years at 500,000)
Bid 3: Jan Magnussen (3 years at 100,000)

Reserve Driver
Bid 1: Luca Badoer (3 years at 100,000; will be released unconditionally for a race seat)
Bid 2: Pedro Diniz (PD)
Bid 3: Ricardo Rosset (PD)

Additionally, for any team wishing to court supply of Ferrari customer engines, the condition is that you submit the following bids for your "Driver 2" seat:
Bid 1: Mika Salo (300,000)
Bid 2: Luca Badoer (100,000)
Bid 3: Vincenzo Sospiri (40,000)

Williams driver bids:

Driver 1:
Ralf Schumacher (2 years, 600 000 per year)
Jarno Trulli (2 years, 600 000 per year)
Alexander Wurz (2 years, 350 000 per year)

Driver 2:
Ricardo Zonta (1 year, PD)
Marc Gene (1 year, PD)
Bruno Junqueira (1 year, PD)

Reserve driver:
Bruno Junqueira (1 year, PD)
Fernando Alonso (2 years, PD)
Andre Lotterer (2 years, PD)
I will allow each one to participate F2.

Team: McLaren

Driver 1
Bid 1: Mika Häkkinen (1m/year, 3 seasons)
Bid 2: Eddie Irvine (0.4m/year, 3 seasons)
Bid 3: Johnny Herbert (0.4m/year, 3 seasons)

Driver 2
Bid 1: Nick Heidfeld (0.24m/year, 2 seasons)
Bid 2: Alexander Wurz (0.24m/year, 2 seasons)
Bid 3: Toranosuke Takagi (-0.24m/year, 2 seasons)

Reserve Driver
Bid 1: Toranosuke Takagi (-0.24m/year, 1 season -> not applicable if signed as Driver 2)
Bid 2: Mario Haberfeld (-0.24m/year, 1 season)
Bid 3: Narain Karthikeyan (-0.24m/year, 1 season)

Minardi

Driver 1
Luca Badoer (0 / year)
Jörg Müller (PD 50k / year)
Cristiano da Matta (PD 100k / year)

Driver 2
Pedro Diniz (PD 300k / year)
Marc Gene (PD 80k / year)
Satoshi Motoyama (PD 50k / year)

Test driver
Marco Apicella (PD 160k / year)
Tarso Marques (PD 140k / year)
Norberto Fontana (PD 60k / year)

All bids 1 season

Team: Benetton

Driver 1
Bid 1: Michael Schumacher (three years at ¤1.25 million)
Bid 2: Jarno Trulli (two years at ¤600k)
Bid 3: Ralf Schumacher (two years at ¤600k)

Driver 2
Bid 1: Tora Takagi (PD, three years at ¤250k. We are willing to talk with Honda about this as well for potential engine partnership)
Bid 2: Rubens Barrichello (two years at ¤500k)
Bid 3: Nick Heidfeld (two years at ¤100k).

Reserve Driver
Bid 1: Takuma Sato (¤5k per race for every race he does)
Bid 2: Shinji Nakano (¤18k per race for every race he does)
Bid 3: Satoshi Motoyama (¤5k per race for every race he does)

Team: Jordan Grand Prix
Driver 1
Bid 1: Heinz-Harald Frentzen (600.000, 2 years)
Bid 2: Eddie Irvine (600.000, 2 years)
Bid 3: Giancarlo Fisichella (600.000, 2 years)
Driver 2
Bid 1: Ricardo Zonta (PD)
Bid 2: Tora Takagi (PD)
Bid 3: Bruno Junqueira (PD) [Must bring at least 150.000]
Reserve Driver
Bid 1: Alexander Wurz (15.000/wkd, 1 year)
Bid 2: Stéphane Sarrazin (2.000/wkd, 1 year)
Bid 3: Ricardo Zonta (PD)

As we still need to hear from Sauber (Dom), Jaguar (DigitDan), BAR (Novitopoli), and Honda (Takagi), I will give them until 0:00 UTC on (super happy) Monday, 11 June. Otherwise autopilot for real this time.

TEAM: BAR

DRIVER 1
Jacques Villeneuve (2y, 750k)
Ralf Schumacher (2y, 600k)
Olivier Panis (2y, 500k)

DRIVER 2
Ricardo Zonta (PD)
Pedro Diniz (PD)
Tora Takagi (PD)

TEST DRIVER
Cristiano Da Matta (PD)
Jörg Müller (PD)
Soheil Ayari (PD)

TEAM: Jaguar

DRIVER 1
Eddie Irvine (2y, 700k)
Johnny Herbert (2y, 500k)
Dario Franchitti (1y, 400k)

DRIVER 2
Rubens Barrichello (2y, 700k)
Giancarlo Fisichella (2y, 600k)
Juan Pablo Montoya (1y, 500k)

TEST DRIVER/RESERVE
Shinji Nakano (PD)
Marc Gené (PD)
Satoshi Motoyama (PD)