F1 2010 Press Conference

Nitrogue · Feb 6, 2011

Hi everyone,

I'm driving for Lotus and I'm in my first season. My rival is Massa (and I'm ahead of him now). But the thing is, I wish to move up to a better team. I have been winning races but each time I answer a set of questions asked by the Reporter at the Paddock, the level of interest from the other teams such as HRT, BMW, and Virgin drops significantly. And when I check on their page, under the contract section, it's written that "The team were not happy with the way you replied to the press" (however my team, Lotus seems extremely happy with the answers I gave). Why is it so? Plus Lotus have even given me a new contract as Driver 1 for Season 2, but I've declined that offer in order to get better offer from other teams. Please help thanks.

Andrew Bortz · Feb 6, 2011

Answering the questions to reflect that your not happy at Lotus will earn you the interest of other teams but you must also be at a high enough level for some of the teams to offer you a contract ie williams I believe is level 25.

James Chant · Feb 6, 2011

left option = upset your team, impress other teams,
middle option = neutral
right option = impress your team, upset other teams

KeyserSoze · Feb 6, 2011

I don't know about that James... I always select the center or response to the right and regularly receive comments from other teams that they are impressed with how I handled the press conference... I received a message from Ferrari that they were impressed with my comments to the press... Plus, I named Alonso as my rival in season 2 career, beat him and got a contract offer from Ferrari for season 3, while only having an XP of 31...

Andrew Bortz · Feb 6, 2011

KeyserSoze If you beat your rival you automatically get the contract off no matter what the reputation you have. But watch out the following year if you dont have the rep needed you will lose the contract no matter what the team think of you.