Race Department Racing Manager - Season 1

Milos · Sep 24, 2022

Hungary Qualifying

OUT: GIO, RIC, STR, ALO, PIA

OUT: GAS, ALB, ZHO, VET, LEC

Race is dry
Softs: 17-19 laps
Mediums: 30-33 laps
Hards: 38-41 laps
In my testing, the tyre saving stat of the driver played a key role, due to high tyre wear of this track. Play safe on the strategy, for some drivers a lot of tyre saving will be required to complete the default strategies. Due to the short pitlane, 3-stop will be fastest on paper, but hard to execute at this track due to the difficulty of overtaking.
#1: M-H with some tyre saving with pitstop on lap 32
#2: S-M-M with pitstops on laps 16, 43
#3: S-S-S-M with push only in the final stint and pitstops on laps 16,32,48.

Deadline for strategies is Sunday 03:00 CEST
and the update goes until lap 18.

Milos · Sep 25, 2022

Hungary Laps 1-18

Next update until lap 30.
Deadline Sept 26th 22:00 CEST

Milos · Sep 26, 2022

Hungary Laps 19-30

Next update until lap 44.
Deadline Sept. 27th 23:00 CEST

Milos · Sep 27, 2022

Hungary Laps 31-44

Next update to the end, lap 70.
Deadline Sept. 29th 00:01 CEST

Milos · Sep 30, 2022

Hungary Laps 45-70

Budgets will be updated in a bit, including new tiers:

Milos · Sep 30, 2022

Spa Free Practice

Weather Report
Quali - Medium wetness
Race - Heavy Wet with a transition to medium late in the race

And an announcement:
Due to inactivity (3 races missed) I will put 2 teams on sale:
Jawz GP and NLE Motorsport

If anyone wants to take over, I will offer one of the teams to whoever asks for it first. I won't allow driver transfers to your main team however.
Otherwise, they will be removed from the grid.

Edit: budgets are updated, deadline Monday 3rd 00:01 CEST

Márk Lintner · Oct 1, 2022

@Aidan Keranen @kedy89 @rubaru @Meff28s @Jimlaad43 @FinFan @Tomcul @Ruttman98

Anyone want to take 1 of the two teams..
Details in 1 post upper

Jimlaad43 · Oct 3, 2022

I'm already a team owner

Milos · Oct 3, 2022

Spa Qualifying

OUT: GIO (crash), DVR, RIC, GAS, VER

OUT: ALB, BOT, ALO, STR, HUL

Race starts off heavy wet, tyres by default last 30 laps.
Due to the potential light rain, there's a choice between doing push and stop on lap 22, or save and stop when the rain eases up for intermediates.

Race will go until lap 23 and deadline until Oct 4th 17:00 CEST

Milos · Oct 4, 2022

Oh also I forgot to mention the new management:
NLE - @Márk Lintner
Jawz - me

(but still open if anyone wishes to take over)

Milos · Oct 4, 2022

Spa Race Laps 1-15

It would appear Albon went off the track, rejoined unsafely and collected Magnussen. For this, the stewards have awarded him a 3-place grid penalty in the next round.

I chose to stop the second red flag because the race delays moved the lighter rain forward, and it is now scheduled within the next 2 laps.
There is little time lost on inters so it might be worth a switch at the restart, up to you to decide.

Next update until lap 44, or earlier if the weather changes.
Deadline Oct 5th 22:00 CEST

Milos · Oct 5, 2022

Milos said:
Deadline Oct 5th 22:00 CEST

I'll wait an extra day as I'm missing some orders

Milos · Oct 7, 2022

Spa Race Laps 16-19

Hulkenberg collided with Vettel, which the stewards deem to be a racing incident.
Verstappen crashed out on his own
Ultimately, these 2 incidents cause another red flag.

No changes to the weather at the moment it will stay intermediate rain, but there is potential for heavier rain later in the race.

I will switch everyone to intermediates, and the update will go to lap 44 unless there is more rain or another red flag.
Deadline Oct 8th 03:00 CEST

Milos · Oct 9, 2022

Spa Race Laps 20-44

More rain came, however a bit late and short lived.
Nothing particularly of interest happened

I will update the budgets shortly

Milos · Oct 9, 2022

Zandvoort Free Practice

Weather Report
Qualifying will be intermediate wet

the 5-race upgrade will come before COTA

Market is open until Monday Oct 10th 16:00 CEST

Milos · Oct 10, 2022

Zandvoort Qualifying

OUT: ALB, GIO, STR, BOT, GAS
with Albon's penalty, he will start P18

OUT: DVR, ALO, VET, HUL, LEC

Weather update
Race will be full dry

Strategy update
Soft - 21-22 laps
Medium - 34-38 laps
Hard - 40-49 laps
A lot of crashes in my test run, so push mode should be used with caution. Still, the very short pitlane might make a 3-stop worth looking at, but the difficulty of overtaking might also make the 1-stop more appealing. I will offer 3 different 1-stops that I tested and are equally fast, while the 3-stop was 30 seconds faster in my testing.
71 lap race,
#1a: Soft start, pit on lap 25-26 for medium and tyre save the entire race
#1b: Soft start, pit on lap 20-24 for hard and tyre save for 10 laps in each stint
#1c: Medium start, pit on lap 30-34 for hard
#2: Soft start, pit on lap 20 for soft and lap 40 for medium
#3: Soft start, pit on lap 17,34 for soft and lap 51 for medium and push the entire race

The update will go until lap 22.
Deadline Oct 11th 18:00 CEST

Milos · Oct 11, 2022

Zandvoort Laps 1-21

Very weak start from Zhou and Piastri as they drop a lot of places.

Slightly slower pitstop by Magnussen

Minor mistakes from Gasly and De Vries means they lose places. De Vries rejoins unsafely, which catches Magnussen off guard. For this, the stewards have given De Vries a 10 second time penalty, which will be served at the next pitstop.
This brings out the VSC.

Next update to go until lap 41.
Deadline Oct 12th 15:00 CEST