Short Season Recaps
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SEASON 1
It was a new experience for the motorsports world. Dozens of teams launched their teams to be the winner of Formula Manager. The first victory came from Pastor Maldonado who raced for Eggbeer Racing. Adam Eggbeer was the pioneer manager. However, the series proved a huge challenge for many investors. Many teams had to quit mid-season due to financial issues. Eggbeer was one of them. But Marcel Purschke bought the team and moved on.
For the title, it was a duel between Project D led by Sebastien Levret and Team Aware led by Daniel Higgins. In the end, Project D grasped the crown with Petrov leading the charge. Aidan Keranen and Sasha Jednak were the flash mid-season entrants. They achieved victories, but their fewer race participation number disabled their title bids. Manolis Sigoulakis was also a formidable force with Grip Racing.
Top Managers of the Season:
1 - Sebastien Levret
2 - Daniel Higgins
3 - Marcel Purschke/Adam Eggbeer
SEASON 2
The previous season's closing winner, Michael Schumacher was the shining star of the year. With Sasha Jednak's Red Night, he grabbed 5 wins. His closest rival was Mika Hakkinen who drove for Aidan Keranen's 2KF1. But the Finn driver could not keep up with the German.
First season's giants, Project D and Team Aware were nowhere to be found. Project D had to quit mid-season while Team Aware could not even launch their car. Purschke Racing was also closed before the season.
Below the top 2, Steven Poirier's Viper Team Racing had a strong showing. The team took a victory and finished 3rd. Jimmy Laad's DTK Racing made their debut and their top 5 battles with Sigoulakis' Grip Racing were great to watch.
Top Managers of the Season:
1 - Sasha Jednak
2 - Aidan Keranen
3 - Steven Poirier
SEASON 3
It was the first season in which the default engine rule was scrapped and different manufacturers came into the fray. Renault and Ferrari built the best machines while Mercedes and Cosworth struggled.
Continuing their previous season's form, Red Night dominated the first races. But it was Daniel Ricciardo this time instead of Schumacher. But the domination was cut short with the intrusion of three new faces: Tapio Rinneaho's Girl Power, Tobi Kederer's BRT and Milos Ancevski's Apex Racing Team. Simona de Silvestro took the dominating role in the mid-season with 3 victories, but it was the consistency took the title in the end. Ronnie Peterson of BRT managed to win all with only 1 victory. The last race was a title decider between him, Silvestro and ART's Fernando Alonso. Red Night's late-season form pushed Ricciardo way back into 4th before the final race.
It was a good season for Grip Racing and DTK Racing. Especially for the latter as Ferenc Szisz took the team's maiden victory. On the other side, 2KF1 shocked everyone as Hakkinen could not deliver.
Top Managers of the Season:
1 - Tapio Rinneaho
2 - Milos Ancevski
3 - Tobi Kederer
SEASON 4
There were interesting developments in the winter. Rinneaho introduced a new engine to the series named "Audrey." But Girl Power lost Silvestro as she switched sides to ART. 2KF1 lost Hakkinen's hand.
The season started off as a duel between BRT and Red Night. It was Ricciardo leading the title fight post-race 4, but Peterson gained a crazy momentum afterwards and took 5 consecutive wins while Ricciardo struggled. In the end, it was Peterson taking the title. Girl Power taught Silvestro a lesson with Michele Mouton and Lella Lombardi as they finished higher than the ART driver. It was DTK once again, taking a single victory as they won the closing round of the season. Ferrari was the dominating engine as both BRT and Red Night used them. While Audrey showed a good progress of development as DTK won the last race with them.
Top Managers of the Season:
1 - Tobi Kederer
2 - Sasha Jednak
3 - Tapio Rinneaho
SEASON 5
The season took off with a series of engine manufacturer introductions. Keranen brought Aston Martin to the sport, while Ancevski introduced Blackcat and Jednak came in with Riferra. But none of the manufacturer teams had much success as Kederer teams BRT and Silver Soul crashed the all opposition.
BRT won all 10 races. The team had 7 doubles. Silver Soul followed them with Alonso's frequent 3rd place finishes. It was the most straightforward season of Formula Manager. The other teams had no answers to BRT's supreme car and strategies. Especially Grip Racing and 2KF1 was big disappointments of the year. Ricciardo was the best after BRT/Silver Soul teams as he brought podiums to Red Night. However, Girl Power scored more points with their late-season developments.
Top Managers of the Season:
1 - Tobi Kederer
2 - Tapio Rinneaho
3 - Sasha Jednak
SEASON 6
Regrettably for the sport, ART and Grip Racing closed factories and Blackcat's development was stopped. Driver changes were groundbreaking. Season 5's BRT dominating team shockingly lost their drivers. Fangio and Hulkenberg were the new guns of the team. Peterson switched to Red Night. Alonso to 2KF1, and Ricciardo to Mars GP. Jawz GP showed a promising pace and Schumacher started the season with pole position for the team.
Supplied by Porsche, the new BRT driver Hulkenberg took the victory in the season opener. It was apparent that the team did not rely on their driver solely. 2KF1 and Red Night started the season with solid results as well.
In the 2nd race, Andy Black's Canon Racing took a striking victory as Bellof dominated the field. But more striking news followed as Red Night and DTK announced their withdrawal from the sport. 2KF1 immediately signed up Peterson.
Rest of the season saw proper performances by Girl Power, Canon Racing, Aaron Reed's Reed Road Racing, Jason Lutz's Ram F1 and Jawz GP, but the title battle was between BRT and 2KF1. It was Hulkenberg vs Alonso vs Peterson. Silvestro scored podium finishes several times, but Girl Power chassis did not have enough pace for the top.
At the 4th race, Ricciardo came back to the top by joining to BRT. He then took 4 victories and stole many valuable points from 2KF1s. It allowed Hulkenberg to remain the title fight without any victory except the season opener.
After the mid-season break, BRT started manufacturing Lamborghini engines. Surprisingly, the team did not use them and kept running Porsches instead. It was Jawz GP which ran the newly introduced Lambos. But 2 races later, BRT switched to Lambos and the engine took its first victory with Ricciardo.
In the end it was a 4-way battle between Hulkenberg, Alonso, Peterson and Ricciardo. Retirements by 2KF1 drivers and Ricciardo's late entrance allowed Hulkenberg's great consistency to win the title for both himself and BRT.
Top Managers of the Season:
1 - Tobi Kederer
2 - Aidan Keranen
3 - Tapio Rinneaho
SEASON 7
Peterson returned home to BRT while Ricciardo was demoted to the sister team Silver Soul. Hakkinen was back at 2KF1. Hulkenberg was hired by Reed Road Racing. Jimmy Laad made a return with a new brand, Equipe Delacroix.
2KF1 lacked the previous year's form while Girl Power could not get into a consistent rhythm as Silvestro won 2 times, but finished lowly in the rest of the races.. Hulkenberg made wonders with RRR as the team took their maiden victory.
It was an easy season for BRT as Peterson took the title once again. He finished on podium in all of the 7 races.
Top Managers of the Season:
1 - Tobi Kederer
2 - Tapio Rinneaho
3 - Aidan Keranen
SEASON 8
Apex Racing Team returned with Delacroix engines. Alonso immediately signed up with them. Peterson shocked everyone by joining to Keranen Motorsports. The rumours indicated a million dollar deal. Peterson's void was filled with Ricciardo and Briscoe at BRT.
Reliability was a huge concern for the teams as races saw many retiring. BRT did not have a single retirement as Ricciardo took the title with a comfortable lead. Briscoe challenged him, but it was in the hands of the Australian whole season. Schumacher was the best of the race as Jordan Bradford's Elysium Racing Team had a wonderful season. Ram F1 also proved strong this year. ERT and the American team presented a great battle to be the 2nd best to BRT.
ART and Cuspide tried experimental setups which allowed them to be crazily fast at certain tracks. Alonso and Norris managed to get a single victory each, but their season-wide performance was terrible. Girl Power and 2KF1 were the disappointing teams of the season. Delacroix engines showed the best development rate of the season as their power unit gained considerable performance boost. Alonso's victory was the engine's maiden victory. But they were not any close to Lamborghini.
Top Managers of the Season:
1 - Tobi Kederer
2 - Jordan Bradford
3 - Jason Lutz
SEASON 9
Red Night made its return to the series, but the team lacked a good driver line-up and big budget. It was a re-orientation season for the squad. Peterson signed up with Silver Soul. Engine regulation changes brought the field closer.
There were quite a number of surprising victories. Watson won with Cosworth engine and Keranen Motorsports car. Silver Souls took two wins with Ferrari engines. ART once again achieved a victory, with Norris this time.
BRT was the team to beat once again. Ricciardo showed a great form of consistency. But this time, 2KF1's Hakkinen was also consistent. It was until the very last race that their title fight continued. It was Ricciardo winning in the end.
Elysium and Ram F1 massively fell off the mark from the anticipation they built from the previous season. Bradford decided to call it quits, but Lutz kept his Ram F1 team operational for the upcoming final season. Girl Power was once again having problems with the pitwall and their drivers. Silvestro made too many mistakes, but her mistakes were equalled by the wrong calls from her engineer.
Top Managers of the Season:
1 - Tobi Kederer
2 - Milos Ancevski
3 - Aidan Keranen
SEASON 10
The final season saw Lamborghini engines falling behind Aston Martin and Delacroix. This allowed for a three-way battle between BRT-ART-2KF1.
BRT won the season opener with Ricciardo. Hakkinen finished a massively disappointing 13th and that poor result sealed the fate of the season for 2KF1. In the 2nd race, Red Night returned to the top with Vettel. However, it was just a one-race showing by the team as they failed to remain competitive in the other 4 races.
Alonso had a very consistent season. He finished 4 races on podium, but never took a victory. Ricciardo fell out of podium in three races and it ruined his title chances.
In the final race, Alonso, Ricciardo and Hakkinen had a chance for the title. The 2KF1 driver dominated the race massively, but his 3rd victory was not enough as Alonso finished 3rd. Ricciardo finished behind his team-mate Bellof on 5th and this dropped him to 3rd at the drivers' championship. 2KF1 snatched the 2nd place at the constructors' from BRT with just 1 point. ART won that title as well.
Top Managers of the Season:
1 - Milos Ancevski
2 - Aidan Keranen
3 - Tobi Kederer
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SEASON 1
It was a new experience for the motorsports world. Dozens of teams launched their teams to be the winner of Formula Manager. The first victory came from Pastor Maldonado who raced for Eggbeer Racing. Adam Eggbeer was the pioneer manager. However, the series proved a huge challenge for many investors. Many teams had to quit mid-season due to financial issues. Eggbeer was one of them. But Marcel Purschke bought the team and moved on.
For the title, it was a duel between Project D led by Sebastien Levret and Team Aware led by Daniel Higgins. In the end, Project D grasped the crown with Petrov leading the charge. Aidan Keranen and Sasha Jednak were the flash mid-season entrants. They achieved victories, but their fewer race participation number disabled their title bids. Manolis Sigoulakis was also a formidable force with Grip Racing.
Top Managers of the Season:
1 - Sebastien Levret
2 - Daniel Higgins
3 - Marcel Purschke/Adam Eggbeer
SEASON 2
The previous season's closing winner, Michael Schumacher was the shining star of the year. With Sasha Jednak's Red Night, he grabbed 5 wins. His closest rival was Mika Hakkinen who drove for Aidan Keranen's 2KF1. But the Finn driver could not keep up with the German.
First season's giants, Project D and Team Aware were nowhere to be found. Project D had to quit mid-season while Team Aware could not even launch their car. Purschke Racing was also closed before the season.
Below the top 2, Steven Poirier's Viper Team Racing had a strong showing. The team took a victory and finished 3rd. Jimmy Laad's DTK Racing made their debut and their top 5 battles with Sigoulakis' Grip Racing were great to watch.
Top Managers of the Season:
1 - Sasha Jednak
2 - Aidan Keranen
3 - Steven Poirier
SEASON 3
It was the first season in which the default engine rule was scrapped and different manufacturers came into the fray. Renault and Ferrari built the best machines while Mercedes and Cosworth struggled.
Continuing their previous season's form, Red Night dominated the first races. But it was Daniel Ricciardo this time instead of Schumacher. But the domination was cut short with the intrusion of three new faces: Tapio Rinneaho's Girl Power, Tobi Kederer's BRT and Milos Ancevski's Apex Racing Team. Simona de Silvestro took the dominating role in the mid-season with 3 victories, but it was the consistency took the title in the end. Ronnie Peterson of BRT managed to win all with only 1 victory. The last race was a title decider between him, Silvestro and ART's Fernando Alonso. Red Night's late-season form pushed Ricciardo way back into 4th before the final race.
It was a good season for Grip Racing and DTK Racing. Especially for the latter as Ferenc Szisz took the team's maiden victory. On the other side, 2KF1 shocked everyone as Hakkinen could not deliver.
Top Managers of the Season:
1 - Tapio Rinneaho
2 - Milos Ancevski
3 - Tobi Kederer
SEASON 4
There were interesting developments in the winter. Rinneaho introduced a new engine to the series named "Audrey." But Girl Power lost Silvestro as she switched sides to ART. 2KF1 lost Hakkinen's hand.
The season started off as a duel between BRT and Red Night. It was Ricciardo leading the title fight post-race 4, but Peterson gained a crazy momentum afterwards and took 5 consecutive wins while Ricciardo struggled. In the end, it was Peterson taking the title. Girl Power taught Silvestro a lesson with Michele Mouton and Lella Lombardi as they finished higher than the ART driver. It was DTK once again, taking a single victory as they won the closing round of the season. Ferrari was the dominating engine as both BRT and Red Night used them. While Audrey showed a good progress of development as DTK won the last race with them.
Top Managers of the Season:
1 - Tobi Kederer
2 - Sasha Jednak
3 - Tapio Rinneaho
SEASON 5
The season took off with a series of engine manufacturer introductions. Keranen brought Aston Martin to the sport, while Ancevski introduced Blackcat and Jednak came in with Riferra. But none of the manufacturer teams had much success as Kederer teams BRT and Silver Soul crashed the all opposition.
BRT won all 10 races. The team had 7 doubles. Silver Soul followed them with Alonso's frequent 3rd place finishes. It was the most straightforward season of Formula Manager. The other teams had no answers to BRT's supreme car and strategies. Especially Grip Racing and 2KF1 was big disappointments of the year. Ricciardo was the best after BRT/Silver Soul teams as he brought podiums to Red Night. However, Girl Power scored more points with their late-season developments.
Top Managers of the Season:
1 - Tobi Kederer
2 - Tapio Rinneaho
3 - Sasha Jednak
SEASON 6
Regrettably for the sport, ART and Grip Racing closed factories and Blackcat's development was stopped. Driver changes were groundbreaking. Season 5's BRT dominating team shockingly lost their drivers. Fangio and Hulkenberg were the new guns of the team. Peterson switched to Red Night. Alonso to 2KF1, and Ricciardo to Mars GP. Jawz GP showed a promising pace and Schumacher started the season with pole position for the team.
Supplied by Porsche, the new BRT driver Hulkenberg took the victory in the season opener. It was apparent that the team did not rely on their driver solely. 2KF1 and Red Night started the season with solid results as well.
In the 2nd race, Andy Black's Canon Racing took a striking victory as Bellof dominated the field. But more striking news followed as Red Night and DTK announced their withdrawal from the sport. 2KF1 immediately signed up Peterson.
Rest of the season saw proper performances by Girl Power, Canon Racing, Aaron Reed's Reed Road Racing, Jason Lutz's Ram F1 and Jawz GP, but the title battle was between BRT and 2KF1. It was Hulkenberg vs Alonso vs Peterson. Silvestro scored podium finishes several times, but Girl Power chassis did not have enough pace for the top.
At the 4th race, Ricciardo came back to the top by joining to BRT. He then took 4 victories and stole many valuable points from 2KF1s. It allowed Hulkenberg to remain the title fight without any victory except the season opener.
After the mid-season break, BRT started manufacturing Lamborghini engines. Surprisingly, the team did not use them and kept running Porsches instead. It was Jawz GP which ran the newly introduced Lambos. But 2 races later, BRT switched to Lambos and the engine took its first victory with Ricciardo.
In the end it was a 4-way battle between Hulkenberg, Alonso, Peterson and Ricciardo. Retirements by 2KF1 drivers and Ricciardo's late entrance allowed Hulkenberg's great consistency to win the title for both himself and BRT.
Top Managers of the Season:
1 - Tobi Kederer
2 - Aidan Keranen
3 - Tapio Rinneaho
SEASON 7
Peterson returned home to BRT while Ricciardo was demoted to the sister team Silver Soul. Hakkinen was back at 2KF1. Hulkenberg was hired by Reed Road Racing. Jimmy Laad made a return with a new brand, Equipe Delacroix.
2KF1 lacked the previous year's form while Girl Power could not get into a consistent rhythm as Silvestro won 2 times, but finished lowly in the rest of the races.. Hulkenberg made wonders with RRR as the team took their maiden victory.
It was an easy season for BRT as Peterson took the title once again. He finished on podium in all of the 7 races.
Top Managers of the Season:
1 - Tobi Kederer
2 - Tapio Rinneaho
3 - Aidan Keranen
SEASON 8
Apex Racing Team returned with Delacroix engines. Alonso immediately signed up with them. Peterson shocked everyone by joining to Keranen Motorsports. The rumours indicated a million dollar deal. Peterson's void was filled with Ricciardo and Briscoe at BRT.
Reliability was a huge concern for the teams as races saw many retiring. BRT did not have a single retirement as Ricciardo took the title with a comfortable lead. Briscoe challenged him, but it was in the hands of the Australian whole season. Schumacher was the best of the race as Jordan Bradford's Elysium Racing Team had a wonderful season. Ram F1 also proved strong this year. ERT and the American team presented a great battle to be the 2nd best to BRT.
ART and Cuspide tried experimental setups which allowed them to be crazily fast at certain tracks. Alonso and Norris managed to get a single victory each, but their season-wide performance was terrible. Girl Power and 2KF1 were the disappointing teams of the season. Delacroix engines showed the best development rate of the season as their power unit gained considerable performance boost. Alonso's victory was the engine's maiden victory. But they were not any close to Lamborghini.
Top Managers of the Season:
1 - Tobi Kederer
2 - Jordan Bradford
3 - Jason Lutz
SEASON 9
Red Night made its return to the series, but the team lacked a good driver line-up and big budget. It was a re-orientation season for the squad. Peterson signed up with Silver Soul. Engine regulation changes brought the field closer.
There were quite a number of surprising victories. Watson won with Cosworth engine and Keranen Motorsports car. Silver Souls took two wins with Ferrari engines. ART once again achieved a victory, with Norris this time.
BRT was the team to beat once again. Ricciardo showed a great form of consistency. But this time, 2KF1's Hakkinen was also consistent. It was until the very last race that their title fight continued. It was Ricciardo winning in the end.
Elysium and Ram F1 massively fell off the mark from the anticipation they built from the previous season. Bradford decided to call it quits, but Lutz kept his Ram F1 team operational for the upcoming final season. Girl Power was once again having problems with the pitwall and their drivers. Silvestro made too many mistakes, but her mistakes were equalled by the wrong calls from her engineer.
Top Managers of the Season:
1 - Tobi Kederer
2 - Milos Ancevski
3 - Aidan Keranen
SEASON 10
The final season saw Lamborghini engines falling behind Aston Martin and Delacroix. This allowed for a three-way battle between BRT-ART-2KF1.
BRT won the season opener with Ricciardo. Hakkinen finished a massively disappointing 13th and that poor result sealed the fate of the season for 2KF1. In the 2nd race, Red Night returned to the top with Vettel. However, it was just a one-race showing by the team as they failed to remain competitive in the other 4 races.
Alonso had a very consistent season. He finished 4 races on podium, but never took a victory. Ricciardo fell out of podium in three races and it ruined his title chances.
In the final race, Alonso, Ricciardo and Hakkinen had a chance for the title. The 2KF1 driver dominated the race massively, but his 3rd victory was not enough as Alonso finished 3rd. Ricciardo finished behind his team-mate Bellof on 5th and this dropped him to 3rd at the drivers' championship. 2KF1 snatched the 2nd place at the constructors' from BRT with just 1 point. ART won that title as well.
Top Managers of the Season:
1 - Milos Ancevski
2 - Aidan Keranen
3 - Tobi Kederer
