Ok so there will be no season review this season either. It was difficult to find time to finish it but I intended to do it today. Come here and find out the draft doesn't exist anymore. ALWAYS write long essays in Word/Notepad/any other software of your choice, never in browser. You shall learn from by elementary mistake.
Anyway, the budgets have finally been updated with championship prize money. Here's a list of what each team received:
- Ferrari - 12000cr
- Williams - 10500cr
- Tyrrell - 9500cr
- Arrows - 9000cr
- McLaren - 8500cr
- Shadow - 8000cr
- Fittipaldi - 7500cr
- Ligier - 7000cr
- Brabham - 6500cr
- Lotus - 6000cr
- Renault - 5500cr
- Alfa Romeo - 5000cr
- Wolf - 4500cr
- Ensign - 4000cr
- Rebaque - 3500cr
- ATS & Osella - 2750cr each
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OFF-SEASON DEVELOPMENT is now happening!
Please submit your development plans for the winter break in our discussions!
You all have 9 development tokens to spend either on a new chassis or your current chassis. If you wish to build a new chassis, you must pay 2500cr in designing costs before using the tokens.
If you wish to develop your current chassis, you can divide the tokens between performance and reliability development as you wish.
Note! If you are building a new chassis and the chassis in completed before all tokens have been used, I will inform you and ask how you wish to spend your remaining tokens.
Feel free to ask anything!
The off-season development market is open! You have exactly two weeks to make/modify your investments.
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In other news,
ENSIGN has folded and will not take part next season if a replacement manager isn't found before the end of off-season development market.
RENAULT's participation as a team is still in doubt. Team manager
@Costello hasn't been seen for a while and has been given two weeks to confirm his team's participation next season.
FITTIPALDI manager has stepped aside but a replacement has already been found.
Some drivers have announced their retirement from the sport, most notable being the 1976 World Champion
James Hunt and a multiple race winner
Clay Regazzoni. Both drivers have struggled lately in the minor teams and have decided to call it a day after drives in the top teams have been hard to come by. Other drivers to retire are
Jean-Pierre Jabouille,
Renzo Zorzi,
Emilio de Villota,
Harald Ertl.