The main problem with Tier 2 is that you can never get the good drivers in the sign up process. Tiers 1 and 4 steal the A or B drivers, leaving the middle with only C's to choose from. That's the problem with going up Tiers.
Good drivers are crucial in this form of the game.
If you do an excellent job with your setup bit 'bad' drivers (at least for tier 1) and go to tier 1 like @kedy89 you only can fall down again because the other two tier 1 teams are established and already have better drivers. theyll outperform in the long run.
Addition: You need two good drivers so you have a high chance to stay in your tier to get good drivers again.
Maserati only had one good driver, even with a perfect start they went down to tier 2.
But the good driver, fangio, is still a good driver and better than the other tier 2 teams. He stays because of the contract length. It basically helps better teams who have a bad year. Bad teams with a good year going down again because of it So maserati goes up to tier 2 again.
Now they seem to go down again because they only have one good driver.
@Jimlaad43@kedy89@Benutzername
What we could notice in that example is that a Tier 2 team with a perfect setup, who bet on the right champions (both) is still slower than any other Tier 1 team. And if it's happening for a Tier 2 it's also happening below. Some here said that it was almost impossible for a Tier 3 to score points. Even if it has happened sometimes, it wasn't wrong.
You also noticed that getting good drivers for a Tier 2 team is almost impossible. First it depends on how many good drivers there are. And who is available. We only have 9 C class drivers currently. In the future, for the 70's I'm not sure there won't be any ! Second, it's also because a Tier 2 cannot finish higher than the 3rd or 4th position in the standings.
All I do is making Tiers slightly less important than they are, that's all.
You have.. 24h to buy a driver against PP 48h to send me your wish-list 72h to trade a driver against another driver (and some PP) 96h to send me your new number & your bets for the next Champions
I guess it depends on where exactly he is placed in the B range. Even then, Caracciola won being in B, and he dropped to C right after. So I assume he already was quite close to C when he won.