Virtual F1 1976 Season

[pi314159]

I'm going to run a Virtual Formula 1 season based on the 1976 season. You can take control of one of the constructors in 1976. Every Constructor can enter 1-3 cars.

Scuderia Ferrari (kostas22)
Car: Ferrari 312T2
Engine: Ferrari
Budget: 10.000.000 (9.007.500 remaining)
Driver 1: Niki Lauda
Driver 2: Jody Scheckter

Elf Team Tyrrell (FantometteBR)
Car: Tyrrell P34
Engine: Cosworth
Budget: 7.500.000 (4.385.000 remaining)
Driver 1: Patrick Depailler
Driver 2: Carlos Pace
Driver 3: Henri Pescarolo (Monaco)

Team Lotus (FMecha)
Car: Lotus 77
Engine: Ford Cosworth
Budget: 7.000.000 (4.360.000 remaining)
Driver 1: Carlos Reutemann
Driver 2: Jacques Laffite

Martini Racing (pasta_maldonado)
Car: Brabham BT45
Engine: Alfa Romeo
Budget: 5.000.000 (990.000 remaining)
Driver 1: Clay Regazzoni
Driver 2: Emerson Fittipaldi
Driver 3: Ronnie Peterson

March (East Londoner)
Car: March 761
Engine: Matra
Budget: 6.000.000 (3.040.000 remaining)
Driver 1: Alan Jones
Driver 2: Mario Andretti

Team McLaren (BlindCaveSalamander)
Car: McLaren M23
Engine: Cosworth
Budget: 8.500.000 (5.450.000 remaining)
Driver 1: James Hunt
Driver 2: Tom Pryce

Ligier (Wizzie)
Car: Ligier JS5
Engine: Alfa Romeo / Matra
Budget: 5.000.000 (1.155.000 remaining)
Driver 1: Vittorio Brambilla
Driver 2: Gunnar Nilsson
Driver 3: Gijs van Lennep (European races)

Stanley BRM (merged with Kojima)
Car: BRM P201B
Budget: 1.200.000
Drivers: TBA

Shadow Racing Team (takagi_for_the_win)
Car: Shadow DN5B
Engine: Ford Cosworth
Budget: 5.000.000 (1.400.000 remaining)
Driver 1: Hans-Joachim Stuck
Driver 2: Rolf Stommelen
Driver 3: Lella Lombardi (European races only)

Team Surtees (UgncreativeUsergname)
Car: Surtees TS19
Engine: Ford Cosworth
Budget: 4.000.000 (-600.000 remaining)
Drivers: Chris Amon

Frank Williams Racing Cars/Walter Wolf Racing (tommykl)
Car: Williams FW05
Engine: Ford Cosworth
Budget: 3.000.000 (55.000 remaining)
Driver 1: Jacky Ickx
Driver 2 : Alex Ribeiro (Brazil); Ian Scheckter (South Africa); Brett Lunger (USA West); Emilio Zapico (Spain); Patrick Nève (Belgium); Michel Leclère (Monaco);

Team Ensign (eurobrun)
Car: Ensign N176
Engine: Ford Cosworth
Budget: 2.700.000 (-450.000 remaining)
Driver 1: Gilles Villeneuve

Hesketh Racing (SuperAguri)
Car: Hesketh 308D
Engine: Ford Cosworth
Budget: 3.000.000 (330.000 remaining)
Driver 1: John Watson
Driver 2: Guy Edwards

Parnelli Jones Racing (SeedStriker)
Car: Parnelli VPJ4
Budget: 1.125.000
Driver: Divina Galica

Team Penske (Klon)
Car: Penske PC4
Engine: Ferrari
Budget: 4.500.000 (3.625.000 remaining)
Driver 1: Jochen Mass
Driver 2: Jocko Maggiacomo

Copersucar-Fittipaldi (BaconLettuceNinja)
Car: Fittipaldi FD04
Budget: 3.750.000 (1.465.000 remaining)
Driver 1: Emilio de Villota
Driver 2: Larry Perkins; Ingo Hoffmann (Round 1-2)

HB Bewaking Alarm Systems (Samster)
Car: Boro N175
Engine: Cosworth
Budget: 1.000.000 (120.000 remaining)
Driver: Maurizio Flammini
Driver 2:Francisco Lameirão(Brazil)

Stanley Kojima BRM (Kojima Engineering) (This)
Car: Kojima KE007
Engine: BRM
Budget: 1.250.000 (15.000 remaining)
Driver 1: Kazuyoshi Hoshino (1-3,16) / Brian Henton (12-15
Driver 2: Masahiro Hasemi (full season)
Driver 3: Masami Kuwashima (Japan only)

Maki Engineering (vacant)
Car: Maki F102A
Engine: Cosworth
Budget 750.000 (370.000 remaining)
Driver: Jean Pierre Jarier

Available Engine Suppliers:
Ford Cosworth: 300.000 per season and car, unlimited number of customers
Ferrari: 500.000 per season and car, supplier for Ferrari and one customer
Matra: 400.000 per season and car, supplier for up to two customers
Alfa Romeo: 300.000 per season and car, supplier for up to two customers
BRM: 250.000 per season and car, supplier for BRM and one customer

Drivers:
Available are all Drivers competing in the 1976 Formula 1 season. You can also sign other racing drivers active during this period, for example drivers from Fomula 2.

Niki Lauda 500.000 (Ferrari)
Emerson Fittipaldi 400.000 (Brabham)
James Hunt 375.000 (McLaren)
Carlos Reutemann 350.000 (Lotus)
Clay Regazzoni 300.000 (Brabham)
Carlos Pace 275.000 (Tyrrell)
Jody Scheckter 275.000 (Ferrari)
Jochen Mass 225.000 (Penske)
Patrick Depailler 200.000 (Tyrrell)
Tom Pryce 175.000 (McLaren)
Jacques Laffite 160.000 (Lotus)
Ronnie Peterson 160.000 (Brabham)
Vittorio Brambilla 150.000 (Ligier)
Mario Andretti 150.000 (March)
Jacky Ickx 110.000 (Williams)
Alan Jones 110.000 (March)
Jean-Pierre Jarier 80.000 (Maki)
Gijs van Lennep 60.000 (Ligier, European races only)
All other Drivers 50.000

Entering a car the whole season will cost 350.000, entering a car for one race will cost 25.000

There will be three different upgrades

Grip
Topspeed
Reliability

They will be available as small (150.000), medium(300.000) and large (450.000). Each Constructor can buy one large or two medium or small upgrades per race.

[pasta_maldonado]

Just a small question, what program are you using to simulate this?

[pi314159]

I'm developing a Motorsport Manager game and I thought about using it.

[FantometteBR]

Another virtual season? Well, might I can give it a try... now tempted between McLaren and Tyrrell

[Phoenix]

I'll take Ferrari as a team, with Niki Lauda and Jody Scheckter as drivers.

[BlindCaveSalamander]

I'll take McLaren, with James Hunt and Tom Pryce the drivers.

[FantometteBR]

I'll take then Tyrrell, with Patrick Depailler and Carlos Pace as drivers

[pasta_maldonado]

I'll take Brabham, with Regazzoni and Fittipaldi as drivers

[Klon]

Team Penske enters two cars using Ferrari engines driven by Jochen Mass and Jocko Maggiacomo, all of which should leave the team with 2,025,000 $.

[tristan1117]

Another series? Okay... I choose Maki Engineering! We would like Jean-Pierre Jarier, some Cosworth engines and a full season license.

[pasta_maldonado]

I'll take Brabham, with Regazzoni and Fittipaldi as drivers

Brabham (Martini) would liek to run Alfa engines, and Ronnie Petersen will drive a 3rd car alongside Regazzoni and Fittipaldi

[FantometteBR]

I'll take then Tyrrell, with Patrick Depailler and Carlos Pace as drivers

Tyrrell will run Patrick Depailler and Carlos Pace as full-time drivers (with a possibility of a third car in selected races) and Ford Cosworth as engines

[BlindCaveSalamander]

McLaren will be using Ford Cosworth engines for this season.

[East Londoner]

March F1 will sign a deal for Matra engines, plus the services of Alan Jones and Tom Pryce.

[pasta_maldonado]

March F1 will sign a deal for Matra engines, plus the services of Alan Jones and Tom Pryce.

Pryce has been taken by McLaren

[East Londoner]

March F1 will sign a deal for Matra engines, plus the services of Alan Jones and Tom Pryce.

Pryce has been taken by McLaren

Bollocks.

Tony Brise will be racing for March in 1976, joining Alan Jones. We apologise for the erroneous press release which claimed that Tom Pryce was driving for March, when he had already signed for McLaren.

[Stramala]

I would have taken Ferrari, but seeing as Phoenix beat me to it and there were no other Italian constructors that year, forget about it

[FMecha]

Dibs on Lotus!

[eurobrun]

I will take Ensign.

[tommykl]

March F1 will sign a deal for Matra engines, plus the services of Alan Jones and Tom Pryce.

Pryce has been taken by McLaren

Bollocks.

Tony Brise will be racing for March in 1976, joining Alan Jones. We apologise for the erroneous press release which claimed that Tom Pryce was driving for March, when he had already signed for McLaren.

Wait, didn't Brise die in November 1975?

[pi314159]

Yes, Brise died in 1975, I took him from the driver list.

[East Londoner]

Double drat!

Mario Andretti will be driving for March in 1976, partnering Alan Jones. Rest assured that we have located the oaf who sent out those incorrect press releases, he is being flogged with airguns as this is typed out.

[This]

I'll take Kojima, please

coupled to a BRM engine, drivers will be Noritake Takahara and Masahiro Hasemi, with a third car for Masami Kuwashima in the Japanese GP

[Samster]

Since Maki and Kojima are both taken, I'll take HB Bewaking Alarm Systems running a single Boro-Cosworth. Formula 2 driver, Maurizio Flammini will be the driver.

A second car may run at selected races.

[pi314159]

The calendar will be the original one from 1976:

1. Brazilian GP - Interlagos
2. South African GP - Kyalami
3. United States GP West - Long Beach
4. Spanish GP - Jarama
5. Belgian GP - Zolder
6. Monaco GP - Monte Carlo
7. Swedish GP - Anderstorp
8. French GP - Paul Ricard
9. British GP - Brands Hatch
10. German GP - Nürburgring
11. Austrian GP - Österreichring
12. Dutch GP - Zandvoort
13. Italian GP - Monza
14. Canadian GP - Mosport Park
15. United States GP - Watkins Glen
16. Japanese GP - Fuji

[FMecha]

Reutemann, Laffite, Ford. For Lotus. OK?

[pi314159]

Reutemann, Laffite, Ford. For Lotus. OK?

OK.


I'll also updade the budgets today.

[tommykl]

I'll take Williams/Wolf please, with a Ford Cosworth engine. As for drivers, do they cost the same amount of money for just the one race as they do for the whole season?

[pi314159]

As for drivers, do they cost the same amount of money for just the one race as they do for the whole season?

I think 1/10 of the money for a full season per race would be OK.

[tommykl]

As for drivers, do they cost the same amount of money for just the one race as they do for the whole season?

I think 1/10 of the money for a full season per race would be OK.

Great, because I'm planning on doing the exact same thing as Williams actually did, which means running a different pay-driver at pretty much every race alongside a regular driver or two

This regular driver has to be cheap, of course, and I'm going for Jacky Ickx to start off. The chosen local driver will be Alex Ribeiro for Brazil and Ian Scheckter for South Africa, I'll decide on the rest later.

[pi314159]

Reduced upgrade costs by 1/4.

[Samster]

As for drivers, do they cost the same amount of money for just the one race as they do for the whole season?

I think 1/10 of the money for a full season per race would be OK.

What about engines per race for part time cars?

[pi314159]

What about engines per race for part time cars?

Good idea. The Ford Cosworth engines will cost 25.000 per race, the Alfas 25.000, the Matras 30.000 and the Ferraris 37.500.

EDIT: Forgot BRM, they will cost 20.000 per race.

[pi314159]

The season will start on saturday. Entries for the Brazilian Grand Prix are taken until friday evening (europan time). The provisional entry list:

1 Niki Lauda (Ferrari)
2 Jody Scheckter (Ferrari)
3 Patrick Depailler (Tyrrell-Ford)
4 Carlos Pace (Tyrrell-Ford)
5 Carlos Reutemann (Lotus-Ford)
6 Jacques Laffite (Lotus-Ford)
7 Clay Regazzoni (Brabham-Alfa Romeo)
8 Emerson Fittipaldi (Brabham-Alfa Romeo)
9 Alan Jones (March-Matra)
10 Mario Andretti (March-Matra)
11 James Hunt (McLaren-Ford)
12 Tom Pryce (McLaren-Ford
13 Jacky Ickx (Williams-Ford)
14 Alex Ribeiro (Williams-Ford)
15 Jochen Mass (Penske-Ferrari)
16 Jocko Maggiacomo (Penske-Ferrari)
17 Maurizio Flammini (Boro-Ford)
18 Noritake Takahara (Kojima-Ford)
19 Masahiro Hasemi (Kojima-Ford)
20 Jean-Pierre Jarier (Maki-Ford)
21 Ronnie Peterson (Brabham-Alfa Romeo)
22 Vittorio Brambilla (Ligier-Alfa Romeo)
23 Gunnar Nilsson (Ligier-Alfa Romeo)
24 Gilles Villeneuve (Ensign-Ford)
25 John Watson (Hesketh-Ford)
26 Guy Edwards (Hesketh-Ford)
27 Hans-Joachim Stuck (Shadow-Ford)
28 Rolf Stommelen (Shadow-Ford)
29 Emilio de Villota (Fittipaldi-Ford)
30 Ingo Hoffmann (Fittipaldi-Ford)
31 Francisco Lameirão (Boro-Ford)

[Wizzie]

Hell, I might as well join this. I'll take Ligier with Vittorio Brambilla as our lead driver. We'll make more announcements on a later date

[pi314159]

Hell, I might as well join this. I'll take Ligier with Vittorio Brambilla as our lead driver. We'll make more announcements on a later date

You can have Ligier. I set Brambilla on the entry list for Brazil.

[Wizzie]

Hell, I might as well join this. I'll take Ligier with Vittorio Brambilla as our lead driver. We'll make more announcements on a later date

You can have Ligier. I set Brambilla on the entry list for Brazil.

Ligier have decided to sign Swede rookie Gunner Nilsson and run Alfa Romeo engines for the year, assuming there's still a slot remaining. If not, we'll run the Cosworth engines.

[pi314159]

Hell, I might as well join this. I'll take Ligier with Vittorio Brambilla as our lead driver. We'll make more announcements on a later date

You can have Ligier. I set Brambilla on the entry list for Brazil.

Ligier have decided to sign Swede rookie Gunner Nilsson and run Alfa Romeo engines for the year, assuming there's still a slot remaining. If not, we'll run the Cosworth engines.

The Alfa engines are still available, i'll update the entry list now.

[pasta_maldonado]

Hell, I might as well join this. I'll take Ligier with Vittorio Brambilla as our lead driver. We'll make more announcements on a later date

You can have Ligier. I set Brambilla on the entry list for Brazil.

Ligier have decided to sign Swede rookie Gunner Nilsson and run Alfa Romeo engines for the year, assuming there's still a slot remaining. If not, we'll run the Cosworth engines.

Brabham would like to make it clear that we are the primary Alfa team

[Wizzie]

You can have Ligier. I set Brambilla on the entry list for Brazil.

Ligier have decided to sign Swede rookie Gunner Nilsson and run Alfa Romeo engines for the year, assuming there's still a slot remaining. If not, we'll run the Cosworth engines.

The Alfa engines are still available, i'll update the entry list now.

Thanks. And finally, are we allowed to run a part-time third entry for Gijs van Lennep for the European races?