F1 Race Manager 2011

[MG]

The first race is just a week away. Anyone want to play this year?

Lots of dissatisfaction with F1 Manager. I have investigated ITV-F1 but cannot figure out how to access their game. Anybody got any ideas?

Personally, I can't wait. I'm putting all my money on Lotus. They're gonna surprise a lot of people!   

[Ultra]

I am setting the league up later today. Hope you will join in.

http://www.f1racemanager.com/

[MG]

Great!  I'll see you there!   

[Ultra]

http://www.f1racemanager.com/

The league I set up for this place is Autopuzzles. The password is "autopuzzles" without the quotation marks.

My team is Lachine Machine again this year.  There are new features this year as well.  Check 'em out.

http://www.f1racemanager.com/bets.asp

http://www.f1racemanager.com/bonusquestion.asp

Hope to see you guys there.

[Otto Puzzell]

Wow - atsa tight budget!

Scuderia Isles of Langerhansport is on the grid

[75america]

team Conrero Squadra Corse is on the grid as well.

[Ultra]

Glad to have you boys on the grid. 








P.S. This is NOT the same folks who did the F1Manager from last year.

[Stephen M]

The Flying Burrow Owls currently sit in second. It appears to be alphabetical at this point, so I might change my team name to

"AAAAAAAH! Flying Burrow Owls!"

..so I can be in first, if only briefly.

P.S. This is NOT the same folks who did the F1Manager from last year.

That's a good thing. With all do respect to the fellow motorsports fans who were running the site we used last year, IMHO it was just too unreliable to be fun. Database errors, scoring delays / mistakes, and the site being down for extended periods of time made it quite a hassle.

This new place has lots of interesting features. The bets, bonus questions, and the fact that points are scored all the way down to 24th should make things very interesting. Also sounds like the "brokers' fee" is designed to keep the league competitive even if someone jumps out to an early lead.

[Ultra]

The Flying Burrow Owls currently sit in second. It appears to be alphabetical at this point, so I might change my team name to

"AAAAAAAH! Flying Burrow Owls!"

..so I can be in first, if only briefly.

P.S. This is NOT the same folks who did the F1Manager from last year.

That's a good thing. With all do respect to the fellow motorsports fans who were running the site we used last year, IMHO it was just too unreliable to be fun. Database errors, scoring delays / mistakes, and the site being down for extended periods of time made it quite a hassle.

This new place has lots of interesting features. The bets, bonus questions, and the fact that points are scored all the way down to 24th should make things very interesting. Also sounds like the "brokers' fee" is designed to keep the league competitive even if someone jumps out to an early lead.

'xactly.  I tried to choose with care.

[MG]

Ummm.....my bank account currently sits at =$139,000,000

Sounds good to me!    

Clearly, this is a different game than we are used to......

[Otto Puzzell]

Ummm.....my bank account currently sits at =$139,000,000

Sounds good to me!    

Clearly, this is a different game than we are used to......

What? You can run a deficit?! Dang my penny-pinching!

[Ultra]

8. You must have enough money to buy all the stuff you want. You can't borrow money. We've given you a 100 mil already. Spend it wisely.

Deficit budgets will cause you to score NO points.

[faksta]

Please welcome our humble Equipe Squadra Scuderia on the grid

[MG]

I was just sayin' ya don't get much for 100 mil these days! 

This game seems to place a premium on guessing the eventual finishing order in order to move up in the world.

Nonetheless, the Sons of MOWOG will make it to the grid on time - unlike so many teams in real life!    After all, at this point, I can't finish much worse than 6th in the league!   

[ImpishGrin]

Say hello to the Squadra ImpishGrin Bielany, managed by Pawel M. Golubinski and Sean Connery

[Ultra]

Woo!

[mpatrizio]

I'm in.   

[Ultra]

I'm in.   

[Ultra]

I'm feelin' good after round 1....

      Lachine Machine    557    1000    KOV SEN Lot For Tot

      Sons of MOWOG    487    1000    BUE CHA For For His

      Conrero Squadra Corse    481    1000    KOV GRA For STR Mob

      Squadra ImpishGrin Bielany    458    1000    GLO KOV For STR Lot

      Isles of Langerhansport    453    1000    LIU GRA Vir For Ptb

      Scuderia Patrizio    378    1000    SUT KOV Vir Lot Ptb

           Equipe Squadra Scuderia    343    1000    PET SEN For His Lot

      Flying Burrow Owls    300    1000    HUL CHA His Lot Ptn

      Stafford Speed    229    1000    SEN GLO Lot Vir Vir

[MG]

If Sutil hadn't spun at Turn 1, you'd be laughing out of the other side of your face, amigo!   

[Ultra]

If Vettel had won the gap to second would have been even larger.  

My drivers didn't spin.   

[Stephen M]

My strategy to stay near the bottom to keep my broker fee low is playing out perfectly! Now I can swap my non-performing chuckleheads for DIFFERENT non-performing chuckleheads with minimal financial impact!

[faksta]

So sad Petrov didn't finish the race, both for me as his follower and for the gameplay...

[MG]

It is good to have a clearly thought out strategy, S&M!   

Btw, some of the PTB in the sport, such as Martin Whitmarsh, actually took note of how boring the race was and want to do something about it immediately by forcing Bridgestone to make tires that don't last as long. 


Lessee. We have a problem. The solution to the problem is well known. Let's call it A. Ergo, we must immediately invoke Plan Z to gin up some exciting passing in the pits because we can't use Plan A because we all agreed to rules that fail to address Plan A.

Proving once again that all the money in the world doth not confer actual smartness on people.   

[Stephen M]

Any other east coast night owls staying up to watch this live? Nope? Alrighty then