Post 7 * Employees

Employees are an important factor in this game.  They are most important in the fact that they will bankrupt your team if you hire them to early in your career.  Your assistant will help you hire, fire, and locate employees in the employee market.

Hold off on a group of mechanics/pit crew until you are in bigger series.  F3 drivers are developing and need all the money spent on training a driver that you can spend.  With that in mind coaches are valuable early employees.

My advise to young teams is, hire one coach only.  What ever you are going to focus on training first.  Hire one good coach and train that category like crazy.  When his contract is up for renewal, evaluate if you want to train up another area or keep training that category.  If you want to keep at it, renew his contract and keep at it.  If you want to train another category, let him go and hire another coach.  Paying multiple coaches at a time is a waste as you can only use one coach at a time in  your training focus.

Public relations managers do get you better sponsor deals.  These guys are worth hiring when you need sponsors.  Get three sponsors for 9 weeks, and let him go.  You have 9 weeks of good income now, and don't need another PR guy until the end of those contracts.  Latter in your career you may keep one employed full time, but early on, it takes to much money away from driver extra training.

Race engineers help young drivers.  If you want to dial in setups faster, a good race engineer can help.  Americans call the lead race engineer a Crew Chief.  This game calls them Race Engineers.  That is a good thing to know as you look for getting a guy that can help your team set up a car for competition runs.

As you grow into bigger race series, mechanics do make a difference.  Two to four seconds advantage per pit stop can be gained by having a better pit crew/mechanics.  I am running in the NASC Gold Cup Stock Car Series this year.  In a 500 lap race, we sometimes pit stop four to five times.  With my crew getting my driver out sometimes four seconds faster per stop, that is a twenty second advantage at the end of the race.  My driver can place a few spots higher per finished race based on mechanics and crew.  Sometimes I can look at the end of race results and see five or six finishing positions within a five second window.  Those mechanics make that difference.

Here is a look at my current employees to prove, I practice what I am typing here.  These employees will change out from time to time, but you can see a few things.

I currently have no PR Manager.  I am training driver skills as I have a driver coach at the moment.  I have a Race Engineer/Crew Chief and I have a pit crew or team of mechanics.  This team will change as contracts expire I try to replace with better, less expensive, or equal employees as I adjust budgets and continue training expenses.

I hope that helped.

As always, until next time. Happy racing!