Post 8 * Supporting an F1 Team

There are a few ways you can support fellow managers/team owners at the F1 level in this game.  If you are new, the chances of you being involved in team decisions and such are not really an option at the F1 level.

This is one of the F1 Teams in Season 16.  I like their Livery/paint scheme, so I chose to feature this car in blog 8.

Why would you support a team?

National pride.
Your friend or mentor owns a team.
You like that team for their livery or brand.

What ever your reason, any are just as good as the other.  The team owners would appreciate your support.  I support a team called HammerHedz, as the owner of the team is also a big helper to young drivers and managers in the game.  He is also very patriotic and tries to encourage American drivers often.

The easiest way to get involved is Voter Points.  you can go to the Promote the Game section of the site and choose to vote.  If you go to game ranking sites and vote for MRC every 24 hrs or so, you will get points that you can donate to your team.

In this picture you see a chance for seven points to acquire.  You vote for MRC at each of these sites and you will get one point from each site.

When you build up points, choose the team you want to donate the points to.

Your F1 Team of choice can see you donated to them in date and time stamp format.

Becoming a Driver in F1

If it is your eventual goal to become a driver, you must support a team, and show commitment to an F1 program.  Driver contracts are awarded by team owners.  Some teams are owned by multiple investors and some teams have a dominant investor with a few minor investors as well.  Either way, a season contract offer is the choice of the owners.

At other levels of series it is determined by driver points.  In F1 it is determined simply by; did a F1 Team Owner issue you a season contract or not, and do you want to take it?

Team Research

When you examine F1 Teams you can see tons of data.

Facilities

Research

Suppliers

Money

Sponsors

Employees

Drivers

Fan Club

Those are just a some of the many things you can look into.  Don't shy away from supporting lower ranking teams.  I believe there is a lot of fun and helping an underdog team out perform and grow in the ranks.  Also many reasons can land teams in lower rankings.  Change in ownership, bad luck, a risky gamble on an engine or development type.  All of these things can be corrected and recovered.  Pitch in and help.

I hope you enjoyed learning a little about the F1 Stucture of the game.

Until next time. Happy Racing!