Halfway through: The French and British GPs
Hello there, 95% Tyrell owner here. Let's continue. We are slowly running out of cash, but we have the resources to make that a less dangerous issue. We are also running out of season. If we manage to survive until Japan, we will survive the rest of the save. I guarantee that. But for now, it is Race Weekend 8, just half season. Let's keep going.
McLaren brings upgrades, but the fight is on anyway. Arrows(!), Prost(!) and Stewart(!) both will bring upgrades for the British GP. Minardi and Tyrell are now the only teams yet to upgrade their car. Minardi will(!!!) do so, don't worry.
Magny Cours, the French Barcelona. Overtaking is easier and tarmac is definitely much, much better than Spain's.
Am I missing something?
Oh, crap. Look! What happened here is that is rained. There were something like ... 30 minutes of wet track, 30 minutes of dry track. Hakkinen and Magnussen thought it was a great idea to qualify on the wet tarmac.
In terms of strategy, Takagi is running a 3 stop with softs. The Tosser is running a 1 stop with hards. In theory, the 3 stop should be quicker.
Except it wasn't because Takagi is trash in terms of race pace. I don't know why. Takagi should be better due to his stats ... I guess that's GPW randomness for you.
After Action Report Hours:
Are we going to live in a universe where David Coulthard is a WDC?
That ain't good.
West Jordan ... West ... Jordan ... can't ... compute .... REEEEEEE
Fun story: Before I properly looked it up, I thought the '98/'99 engine supplier for Williams was Ford. Later I discovered it was discount Rena- ... ehm, Mecachrome/Supertec.
I'll admit, Benetton Mercedes sounds interesting.
As explained before, Mika will hold station at McLaren. Instead, we'll send Alex Wurz there.
The privateers are suffering.
So many cash sponsors.
What, you are new here?
Back to normal text for a moment, When I assigned 85% of our guys here, I was expecting to get 2 blocks, enough for the Customer deal which I was 100% all right with signing. Instead, the guys filled FOUR Blocks! Guys, I was looking for copper and you found gold, I'm proud. If any of our drivers gets points, they'll be dedicated to the Commercial Department.
We are going to Silverstone. This is, at least for us, the cheapest GP to attend. You what happens at cheap GPs?
We run tests, a short test to fill up the bar. You know what we do with the bar?
We use it to assist development for next year. If I could fill up the bars for Design and CFD Simulation it would be awesome, but it probably won't happen.
Big repairs for the cars this weekend, as the British GP is kinda brutal on the cars.
Here's next year's car ... kinda empty. But it can race.
Technically our home GP ... and the home GP of, like, 70% of all other teams. Difficult to pass, makes low aero, low handling cars suffer ... and it rains A LOT. If we are lucky, that rain could help us. If not, it'll be a typical Tyrell day.
And so it begins.
The Mika nearly had back-to-back DNQs, but managed to do a lap on the dry this go around. The other three, not so much.
This is going to be fun.
Oh, for Fok's sake. Damon Hill! HILL! ... What can I tell you, wet weather specialists. The Michael had to pit for fuel, and while he was catching ... well, ran out of laps. They put everyone 2 LAPS DOWN! Also, that's the end of The Mika's challenge I'm sure.
As for us, it was a decent day at the office TBH.
Even when it works, it doesn't. The Michael slightly closes the gap.
Yeah, time to hit the red "Shares" button again.
This is so wrong.
No, he isn't. Why the media is stirring up BS ... then again ... the media always does this.
What, you are new here? Also, Ferrari BUYING Elf fuel? That feels wrong, I'll force feed them Shell fuel.
Great, F'ing great, a slow Ferrari stop.
Yeah, that's suspicious ... hmmm ...
(Runs to remove the Active Suspensions himself)
You still new, Reporter?
Sadly, our stock dropped by $20k since the last time. No problem there, though.
I need to have this finished by ... Round 14-15. I need to build to chassis. Which means there's no way we are filling both bars. By round 13, I think I'll just rush through the developments and be done with it.
Oh, look, Ford sent those engines they developed races ago. Great.
I guess it's time to talk about Sponsors. Here's next year's car with the Team Sponsor being Castrol ... yes, we are Castrol Tyrell Mugen-Honda.
First, look at this. As you can see, the sponsorship money we should be receiving has ... fallen off ... a bit.
Even without the drop, the expected amount of money we would make, counting the cost of the Suppliers, is ... negative $550k.
Here, we in theory should make less money off of sponsors ...
... but we only have one supplier costing us money. Result? We will make $3.35m in sponsorship next year, and counting since we haven't filled many sponsor slots yet. We will do better, and that's without counting the titanic amounts of money our pay drivers will bring.
Speaking of pay drivers, we are at the middle point, roughly, so that means it is time to see who's going where in terms of drivers and personnel. Let's take a look.

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