Hey guys,
So I've recently bought Motorsport Manager and have been enjoying it a lot. Once I worked out how to play it, I started turning out more hours and getting further into the game. Here's my story.
I started with a European Racing Series deal with Octane Racing where I secured podiums with the two drivers that you start with, Marchetta and Dreyfuss. The first season was rough at first because I didn't know what I was doing, but then in the second half I scored two podiums with Dreyfuss. I got one with Marchetta in the first race. I finished 6th in the teams championship, on target with the goal that I set myself.
Then in the second season the car was very unreliable. Finishing a race was an achievement, let alone scoring good results. But the podium wasn't a realistic goal. So I dumped Mary, the designer, and signed Theo Hornton (I think that's his name) and then we started getting more performance and reliability. We started shining in practice and led races again, but still couldn't get those strong finishes. Then Dreyfuss got a hurt neck, so I subbed in Adrian Earle, who started on pole position in the three races that he ran and was very competitive. Then Dreyfuss came back with one week left on her neck and so I moved Earle into Marchetta's inferior car. I was putting the better performance and reliability parts in Dreyfuss' car because she was a better driver. Earle was faster, but Dreyfuss was overall better and got the better results. Earle scored pole position twice in Marchetta's car because he got a hurt neck.
Then I got issued an ultimatum by the chairman, score 10th or better in the next race or I'm fired. That race was very anxiety-inducing, but I still tuned the fastest two cars in practice and both cars started in the top five in qualifying. Dreyfuss led the first stint from 5th and was a sure shot at the race win in intermediate tyres. Marchetta fell off the track on soft tyres. That was my mistake. It was wet and I didn't realise he was on softs. So from the outset we were running with one driver who had a shot, but still you don't give up until the last sector of the last lap. The big blunder that I made was not realising that there was a blip where the track dried for a lap and a half and then got so wet that we needed the wet tyres. So I'd brought Dreyfuss in for softs, run her up the front with them, and then put her on inters when it got wet again. Again it was a massive mistake. I should have invested in better weather predictions, but I wasn't going to gamble money or a race win away just because the track was changing conditions. I was going to change with it and follow the conditions because I couldn't see far ahead to the very wet track in a few laps time. Dreyfuss finished the race in inters, while Marchetta pitted for wets and ended up passing her in a car with an engine that was at 20% reliability, at neutral performance, and Marchetta at neutral aggression. Dreyfuss was running in overtake and attack, but the inters were useless until the last lap but even with 20 seconds better pace she couldn't pass anyone to get into the top ten and secure my job for the next race, so I was fired.
That was pretty frustrating, but then I saw that you could keep playing and so I sent applications to teams in all three levels: ERS, World Championship, and Endurance. The first and third choices were for better teams than what I could realistically expect to run, but the World Championship team Espirit signed me. They are dead last and it's their first year. I've set the target of 10th for the constructors championship because I don't know what I'm doing and there's two races left. I will also focus on keeping the non-hothead drivers because I don't need a pain in the arse challenging my future with the team. I haven't run my first round with them yet, but I'm about to. I will also write down the setups that I use because I want to make this stint with Espirit work.
Hopefully all goes well.
See Ya!
