Motorsport Manager - Espirit's year of the year 2019

Hey guys, I'm back with more on my Motorsport Manager career.

Entering 2019 I set my expectations low, spent lots, and painted the car black. There was no guarantee that we were going to have a good season. I think that my expectations of 2018 were high and I disappointed myself that year. So entering 2019 I set the bar low and set the goal low too. As long as we finished 9th or higher in the constructors championship we were fine.

We started off very well with both cars competitive. Then slowly over the next few races we fell backwards. Then we started picking up points again as we developed new parts. Early in the year Amy McCloud was in the top ten of the championship, but fell down the order by season's end. Johnny Navarro was a steady hand for the team and kept scoring well enough. He ended up finishing 9th in the points. Very impressive. I don't think we scored any podiums, but we didn't expect to either. We're supposed to be the worst team in pit lane. Our only strong points are our staff and pit crew. Amy finished 16th in the championship, and I was a little disappointed. I think that she's a good driver who should be doing as well as Johnny but I've screwed up the strategy and lost her some good results. Track position is key, and pitting early has been a mistake for me.

Johnny won driver of the year in 2019, and I won manager of the year. The only rule changes for 2020 are longer races, with 21 laps on average. It's going to be a really tough season, and I think that we're starting off on the backfoot. I get too excited and press the continue button during the off-season and blaze through those three months without thinking. So I think that our reliability and performance has been significantly hampered by my lack of foresight and even lack of experience. I went through this entering 2019 and we were pretty unreliable until about five races in. Hard to say what 2020 will be like.

I've been using my list of setups and it has been helpful only in terms of having an idea of what's good, but not what's great. Once you have a setup, you need to fine tune it to make it excellent and that means swinging downforce, handling, and speed in both directions until you get near 100%. Sometimes you need every session to get it right, even entering the race with an untested setup in the hope that it's better than what you've run before. Hopefully I don't get fired this season. The chairman was happy all year in 2019, even though we were bleeding money in the second half. Contract negotiations are costing me an arm and a leg.

See Ya!