![]() ![]() Both start out about 3*, Kevin has 5* potential, Eve 4.5* potential. These two stayed with me from day 1, right until season 9 (and beyond had I not screwed up). ![]() Don’t worry too much about potential, since you won’t have a staff centre for a while yet. I usually hang onto him until the end of his contract (3 years), then look for any designers with running down contracts that might be interested, with similar stats.įor me, a good designer at this stage has at least 10 – 15 in as many stats as possible, and Average & Good known components, since it’s likely you won’t be able to afford to develop Great and onwards in your first few seasons. Also, he’s usually unemployed, so no break clause. The first season you won’t use his rear wing stat (shame), but you also won’t use his front wing stat (yay). He’ll set you back ~120k in wages and a 200k+ signing on fee, but his stats are worth it imo. Any of these can also fill the Reserve slot, but I don’t always ditch Jose Domingo, purely because he’s cheap and isn’t horrendous if you’re desperate.įirst few races, I stick with Faith Anthony and Andres Gomes – they can get some decent results if you manage their tyres and keep an eye on fuel – 2 – 3 stops per race and with a bit of luck you can get them both around p8 – 15. for a second driver I’ve used Ines Santa Ana, Sara Thomas, Lola Marsh in the past (all were unemployed when I hired them). I also don’t worry too much about Pay Drivers to begin with – it’s nice and cheap to have all 3 slots filled with Pay Drivers, but not always possible – bearing in mind if you start in ERS like I do, most drivers won’t be interested in signing for you.įalko Engelhart is a god for startups if you can stomach his contract, and you can also grab Petra Schober if you’re feeling brave enough to pay them both at once. Marketability is important, but as a general rule I don’t ever go below 3 * drivers. Keep checking back on the list of drivers – new unemployed drivers pop up a couple of times a season, or when their contracts expire – this can be a great way to get cheap drivers (especially Pay drivers!) This seems to take forever from the beginning (maybe I’m missing something), but I scout all drivers without a team, followed by all ERS drivers. Sucks about the cash, but you just need to be more conservative on the HQ development. Low pressure – and the 3* car isn’t a bad starting point. ![]() ![]() Following this I took a break from the game for a while, so memory is a little hazy – I’ve just started a new ERS team called Zakaros Motorsport, so I’ll post any further amendments as I go.Īnyway, my first season in ERS (and a standard startup for me) is as follows: I played 9 seasons with my own ERS team (Viper Motorsport) in my first game, and got as far as WMC mid-table and then got carried away upgrading the HQ and got screwed with votes for extra races (16 in a season with < 20mil to spend after upgrades = doh!). I think we addressed well the points from DPi to now, so it’s a better ride over these bumps.This was originally my own forum post in answer to someones question, but thought I’d add to guides as it may be useful to anyone picking up the game since (and I’ve even returned to the game and reused this myself). But again, it’s always a pleasure driving the car and I’m having a really good feeling – especially coming from the DPi here where last year I think we were kind of struggling a little bit at this track, and this car is just better. Mathieu Jaminet was closest in his Porsche 963, a tenth quicker than van der Zande’s Ganassi Cadillac.Īlbuquerque commented: “We are freestyling on the setup, trying to figure out what happens here, what happens there. Klauser’s point regarding the need to find pace in the Cadillacs was highlighted by Filipe Albuquerque’s best effort for Wayne Taylor Racing Acura during the test, in which he set a best lap half a second quicker than any of his rivals. “The good news is we have 24 hours of data to do that, but there is not that much time to take the data and work with it.” “There is a lot of development between now and the Sebring race kicking off the WEC season, continuing to fine-tune the vehicle, understand what it’s good at, what we need to do to get better, working through all of the details,” said Klauser. ![]()
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