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Before I can start this, I decided to take control of one of the three new teams for the duration of this simulation. After much debate, I have decided to take user-control Racing Point, since they were the only new team of the bunch to have no bugs with their driver contacts. Anyways, off we go to the season opener.

No shock that Ferrari got a front row lockout. Kubica being way-off for Lamborghini wasn’t really a surprise either. However, Nicholas Latifi being 2 seconds slower than Rio Haryanto was a shock, but he did qualify within the 107% time with ease. Felipe Nasr somehow missing out the top 10 for Mercedes was disappointing. Onwards to the race

It’s a Ferrari 1-2 with Vettel winning and taking fastest lap of the race. Alexander Rossi somehow finishing on the podium for Penske was a pleasant surprise. Kubica managing to have way better long run pace on route to 6th. Sirotkin scoring a couple points for newcomers SMP was also quite amazing. As for Racing Point, Latifi finished 2 laps down and Stroll spun off on his own and stalled the car causing a DNF. Despite this, Latifi finished ahead of both Alpine’s and both Mercedes’ cars.

After the race however, this happened:

This is a follow-up from the previous post. Now with 2021 officially here, let’s see what the re-written entry list looks like and the new-look 16 race calendar for this experiment with Grand Prix Manager 2.

The rewritten 2021 Entry List

Ferrari

Sebastian Vettel

Lewis Hamilton

(T) Mick Schumacher

Lamborghini

Max Verstappen

Robert Kubica

(T) Luca Ghiotto

Ford

Nico Hulkenberg

Sergio Perez

(T) Pietro Fittipaldi

Farina-Alfa Romeo

Daniel Ricciardo

Daniil Kvyat

(T) Antonio Giovinazzi

Chrysler

Carlos Sainz Jr.

Paul Di Resta

(T) Lando Norris

Maserati

Kevin Magnussen

Valtteri Bottas

(T) Robert Shwartzman

Penske-Cosworth

Alexander Rossi

Marcus Ericsson

(T) Max Chilton

Dallara-Honda

Charles Leclerc

Sebastien Buemi

(T) Naoki Yamamoto

Lotus-Toyota

Stoffel Vandoorne

Rio Haryanto

(T) Brendon Hartley

Mercedes

Felipe Nasr

Jehan Daruvala

(T) George Russell

Alpine-Renault

Pierre Gasly

Esteban Ocon

(T) Jean-Eric Vergne

SMP-BMW

Esteban Gutierrez

Sergey SIrotkin

(T) Nyck de Vries

Racing Point-Mercedes

Lance Stroll

Nicholas Latifi

(T) Pascal Wehrlein

The 2021 Alternate F1 Universe Race Calendar

1 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix –Yas Marina Circuit

2 United States Grand Prix – Circuit of the Americas

3 Mexican Grand Prix – Circuit Hermanos Rodriguez

4 Hungarian Grand Prix - Hungaroring

5 Spanish Grand Prix – Circuit de Catalunya

6 Monaco Grand Prix – Streets of Monte-Carlo

7 Russian Grand Prix – Sochi Circuit

8 Canadian Grand Prix – Circuit Gilles Villeneuve

9 British Grand Prix – Silverstone Circuit

10 Austrian Grand Prix – Red Bull Ring

11 German Grand Prix – Hockenheim

12 Singapore Grand Prix – Marina Bay Street Circuit

13 Belgium Grand Prix – Spa-Francorchamps

14 Italian Grand Prix – Monza

15 European Grand Prix – Nurburgring Grand Prix Circuit

16 Japanese Grand Prix – Suzuka Circuit

So, welcome to the second round of this season. The F1 paddock is at Austin for the United States GP. Expect it to be cold for this one! Anyways, here’s the recap.

Qualifying Results

So, another Ferrari front row lockout which is not a surprise. But a chance of rain for the race will be a welcome sight.

So, after the preparations were complete, the 13 F1 teams flew down under for the season opener in Melbourne. I honestly have no clue what the pecking order would be because of the random nature of the changes that I made. So, let’s see who’s on top after qualifying, shall we.

Well, guess the AI really got it right this time, as F1 rookie Burt took the world by storm by scoring pole position in the Lamborghini powered Tsunami. Pay Driver Diniz made it a front row lockout for the newcomers. Benetton qualified 4th and 6th. McLaren only mustered 12th and 16th out of their drivers. The biggest surprise is that Olivier Panis in a Williams was outside of the 107% time by a full second. So, Frank Williams only has one car in the season opener. Collard for Footwork also missed out on the 107% time but by just a tenth of a second. So, let’s see what happens in the race itself.

Just in case, you are wondering what has happened to the second season of the Alternate F1 Universe using the 2019 mod, there was a technical issue with the actual save file that prevent it from working as intended. Mainly, due to the driver’s being in the wrong positions within the team and the inability to fix it as I wanted to. So, sadly we never get to see the follow-up to the 2019 mod series. Thankfully, I was thinking about doing another series like the first series, but this time using the “default” GPM2 game itself as a base, and actually controlling all of the teams excluding one team, which must be left as AI Controlled. So, buckle up, and get ready for a brave new world of Formula 1! 

It’s 1996 and the FIA has finally decided to officially streamline the engine formula for the next decade or so. This new engine formula will be three liter V12’s only, so no more V10’s or V8’s are allowed. This was done to ensure that the racing will still be exciting at all times and requires driver skill above everything else. This also means that many notable engine makers of this era were forced to exit F1 and some previous engine makers have returned back to this loud new era along with new suppliers on top of it! In conclusion, we have six total engine makers in F1. They are Ferrari, Honda (who returns to F1 officially after three years of being Mugen-Honda and suppling customer V10 engines to various teams during that time), BMW (back in f1 officially for the first time since the end of 1987. Yes, the Megatron-badged engine in the 1988 Arrows was in fact based on the BMW M12/13 I4 Turbo engine), Rolls Royce (first time ever in F1), Maybach (first time ever in F1), and Lamborghini (back in F1 after two years away from the sport, was almost an engine supplier with McLaren in 1994 before Ron Dennis decided to try the Peugeot engines that ill-fated year with lackluster results at best). 

The Race Calendar:

It’s the same one used as in the real-life 1996 F1 season with one change, the Nurburgring gets dropped in favor of the Kyalami circuit in South Africa which last appeared in 1993. Other than that, no other changes were made.

The Points system

It remains the classic: 10-6-4-3-2-1, as it was in real life

After a lengthy process of reshuffling drivers through the draft lottery and a fantasy driver’s draft and reassigning engine contracts, here’s the new 1996 entry list, and be prepared for a lot of changes up and down the grid!

1996 Entry List

Benetton-Honda

1 Michael Schumacher

2 Johnny Herbert

T Vincenzo Sospiri

Williams-Rolls Royce

3 Damon Hill

4 Olivier Panis

T Chris Moore

Ferrari

5 Gerhard Berger

6 Mika Salo

T Gianni Morbidelli

McLaren-BMW

7 David Coulthard

8 Rubens Barrichello

T Fernando Sainz

Ligier-Maybach

9 Jean Alesi

10 Jan Magnussen

T Eric Kasee

Jordan-Rolls Royce

11 Eddie Irvine

12 Martin Brundle

T Marco Capelli

Sauber-Ferrari

14 John Newhouse

15 GC Fisichella

T Pedro Lamy

Tyrrell-Lamborghini

16 Mika Hakkinen

17 Ty Schitarelle

T Andrea Montermini

Footwork-BMW

18 HH Frentzen

19 Emmanuel Collard

T Ricardo Rosset

Minardi-Honda

20 Jos Verstappen

21 Ukyo Katayama

T Taki Inoue

Forti-Lamborghini

22 Nicola Larini

23 Norberto Fontana

T Giovanni Vallie

Cassini-Rolls Royce

24 Gino Laytoh

25 JC Boullion

T Yasuo Hiddaka

Tsunami-Lamborghini (Controlled by the AI)

26 Kelvin Burt

27 Pedro Diniz

T Luca Badoer