#His Name Is FRANCOOOOOOO

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paper roost Aug 30, 2024, 8:06 AM

This wasn't my original other save idea, but I decided that would be too easy, so here's this

Franco Colapinto... 47th out of 51 drivers you can select for CAT... A questionable decision, but worth it?

Let's find out

I will create Andretti as a hungry newcomer and sign Sargeant to the team

But I will start the save as Williams and replace him with Colapinto

Aim: get Franco a WDC

Very Hard/Very Hard (by the power of rule 5)

Bonus rule: no driver/staff development plans, must always use balanced (otherwise it's too easy, remember Iron Dames?)

This will be hard because:

Franco is slow
After 2025 I'll need to have an even slower driver in the other seat to prevent them stealing the WDC off Franco
The AI teams are better at money management now (and probably car development)
Franco will probably crash a lot (then again, so would Sargeant)
In 2025, so will his teammate
Probably many other reasons I can't think of

Feel free to suggest any others too, can be anyone of any rating, I just put whom I think would be the 20 most popular, not in that order

paper roost Aug 30, 2024, 4:14 PM

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Who should be Logan's teammate? (randomized from who gets the most votes) 1/2

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paper roost Aug 30, 2024, 4:17 PM

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Logan's teammate 2/2

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Bearman

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Bearman it will be, then

Meet team Andretti, I went for mostly generated staff because they were younger and I though a team of youngsters would be realistic

paper roost Aug 30, 2024, 5:53 PM

We did not achieve Q3, as expected, although we were close

Albon has a good shot at points, but he had to use his tyres to get there, so the race may be hard

I did give Andretti a 2 dot car, but they're acting like it's 1

Albon maintains P11 at the start

While Franco had a horrible start, fell to P19, then made it up to P18

Oh yean and the Andrettis are last

Thanks to Stroll locking up, we're in the points

Never mind other cars are just sailing past at DRS zones

Meanwhile Franco shunted into Bearman who was behind him somehow

FIA were also confused and gave Bearman a penalty

Even the Saubers what the hell how

Now everyone has pitetd, Albon's P18, I have no idea where out race pace was and we can't even get it back on strategy as Albon's being forced into an awkward one

Like seriously what am I supposed to do here (Albon is on full attack with fresh mediums btw)

Well I'm guessing that was a fluke from Zhou, weird

Ocon turned in on Stroll, both got heavy damage

Ocon also shunted Zhou

Albon got up to P17 but is in the middle of nowhere after that

Not sure if I'm great at qualis or horrible at races

Colapinto had to pit early and stayed P21 for the whole race

paper roost Aug 31, 2024, 7:38 AM

In Saudi I didn't qualify as well, so maybe the confidence loss won't happen?

Alex stays where he is as he's starting on hards - Franco moved up a bit but lucked up back to P17

It's another classic case of cars can overtake under DRS then break DRS despite us going as fast as possible

Franco is now last

I get Franco's tyres back to where they should be and he locks up again

Franco binned it, oh well he was last anyway

Sargeant binned it on the restart, red flag now

After the start Albon found himself P15, considering the red flag screwed our strategy that isn't bad

He managed to catch up to two people and get past, so it's not all bad

Still no points tho

Zhou and Bearman did something or other on the last lap

Not bad, considering

Considering with these challenge runs we sacrifice the first 3-4 races of the save for long term gains

paper roost Aug 31, 2024, 8:43 AM

I suppose Australia quali could've been worse

Albon was held up in his final flyer

Maybe it couldn't've been worse for Franco - also what happened Mercedes?

Maybe Franco needs to work on his smoothness... just maybe

Alex has been making a couple of moves, Franco is still at the back

But yeah - you see what I mean by other drivers being faster? Albon is gonna get overtaken once at every DRS zone and will basically join Franco in last

Hulk got alex on the main straight and after the second DRS zone he's already a second ahead

Even Sargeant can, this is why we safrifice the first few races

Franco has a gearbox fault - not gonna lie, saw it coming, thought he'd be at the back anyway so whatever

What is up with the Mercs today Alex can keep up

Bearman is just chilling on the road with a lot of sparks? Anyway that triggered a safety car right when Albon was about to pit

Not much else happened except what a climb from the Mercs, Franco was alpped by Alex... yeah

paper roost Sep 7, 2024, 7:40 AM

It's been a while, work weeks are busy

Anyway, I've been talking to some people and testing stuff out in Guess My Team and I'd be interested to see how I do in Japan with my newfound strategy skills

Good start Franco (It's Q1 btw)

It was a pretty Red Bull-dominated quali

An Andretti made it to Q2 as Tsunoda's car was destroyed by Franco

And Albon was at the top of Q1 eliminations

Albon got past the slow Andretti to make it up to P15

Same with Franco, P21

Never mind he's randomly slow

Alex is going strong, he's P11 before any pitstops happened, the process works

Not really much to say - Albon comes out of his last pit P14, no one around, let's see what the final charge brings

Sadly Albon was lapped right at the end so P12-11 were out of reach

Lando has quite the climb, Verstappen wins

It was just out of reach but far from points anyway

At elast Franco beat the Andrettis

We're at the top of the pointless table

Let's do China, We've got some upgrades in and I feel luckier than that

SQ1 has a clash

Williams dominance could bore fans

Well something worked for sure because Albon got into SQ3

And Franco got into SQ2

An amazing start for Albon sees him in points

Franco stayed where he started which is still good for him

Albon stuck where he was whilst Franco is using DRS to pick off cars one by one

At the end with out built up tyre advantage, It's Albon's turn to pick off cars and move up

Albon couldn't get past the Ferraris, but P6 is our first points

Max wins again

Franco moves up a bit too, that's all good

Verstappen poles it too, as our boys do better than the sprint quali slightly, it could be a good race

Colapinto outqualified a Ferrari btw

The race will be in a little bit I have something to do first

paper roost Sep 7, 2024, 10:37 AM

Alright, race time

Franco is unfortunately being forced into an awkward strategy because low smoothness, and as per the rules of the challenge we aren't fixing that any time soon

Albon stayed where he was, Franco is in the points