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A New Dawn - F1 Manager 94 is the first season of the management series run by Collieafc.

==Background==

It is 1994 and it appears to be a new dawn for Formula 1. The big drivers who have dominated foe the last 10 years have left the sport. After Alain Prost announced his retirement in 1993, Ayrton Senna, finding that without the challenge of his arch nemesis made F1 lose meaning to him has decided to follow suit and call time on his career, while Nelson Piquet had already left at the end of 1991. Nigel Mansell decided to try out his hand at Indycars and in 1994 is about to embark on defending his crown.

As a result, F1 goes into the new season without any world champions on the grid. However, there is a raft of new contenders vying for the drivers title and this exciting new talent is sure to come to the fore over the course of the coming seasons. The traditional order of the teams at the top, although the same as last season, promises to be much tighter than before, due to the uncertainty of who are the new driver yardsticks.

At the back of the grid however, it is a different story. This season there has been a significant push to improve driver safety to compensate for the banning of driver aides. As a result, costs have skyrocketed and many teams finances are in a precarious state – many observers have noted that money is likely to win over talent when it comes to picking their drivers. It would not be a surprise if at least one team fails to make it to the end of the year. The one shining light is that there is an abundance of choice in the driver market. Whether all of them can cut it in F1 though is another matter.

== Drivers and teams ==

The Drivers of the 1994 season

{| class="wikitable" style="font-size: 85%;"
|-
!Team
!Engine
!#
!Race Drivers
!Rounds
!Test Driver
|-
|rowspan=2|[[File:Flag of the United Kingdom svg.png]] Williams Renault
|rowspan=2| Renault
| align="center"| 0
| [[File:Flag of the United Kingdom svg.png]] Damon Hill
| 1-
| rowspan="2"| [[File:Flag of Italy svg.png]] Alessandro Zanardi
|-
| align="center"| 2
| [[File:Flag of the United Kingdom svg.png]] David Coulthard
| 1-
|-
|rowspan=2|[[File:Flag of the United Kingdom svg.png]] Tyrrell Yamaha
|rowspan=2| Yamaha
| align="center"| 3
| [[File:Flag of Japan svg.png]] Ukyo Katayama
| 1-
|rowspan="2"|
|-
| align="center"| 4
| [[File:Flag of the Netherlands svg.png]] Jos Verstappen
| 1- 
|-
|rowspan=2|[[File:Flag of the United Kingdom svg.png]] Benetton Ford
|rowspan=2| Ford Zetec
| align="center"| 5
| [[File:Flag of Austria svg.png]] Gerhard Berger
| 1-
| rowspan="2"| [[File:Flag of Italy svg.png]] Michele Alboreto
|-
| align="center"| 6
| [[File:Flag of France svg.png]] Olivier Panis
| 1- 
|-
|rowspan=2|[[File:Flag of the United Kingdom svg.png]] McLaren Ilmor
|rowspan=2| Ilmor
| align="center"| 7
| [[File:Flag of Finland svg.png]] Mika Hakkinen
| 1-
|rowspan="2"|
|-
| align="center"| 8
| [[File:Flag of Germany svg.png]] Heinz-Harald Frentzen
| 1-
|-
|rowspan=2|[[File:Flag of the United Kingdom svg.png]] Footwork Hart
|rowspan=2| Hart
| align="center"| 9
| [[File:Flag of France svg.png]] Andrea de Cesaris
| 1-
| rowspan="2"| [[File:Flag of France svg.png]] Frank Lagorce
|-
| align="center"| 10
| [[File:Flag of the United Kingdom svg.png]] Mark Blundell
| 1-
|-
|rowspan=2|[[File:Flag of the United Kingdom svg.png]] Lotus Mercedes
|rowspan=2| Mercedes
| align="center"| 11
| [[File:Flag of the United Kingdom svg.png]] Johnny Herbert
| 1-
|rowspan="2"|
|-
| align="center"| 12
| [[File:Flag of Finland svg.png]] Mika Salo
| 1- 
|-
|rowspan=2|[[File:Flag of Ireland svg.png]] Jordan Mugen-Honda
|rowspan=2| Mugen-Honda
| align="center"| 14
| [[File:Flag of Brazil svg.png]] Rubens Barrichello
| 1-
| rowspan="2"| [[File:Flag of France svg.png]] Erik Comas
|-
| align="center"| 15
| [[File:Flag of Austria svg.png]] Karl Wendlinger
| 1-
|-
|rowspan=2|[[File:Flag of France svg.png]] Larrousse Renault
|rowspan=2| Renault
| align="center"| 19
| [[File:Flag of Japan svg.png]] Taki Inoue
| 1-
|rowspan="2"| 
|-
| align="center"| 20
| [[File:Flag of Switzerland svg.png]] Jean-Denis Deletraz
| 1-
|-
|rowspan=2|[[File:Flag of Italy svg.png]] Minardi Ford
|rowspan=2| Ford HB
| align="center"| 23
| [[File:Flag of Brazil svg.png]] Christian Fittipaldi
| 1-
| rowspan="2"| [[File:Flag of France svg.png]] Phillipe Alliot
|-
| align="center"| 24
| [[File:Flag of Portugal svg.png]] Pedro Lamy
| 1-
|-
|rowspan=2|[[File:Flag of France svg.png]] Ligier Peugeot
|rowspan=2| Peugeot
| align="center"| 25
| [[File:Flag of the United Kingdom svg.png]] Martin Brundle
| 1-
| rowspan="2"| [[File:Flag of Italy svg.png]] Andrea Montermini
|-
| align="center"| 26
| [[File:Flag of the United Kingdom svg.png]] Eddie Irvine
| 1- 
|-
|rowspan=2|[[File:Flag of Italy svg.png]] Ferrari
|rowspan=2| Ferrari
| align="center"| 27
| [[File:Flag of France svg.png]] Jean Alesi
| 1-
| rowspan="2"| [[File:Flag of Italy svg.png]] Gianni Morbidelli
|-
| align="center"| 28
| [[File:Flag of Italy svg.png]] Pierluigi Martini
| 1- 
|-
|rowspan=2|[[File:Flag of Switzerland svg.png]] Sauber Ford
|rowspan=2| Ford HB
| align="center"| 29
| [[File:Flag of Germany svg.png]] Michael Schumacher
| 1-
| rowspan="2"| [[File:Flag of Italy svg.png]] Nicola Larini
|-
| align="center"| 30
| [[File:Flag of Finland svg.png]] JJ Letho
| 1-
|-
|rowspan=2|[[File:Flag of the United Kingdom svg.png]] Simtek Ilmor
|rowspan=2| Ilmor
| align="center"| 31
| [[File:Flag of Australia svg.png]] David Brabham
| 1-
|rowspan="2"|
|-
| align="center"| 32
| [[File:Flag of France svg.png]] Jean-Marc Gounon
| 1-
|-
|rowspan=2|[[File:Flag of Italy svg.png]] Pacific Ford
|rowspan=2| Ford HB
| align="center"| 33
| [[File:Flag of France svg.png]] Eric Bernard
| 1-
|rowspan="2"| 
|-
| align="center"| 34
| [[File:Flag of Japan svg.png]] Hideki Noda
| 1-
|-
|}