Pi314159's virtual F1 rules

The following article contains the rules for Pi314159's alternate F1, as of the start of the 1979 season.

Entries

Team Requirements

To get an entry at the start of the season, a team must fulfil the following requirements:

1) The team must have competed in real-life Formula 1, or in the previous Alternate F1 season.

2) The team must start the season without debt.

3) The team needs an F1 Rejects user as its manager. Every user may only control one team.

4) The team must enter its own cars, customer chassis are not allowed.

Driver Requirements

1) No fictional drivers are allowed in this series.

2) To take part in a race weekend, the driver must have been active in motorsport in real life, or in the previous alternate F1 season.

3) The driver must have sufficient racing experience.

4) Drivers who got injured in an Alternate F1 race are not able to enter until they've recovered from their injuries

5) Every team may enter up to two drivers for each weekend.

Season calendar

1) The season calendar is announced by the series organzier before the start of the season, and may consist of 16 to 18 races. It is usually based on the real F1 calendar, but may have additional or different events.

Points system

1) The points system will be 9-6-4-3-2-1. No points are awarded for pole position or fastest lap. No dropped scores will be applied.

2) Both cars are eligible to score points for the constructors' championship, including part-time entries.

Credits

1) All credits from the previous season are carried over into the next year.

2) At the end of the year, and after the first half of the season, teams receive prize money. The end-of-season prize money is distributed in the following way:

1st: 5 500 000 cr. 2nd: 5 000 000 cr. 3rd: 4 500 000 cr. 4th: 4 250 000 cr. 5th: 4 000 000 cr. 6th: 3 750 000 cr. 7th: 3 500 000 cr. 8th: 3 250 000 cr. 9th: 3 000 000 cr. 10th: 2 750 000 cr. 11th: 2 500 000 cr. 12th: 2 250 000 cr. 13th: 2 000 000 cr. 14th: 1 750 000 cr. 15th: 1 500 000 cr. 16th: 1 250 000 cr. 17th: 1 000 000 cr. 18th: 750 000 cr. 19th: 500 000 cr. 20th: 250 000 cr.

mid-season prize money will be half of the given values.

3) A list of sponsors is published at the start of each season. Sponsors are sorted into three tiers: Tier 1 sponsors will use 50% of the space available on the car, Tier 2 sponsors will use 20% and Tier 3 sponsors will use 10%.