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''All rules are determined by the administration only. Suggestions for changes are appreciated, but the final decision lies with the administration.''<br>
 
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''For the sake of clarity, all following rules regarding users and drivers use "he" as pronoun. Alternate Formula One welcomes people of all genders and therefore the rules also apply to people of all genders.''
 
  
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== §1 Game and Narrative ==
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== Game, Entries and Narrative ==
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1) Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era is a management-role-playing game on the GP Rejects forums (or any forum considered a successor or an alternative by the administration).
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Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era is a management-role-playing game on the GP Rejects forums (or any forum considered a successor or an alternative by the administration). Unofficially, Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era may also be referred to as Alternate Formula One - Current Era. Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era for the seasons 2010 to 2019 is to be referred to as Alternate Formula One - Two-Race Era.  
  
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1.a) Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era may also be referred to as Alternate Formula One - Current Era
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The administration is defined as the GP Rejects forum user(s) (or any forum considered a successor or an alternative by the administration) running Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era. Running the game is defined as handling the administrative duties (controlling budgets, ensuring appliance with the rules, determining performance etc.) of Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era as well as simulating all Grand Prix weekends. The administration may only be assigned to a new user if the current administration is either permanently and irrevocably banned from the GP Rejects forums (or any forum considered a successor or an alternative by the administration), voluntarily surrenders the role of administrator, is agreed to be egregiously incompetent by all users running a team in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era or dies in real-life. The decision on the replacement user to be made the new administration is to be made by the users of the GP Rejects Discord in a democratic manner as quickly as possible.
  
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1.b) Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era for the seasons 2010 to 2019 is to be referred to as Alternate Formula One - Two-Race Era
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Any change by the administration to these rules during the season must be announced unsolicited with a post on the GP Rejects forums (or any forum considered a successor or an alternative by the administration) with at least 3 Grand Prix weekends notice, unless force majeure prevents this. The period of notice is not required if the wording of the rule is changed to help clarify the rule's intent or correct grammatical errors or misspellings. Any rule change during the season is invalidated if 5 or more users running a team in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era object to the rule change. Each user running a team in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era can request rule changes during the season once per season. The suggested rule change becomes part of the rules if all users running a team in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era agree to it. During the period between the final motor development phase of the previous season and the beginning of the driver market of the upcoming season, the administration can freely change rules as it sees fits with the exception of rule changes that were invalidated during the season. It is the responsibility of the users running a team in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era to educate themselves on any rule changes.
  
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2) Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era is currently simulated using Grand Prix 2.
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Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era is simulated using the video game Grand Prix 2. Changing the simulation method used to run Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era Grand Prix weekends must be announced by the administration with at least 6 Grand Prix weekends notice. Changing the simulation method used to run Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era Grand Prix weekends during the season is prohibited. The administration may entrust other people with simulating the Grand Prix weekends within the game, unless 5 or more users running a team in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era object to the user chosen to simulate the races. If the responsibility of simulating the Grand Prix weekends is to be given to a third party by the administration, this must be announced by the administration with at least 6 Grand Prix weekends notice.
  
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2.a) Changing the simulation method used to run Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era Grand Prix weekends must be announced by the administration twelve Grand Prix weekends before the change takes place.
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The narrative period of Alternate Formula One - Current Era includes all Alternate Formula One history from 1965 onwards. "Retcons" (changes to previously simulated or role-played events) can be undertaken by the administration whenever deemed necessary, though the administration has to inform any involved users of the decision and explain their reasoning unsolicited. A retcon is voided if all users running a team in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era or the user responsible to the simulation of Grand Prix weekends from that time period object to it. Should no game displaying Alternate Formula One history until 1965 exist, the administration can extend the narrative period to include all of Alternate Formula One history from 1940 onwards. If the GP Rejects Discord decides to anoint a user with the role of managing the narrative of all series sharing a fictional universe with Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era, the decisions of that user to do supersede any narrative decisions by the administration.
  
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2.a) Changing the simulation method used to run Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era Grand Prix weekends during the season is prohibited.
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For any gameplay element the administration has the exclusive right to invent an in-character reasoning should it be considered elemental to sustain the willing suspension of disbelief.
  
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3) The administration is defined as the GP Rejects forum (or any forum considered a successor or an alternative by the administration) user running Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era.
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Any user of the GP Rejects forums (or any forum considered a successor or an alternative by the administration) and/or Grand Prix Rejects Discord may run one team in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era. Any user running a team in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era must have a Discord account for private messaging or must supply the administration with an option to contact them immediately should it prove necessary. A team is defined as the representation of the user in the game world, given a name, nationality, team principal and a backstory providing an in-character explanation of the source of its budget by the user at the time of entry. Should the administration consider any supplied name and/or backstory ill-fitted, it may deny the entry. If an entry is denied, the user may choose a different name and backstory until an acceptable entry is achieved. A team's name can be changed after the conclusion of an Alternate Formula One season. The administration is entitled to refuse a team the right to change their team's name as it sees fit.
  
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3.a) Running the game is defined as handling the administrative duties (controlling budgets, ensuring appliance with the rules, determining performance etc.) of Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era as well as simulating all Grand Prix weekends.
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All teams have, at all times, a budget representing their financial capabilities. The budgets, as well as all other financial matters in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era, are measured in Euro. Any transfer of money from or towards teams may only be undertaken in increments of 0.5 million Euro. Teams can freely transfer their budget to other teams, but must justify their reasoning to the administration unsolicited. If the administration considers the reasoning insufficient, it can cancel the transfer as it sees fit. Any transfer between teams must be verified by both parties to the administration before it becomes valid. Before the start of a season, the administration may reduce the budget of all teams by a certain amount to simulate operational costs in the interest of game balance. The sum reduced must be announced before the conclusion of car development.
  
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3.b) The administration may entrust any person mentally capable of the task with simulating the Grand Prix weekends within the game used as defined in §1.2. If the responsibility of simulating the Grand Prix weekends is to be given to a third party by the administration, this must be announced by the administration three Grand Prix weekends before the change takes place
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The number of teams available for any season will be decided on by the administration before the 11th-to-last race of the previous season. At no point Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era must not have less than 8 teams or more than either 16 teams or the highest number of teams that can be supported by the simulation method without needing to reduce the number of cars before the race, whichever number is lower. A user running a team in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era agrees to fulfill deadlines for all actions necessary in the game announced by the administration unless external circumstances prevent this or the administration is informed beforehand that the user is not able to fulfill said deadline. If a user fails to meet any announced deadline, the administration may either freely undertake any decision necessary on behalf of the user or exclude the user from the game.
  
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3.c) The administration may only change hands if the current administration is either permanently and irrevocably banned from the #F1Rejects chatroom (or any chat considered a successor or an alternative by the administration), voluntarily surrenders the role of administrator, is agreed to be egregiously unfair in his judgements by all users running a team in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era or dies in real-life.
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Any user not running a team in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era may join a waiting list and will be given new teams in order of joining the waiting list whenever a user running a team in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era is excluded from the game. The administration can decide to not give a works team or a replacement for said works team to any user on the waiting list who has been excluded from the game at any point during the last 3 seasons. Should there be less users running a team in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era and/or on the waiting list than there are teams available, the administration must first reduce the number of teams available. Should that lead to less than 8 teams on the grid or remove one or multiple works team(s), the administration is entitled to run as many team themselves for one season as is necessary (for all intents and purposes, the administration will be seen as equal to any other user running a team in Alternate Fomula One - Hydrogen Era within that role). Users on the waiting list can be requested to reaffirm their interest in being on the Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era waiting list at any point during the season if at least 12 real-life weeks have passed between the simulation of 2 Grand Prix weekends or the administration changes hands. The administration is entitled to re-order the waiting list in accordance to the order in which the requested reaffirmations are undertaken.
  
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3.d) Should the administration need to be replaced as defined in §1,3.c, the former administration is entrusted with deciding the new administration unless incapable of doing so, in which case any user running a team in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era can volunteer to become the new administration. The old administration is to support the new administration whenever possible.
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When a new user enters the game, he may, at the start of their first season, choose to continue using the identity of the team of the user that has been excluded to free up their entry. Should he do so, their team will be, in addition to the budget for new teams, be given a bonus €10,000,000. Furthermore, the team is entitled to all benefits that follow from last year's World Constructors Championship results of the identity, except for the prize money. Should the sum of the World Constructors Championship prize money plus the remaining budget be higher than the budget for a new team without the bonus, the user is instead given the prize money and the remaining budget instead. The administration is free to deny the option to continue the identity of the team as it sees fit. In case the team of the user that has been excluded from the game is a works team, the new user taking entering the game is automatically treated as if he has made this decision unless the administration decides to abolish the works team.
  
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4) The narrative period of Alternate Formula One - Current Era includes all Alternate Formula One history from 1976 onwards. "Retcons" (changes to previously simulated or role-played events) can be undertaken by the administration whenever deemed necessary, though the administration has to inform any involved users/teams of the decision and explain their reasoning unsolicited. Should no game displaying Alternate Formula One history until 1976 exist, the administration can extend the narrative period to include all of Alternate Formula One history from 1945 onwards until a new game is established.
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Users are excluded from the series:
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* if they request to be excluded from the game
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* if their teams are considered bankrupt, i.e. do not have sufficient funding to pay for a motor contract worth €30,000,000, their active lead designer contract or the cheapest available lead designer if no active contract exists, 43 staffers for the aerodynamic department and 2 racing drivers with a combined wage of €5,000,000, even when accounting for sponsorship
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* if the base grip of their chassis is below 10,000
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* if they fail to meet deadlines
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* if they are irrevocably banned from the Grand Prix Rejects Discord, the Discord service as a whole or demonstrate other behaviour making them unsuitable to keep their team
  
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5) For any gameplay element the administration has the exclusive right to invent an in-character reasoning should it be considered elemental to sustain the willing suspension of disbelief.
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The administration can decide to not exclude a user from the series if they fail the 3rd-to-last, 2nd-to-last or last point, unless all others users running a team in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era demand an exclusion.
  
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6) Any change by the administration to these rules must be, after the start of the 2020 season, announced unsolicited with a post on the GP Rejects forums (or any forum considered a successor or an alternative by the administration) with at least three Grand Prix weekends notice, unless force majeure prevents this.
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If a user is excluded mid-season, the first member of the waiting list is installed as the caretaking user. He inherits all contracts and chassis of the current team. At the end of the season, they go through the same process as described above. If there are no users on the waiting list or the sole member of the waiting list either refuses entry into Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era or is not seen as suitable for running a works team, the administration will be installed as the caretaking user until a capable user joins the waiting list. If the administration is installed as caretaking user during the season, it is not entitled to spend money beyond terminating and hiring drivers as is necessary to allow fictional drivers by a user who does not yet have a driver with a DEC in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era to join the grid.
  
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6.b) This period of notice is not required if the wording of the rule is changed to help clarify the rule's intent, correct grammatical errors or if the administration considers the rule change to have major urgency. If at least six users running a team in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era object to any rule changes made invoking this rule, the rule change is invalid.
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Excluded users may join the waiting list unless the administration can provide evidence that doing so would be against the best interest of the GP Rejects forums (or any website considered a successor or an alternative by the administration). Any user that has voluntarily been excluded from the game on 2 separate occasion is only entitled to rejoin the waiting list with explicit permission from the administration. Should 5 or more users running a team in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era object to the decision by the administration on whether to permit or forbid rejoining the waiting list, the decision is reversed.
  
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== §2 Entries ==
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Any user currently running a team in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era can decide to take control of a team of a user that was excluded from the game and drop control of their current team, which will be treated as though the user running the former team was excluded from the game. Should multiple users running a team in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era want to take control of such a team, priority is given to the user whose team is ranked lower in the World Constructors Championship at the time the previously controlling user is excluded. A new user entering the game is awarded a new team. Any new team must give the administration a name, a nationality and a backstory to explain its entry into Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era. Should a user decline to enter Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era when an entry becomes available, they are entitled to return to the top of the waiting list. Should a user decline to enter Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era 2 times, they are automatically placed at the bottom of the waiting list should he choose to return to the waiting list.
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1) Any user of the GP Rejects board (or any forum considered a successor or an alternative by the administration) and/or Grand Prix Rejects Discord (or any chat considered a successor or an alternative by the administration) on Mibbit may run one team in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era.
 
  
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1.a) A team is defined as the representation of the user in the game world, given a name by the user at the time of entry in as defined in §2.4
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The budget of the new teams is equal to the average budget of the 5 poorest teams on the grid after prize money for the previous season is applied, rounded up to the next full 10,000,000 plus the price of 53 staffers for the aerodynamic department.
  
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2) Any user running a team in Alternate Formula One agrees to fulfill deadlines given by the administration unless external circumstances prevent this or the administration is informed beforehand that the user is not able to fulfill said deadline.
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For the purposes of Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era, valid nationalities are any member or observer state of the United Nations, the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, the Murrawarri Republic and the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic as well as any fictional state previously established in the series sharing a fictional universe with Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era. Teams can freely change their nationality after the conclusion of an Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era season.
  
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3) The grid size is determined at twelve two-car teams for the seasons 2020-2025.  
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== Sponsorship ==
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Every team that is not a works team may apply for a tier alpha sponsor at the start of every 4th season (beginning with 2022), which will pay out (per season) €50,000,000 for teams finishing in P10 to P13 in last year's World Constructors Championship, €35,000,000 for teams finishing in P5 to P9 in last year's World Constructors Championship as well as any new teams and €15,000,000 for teams finishing in P1 to P4 in last year's World Constructors Championship for hiring a driver from one out of 11 possible target regions assigned to each sponsor by the administration as it sees fit.
  
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3.a) Any user not in charge of one of the active teams may join the waiting list and will be given new teams in order of joining the waiting list whenever a user is excluded from the series. The administration can decide to give a works team to any user on the waiting list who has been excluded from the game in accordance with §2.3.d at any point during the last two seasons
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During all Grand Prix weekends of the 3 seasons, at least 1 driver from the target region must compete as a racing driver for the team. A driver from a target region condition can be released, as long as they are immediately replaced with a driver that is from the same region. Should a team fail to immediately replace the driver with a fitting one, they must return the entire sum of sponsorship earned through their tier alpha and tier beta sponsors for that season. This does not free the team from the responsibility to fulfill the requirements of their tier beta sponsor. If injury or bans prevent a driver from the target region under contract to appear in a race, the team is not required to hire a replacement from the target region, but must return the driver from the target region to their seat at the first opportunity.
  
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3.b) Should there be less than twelve users be running a team and should there be no users on the waiting list at the start of a season, the administration may ask one or more users running a works team as defined in §4.2.c to run a second team under the same name and the exact same budget as the first one for that season. These users are chosen by the administration as it sees fit.
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A target region driver is considered hired when a signed racing driver has the nationality of any nation within the determined target region. In case of the administration making a factual error regarding overseas territories or similar topics, the map proving unclear or in the case of dual nationalities and other fringe cases, the administration will decide in which region a specific driver belongs as it sees fit. Once during their career in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era, any fictional driver may change their nationality if a sufficient in-character reasoning as determined by the administration is provided. This change can only be made once, cannot be reversed and must be made after the end of the season before the change is to take place and before the end of the driver market of the season the change is to take place.
  
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3.c) Users are excluded from the series when their teams are considered bankrupt, i.e. do not have sufficient funding to pay an engine contract worth €40,000,000, their active lead designer contract or the cheapest available lead designer if no contract exists and the cheapest available chassis options, even when accounting for sponsorship.  
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In addition, each team that is not a works team may apply for 1 tier beta sponsor each every 4th season which will pay out €10,000,000 per season. Tier beta sponsors have demands on the driver lineup, the team's last year's World Constructors Championship position or the motor contract. The demand of the last year's World Constructors Championship position is based solely on the World Constructors Championship position of the season before the application. The demands on the driver lineup and motor contract are treated the same way as the as for tier alpha sponsors. Should a driver become ineligible to fulfill the requirements of the tier beta sponsor, they may fulfill their contract without losing the sponsorship, but must be replaced with a driver fulfilling the criteria after their contract is up. Should a team fail to fulfill the beta sponsor demands, they must return the entire sum of sponsorship earned through their tier alpha and tier beta sponsors for that season.
  
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3.d) Users may also be excluded as needed by administration if they fail to meet deadlines, are permanently and irrevocably banned from the Grand Prix Rejects Discord (or any chat considered a successor or an alternative by the administration) or demonstrate other behaviour making them unsuitable to keep their team. Their team is then declared bankrupt even if the conditions as defined in §2.3.c are not fulfilled.
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A single driver is able to fulfill demands of both tier alpha and tier beta sponsors at the same time. Should it become impossible for a team to fulfill the demands of any sponsor because of decisions by the administration (such as removing a works team or re-organising the target regions), the sponsorship goal is considered not fulfilled, but the team in question will not be required to pay back any sponsorship earned. New teams will apply for any type of sponsor in the season they enter and will then join in the cycle of applying again for their sponsor whenever the 4th season for the previously existing teams rolls around.
  
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3.e) Users may also voluntarily ask for exclusion from the game. Their team is then declared bankrupt even if the conditions as defined in §2.3.c are not fulfilled.
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All teams may apply for 1 tier gamma sponsor each every 4th season which will pay out €5,000,000 per season.
  
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3.f) Excluded users may join the waiting list unless the administration can provide evidence that doing so would be against the best interest of the GP Rejects board (or any website considered a successor or an alternative by the administration) and its users. Any user that has voluntarily been excluded from the game as defined in §2.3.e on three separate occasion is no longer entitled to rejoin the waiting list unless at least four users running a team in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era agree to it.
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For all sponsors, a RNG will determine whether they sign the contract. The RNG values will be determined by the administration based on last year's World Constructors Championship position, combined with the economical interests of the company behind the sponsor and drivers under contract with the team at the time of the RNG. Any RNG result is final, unless there is reasonable doubt about the quality of the RNG values and 5 or more users running a team in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era request a reroll.
  
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3.g) Users on the waiting list can be requested to reaffirm their interest in being on the Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era waiting list at any point in the business stages before the season as defined in §6.5, after at least eight real-life weeks have passed between the simulation of two Grand Prix weekends or the administration changes as defined in §1.3.c. The administration is entitled to re-order the waiting list in accordance to the order in which the requested re-affirmations are undertaken.
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The actual companies behind all sponsors are chosen by the administration as it sees fit and can be changed by the administration or the user running the team if necessary. Any company may also sponsor works teams without affecting the team's sponsorship. The tier alpha sponsor is added to the team's name as the administration sees fits.
  
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3.i) A user can decide to take control of a bankrupt team and drop control of his current team if given approval by the administration. His old team is then declared bankrupt even if the conditions as defined in §2.3.c are not fulfilled.
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Works teams that finished 5th or lower in last year's World Constructors Championship may request manufacturer support. Manufacturer support is a one-time payment of €70,000,000 and can be requested every 2nd season. Should a works team use manufacturer support, the prize money for its World Constructors Championship position will be reduced by €30,000,000 in the season in which manufacturer support is requested and the season thereafter.
  
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4) A new user entering the game is awarded a new team. Any new team must give the administration a name, a nationality and a backstory to explain its entry into Alternate Formula One. Should a user decline to enter Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era when an entry becomes available, he is entitled to return to the top of the waiting list. Should a user decline to enter Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era two times, he is automatically placed at the bottom of the waiting list should he choose to return to the waiting list.
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== Chassis, Motors and Lead Designers ==
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Every team must build a new car at the start of a new season. A car consists of 2 elements: the motor and the chassis.
  
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4.a) The budget of the new teams is determined through calculating the average of all budgets of the teams that have not been declared bankrupt by the administration (excluding the three richest team remaining).
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At least 2 and at most 6 motor manufacturers are always available to sign motor contracts with. The in-character designation for the motors are decided by the administration. They are represented through so-called "works teams", which are responsible for agreeing on motor contracts with the so-called "customer teams". A works team is a team run by a user who has chosen to also manage the motor supply for other teams. Before the start of the motor development system, any team can apply to the administration to either become a works team or stop being a works team, depending on its current status. The administration is entitled to decide whether the application is accepted or not as it sees fit. If the application is accepted, another application may not be handed in for 4 seasons after the application is either approved or denied. After that period, the administration officially announces the works teams for the upcoming season.
  
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4.b) Should the administration consider any supplied name and/or backstory insufficient, it may deny the entry. If an entry is denied, the user may choose a different name and backstory until an acceptable entry is achieved.  
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The works teams provide a hydrogen fuel cell electric motor.  
  
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4.c) When a new user enters the game, he may, at the start of his first season, choose to continue using the identity of the team of the user that has been excluded to free up his entry. Should he do so, his team will be, in addition to the budget for new teams, be paid €10,000,000. Furthermore, the team is, with the exception of the prize money, entitled to all benefits that follow from last year's World Constructors Championship results of the identity. This rule can be voided by the administration if needed for storyline purposes or at the request of the excluded user if he was excluded as defined in §2.3.e. In case the team of the user that has been excluded from the game is a works team as defined in §4.2.c, the new user taking entering the game is treated as if he has made this decision unless the administration decides otherwise.
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Each team that is not a works team must sign a motor contract with a works team. The motor contract must state the motor price, the duration of the contract in full seasons. The maximum motor price is €45,000,000. Motor contracts may also contain clauses that specify additional conditions and privileges. Financial clauses (e.g. bonus payments) are not permitted, except for changing the motor price for future seasons of the contract. If the administration considers a clause unclear, the administration will interpret the clause with the most works team-friendly interpretation possible.
  
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4.d) If a team is declared bankrupt even if the conditions as defined in §2.3.c are not fulfilled and the user decides to keep the identity of the team of the user excluded as defined in §2.5.c, the user keeps the budget of the team at the end of the season plus any prize money for the prize money from last year's World Constructors Championship results of the identity if that amount is higher than the budget a new team would receive as defined in §2.4.a.
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Works teams have an infinite motor contract with themselves for an motor price of €0. There is no upper limit to the length of an motor contract. Modifying a motor contract during the season is forbidden, but the works team can extend the contract with approval of the customer team in question and the administration. Should a user fail to come to an agreement with any works team, the administration will look at all potential offers made to said team. Should it find any of those reasonable in relation to the prices other customer teams pay, it will order the user in question to accept an offer chosen by the administration. Should it find none of the offers reasonable, the works team with the lowest amount of customers will be ordered to sign a 2-year motor contract with the user at a yearly rate of €30,000,000.
  
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4.e) Nationality in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era is defined as any member or observer state of the United Nations, the fictional state of Tropico, the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (until 2047).
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Should a previously signed contract violate any rules or a new contract be found to violate these rules, the administration is entitled to change the terms of the contract as it sees fit, but must inform the works team unsolicited.
  
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4.f) Teams can freely change their nationality after the conclusion of an Alternate Formula One season.
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After the 8th-to-last Grand Prix weekend of the season, 10% of the motor price (rounded down to the next full half million) of each contract is added to the budget of the works team. If any of the customer teams has had a motor contract with the same works teams for 3 or 4 consecutive seasons, 25 % of the motor price (rounded down to the next full half million) of that customer team's contract is added to the budget of the works team instead. If any of the customer teams has had a motor contract with the same works teams for 5 or more consecutive seasons, 35 % of the motor price (rounded down to the next full half million) of that customer team's contract is added to the budget of the works team instead. Should a works team spend less money during the development system than it received on account of this rule, the difference will be taken from the budget of the works team (rounded up to the next full half million) and split equally among all customer teams under contract (rounded up to the next full half million).
  
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5) If a user is excluded mid-season, the first member of the waiting list is installed as the caretaking user. He inherits all contracts and chassis of the current team. At the end of the season, he goes through the same process as defined in §1.4. If there are no users on the waiting list or the sole member of the waiting list either refuses entry into Alternate Formula One or is not seen as suitable for running a works team as defined in §2.3.a, the administration will be installed as the caretaking user.
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Every season, the performance of all motors are determined through a development system which begins with the 7th-to-last Grand Prix weekend of the season. During that time period, the works teams have their testing team run 2 testing days between Grand Prix weekends and 2 more after the conclusion of the final Grand Prix weekend and have them work on 1 of 4 programs:
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* motor power - the base BHP output of the motor
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* car failure probability - how likely retirements are
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5.a) If the administration is installed as caretaking user during the season, it is not entitled to hire or release drivers or otherwise spend money except for participation in the mid-season test as defined in §5.2.
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During the season, the administration is entitled to increase the base BHP or decrease motor mass of one motor with 2 races notice once. After the conclusion of the season, all teams not using the altered motor that were ahead of one or multiple teams using the altered motor when the notice of the altered values was given and finished behind those teams will be compensated for the lost prize money.
  
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6) All teams have, at all times, a budget, representing their financial capabilities.
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If a user is excluded from Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era, motor deals of the user's team are voided after the conclusion of the Driver Market of the following season. Should a new user decide to keep the identity of the team of the user excluded, the works team may unilaterally decide to continue the contract before the conclusion of the driver market. If a user running a works team is excluded from Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era, any running motor deals are unaffected. If a works team is abolished, all running motor deals are voided and all customer teams are reimbursed the difference between the old motor price and the motor price of the contract signed as a replacement for the 1st season of the new contract.
  
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6.a) The budgets, as well as all other financial matters in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era, are measured in Euro.
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Every team must build a chassis at the start of the year. The grip value of the chassis is determined by 3 separate factors: the base grip as decided by the aero department, the lead designer and the motor mass.  A team must provide an in-character designation for the chassis; the user running the team can entrust the administration with that task. Any user may imply in-character that the chassis built by their team is reused from the previous seasons or based on the intellectual property of another team with the approval of the user running said team. The administration can render that implication void as it sees fit, but must inform the user of the reasoning unsolicited.
  
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6.b) Any transfer of money from or towards teams may only be undertaken in amounts rounded to a full million. Amounts not rounded are only allowed for the transfer of the payment defined in §4.3.e and for bonus payments defined in §5.4.d and for driver wages as defined in §4.3 for the 2020 season.
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Base grip is decided by the number of employees hired by a team's aerodynamics department. One employee increases the RNG floor of next season's chassis by 240 grip. Any new chassis must have at least 10,000 base grip and may have no more than either 15,250 or the highest qualifying grip of the previous season plus 200, whichever number is higher. The size of the aerodynamics department is capped at 61 Permanent Employees working on the current chassis and next season's chassis respectively (a total of 122 Permanent Employees). The method of running the RNG of the chassis is affected by the design philosophy. New teams must also hire employees to build the current chassis. In addition to the employees assigned to designing next season's chassis, teams can hire temporary employees to increase their RNG floor for the current seasons. Temporary employees are not included in the cap mentioned above, but can only be added until the RNG floor is the highest possible base grip minus 250.
  
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6.c) Teams can freely transfer their budget to other teams, but must justify their reasoning to the administration unsolicited. If the administration considers the reasoning insufficient, it can cancel the transfer as it sees fit.
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No team can build a new car that is more than 3 places in a base grip ranking below their previous year's World Constructors Championship position (e.g. the winners of last year's World Constructors Championship cannot possibly build any worse than the 4th-best car). Should this occur, the car will have additional base grip added as needed to move the team by raw performance into the nearest eligible position. The base grip added that way will be subtracted from any future upgrades or the base grip of the chassis of the following season after the conclusion of that season's car market. Should the additional base grip added exceed 1,000, the administration is entitled to subtract base grip from the current chassis in portions of 300 grip with two Grand Prix weekends notice until the substraction from future upgrades or the base grip of the following season is less than 900.
  
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6.d) Any transfer between teams must be verified by both parties to the administration before it becomes valid.
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After the base grip of a car is decided, the grip factor of the lead designer is applied and the weight penalty of the motor is subtracted from the base grip to determine the final race grip and qualifying grip (rounded down to the next full 10). Any car that is below 11,500 race grip after this step will have base grip added to reach 12,000 before one of the first 6 Grand Prix weekends of the season. The administration must announce the Grand Prix weekend chosen for this purpose and the amount of base grip added before the first Grand Prix weekend of the season. The base grip is still added even if the user in question has reached 12,000 race grip through the use of upgrades before that Grand Prix weekend.
  
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7) For a fee of €10,000,000, a team can be renamed after the conclusion of an Alternate Formula One season. The administration is entitled to permit name changes without paying this fee as it sees fit. A works team as defined in §4.2.c may only be renamed with permission from the administration.
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If the first Grand Prix weekend of the season is in January or February, each user must furthermore decide whether to prepare their chassis fully for the first Grand Prix weekend or whether to use a prototype. If the user chooses to fully prepare their chassis, the base grip of the chassis is reduced by 150 unless that would result in aforementioned drop below their previous year's World Constructors Championship position. If the user chooses to use a prototype, they will lose 800 qualifying and race grip for the first Grand Prix weekend.
  
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== §3 Sponsorship ==
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Lead designers can only be hired during the lead designer market at the start of a season. Any unemployed lead designer can be signed by a team with the team chosen by the designer decided by a RNG with the odds determined by the following table (offer rank is determined by ranking the offers ascendingly according to the following formula: last year's World Constructors Championship position/years of the contract offer (tiebreakers are given to the team with the better World Constructors Championship position):
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1) Every team that is not a works team will be offered a main sponsorship contract by two sponsors at the start of the season, which will pay out €50,000,000 for teams finishing in P10 to P13 in last year's World Constructors Championship, €35,000,000 for teams finishing in P5 to P9 in last year's World Constructors Championship and €15,000,000 for teams finishing in P1 to P4 in last year's World Constructors Championship for hiring a driver from one out of eight possible [http://formularejects.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Sponsorship_Regions_2020_C.png Target Regions] assigned randomly to each sponsor by the administration as it sees fit. Should the team not sign a driver from the Target Region, the sponsor will pay out €15,000,000 for teams finishing in P10 to P13 in last year's World Constructors Championship, €5,000,000 for teams finishing in P5 to P9 in last year's World Constructors Championship and €2,000,000 for teams finishing in P1 to P4 in last year's World Constructors Championship.
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1.a) The actual companies behind those sponsors are chosen by the administration as it sees fit.
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1.b) Any team may retain the chosen sponsor four times. This goes effect only goes back to 2019, so any sponsor retained in 2020 will be considered retained for the first time. Any team retaining its identity as defined in §2.4.c will have start the count anew.
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1.c) New teams are treated like they finished P5 to P9 in last year's World Constructors Championship to determine the amount paid out as defined in §3.1.
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2) Any Target Region driver must compete in all Grand Prix weekends of the respective Alternate Formula One season, unless injury or bans prevent a driver under contract to appear in a Grand Prix weekend. A driver from a Target Region condition can be released, as long as he is replaced with a driver that is from the same region.
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2.a) Should a team fail to sign a new Target Region driver after releasing or temporarily replacing their previous Target Region driver, they must return an amount of money equal to the difference between the money paid out for the Target Region driver and the money they would have received for not signing a Target Region driver. This repayment is independent on how many Grand Prix weekends have passed since the signing of the contract.
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3) A Target Region driver is hired when a driver has the nationality of any nation within the specific Target Region.
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3.a) In case of the administration making a factual error regarding overseas territories or similar topics or the map proving unclear, the administration will decide in which region a specific driver belongs as it sees fit. This also applies to dual nationalities and other fringe cases.
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3.b) Cnce during his career in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era any fictional driver may change his nationality if a sufficient in-character reasoning is provided. This change can only be made once, may never be reversed and must be made after the end of the season before the change is to take place and before the end of the driver market of the season the change is to take place.
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4) Switching sponsors during the season is prohibited.
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5) Before the third-to-last Grand Prix weekend of a season, the rankings in the World Constructors Championship and the budget rankings of the teams are combined into one ranking. The two lowest teams on that ranking are entitled to hire a driver from the country hosting the final Grand Prix weekend of the season to temporarily replace one of their drivers. This driver may replace a Target Region driver without loss of the money paid out for the Target Region driver as defined in §3.2.a.
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== §4 Cars ==
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1) Every team must build a new car at the start of a new season. A car consists of two elements: the chassis and the motor.
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1.a) A team must provide an in-character designation for the chassis. The user running the team can entrust the administration with the task.
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1.b) Any user may imply in-character that the chassis built by his team is reused from the previous seasons or purchased from another team, unless the administration decides that rule changes in or out of character would make such a decision break the willing suspension of disbelief. This does not free that team from the obligation to build a new car as defined in §4.1.
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2) At least two and at most seven motor manufacturers are always available to sign engine contracts with. They are represented through so-called "works teams".
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2.a) A works team is a team run by a user who has chosen to also manage the motor supply for other teams..
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2.b) Before the start of the development system defined in §4.2.e, any team can apply to the administration to either become a works team or stop being a works team, depending on its current status. The administration is entitled to decide whether the application is accepted or not as it sees fit. If the application is accepted, another application may not be handed in for six seasons after the approved application.
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2.c) The works teams provide a hydrogen fuel cell electric motor.
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3.a) There is no upper limit to the length of an engine contract, but engine contracts can only be agreed on in full seasons.
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Lead designers can be signed for up to 10 years and cannot be sacked during an active contract. Every 2nd season, the performance of all lead designers is randomly modified by the administration. The contract price is not adjusted after the performance modification. If a user is excluded from Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era, the lead designer contract is taken over by the new team, regardless of whether the new user decides to keep the identity of the team of the user excluded.
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3.b) Works teams have an infinite engine contract with themselves for an engine price of €0.
 
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3.c) Engine contracts may contain clauses that specify additional conditions and privileges.
 
  
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3.d) Any financial clauses will exclusively be accounted for at the start of the season following the point the clause is fulfilled, regardless of whether the contract is still active at that time.
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== Drivers ==
  
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3.e) If the administration considers a clause unclear, the administration will read the clause in the most advantageous way for the works team.
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Each team must employ 2 racing drivers and may employ either 1 sim driver or 1 driver coach; both real-life drivers and fictional drivers are permitted. The performance of a driver is determined by the administration on basis of previous achievements in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era, any series sharing a fictional universe with Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era and real-life performance for real-life drivers. The 2 racing drivers are the drivers that actively compete during the Grand Prix weekend. Hiring a driver as sim tester gives a team a qualifying performance boost of 30 grip points and improves future RNG values for real-life drivers. Hiring a driver as a driver coach reduces the random grip range of the racing drivers by 30 points.  
  
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3.d) Modifying an engine contract during the season is forbidden, except adding additional clauses if both the customer and the works team agree to do so.
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To be eligible to be signed as a racing driver in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era, a driver must either
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* have competed in 90% of a full season or 18 races, whichever number is lower, in 1 one of the last 3 simulated seasons of Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era or the ARWS.
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* have finished in the top 6 in 1 of the last 3 simulated seasons of the FIA Formula 2 World Championship or the FIA Formula 3 World Cup.
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* have achieved 4 pole positions and/or race victories in other series sharing a fictional universe with Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era during the previous 4 seasons
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* have achieved 8 pole positions and/or race victories in real-life series during the previous 3 years based on the start of the driver market of the season the driver is set to compete in (real-life drivers)
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* have been employed as a sim driver or as a driver coach in the previous simulated season of Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era
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* have a contract as full-time racing driver with a Formula 1 or Formula E team in real-life at the start of the driver market of the season the driver is set to compete in (real-life drivers)
  
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3.f) If a user is excluded from Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era, engine deals of the user's team are voided before the start of the Lead Designer Market of the following season, unless new user decides to keep the identity of the team of the user excluded as defined in §2.5.c., in which case the works team may unilaterally decide to continue the contract.
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To be eligible to be signed as a sim driver in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era, a driver must either
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* be over the age of 16 and be under the age of 26 at the start of the calendar year of the season the driver is hired for
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* have competed in less than 5 races in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era or less than 10 races in the ARWS
  
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3.f) After the eleventh-to-last Grand Prix weekend of the season, 10% of the engine price is added to the budget of the works team to be used as funding for the development system as defined in §4.2.d.
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To be eligible to be signed as a driver coach in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era, a driver must either
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* be over the age of 32 and under the age of 52 at the start of the calendar year of the season the driver is hired for
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* have competed in more than 50 races in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era or more than 25 races in the ARWS or the GT Super Series
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* have achieved 12 pole positions and/or race victories in real-life series during the previous 3 years based on the start of the driver market of the season the driver is set to compete in (real-life drivers)
  
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3.g) Should a customer team fail to come to an agreement with any works team, the administration will look at all potential offers made to said team. Should it find any of those reasonable in relation to the prices other customer teams pay, it will order the customer team in question to accept the offer. Should it find none of the offers reasonable, the works team with the highest amount of customers will be ordered to sell to said team at the price paid by the lowest team under contract, excluding the contract as defined in §4.3.b.  
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A fictional driver can be declared eligible at request despite not meeting any of these conditions if the driver market falls in a period where a series sharing a fictional universe with Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era has not concluded a season yet and it can be considered possible that the driver in question may have fulfilled the requirements by the conclusion of that season. If the driver is declared eligible using that method fails to achieve the requirements to be declared eligible, their eligibility is not revoked.
  
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4) Every team must build a chassis at the start of the year. Building a completely new chassis during the season is prohibited. The grip value of the chassis is determined by three separate factors: the Lead Designer, the Design Concept and the Personnel.  
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Drivers can be signed at the start of the year as well as at any point during the season, except during a Grand Prix weekend. However, no driver can be hired while the position they are  to be hired for is still occupied by another driver. A driver under contract as a sim driver or driver coach can be turned into a contract as a racing driver if a position as a racing driver is not occupied, if the driver is eligible to be hired as a racing driver. Each team is limited to 5 racing drivers throughout the season unless force majeure forces a team to hire more drivers. There is no limit to the amounts of offers a team can make to free agents. These contracts must specify the role of the driver, the driver's wage, the contract duration and state additional clauses.
  
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4.a) If a user is asked to run a second team as defined by §2.3.b, he is to build a chassis for each of his teams and can pick one of them which is used for both teams.
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Contract duration must be stated in a number of years. The minimum contract length is 1 year, the maximum contract length is 6 years (including any driver or team options). Contracts may not be prematurely extended. Teams may clarify through the use of an additional clause if they do not plan to use a driver for an entire season. Wages are separately agreed on for every year of a multi-year contract. Clauses specify additional conditions and privileges of the contract sides not covered in other parts of the contract. Teams may only offer a financial bonus to a driver for WDC and/or WCC position. Any bonus may not be staggered and can only be paid out a lump sum for any given achievement. If the administration considers a clause unclear, the administration will interpret the clause with the most driver-friendly interpretation possible.
  
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5) Lead designers can only be hired at the start of a season.  
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For real-life drivers, a RNG will determine whether they sign the contract. The RNG values will be determined by the administration based on the real-life public persona if the driver and their previous business agreements in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era. After posting their offers, any team looking to re-sign a driver that was under contract with the team in the previous season can request the administration to assess the offer from the point of view of the real-life driver and offer advice to improve their RNG odds. Any RNG result is final, unless there is reasonable doubt about the quality of the RNG values and 5 or more users running a team in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era request a reroll.  
  
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5.a) Any unemployed lead designer can be signed by a team with the team chosen by the designer decided by a RNG weighted by in accordance to the following formula "100/(Offering Team's Last Year's World Constructors Championship position/Years Offered)"; new teams as defined in §4 are for the purpose of this formula treated as if they finished P14.
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For fictional drivers, the respective DEC holder determines whether a contract offer is accepted. Should a fictional driver that has either contemporary narrative importance to Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era or achieved exceptional results in other series have its DEC abandoned, the administration can accept a contract in place of the DEC holder. Drivers signed in that way may only sign 1-year contracts without any option years. Fictional drivers must be between the ages of 17 and 42 years at the start of the calendar year of the current Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era season. A fictional driver that turns 43 during a running contract is entitled to compete for the remaining seasons of their contract, but all potential team or driver options are automatically declined. Fictional drivers whose DEC is held by administration may only be signed if 5 or more users running a team in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era agree to the signing.
  
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5.b) Lead designers can be signed for up to eight years and cannot be sacked during an active contract.  
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Should a previously signed contract violate any rules or a new contract be found to violate these rules, the administration is entitled to change the contract as it sees fit without informing the team owner or the DEC holder in case of fictional drivers. The administration can modify contracts and contract offers with fictional drivers if it considers the contract either unfairly advantageous to the team hiring the driver or egregiously inconsistent with the actions of the character in previous appearances. The team owner must be informed of those changes.
  
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5.c) Every even season, the performance of all lead designers is randomly modified by the administration.
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A driver can be terminated before the start of any Grand Prix weekend. Any driver terminated must be paid a compensation, which equals the lump sum of the wages a driver in future seasons (driver option years included) and all possible bonus payments. If a team temporarily replaces a driver before their contract is over, they are entitled to the same compensation, unless a clause justifies their replacement. Either compensation can be voided if the driver has scored less than 10% of the points of their teammate after 8 Grand Prix weekends after the start of their contract if said teammate has scored at least 25 points or if the DEC owner of a fictional driver has made in-character comments that can be interpreted as a desire to leave the team or excessive criticism of the team as defined by the administration. To return a driver to their role, no additional wage must be paid. During an unjustified temporary replacement, any other team may sign the driver as if they were a free agent. The original team is given €2,000,000 as compensation by the administration in case that driver is signed by a different team.  
  
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6) At the start of the year, each team hands in an upgrade plan to the administration, stating if, when and how they want to apply upgrades. Any upgrade takes three Grand Prix weekends from either building the chassis or the last upgrade to develop.
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The rules regarding temporary replacement do not apply if the driver is unavailable to compete due to injury or bans. Any replacement driver signed to replace a driver that is unavailable to compete due to injury or bans will not be paid any wage. Driver contracts of bankrupt teams with real-life drivers can be terminated by the new user until the conclusion of the 2nd Grand Prix weekend of the season without paying compensation if the new user decides to keep the identity of the bankrupt team, driver contracts of bankrupt teams with fictional drivers can be terminated with mutual agreement without paying compensation if the fictional driver is offered a contract by another team. If the user chooses to enter a new team, any existing contracts are void. Should a user fail to name a replacement driver, the team will use either their sim driver or driver coach if they are eligible to be signed as a racing driver or be assigned a replacement driver by the administration. The administration must choose the sim driver or driver coach of a different team if the user controlling said team requests that their sim driver or driver coach is used as a replacement on a loan basis unless the team in question would receive a direct financial advantage from such a decision. If the administration has signed a driver on behalf of a user failing to meet a deadline, that driver contract can be terminated by the user in question until the conclusion of the 2nd Grand Prix weekend of the season without paying compensation.
  
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6.a) The cost of any upgrade is only subtracted from the budget of the team applying it at the point where its effect becomes active.
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A team that is in the minus during the season may additionally hire a free practice tester for 3 races. That driver will be assigned to the team by the administration and will provide a lump sum of €4,000,000 and increase the random grip range of the active driver that is lower in the championship standings by 250 points. If one of the racing drivers of the team that hired the free practice tester is unavailable to compete due to injury or bans, the free practice tester must be used as replacement.
  
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6.b) Any team may, during the seventh-to-last Grand Prix weekend of the season, cancel the remaining upgrades on their upgrade plan at no cost, move any outstanding upgrades unless a move would cause a violation of the development period as defined in §4.6 and add upgrades of any type for the fifth-to-last and/or the second-to-last Grand Prix weekend of the season, unless that would cause a violation of the development period as defined in §4.6.
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Active Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era drivers can freely participate in other series as well. It is the responsibility of the involved users to avoid schedule conflicts. Any time paradoxes resulting as a consequence of double-dutying will be punished by having said driver banned from Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era for 5 years and any other DECs (in case of fictional drivers) by said user being banned for the rest of the currently running season. In case of a real-life driver having an unresolved schedule conflict, the team-owning user in question will be excluded from the game, regardless of whether he owns the team in the other series causing the paradox unless the series owner of that series has caused the paradox by allowing the driver in question to sign in the series despite having known about the driver's Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era commitment, running the real-life driver in a race he was not supposed to and refusing to rerun the race or modifying their schedule to deal with the time paradox.
  
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6.c) Should a team use upgrades in a manner that improves their car performance to the point where it exceeds the performance levels possible with the game mechanics, the difference between the mathematical performance and the actual performance is paid out to the team at the start of the following season.
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Any driver, at the start of their career in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era can pick freely any unused racing number from 2-99 to represent them for the entirety of their entire career. The number selection for real-life drivers is undertaken by the administration. Should the administration consider it necessary, it may take the racing number of a real driver and assign it to a real-life driver entering Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era. Fictional drivers have their number selected by the team owner of the team they begin their career with. Any driver's number is reserved for their use up to 3 years after the driver leaves Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era. A new driver starting their career in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era may pick a reserved racing number. Should a driver for whom a racing number is reserved for return to Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era, the procedure depends on the status of the driver:<br>
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* Real-life drivers will be returned their number if the driver with the racing number is a fictional driver<br>
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* Fictional drivers will not be returned their number if the driver with the racing number is a real-life driver<br>
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* Real-life drivers will not be returned their number if the driver with the racing number is a real-life driver unless the administration decides to execute a number swap<br>
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* Fictional drivers will be returned their number if the driver with the racing number is a fictional driver unless both DEC owners agree to execute a number swap<br>
  
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7) No team can build a new car that is, by grip, more than five places below their previous year's World Constructors Championship position. Should this occur, the car is boosted as needed to move the team by raw performance into the nearest eligible position (e.g. the winners of last year's World Constructors Championship cannot possibly build any worse than the sixth-best car).
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The reigning World Drivers Champion will run racing number 1 for the entirety of the season after winning the World Drivers Championship. Their standard racing number will not be available for use by any driver beginning their career in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era. Any replacement driver that is to replace the World Drivers Champion is treated as if he has signed their first contract or uses their reserved racing number, regardless of the length of the replacement.
  
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== §5 Drivers ==
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Before the 5th-to-last race of the current Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era season, all real-life drivers over the age of 36 in the final year of their contract will be subject to a retirement RNG. The RNG values will be determined by the administration based on the real-life public persona of the driver as well as their current position in the World Drivers Championship. Any RNG result is final, unless there is reasonable doubt about the quality of the RNG values and 5 or more users running a team in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era request a reroll. A real-life driver that is rolled to retire is not eligible to compete in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era for the next 2 Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era seasons.
  
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1) Each team must at any time employ two racing drivers and may employ one "third driver"; both real-life drivers and fictional drivers are permitted.
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Before the first Grand Prix weekend, drivers who were under contract with the same team in the previous season and who are determined by the administration to be discontent with their current contract based on either their real-life public persona or their payment based on the results in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era will be subject to a contract holdout RNG. Any RNG result is final, unless there is reasonable doubt about the quality of the RNG values and 5 or more users running a team in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era request a reroll. If the RNG results in a holdout, the driver will refuse to perform the duties of their contract, i.e. racing drivers will not compete and sim drivers or driver coaches will not provide their bonus. Teams can choose to either fulfill the demands of their driver, wait the holdout out (the driver holding out will be treated as if he was injured for the purpose of all rules regarding a temporary replacement, but any real-life replacement driver will have lowered RNG odds) or terminate him without paying compensation. If the team chooses to terminate the driver, their replacement must be given the same contract terms (or improved contract terms) to their replacement.
  
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1.a) Drivers that compete in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era must do so under their given name and surname, which are written in all cases in Western naming order. Noms de guerre are prohibited, unless they represent a common shortening of the driver's actual given name or surname. Should a driver have multiple given or surnames, the administration will decide which names are used in competition as it sees fit.
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If the administration determines that a significant number of drivers would be found discontent in the aforementioned system, it instead can once at any point within a period of 42 in-character months roll an RNG about whether all drivers refuse to perform the duties of their contract, i.e. racing drivers will not compete and sim drivers or driver coaches will not provide their bonus. Any RNG result is final, unless there is reasonable doubt about the quality of the RNG values and 5 or more users running a team in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era request a reroll. Should that occur, the users running a team must democratically decide whether to accept the demands of the drivers or cancel the next Grand Prix weekend. After any such cancellation, the end-of-season prize money pool is reduced by €10,000,000 for each position from 1 to 5. After each Grand Prix weekend, an additional RNG is run on whether the refusal to perform the duty of their contract will be run.
  
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2) Any driver between the age of 16 and 46 at the start of the calendar year he is under contract is permitted to compete in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era. Drivers above that age limit who are still under contract can continue to compete in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era and may sign new contracts with the team they are currently under contract with.
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== Season and Upgrades ==
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Each Alternate Formula One season consists of at least 13 and at most 27 Grands Prix weekends. Each Grand Prix weekend represents a separate region or a nation; a region or nation may be represented by a venue outside of said region or nation, but only if the venue is in a country that already has a Grand Prix. Any nation may only have up to 3 venues on the calendar and only up to 2 nations may have more than one venue on the calendar at any time. The Grand Prix weekends of the upcoming season must be announced by the time of the 4th-to-last Grand Prix weekend of the previous season and may not be changed after that, with the exception of Grand Prix weekend order, which may be changed at any point by the administration as it sees fit. Any Grand Prix weekend can be canceled by the administration for any reason at any point unless the cancellation would cause the number of Grand Prix weekends in a season to sink below 13. If 5 or more users running a team in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era object to the announced Grand Prix weekends for the upcoming season or a cancellation of a Grand Prix weekend, the administration must change the Grand Prix weekends for the upcoming season at the first opportunity.  
  
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2.a) Drivers representing an AI are not subject to the age limit defined in §5.2, but may only be hired after fulfilling at least one four-year contract as Simulator Tester as defined in §5.4.b. Their system designation is used as their real name as defined in §5.1.a
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A Grand Prix weekend consists of 3 60-minute practice sessions on Friday, Saturday and Sunday (beginning in-character at 10:00 local time), 2 40-minute qualifying sessions on Friday and Saturday (beginning in-character at 15:00 local time), and a race on Sunday running over the nearest lap above 185 km (≈ 115 miles) or 120 minutes, whichever arrives first (beginning in-character at 15:00 local time). Practice sessions are not simulated, but fictional results can be supplied as the administration sees fit. The in-character times for any qualifying session and any race can be changed to 21:00 local time at venues with floodlights. If that change is made, the practice sessions begin at 15:30 local time. All qualifying sessions and races have climate conditions determined by the administration as it sees fit. Any session can be canceled in progress by the administration as it sees fit, either as a reaction to events within the simulation or for narrative purposes.
  
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3) Drivers can be signed at the start of the year as well as at any point during the season, except during a Grand Prix weekend. There is no limit to the amounts of offers to drivers a team can make to free agents.
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After any race, the administration runs a RNG for any crash regarding potential injuries as it sees fit. An injury is defined as a period of time (in Grand Prix weekends) in which a driver is incapable of competing. These periods can range from 1 Grand Prix weekend to the number of Grand Prix weekends equivalent to 2 calendar years. If the crash is considered severe enough the adminstration can forgo the RNG and declare the driver incapable of competing in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era anymore. If at least 5 or more users running a team in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era consider the injury potential of an accident severe enough, an additional RNG can be by the administration determining whether the accident is fatal. For fictional drivers, the DEC holder must agree to this RNG being run. Any non-lethal injury does not affect the driver's ability to compete in other series sharing a fictional universe. If at least 5 or more users running a team in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era object to an injury or a driver being declared incapable of competing, the decision is reversed and the driver is able to compete again.
  
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3.a) No driver can be hired whilst the position he is to be hired for is still occupied by another driver.
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The administration will apply penalties for rule violations committed before, during or after the race. Penalties can be applied as either fines for the team of the offender, warnings, time penalties for this Grand Prix, exclusion from the Grand Prix result, grid penalties for the next Grand Prix weekend or exclusion from any number of Grand Prix weekends up to 4, depending on the severity of the infringement. Penalties are always assigned to a driver, regardless of whether the driver or their team committed the rule violation. Any suspended penalty has a probation period of 8 in-universe calendar months.
  
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3.b) Each team is limited to five different racing drivers during the season unless force majeure forces a team to hire more drivers.
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If a driver is replaced, any penalties assigned to the driver will not be transmitted to the new driver, but the replaced driver must serve their penalty when they are returned to their seat or signed to a new team within the season. Should a driver not return to their seat or sign with a new team within the season the rule violation is committed, the team the driver committed the rule violation with will instead be fined €2,500,000 at the conclusion of the season. Should a driver be considered to have committed an unacceptable number of rule violations by the administration, the driver in question will be excluded from the remainder of the current season and is declared not eligible to be signed as a racing driver for the next 40 Grand Prix weekends or 18 in-universe calendar months, whichever period is longer. If 5 or more users running a team in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era object to the exclusion, it is reversed and the driver is entitled to rejoin Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era before the start of the next Grand Prix weekend.
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Should the chosen simulation method not permit an accurate reflection of team-interested behaviour by drivers, the administration is entitled to manipulate the results accordingly to reflect a team order if the driver higher-placed in the World Drivers Championship that has still a mathematical chance of winning the championship is within less than 10 seconds of their teammate with no other cars between the drivers with 4 laps to go. This manipulation is permitted from the 6th-to-last weekend of the season.
  
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4) During the Driver Market at the start of the year, each team may offer contracts to any number of drivers for each of the three driver spots available to each team. These contracts must specify the role of the driver, the driver's wage, the contract duration and state additional clauses, if applicable.
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Championship points are handed out to the 8 best-placed classified drivers of the race after penalties and exclusions as well as any team orders have been applied. A driver is considered classified if he has completed at least 90 percent of the race distance. Should less than 8 drivers have completed at least 90 percent of the race distance, that value is reduced until 8 drivers can be considered classified. The points system is 10-8-6-5-4-3-2-1. An additional point is awarded to the driver who has set the fastest time in qualifying before any grid penalties were applied. If less than 75 percent of the scheduled race distance is completed before the race is cancelled without being resumed, the championship points are halved. For the final Grand Prix weekend of the season, the awarded points are doubled (20-16-12-10-8-6-4-2 with 2 points for the driver who has set the fastest time in qualifying before any grid penalties were applied).
  
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4.a) A driver can have one of two roles: racing driver or third driver. The two racing drivers are the drivers that actively compete during the Grand Prix weekend. The third driver has one out of two specific, predetermined jobs. A third driver may either be a Driver Coach or Simulator Driver.  
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Sessions are only re-run if the administration has violated any rule during the running of the session. If 5 or more users running a team in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era consider the rule violation too insignificant to require rerunning the session, the session will not be re-run.
  
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4.b) These are the possible jobs of third drivers and the requirements to serve in that job:<br>
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The driver with the most points after all Grand Prix weekends have been completed is the Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era World Drivers Champions of that season. In case of a tie, the number of wins decide. If the number of wins is equal, the amount of 2nd places decides and so on. Should all positions be equally shared between the tying parties, the number of pole positions decide. Should those be equal as well, the position is given to the driver whose team has the lower World Constructors Championship position. Should both tied drivers drive for the same team, the position is decided by a coin toss. The team with the most points after all Grand Prix weekends have been completed are the Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era World Constructors Champions of that season. All drivers entered by a team can score points for the team in the World Constructors Championship. In case of a tie, the same tie-breaking approach used for the World Drivers Championship is applied for with one exception: in case the number of pole positions does not break the tie, the position is given to the team that had fewer penalties assigned against them. Should that be equal as well, the position is decided by a coin toss.
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Driver Coach - improves the performance of any driver under the age of 25 (requirement: third driver must be 30 years or older at the start of the calendar year he is under contract).<br>
 
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Simulator Tester - improves the performance of the driver when used as racing driver in the following seasons (requirement: third driver must be 25 years or younger at the start of the calendar year he is under contract)
 
  
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4.c) The job of the third driver must be determined at the start of the contract and may only be changed once the contract has concluded or has been terminated.
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Before the start of a Alternate Formula One season, the following pre-season phases are to be done in this order:<br>
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Sponsorship Choice (every 4th season)<br>
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4.d) Any third driver is not subject to the age limit defined in §5.2.
 
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4.c) Contract duration must either be stated in a number of years or a number of Grand Prix weekends. If the duration is stated in number of Grand Prix weekends and that number exceeds the number of the scheduled Grand Prix weekends (remaining, in case of a mid-season contract) in the season the contract was signed, the agreed wage must be paid again at the start of the following season(s).
 
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4.d) Clauses specify additional conditions and privileges of the contract sides not covered in other parts of the contract.
 
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4.e) Teams may only offer a financial bonus to a driver for World Drivers' Championship and/or World Constructors Championship position and/or beating their teammate over the course of a full season. Any bonus may not be staggered, but can only be paid out a lump sum for any given achievement.
 
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4.f) A financial bonus for beating their teammate is only paid out to a driver if both he and his teammate competed in all Grand Prix weekends of any full season.
 
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4.g) If the administration considers a clause unclear, the administration will read the clause in the most advantageous way for the driver.
 
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4.h) Wages for drives must be paid out in full millions.
 
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5) For real-life drivers, a RNG will determine whether he signs the contract. The RNG values will be determined by the administration based on the real-life persona if the real-life driver as well as his previous actions in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era and Alternate Formula One - Manufacturer Era.
 
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5.a) Any RNG result is final, unless there is reasonable doubt about the quality of the RNG values.
 
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6) For fictional drivers, the respective DEC holder determines whether a contract offer is accepted.
 
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6.a) The administration can modify any contract with a fictional driver at any time if it considers the contract either unfairly advantageous to the team hiring the driver or egregiously inconsistent with the actions of the character in previous appearances.
 
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7) A team may release any driver from his contract before the start of any Grand Prix weekend.
 
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7.a) If a team releases a driver before his contract is over, he is entitled to compensation unless a clause justifies his release or states there is no compensation to be paid.
 
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7.b) The compensation is calculated according to this formula: (annual wage * number of years left on contract) * 1.5.
 
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7.c) If a team temporarily replaces a real-life driver before his contract is over, he is entitled to the same compensation, unless a clause justifies his replacement. If a team temporarily replaces a fictional driver, it is decided by the administration whether the fictional driver is entitled to the same compensation as it sees fit.
 
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7.d) To return a driver to his agreed role, no additional wage must be paid.
 
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7.e) During an unjustified temporary replacement, any other team may sign the driver to a contract if the original team is given €4,000,000 as compensation.
 
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7.f) Regardless of any clauses, any real-life driver can be sacked without paying compensation if the driver has scored less than 10 % of the points of his teammate at least eight Grand Prix weekends after the start of his contract if said teammate has scored at least 30 points. This rule only applies if both the real-life driver to be sacked and the teammate he is compared to have competed in all Grand Prix weekends since the start of his contract.
 
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7.g) Any fictional driver can be sacked without paying compensation if the DEC owner has made in-character comments that can be interpreted as a desire to leave the team or excessive criticism of the team as defined by the administration.
 
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7.h) Driver contracts of bankrupt teams with real-life drivers can be terminated without paying compensation by the new user if he decides to keep the identity as defined in §2.4.c. Driver contracts of teams of excluded users with fictional drivers can be terminated by either side if the fictional driver is offered a contract by another team. Should a driver become incapable of competing in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era due to injury, bans or acts of god for more than six consecutive Grand Prix weekends, his contract can be voided by
 
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7.i) Any rules regarding temporary replacements do not apply when the driver is unavailable to compete due to injury, exclusions from Grand Prix weekends or force majeure.
 
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7.j) Any replacement driver signed to replace a driver that is unavailable to compete due to injury, bans or acts of god do not need to be paid any wage, insurance covering those costs.
 
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8) The administration is entitled to cancel any offer for real-life drivers it considers unable to compete in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era at a reasonably competitive level. It must explain its reasoning for doing so unsolicited to the user making the offer.
 
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9) Active Alternate Formula One drivers can freely participate in other series sharing a fictional universe with Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era.
 
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9.a) Any time paradoxes resulting as a consequence of double-dutying will be punished by having said driver banned from Alternate Formula One for five calendar years from the weekend where the time paradox was caused and any other DECs (in case of fictional drivers) owned by that user being banned for the rest of the currently running season.
 
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9.b) In case of a real-life driver having an unresolved schedule conflict, the team-owning user in question will be excluded from the game, regardless of whether he owns the team in the other series causing the paradox unless the series owner of that series has caused the paradox by allowing the driver in question to sign in the series despite having known about the driver's Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era commitment, running the real-life driver in a race he was not supposed to and refusing to rerun the race or modifying their schedule to deal with the time paradox.
 
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10) Any driver, after signing their first contract in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era can pick freely any unused racing number from 2-99 to represent them for the entirety of their entire career.
 
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10.a) For the first season with this numbering system, the selection process as defined in §5.10 is undertaken in the order of the previous World Drivers' Championship standings.
 
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10.b) The racing numbers for real-life drivers are chosen by the administration as it sees fit. Fictional drivers have their number selected by the team owner of the team they begin their career with.
 
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10.c) Any replacement driver that is to replace a driver that is subject to a replacement uses the racing number of the driver he is replacing. Should the replacement be in the cockpit for more than eight Grand Prix weekends or the team decide to make the replacement permanent as defined in §5.7, he is instead treated as if he has signed his first contract or uses his reserved racing number as defined in §5.10.e.
 
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10.d) Racing numbers may only be changed in the situation defined in §5.10.e.
 
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10.e) Any driver's number is reserved for his use up to three years after the driver leaves Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era. A new driver starting his career in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era may pick a reserved racing number. Should a driver for whom a racing number is reserved for return to Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era, the procedure depends on the status of the driver:<br>
 
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Real-life drivers will be returned their number if the driver with the racing number is a fictional driver<br>
 
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Fictional drivers will not be returned their number if the driver with the racing number is a real-life driver<br>
 
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Real-life drivers will not be returned their number if the driver with the racing number is a real-life driver unless the administration decides to execute a number swap<br>
 
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Fictional drivers will be returned their number if the driver with the racing number is a fictional driver unless both DEC owners agree to execute a number swap<br>
 
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10.f) The reigning World Drivers' Champion will run racing number 1 for the entirety of the season after winning the World Drivers' Championship. His standard racing number will not be available for use by any driver beginning their career in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era. Any replacement driver that is to replace the World Drivers' Champion is treated as if he has signed his first contract or uses his reserved racing number as defined in §5.10.e, regardless of the length of the replacement.
 
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11) The performance of a driver in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era is determined by the Administration on basis of previous achievements in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era, any series sharing a fictional universe with Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era and real-life performance for real-life drivers.
 
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== §6 Season ==
 
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1) Each Alternate Formula One season consists of at least fourteen and at most twenty-four Grands Prix weekends.
 
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1.a) Each Grand Prix weekend is to represent a separate region or a nation.
 
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1.b) A region or nation may be represented by a venue outside of said region or nation.
 
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1.c) The representation as defined in §6.1.b may only be done by venues which are in a nation already having a Grand Prix. No nation may have more than three venues on the calendar and no more than two different nations may have more than one venue on the calendar.
 
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1.d) The Grand Prix weekends of the upcoming season must be announced after the fifth-to-last Grand Prix weekend of the previous season and may not be changed after that, with the exception of Grand Prix weekend order, which may be changed until the start of the first Grand Prix weekend of the season.
 
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1.e) Any Grand Prix weekend can be canceled by the administration for any reason at any point unless the cancelation would cause the number of Grand Prix weekends in a season to sink below fourteen.
 
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1.f) If at least six users running a team in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era object to the announced Grand Prix weekends for the upcoming season or a cancelation of a Grand Prix weekend, the administration must provide a new announcement of Grand Prix weekends or a reasoning for the cancellation respectively.
 
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2) Championship points are handed out to the ten best-placed classified drivers of a race as defined in §6.4 after penalties and exclusions as defined in §6.8 have been applied. A driver is considered classified if he has completed at least ninety percent of the race distance. Should less than ten drivers have completed at least ninety percent of the race distance, that value is reduced until ten drivers can be considered classified.
 
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2.a) The active points system is 15-12-10-8-6-5-4-3-2-1.
 
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2.b) The driver with the most points after all Grand Prix weekends have been completed is the Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era World Drivers' Champions of that season.
 
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2.c) In case of a tie, the number of wins decide. If the number of wins is equal, the amount of second places decides and so on. Should all positions be equally shared between the tying parties, the number of pole positions decide. Should those be equal as well, the position is given to the driver whose team has the lower World Constructors Championship position.
 
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2.d) The team with the most points after all Grand Prix weekends have been completed are the Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era World Constructors Champions of that season. All drivers entered by a team can score points for the team in the World Constructors Championship.
 
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2.e) In case of a tie, the same tiebreaking approach defined in §6.2.c is applied for the tiebreaker with one exception: in case the number of pole positions does not break the tie, the position is given to the team who has the driver with the highest position in the World Drivers' Championship.
 
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3) Before two selected Grand Prix weekends within the season, which must be announced by the administration before the fourth Grand Prix weekend of the season, mid-season tests are held.
 
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3.a) During a mid-season test teams can work an upgrade in three separate sessions. Following sessions are available:<br>
 
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Short Runs - improves qualifying pace. For every day invested into car development, the maximum qualifying grip of a car will be raised by 10-40 points.<br>
 
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Long Runs - improves race pace. For every day invested into long runs, the maximum race grip of a car will be raised by 10-40 points.<br>
 
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Driver Performance - allows your drivers to improve. For every day invested into driver performance, the driver chosen will improve his performance by a small bit for the rest of the season.<br>
 
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Talent Evaluation - enables your team to assess a driver.<br>
 
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3.b) A session in the mid-season costs €5,000,000
 
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3.c) Each session needs to have a driver under contract to the team assigned to it. The choice of driver does not influence the outcome of the session.
 
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3.d) Any driver not under contract with the team may be entered when the Talent Evaluation session is chosen.
 
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4) A Grand Prix weekend consists of three thirty-minute practice sessions on Friday, Saturday and Sunday (beginning in-character at 11:00 local time), two forty-minute qualifying sessions on Friday and Saturday (beginning in-character at 14:10 local time), and a race on Sunday running over the nearest lap above 185 km (≈ 115 miles) or 120 minutes, whichever arrives first (beginning in-character at 14:10 local time).
 
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4.a) Practice sessions are not simulated, but fictional results can be supplied as the administration sees fit. After every practice session an RNG with a two-percent chance for a major practice crash is run for every driver. If a driver is chosen by this method to have crashed in a practice session, another RNG with an eighty percent chance of nothing happening, a fifteen percent chance of a car being unable to compete in the qualifying/race session of that day and a five percent chance of the driver suffering an injury is run.
 
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4.b) The in-character times for any qualifying session and any race can be changed to 21:40 local time at venues with floodlights. If that change is made, the practice sessions begin at 13:00 local time.
 
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4.c) All qualifying sessions and races have climate conditions determined by the administration as it sees fit.
 
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4.d) Any session can be canceled in progress ("red-flagged") by the administration as it sees fit. If less than 75 percent of the scheduled race distance is completed before the race is canceled, the championship points as defined in §6.2.a are halved.
 
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4.e) After any race, the administration runs a RNG for any crash regarding potential injuries as it sees fit. An injury is defined as a period of time (in Grand Prix weekends) in which a driver is incapable of competing. These periods can range from one Grand Prix weekend to the number of Grand Prix weekends equivalent to three calendar years. If the crash is considered severe enough, instead of an injury, the driver is outright declared incapable of competing in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era anymore. This does not affect the driver's ability to compete in other series sharing a fictional universe. If at least six users running a team in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era object to an injury, it is removed and the driver is able to compete again.
 
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4.f) Sessions are only re-run if the administration has violated any rule during the running of the session. If at least threes users running a team in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era consider the rule violation too insignificant to require rerunning the session, the session will not be re-run.
 
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5) Before the start of a Alternate Formula One season, the following business stages are to be done in this order:<br>
 
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Sponsorship Choice<br>
 
 
Lead Designer Market<br>
 
Lead Designer Market<br>
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Car Market<br>
 
 
Driver Market<br>
 
Driver Market<br>
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Upgrade Plans<br>
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Motor Market<br>
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Car Development<br>
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6) At the conclusion of the driver market, sponsor income is added to the balance of all teams.
 
  
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6.a) After that step is completed, all budgets of the teams must be either at or above €0. During the season, teams may only be in the minus as consequence of executing an upgrade plan, as a result of fines as defined in §6.8 or failing to sign a new Target Region driver after releasing or temporarily replacing their previous Target Region driver and being forced to return the sponsorship money as defined in §2.a.
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To accelerate the process, the administration is entitled to handle multiple business stages at once.
  
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6.b) Drivers of teams that are in the minus during the season suffer a loss of performance reflected in a higher performance variance.  
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At the conclusion of the driver market, sponsor income is added to the balance of all teams. After that step is completed, all budgets of the teams must always remain at or above €0. During the season, teams may only be in the minus as consequence of applying an upgrade, as a result of fines or failing to sign a new Target Region driver after releasing or temporarily replacing their previous Target Region driver. Drivers of teams that are in the minus during the season suffer a loss of performance reflected in a doubled random grip range.  
  
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7) Prize money will be applied to the budget of all teams both for individual race results as well as position in the World Constructors Championship.  
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Before 2 selected Grand Prix weekends within the season, mid-season tests are held. These 2 weekends must be announced by the administration before the 4th Grand Prix weekend of the season. During a mid-season test teams can work an upgrade in 3 separate sessions. A session in the mid-season costs €4,000,000. Each session needs to have a driver assigned to it. The choice of driver does not influence the outcome of the session. Following sessions are available:<br>
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* Short Runs - improves pace. For every day invested into short runs, the base grip of a car will be raised by 0-80 points. If the driver chosen for Short Runs is not a driver currently under contract, the administration will privately inform the user running the team whether the driver is faster or slower than the fastest driver under contract with the team.
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* Long Runs - decreases random grip range. For every day invested into long runs, the random grip range of a driver will be reduced by 0-80 points.  
  
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7.a) Prize money for the position in the World Constructors Championship is to be assigned as follows:<br>
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Prize money will be applied to the budget of all teams both for individual race results as well as position in the World Constructors Championship. Prize money for the position in the World Constructors Championship is to be assigned as follows:<br>
 
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{|class="wikitable" style="font-size:95%"
 
!Position
 
!Position
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!Price + TV money
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!Prize money
 
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| 1
 
| 1
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| €226,000,000
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| €200,000,000
 
|-
 
|-
 
| 2
 
| 2
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| €214,000,000
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| €190,000,000
 
|-
 
|-
 
| 3
 
| 3
−
| €202,000,000
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| €180,000,000
 
|-
 
|-
 
| 4
 
| 4
−
| €190,000,000
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| €170,000,000
 
|-
 
|-
 
| 5
 
| 5
−
| €174,000,000
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| €160,000,000
 
|-
 
|-
 
| 6
 
| 6
−
| €162,000,000
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| €150,000,000
 
|-
 
|-
 
| 7
 
| 7
−
| €150,000,000
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| €140,000,000
 
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|-
 
| 8
 
| 8
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| €138,000,000
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| €130,000,000
 
|-
 
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| 9
 
| 9
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| 10
 
| 10
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| €108,000,000
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| €110,000,000
 
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| 11
 
| 11
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| €96,000,000
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| €105,000,000
 
|-
 
|-
 
| 12
 
| 12
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| €84,000,000
+
| €100,000,000
 +
|-
 +
| 13
 +
| €95,000,000
 +
|-
 +
| 14
 +
| €90,000,000
 +
|-
 +
| 15
 +
| €85,000,000
 +
|-
 +
| 16
 +
| €80,000,000
 
|-
 
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|}
 
|}
  
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7.b) Prize money for each Grand Prix weekend, based on the position of the best-positioned car of the team, is to be assigned as follows::<br>
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Prize money for each Grand Prix weekend, based on the position of the best-positioned car of the team, is to be assigned as follows::<br>
 
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{|class="wikitable" style="font-size:95%"
 
!Position
 
!Position
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|-
 
| 1
 
| 1
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| €4,000,000
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| €2,000,000
 
|-
 
|-
 
| 2-10
 
| 2-10
−
| €3,000,000
+
| €1,500,000
 
|-
 
|-
−
| 11-17
+
| 11-15
−
| €2,000,000
+
| €1,000,000
 
|-
 
|-
−
| 18-24
+
| 16-20
−
| €1,000,000
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| €500,000
 
|-
 
|-
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| DNF/NC/DNS
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| 21-26/DNF etc.
 
| €0
 
| €0
−
|-
 
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| Bonus for pole position
 
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| €1,000,000
 
 
|-
 
|-
 
|}
 
|}
  
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7.d) Any user running two teams as defined in §2.3.b must pick one of these teams to determine the prize money as defined in §6.7.b before the start of the first Grand Prix weekend.
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During the season, teams can apply upgrades at any point once their upgrade schedule is complete. An upgrade schedule can go from 2 to 8 Grand Prix weekends, with longer upgrade schedules resulting in higher rewards for success, but also higher costs. The upgrade is applied only at request. A value determined by an RNG within the determined grip range of each upgrade is added to the base grip of the team's current chassis. After the 8th weekend, a team can decide withhold the upgrade for 4 more Grand Prix weekends, but the grip range of and the price of the upgrade remain unchanged. A team can apply an upgrade even if such an action would send them into a minus.
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8) The administration will apply penalties for rule violations committed before, during or after the race.  
 
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8.a) Penalties can be applied as either fines for the team of the offender, warnings, time penalties for this and/or the next Grand Prix, exclusion from the Grand Prix result, grid penalties for the next Grand Prix weekend or exclusion from any number of Grand Prix weekends up to four, depending on the severity of the infringement.
 
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−
8.b) Penalties are always assigned to a driver, regardless of whether the driver or his team committed the rule violation.
 
  
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8.c) If a driver is replaced, any penalties assigned to the driver will not be transmitted to the new driver.
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An upgrade schedule going longer than 8 Grand Prix weekends results in a new chassis being rolled. This new chassis will be rolled in the same manner as the original one and cannot have a lower base grip than the original one (including any previously applied upgrades). Should the new chassis have a lower base grip as result of RNG, as many points of base grip are added as is needed to match the previous chassis base grip plus another 20 grip points.
  
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8.d) If a driver is considered to have committed an unacceptable number of rule violations by the administration, the driver in question will be excluded from the remainder of the current season as well as the next two seasons. If at least threes users running a team in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era object to the exclusion, it is reversed and the driver is entitled to rejoin Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era at the start of the following season.
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Should a team use upgrades in a manner that improves their car performance to the point where it exceeds the performance levels possible with the game mechanics, the difference between the mathematical performance and the actual performance is added to the base grip of the chassis of the following season after the conclusion of that season's car market.

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Game, Entries and Narrative

Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era is a management-role-playing game on the GP Rejects forums (or any forum considered a successor or an alternative by the administration). Unofficially, Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era may also be referred to as Alternate Formula One - Current Era. Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era for the seasons 2010 to 2019 is to be referred to as Alternate Formula One - Two-Race Era.

The administration is defined as the GP Rejects forum user(s) (or any forum considered a successor or an alternative by the administration) running Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era. Running the game is defined as handling the administrative duties (controlling budgets, ensuring appliance with the rules, determining performance etc.) of Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era as well as simulating all Grand Prix weekends. The administration may only be assigned to a new user if the current administration is either permanently and irrevocably banned from the GP Rejects forums (or any forum considered a successor or an alternative by the administration), voluntarily surrenders the role of administrator, is agreed to be egregiously incompetent by all users running a team in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era or dies in real-life. The decision on the replacement user to be made the new administration is to be made by the users of the GP Rejects Discord in a democratic manner as quickly as possible.

Any change by the administration to these rules during the season must be announced unsolicited with a post on the GP Rejects forums (or any forum considered a successor or an alternative by the administration) with at least 3 Grand Prix weekends notice, unless force majeure prevents this. The period of notice is not required if the wording of the rule is changed to help clarify the rule's intent or correct grammatical errors or misspellings. Any rule change during the season is invalidated if 5 or more users running a team in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era object to the rule change. Each user running a team in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era can request rule changes during the season once per season. The suggested rule change becomes part of the rules if all users running a team in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era agree to it. During the period between the final motor development phase of the previous season and the beginning of the driver market of the upcoming season, the administration can freely change rules as it sees fits with the exception of rule changes that were invalidated during the season. It is the responsibility of the users running a team in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era to educate themselves on any rule changes.

Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era is simulated using the video game Grand Prix 2. Changing the simulation method used to run Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era Grand Prix weekends must be announced by the administration with at least 6 Grand Prix weekends notice. Changing the simulation method used to run Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era Grand Prix weekends during the season is prohibited. The administration may entrust other people with simulating the Grand Prix weekends within the game, unless 5 or more users running a team in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era object to the user chosen to simulate the races. If the responsibility of simulating the Grand Prix weekends is to be given to a third party by the administration, this must be announced by the administration with at least 6 Grand Prix weekends notice.

The narrative period of Alternate Formula One - Current Era includes all Alternate Formula One history from 1965 onwards. "Retcons" (changes to previously simulated or role-played events) can be undertaken by the administration whenever deemed necessary, though the administration has to inform any involved users of the decision and explain their reasoning unsolicited. A retcon is voided if all users running a team in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era or the user responsible to the simulation of Grand Prix weekends from that time period object to it. Should no game displaying Alternate Formula One history until 1965 exist, the administration can extend the narrative period to include all of Alternate Formula One history from 1940 onwards. If the GP Rejects Discord decides to anoint a user with the role of managing the narrative of all series sharing a fictional universe with Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era, the decisions of that user to do supersede any narrative decisions by the administration.

For any gameplay element the administration has the exclusive right to invent an in-character reasoning should it be considered elemental to sustain the willing suspension of disbelief.

Any user of the GP Rejects forums (or any forum considered a successor or an alternative by the administration) and/or Grand Prix Rejects Discord may run one team in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era. Any user running a team in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era must have a Discord account for private messaging or must supply the administration with an option to contact them immediately should it prove necessary. A team is defined as the representation of the user in the game world, given a name, nationality, team principal and a backstory providing an in-character explanation of the source of its budget by the user at the time of entry. Should the administration consider any supplied name and/or backstory ill-fitted, it may deny the entry. If an entry is denied, the user may choose a different name and backstory until an acceptable entry is achieved. A team's name can be changed after the conclusion of an Alternate Formula One season. The administration is entitled to refuse a team the right to change their team's name as it sees fit.

All teams have, at all times, a budget representing their financial capabilities. The budgets, as well as all other financial matters in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era, are measured in Euro. Any transfer of money from or towards teams may only be undertaken in increments of 0.5 million Euro. Teams can freely transfer their budget to other teams, but must justify their reasoning to the administration unsolicited. If the administration considers the reasoning insufficient, it can cancel the transfer as it sees fit. Any transfer between teams must be verified by both parties to the administration before it becomes valid. Before the start of a season, the administration may reduce the budget of all teams by a certain amount to simulate operational costs in the interest of game balance. The sum reduced must be announced before the conclusion of car development.

The number of teams available for any season will be decided on by the administration before the 11th-to-last race of the previous season. At no point Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era must not have less than 8 teams or more than either 16 teams or the highest number of teams that can be supported by the simulation method without needing to reduce the number of cars before the race, whichever number is lower. A user running a team in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era agrees to fulfill deadlines for all actions necessary in the game announced by the administration unless external circumstances prevent this or the administration is informed beforehand that the user is not able to fulfill said deadline. If a user fails to meet any announced deadline, the administration may either freely undertake any decision necessary on behalf of the user or exclude the user from the game.

Any user not running a team in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era may join a waiting list and will be given new teams in order of joining the waiting list whenever a user running a team in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era is excluded from the game. The administration can decide to not give a works team or a replacement for said works team to any user on the waiting list who has been excluded from the game at any point during the last 3 seasons. Should there be less users running a team in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era and/or on the waiting list than there are teams available, the administration must first reduce the number of teams available. Should that lead to less than 8 teams on the grid or remove one or multiple works team(s), the administration is entitled to run as many team themselves for one season as is necessary (for all intents and purposes, the administration will be seen as equal to any other user running a team in Alternate Fomula One - Hydrogen Era within that role). Users on the waiting list can be requested to reaffirm their interest in being on the Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era waiting list at any point during the season if at least 12 real-life weeks have passed between the simulation of 2 Grand Prix weekends or the administration changes hands. The administration is entitled to re-order the waiting list in accordance to the order in which the requested reaffirmations are undertaken.

When a new user enters the game, he may, at the start of their first season, choose to continue using the identity of the team of the user that has been excluded to free up their entry. Should he do so, their team will be, in addition to the budget for new teams, be given a bonus €10,000,000. Furthermore, the team is entitled to all benefits that follow from last year's World Constructors Championship results of the identity, except for the prize money. Should the sum of the World Constructors Championship prize money plus the remaining budget be higher than the budget for a new team without the bonus, the user is instead given the prize money and the remaining budget instead. The administration is free to deny the option to continue the identity of the team as it sees fit. In case the team of the user that has been excluded from the game is a works team, the new user taking entering the game is automatically treated as if he has made this decision unless the administration decides to abolish the works team.

Users are excluded from the series:

  • if they request to be excluded from the game
  • if their teams are considered bankrupt, i.e. do not have sufficient funding to pay for a motor contract worth €30,000,000, their active lead designer contract or the cheapest available lead designer if no active contract exists, 43 staffers for the aerodynamic department and 2 racing drivers with a combined wage of €5,000,000, even when accounting for sponsorship
  • if the base grip of their chassis is below 10,000
  • if they fail to meet deadlines
  • if they are irrevocably banned from the Grand Prix Rejects Discord, the Discord service as a whole or demonstrate other behaviour making them unsuitable to keep their team

The administration can decide to not exclude a user from the series if they fail the 3rd-to-last, 2nd-to-last or last point, unless all others users running a team in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era demand an exclusion.

If a user is excluded mid-season, the first member of the waiting list is installed as the caretaking user. He inherits all contracts and chassis of the current team. At the end of the season, they go through the same process as described above. If there are no users on the waiting list or the sole member of the waiting list either refuses entry into Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era or is not seen as suitable for running a works team, the administration will be installed as the caretaking user until a capable user joins the waiting list. If the administration is installed as caretaking user during the season, it is not entitled to spend money beyond terminating and hiring drivers as is necessary to allow fictional drivers by a user who does not yet have a driver with a DEC in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era to join the grid.

Excluded users may join the waiting list unless the administration can provide evidence that doing so would be against the best interest of the GP Rejects forums (or any website considered a successor or an alternative by the administration). Any user that has voluntarily been excluded from the game on 2 separate occasion is only entitled to rejoin the waiting list with explicit permission from the administration. Should 5 or more users running a team in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era object to the decision by the administration on whether to permit or forbid rejoining the waiting list, the decision is reversed.

Any user currently running a team in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era can decide to take control of a team of a user that was excluded from the game and drop control of their current team, which will be treated as though the user running the former team was excluded from the game. Should multiple users running a team in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era want to take control of such a team, priority is given to the user whose team is ranked lower in the World Constructors Championship at the time the previously controlling user is excluded. A new user entering the game is awarded a new team. Any new team must give the administration a name, a nationality and a backstory to explain its entry into Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era. Should a user decline to enter Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era when an entry becomes available, they are entitled to return to the top of the waiting list. Should a user decline to enter Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era 2 times, they are automatically placed at the bottom of the waiting list should he choose to return to the waiting list.

The budget of the new teams is equal to the average budget of the 5 poorest teams on the grid after prize money for the previous season is applied, rounded up to the next full 10,000,000 plus the price of 53 staffers for the aerodynamic department.

For the purposes of Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era, valid nationalities are any member or observer state of the United Nations, the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, the Murrawarri Republic and the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic as well as any fictional state previously established in the series sharing a fictional universe with Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era. Teams can freely change their nationality after the conclusion of an Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era season.

Sponsorship

Every team that is not a works team may apply for a tier alpha sponsor at the start of every 4th season (beginning with 2022), which will pay out (per season) €50,000,000 for teams finishing in P10 to P13 in last year's World Constructors Championship, €35,000,000 for teams finishing in P5 to P9 in last year's World Constructors Championship as well as any new teams and €15,000,000 for teams finishing in P1 to P4 in last year's World Constructors Championship for hiring a driver from one out of 11 possible target regions assigned to each sponsor by the administration as it sees fit.

During all Grand Prix weekends of the 3 seasons, at least 1 driver from the target region must compete as a racing driver for the team. A driver from a target region condition can be released, as long as they are immediately replaced with a driver that is from the same region. Should a team fail to immediately replace the driver with a fitting one, they must return the entire sum of sponsorship earned through their tier alpha and tier beta sponsors for that season. This does not free the team from the responsibility to fulfill the requirements of their tier beta sponsor. If injury or bans prevent a driver from the target region under contract to appear in a race, the team is not required to hire a replacement from the target region, but must return the driver from the target region to their seat at the first opportunity.

A target region driver is considered hired when a signed racing driver has the nationality of any nation within the determined target region. In case of the administration making a factual error regarding overseas territories or similar topics, the map proving unclear or in the case of dual nationalities and other fringe cases, the administration will decide in which region a specific driver belongs as it sees fit. Once during their career in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era, any fictional driver may change their nationality if a sufficient in-character reasoning as determined by the administration is provided. This change can only be made once, cannot be reversed and must be made after the end of the season before the change is to take place and before the end of the driver market of the season the change is to take place.

In addition, each team that is not a works team may apply for 1 tier beta sponsor each every 4th season which will pay out €10,000,000 per season. Tier beta sponsors have demands on the driver lineup, the team's last year's World Constructors Championship position or the motor contract. The demand of the last year's World Constructors Championship position is based solely on the World Constructors Championship position of the season before the application. The demands on the driver lineup and motor contract are treated the same way as the as for tier alpha sponsors. Should a driver become ineligible to fulfill the requirements of the tier beta sponsor, they may fulfill their contract without losing the sponsorship, but must be replaced with a driver fulfilling the criteria after their contract is up. Should a team fail to fulfill the beta sponsor demands, they must return the entire sum of sponsorship earned through their tier alpha and tier beta sponsors for that season.

A single driver is able to fulfill demands of both tier alpha and tier beta sponsors at the same time. Should it become impossible for a team to fulfill the demands of any sponsor because of decisions by the administration (such as removing a works team or re-organising the target regions), the sponsorship goal is considered not fulfilled, but the team in question will not be required to pay back any sponsorship earned. New teams will apply for any type of sponsor in the season they enter and will then join in the cycle of applying again for their sponsor whenever the 4th season for the previously existing teams rolls around.

All teams may apply for 1 tier gamma sponsor each every 4th season which will pay out €5,000,000 per season.

For all sponsors, a RNG will determine whether they sign the contract. The RNG values will be determined by the administration based on last year's World Constructors Championship position, combined with the economical interests of the company behind the sponsor and drivers under contract with the team at the time of the RNG. Any RNG result is final, unless there is reasonable doubt about the quality of the RNG values and 5 or more users running a team in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era request a reroll.

The actual companies behind all sponsors are chosen by the administration as it sees fit and can be changed by the administration or the user running the team if necessary. Any company may also sponsor works teams without affecting the team's sponsorship. The tier alpha sponsor is added to the team's name as the administration sees fits.

Works teams that finished 5th or lower in last year's World Constructors Championship may request manufacturer support. Manufacturer support is a one-time payment of €70,000,000 and can be requested every 2nd season. Should a works team use manufacturer support, the prize money for its World Constructors Championship position will be reduced by €30,000,000 in the season in which manufacturer support is requested and the season thereafter.

Chassis, Motors and Lead Designers

Every team must build a new car at the start of a new season. A car consists of 2 elements: the motor and the chassis.

At least 2 and at most 6 motor manufacturers are always available to sign motor contracts with. The in-character designation for the motors are decided by the administration. They are represented through so-called "works teams", which are responsible for agreeing on motor contracts with the so-called "customer teams". A works team is a team run by a user who has chosen to also manage the motor supply for other teams. Before the start of the motor development system, any team can apply to the administration to either become a works team or stop being a works team, depending on its current status. The administration is entitled to decide whether the application is accepted or not as it sees fit. If the application is accepted, another application may not be handed in for 4 seasons after the application is either approved or denied. After that period, the administration officially announces the works teams for the upcoming season.

The works teams provide a hydrogen fuel cell electric motor.

Each team that is not a works team must sign a motor contract with a works team. The motor contract must state the motor price, the duration of the contract in full seasons. The maximum motor price is €45,000,000. Motor contracts may also contain clauses that specify additional conditions and privileges. Financial clauses (e.g. bonus payments) are not permitted, except for changing the motor price for future seasons of the contract. If the administration considers a clause unclear, the administration will interpret the clause with the most works team-friendly interpretation possible.

Works teams have an infinite motor contract with themselves for an motor price of €0. There is no upper limit to the length of an motor contract. Modifying a motor contract during the season is forbidden, but the works team can extend the contract with approval of the customer team in question and the administration. Should a user fail to come to an agreement with any works team, the administration will look at all potential offers made to said team. Should it find any of those reasonable in relation to the prices other customer teams pay, it will order the user in question to accept an offer chosen by the administration. Should it find none of the offers reasonable, the works team with the lowest amount of customers will be ordered to sign a 2-year motor contract with the user at a yearly rate of €30,000,000.

Should a previously signed contract violate any rules or a new contract be found to violate these rules, the administration is entitled to change the terms of the contract as it sees fit, but must inform the works team unsolicited.

After the 8th-to-last Grand Prix weekend of the season, 10% of the motor price (rounded down to the next full half million) of each contract is added to the budget of the works team. If any of the customer teams has had a motor contract with the same works teams for 3 or 4 consecutive seasons, 25 % of the motor price (rounded down to the next full half million) of that customer team's contract is added to the budget of the works team instead. If any of the customer teams has had a motor contract with the same works teams for 5 or more consecutive seasons, 35 % of the motor price (rounded down to the next full half million) of that customer team's contract is added to the budget of the works team instead. Should a works team spend less money during the development system than it received on account of this rule, the difference will be taken from the budget of the works team (rounded up to the next full half million) and split equally among all customer teams under contract (rounded up to the next full half million).

Every season, the performance of all motors are determined through a development system which begins with the 7th-to-last Grand Prix weekend of the season. During that time period, the works teams have their testing team run 2 testing days between Grand Prix weekends and 2 more after the conclusion of the final Grand Prix weekend and have them work on 1 of 4 programs:

  • motor power - the base BHP output of the motor
  • qualifying mode - how much quicker your motor can go if fuel consumption is raised to the maximum
  • car failure probability - how likely retirements are
  • motor mass - how the weight of the motor negatively affects cornering speed

During the season, the administration is entitled to increase the base BHP or decrease motor mass of one motor with 2 races notice once. After the conclusion of the season, all teams not using the altered motor that were ahead of one or multiple teams using the altered motor when the notice of the altered values was given and finished behind those teams will be compensated for the lost prize money.

If a user is excluded from Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era, motor deals of the user's team are voided after the conclusion of the Driver Market of the following season. Should a new user decide to keep the identity of the team of the user excluded, the works team may unilaterally decide to continue the contract before the conclusion of the driver market. If a user running a works team is excluded from Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era, any running motor deals are unaffected. If a works team is abolished, all running motor deals are voided and all customer teams are reimbursed the difference between the old motor price and the motor price of the contract signed as a replacement for the 1st season of the new contract.

Every team must build a chassis at the start of the year. The grip value of the chassis is determined by 3 separate factors: the base grip as decided by the aero department, the lead designer and the motor mass. A team must provide an in-character designation for the chassis; the user running the team can entrust the administration with that task. Any user may imply in-character that the chassis built by their team is reused from the previous seasons or based on the intellectual property of another team with the approval of the user running said team. The administration can render that implication void as it sees fit, but must inform the user of the reasoning unsolicited.

Base grip is decided by the number of employees hired by a team's aerodynamics department. One employee increases the RNG floor of next season's chassis by 240 grip. Any new chassis must have at least 10,000 base grip and may have no more than either 15,250 or the highest qualifying grip of the previous season plus 200, whichever number is higher. The size of the aerodynamics department is capped at 61 Permanent Employees working on the current chassis and next season's chassis respectively (a total of 122 Permanent Employees). The method of running the RNG of the chassis is affected by the design philosophy. New teams must also hire employees to build the current chassis. In addition to the employees assigned to designing next season's chassis, teams can hire temporary employees to increase their RNG floor for the current seasons. Temporary employees are not included in the cap mentioned above, but can only be added until the RNG floor is the highest possible base grip minus 250.

No team can build a new car that is more than 3 places in a base grip ranking below their previous year's World Constructors Championship position (e.g. the winners of last year's World Constructors Championship cannot possibly build any worse than the 4th-best car). Should this occur, the car will have additional base grip added as needed to move the team by raw performance into the nearest eligible position. The base grip added that way will be subtracted from any future upgrades or the base grip of the chassis of the following season after the conclusion of that season's car market. Should the additional base grip added exceed 1,000, the administration is entitled to subtract base grip from the current chassis in portions of 300 grip with two Grand Prix weekends notice until the substraction from future upgrades or the base grip of the following season is less than 900.

After the base grip of a car is decided, the grip factor of the lead designer is applied and the weight penalty of the motor is subtracted from the base grip to determine the final race grip and qualifying grip (rounded down to the next full 10). Any car that is below 11,500 race grip after this step will have base grip added to reach 12,000 before one of the first 6 Grand Prix weekends of the season. The administration must announce the Grand Prix weekend chosen for this purpose and the amount of base grip added before the first Grand Prix weekend of the season. The base grip is still added even if the user in question has reached 12,000 race grip through the use of upgrades before that Grand Prix weekend.

If the first Grand Prix weekend of the season is in January or February, each user must furthermore decide whether to prepare their chassis fully for the first Grand Prix weekend or whether to use a prototype. If the user chooses to fully prepare their chassis, the base grip of the chassis is reduced by 150 unless that would result in aforementioned drop below their previous year's World Constructors Championship position. If the user chooses to use a prototype, they will lose 800 qualifying and race grip for the first Grand Prix weekend.

Lead designers can only be hired during the lead designer market at the start of a season. Any unemployed lead designer can be signed by a team with the team chosen by the designer decided by a RNG with the odds determined by the following table (offer rank is determined by ranking the offers ascendingly according to the following formula: last year's World Constructors Championship position/years of the contract offer (tiebreakers are given to the team with the better World Constructors Championship position):

Rank 6+ offers 5 offers 4 offers 3 offers 2 offers
1 45 % 50 % 55 % 60 % 65 %
2 25 % 25 % 30 % 30 % 35 %
3 12 % 12 % 10 % 10 %
4 8 % 8 % 5 %
5 6 % 5 %
6+ 4 %

Lead designers can be signed for up to 10 years and cannot be sacked during an active contract. Every 2nd season, the performance of all lead designers is randomly modified by the administration. The contract price is not adjusted after the performance modification. If a user is excluded from Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era, the lead designer contract is taken over by the new team, regardless of whether the new user decides to keep the identity of the team of the user excluded.

Drivers

Each team must employ 2 racing drivers and may employ either 1 sim driver or 1 driver coach; both real-life drivers and fictional drivers are permitted. The performance of a driver is determined by the administration on basis of previous achievements in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era, any series sharing a fictional universe with Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era and real-life performance for real-life drivers. The 2 racing drivers are the drivers that actively compete during the Grand Prix weekend. Hiring a driver as sim tester gives a team a qualifying performance boost of 30 grip points and improves future RNG values for real-life drivers. Hiring a driver as a driver coach reduces the random grip range of the racing drivers by 30 points.

To be eligible to be signed as a racing driver in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era, a driver must either

  • have competed in 90% of a full season or 18 races, whichever number is lower, in 1 one of the last 3 simulated seasons of Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era or the ARWS.
  • have finished in the top 6 in 1 of the last 3 simulated seasons of the FIA Formula 2 World Championship or the FIA Formula 3 World Cup.
  • have achieved 4 pole positions and/or race victories in other series sharing a fictional universe with Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era during the previous 4 seasons
  • have achieved 8 pole positions and/or race victories in real-life series during the previous 3 years based on the start of the driver market of the season the driver is set to compete in (real-life drivers)
  • have been employed as a sim driver or as a driver coach in the previous simulated season of Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era
  • have a contract as full-time racing driver with a Formula 1 or Formula E team in real-life at the start of the driver market of the season the driver is set to compete in (real-life drivers)

To be eligible to be signed as a sim driver in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era, a driver must either

  • be over the age of 16 and be under the age of 26 at the start of the calendar year of the season the driver is hired for
  • have competed in less than 5 races in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era or less than 10 races in the ARWS

To be eligible to be signed as a driver coach in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era, a driver must either

  • be over the age of 32 and under the age of 52 at the start of the calendar year of the season the driver is hired for
  • have competed in more than 50 races in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era or more than 25 races in the ARWS or the GT Super Series
  • have achieved 12 pole positions and/or race victories in real-life series during the previous 3 years based on the start of the driver market of the season the driver is set to compete in (real-life drivers)

A fictional driver can be declared eligible at request despite not meeting any of these conditions if the driver market falls in a period where a series sharing a fictional universe with Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era has not concluded a season yet and it can be considered possible that the driver in question may have fulfilled the requirements by the conclusion of that season. If the driver is declared eligible using that method fails to achieve the requirements to be declared eligible, their eligibility is not revoked.

Drivers can be signed at the start of the year as well as at any point during the season, except during a Grand Prix weekend. However, no driver can be hired while the position they are to be hired for is still occupied by another driver. A driver under contract as a sim driver or driver coach can be turned into a contract as a racing driver if a position as a racing driver is not occupied, if the driver is eligible to be hired as a racing driver. Each team is limited to 5 racing drivers throughout the season unless force majeure forces a team to hire more drivers. There is no limit to the amounts of offers a team can make to free agents. These contracts must specify the role of the driver, the driver's wage, the contract duration and state additional clauses.

Contract duration must be stated in a number of years. The minimum contract length is 1 year, the maximum contract length is 6 years (including any driver or team options). Contracts may not be prematurely extended. Teams may clarify through the use of an additional clause if they do not plan to use a driver for an entire season. Wages are separately agreed on for every year of a multi-year contract. Clauses specify additional conditions and privileges of the contract sides not covered in other parts of the contract. Teams may only offer a financial bonus to a driver for WDC and/or WCC position. Any bonus may not be staggered and can only be paid out a lump sum for any given achievement. If the administration considers a clause unclear, the administration will interpret the clause with the most driver-friendly interpretation possible.

For real-life drivers, a RNG will determine whether they sign the contract. The RNG values will be determined by the administration based on the real-life public persona if the driver and their previous business agreements in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era. After posting their offers, any team looking to re-sign a driver that was under contract with the team in the previous season can request the administration to assess the offer from the point of view of the real-life driver and offer advice to improve their RNG odds. Any RNG result is final, unless there is reasonable doubt about the quality of the RNG values and 5 or more users running a team in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era request a reroll.

For fictional drivers, the respective DEC holder determines whether a contract offer is accepted. Should a fictional driver that has either contemporary narrative importance to Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era or achieved exceptional results in other series have its DEC abandoned, the administration can accept a contract in place of the DEC holder. Drivers signed in that way may only sign 1-year contracts without any option years. Fictional drivers must be between the ages of 17 and 42 years at the start of the calendar year of the current Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era season. A fictional driver that turns 43 during a running contract is entitled to compete for the remaining seasons of their contract, but all potential team or driver options are automatically declined. Fictional drivers whose DEC is held by administration may only be signed if 5 or more users running a team in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era agree to the signing.

Should a previously signed contract violate any rules or a new contract be found to violate these rules, the administration is entitled to change the contract as it sees fit without informing the team owner or the DEC holder in case of fictional drivers. The administration can modify contracts and contract offers with fictional drivers if it considers the contract either unfairly advantageous to the team hiring the driver or egregiously inconsistent with the actions of the character in previous appearances. The team owner must be informed of those changes.

A driver can be terminated before the start of any Grand Prix weekend. Any driver terminated must be paid a compensation, which equals the lump sum of the wages a driver in future seasons (driver option years included) and all possible bonus payments. If a team temporarily replaces a driver before their contract is over, they are entitled to the same compensation, unless a clause justifies their replacement. Either compensation can be voided if the driver has scored less than 10% of the points of their teammate after 8 Grand Prix weekends after the start of their contract if said teammate has scored at least 25 points or if the DEC owner of a fictional driver has made in-character comments that can be interpreted as a desire to leave the team or excessive criticism of the team as defined by the administration. To return a driver to their role, no additional wage must be paid. During an unjustified temporary replacement, any other team may sign the driver as if they were a free agent. The original team is given €2,000,000 as compensation by the administration in case that driver is signed by a different team.

The rules regarding temporary replacement do not apply if the driver is unavailable to compete due to injury or bans. Any replacement driver signed to replace a driver that is unavailable to compete due to injury or bans will not be paid any wage. Driver contracts of bankrupt teams with real-life drivers can be terminated by the new user until the conclusion of the 2nd Grand Prix weekend of the season without paying compensation if the new user decides to keep the identity of the bankrupt team, driver contracts of bankrupt teams with fictional drivers can be terminated with mutual agreement without paying compensation if the fictional driver is offered a contract by another team. If the user chooses to enter a new team, any existing contracts are void. Should a user fail to name a replacement driver, the team will use either their sim driver or driver coach if they are eligible to be signed as a racing driver or be assigned a replacement driver by the administration. The administration must choose the sim driver or driver coach of a different team if the user controlling said team requests that their sim driver or driver coach is used as a replacement on a loan basis unless the team in question would receive a direct financial advantage from such a decision. If the administration has signed a driver on behalf of a user failing to meet a deadline, that driver contract can be terminated by the user in question until the conclusion of the 2nd Grand Prix weekend of the season without paying compensation.

A team that is in the minus during the season may additionally hire a free practice tester for 3 races. That driver will be assigned to the team by the administration and will provide a lump sum of €4,000,000 and increase the random grip range of the active driver that is lower in the championship standings by 250 points. If one of the racing drivers of the team that hired the free practice tester is unavailable to compete due to injury or bans, the free practice tester must be used as replacement.

Active Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era drivers can freely participate in other series as well. It is the responsibility of the involved users to avoid schedule conflicts. Any time paradoxes resulting as a consequence of double-dutying will be punished by having said driver banned from Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era for 5 years and any other DECs (in case of fictional drivers) by said user being banned for the rest of the currently running season. In case of a real-life driver having an unresolved schedule conflict, the team-owning user in question will be excluded from the game, regardless of whether he owns the team in the other series causing the paradox unless the series owner of that series has caused the paradox by allowing the driver in question to sign in the series despite having known about the driver's Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era commitment, running the real-life driver in a race he was not supposed to and refusing to rerun the race or modifying their schedule to deal with the time paradox.

Any driver, at the start of their career in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era can pick freely any unused racing number from 2-99 to represent them for the entirety of their entire career. The number selection for real-life drivers is undertaken by the administration. Should the administration consider it necessary, it may take the racing number of a real driver and assign it to a real-life driver entering Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era. Fictional drivers have their number selected by the team owner of the team they begin their career with. Any driver's number is reserved for their use up to 3 years after the driver leaves Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era. A new driver starting their career in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era may pick a reserved racing number. Should a driver for whom a racing number is reserved for return to Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era, the procedure depends on the status of the driver:

  • Real-life drivers will be returned their number if the driver with the racing number is a fictional driver
  • Fictional drivers will not be returned their number if the driver with the racing number is a real-life driver
  • Real-life drivers will not be returned their number if the driver with the racing number is a real-life driver unless the administration decides to execute a number swap
  • Fictional drivers will be returned their number if the driver with the racing number is a fictional driver unless both DEC owners agree to execute a number swap

The reigning World Drivers Champion will run racing number 1 for the entirety of the season after winning the World Drivers Championship. Their standard racing number will not be available for use by any driver beginning their career in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era. Any replacement driver that is to replace the World Drivers Champion is treated as if he has signed their first contract or uses their reserved racing number, regardless of the length of the replacement.

Before the 5th-to-last race of the current Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era season, all real-life drivers over the age of 36 in the final year of their contract will be subject to a retirement RNG. The RNG values will be determined by the administration based on the real-life public persona of the driver as well as their current position in the World Drivers Championship. Any RNG result is final, unless there is reasonable doubt about the quality of the RNG values and 5 or more users running a team in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era request a reroll. A real-life driver that is rolled to retire is not eligible to compete in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era for the next 2 Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era seasons.

Before the first Grand Prix weekend, drivers who were under contract with the same team in the previous season and who are determined by the administration to be discontent with their current contract based on either their real-life public persona or their payment based on the results in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era will be subject to a contract holdout RNG. Any RNG result is final, unless there is reasonable doubt about the quality of the RNG values and 5 or more users running a team in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era request a reroll. If the RNG results in a holdout, the driver will refuse to perform the duties of their contract, i.e. racing drivers will not compete and sim drivers or driver coaches will not provide their bonus. Teams can choose to either fulfill the demands of their driver, wait the holdout out (the driver holding out will be treated as if he was injured for the purpose of all rules regarding a temporary replacement, but any real-life replacement driver will have lowered RNG odds) or terminate him without paying compensation. If the team chooses to terminate the driver, their replacement must be given the same contract terms (or improved contract terms) to their replacement.

If the administration determines that a significant number of drivers would be found discontent in the aforementioned system, it instead can once at any point within a period of 42 in-character months roll an RNG about whether all drivers refuse to perform the duties of their contract, i.e. racing drivers will not compete and sim drivers or driver coaches will not provide their bonus. Any RNG result is final, unless there is reasonable doubt about the quality of the RNG values and 5 or more users running a team in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era request a reroll. Should that occur, the users running a team must democratically decide whether to accept the demands of the drivers or cancel the next Grand Prix weekend. After any such cancellation, the end-of-season prize money pool is reduced by €10,000,000 for each position from 1 to 5. After each Grand Prix weekend, an additional RNG is run on whether the refusal to perform the duty of their contract will be run.

Season and Upgrades

Each Alternate Formula One season consists of at least 13 and at most 27 Grands Prix weekends. Each Grand Prix weekend represents a separate region or a nation; a region or nation may be represented by a venue outside of said region or nation, but only if the venue is in a country that already has a Grand Prix. Any nation may only have up to 3 venues on the calendar and only up to 2 nations may have more than one venue on the calendar at any time. The Grand Prix weekends of the upcoming season must be announced by the time of the 4th-to-last Grand Prix weekend of the previous season and may not be changed after that, with the exception of Grand Prix weekend order, which may be changed at any point by the administration as it sees fit. Any Grand Prix weekend can be canceled by the administration for any reason at any point unless the cancellation would cause the number of Grand Prix weekends in a season to sink below 13. If 5 or more users running a team in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era object to the announced Grand Prix weekends for the upcoming season or a cancellation of a Grand Prix weekend, the administration must change the Grand Prix weekends for the upcoming season at the first opportunity.

A Grand Prix weekend consists of 3 60-minute practice sessions on Friday, Saturday and Sunday (beginning in-character at 10:00 local time), 2 40-minute qualifying sessions on Friday and Saturday (beginning in-character at 15:00 local time), and a race on Sunday running over the nearest lap above 185 km (≈ 115 miles) or 120 minutes, whichever arrives first (beginning in-character at 15:00 local time). Practice sessions are not simulated, but fictional results can be supplied as the administration sees fit. The in-character times for any qualifying session and any race can be changed to 21:00 local time at venues with floodlights. If that change is made, the practice sessions begin at 15:30 local time. All qualifying sessions and races have climate conditions determined by the administration as it sees fit. Any session can be canceled in progress by the administration as it sees fit, either as a reaction to events within the simulation or for narrative purposes.

After any race, the administration runs a RNG for any crash regarding potential injuries as it sees fit. An injury is defined as a period of time (in Grand Prix weekends) in which a driver is incapable of competing. These periods can range from 1 Grand Prix weekend to the number of Grand Prix weekends equivalent to 2 calendar years. If the crash is considered severe enough the adminstration can forgo the RNG and declare the driver incapable of competing in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era anymore. If at least 5 or more users running a team in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era consider the injury potential of an accident severe enough, an additional RNG can be by the administration determining whether the accident is fatal. For fictional drivers, the DEC holder must agree to this RNG being run. Any non-lethal injury does not affect the driver's ability to compete in other series sharing a fictional universe. If at least 5 or more users running a team in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era object to an injury or a driver being declared incapable of competing, the decision is reversed and the driver is able to compete again.

The administration will apply penalties for rule violations committed before, during or after the race. Penalties can be applied as either fines for the team of the offender, warnings, time penalties for this Grand Prix, exclusion from the Grand Prix result, grid penalties for the next Grand Prix weekend or exclusion from any number of Grand Prix weekends up to 4, depending on the severity of the infringement. Penalties are always assigned to a driver, regardless of whether the driver or their team committed the rule violation. Any suspended penalty has a probation period of 8 in-universe calendar months.

If a driver is replaced, any penalties assigned to the driver will not be transmitted to the new driver, but the replaced driver must serve their penalty when they are returned to their seat or signed to a new team within the season. Should a driver not return to their seat or sign with a new team within the season the rule violation is committed, the team the driver committed the rule violation with will instead be fined €2,500,000 at the conclusion of the season. Should a driver be considered to have committed an unacceptable number of rule violations by the administration, the driver in question will be excluded from the remainder of the current season and is declared not eligible to be signed as a racing driver for the next 40 Grand Prix weekends or 18 in-universe calendar months, whichever period is longer. If 5 or more users running a team in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era object to the exclusion, it is reversed and the driver is entitled to rejoin Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era before the start of the next Grand Prix weekend. Should the chosen simulation method not permit an accurate reflection of team-interested behaviour by drivers, the administration is entitled to manipulate the results accordingly to reflect a team order if the driver higher-placed in the World Drivers Championship that has still a mathematical chance of winning the championship is within less than 10 seconds of their teammate with no other cars between the drivers with 4 laps to go. This manipulation is permitted from the 6th-to-last weekend of the season.

Championship points are handed out to the 8 best-placed classified drivers of the race after penalties and exclusions as well as any team orders have been applied. A driver is considered classified if he has completed at least 90 percent of the race distance. Should less than 8 drivers have completed at least 90 percent of the race distance, that value is reduced until 8 drivers can be considered classified. The points system is 10-8-6-5-4-3-2-1. An additional point is awarded to the driver who has set the fastest time in qualifying before any grid penalties were applied. If less than 75 percent of the scheduled race distance is completed before the race is cancelled without being resumed, the championship points are halved. For the final Grand Prix weekend of the season, the awarded points are doubled (20-16-12-10-8-6-4-2 with 2 points for the driver who has set the fastest time in qualifying before any grid penalties were applied).

Sessions are only re-run if the administration has violated any rule during the running of the session. If 5 or more users running a team in Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era consider the rule violation too insignificant to require rerunning the session, the session will not be re-run.

The driver with the most points after all Grand Prix weekends have been completed is the Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era World Drivers Champions of that season. In case of a tie, the number of wins decide. If the number of wins is equal, the amount of 2nd places decides and so on. Should all positions be equally shared between the tying parties, the number of pole positions decide. Should those be equal as well, the position is given to the driver whose team has the lower World Constructors Championship position. Should both tied drivers drive for the same team, the position is decided by a coin toss. The team with the most points after all Grand Prix weekends have been completed are the Alternate Formula One - Hydrogen Era World Constructors Champions of that season. All drivers entered by a team can score points for the team in the World Constructors Championship. In case of a tie, the same tie-breaking approach used for the World Drivers Championship is applied for with one exception: in case the number of pole positions does not break the tie, the position is given to the team that had fewer penalties assigned against them. Should that be equal as well, the position is decided by a coin toss.

Before the start of a Alternate Formula One season, the following pre-season phases are to be done in this order:
Sponsorship Choice (every 4th season)
Lead Designer Market
Driver Market
Motor Market
Car Development

To accelerate the process, the administration is entitled to handle multiple business stages at once.

At the conclusion of the driver market, sponsor income is added to the balance of all teams. After that step is completed, all budgets of the teams must always remain at or above €0. During the season, teams may only be in the minus as consequence of applying an upgrade, as a result of fines or failing to sign a new Target Region driver after releasing or temporarily replacing their previous Target Region driver. Drivers of teams that are in the minus during the season suffer a loss of performance reflected in a doubled random grip range.

Before 2 selected Grand Prix weekends within the season, mid-season tests are held. These 2 weekends must be announced by the administration before the 4th Grand Prix weekend of the season. During a mid-season test teams can work an upgrade in 3 separate sessions. A session in the mid-season costs €4,000,000. Each session needs to have a driver assigned to it. The choice of driver does not influence the outcome of the session. Following sessions are available:

  • Short Runs - improves pace. For every day invested into short runs, the base grip of a car will be raised by 0-80 points. If the driver chosen for Short Runs is not a driver currently under contract, the administration will privately inform the user running the team whether the driver is faster or slower than the fastest driver under contract with the team.
  • Long Runs - decreases random grip range. For every day invested into long runs, the random grip range of a driver will be reduced by 0-80 points.

Prize money will be applied to the budget of all teams both for individual race results as well as position in the World Constructors Championship. Prize money for the position in the World Constructors Championship is to be assigned as follows:

Position Prize money
1 €200,000,000
2 €190,000,000
3 €180,000,000
4 €170,000,000
5 €160,000,000
6 €150,000,000
7 €140,000,000
8 €130,000,000
9 €120,000,000
10 €110,000,000
11 €105,000,000
12 €100,000,000
13 €95,000,000
14 €90,000,000
15 €85,000,000
16 €80,000,000

Prize money for each Grand Prix weekend, based on the position of the best-positioned car of the team, is to be assigned as follows::

Position Prize money
1 €2,000,000
2-10 €1,500,000
11-15 €1,000,000
16-20 €500,000
21-26/DNF etc. €0

During the season, teams can apply upgrades at any point once their upgrade schedule is complete. An upgrade schedule can go from 2 to 8 Grand Prix weekends, with longer upgrade schedules resulting in higher rewards for success, but also higher costs. The upgrade is applied only at request. A value determined by an RNG within the determined grip range of each upgrade is added to the base grip of the team's current chassis. After the 8th weekend, a team can decide withhold the upgrade for 4 more Grand Prix weekends, but the grip range of and the price of the upgrade remain unchanged. A team can apply an upgrade even if such an action would send them into a minus.

An upgrade schedule going longer than 8 Grand Prix weekends results in a new chassis being rolled. This new chassis will be rolled in the same manner as the original one and cannot have a lower base grip than the original one (including any previously applied upgrades). Should the new chassis have a lower base grip as result of RNG, as many points of base grip are added as is needed to match the previous chassis base grip plus another 20 grip points.

Should a team use upgrades in a manner that improves their car performance to the point where it exceeds the performance levels possible with the game mechanics, the difference between the mathematical performance and the actual performance is added to the base grip of the chassis of the following season after the conclusion of that season's car market.

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