Some suggestions

I get what you are saying, but it's a managing game. In order to manage push levels, tyre wear and fuel you really need to be attending races.
That's where you pick up knowledge, the race analysis tells you basic information tyre wear & fuel, if you want to pit a X amount tyre wear you can use it and adjust stints accordingly, but fuel load, push level and weather temp also has a factor on tyre wear, an example might be hot tyres wear faster than cold tyres.
Once tyres start to wear they start to cool there for you need to have the fuel to be able to push harder to get heat back in the tyres, that's why you need to be at the race and is why you join a league that has a race time suitable for you to attend.

I would like to see more of a fluxion in contract chances of success.
The likes of me I'm a midfield team yet my drivers & suppliers are very happy to renew season after season or sign with me.

Surly the drivers should have a winning mentality and want to refuse a contract at some point?
Suppliers too should either charge lower teams more money or just plain and simply say sorry we are not interest in signing with a low class team.

Maybe if another team in the league was to offer one of my drivers a race seat and they are higher up the grid & have more chance of winning the championship the driver might want to move to them and throw up sum sort of negotiation window from the drivers manager? Such as "My client has received interest from a better team though he is very happy being at your team it's a great opportunity for my client to pursue his dreams of being world champion. For an extra amount of money I maybe able to talk my client into staying with your team."

I agree that there should be a big advantage to actually attending the race but I think it would make it more fun (even for serious players) if there were more "planning" options.  It would also definately give more casual players a better chance and that should raise interest.  But being there would allow you to do active mgmt like raising or lowering tire heat via pushi lvl, just as you said.  Plus, it could lead to leagues setup just for hands off managers who set their plans and cannot touch anything in the race; which I think would be a fun wrinkle.  



I would love to see this sort of contract depth!

Based on old game Grand Prix World.
Could we have Tyre, Engine and Fuel R&D?

If we where to get R&D for suppliers and have 2 Test Tracks, one before season starts & another in the middle of the season.
We would need 3rd Test Driver too, Also (if adding crashes) the Test Driver would be useful in the event of one of the drivers having a bad crash and get seriously hurt and be out for a few races they could step in.

Supplier R&D in Grand Prix World can be done continuously after each race, this is a bit over board limiting it to just twice a season. Only being able to upgrade 2 of your 3 suppliers would be more interesting as some people might use it to upgrade only 1 of their suppliers.

Tyre R&D is selecting one of the 4 compounds soft/hard/inter/wet ( we have 6 compounds) to increase it's stats not all the compounds so maybe this might not be possible as we cant see the performance ratings of each compound we only see ratings for the tyres overall performance.

Engine R&D is boosting overall ratings.

Fuel R&D boosts overall ratings.

Maybe that is something else to look at, Tyre information screen remains hidden until you sign with a supplier, Then you can see the performance rating of each compound.

How about each league has it's own pool of drivers?
16 teams 3 tiers that's a pool of 96 drivers to choose from.
If test drivers are added makes it up to a pool of 144 driver to negotiate with.

At the end of the season the teams in the league release their drivers into the pool.
Teams have to try and out bid each other to try and land the drivers services.
Maybe that would allow for offering other teams drivers contracts through the season trying hire them in advance.
Teams can offer a driver contracts between 1-3 seasons there is no renewing the contract once it's completed the diver joins the pool and you cant not offer them a contract again until a full season has past.

Once a driver retires a new younger driver steps in to their place, all be it he will have zero experience and people will likely not want him but if the drivers experience was changed to the way I talked about before it will soon get the driver trained up.

1% gain every time a driver joins a new team at end of their first season.
1% gain for completing 2 seasons with the same team.
2% gain completing 3 seasons with the same team.

Examples of drivers based on this experience points system.

Jenson Button aged 35
his career 1998-persent
8 different teams
8 points for completing 3seasons with teams
1 point for completing 2seasons with a team
17 Total experience

Fernando Alonso aged 33
his career 1999-persent
7teams
4 points completing 3seasons with teams
4 points completing 2 seasons with teams
15 Total experience

Do you still think Alonso is better than Button? Just because he has been driving in better teams doesn't mean he is a better driver :D

Nobody reacted on this, but I want to ask if this can be possible :)

2 new suggestions:

Watching the qualifying
When a race has end it would be cool to see how well he raced, like if he did very well he get's a 9/10

Please please please do not introduce crashes. Thanks

Pop up window showing pit stop :)

Ok, Jack Basford :)

all in one post puts less strain on servers :P
pit stops I guessing you are on about ;)