Forum topic: Staff bonus - should staff get bonus for both drivers or only for better placed driver

Can't remember if I raised this idea already, but what if bonuses weren't a monetary figure (ie 100k) but a relative percentage of the total winnings.

You'd have to delegate % across the whole team.

If you win, one driver might demand 25% of that win; and the junior designer 5%.

If you are 10th, its 25% and 5% of that etc. All relative.

If you were able to make a page with every staff/driver; you must tally up 100% across each member.

Auto default is to spread %'s evenly if you don't choose.

The benefit is you could put more % on a driver one week to improve morale as an incentive. Same for a designer. Offer then 30% of any bonus, they might jump morale etc.

Also, having % values means you can add 10 new staff in the year, and it wouldnt cause 10x lots of 100k bonuses. But just divide the % across the entire team.

Much better, no?

Good idea, but how would you add that into negotiations? It'd be near on impossible.

Good idea, but how would you add that into negotiations? It'd be near on impossible.

I am not sure how racing contracts work but in other sports contracts are usually based on the following:

1. Money over set upon agreed time frame (long term contracts usually means lower yearly payments & short term contracts are more costly due to less risk) Player dependent.

2. Signing bonus - Flat fee for signing with the team could be used to have a player sign if agreed contract matches other offers.

3. In season bonuses - Agreed based off set amount of results (finishing in certain positions, scoring title, points etc...)

So I am guessing what would happen in the above idea would be season bonuses (Championship, wins, podiums & points) would be offered in a percentage base say nothing under X percentage should be given.

So while you could pay driver and staff less then X percentage then you would damage their morale but anything over X percentage would see an increase in their morale.

I would also say that if should be allowed to go over 100% since you may have extra cash in the bank that you want to spend for a morale or performance increase.

Other Option would be to remove bonuses outright from negoications and have them set weekly as set above from either 0% to 150% towards staff & drivers.

But either way I really like the idea but would also like to see morale moved to a number based system ranging from 0 to 150 as well to see if the staff member is angry to extremely happy or somewhere in between.

I think staff bonuses should be based solely on the end constructors champ result. Only drivers should get win etc bonuses

I also agree with that Daniel.

Maybe have drivers only have negotiation rights for bonuses and have all staff based off percentage based bonuses as suggested above; so it's your staff that works to earn their bonuses rather then a luck result as I rather see my staff perform all season long to earn a bonus rather then a single race or two.

Edit* I am tired so I am not sure if that makes any sense!! LOL!! 2am and writing in the forums not a good idea!!

I havent looked into enough but as long as a driver/staff memeber doesnt get 2 lots of bonuses based on both drivers. e..g a win and points then its all good.
Drivers should get bonus depending on where they finish regardless of team mates result