You may substitute your chassis, and engine once per season, as with drivers.
Substitutions must be made prior to the commencement of Friday testing of a race weekend in order to count for that weekend. Substitutions made after this time will take effect at the next race. For the Monaco race, where first practice is on the Thursday, the substitutions must be made prior to the commencement of Thursday testing. In all eventualities, the substitution will become effective from the race as shown in the substitution form.
When you substitute, you exchange one (or more) elements of your team for something else. You then score points according to the new team roster.
Jumping ship once you find out who's on form is a valid strategy. But it is very difficult to do effectively. The leader's substitutions look to be very clever at the minute, but 3 races into the 17 race season it could yet be a little bit premature.
Yes, effectively. He can still change his Driver B and Driver C, but they're both non-running drivers, and his other items are all already substituted, so he won't be able to liberate budget to turn them into running drivers.
My "junior team" finished 4th. Bailey's team was 10th. Of course, I didn't realize they were nearly identical, since we'd created the teams at the last minute from different places...
A 24th for me, and a 20th for Kathy. A mid-season switch from Toyota to Mercedes didn't help me much, although picking Vettel and Sato from the get-go were smart moves.
And still ahead of 10-odd people...?
