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A narrative Grand Prix racing management simulation spanning twenty-one seasons, 1980–2000.

Short description

Welcome to the Piranha Club puts you in charge of a Grand Prix racing team for twenty-one seasons, from the ground-effect era through the turbo wars to the corporate consolidation of the late nineties. Hire drivers, choose engines, decide what your car is going to be, and answer to the people paying for it — across hundreds of written events that branch on what you have actually done.

Long description

You are a team principal in 1980, handed a small operation and a season you are probably not ready for. Over the next two decades you build a car every winter, sign drivers who have their own ambitions, court sponsors who want results before they will pay, and manage the manufacturers, patrons and boards whose money makes the whole thing possible.

The paddock has a long memory. Engineers, drivers and rivals track how you have treated them, and it surfaces years later in who returns your call. Three scenarios each set a different problem: a British independent with clever cars and no money, a French manufacturer programme with an Italian patron and an identity crisis, and an American corporate team with a dated car and a boardroom full of opinions. Sixteen endings are possible. Several of them are failure.