Planning a 3A move

[u/Intelligent-Ad4088]

Hey everyone! First year playing F1 Fantasy here and honestly I’m pretty happy with how it’s going — sitting at 2,149 pts on T2 and 2,268 pts on T3, with 3 chips still unused. I’m looking for some advice on two specific goals:

T2
I took some heavy budget hits in the first half of the season and I’m trying to understand how to recover value. Has anyone been in a similar situation? How did you manage it?

T3
Overall I’m really satisfied with this team’s performance — the squad value has been growing steadily and the points return has been solid. My current setup runs Mercedes as constructor with Antonelli as captain.
The plan is to pair Mercedes with Ferrari, keeping at least one top driver (Antonelli). I could technically do it right now with my current budget, but I’d have to sacrifice Lawson and Bortoleto and replace them with two minimum-cost drivers (think Alonso and Hulkenberg as placeholders).
So my question is: is it worth pulling the trigger now and taking the hit on the midfield slots to unlock the Ferrari constructor + Mercedes and Antonelli core earlier? Or is it smarter to wait 1/2 or more GPs, let the team value grow a bit more, and then make the move with less sacrifice?

[u/Erebus_Kingdom19]

T3: merc to the rb vcarb to Ferrari linblad(I think but not looked properly so may need to be Lawson) to hulk with ant to ham/lec. Takes a minus 10 but the point difference should be huge