When you choose your team, you are responsible for achieving the results that match up to the budget allocated by the team sponsor(s). However, you can manage the objectives set by your sponsors and renegotiate your conditions of financing.
Click the 'Manager' menu then 'Sponsors' on the top left of the management screen to display the sponsors menu. The objectives required by the sponsor(s) are displayed on the right of the screen and you must meet these to maintain the sponsor’s confidence in your team.
Your sponsor’s confidence not only relies on your team completing the objectives set but also the quality of your squad in relation to the territories your sponsor is interested in and the popular riders you enter for events that are particularly important to the sponsor.
You can now negotiate the objectives required by your sponsors by seeking more challenges (tougher objectives that may obtain a higher budget) or more modest objectives (easier objectives with a lower budget).
You can negotiate until 10th January on the 'Sponsors' screen in the tab for that sponsor. You can click the list in the 'Negotiate' column to change the difficulty level of each race in the list.