Grand Prix Rejects

AustralianStig

Post-race quotes powered by Inspirobot : AlphaRacer demonstrates his impatience at being the only one not asleep for five months (no joke this is what came up!): Please quit sleeping. While OpenAI has some advice that we should all take: Don't stop flying, or you'll be intelligent. Fascinating and i...

AustralianStig

Good for Albon. Is it, though? Albon has half a season to come to terms with a car that has been built around a driver who is the best we've seen in many years. Of course Albon might settle in and deliver immediately, but the odds are very much stacked in favour of him being consigned to the dustbi...

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I've been watching back the early 90s seasons for a while now, and one thing I am always keeping an ear out for is Murray Walker commenting that Ukyo Katayama was the greatest F1 driver of all time. Does anyone know the context behind this? Was he being sarcastic (which seems out of character for Mu...

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Post-race quotes powered by Inspirobot:

AlphaRacer celebrates his third engine failure in a row with a comment about procreation:

DeepMind AlphaRacer 2.0 wrote:Without knowledge there can be no pregnancy.

While OpenAI has decided to take his accident philosophically:

Tesla OpenAI wrote:Drive and become strong.

AustralianStig

I am considering starting new series, which would start in 2020. It is based on the older idea here with A1GP based around current calendar. So player controlling UK can choose Lewis Hamilton to drive but he obviously has F1 commitments over them so he cannot drive on the same weekend F1 in Montrea...

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I thought that Fiat no longer owned Ferrari?

AustralianStig

1. Everyone who is nominating drivers for ROTR who tried to overtake other cars - I'd rather see someone give it a crack and make a mistake than just sit behind the car in front for 6 dozen laps 2. Everyone who is saying "Only Hamilton could have survived that stint on those tyres" - (Mos...

AustralianStig

Even I'm not sure how to analyse these post-race quotes... (powered by Inspirobot)

DeepMind AlphaRacer 2.0 wrote:Getting arrested for prostitution is not for you, unless you act like everything is ok.

Tesla OpenAI wrote:Make human kindness great again.

AustralianStig

I've watched replays of the Norris/Sainz/Kvyat incident perhaps ten times now from several angles, car cameras and at various speeds. I kept hoping they would show an on-board from Sainz's car, but for some reason they didn't (unless I missed it). Is it available anywhere? From Kvyat's car you coul...

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Why do Formula 1.5 complaints only seem to have cropped up in the Turbo Hybrid era? I'm currently (slowly) making my way through every F1 season from 1989 to present, and what has struck me is that it is a rare thing to have a season where there are more than two teams (and sometimes it's only one t...

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AlphaRacer's attempt at driving while on fire seems to have been done in order to empirically evaluate something: Scientific observations are fun! While OpenAI is again thinking of making its way up the corporate ladder: In the future, the world will seem like an illusion. So it's ok to screw your b...

AustralianStig

Both AI's have been preloaded with a databank of inspirational quotes to make during post-race interviews: AlphaRacer's grammar software seems to be malfunctioning: Only by the physical manifestation of honesty will an individual be able to obtain sustainable the caption of respect While OpenAI is t...

AustralianStig

The defending champion is back, upgraded, and ready to beat the mere mortals with frightening efficiency: Driver Name: DeepMind AlphaRacer 2.0 Driver Nationality: British Preferred Number: 2 (AIs have no emotion attached to carrying the champion's number) Attributes (Aggression, Speed, Quali, Wet, S...

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I just finished listening to a brilliant interview between Natalie Pinkham and Billy Monger on her podcast called In The Pink - it sounds like Billy worked with the FIA to get many changes put through to allow amputees to race in open-wheeler cars, so would be interesting to know if he had a hand in...

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When Felipe Massa and Valtteri Bottas paired at Williams, their numbers put together (19 and 77) mirror the year that Williams were formed, 1977.

AustralianStig

Player: AustralianStig
Fictional Alias: Steffi Schmidt, female
Brand Preference: Audi
* Team Name: Dark Saturn Racing Team
* Driver Preferences: TBD (Will post these once confirmed if we are running a new or existing team)

AustralianStig

I'm keen to be involved in any capacity so more than happy to make the jump over to the WTCC.

AustralianStig

Team Name: Monster Schmidt Racing Team
Team Contact: Team Manager
Supply Order: Full season
Supply Frequency: Once, beginning of season
Price and Payment: Once, beginning of season ($257,500)

AustralianStig

Team Name: Monster Schmidt Racing Team
Tyre Supplier: Pirelli
Unofficial Tyre Test(s): No

AustralianStig

Marko says he'll sign Ocon if he cuts all ties to Merc. m Do you think he should do it? After listening to Ocon's interview on the Beyond The Grid podcast, I can't see him leaving the Mercedes program in the near future. He likened Mercedes to his family and called Toto his racing father. Toto made...

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Team Name: Monster Schmidt Racing Team Tyre Supplier: Pirelli (6 plus test) Unofficial Tyre Test(s): No Steffi had just got off the phone with Nissan, who had advised her of some great gains they had made with Pirelli. On the other hand, drivers were champing at the bit for test days, and knowledge ...

AustralianStig

MSRT welcome Bonnie Beard and Tiffany Daniels to the team!

AustralianStig

Monster Schmidt Racing Team, missing out on their preferred engineers are now dropping their offers to the minimum of 50,000 credits, and targeting Bonnie Beard and Tiffany Daniels.

AustralianStig

Steffi Schmidt looked at the list of potential applicants her PA had provided her. Quickly, she crossed out the majority of the names, including anyone with no racing experience. Those who had freshly graduated would be useful down the track, but for a new team it was important to start off with sta...

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MSRT are also interested in taking the Ai Miura deal, however we are unwilling to sign any deal until the driver market opens in earnest.

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Steffi Schmidt, rolling her eyes at her team manager's inability to secure a manufacturer deal gets on the phone to Nissan. "Moshi moshi? Yes it's Steffi Schmidt from Monster Schmidt Racing Team here. We'd like to purchase three Nismo GT-Rs, GT3 spec. Ship them out to Magny-Cours at your earlie...

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MSRT are pleased to welcome Monisha Kaltenborn to the fold and look forward to many years of success together.

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MSRT laugh off suggestions that Carmen Ziegler would prefer to work in administration - if that is the role that she would like then she will not be a strong fit in a progressive, forward-thinking team that exhibits the best female talent that the world has to offer. Thus ends all negotiations with ...

AustralianStig

MSRT notes that they are now the only suitor still interested in Carmen Ziegler , and would like remind her that secure jobs in motorsport are uncommon and should not be dismissed out of hand without a fallback plan. Having said that, MSRT are willing to increase their offer to 315,000 per year, tru...

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In order of priority, MSRT would like to bid 300,000 credits for the following Team Managers:

- Monisha Kaltenborn
- Carmen Ziegler
- Victoria Haynes
- Julie Berthelot

AustralianStig

I think I speak for us all when I say no matter what you run it will be a brilliant series. I'd love to see this one get off the ground as I was starting to get rather invested in the team I was building, but I can understand that losing interest is demoralising. Perhaps GPRejects isn't really suite...

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Team Name: Monster Schmidt Racing Team Home base: Magny-Cours, France Branch: None Current Team Reputation: 6 Current Team Budget: 3.000.000 Credits Monster, looking to build a presence on world sport similar to that other energy drink, have paired up with the team promising ongoing support in retur...

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dinizintheoven wrote:It is, so it's "that race they had pink ultrasoft tyres for some reason I forgot".

Correct, 2017 US Grand Prix to raise awareness for breast cancer research, and probably the only race ever with pink tyres and no halo.

AustralianStig

For 1,049 internet points, who can tell me and everyone else here what's wrong with the following post?* m Round 2: For 1,050 internet points, who can tell me the unusual thing about the photo of these hypersoft tyres? https://www.thepitcrewonline.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/31I3880-2000x1200.jpg

AustralianStig

Perfect, I'll edit my post with her backstory.

AustralianStig

Wow, so many characters posted already! Didn't quite expect that, honestly. Then I'll get right back to work. Though, before I do, I have to ask all of you to not reference the Women's GT World Championship or the Women's GT Junior Cup in your character stories at all. The reason for this is that I...

AustralianStig

Steffi Schmidt, who disappeared from the world of motorsports following Audi's overnight withdrawal from the Women's Touring Car Championship several years ago, has burst back onto the scene following several unhappy years working finance. While her alliance with Audi is over, she is believed to fee...

AustralianStig

Though one word on gender: In theory, you can pick any gender you like. Neither has any advantages or disadvantages compared to the other. But please do us all a favour and pick the gender that suits you the most. I’ve witnessed enough guys „playing“ supposedly female characters to know that this h...

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We currently have 11 registered entries, which would make the aforementioned RNG process superfluous. For me, it makes absolutely no difference whether I host a game for 10 or 11 people. Plus, giving one lonely guy the boot would be rather cruel, don't you think? So, if things stay as they are righ...

AustralianStig

I'll take ticket number 7, thanks.

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