Lotus Racing League: The 2012 Season

Group Lotus · Post by **Group Lotus** » 31 Jan 2012, 01:27

Dear Race teams worldwide

As I am sure you are aware, we at Group Lotus are currently rapidly expanding our motorsports programme, both in single-seaters and GT racing. We have been supporting Takuma Sato in IndyCar where we are soon to be providing engines to 5 IndyCar teams. We are partnering Renault in Formula One this year where we hope to see victory before the year is out. We will be developing a junior programme through our newly-acquired GP2 team and we are currently working on a GT programme.

As part of this expansion, We have announced that we are going to run a Racing League featuring 22 of the very best young drivers battling it out over 12 races in identical Lotus T130's. Teams have the choice of running 1 or 2 cars in as many or as few races as they would like or can afford. The winner of this championship will receive a rather large cash prize and we hope that all the drivers in this championship will be a force in global motorsport for many years to come. The calendar will consist of 12 races on 6 circuits spanning the whole of Europe

Drivers:
1. Mika Paasonen 90 Red Bull Lotus
2. Deiter Hallenstein 91 Red Bull Lotus
3. Hobson Tarantino 19 Apple Lotus (Part Time)
4. Nathan McKane 0 Gigawave Lotus
5. Johannes Rueckert 46 Reebok Lotus
6. John Zimmer 31 Tooheys Lotus
7. Ryan Zimmer 32 Telstra Lotus
8. Thomas De Bock 53 Dexia Lotus
9. Flotence Briggs 9 Woolworths Lotus
10. Judd McCallister 7 Repsol Lotus
11. Raul Souto Maior 8 Repsol Lotus
12. Dave Anderson 41 Walmart Lotus
13. Leonhard Von Gottorp 71 Lotus (Part Time)
14. Martin McFry 69 Manx Petroleum Lotus
15. Ephran One Jnr. 96 F1 News Lotus
16. Ron Mignolet 13 Lotus Bakeries Lotus (Part Time)
17. Wouter Lamberigts 12 Lotus Professional Lotus (Part Time)
18. Lorenzo Crescenzi 27 Peroni Lotus
19. Ólafur Ragnar Hannesson 28 Peroni Lotus
20. Giovanni Roda 20 Telecom Italia Lotus (Part Time)
21. Jack Plummer 26 Fun Labs Lotus
22. Goran Jardinovic 56 Croatia airlines Lotus (Part Time)

Calendar:

1. Lotus Round of Italy
Autodromo Nazionale Monza

2. Lotus Round of Spain
Circuit Ricardo Tormo

3. Lotus Round of France
Circuit Paul Ricard

4. Lotus Round of The Netherlands
Zandvoort

5. Lotus Round of Germany
Norisring

6. Lotus Round of the United Kingdom
Silverstone Circiut

Entry Form:

Team Info
Team Name:
Number of cars: (1 or 2)
Information: (optional)

Driver Info
Driver Name: (Realistic please)
Age: (17+)
Number:
Sponsor: (A real one that isn't stupid. Unponsored is also OK)
Number of races: (I would like 5-6 part time cars for realism)
Qualifying Performance: (Epic, Good, Medium or Rejectful)
Race Performance: (Epic, Good, Medium or Rejectful)
Consistency: (High, Medium or Low)
Information: (optional)

Yours faithfully,

Dany Bahar.

RonDenisDeletraz · Post by **RonDenisDeletraz** » 31 Jan 2012, 01:30

My entry

Team Info
Team Name: Red Bull Junior Team
Number of cars: 2
Information: (optional)

Driver Info
Driver Name: Mika Paasonen
Age: 17
Number: 90
Sponsor: Red Bull
Number of races: All
Qualifying Performance: Good
Race Performance: Epic
Consistency: High
Information: (optional)

Driver Info
Driver Name: Deiter Hallenstein
Age: 17
Number: 91
Sponsor: Red Bull
Number of races: All
Qualifying Performance: Good
Race Performance: Epic
Consistency: High
Information: (optional)

tristan1117 · Post by **tristan1117** » 31 Jan 2012, 01:48

Driver Info
Driver Name: Hobson Tarantino
Age: 20
Number: 19
Sponsor: Apple
Number of races: 7
Qualifying Performance: Medium
Race Performance: Good
Consistency: Medium
Information: (optional)

RealRacingRoots · Post by **RealRacingRoots** » 31 Jan 2012, 02:31

Make the fourth round the round of Malaysia at Sepang, please? Lotus is owned by Malaysians after all.

Entry Form:

Team Info
Team Name: Ravenwest Autosport
Number of cars: 2 (Looking for someone to take up the second seat, bring SOME cash and SOME talent. It could have a few part time drivers in the seat)
Information: Same time as found in Race Driver: GRiD (A livery similar to the one for Ravenwest would be nice)

Driver Info
Driver Name: Nathan McKane
Age: 27
Number: 0
Sponsor: Gigawave
Number of races: Full Time
Qualifying Performance: Good
Race Performance: Epic
Consistency: High
Information: http://www.f1rejects.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=4525

Group Lotus · Post by **Group Lotus** » 31 Jan 2012, 03:03

Somebody wrote:Non championship round to be held at Sepang.

It has been announced that there will be a non championship held at the Malaysian Sepang circuit. It is believed that Sepang was originally going to hold a championship race but that plan was scrapped because several teams can't afford to leave Europe. This will please the Lotus's Malaysian owners.

RealRacingRoots · Post by **RealRacingRoots** » 31 Jan 2012, 03:36

Somebody wrote:Non championship round to be held at Sepang.

It has been announced that there will be a non championship held at the Malaysian Sepang circuit. It is believed that Sepang was originally going to hold a championship race but that plan was scrapped because several teams can't afford to leave Europe. This will please the Lotus's Malaysian owners.

tristan1117 · Post by **tristan1117** » 31 Jan 2012, 04:04

I have persuaded a friend to let me enter him.

Driver Info
Driver Name: Johannes Rueckert
Age: 25
Number: 46
Sponsor: Reebok
Number of races: All
Qualifying Performance: Epic
Race Performance: Good
Consistency: Medium
Information: http://f1alternate.wikkii.com/wiki/Johannes_Rueckert

Team Info (includes Tarantino and Rueckert)
Team Name: Rispens Racing
Number of Cars: 2

the Masked Lapwing · Post by **the Masked Lapwing** » 31 Jan 2012, 05:14

Team Name: ZimSport
Number of cars: 2
Information: See the wiki.

Driver 1
Name: John Zimmer
Age: 43
Number: #31
Sponsor: Tooheys
Number of races: All
Qualifying Performance: Medium
Race Performance: Good
Consistency: High

Driver 2
Name: Ryan Zimmer
Age: 17
Number: #32
Sponsor: Telstra
Number of races: All
Qualifying Performance: Good
Race Performance: Epic
Conistency: Medium

Post by **tommykl** » 31 Jan 2012, 07:07

Team name: De Bock Race Engineering

Driver: Thomas De Bock
Age: 25
Number: 53
Sponsor: Dexia
Number of races: all
Qualifying performance: medium
Race performance: epic
Consistency: medium
Info: Thomas has raced in Formula 1 from 2009 to 2010 scoring 2 points, has finished runner-up in the 2008 GP2 Series and has won the 2006 Macau GP in Formula 3. He has also scored three podiums in the F1RWRS, without a single win.

Post by **Londoner** » 31 Jan 2012, 09:18

Team name: Shed Seven Racing

Driver: Florence Briggs
Age: 26
Number: 9
Sponsor: Woolworths (I believe that in this alternate universe, Woolworths survived)
Number of races: all
Qualifying performance: medium
Race performance: good
Consistancy: average
Information: N/A

(The livery for the car will be red and gold, and the team's slogan will be 'It's getting better all the time!'...)

Take a guess what Britpop band I've been listening to today :lol:

TomWazzleshaw · Post by **TomWazzleshaw** » 31 Jan 2012, 09:28

East Londoner wrote:Sponsor: Woolworths (I believe that in this alternate universe, Woolworths survived)

Woolworths are doing just fine in Australia mind you :lol:

Group Lotus · Post by **Group Lotus** » 31 Jan 2012, 09:34

I was wondering in what alternate universe Woolworths died in.

TomWazzleshaw · Post by **TomWazzleshaw** » 31 Jan 2012, 10:57

Group Lotus wrote:I was wondering in what alternate universe Woolworths died in.

You should join us in the real world some time Mr Bahar. I hear it's a wonderful place.

Phoenix · Post by **Phoenix** » 31 Jan 2012, 11:40

-Team name: Aeroracing Engineering.
-Team info: A professional and passionate racing outfit that, just like Group Lotus, is looking forward to expand to every race series in sight.
-Sponsors: Repsol, Dark Dog, Camel (Repsol is the main one for both cars, just to clarify).
-Number of cars: 2.

-Driver 1 name: Judd McAllister.
-Driver 1 info: Son of Phoenix McAllister, a consolidated racing driver and major shareholder of the team. After a disappointing performance in F3RWRS which saw him getting sacked after only a few races, he's been entered at this series to hopefully restore his reputation and gain some experience.
-Age: 19.
-Number: 7.
-Number of races: all.
-Qualifying performance: medium.
-Race performance: epic.
-Consistency: medium.

-Driver 2 name: Raul Souto Maior.
-Driver 2 info: Phoenix McAllister liked what he saw when he gave this Sao Paulo contender a drive at his F2RWRS team to sub in for the suspended Tanner Jason for two races. Slotted in at this series to gain experience, he seems to be one of Aeroracing Engineering's most brilliant prospects for the future.
-Age: 18.
-Number: 8.
-Number of races: all.
-Qualifying performance: good.
-Race performance: epic.
-Consistency: epic.

FMecha · Post by **FMecha** » 31 Jan 2012, 12:16

I'm calling This and Kostas for this one. :lol:

By the way:

Name: Dave Anderson (born 1970, if you ask me)
Number: 41
Sponsor: Walmart, Sega
Race performance: Medium (as with Anderson's F2RWRS career)
Qualifying performance: Medium
Consistency: Medium

Klon · Post by **Klon** » 31 Jan 2012, 12:59

---> There's really not enough sillyness in here.

Team Name: Lotus Team West Germany
Number of cars: 1

Driver Name: Leonhard Von Gottorp
Age: 71
Number: #71
Sponsor: 1&1
Number of races: 2 (Spain and Germany)
Qualifying Performance: Rejectful
Race Performance: Good
Consistency: High, I guess...
Information: Perhaps the last surviving gentleman racer. An old man with too much money and too much time on his hands...

Shizuka · Post by **Shizuka** » 31 Jan 2012, 15:11

Team Name: Lotus Revolution
Number of cars: 1

Driver Name: Jack Plummer
Age: 26
Number: #26
Sponsor: Fun Labs, Revolution
Number of races: All
Qualifying Performance: Below average
Race Performance: Very good
Consistency: Average
Information: A driver, who lets his driving do his talk.

Pointrox · Post by **Pointrox** » 31 Jan 2012, 16:20

Team Info
Team Name: Hydook Racing
Number of cars: 1

Driver Info
Driver Name: Goran Jardinovic
Age: 17
Number: 56
Sponsor: Croatia Airlines
Number of races: all
Qualifying Performance: Good
Race Performance: Epic
Consistency: Medium

dr-baker · Post by **dr-baker** » 31 Jan 2012, 18:40

Now I know what the Group Lotus member was wanting all along. The initial foray into F1RWRS WAS OBVIOUSLY JUST A FACT-FINDING MISSION!

Entry Form:

Team Info
Team Name: Foxdale Auto Racing Team
Number of cars: 2
Information: The rejectful Manx team from the Isle of Man, run by Pippa and Douglas Mann

Driver Info
Driver Name: Martin McFry
Age: about 21
Number: 69
Sponsor: Manx Petroleum, Shoprite
Number of races: all
Qualifying Performance: Medium
Race Performance: Epic
Consistency: High
Information: Average up to 88 mph, gone like a flash of light above that speed....

Driver Info
Driver Name: Ephran One Jnr.
Age: in his 40's
Number: 96
Sponsor: refer to link in name (plus F1 News magazine, to add to his illusion that the magazine he wrote for still exists...)
Number of races: all
Qualifying Performance: rejectful
Race Performance: rejectful
Consistency: low
Information: A driver with a bit of media savvy, having had his own column in an F1 magazine in the 1990s. Still writes for them now, not having realised the magazine is no longer being produced...

Nessafox · Post by **Nessafox** » 31 Jan 2012, 22:13

You really were really asking for it...

Team Info
Team Name: Donkervoort Automobielen bv (Nl)
Number of cars: 2
Information: Manufacturer of Lotus Super 7-based cars

Driver 1: Ron Mignolet
http://f1alternate.wikkii.com/wiki/Ron_Mignolet
Number: 13
Sponsor: Lotus Bakeries
Number of races: full season
Qualifying Performance: Medium
Race Performance: Epic
Consistency: Medium

Driver 2: Wouter Lamberigts
http://f1alternate.wikkii.com/wiki/Wouter_Lamberigts
Sponsor: Lotus Professional
Number 31
Number of races: full season
Qualifying Performance: Epic
Race Performance: Rejectful
Consistency: High

Post by **DemocalypseNow** » 31 Jan 2012, 22:35

Team Info
Team Name:

Parma Corse
Number of cars: 2
Information: Parma Corse is a small Italian team, a spin-off of the former Virgin Inter Corse LFS Rejects Cup team. Alasdair Lindsay is once again team principal.

Driver Info
Driver Name:

Lorenzo Crescenzi
Age: 21
Number: 27
Sponsor: Peroni, Parmalat, Alitalia
Number of races: All
Qualifying Performance: Good
Race Performance: Epic
Consistency: High
Information: Wiki profile

Driver Info
Driver Name:

Ólafur Ragnar Hannesson
Age: 27
Number: 28
Sponsor: Peroni, Parmalat, Alitalia
Number of races: All
Qualifying Performance: Good
Race Performance: Epic
Consistency: High
Information: Wiki profile

Group Lotus · Post by **Group Lotus** » 31 Jan 2012, 23:31

From now I want only part time cars.

Group Lotus · Post by **Group Lotus** » 31 Jan 2012, 23:37

Post by **DemocalypseNow** » 31 Jan 2012, 23:39

This wrote:Driver 2: Wouter Lamberigts
http://f1alternate.wikkii.com/wiki/Wouter_Lamberigts
Sponsor: Lotus Professional
Number 31

You can't have that or #32 - ZimSport already reserved them before you

Nessafox · Post by **Nessafox** » 31 Jan 2012, 23:44

Hm, i can enter both of my drivers in 4 races only if you want to basically only entering 2 cars in the season opener and season final, and entering only one car in other races.
1. Lotus Round of Italy
Ron Mignolet
Wouter Lamberigts
2. Lotus Round of Spain
Wouter Lamberigts
3. Lotus Round of France
Ron Mignolet
4. Lotus Round of ?????
Wouter Lamberigts
5. Lotus Round of Germany
Ron Mignolet
6. Lotus Round of the United Kingdom
Ron Mignolet
Wouter Lamberigts

Well if i can't have #31, then i'll have #12 instead

Jack O Melley · Post by **Jack O Melley** » 31 Jan 2012, 23:54

Team Info
Team Name: Scuderia Trueba Corse
Number of cars: 1
Information: Wiki page

Driver Info
Driver Name: Giovanni Roda (ITA)
Age: 25
Number: 20
Sponsor: Telecom Italia
Number of races: 2 (Lotus Round of Italy & Lotus Round of France)
Qualifying Performance: Rejectful
Race Performance: Good
Consistency: medium
Information: Very short Wiki page

Group Lotus · Post by **Group Lotus** » 31 Jan 2012, 23:56

This wrote:Hm, i can enter both of my drivers in 4 races only if you want to basically only entering 2 cars in the season opener and season final, and entering only one car in other races.
1. Lotus Round of Italy
Ron Mignolet
Wouter Lamberigts
2. Lotus Round of Spain
Wouter Lamberigts
3. Lotus Round of France
Ron Mignolet
4. Lotus Round of ?????
Wouter Lamberigts
5. Lotus Round of Germany
Ron Mignolet
6. Lotus Round of the United Kingdom
Ron Mignolet
Wouter Lamberigts

Well if i can't have #31, then i'll have #12 instead

It's your choice if you want to do it.

The 4th round will be at Zandvoort.

Nessafox · Post by **Nessafox** » 01 Feb 2012, 00:04

yeah i'll do part-time, i've got 2 drivers who have enough to do anyway

Post by **DemocalypseNow** » 01 Feb 2012, 00:06

FMecha wrote:I'm calling This and Kostas for this one.

By the way:

Name: Dave Anderson (born 1970, if you ask me)
Number: 41
Sponsor: Walmart, Sega
Race performance: Medium (as with Anderson's F2RWRS career)
Qualifying performance: Medium
Consistency: Medium

Is this a call for a Virgin Inter Corse second driver on a part-time programme? Because Phil McCracken was still with us in 2012 and is willing to drive a second car at Monza, Zandvoort and Silverstone

But I'm not going to go ahead and take this place in case two new people show up and want these last two spaces.

Post by **DemocalypseNow** » 01 Feb 2012, 00:08

The wiki page is already up

http://f1alternate.wikkii.com/wiki/2012 ... gue_season

Group Lotus · Post by **Group Lotus** » 01 Feb 2012, 00:14

kostas22 wrote:The wiki page is already up

http://f1alternate.wikkii.com/wiki/2012 ... gue_season

Thanks, but can you please modify the results table as there is 2 races per weekend

Post by **DemocalypseNow** » 01 Feb 2012, 00:29

Group Lotus wrote:
kostas22 wrote:The wiki page is already up

http://f1alternate.wikkii.com/wiki/2012 ... gue_season

Thanks, but can you please modify the results table as there is 2 races per weekend

Will Fastest Lap be included in the results & count towards points?

Nessafox · Post by **Nessafox** » 01 Feb 2012, 00:30

Donkervoort is a Dutch constructor, i actually mentioned that before in this thread.
(i understand your confusion because of the links with RonDen RE, but this is a geniune manufacturer of Fake-Lotus-cars

)

Group Lotus · Post by **Group Lotus** » 01 Feb 2012, 00:38

kostas22 wrote:
Group Lotus wrote:
kostas22 wrote:The wiki page is already up

http://f1alternate.wikkii.com/wiki/2012 ... gue_season

Thanks, but can you please modify the results table as there is 2 races per weekend

Will Fastest Lap be included in the results & count towards points?

No, The points system is 10-8-6-5-4-3-2-1 for both races with no bonus points.

tristan1117 · Post by **tristan1117** » 01 Feb 2012, 01:03

Hobson Tarantino will be running the last six races of the year at the Netherlands, Germany and the UK.

Group Lotus · Post by **Group Lotus** » 01 Feb 2012, 01:15

I have enough cars now so signups are closed and the vacant spot will be taken up by field filler created by me. The first preseason test should be up tomorrow.

Post by **DemocalypseNow** » 01 Feb 2012, 01:18

Group Lotus wrote:I have enough cars now so signups are closed and the vacant spot will be taken up by field filler created by me. The first preseason test should be up tomorrow.

Does this mean McCracken has the part-time gig at Walmart Lotus? Or are you having two drivers.

Group Lotus · Post by **Group Lotus** » 01 Feb 2012, 01:22

kostas22 wrote:
Group Lotus wrote:I have enough cars now so signups are closed and the vacant spot will be taken up by field filler created by me. The first preseason test should be up tomorrow.

Does this mean McCracken has the part-time gig at Walmart Lotus? Or are you having two drivers.

I don't own Walmart Lotus

Post by **DemocalypseNow** » 01 Feb 2012, 01:28

@RealRacingRoots Nathan McKane of Race Driver:GRiD fame is American not Scottish, it's team mate Rick Scott who is the Scot. Just thought I'd point that out to you...

RealRacingRoots · Post by **RealRacingRoots** » 01 Feb 2012, 01:36

Ah, yes. I changed it for Hunt For Glory because I felt like it. Not much of a better explanation, but to keep it simple hes a Scot in his racing antics here.