Rejects of LFS 2014-2015

[Nessafox]

Well, that was bound to happen since I didn't upgrade our car...
...and that's what I'll do now - all money on engine development, please!

Maximum per race weekend is three points, so that's what you'll get in South City. Unless you can persuade other teams to allow you to upgrade twice as much, as you missed upgrading for the first race.

If other teams will allow me to do so (for the sake of equal chances and sportsmanship), then sure.
If not - I'll upgrade anyway, just to rebound.

I allow you to spend 80 credits if you spend 20 credits on upgrading my car

[Nuppiz]

I'll post videos as soon as YouTube starts working here again - for some reason I haven't been able to upload new videos today, it just stays indefinitely at the "starting upload" phase.

Oddly enough, I could upload them on my main account if I wanted to, but can't get anything on the RejectsOfLFS account.

[Shadaza]

Team Ultimate would like to spend whatever they won from the first race on upgrading the engine.

[Nuppiz]

Team Ultimate would like to spend whatever they won from the first race on upgrading the engine.

Well, you only won 4 credits, which won't get you anywhere, but you still had 35 credits of starter money left. So, I upgraded your engine by two points and deducted 30 credits from your account.

[Shadaza]

Team Ultimate would like to spend whatever they won from the first race on upgrading the engine.

Well, you only won 4 credits, which won't get you anywhere, but you still had 35 credits of starter money left. So, I upgraded your engine by two points and deducted 30 credits from your account.

Okay okay.

[The Lukas]

Ural Racing
2 engine point upgrade.

[Nuppiz]

Ural Racing
2 engine point upgrade.

Engine power improved and credits deducted.

Footage is finally online! It looks like AdBlock was to blame in that I couldn't upload them on YT earlier.

Feature: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WpOJsF-C3I
Sprint: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTx553_5Ldw

What's funny is that the Sprint race, while shorter, has a highlights video that's almost double in length compared to the Feature race video. This is because A) It was 2AM by the time I got the Feature race video done, so I didn't feel like adding any more footage and B) the Sprint race had much more events than the Feature one.

[Nuppiz]

All team owners, qualifying for the South City GP will start on March 8, 16:00 UTC. Any car upgrades bought before that are accepted for the race; anyhing posted afterwards will be used in the next race instead.

[Nuppiz]

Round 2 - South City GP - Free Practice 1


Also, in an effort to finish the 2014 season as quickly as possible to avoid it going out of sync with RWRS, I've moved the qualifying to a day earlier, so you've got one less day to make your decisions.

Here's a provisional list for future qualifying sessions:

Fern Bay - 12th March, 16:00 UTC

Kyoto Ring - 16th March, 16:00 UTC

Westhill - 20th March, 16:00 UTC

Aston - 24th March, 16:00 UTC

As you can see, the schedule is pretty tight, but I've stated the reason above.

[Nuppiz]

Round 2 - South City GP - Free Practice 2


Also a reminder to all team bosses that you have 18 hours left to upgrade your cars for this weekend.

[Nuppiz]

South City GP - Qualifying - Round 1

Van de Schoot won't be too happy after being blocked by Kuntz in this session...

South City GP - Qualifying - Round 2

Larsen might want to have a word with Megumi after her blocking ruined his qualifying. Ural makes a surprise appearance in Q3 with both cars.

South City GP - Qualifying - Round 3

Front row goes to Ultimate Racing, with Dorval being in a surprise 3rd after a strong weekend. Jancker seemingly couldn't get his car working properly and as a result ended up 10th.

South City GP - Qualifying - Overall results

[RonDenisDeletraz]

Stefan Kuntz is an idiot

[Nuppiz]

South City GP - Feature Race

Standings after 25 laps:


Unfortunately, I didn't have the time to watch the race properly, nor do I have time to view the replay, so I can't give much info about what happened.

However, Markus Van de Schoot, who was stuck in the lower midfield, caught my eye on Lap 17, when everyone made their mandatory pit stops. Apparently, when entering the pits, he was hit from behind by Hiroto Tojo, who was coming in way too fast. As a result Tojo got a drive-through penalty and Van de Schoot a stop-and-go penalty for speeding in the pitlane. Okay, so this didn't make him rejectful yet. But what he did on next lap was completely foolish. When he was coming to the pits to serve his penalty, he came in way too fast. And as a result, was given another stop-and-go penalty!

Championship standings:

Drivers:
1. Andrea Battani 24 (two wins, one 4th place, one pole, two fastest laps)
2. Carsten Jancker 10 (one 2nd place, one 3rd place)
3. Alexandre Dorval 6 (one 2nd place)
4. Stefan Kuntz 5 (one win (sprint))
5. Markus Van de Schoot 5 (one 3rd place, one fastest lap)
6. Simon Garfünkel 3 (one 2nd place (sprint))
7. Alexey Buyvolov 3 (one 4th place, second-best result 8th as a tie-breaker)
8. Cave Johnson 3 (one 4th place, second-best result 16th)
9. Brucie Kibbutz 2 (one 3rd place (sprint))
10. Ragnar Larsen 2 (one 5th place, second-best result 10th as a tie-breaker)
11. Alexandra Kustova 2 (one 5th place, second-best result 13th)
12. Sebastian Prost 2 (one 6th place, one pole position)
13. Tristan Jung 1 (one 6th place)
14. Josh Carlisle (best result: 5th (sprint))
15. Yui Megumi (best result: 6th (sprint))
16. Mike Stern (best result: 8th)
17. Ólafur Ragnar Hannesson (best result: 9th)
18. Anton Bosevic (best result: 10th, second-best result 15th as a tie-breaker)
19. Hiroto Tojo (best result: 10th, second-best result: 18th)
20. Akira Yamamura (best result: 11th)

Teams:
1. Coke And Magnum Racing 29
2. Parma Corse 12
3. Grands Travaux Inutiles 8
4. Hydook Racing 6
5. Ural Racing 5 (best result: 4th, second-best result: 5th)
6. Ultimate Racing 5 (best result: 4th, second-best result: 6th)
7. Aeroracing Engineering 2
8. Jones Racing 1
9. Takagi Racing Enterprises (best result: 6th (sprint))
10. ZimpSport (best result: 8th)

[Shadaza]

What on Earth happened to my cars?

[Nuppiz]

What on Earth happened to my cars?

Well, Cave Johnson had a bad start and was squeezed against the wall by Dorval. As a result, he had to brake heavily and dropped down to 20th. Not sure what happened to Prost though.

[Nessafox]

Either Ultimate Racing has been sabotaged, or is very rejectful...

All i know is i didn't do it.
In fact, i didn't

i guess spying on other teams isn't allowed, considering my proposal for blackmailing has been rejected

[Nuppiz]

South City GP - Sprint Race

Standings after 25 laps:


I had to use the Classic Layout instead of Sprint 1, because both of the Sprint layouts only allow a maximum of 16 cars.

My oh my... this race was madness! Words cannot aptly describe what exactly happened. Therefore, you should watch the video I made of this: http://youtu.be/4YVsF7e8hE0

Championship standings:

Drivers:
1. Andrea Battani 25 (two wins, one 4th place (sprint), one pole, three fastest laps)
2. Carsten Jancker 10 (one 2nd place, one 3rd place)
3. Alexey Buyvolov 8 (one 4th place, one win (sprint))
4. Alexandre Dorval 6 (one 2nd place)
5. Stefan Kuntz 5 (one win (sprint))
6. Markus Van de Schoot 5 (one 3rd place, one fastest lap)
7. Simon Garfünkel 3 (one 2nd place (sprint), second-best result 7th as a tie-breaker)
8. Hiroto Tojo (one 2nd place (sprint))
9. Brucie Kibbutz 3 (one 3rd place (sprint), one 4th place (sprint))
10. Cave Johnson 3 (one 4th place)
11. Ólafur Ragnar Hannesson 2 (one 3rd place (sprint))
12. Alexandra Kustova 2 (one 5th place, second-best result 5th (sprint) as a tie-breaker)
13. Ragnar Larsen 2 (one 5th place)
14. Sebastian Prost 2 (one 6th place, one pole position)
15. Tristan Jung 1 (one 6th place)
16. Josh Carlisle (best result: 5th (sprint))
17. Anton Bosevic (best result: 6th (sprint), second-best result 10th as a tie-breaker)
18. Yui Megumi (best result: 6th (sprint))
19. Mike Stern (best result: 8th)
20. Akira Yamamura (best result: 11th)

Teams:
1. Coke And Magnum Racing 30
2. Parma Corse 12
3. Ural Racing 10
4. Grands Travaux Inutiles 8
5. Hydook Racing 6
6. Ultimate Racing 5
7. Takagi Racing Enterprises 3 (best result: 2nd (sprint))
8. Aeroracing Engineering 3 (best result: 3rd (sprint))
9. ZimSport 2
10. Jones Racing 1

[Nessafox]

Oh gosh, these drivers aren't even TRYING to avoid each other

[TomWazzleshaw]

I'm expecting many a race ban after that

[dr-baker]

I just noticed that when at racing speed, Ural Racing's livery in this series seems very similar to Foxdale's livery in the current F1RWRS season...

[Nuppiz]

I'm expecting many a race ban after that

I agree, some race bans and grid penalties are in order for a few drivers for their dangerous driving. I will post them as soon as I get home and review the footage again.

[TomWazzleshaw]

If that's the case then the MRT group will be willing to lend Antonio Reyna-Sanchez and Joao Cavalcanti for loan to teams that need muppets for drivers

[Nuppiz]

After reviewing the footage, including some of which wasn't included in the official highlights video, the Rejects of LFS Commission has decided to give penalties to the following drivers after their dangerous driving in the most recent South City Sprint race:

Josh Carlisle receives a 10-place grid penalty in the next race for recklessly rejoining the racing line right in front of Tristan Jung and Alexandra Kustova after spinning out in turn 3 on the first lap, colliding with both as a result. A bit later he repeated this, colliding with Alexandre Dorval.

Stefan Kuntz is excluded from the next GP for the following offenses: caused Mike Stern to spin on the back straight, after which he spun himself, triggering a major pileup. On lap 3, he spun off at turn 3 and drove straight in front of Hiroto Tojo while recovering from the spin. On his fifth lap, despite his car clearly being unable to race anymore, he stubbornly remained on the racing line on the main straight, leading to a collision with Yui Megumi and Simon Garfünkel.

Sebastian Prost receives a 5-place grid penalty in the next race rejoining the racing line right in front of Simon Garfünkel after spinning out in turn 3 on the first lap.

Simon Garfünkel receives a 15-place grid penalty, as well as a suspended one-GP ban for the following offenses: hit Ragnar Larsen from the behind at full speed, despite having enough time to slow down due to the pileup ahead. Larsen spun as a result. Recklessly rejoined the racing line right in front of Alexandre Dorval after spinning in turn 3 on his second lap, resulting in a collision. He repeated the same offense almost immediately, colliding with Stefan Kuntz this time instead. On his 11th lap, he failed to observe the yellow flags, which resulted in him colliding with the considerably slower Van de Schoot.

Mike Stern receives a 5-place grid penalty in the next race for recklessly rejoining the racing line right in front of Yui Megumi after spinning in turn 3 on his fourth lap.

Markus Van de Schoot is excluded from the next two GPs for the following offenses: dangerously reversed back on the racing line after spinning in turn three on his fifth lap, colliding with Alexandra Kustova and Tristan Jung as a result. Dangerously rejoined the racing line after spinning in turn 3 on his 8th lap, hitting Alexandre Dorval as a result. A bit later, despite being considerably slower after heavy damage to his car, he ignored the blue flags and failed to give way to Carsten Jancker and Tristan Jung, who were approaching him from behind. As a result, Jancker and Jung collided. He repeated this offense on the main straight, this time colliding with Megumi, which eventually led to another collision. And if this wasn't enough, he repeated it again with Garfünkel, but this time Garfünkel was more at fault.

Yui Megumi is excluded from the next GP for the following offenses: dangerously reversed back on the racing line after spinning in turn three on his fifth lap, and if Van de Schoot hadn't already collided with them, the resulting collision with Kustova and Jung would've been much more serious. On her 9th lap, she failed to observe the yellow flags, which resulted in her hitting the considerably slower Van de Schoot. After this, she reversed straight in front of Josh Carlisle, resulting in a very high speed collision.

Akira Yamamura receives a 5-place grid penalty, as well as a suspended one-GP ban, for failing to observe the yellow flags, which resulted in him hitting Mike Stern's car at a considerably high speed.

Ragnar Larsen receives a 5-place grid penalty for failing to move aside with his clearly broken car, blocking Andrea Battani as a result.

Carsten Jancker receives a 10-place grid penalty, as well as a suspended one-GP ban, for the following offenses: hit Stefan Kuntz's spinning car with almost full speed despite having enough time to avoid the collision. Failed to observe the yellow flags, which resulted in him hitting the considerably slower Van de Schoot, followed by Jung soon afterwards.

Alexandre Dorval receives a 10-place grid penalty for failing to observe the yellow flags caused by John Carlisle, who was moving slowly after an accident with Megumi. As a result, Dorval hit Carlisle in the behind, and when recovering from the spin which this caused, he drove straight in front of Alexander Buyvolov, resulting in a heavy collision between the two.

The Rejects of LFS Commission has decided to adopt a strict line in penalizing the drivers due to the sheer ignorance of yellow and/or blue flags by many drivers, and because of the serious danger to the drivers' health caused by this. These decisions are final and cannot be appealed. Teams who have had their drivers excluded must nominate replacements before Wednesday, March 14th 17:00 UTC. Drivers who have suspended bans can take part in the next GP, but any further offenses during the remainder of the season will cause the bans to take effect.

[DemocalypseNow]

To whoever hired Stefan Kuntz (I don't remember who anymore ):
Scuderia Alitalia S.p.A. apologises for his shameful behaviour and offers Nobushige Fukuda as a replacement while Stefan Kuntz serves his suspension.

[Nuppiz]

To whoever hired Stefan Kuntz (I don't remember who anymore ):
Scuderia Alitalia S.p.A. apologises for his shameful behaviour and offers Nobushige Fukuda as a replacement while Stefan Kuntz serves his suspension.

Stefan Kuntz drives for Grands Travaux Inutiles. As does Simon Garfünkel by the way, so they'd have to look for two replacement drivers now!

As I believe that is wholly unfair, I've changed Garfünkel's penalty to a suspended ban and a 15-place grid penalty.

[FMecha]

In response to Megumi's one-race ban, I decide to promote TRE's test driver, Tetsuya Takagi, during Megumi's exclusion period.

[AndreaModa]

Sammy Jones Gives Ultimatum To Drivers: "Improve Or Else"

Following the South City round of the 2014 RoLFS season, Sammy Jones, team owner of Castrol Jones Racing, has come out and publicly slated his drivers' efforts in the first four races.

"Frankly, it simply isn't good enough" spat a disgruntled Jones, "Tristan is an experienced driver who should be doing better, and I expected more from Josh, his results elsewhere have been far better than this."

So far Jones' drivers have picked up just a single point between them, with Jung's 6th place at the South City feature race, however Carlisle did finish 5th in the Blackwood sprint race, the team's best finish so far.

"They'd better improve, or else." added Jones, "I know of a number of drivers who are more than ready to take the place of either driver should their results not get any better. Castrol Jones Racing and its heritage does not deserve to be dragged through the mud in what should be a straightforward spec series. The team is better than this, so if the drivers can't cope with that, they'd better start looking for employment elsewhere."

Nuppiz - If I bench Josh Carlisle for the next race, will his replacement take the 10-place penalty? If they won't, and should I bring Carlisle back at any point, would Carlisle have to serve the penalty on the race he returns?

[Nuppiz]

Nuppiz - If I bench Josh Carlisle for the next race, will his replacement take the 10-place penalty? If they won't, and should I bring Carlisle back at any point, would Carlisle have to serve the penalty on the race he returns?

Well, this could potentially be used as a way to circumvent a penalty, but if you're genuinely disappointed with Josh Carlisle and want to replace him, I see no reason why his replacement would have to suffer from an error he/she didn't commit. But should you decide to race Carlisle again at a later time, then he must serve his penalty in the first qualifying where he takes part after returning.

[AndreaModa]

Nuppiz - If I bench Josh Carlisle for the next race, will his replacement take the 10-place penalty? If they won't, and should I bring Carlisle back at any point, would Carlisle have to serve the penalty on the race he returns?

Well, this could potentially be used as a way to circumvent a penalty, but if you're genuinely disappointed with Josh Carlisle and want to replace him, I see no reason why his replacement would have to suffer from an error he/she didn't commit. But should you decide to race Carlisle again at a later time, then he must serve his penalty in the first qualifying where he takes part after returning.

That's fine, as I expected. The line-up will remain unchanged for the next race and Carlisle will serve his penalty.

[Nessafox]

To whoever hired Stefan Kuntz (I don't remember who anymore ):
Scuderia Alitalia S.p.A. apologises for his shameful behaviour and offers Nobushige Fukuda as a replacement while Stefan Kuntz serves his suspension.

Allright. But if kuntz doesn't improve when he got back, his replacement will be permanent.
Why do i got involved with your team again when i said i'd take on any available driver... Stop stalking me!

[DemocalypseNow]

To whoever hired Stefan Kuntz (I don't remember who anymore ):
Scuderia Alitalia S.p.A. apologises for his shameful behaviour and offers Nobushige Fukuda as a replacement while Stefan Kuntz serves his suspension.

Allright. But if kuntz doesn't improve when he got back, his replacement will be permanent.
Why do i got involved with your team again when i said i'd take on any available driver... Stop stalking me!

Don't you see? This is all a conspiracy by the Italian government to slowly destory Northern European car manufacturing, and once we have ground the Netherlands and Belgium's car industries into dust we shall start our assault on Germany! Muahaha!

[TomWazzleshaw]

To whoever hired Stefan Kuntz (I don't remember who anymore ):
Scuderia Alitalia S.p.A. apologises for his shameful behaviour and offers Nobushige Fukuda as a replacement while Stefan Kuntz serves his suspension.

Allright. But if kuntz doesn't improve when he got back, his replacement will be permanent.
Why do i got involved with your team again when i said i'd take on any available driver... Stop stalking me!

Don't you see? This is all a conspiracy by the Italian government to slowly destory Northern European car manufacturing, and once we have ground the Netherlands and Belgium's car industries into dust we shall start our assault on Germany! Muahaha!

So YOU were the guys that killed Saab... you just got the Dutch to do your dirty work didn't you?

[DemocalypseNow]

Why do i got involved with your team again when i said i'd take on any available driver... Stop stalking me!

Don't you see? This is all a conspiracy by the Italian government to slowly destory Northern European car manufacturing, and once we have ground the Netherlands and Belgium's car industries into dust we shall start our assault on Germany! Muahaha!

So YOU were the guys that killed Saab... you just got the Dutch to do your dirty work didn't you?

And now architects and dentists across the world will drive Lancias and Alfa Romeos! Buahahaha!!

[Phoenix]

How many credits do I have for improvements?

[AndreaModa]

How many credits do I have for improvements?

63, it says so on the first page, second post underneath your entry!

[Nuppiz]

Eurobrun, This, please nominate your replacements for the next GP by tomorrow afternoon, otherwise you're only going to run one car. And if a grid slot is left open because of that, I've prepared this as a replacement:

#69 - KGPRE - Jeremy Ronson

Surely you want to prevent that hideous thing from reaching the track?

[Phoenix]

How many credits do I have for improvements?

63, it says so on the first page, second post underneath your entry!

Thanks, AndreaModa! In that case, I want to spend all credits on engine and chassis upgrades on equal measure, thanks.

[Nessafox]

To whoever hired Stefan Kuntz (I don't remember who anymore ):
Scuderia Alitalia S.p.A. apologises for his shameful behaviour and offers Nobushige Fukuda as a replacement while Stefan Kuntz serves his suspension.

Allright. But if kuntz doesn't improve when he got back, his replacement will be permanent.
Why do i got involved with your team again when i said i'd take on any available driver... Stop stalking me!

Don't you see? This is all a conspiracy by the Italian government to slowly destory Northern European car manufacturing, and once we have ground the Netherlands and Belgium's car industries into dust we shall start our assault on Germany! Muahaha!

There's not much car industry to destroy in Belgium anyway... We only have Gillet, which are cars that usually self-destruct within seconds anyway (they were hopelessly unreliable before they used italian engines!)

[Nuppiz]

How many credits do I have for improvements?

63, it says so on the first page, second post underneath your entry!

Thanks, AndreaModa! In that case, I want to spend all credits on engine and chassis upgrades on equal measure, thanks.

Okay, 2 points engine upgrade and two points chassis upgrades added. That leaves you with 13 credits, enough to buy one more chassis upgrade. Do you want to buy that as well?

[Nuppiz]

Round 3 - Fern Bay GP - Free Practice 1