AUTOSPORT; 2nd January 1998
Break - away BTCC series formed due to rising costs
A break-away group from the BTCC have formed a new touring car series, it has emerged. The breakaway group consists of engineers and personnell from the BTCC. The new series is owned by the shady Hermann Mann, a 50 year old German entrepreneur, who has business interests in around the world. Rumour has it that he was behind the Onyx Formula 1 team of the late 80s. Rumour has it that he was behind the pathetic MasterCard Lola F1 team last year, but got bored with it all and shut it down. The new series is to be named Rejects Touring Car Championship, and will attempt to drive costs down. Hermann Mann, speaking at the RTCC press conference, said: "This series is now inderpendent form der BTCC. We have agreed ein deal with der manufactures Audi, Renault, Honda, Ford, Vauxhall, BMW, Nissan, Peugeot, and Volvo to supply das cars for der new teams." The series has opened it's doors for new teams to compete, with further details being released soon. The BTCC was unavailable to comment. The series could race on tracks across the globe, and is expected to be full of door banging, wheel to wheel, on the edge racing.
Hermann Mann is determined for this series to become a success. 1990s BTCC was the preferred choice in this thread http://www.f1rejects.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=4943 I wil be running the series using Rfactor, and it will be an offline series.
HOW DO I ENTER THE RTCC?
First you need to select a chassis.
The following money is given for the following entries:
One car entry in the RTCC - £500,000 to spend on car and driver
Two car entry in the RTCC - £550,000 to spend PER car and driver
Three car entry in the BTCC - ££600,000 to spend PER car and driver
The following cars are available:
AUDI A4

PRICE: £50,000 per chassis
BMW 320i

PRICE: £50,000 per chassis
Ford Mondeo

PRICE: £50,000
Renault Laguna

PRICE: £45,000
Volvo S40

PRICE: £45,000
Nissan Primera

PRICE: £45,000
Peugeot 406

PRICE: £45,000
Honda Accord

PRICE: £45,000
Vauxhall Vectra

PRICE: £45,000
DRIVERS
Drivers can be fictional or real. When you submit your team, please tell me the following
Team Name::
Name: You don't need an explanation here.....do you?
Nationality: Pretty easy
Agression: A value between 50 - 100, including decimals. Hermann Mann said:
Aggression 50 - 100
As this number increases the AI will give other cars less room, both while passing and while following. It also increases the frequency at which they try to pass and the increases the threshold they are willing to endure before giving up a pass (or crashing, as the case may be...)
Biography: Any other information, back story etc you feel is neccesary for Hermann to know.
DRIVER SKILLS
You also need to tell Hermann howe skillful your driver is. The skill categories are:
Composure- The more compusure a driver has, the less he crashes, runs wide, etc. Values from 1 - 10
Speed - How fast a driver is compared to the total pace. Values from 1- 10
MinSkill - How good a driver is, when he's driving at his worst. Values from 1-10
MAXIMUM SKILL POINTS PER DRIVER: 30
CAR SKINS
You can create your own skins for your entries.
*Open the .psd file (you will need Photoshop or PaintDotNet)
*Create your skin
*Save it as a .dds (you will need the .DDS plugin for Photoshop and Paint.NET)
*Upload it on the internet (e.g. Mediafire) and I will put it in the game for you
TEMPLATES DOWNLOAD LINK:
RULES
1) Team owners must pop into the thread to say hi for at least 90% of the race meetings. If you do not, your entry will be folded and offered to someone else on the Reserve Entry List
2) You may change drivers at any point during the year; but each team is limited to 6 drivers having raced for them during the year
3) You are welcome to post any rumours you wish
4) Any bad behaviour by drivers will be punished by a team of stewards. The penalties are: Exclusion from the Drivers Championship, Race meeting ban, DQ from race, DQ from Championship, and a 20kg weight penalty for the next event
5)You can add/ change entries at any point during the year.
CREDITS
The winner of each race gets £2500
Pay drivers, should you choose to employ them, can earn you £1,000 per race. This money is padi out at the halfway point of the season and at the end. A Pay Driver can only earn you £20,000 in a season. (e.g. You race a PD for the first 4 races of the season. After the halfway point, you get £4,000. At the end of the season you get nothing for his services.) A Pay Driver will have random attributes, so could be a hotshot or rejectfully slow.
A skill point costs £5,000
At the end of the season, money is awarded as following for Driver's Championship position:
1st: £35,000
2nd: £30,000
3rd: £25,000
4th: £20,000
5th: £15,000
6th: £10,000
7th, 8th, 9th, 10th: £5,000
There will be a Manufacturer's championship and a Teams championship.
Teams Championship:
1st: £5,000
Manufacturer's Championship:
The total points of each make of car regardless of mthe teams and drivers. (Highest position per race only)
1st: Each team using that make of car during the season receives £15,000
2nd: Each team using that make of car during the season receives £10,000
3RD: Each team using that make of car during the season receives £5,000
Pooled Money
The teams receive extra money based on the reverse order of the Constructors championship. There are 16 teams this year.
16th: £35,000
15th: £35,000
14th: £30,000
13th:£30,000
12th: £25,000
11th:£25,000
10th:£20,000
9th:£20,000
8th:£!5,000
7th:£10,000
6th:£5,000
5th:None
4th:None
3rd:None
2nd:None
1st:None
RTCC 1998 FINAL Entry List
Equipe de Course Belge
Car: Peugeot 406
Driver 1: Thomas De Bock (BEL) #25
Driver 2: Aurelien Moll (BEL) #26
Kickert Motorsport Engineering
Car: Vauxhall/Holden Vectra
Driver 1: Pieter Kickert (NED) #16
Driver 2: John Zimmer (AUS) #31
Sweetcorn Motorsport
Car:Nissan Primera
Driver 1:Garry Jones (NZE)
Astral Motorsport
Car: Volvo S40
Driver 1: Kieran Sutherland (SCO) #35
Driver 2: Catalin Gheorghiu (ROM) #53
Prism Motorsports
Car: Nissan Primera
Driver 1: Mike Burns (ENG) #4
Driver 2: Robbie Thorne (ENG) #5
RMcG Motorsports
Car: Honda Accord
Driver 1: Rory McGatley (SCO) #2
Driver 2: Rck Tyryn (WAL) #02
Team Wales
Car: Honda Accord
Driver 1: Hywel Jones(WAL) #37
Driver 2: Robert Anderson ( #38
Touring Auto Racing Team/T.A.R.T.
Car1: Peugeot 406
Driver1: Martin McFry (USA) #88
Car2: Vauxhall Vectra
Driver 2: Ben Fleet (ENG) #888
Car3: Renault Laguna
Driver 3: Douglas Mann (IOM) #89
Zakspeed
Car: Volvo S40
Driver 1: Klaus Ludwig (GER) #7
Driver 2: Uwe Alzen (GER) #6
Driver 3: Michael Bartels (GER) #9
Twinings Earl Grey Renault Racing
Car: Renault Laguna
Driver1: Percival "Porky" Carrington-Smythe #27 (GBR)
Driver2: Driver: Paul "Jenks" Jenkins #30 (GBR)
Team Ultimate
Car1:Ford Mondeo
Driver 1: Michael Prost (FRA/GER) #97
Car2: Ford Mondeo
Driver 2: Cave Johnson (USA) #98
Car3: BMW 320i
Driver 3: Jason Neal (ENG) #99
Martini Nissan Racing
Car: Nissan Primera
Driver1:John Cleland (SCO) #8
Driver2:Fabrizio Giovanardi (ITA) #28
Driver3:Rickard Rydell (SWE) #29
Taiwan Motorsport
Car:Volvo S40
Driver 1: Yuen-Ching Leung(F) (PRC) #78
The Good Will Out (Race You)
Car: Volvo S40
Driver 1: Richie White (ENG) #45
Driver 2: Florence Briggs (WAL) #46
Nurminen Engineering
Car: Volvo S40
Driver 1: Nathan Nurmester (ENG) #91
Driver 2: Nikolai Nurmovitsch(RUS) #92
Phoenix Racing Engineering Audi
Car: Audi A4
Driver1: Jody Radcliffe(ENG) #90
Driver2:Rafael Modena (ITA) #94
Driver3: Theo Lutz (GER) #95
RESERVE ENTRY LIST/WAITING LIST
1) eurobrun
2)Pointrox
3) AndreaModa
CALENDAR
There will be two races at each event - A 25 lap feature race and a 15 lap sprint race.
1 Silverstone Circuit
2 Donington Park
3 Castle Combe Circuit
4 Rockingham Motor Speedway
5 Circuit Park Zandvoort
6 Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari
7 Hockenheimring
8 Norisring - *A 26-CAR GRID LIMIT*
9 Oulton Park
10 Snetterton Motor Racing Circuit
11 Thruxton Circuit
12 Croft Circuit
13 Mallory Park
14 Autodromo Nazionale Monza
15 Brands Hatch
16 Birmingham Superprix
17 Oran Park Raceway
NC 1 1st Isle Of Man Touring 24hours TT
NC 2 Inaugral Rockingham Touring TwoHundred
LINK FOR TEMPLATES http://www.mediafire.com/?4168oaa8opo01xo