F1RWRS -- 2014 Season

the Masked Lapwing · Post by **the Masked Lapwing** » 10 Jul 2012, 21:40

JeremyMcClean wrote:Rhys Davies - I still can't get over that DNQ in Japan

For about the 20th time, I'd like to see anyone else qualify when the car breaks down in the only dry session.

Phoenix · Post by **Phoenix** » 10 Jul 2012, 22:42

dr-baker wrote:
Phoenix wrote:Pippa Mann will drive alongside The Stig at Aeroracing Engineering for 2015, on the proviso that you're willing to spend credits on her whenever possible

Wizzie wrote:OI! You're not allowed to spend credits on drivers that aren't racing for your team, mate. And since you were stupid enough to keep Douglas instead of Pippa, you can't spend any credits on her.

You can tell I've never spent credits on my drivers before, can't you?! And Phoenix was leading me to believe that I could spend credits on my driver at his team... Phoenix, how about Douglas Mann races for you for the first race while Pippa is at Foxdale, I spend credits on her, then we swap the drivers back for the second race onwards?

I accept your suggestion. That's a deal.

And Aeroracing Engineering not only expresses their deep condolences at the death of Eff One Jnr., but, additionally, plans to run a black livery for the first race of the season with "Eff 'The Big' One" on the bodyowrk.

AndreaModa · Post by **AndreaModa** » 10 Jul 2012, 23:14

So I took the liberty of adding some detail to your Foxdale livery dr-baker, its up to you whether you want to use it or not! I made the assumption that you'll be sticking with the Renault engine for 2015, but that can easily be edited out of the livery if you do switch!

RonDenisDeletraz · Post by **RonDenisDeletraz** » 10 Jul 2012, 23:16

dr-baker wrote:In other news...

Foxdale Auto Racing Team Press Release

In other news, Ephran One Jnr (otherwise known as Eff One), the little-known driver/journalist, has died in the past week. The cause of death is currently unknown. His sole recent start was for Foxdale in the recent F3RWRS Invitational race alongside Martin McFry, to add to his race career prior to his journalism for 'F1 News' in the 1990s. Condolences go to his widow and his children (whom he often referred to as his 'little Effers').

Really?

(I really hate it when people kill off characters for no reason)

the Masked Lapwing · Post by **the Masked Lapwing** » 11 Jul 2012, 00:38

It's just occurred to me that I'll have to use #17 and #18 this season. Any V8 Supercar fans will know why this would disturb me greatly

RonDenisDeletraz · Post by **RonDenisDeletraz** » 11 Jul 2012, 00:41

the Masked Lapwing wrote:It's just occurred to me that I'll have to use #17 and #18 this season. Any V8 Supercar fans will know why this would disturb me greatly

Autodynamics GP would be happy to trade numbers with HRT. (39 and 40)

TomWazzleshaw · Post by **TomWazzleshaw** » 11 Jul 2012, 00:45

My nominations:

Nathan Scott - Dagger's protege cracked under the pressure of driving for a top team and ended up getting sacked before the European season began
Jack Christopherson - He may be a former F1 world champion (Assuming that he continues on his merry way and dominates 1997) and a two time Bud 500 winner but that half season with Foxdale was just pathetic.
Pemberton Prospec Racing - Oh, how the mighty have fallen. The two-time Constructors champions and Drivers' champion with Spencer ended up scoring a grand total of 1 point. With a Swiss freaking paydriver. The fact that the cash-strapped outfit had to resort to Du Lei and her equally dubious manager for money was just the icing on the cake.
Team Phoenix - At the end of last year, the BMW and Audi works teams both had a lot to think about over the off-season after they both had horrifically bad seasons. Whilst one, under the management of the incredibly astute Daniel Melrose, flourished to the challenge, the other went precisely nowhere. No wonder there's rumours that Audi are on the verge of pulling out of the team.
Andrea Acuri - The Acuri certainly was an effective machine, as proven by Ron Mignolet in the other seat. Acuri on the other hand fails to qualify for half the races and was single handedly responsible for costing Acuri the potential for their best results all year at France. In hindsight, if someone else had been in the car, they would have easily beaten ArrowTech.

But here's my ROTY podium:

3rd - Mecha Grand Prix - Out of all the other teams in pre-qualifying, they were the most delusional of the lot. While the rest admitted that there was work to do for next year, all Mecha did was implode on itself with management trying to sue Al Faisal for speaking the truth and losing their star driver by simply arguing with him rather than accept the truth, knuckling down and try to turn around the sinking ship for next year

2nd - The entire Holden Group - The Holden A and B teams were 3rd and 8th at the end of 2013 with 70 points between them. This year, they crashed down to an embarrassing 10th and 11th with 14 points and not one trip to the podium between them and the root of the problem lied with Holden and their relatively gutless engine. In the works team, Davies jumped ship before the year was out and Watkinson was given the boot long before then whilst down at GRM, Whitechapel was far too unlucky with Frank Zimmer being incredibly inconsistent with brilliance one weekend, insipidness the next and then 'Zimsanity' after that. Overall, it was an absolutely rubbish display from the Red camp.

1st - American Racing Conglomerate - Out of all the teams on the grid, they're the ones that have the most worrying future ahead of them as Incompetence Inc reigned supreme. The fact that top drivers like Daniel Melrose have publically shunned the second ARC seat for 2015 speaks volumes of where the team's heading next year under yet another managerial regime.

RonDenisDeletraz · Post by **RonDenisDeletraz** » 11 Jul 2012, 00:51

3. The Stig

His one good race masked the fact that for the rest of the season he was crap.

2. ARC

The Foxdale of 2014. Just slower.

1. Tropico GP

Do I seriously need to give a reason for this.

There were several other potential nominees, it was hard to choose only 3.

FMecha · Post by **FMecha** » 11 Jul 2012, 04:09

Japanese Autosport wrote:Mecha racing using old DGNerring cars?
There were eyebrows raised when Mecha stormed to 3rd and 4th in the Luxembourg GP, although our eagle eyed journalists noticed that they were not using their normal cars and the cars did look like DGNerring cars painted as Mecha cars. DGN and Mecha refused to answer our questions.

James Davies wrote:Didn't I already joss this? Those cars handled Mecha bad out there, there's no way those were DGNgineering cars.

Mahmud Effendi wrote:Davies is correct. We asked the scrutineering team and they say it is our cars. Stop rigging our fun, Japanese Autosport.

ROTY candidates:

3. Andrea Acuri
2. Mecha Grand Prix (sadly :cry:

)
1. ARC

And Mecha's publicocrap follows:

(Best viewed when listening to this - it is the music from the preview for Power Rangers Zeo).

Mecha's livery is as follows.

Shizuka · Post by **Shizuka** » 11 Jul 2012, 07:13

the Masked Lapwing wrote:1. Shonan DMS Racing (I maintain that they would have come closer to making a race if Shizuka had kept driving)

No. Thanks for the nomination though!

JeremyMcClean wrote:2. Shonan - No race starts, and never got to improve on the car. Shizuka led himself to complete anonymity.

Never improved, as I quite frankly, chose a wrong chassis. (If the list stays the same for the next season, or the ones I have been thinking about will stay, I might switch that while keeping the engine, as I think the Ford HB I is alright.) I never posted in the topic, because I had no reason to. Anonymity is good though. Thanks for the nomination!

Okay, let's see...

3. Jack Christopherson
That wasn't quite the performance what was expected from him.

2. Shonan DMS Racing
I... bathplugged... up! :lol:

And I was unlucky too (again: I was 10 minutes away from seeing the list, and it was filled quite nicely overnight).

1. Tropico
If I saw my team being shite, I wanted to go for ROTY, but if this team will beat me to it, wouldn't surprise me at all. However, I think they at least scored points in the PreQ cup while MY TEAM DID NOT.

FMecha · Post by **FMecha** » 11 Jul 2012, 09:05

By the way Shizuka, I have created a all-black livery with Arrows A19ish details. I will show it for you later.

AdrianSutil · Post by **AdrianSutil** » 11 Jul 2012, 09:22

ROTY:

Honourable Mentions:
* Prospec: A fall from grace.
* Matthias Valsattis: Even I was surprised by his lack of pace!
* Scuderia Trueba Alitalia: Constantly in the papers. Fighting everyone and everything for the team. Ultimaty failed to achieve anything.

3rd: MechaGP: Of all the new teams, they fared the worst. Plus trying to take their driver to court was the icing on the cake.

2nd: Jack Christopherson. Flopped.

1st: Tropico. Oh dear!

Shizuka · Post by **Shizuka** » 11 Jul 2012, 09:49

FMecha wrote:By the way Shizuka, I have created a all-black livery with Arrows A19ish details. I will show it for you later.

I originally wanted the livery to be fully black (rejectful appearance makes it recognisable), so thanks in advance. Probably it will be used, because I can't make anything decent. :oops:

AdrianSutil wrote:3rd: MechaGP: Of all the new teams, they fared the worst. Plus trying to take their driver to court was the icing on the cake.

No they didn't. Yes, I'm actually defending FMecha's team.
Sure, the court case is rejectful, but on track they fared better than my team (because I shifted towards 2015 early - I don't think I can immediately switch both the engine and the chassis; I'll probably ditch this POS Lola T97 first and keep the Ford HB I, so I can go for a better engine in 2016), they scored points in the PreQ cup too (my team didn't, don't forget!), and they had a lot bigger chance to qualify.

SuperAguri · Post by **SuperAguri** » 11 Jul 2012, 10:03

My nominations are....

3 - Daniel Melrose - For wanting to drive in the midfield whilst the team he owns wins races.
2 - Mecha - Tried to aim above their station and failed, got through prequalifying once and qualified once to get a single retirement. Drivers complaining that the car was as aerodynamic as a brick.
1 - Kay Lon - Was beaten soundly by his team mate, although improved by the end of the season, his team mate improved much more, getting a win whilst Kay Lon could only manage a few podiums. Topped it off by signing for Prospec rather then waiting to see what Sunshine would offer.

dr-baker · Post by **dr-baker** » 11 Jul 2012, 13:59

AndreaModa wrote:So I took the liberty of adding some detail to your Foxdale livery dr-baker, its up to you whether you want to use it or not! I made the assumption that you'll be sticking with the Renault engine for 2015, but that can easily be edited out of the livery if you do switch!

That's brilliant, thank you! Definitely the livery that I'll use next season! (Haven't made a definite decision on the engine for next year yet though - depends on the credit situation at the end of the year.)

eurobrun wrote:
dr-baker wrote:In other news...

Foxdale Auto Racing Team Press Release

In other news, Ephran One Jnr (otherwise known as Eff One), the little-known driver/journalist, has died in the past week. The cause of death is currently unknown. His sole recent start was for Foxdale in the recent F3RWRS Invitational race alongside Martin McFry, to add to his race career prior to his journalism for 'F1 News' in the 1990s. Condolences go to his widow and his children (whom he often referred to as his 'little Effers').

Really?

(I really hate it when people kill off characters for no reason)

The reason is that I never really wanted him, and was never going to use him again, so just wanted to make it final and clear. I could have just announced that he retired into obsurity to a remote Pacific island I suppose, but what's done is done.

Salamander · Post by **Salamander** » 11 Jul 2012, 15:16

SuperAguri wrote:2 - Mecha - Tried to aim above their station and failed, got through prequalifying once and qualified once to get a single retirement. Drivers complaining that the car was as aerodynamic as a brick.

James Davies wrote:Actually, the aerodynamics were the only part of the car that didn't suck noodles. The handling was so abysmal, though, that we didn't actually figure that out until the last possible juncture. I swear, it was like trying to play the mach speed sections in Sonic 2006 out there. At a miniscule fraction of the speed.

Post by **DemocalypseNow** » 11 Jul 2012, 18:00

The Generic Times wrote:EXCLUSIVE: MRT receives threatning phone call from anonymous caller, police to investigate

A phone recording exclusively obtained by The Generic TImes has revealed that Melrose Racing Team, runners up in this year's F1RWRS, have been threatened by an anonymous callers over reputedly "stolen" information. The mystery caller could not be traced despite the team and the police's best efforts, and police are launching an investigation into the incident.

The transcript of the recording is as follows;

"I don't know who you are, I don't know what you want. If you're looking for a ransom, I can tell you I don't have money, but what I do have, are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you give back the plans now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don't...I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you."

More information will be published as it becomes available.

MinardiFan95 · Post by **MinardiFan95** » 12 Jul 2012, 03:29

RWRS Weekly wrote:Simpson Motorsports still interested in signing Melrose
Simpson Motorsports owner Dave Simpson may be out of a full time drive next season if the latest rumours are correct, that Daniel Melrose will be driving alongside his protege Mitchell Macklin at the newly formed team in 2015. Simpson remains tight-lipped about these rumours, but has said he's still interested in signing Melrose. This could possibly just be for the first race of the season, where Mitchell Macklin won't be racing due to his one race ban incurred at the F2RWRS race at Indianapolis.

FMecha · Post by **FMecha** » 12 Jul 2012, 05:25

James Davies wrote:Actually, the aerodynamics were the only part of the car that didn't suck noodles. The handling was so abysmal, though, that we didn't actually figure that out until the last possible juncture. I swear, it was like trying to play the mach speed sections in Sonic 2006 out there. At a miniscule fraction of the speed.

Chandra Adriansyah, Mecha's technical director, wrote:Sadly we have to admit otherwise. Al Faisal once complained that the aerodynamics was as bad as Lola T97/30.

Here's your livery Shizuka, actually a mix between Arrows A19 and HRT F111 concept-wise:

Shizuka · Post by **Shizuka** » 12 Jul 2012, 05:43

Not bad. Thanks! I will use it... HRT-style

This will look funny if somehow once the team can qualify.

TomWazzleshaw · Post by **TomWazzleshaw** » 12 Jul 2012, 06:07

FMecha wrote:Here's your livery Shizuka, actually a mix between Arrows A19 and HRT F111 concept-wise:

Mate, nice try but you need to plaster those logos all over the front wings and barge boards as well :lol:

TomWazzleshaw · Post by **TomWazzleshaw** » 12 Jul 2012, 06:09

Daniel Melrose wrote:As I've said many times before, all Dave needs to do is give me the contract and I'll sign it in a heartbeat. Also, if he needs a replacement for Macklin at Adelaide, we have no problem letting him call up Michael Robertson for a one-off. He has a superlicence from memory and he's more than capable of doing double-duty with the F2RWRS.

Aerospeed · Post by **Aerospeed** » 12 Jul 2012, 21:22

kostas22 wrote:
The Generic Times wrote:EXCLUSIVE: MRT receives threatning phone call from anonymous caller, police to investigate

A phone recording exclusively obtained by The Generic TImes has revealed that Melrose Racing Team, runners up in this year's F1RWRS, have been threatened by an anonymous callers over reputedly "stolen" information. The mystery caller could not be traced despite the team and the police's best efforts, and police are launching an investigation into the incident.

The transcript of the recording is as follows;

"I don't know who you are, I don't know what you want. If you're looking for a ransom, I can tell you I don't have money, but what I do have, are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you give back the plans now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don't...I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you."

More information will be published as it becomes available.

Most of that comes from 'Taken.' Nice try, though.

Post by **DemocalypseNow** » 12 Jul 2012, 21:35

JeremyMcClean wrote:
kostas22 wrote:
The Generic Times wrote:EXCLUSIVE: MRT receives threatning phone call from anonymous caller, police to investigate

A phone recording exclusively obtained by The Generic TImes has revealed that Melrose Racing Team, runners up in this year's F1RWRS, have been threatened by an anonymous callers over reputedly "stolen" information. The mystery caller could not be traced despite the team and the police's best efforts, and police are launching an investigation into the incident.

The transcript of the recording is as follows;

"I don't know who you are, I don't know what you want. If you're looking for a ransom, I can tell you I don't have money, but what I do have, are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you give back the plans now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don't...I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you."

More information will be published as it becomes available.

Most of that comes from 'Taken.' Nice try, though.

All I will say to you is this.

Warren Hughes · Post by **Warren Hughes** » 12 Jul 2012, 22:20

I thought the Generic Times was banned from reporting on F1RWRS?

Post by **DemocalypseNow** » 12 Jul 2012, 22:31

Warren Hughes wrote:I thought the Generic Times was banned from reporting on F1RWRS?

Technicality: It's not a race report. Melrose Racing Team is an automotive business that competes in racing.

I would guess TGT would at least have some decent lawyers no? :lol:

RealRacingRoots · Post by **RealRacingRoots** » 12 Jul 2012, 23:46

kostas22 wrote:
Warren Hughes wrote:I thought the Generic Times was banned from reporting on F1RWRS?

Technicality: It's not a race report. Melrose Racing Team is an automotive business that competes in racing.

I would guess TGT would at least have some decent lawyers no?

This guy is one of their lawyers.

Aerond · Post by **Aerond** » 13 Jul 2012, 02:12

These are my ROTY nominations:

3rd -- ARC -- Went completely backwards, although one must reckon that it was based on reliability and they would have scored at least two podiums if it wasn´t for that. Still, not a good season and their management must improve drastically next year.

2nd -- HRT -- Probably the biggest flop of 2014. A terrible new car with no improvement over the year meant they had to PreQ a couple of times. Watkinson never felt comfortable and Davies was a pale shadow of himself. Dean O´Lauchlan never did much better.

1st -- Nathanael Spencer -- Yeah, I´m gonna give it all to one driver. Nathanael Spencer was supposed to be number one and he started the season as one, but then, everything went downhill, his accident in Bathurst, the one in Germany, the terrible driving under rainy conditions... too much for the man who had everything in favour to win the championship.

Klon · Post by **Klon** » 13 Jul 2012, 02:25

And now for some news items because you can never have enough of those. :lol:

www.sportschau.de wrote:Nathan Scott To Drive For Tropico

Tropico Grand Prix powered by CR Motorsport confirmed today that they have signed Nathan Scott. The former DGNgineering-Zakspeed driver had been associated with the Tropican team after his manager was seen at several meetings with team officials.

"It is great for us to get such an amazing driver who worked for King Dagnall himself," El Presidente was quoted. It is currently unclear whether Scott brings any money to the team, was signed for his minor knowledge of a F1RWRS top car or he managed to convince the German council running the team. With this announcement, Tropico GP becomes the thirteenth team to complete their and after Gillet Ecurie Nationale Belge the second team to have a single-nationality driver line-up.

www.sportschau.de wrote:Lon Signs Contract With Congstar

Today, the Internet and telephone service provider Deutsche Telekom have confirmed that they have signed a contract with Kay Lon. The Prospec driver is to become a marquee ambassador for the Congstar brand which targets younger customers. "His rather ... unique personality appeals to teenagers and young adults which is why we felt it was a very good move to sign him," a company spokesman was quoted.

While the company confirmed that their logo will appear on the cars of Best In The World Motorsport, it is currently unclear whether Prospec will get either sponsorship or free services by the company, like Kay Lon's deal with Avira. The British team was not available for comment yet.

www.sportschau.de wrote:Tropico Race In Serious Jeopardy

Shortly after entering a team in F1RWRS, El Presidente made implications that he was interested in having a race on the island state. A proposal, called Melrose Plan after it's designer and regular Tropico visitor Daniel Melrose, was leaked to the public, was however rejected due to the significant change to the island required.

Now, we have learned that the accepted proposal which cosisted of parts of the Melrose Plan and using actual roads will not be realised either due to funds having run out for updating the streets in the capital of La Maravilla to raceable conditions. According to our sources, the team has contacted the F1R Council in request of financial support but a decision on that matter is not expected until mid-2015 which would mean that the track would at best see its debut in the 2018 F1RWRS season.

OOC translation: making tracks in GP2 is bloody hard for someone with my (lack of) talent and I won't ask anyone else to do it for me, sadly I currently don't have the time to learn how to do tracks properly which is why I will have to put the idea on ice ... for now.

TomWazzleshaw · Post by **TomWazzleshaw** » 13 Jul 2012, 04:31

Forgive me for one minute as I've been awake for the last 29 hours and counting but I can't quite understand why MRT need or even deserve more credits through ROTY.

Then again, Spencer does deserve it for being a muppet 50% of the time. :lol:

FMecha · Post by **FMecha** » 15 Jul 2012, 08:58

What is the red-with-white-stripe car near the ENB and Mitie?

RonDenisDeletraz · Post by **RonDenisDeletraz** » 15 Jul 2012, 09:06

FMecha wrote:

What is the red-with-white-stripe car near the ENB and Mitie?

Dofasco I think, not sure though.

TomWazzleshaw · Post by **TomWazzleshaw** » 15 Jul 2012, 09:09

eurobrun wrote:
FMecha wrote:

What is the red-with-white-stripe car near the ENB and Mitie?

Dofasco I think, not sure though.

Nah, it's one of the Donkervoorts I believe

AndreaModa · Post by **AndreaModa** » 15 Jul 2012, 10:50

Yeah the Dofasco is the one a bit further behind the Foxdale in that picture, mainly white with some red too.

RonDenisDeletraz · Post by **RonDenisDeletraz** » 15 Jul 2012, 10:57

Wizzie wrote:
eurobrun wrote:
FMecha wrote:

What is the red-with-white-stripe car near the ENB and Mitie?

Dofasco I think, not sure though.

Nah, it's one of the Donkervoorts I believe

Donkervoort, wut. :lol:

I only said Dofasco because it is the only red and white F1RWRS car I know of.

pasta_maldonado · Post by **pasta_maldonado** » 15 Jul 2012, 11:05

eurobrun wrote:
FMecha wrote:

What is the red-with-white-stripe car near the ENB and Mitie?

Dofasco I think, not sure though.

BREAKING NEWS!
In astounding fashion, Tropican driver Renaldo Jimenez becomes one of the few RWRS drivers to have their pictures released.....

Phoenix · Post by **Phoenix** » 15 Jul 2012, 12:03

In the same vein, someone did a drawing of Phoenix McAllister here...

Klon · Post by **Klon** » 15 Jul 2012, 13:09

Yes, that is a Doonkervoort - I was just too lazy to design a special livery for them which is why they had a single color livery which with the lightning of that shot looks like it has a white stripe.

TomWazzleshaw · Post by **TomWazzleshaw** » 15 Jul 2012, 13:27

Klon wrote:Yes, that is a Doonkervoort - I was just too lazy to design a special livery for them which is why they had a single color livery which with the lightning of that shot looks like it has a white stripe.

Next time, at least paint them something suitably rejectful like dayglo orange or something like that :lol:

Nessafox · Post by **Nessafox** » 15 Jul 2012, 22:05

Wizzie wrote:
Klon wrote:Yes, that is a Doonkervoort - I was just too lazy to design a special livery for them which is why they had a single color livery which with the lightning of that shot looks like it has a white stripe.

Next time, at least paint them something suitably rejectful like dayglo orange or something like that

no, i actually asked that if nobody had the time to design a livery, to just let it be entirely red. After all, that's the colour of their logo.
We're not entering full-time after all, and concentrating on other championships. At least the team did reasonably in the race.