F1RDS - 2015 Season - Preparation for 2016/Driver Signups

[Ataxia]

I'm sure Aerond could help you install tracks if you asked him. And I don't see why you can't move Adelaide back two weeks to be with the rest of the RWRS series

I didn't realise Adelaide was part of the RWRS calendar...I got thrown by the Tasman GP title. (I could have just read one column along...)

I've found a tutorial on how to do it; it's as clear as mud but I'll have a go at it...

[TomWazzleshaw]

Provisional Calendar:

R1 – Australian GP – Adelaide - 14th March
R2 – Japanese GP – Suzuka - 21st March
R3 – Monaco GP – Monte-Carlo - 11th April (Feature Event)
R4 – Spanish GP – Barcelona - 2nd May
R5 – Canadian GP - Montreal - 23rd May (Feature Event)
R6 – German GP – Hockenheim - 20th June
R7 – Belgian GP – Spa-Francorchamps - 11th July (Feature Event)
R8 – British GP – Silverstone - 25th July
R9 – Italian GP – Monza - 29th August (Feature Event)
R10 - Brazilian GP – Interlagos - 12th September

Please comment on whether you agree or not with the calendar, I haven't used any tracks other than those already on GP2 as I'm not 100% sure how to install tracks.

The feature races are at regular intervals so that the season can keep on track with the RWRS season, and every race is run on the Saturday to ensure that the F1RDS doesn't get in the way of other series.

I have a BIG problem with this schedule on the basis that only four of the races are support event with the FORWRS categories and of the ones that aren't, all but one of them clash with another event (To put it in perspective, there are only two clashes all year with the other four categories combined and one of them is unavoidable). Therefore, I propose the following calender instead:

Round 1: Australian GP - Bathurst - March 7th
Round 2: Mediterranean GP - Imola - March 28th
Round 3: Monaco GP - Monaco - April 11th
Round 4: French GP - Paul Ricard - April 25th
Round 5: Canadian GP - Montreal - May 23rd
Round 6: British GP - Donington - June 13th
Round 7: German GP - Norisring - June 27th
Round 8: Belgium GP - Spa - July 11th
Round 9: Italian GP - Monza - August 29th
Round 10: Chinese GP - Guia Circuit - September 26th

[AndreaModa]

I'd like to point out to everyone here that we're talking about a series that is an equivalent level to FR2.0 or even FFord, and so any overseas races are highly unlikely. I'd suggest a very Euro-centric calender with perhaps one race in Australia at the start/end of the year. Small teams running 16 year olds just wouldn't have the budget to jet off all over the planet!

[Warren Hughes]

I'd like to point out to everyone here that we're talking about a series that is an equivalent level to FR2.0 or even FFord, and so any overseas races are highly unlikely. I'd suggest a very Euro-centric calender with perhaps one race in Australia at the start/end of the year. Small teams running 16 year olds just wouldn't have the budget to jet off all over the planet!

That's a very good point! I absolutely second this.

[Ataxia]

Revised Provisional Calendar:

R1 – Australian GP – Adelaide - 28th February (Feature Event)
R2 – San Marino GP - Imola - 28th March (Feature Event)
R3 – Monaco GP – Monte-Carlo - 11th April (Feature Event)
R4 – French GP - Paul Ricard - 25th April
R5 – Czech GP - Brno - 23rd May
R6 – British GP – Donington - 13th June
R7 – German GP – Norisring - 27th June (Feature Event)
R8 – Belgian GP – Spa-Francorchamps - 11th July (Feature Event)
R9 – Italian GP – Monza - 29th August (Feature Event)
R10 - Spanish GP – Barcelona - 12th September

A mix of my calendar, Wizzie's calendar and AndreaModa's suggestion of a greater percentage of European races. And, of course, more feature races.

[TomWazzleshaw]

Revised Provisional Calendar:

R1 – Australian GP – Adelaide - 28th February (Feature Event)
R2 – San Marino GP - Imola - 28th March (Feature Event)
R3 – Monaco GP – Monte-Carlo - 11th April (Feature Event)
R4 – French GP - Paul Ricard - 25th April
R5 – Czech GP - Brno - 23rd May
R6 – British GP – Donington - 13th June
R7 – German GP – Norisring - 27th June (Feature Event)
R8 – Belgian GP – Spa-Francorchamps - 11th July (Feature Event)
R9 – Italian GP – Monza - 29th August (Feature Event)
R10 - Spanish GP – Barcelona - 12th September

A mix of my calendar, Wizzie's calendar and AndreaModa's suggestion of a greater percentage of European races. And, of course, more feature races.

Move the Czech GP a week back to the 30th and change the Spanish GP to the North Sea GP at Zandvoort on September 5th and it'll be pretty much spot on. The French and British GPs are both support events for the F2RWRS, by the way.

[Ataxia]

Revised Provisional Calendar:

R1 – Australian GP – Adelaide - 28th February (Feature Event)
R2 – San Marino GP - Imola - 28th March (Feature Event)
R3 – Monaco GP – Monte-Carlo - 11th April (Feature Event)
R4 – French GP - Paul Ricard - 25th April
R5 – Czech GP - Brno - 23rd May
R6 – British GP – Donington - 13th June
R7 – German GP – Norisring - 27th June (Feature Event)
R8 – Belgian GP – Spa-Francorchamps - 11th July (Feature Event)
R9 – Italian GP – Monza - 29th August (Feature Event)
R10 - Spanish GP – Barcelona - 12th September

A mix of my calendar, Wizzie's calendar and AndreaModa's suggestion of a greater percentage of European races. And, of course, more feature races.

Move the Czech GP a week back to the 30th and change the Spanish GP to the North Sea GP at Zandvoort on September 5th and it'll be pretty much spot on. The French and British GPs are both support events for the F2RWRS, by the way.

Ok then:
R1 – Australian GP – Adelaide - 28th February (Feature Event)
R2 – San Marino GP - Imola - 28th March (Feature Event)
R3 – Monaco GP – Monte-Carlo - 11th April (Feature Event)
R4 – French GP - Paul Ricard - 25th April (Feature Event - F2 )
R5 – Czech GP - Brno - 30th May
R6 – British GP – Donington - 13th June (Feature Event - F2)
R7 – German GP – Norisring - 27th June (Feature Event)
R8 – Belgian GP – Spa-Francorchamps - 11th July (Feature Event)
R9 – Italian GP – Monza - 29th August (Feature Event)
R10 - North Sea GP – Zandvoort - 5th September (Feature Event)

I've downloaded all the tracks, they seem to work ingame but the Convert program doesn't work for 64-bit Win7...so they're currently advertising hoarding-less.

Cheers Wizzie

[RonDenisDeletraz]

I have just realised that Miguel Silva is actually really good, fastest in the first test and the highest Renault driver in the second.

[Ataxia]

I came up with the idea of a three-race Winter Cup, would this be something that appeals to everyone?

If so, name your tracks

[Phoenix]

I came up with the idea of a three-race Winter Cup, would this be something that appeals to everyone?

If so, name your tracks

Yes, why not?

If you don't mind the races being celebrated on three diferent continents, I propose Anderstorp (Sweden), Mosport (Canada) and Suzuka (Japan) as the tracks, not necessarily in this order.

[pasta_maldonado]

I propose Watkins Glen, Vallelunga and Oulton Park

[AdrianSutil]

Why not something like an All-Japan Cup? Suzuka, Fuji and Motegi. Or an all-Americas cup at Hermanos Rodriguez, Buenos Aries and Watkins Glen?

[AndreaModa]

Why not something like an All-Japan Cup? Suzuka, Fuji and Motegi. Or an all-Americas cup at Hermanos Rodriguez, Buenos Aries and Watkins Glen?

This. I refer to my previous point. We're not talking about a series of global superstars in top-level machinery here, just a bunch of youngsters in simple single seaters. If anything just another three dates in Europe would be most realistic, but for a bit of variety, I'd suggest either America, Australia or Japan, with all three races in just the one country.

[Ataxia]

I quite like the idea of an All-Japan Cup...seeing as Suzuka's not in the calendar anymore it's a good chance to go there as well.

(I've worked out track installation now, so all systems are effectively go in this sense...)

[Ataxia]

So yes, I think Japan makes the most sense as it's got plenty of good tracks all within the country. However, a US Cup could also work...so I'll produce a couple of calendars and throw it out for a vote.

All-Japan Cup:
17th January - Suzuka
24th January - Motegi
7th February - Fuji

United States Cup:
17th January - Laguna Seca
24th January - Long Beach
7th February - Watkins Glen

What do you think?

[Phoenix]

I'd replace Road Atlanta with Long Beach

[TomWazzleshaw]

Watkins Glen? In the middle of winter? Let the fun begin.

[AdrianSutil]

My vote goes to Japan.

[pasta_maldonado]

My vote goes top Japan

[Ataxia]

Looks like it might be Japan, I'll give it another day though.

Might as well download all of the tracks anyway...

[Nuppiz]

NRE will cast their vote on Japan as well.

[Shizuka]

Japan, especially because it does NOT involve Sugo

[Ataxia]

Well, we're off to Japan then.

I'll add the calendar to the wiki, but I'll give the Winter Cup its own article as it's a standalone thing.

[pasta_maldonado]

Also, may I sugest two races at Suzuka and Motegi, and a longer race at Fuji?

[Ataxia]

I'll get Suzuka run tonight; I spent all my money so no pub for me

[TomWazzleshaw]

Having just read the rules, may I ask why is there only one race per weekend?

[Ataxia]

Having just read the rules, may I ask why is there only one race per weekend?

I want to try and cover the races in a fair bit of detail though so I'd be watching both races and taking screenshots of both. Then I'd put them in freeimageconverter to reduce the filesize, upload them and post them. And although I've got the time now, I'm off to uni mid-September and I'll have a lot less time. I'd get one race per race weekend done no dramas so that's what I went for.

Having run a GPGSL round over at grandprixgames, it's a relatively time consuming process uploading, writing commentary and posting images.

I could just post the results but that would be very dull indeed...

[Ataxia]

F1RDS Winter Cup Round 1 - Suzuka Qualifying Results

[pasta_maldonado]

Having just read the rules, may I ask why is there only one race per weekend?

I want to try and cover the races in a fair bit of detail though so I'd be watching both races and taking screenshots of both. Then I'd put them in freeimageconverter to reduce the filesize, upload them and post them. And although I've got the time now, I'm off to uni mid-September and I'll have a lot less time. I'd get one race per race weekend done no dramas so that's what I went for.

Having run a GPGSL round over at grandprixgames, it's a relatively time consuming process uploading, writing commentary and posting images.

I could just post the results but that would be very dull indeed...

So that's who runs those races! I've followed that league passiveley for ages now.

[Ataxia]

Having just read the rules, may I ask why is there only one race per weekend?

I want to try and cover the races in a fair bit of detail though so I'd be watching both races and taking screenshots of both. Then I'd put them in freeimageconverter to reduce the filesize, upload them and post them. And although I've got the time now, I'm off to uni mid-September and I'll have a lot less time. I'd get one race per race weekend done no dramas so that's what I went for.

Having run a GPGSL round over at grandprixgames, it's a relatively time consuming process uploading, writing commentary and posting images.

I could just post the results but that would be very dull indeed...

So that's who runs those races! I've followed that league passiveley for ages now.

I've only done one round, because I've only recently learned how to use TSM and CSM. A guy called Stu runs most of them...

[WaffleCat]

Dezent.Good.Nize.This quali showz zings to come nicely for me in ze future.

[pasta_maldonado]

Bit dissapointed that we're the slowerst Opel team, Gary put in a good effort but there is no excuse for alexis being that slow. Come on lad, go faster round that bloody track or it's the tin tack for you before the main season has even started.

[Vepe]

Detta är bra! 2a i kvalet. Jag nästan inte kan tro det! Det var svårt att få en bra tid, men vi skulle kunna få inställningarna rätt för mig, men tyvärr inte till Benoît, som ni kan se.

Jag tror att vi har en bra chans att vinna i morgon.

[pasta_maldonado]

Detta är bra! 2a i kvalet. Jag nästan inte kan tro det! Det var svårt att få en bra tid, men vi skulle kunna få inställningarna rätt för mig, men tyvärr inte till Benoît, som ni kan se.

Jag tror att vi har en bra chans att vinna i morgon.

You what mate??

[Vepe]

Detta är bra! 2a i kvalet. Jag nästan inte kan tro det! Det var svårt att få en bra tid, men vi skulle kunna få inställningarna rätt för mig, men tyvärr inte till Benoît, som ni kan se.

Jag tror att vi har en bra chans att vinna i morgon.

You what mate??

Jag kan not speak engels... english very good. Jag är mycke happy för min second place och jag believe att jag kan win.

That should be understandable enough

[Nessafox]

Eh... i'm not entirely happy with these results... let's see for tomorrow...

[Ataxia]

That was a hell of a race. I'll start posting it up shortly.

[Ataxia]

Suzuka Race Day - Part One

Welcome to Suzuka, the first round of the Winter Cup. Hans Einhrin sits on pole.

And we are off!

Vosu and Ekdal get away brilliantly!

Einhrin's 3rd

Fellow German Reith is 4th...

...followed by his teammate...

...then Pykalisto...

...then Nakaya.

Gary Pacer is in 8th...

...Butler 9th...

and Shukinen rounding out the Top 10.

Ekdal's not letting Vosu go

Einhrin has fallen back now

As Reith leads a train of cars in 4th.

Nakaya tries one on Pykalisto...

...but doesn't make it.

Pykalisto's defending...

...oh, we've missed it.

Douglas tries one on Frankham

Nakaya and Pykalisto are STILL going at it

Battles to be resolved as the field goes up towards 130R

Pykalisto has officially been passed

Aya on the outside of Shukinen...

I think he's got it.

Silva brings up the rear in his Red Bull car.

Ekdal now leads, we've missed that move

As Vosu gets Reith for company...

...who's dispatched Einhrin

Einhrin's trying to regain the place...

...but fails.

Now Einhrin's been passed by Kwol-Cho

As Reith presses Vosu's buttons.

Tantavich behind Feldhoffer, who's 21st.

Kwol-Cho's been repassed by Einhrin...

Here's Scalabroni in 14th.

Reith hunts down Vosu.

Nakaya is after Einhrin's 5th place.

He throws one down the inside before 130R

Vosu's losing ground to Ekdal

As Pykalisto's passed by the rapid James Douglas

Pacer's next on his list

Ekdal still leads, then.

Vosu and Reith follow the Swede

OH MY WORD! THAT'S TANTAVICH!

He's been hit by a Kingfisher and he's out! A horrendous incident!

That'll require a check-up at the medical centre; Ekdal still 1st

As we take an ad break. Stay tuned! (and note to self: download GP2Lap)

[Phoenix]

That Alitalia car is seriously nice.

[Nuppiz]

Tosi hyvä tulos, molemmat autot Opel-moottoreilla varustettujen parhaimmistoa! Toivottavasti kisa menee hyvin.