F3RWRS - Yet another feeder series

[the Masked Lapwing]

You know when I said tomorrow? I lied.

Drivers' Championship
1st: Jordan Davies - 35
2nd: Dan Greenlaw - 33
3rd: Daniel Melville - 32
4th: Ryan Zimmer - 23
=5th: Victoria Desai - 22
=5th: Marko Jantscher - 22
7th: Paul Travesen - 16
=8th: Nathanael Cameron - 11
=8th: Joel Melrose - 11
=10th: Quentin Reatherson - 9
=10th: Peter Port - 9
12th: Franc Piscine - 7
13th: Raul Souto Maior - 6
14th: Dorien Lamberigts - 4
=15th: Dale Hamilton - 3
=15th: Leandro Moreira - 3
=17th: Diego Mauricio Batistuta - 1
=17th: Judd McAllister - 1

Teams' Championship
1st: ZimSport-Rosenforth - 55
=2nd: Pemberton Prospec Racing - 44
=2nd: West Cliff Racing - 44
=4th: Fusion Motorsport - 25
=4th: Linton-Solindahl Motorsports - 25
6th: Kamaha Junior Motorsport - 22
7th: JLD Motorsport - 11
=8th: Foster's Good Call Racing - 7
=8th: Repsol Aeroracing Engineering Audi - 7
10th: Octan Young Drivers - 4
11th: Red Bull World Race Team - 3
12th: Best In The Word Motorsport - 1

Constructors' Championship
1st: Dallara - 70
2nd: Fusion - 35
3rd: Kamaha - 33
4th: Linton-Solindahl - 32
5th: Jones - 20
6th: Red Bull - 14
7th: Plus One - 13
8th: Aeroracing - 9
9th: Zytek - 8
10th: Vaillante - 7
11th: Suzuki - 5
12th: Kingfisher - 2

Steward's Report - Monaco
MATTERS ARISING FROM QUALIFYING:
Car #88 (Y. Sokolov) was given 50 penalty points for blocking Car #0 (D. Greenlaw) and Car #2 (N. Cameron).
Car #28 (L. Crescenzi) was given 25 penalty points for blocking Car #74 (N. Nurmester).
Car #11 (S. Garfunkel) was given 25 penalty points for blocking Car #4 (R. Souto Maior).
Car #17 (R. Zayas) was given 40 penalty points for blocking Car #87 (J. Harmsky).
Pemberton Prospec Racing was given a reprimand for collision in pit lane between Car #0 (D. Greenlaw) and Car #32 (D. Melville).
Car #11 (S. Garfunkel) was given 45 penalty points for causing an avoidable collision with Car #6 (E. Swerts).
Car #15 (C. Brooks) was given 25 penalty points for dangerous driving when pitting.
Car #77 (J. Cabral) was given 50 penalty points for blocking and causing an avoidable collision with Car #46 (F. Piscine).
Car #77 (J. Cabral) was given 25 penalty points for causing an avoidable collision with Car #41 (A. Horford).
Car #40 (J. McAllister) was given 65 penalty points for delberately causing a collision with Car #77 (J. Cabral).
Car #123 (H. Tojo) was given 45 penalty points for causing a collision with Car #191 (S. Kuntz).

MATTERS ARISING FROM THE RACE:
The stewards investigated a number of incidents at the chicane and La Rascasse but determined that most were racing incidents. For the incidents that weren't, it was determined that the driver at fault cost themselves more than the other driver and so no penalties were applied.

TOTAL PENALTY POINTS
D. Lamberigts - 215 (Ban applied, may return at next event)
J. Cabral - 120
J. Melrose - 110
C. Brooks - 95
H. Naufal - 90
I. Pitea - 90
B. Ristic - 90
M. van der Maeyede - 90
M. Jantscher - 75
K. Bainomugisha - 70
S. Garfunkel - 70
J. McAllister - 65
Y. Sokolov - 50
F. Piscine - 45
L. Moreira - 45
T. Buckley - 45
T. Takagi - 45
S. Mondlane - 45
J. Maylander - 45
E. Swerts - 45
T. Taki - 45
H. Tojo - 45
L. Crescenzi - 40
R. Zayas - 40
A. Lucarelli - 30
J. Harmsky - 25

[Nuppiz]

Hämäläinen did a solid job considering his lack of experience, while the mechanic responsible for Kuntz's retirement has been given a reprimand to improve his work, or else. Nurmester was just as bad as I expected him to be. Not a bad result for Pykälistö either, being ahead of one of the regular Prospec drivers.

With this race now over, RoLFS will start very, very soon.

[Salamander]

Yeah, that was a pretty okay race, I guess. We weren't as good as we were earlier, but the team did a great job with the strategy and we got another great finish. It's really awesome to be leading the championship again, hopefully it'll be for longer this time. Like, until the end of the season! Heh.

[FMecha]

We're crap. AGAIN. What a bathplugger!

Anything I can do? W

[Ataxia]

Marko you f**king beauty! 3rd place! Second in the Constructors' Championship as well...pure class.

[dr-baker]

OK then, a bit overdue but here it is:

2015 - Monaco SuperPrix - Qualifying

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Pos Driver Team Time
5 Jordan Davies West Cliff 1:24.335
17 Stephanie Brown West Cliff 1:25.695
26 Peter Port West Cliff 1:26.038

Monaco SuperPrix - Race

Considering the race had 60 cars, it was a very, very boring event. So to change it up, I'm going to do a team by team review.

West Cliff Racing
Four teams had two cars in the points, and West Cliff was one of them, with Davies 4th and Port 8th. Fairly quiet races for the pair, Davies not quite on the pace but a good strategy saw him pressuring Jantscher for a podium. Their third car, driven by Stephanie Brown, was also impressive, finishing 14th, the second best of the one-off cars.

b]Results[/b]

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Pos Driver Team Time/Retired Gap

4 Jordan Davies West Cliff 49:45.222 + 9.410
8 Peter Port West Cliff 49:53.915 + 18.103
14 Stephanie Brown West Cliff 50:20.018 + 44.206

Yeah, very quiet race for Peter Port, wasn't it, going from 26th to 8th in a boring race! Must be IIDOTR!

Pippa Mann is pleased with the performance that Jordan Davies is putting in, leading the championship again. Just so long as he's leading it again at the end, she doesn't mind what happens in the meantime. (Well, she does really, but she's not going to let on, and Ben Fleet would get it in the next if he refutes her...).

Stephanie Brown, how would you like to be the team's reserve driver? It would come with a guarenteed entry at the Belgian SuperPrix and a test sometime with the Foxdale F1RWRS team.

[FantometteBR]

As Brown's agent, she is pleased about the offer and will accept it as an award for the good driving and a chance to launch herself a proper RWRS career

[DemocalypseNow]

Parma Corse's incredibly boring performances is making me consider withdrawing from the series. I get the feeling that replacing Lucarelli and Crescenzi will make no difference and it's just the car is 100% average. Which again doesn't make sense, we have the same engine as the championship leaders, the same chassis that is leading the constructors championship, so why is the whole package so slow?

[TomWazzleshaw]

Damn, I was about to offer Miss Brown a race drive for JLD effective immediately as I've now officially run out of patience for Nurmester

[the Masked Lapwing]

Parma Corse's incredibly boring performances is making me consider withdrawing from the series. I get the feeling that replacing Lucarelli and Crescenzi will make no difference and it's just the car is 100% average. Which again doesn't make sense, we have the same engine as the championship leaders, the same chassis that is leading the constructors championship, so why is the whole package so slow?

Because Lucarelli and Crescenzi are average drivers. If I were you, I'd promote Hannesson, since he was on course to match at least Swerts in qualifying until he got to the chicane and got held up in traffic in the race.

[dr-baker]

Damn, I was about to offer Miss Brown a race drive for JLD effective immediately as I've now officially run out of patience for Nurmester

She could drive for JLD if she wants as long as she drives for West Cliff at Spa and also at any 2015 race that Jordan Davies or Peter Port are forced to miss for whatever reason (injury, etc.). And she agrees to it of course.

[DemocalypseNow]

Parma Corse's incredibly boring performances is making me consider withdrawing from the series. I get the feeling that replacing Lucarelli and Crescenzi will make no difference and it's just the car is 100% average. Which again doesn't make sense, we have the same engine as the championship leaders, the same chassis that is leading the constructors championship, so why is the whole package so slow?

Because Lucarelli and Crescenzi are average drivers. If I were you, I'd promote Hannesson, since he was on course to match at least Swerts in qualifying until he got to the chicane and got held up in traffic in the race.

How did they become average drivers then? Lucarelli's a race winner and Crescenzi has three podiums. That's what I don't understand, we still have a good technical package yet the drivers have gone backwards.

[Nuppiz]

I HAVE NO SON!

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Calm down Pa, you still have me...

I STILL HAVE NO SON! Your spin in the first RTCC race was among the most ridiculous things I've seen in my life. Both of you are tarnishing the good Nurmester name, which was first established when my grandfather was second in the 1910 Targa Florio blah blah blah...

Aww shite, here we go again...

YOU SHUT UP AND LISTEN, IGNORANT BASTARD!

[FantometteBR]

Damn, I was about to offer Miss Brown a race drive for JLD effective immediately as I've now officially run out of patience for Nurmester

She could drive for JLD if she wants as long as she drives for West Cliff at Spa and also at any 2015 race that Jordan Davies or Peter Port are forced to miss for whatever reason (injury, etc.). And she agrees to it of course.

Agreed!

[AndreaModa]

AAAAAAARRRGGGHHHH!!!! THOSE F***ING BMW ENGINES!! MELROSE I'M GONNA KILL YOU!!

Still, Swerts can keep his seat for the time being!

[SuperAguri]

Victoria Desai is a real talent, I am considering offering her a two year deal for 2017 as long as she qualifies for a super licence. Her mistake did cost her valuable points but she is doing well. The other two of Charlie Griffin and Bob Sampson, might as not as well have been in the race, although they did make up 24 and 12 places respectively, but in a car that can score a load of points, Bob Sampson really needs to find some speed or he will find himself in the job queue faster then he can get out of the car. However, I would like to offer Charlie Griffin a 3 race deal starting from the British GP and then racing in Germany and Spa.

I did smile at Jones BMW failures, maybe he should look at those Zytek engines again.

[Nessafox]

'Jules Vergne' may sound fast, but this guy was slower than our rejectfull backup-driver Simon Garfünkel? Anyway, simon will not return, he has managed to run over the pitcrew with an anvil. Why does he even carry an anvil with him at the frist place? Jules can get a second chance at the Spa Superprix if he wants.

Oh the anvil brings me luck, i always keep it with me in my car.

[WaffleCat]

LINTON!

Yes?

WHY THE BATHPLUG DID YOU NOT TELL REATHERSON TO LET TRAVERSEN BY?!

You see,chap,Reatherson was on awfully worn tyres,but we already planned a long strategy to propel ourselves up the field,and it worked like a charm,apart from the bit about Reatherson blocking Traversen.I may have to sort that little bugger out later.

[Ataxia]

'Jules Vergne' may sound fast, but this guy was slower than our rejectfull backup-driver Simon Garfünkel? Anyway, simon will not return, he has managed to run over the pitcrew with an anvil. Why does he even carry an anvil with him at the frist place? Jules can get a second chance at the Spa Superprix if he wants.

Oh the anvil brings me luck, i always keep it with me in my car.

Thank you for keeping some faith in me. I'll make sure I train a little harder over the coming months so I'm in good shape for Spa.

Victoria Desai is a real talent, I am considering offering her a two year deal for 2017 as long as she qualifies for a super licence. Her mistake did cost her valuable points but she is doing well. The other two of Charlie Griffin and Bob Sampson, might as not as well have been in the race, although they did make up 24 and 12 places respectively, but in a car that can score a load of points, Bob Sampson really needs to find some speed or he will find himself in the job queue faster then he can get out of the car. However, I would like to offer Charlie Griffin a 3 race deal starting from the British GP and then racing in Germany and Spa.

I did smile at Jones BMW failures, maybe he should look at those Zytek engines again.

Yeah, we'll be pleased to loan you Charlie for those races.

(I think this takes my RWRS tally up to four now?)

[the Masked Lapwing]

Parma Corse's incredibly boring performances is making me consider withdrawing from the series. I get the feeling that replacing Lucarelli and Crescenzi will make no difference and it's just the car is 100% average. Which again doesn't make sense, we have the same engine as the championship leaders, the same chassis that is leading the constructors championship, so why is the whole package so slow?

Because Lucarelli and Crescenzi are average drivers. If I were you, I'd promote Hannesson, since he was on course to match at least Swerts in qualifying until he got to the chicane and got held up in traffic in the race.

How did they become average drivers then? Lucarelli's a race winner and Crescenzi has three podiums. That's what I don't understand, we still have a good technical package yet the drivers have gone backwards.

Because Lucarelli won a reverse grid race, which counted for squat, and Crescenzi had the bonus of a good car. It's not my fault you kept your average drivers for your F3 team (Pazzini would probably have been a fair bit better). But if Parma Corse wish to withdraw, I won't stop them.

[DemocalypseNow]

Because Lucarelli won a reverse grid race, which counted for squat, and Crescenzi had the bonus of a good car. It's not my fault you kept your average drivers for your F3 team (Pazzini would probably have been a fair bit better). But if Parma Corse wish to withdraw, I won't stop them.

I don't make the stats up so I can only judge talent based on results. And they both did quite well.

[DemocalypseNow]

Will there be a minimum age limit for F3RWRS next year? Tõnu Pykälistö will only be 16 for the 2016 season...

[TomWazzleshaw]

Will there be a minimum age limit for F3RWRS next year? Tõnu Pykälistö will only be 16 for the 2016 season...

Considering 16's the minimum age limit for the F2RWRS, he should be good to go for next year

[TomWazzleshaw]

Damn, I was about to offer Miss Brown a race drive for JLD effective immediately as I've now officially run out of patience for Nurmester

She could drive for JLD if she wants as long as she drives for West Cliff at Spa and also at any 2015 race that Jordan Davies or Peter Port are forced to miss for whatever reason (injury, etc.). And she agrees to it of course.

Agreed!

We'd prefer that she drives at Spa for JLD but other than that, it sounds reasonable enough.

[FantometteBR]

Stephanie Brown's manageament says that she could be available to race the Spa round for JLD as 'loan' from West Cliff

[dr-baker]

If Stephanie Brown would rather race for JLD at the Spa SuperPrix instead of a third car at West Cliff, then that is her choice, and so be it.

[the Masked Lapwing]

PICTURES!

...ok, maybe I forgot to take some during the race, but you didn't miss much. So instead what I've done is just taken pictures of the teams that ran special liveries on their third cars for the weekend.

Matt Grove's #131 ZimSport:

(You can tell I got a bit lazy...)

Olafur Ragnar Hannesson's #127 Parma Corse:


The Nurminen of Stefan Kuntz:

(I may have forgotten to add numbers to that one...)

Rick Simpson's #195 Gulf:


And the Foster's livery:

(Not that much actually changed)

[Nuppiz]

Looks better than I expected, TBH. If I ever enter F3RWRS or F2RWRS permanently, I don't have much to change from that livery.

[FantometteBR]

If Stephanie Brown would rather race for JLD at the Spa SuperPrix instead of a third car at West Cliff, then that is her choice, and so be it.

She will be available to other commitments at West Cliff bar a 'loan' to JLD for Spa SuperPrix

[dr-baker]

If Stephanie Brown would rather race for JLD at the Spa SuperPrix instead of a third car at West Cliff, then that is her choice, and so be it.

She will be available to other commitments at West Cliff bar a 'loan' to JLD for Spa SuperPrix

Yeah, that's fine. It's just that I had wanted to give her the chance to enter both SuperPrixs of the season with West Cliff, but continuity is important, so West Cliff will only drag her away from JLD if Peter Port or Jordan Davies are indisposed for whatever reason.

[Nuppiz]

It's time for some media war:

Nurmester: I was treated unfairly

After being sacked by the F3RWRS team JLD Motorsport following the Monaco SuperPrix, Nurmester has given the media comments suggesting that he was not treated equally to the team's other driver Joel Melrose.

"It was clear right from the beginning - Melrose was the team's favorite driver because his brother happens to be the owner of the team", Nurminen commented. "I was only brought aboard because no-one else was willing to drive alongside Joel, and the team needed to run two cars to get all of the sponsorship money. My car was always slower than Melrose's and had parts which were well past their use-by date. The engines had no mileage left in them at all, and any team that endangers their driver by putting worn-out brakes into their car should have no business in any form of motorsports", he continued. "They did this to hide the fact that Joel Melrose is an utterly incompetent driver and is only in the sport because of his brother's influence".

Daniel Melrose or the personnel of JLD Motorports were unable to comment at the time of writing.

For sale: Experienced single-seater drivers

Are you perhaps an aspiring team owner, but have no-one to drive your cars? Or maybe you have drivers who are not performing in a way you'd expect in relation to their wages? Look no further, as former Formula One World Championship and F1 Rejects GP2 Championship driver Niko Nurminen is here to help! Our management office currently has a few drivers looking for race seats who have either been unjustifiably dumped by other teams or are still looking for their breakthrough into the world of Reject Motorsport. Currently the following drivers are available:

Nick Nurmester, 27: former JLD driver in F3RWRS, who was treated badly to make Daniel Melrose's brother Joel look better than what he truly is.
Stefan Kuntz, 27: German driver left out in the cold by the Scuderia Alitalia Giovanile Squdra despite promising results, including one win in the Rejects of LFS.
Tommi Hämäläinen, 18: Promising Finn with wins from FRenault 2.0 Eurocup and a Formula Ford championship to boot.

All drivers have relatively low wage requirements, and we will take only a very modest sum as the management fee.

Nurminen Management Associates, P.O. Box 56658, Helsinki, Finland
Tel. +358509999999

On an unrelated note, Nurminen Racing Engineering would already like to reserve their one-off slots for Spa and Surfers Paradise, if possible.

[pasta_maldonado]

Foster's Good Call Racing is interested in giving Tommi Hamalainen a ride in our third car at the SuperPrix events Mainly because all those accents will cause someone somewhere hell

[Nuppiz]

Foster's Good Call Racing is interested in giving Tommi Hamalainen a ride in our third car at the SuperPrix events Mainly because all those accents will cause someone somewhere hell

Unless BLN objects (it's his driver after all, unless I'm missing something), or a better deal comes to pass, I have no problem with this. It would open up a slot for Nurmester in my own SuperPrix entry, and if he is paired with Kuntz it'll probably be the oldest driver pairing in the whole F3RWRS...

[Ataxia]

Foster's Good Call Racing is interested in giving Tommi Hamalainen a ride in our third car at the SuperPrix events Mainly because all those accents will cause someone somewhere hell

Unless BLN objects (it's his driver after all, unless I'm missing something), or a better deal comes to pass, I have no problem with this. It would open up a slot for Nurmester in my own SuperPrix entry, and if he is paired with Kuntz it'll probably be the oldest driver pairing in the whole F3RWRS...

He's all yours, Nuppiz. I thought that was the deal...

[Nuppiz]

Unless BLN objects (it's his driver after all, unless I'm missing something), or a better deal comes to pass, I have no problem with this. It would open up a slot for Nurmester in my own SuperPrix entry, and if he is paired with Kuntz it'll probably be the oldest driver pairing in the whole F3RWRS...

He's all yours, Nuppiz. I thought that was the deal...

Right then, I'll keep that in mind, and make a wiki page for him as soon as I'm done restoring my previous ones.

[AndreaModa]

Sammy Jones is seriously interested in picking Nurmester up if Eric Swerts manages to continue to provide a demonstration in abject failure and mediocrity, and is willing to offer him a full-time 2016 contract in the F3RWRS regardless of circumstances this season.

[TomWazzleshaw]

Unfair? UNFAIR? Mate, you were the one who was doing absolute shite on track. Hell, I would have sacked your teammate as well for all the repair bills he's given me this year but at least he's scoring points. Besides, I don't have anyone half-decent in line to replace him with and in all fairness, I was lucky someone of Brown's calibre came onto the market after Monaco.

[DemocalypseNow]

Scuderia Alitalia will give Dan Greenlaw an F2RWRS for 2016 drive upfront. If he wants to switch to Scuderia Alitalia F2RWRS team upfront he is more than welcome to, we have the best engine in the second tier! Melrose Racing Team can SUCK IT.

[Nuppiz]

Hey Nick, all is not lost. I've heard that Jones Racing are interested in giving you a drive, because they're getting tired of Eric Swerts' poor performance. Just let me handle all of this, OK? You just keep your mouth shut and sign the paperwork when it's time for that, you've already caused enough damage with your big mouth.

[AndreaModa]

As long as you're happy Nuppiz, I'm willing to sign Nurmester to a seat for 2016 now to partner Dinella. In that contract will be a clause allowing Nurmester to switch to Jones at any point during 2015 should Swerts fail to do any better and get sacked from the team, only if Nurmester wishes to of course. Secondly, pending a strong performance in 2016, Jones will look to promote Nurmester to the F2RWRS team for 2017, and as such would have first preference on whether they choose to do so, or end the contract in 2016. If you're happy with that, just say the word, and it's a done deal.