F1RWRS -- 2015 Season - ROTY voting!!!

TomWazzleshaw · Post by **TomWazzleshaw** » 09 Nov 2012, 11:13

In other news, the Mad Uncle will be on holidays for three weeks in December and January which means, heaven forbid, he won't be around to make you guys' lives a living hell on and off the track. Depending on how quickly Aerond does the North American races, that'll mean at least one of the F2RWRS races will be delayed until a few weeks until after the corresponding F1RWRS race.

TomWazzleshaw · Post by **TomWazzleshaw** » 14 Nov 2012, 01:01

Whilst helping out with transferring all the wiki stuff yesterday, I stumbled across something even the mad Uncle himself doesn't know about. So I ask you all, just who in the hell was Andrea Massini?

Klon · Post by **Klon** » 14 Nov 2012, 01:26

Someone who appeared for the first races of 2013 for CR before being replaced until being digged out by whatever his current team is because "gib monies plox"

RonDenisDeletraz · Post by **RonDenisDeletraz** » 14 Nov 2012, 07:01

Wizzie wrote:Whilst helping out with transferring all the wiki stuff yesterday, I stumbled across something even the mad Uncle himself doesn't know about. So I ask you all, just who in the hell was Andrea Massini?

Quite possibly the most anonymous driver in F1RWRS history. I think I have a story relating to him.

Aerond · Post by **Aerond** » 14 Nov 2012, 12:09

It was one of those drivers (like Jesus Plaza or Yu Hiang-Hao) I had to include when TMLW and other team owners forgot to enter two drivers at the beggining of the 2013 season.

About the Mexico GP, I'll resume with the series this evening with PreQ and Qualifying for the Mexico race. How about having the race tomorrow or on Friday?

Aerospeed · Post by **Aerospeed** » 14 Nov 2012, 12:10

Aerond wrote:It was one of those drivers (like Jesus Plaza or Yu Hiang-Hao) I had to include when TMLW and other team owners forgot to enter two drivers at the beggining of the 2013 season.

About the Mexico GP, I'll resume with the series this evening with PreQ and Qualifying for the Mexico race. How about having the race tomorrow or on Friday?

I'm all for it! Even better now that the Wiki is back on. :mrgreen:

Friday would be good, I'm available all day.

AdrianSutil · Post by **AdrianSutil** » 14 Nov 2012, 13:41

I think Both Kingfisher and MRT are quietly excited about their new drivers

should be an interesting weekend!

FMecha · Post by **FMecha** » 14 Nov 2012, 15:05

Aerond, can you set Mackintosh's helmet to this:

I draw it myself, for my personal carset.

Klon · Post by **Klon** » 17 Nov 2012, 05:58

That would imply aerond does helmets. He pretty much doesn't.

TomWazzleshaw · Post by **TomWazzleshaw** » 17 Nov 2012, 09:35

With the servers crapping themselves at precisely the same time the Mexican GP was supposed to be, when will the race be held instead?

Aerond · Post by **Aerond** » 17 Nov 2012, 14:30

Mexican Pre-q and Qualifying later today. Race tomorrow after F1

In the meantime I've been advancing with the Chris Dagnall career

Aerond · Post by **Aerond** » 17 Nov 2012, 20:08

F1RWRS 2015 - Round 5/16 - MEXICAN GP - Hermanos Rodríguez

Weather condition: Dry all weekend

PRE-QUALIFYING

1.Jari Kekkonen (Boxtel) -- 1.20.323
2.Kay Lon (Prospec) -- 1.20.404 (+0.081)
3.Dave Simpson (Simpson) -- 1.20.648 (+0.325)
4.James Davies (Sunshine) -- 1.20.758 (+0.435)
5.Steven Mackintosh (Mecha) -- 1.21.081 (+0.758)
6.Hagane Shizuka (Revolution) -- 1.21.242 (+0.919)
7.Fredo Mestolio (Prospec) -- 1.21.288 (+0.965)
8.Daniel Martins (Sunshine) -- 1.21.321 (+0.998)
9.Andrea Battani (Boxtel) -- 1.21.413 (+1.090)
10.Damon Cannon (Autodynamics) -- 1.21.612 (+1.289)
11.Nathan Scott (Tropico) -- 1.21.680 (+1.357)
12.Mitchell Macklin (Simpson) -- 1.21.725 (+1.402)
13.Tomislaw Tajner (Dofasco) -- 1.22.044 (+1.721)
14.Miko Fakkinen (Autodynamics) -- 1.22.326 (+2.003)
15.Marie Simon (Revolution) -- 1.22.364 (+2.041)
16.Darren Older Jr (Tropico) -- 1.22.442 (+2.119)
17.Markus van de Schoot (Dofasco) -- 1.22.557 (+2.234)
18.Jean Luc Schiller (Mecha) -- 1.22.850 (+2.527)

** Prospec will avoid Pre-Qualifying at Round 6.

QUALIFYING

** Foxdale will run in Pre-Q at Round 6

RACE

Another race and another win by Mark Dagnall, his 3rd in a row and a one which seems important as it allows him to open a gap over Rhys Davies, in a weekend where the MRT driver looked rather apathetic, maybe overwhelmed by the massive pole position achieved by David Neuberg in his first outing for the Bmw partenered team. Not only Davies suffered to achieve the 3rd place by trying really hard to get past Mori and Vantini (incredibly his MRT didn't seem to have the needed top speed to do this) but he suffered a terminal brakes problem on lap 72 and only got the 5th place in the end. Neuberg, on the other hand, did a good job, and seemed capable to fight with Dagnall for the win until it showed the 3 stop strategy used by the current champion was the good one, then, trying to defend the lead (or at least to postpone losing it) he tried in vain to intimidate Dagnall when they were running in parallel at the entrance of the Peraltada and lost grip, even touching the wall before spinning. That move nearly cost him what had been a brilliant race up to that point, but then he just calmed down, realised he had a enormous gap over Davies and enjoyed the rest of the run to his first podium finish in the series.
Jones and Gillet also had good weekends with the 4 cars fighting for the restant points positions after the Kamahas inevitably expired mid race (and almost at the same time), with Vantini setting himself solidly in the 3rd place of the championship and Jones only missing the points by a few seconds, in a race where Moll, for once, looked above average. Also remarkable run by Jari Kekkonen, who came back on form with no trouble setting the fastest time in Pre-Q and finishing in 8th place.
On the downside we first must talk about Aeroracing, The Stig simply didn't have his weekend, but Pippa Mann was doing again an excellent job when the car let her down. Aeroracing must up their game if they want to finish any high in the constructors championship to get a good budget for next season. We also didn't see good signs coming from Arrowtech; Saeed Al Faisal was for once doing a respectable race when the car failed, and Mirko Bosevic move was truly rejectful. When he was going to be laped by Mark Dagnall he waved across the second straight only to get accidentally hit by the Dgn (which miracously didn't break its Fw) only to lose control and stamp the green painting into the wall, a move well worth our ROTR award. Honourable mention goes to Andrea Battani, who was a moving chicane until his car expired. Also more negative signs from Sunshine (Martins couldn't qualify) and Kingfisher in a track which apparently didn't suit the car. Nicolas also felt the lack of knowledge on his new machinery and scored a surprising DNQ. An extra mention goes to Foxdale which only went noticed as it is the team falling into Pre-Qualifying for the round at Long Beach.
And that was it, basically Dagnall destroyed everyone with a three stop strategy against two stops by most of the people, with a light car he scored fastest lap after fastest lap and went agressively for the win when the moment came instead of waiting for strategy to work his way.

DOTR -- David Neuberg; Despite his spin, he managed the pressure well and scored a fantastic pole position and a podium, being also miles ahead of his teammate all weekend.
ROTR -- Mirko Bosevic; Needs to learn what the blue flags mean.

CHAMPIONSHIP STANDINGS

Drivers

1.Mark Dagnall -- 36 pts
2.Rhys Davies -- 25 pts
3.Rosco Vantini -- 17 pts
4.Thomas de Bock -- 14 pts
5.Sammy Jones -- 7 pts
6.Phillippe Nicolas -- 6 pts
=.David Neuberg -- 6 pts
8.Ron Mignolet -- 4 pts
=.The Stig -- 4 pts
10.Aurelien Moll -- 3 pts
11.Andrea Battani -- 2 pts
=.Barii Mori -- 2 pts
13.Mirko Bosevic -- 1 pt
=.Douglas Mann -- 1 pt
=.Martin McFry -- 1 pt
=.Frank Zimmer -- 1 pt

Teams

1.DGNgineering -- 40 pts
2.MRT -- 37 pts
3.Jones -- 24 pts
4.Gillet -- 17 pts
5.Aeroracing -- 4 pts
6.Boxtel -- 2 pts
=.Foxdale -- 2 pts
=.Kamaha -- 2 pts
9.Arrowtech -- 1 pt
10.HRT -- 1 pt

Mori gets the lead at the start, although not for long

Bosevic crashes his car

Mark Dagnall move on Neuberg

and spin

The winner gets the chequered flag

Salamander · Post by **Salamander** » 17 Nov 2012, 20:58

James Davies wrote:Aaaaahhh, oh god, it's as horrible as I remember....

TomWazzleshaw · Post by **TomWazzleshaw** » 17 Nov 2012, 21:01

I had a dream this morning that the two MRTs were 12th and 14th on the grid, Dagger's boy was on the front row and Nicolas had somehow plonked the Kingfisher on pole. Let's see how much of that dream actually transpires...

Aerond · Post by **Aerond** » 17 Nov 2012, 21:06

Wizzie wrote:I had a dream this morning that the two MRTs were 12th and 14th on the grid, Dagger's boy was on the front row and Nicolas had somehow plonked the Kingfisher on pole. Let's see how much of that dream actually transpires...

I'm about to run Qualifying and I think the chances of that happening are zero to none :lol:

Aerond · Post by **Aerond** » 17 Nov 2012, 21:14

Qualifying results up!

TomWazzleshaw · Post by **TomWazzleshaw** » 17 Nov 2012, 21:21

Daniel Melrose wrote:Man, it feels good to be back on the grid for a race. Mexico City's a track which I enjoy driving on so hopefully I'll be able to sneak in a point or two. However, in order to do that, we'll have to actually have a race pace advantage this year over our immediate rivals as reliability has been much better over the entire field this season than in recent years.

Wait, Neuberg on pole? Not bad. I always knew the kid could string a lap together. We'll see if he can carry that form into the race tomorrow but if he keeps this good form up over the next three races, he could find his way straight into a MRT seat next year. And what on earth was that Phillippe?

Klon · Post by **Klon** » 17 Nov 2012, 21:27

Kay Lon wrote:Well, we qualified both cars on the grid and managed to leave PQ for the next race. Our targets so far have been reached. Our situation for the race seems rather hopeless but I will try hard to make use of any opportunity.

AdrianSutil · Post by **AdrianSutil** » 17 Nov 2012, 21:33

Mr.Alexander:
"Nicolas DNQ's?! Are your bathplug serious?!?! What a bathplug letdown..."

Aerond · Post by **Aerond** » 17 Nov 2012, 21:34

Mark Dagnall said:

Well, I'm obviously not too happy about our qualifying result. Today, there was a driver clearly ahead of the rest and it'll be a hard task chasing him tomorrow. However, Rhys Davies is not too far and I think we should be able to cut the gap tomorrow as we usually run better on Sunday. The start will be hard as there're lots of good drivers around me so to me it'll be a matter of getting through the first corner in Top 10 and then build on from there.

Fredo Mestolio said:

We're quite happy to have qualified and escape Pre-Qualifying at the next event but I'm trying yet to understand why we were faster in Pre-Qualifying than during Qualifying, but that only goes to show how tight things are to qualify for races this year. For the race I don't expect much but I hope we can bring both cars home.

Post by **DemocalypseNow** » 17 Nov 2012, 21:49

F**KYEAHALITALIAF1RWRS.TUMBLR.COM wrote:I immediately looked to the Pre-Qualifying results to see if we'd somehow dragged our sorry arses into Quali itself. When I looked at the Top 10 and couldn't see an Alitalia anywhere I was like;

But then a few seconds later I realised we had a free pass straight to quali, and I was like;

And then finally when I scrolled down and saw that Koczo was 17th and Fleet had also made it into the race I was like;

Salamander · Post by **Salamander** » 17 Nov 2012, 22:05

James Davies wrote:Hell yeah, now that was what I joined this team for. Maybe now I can score a point.

tristan1117 · Post by **tristan1117** » 17 Nov 2012, 22:39

Kollin Holles wrote:Jari has made a good impression on the team so far. We will see how he does in the race.

Aerospeed · Post by **Aerospeed** » 17 Nov 2012, 22:46

Yes! Al Faisal is in the Top 20!

The Fox wrote:Obviously I am pleased with the qualifying results, but I expect a points finish tomorrow. I don't want any of that nonsense that happened in Monaco.

Nicolas Steele wrote:So Jari's back in this, then? Well, good luck scoring in that Boxtel!

Jari Kekkonen wrote:Says the person who has yet to finish a race and is behind Kay Lon in the championship!

RonDenisDeletraz · Post by **RonDenisDeletraz** » 17 Nov 2012, 23:48

Andrea Battani wrote:I really need to qualify better.

Post by **DemocalypseNow** » 18 Nov 2012, 00:15

Mr.Alexander:
"Nicolas DNQ's?! Are your bathplug serious?!?! What a bathplug letdown..."

Alasdair Lindsay wrote:Neuberg on pole and Nicholas last in quali? Irony is hilarious.

Corriere dello Sport wrote:Fleet still an option for Alitalia in 2016

Despite pundits heavily tipping Alitalia junior driver Andrej Kremnicky to make the step up to F1RWRS as team-mate to David Koczo next season, Scuderia Alitalia team principal Andrea Sassetti has left the door open for recent signing Ben Fleet to continue in 2016.

"The incentive is there," said Sassetti. "We aren't going to just hand him a contract extension for free, he has to earn it. But if he can put in good performances for the rest of the season, then there is definitely scope for him to stay on for next season. The second half of our driver lineup is not decided and will not be until the end of the season."

"I will be honest and say we're beyond the point of pretending Kremnicky and van Nieuwenhuijzen aren't possibilities for the drive. But neither have been cutting it in F2RWRS, and they will have to improve leaps and bounds to be in with even a chance of a drive next year. Fleet has experience at top teams, this is invaluable and something the rookies can't provide. Only a rookie with enormous potential could usurp that."

Shizuka · Post by **Shizuka** » 18 Nov 2012, 07:09

2 down, 6 to go.

FMecha · Post by **FMecha** » 18 Nov 2012, 11:06

Oh dear, a DNPQ that makes Mack's finish yesterday a fluke... (though I blame Schiler)

dr-baker · Post by **dr-baker** » 18 Nov 2012, 16:14

Maybe I need to spend some of Foxdale existing credits on the team's performance before the next round? And it's great to see that Ben Fleet is qualifying and that Pippa Mann is near the front (as always!).

Aerond · Post by **Aerond** » 18 Nov 2012, 21:07

Zippychat isn't working. Any reasonable alternative?

Klon · Post by **Klon** » 18 Nov 2012, 21:08

http://client00.chat.mibbit.com/?server ... 3F1Rejects

This is the one nuppiz made for us,

Aerond · Post by **Aerond** » 18 Nov 2012, 21:10

Oh great, our own F1Rejects IRC channel

I'm in.

Post by **DemocalypseNow** » 18 Nov 2012, 22:19

F**KYEAHALITALIAF1RWRS.TUMBLR.COM wrote:Another double DNF during one of the few times we qualify?

Klon · Post by **Klon** » 19 Nov 2012, 07:09

Kay Lon wrote:Well, a last place speaks for itself, really. Still, this finish provides us with more valueable data, maybe these megabotes or whatever you call it can help us find out why we lose so much time in comparison to Friday's PQ session. We're heading now to Long Beach and with 99 laps, it's not going to get easier.

In an act designed to further seperate the user klon from Kay Lon, I have decided to make Lon a computer illiterate.

TomWazzleshaw · Post by **TomWazzleshaw** » 19 Nov 2012, 07:54

Daniel Melrose wrote:Well, I haven't driven a race distance in a long time so a little bit of fatigue was starting to creep in by the end, but 9th is still a reasonable effort first time out for the General's men. What is clear this year however is that we have the top four teams pretty much locking out the top end of town more often than not, and then we have this midfield gaggle of 5th down to about 16th or 17th in the teams' championship figthing it out for the scraps, which means we absolutely have to be on top of everything week in, week out to even stand a chance of scraping in a point or two.

As far as MRT go, Neuberg did a superb job first time out for our guys but his rookie mistake midway though the race did cost him any shot he had in victory. Dagnall was probably quicker than our guys today and it'll probably take some minor miracle to start closing down the gap again. It certainly wasn't helped however by Rhys' car crapping itself on the last lap, which brings our tally up to 12 points that we have lost with late-race problems. And I can assure you that somebody's gonna get a real arse-kicking when we get to the bottom of it, assuming Rhys doesn't get to them first. And finally, we'd like to remind Phillippe that we expect him to perform in what is fundamentally a good car and that not-qualifying is simply unacceptable, and we'd like to apologise to Kingfisher for his incompetence. If he keeps this up, we do have a fully capable replacement raring to go in Nathan McKane, who from memory now qualifies for a Reject License thanks to his recent round win at Blackwood.

SuperAguri · Post by **SuperAguri** » 19 Nov 2012, 10:34

Aerond wrote:F1RWRS 2015 - Round 5/16 - MEXICAN GP - Hermanos Rodríguez
PRE-QUALIFYING
15.Marie Simon (Revolution) -- 1.22.364 (+2.041)

This should have been Shinobu Katayama... as we would have been within the rules to have the two more driver changes.

Shinobu Katayama wrote:I was disappointed that the series management decided not to grant my super licence transfer yet, meaning that I could not prequalify the car, Shizuka did a great time and I feel I would have matched his pace and we should have been in qualifying and in the race. Although I did have a chuckle when I saw that Martins failed to qualify that crate of a car and that Kay Lon just about dragged his car into the race.

Barii Mori wrote:Fantastic front row, although Neuberg looked like he was driving another car altogether with his 1.17s as me and Pippa were the only drivers to get into the 1.18s. I am hoping his race pace falls from him and our car stays in one piece. Steele struggled for pace, I believe he had issues getting heat into the tyres, but I think he will do well in the race.

Rosco Vantint wrote:Mamma Mia, I am behind a woman driver, I will have to watch to make sure she does not crash into me at the start. I am very 'appy with 4th, I feel I will get another podium.

Saeed Al Faisal wrote:That was a good run, the car has much improved. Well done to Sammy Jones for setting his tim just before mine. Still with some luck I migh snatch a point or at least a good top ten finish.

SuperAguri · Post by **SuperAguri** » 19 Nov 2012, 10:41

Aerond wrote:It was one of those drivers (like Jesus Plaza or Yu Hiang-Hao) I had to include when TMLW and other team owners forgot to enter two drivers at the beggining of the 2013 season.

So who does Jesus Plaza belong to?

RonDenisDeletraz · Post by **RonDenisDeletraz** » 19 Nov 2012, 10:42

Did Battani do anything

TomWazzleshaw · Post by **TomWazzleshaw** » 19 Nov 2012, 10:45

SuperAguri wrote:
Aerond wrote:It was one of those drivers (like Jesus Plaza or Yu Hiang-Hao) I had to include when TMLW and other team owners forgot to enter two drivers at the beggining of the 2013 season.

So who does Jesus Plaza belong to?

Plaza's under the defacto ownership of Tristan1117 now if my memory is correct

Post by **Nuppiz** » 19 Nov 2012, 10:45

Here's the chatlog from the race: http://pastebin.com/EYmCHCXe