F1RWRS -- 2015 Season - ROTY voting!!!

DanielPT · Post by **DanielPT** » 19 Dec 2012, 15:08

Good, so if Jeremy McClean accepts it, Sunshine will enter with Yuko Katayama and Tommy Nash.

Salamander · Post by **Salamander** » 19 Dec 2012, 15:20

DanielPT wrote:Good, so if Jeremy McClean accepts it, Sunshine will enter with Yuko Katayama and Tommy Nash.

In this case, James Davies will enter himself and his cousin Jordan under the James Davies Racing banner. The team will run the same engines as Sunshine, with their permission. Otherwise, they will be open to offers.

DanielPT · Post by **DanielPT** » 19 Dec 2012, 15:23

BlindCaveSalamander wrote:
DanielPT wrote:Good, so if Jeremy McClean accepts it, Sunshine will enter with Yuko Katayama and Tommy Nash.

In this case, James Davies will enter himself and his cousin Jordan under the James Davies Racing banner. The team will run the same engines as Sunshine, with their permission. Otherwise, they will be open to offers.

Permission granted. Sunshine intended to give a day off to their main drivers, so it is not a problem if James Davies decides to enter the race on his own!

pasta_maldonado · Post by **pasta_maldonado** » 19 Dec 2012, 16:46

Plus One will enter as Foster's Good Call Racing - We'll be running Franc Piscine and Martyn Rietacher

Well, if that's allowed of course!

Post by **tommykl** » 19 Dec 2012, 17:19

Gillet won't enter its usual drivers, instead going for Eric Swerts (in-house driver) and Jean-Vincent Albertini (in reward for his F2RWRS win). Laurent Seron asks Dofasco if he may drive for them in the Baltic Sea Grand Prix.

Post by **Ataxia** » 19 Dec 2012, 17:57

Fusion Motorsports would like to entertain the possibility of entering themselves as a team. We would run Diego Alvarez Torrente and Marko Jantscher.

We will consider engines a bit later on.

FMecha · Post by **FMecha** » 19 Dec 2012, 18:10

Count Mecha-Ford with Mackintosh and Schiller in for Baltic Sea GP!

DanielPT, I throw you a papaya (on behalf of SuperAguri) for mispelling a driver name YET AGAIN. Also, expect less posts from me - my personal Dell laptop got a UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME BSOD recently. :cry:

DanielPT · Post by **DanielPT** » 19 Dec 2012, 18:21

FMecha wrote:DanielPT, I throw you a papaya (on behalf of SuperAguri) for mispelling a driver name YET AGAIN.

Is that so? Because I had that doubt and searched the forum for Yuko Katayama and since I saw SuperAguri use it more than once, I just assumed it was the correct one.

The Lukas · Post by **The Lukas** » 19 Dec 2012, 18:29

Dofasco entered to Baltic Sea Grand Prix: Laurent Seron and Alexey Buyvolov

SuperAguri · Post by **SuperAguri** » 19 Dec 2012, 18:59

Kamaha would like to enter with Victoria Desai and Bob Sampson

TomWazzleshaw · Post by **TomWazzleshaw** » 19 Dec 2012, 19:16

MRT-BMW will enter with Phillippe Nicolas and Mitchell Macklin as our two drivers.

Post by **Nuppiz** » 19 Dec 2012, 19:49

Meh, was too busy running the RoLFS race so I missed the signup.

On that note: Martyn Rietacher is now eligible for superlicense for winning the Fern Bay feature race. It was again an eventful one so it will take some time to go through the replay. Expect the full race report to be available around this time tomorrow....

Klon · Post by **Klon** » 19 Dec 2012, 20:02

Nuppiz wrote:Meh, was too busy running the RoLFS race so I missed the signup.

Not ... really. There are still three spaces left. However, yours will be the final "new team" entry I will allow, i.e. after Nuppiz's entry only users with an existing F1RWRS team may enter.

tristan1117 · Post by **tristan1117** » 19 Dec 2012, 20:37

Boxtel will enter the Baltic Sea GP. We will run Tristan Jung and Dan Greenlaw.

AndreaModa · Post by **AndreaModa** » 19 Dec 2012, 20:40

Castrol Jones Racing will enter too, running Sammy Jones and Rosco Vantini as usual.

Post by **Nuppiz** » 19 Dec 2012, 20:53

Right, NRE will enter with Judd engines and Enrico Molinaro as our first driver. Nick Nurmester will drive the second car should Jones Racing give permission. Failing that, we'd be interested in Miko Fäkkinen and Jari Kekkonen.

Klon · Post by **Klon** » 19 Dec 2012, 20:57

Alright, with that, we are full. Thank you very much. I'll just need all non-championship teams to name their engine (if they already haven't done so) and send me their cars' bitmaps to [email protected] in the next weeks.

Post by **DemocalypseNow** » 19 Dec 2012, 21:11

Klon wrote:Alright, with that, we are full.

BLËRG!

If anyone has a free seat, I would very much like Nobushige Fukuda to get a drive. He was two seconds faster than anyone else at Scuderia Alitalia's recent test session at Imola (including both Koczo and Fleet, plus F2RWRS stars Andrej Kremnicky and Bastiaan van Nieuwenhuijzen).

pasta_maldonado · Post by **pasta_maldonado** » 19 Dec 2012, 21:11

Foster's Good Call Racing would like to use Chrysler engines for the weekend. If that is not possible for whatever reason, we'd like to use Isuzus.

Also, how will you be calculating the attributes of new drivers?

Aerospeed · Post by **Aerospeed** » 19 Dec 2012, 21:18

DanielPT wrote:Good, so if Jeremy McClean accepts it, Sunshine will enter with Yuko Katayama and Tommy Nash.

I will definitely accept that.

Salamander · Post by **Salamander** » 19 Dec 2012, 21:23

Where can I get a car template picture?

AndreaModa · Post by **AndreaModa** » 19 Dec 2012, 21:45

Woah hold on a second where's the fairness in that? Non-champ teams get to pick and choose whatever engine they want regardless? They should pick from the remaining engines not already taken by teams this year to at least make it slightly competitive. Otherwise we'll have this stupid situation where those new teams will piss all over the regular teams and be completely unrealistic.

Post by **Nuppiz** » 19 Dec 2012, 21:50

AndreaModa wrote:Woah hold on a second where's the fairness in that? Non-champ teams get to pick and choose whatever engine they want regardless? They should pick from the remaining engines not already taken by teams this year to at least make it slightly competitive. Otherwise we'll have this stupid situation where those new teams will piss all over the regular teams and be completely unrealistic.

In which case I'll pick the Honda RA101E, which is most likely the best engine that has a free slot remaining. Not counting the Chrysler which would be extremely unrealistic for a one-off entry IMO.

I might do some changes to my livery, but if for whatever reason I feel like not to, I'll just send you my F1RDS livery to get on with it.

the Masked Lapwing · Post by **the Masked Lapwing** » 19 Dec 2012, 21:51

Autosport wrote:HRT Complains About Baltic GP
HRT team principal John Zimmer has today officially complained about the entry process for the Baltic Sea Grand Prix, a non-championship race to be held in Helsinki in November. Zimmer said "The Commission has thrown any sense out of the window with this entry process. I understand the need for only 13 teams to compete, but to have four of them be teams that don't compete in the F1RWRS get priority over those that do is ridiculous. Zimmer especially pointed at James Davies Racing, who don't compete in any feeder series, while the other new entrants all do, with Fusion (F3RWRS, RoLFS), Good Call (F3RWRS, RoLFS and F1RDS) and NRE (F3 and RDS). It is understood that Zimmer has put forward his own entry form, which will put Frank Zimmer and Carter Simpson into his cars, in the hope that the Commission decided to investigate the entry process.

I am a little miffed, but I don't actually care that much. I just wanted the oppurtunity to stir up Davies :lol:

RonDenisDeletraz · Post by **RonDenisDeletraz** » 19 Dec 2012, 21:54

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

I was asleep through the whole signups

Klon · Post by **Klon** » 19 Dec 2012, 21:57

AndreaModa's got a point there, so for the non-championship teams only free engines are available. I will take the next best free Ford engine for James Davies Racing and label them as Daihatsu (unless I hear objections), Foster's Good Call Racing has to pick a different free engine, Fusion hasn't named any engine yet and NRE could have stuck with Judd engines (one was left) but has switched now.

Oh, and for the disappointed guys: there might be a second non-championship race coming up, if I ever get around to deciding where to held it. :lol:

Salamander · Post by **Salamander** » 19 Dec 2012, 22:00

the Masked Lapwing wrote:I am a little miffed, but I don't actually care that much. I just wanted the oppurtunity to stir up Davies

Fair enough, but you've got the wrong Davies! :lol:

Klon wrote:I will take the next best free Ford engine for James Davies Racing and label them as Daihatsu

That's not a problem.

Post by **Nuppiz** » 19 Dec 2012, 22:01

Klon wrote:NRE could have stuck with Judd engines (one was left) but has switched now.

Well I bailed out immediately as I noticed that the only remaining Judd was the CV shitebox. :lol:

the Masked Lapwing · Post by **the Masked Lapwing** » 19 Dec 2012, 22:01

BlindCaveSalamander wrote:
the Masked Lapwing wrote:I am a little miffed, but I don't actually care that much. I just wanted the oppurtunity to stir up Davies

Fair enough, but you've got the wrong Davies!

So it's not the fun Davies? Damn...

pasta_maldonado · Post by **pasta_maldonado** » 19 Dec 2012, 22:04

Nuppiz wrote:
Klon wrote:NRE could have stuck with Judd engines (one was left) but has switched now.

Well I bailed out immediately as I noticed that the only remaining Judd was the CV shitebox.

FGCR will take the Porsche engine then, purely for the fun of it.

Salamander · Post by **Salamander** » 19 Dec 2012, 22:06

the Masked Lapwing wrote:
BlindCaveSalamander wrote:
the Masked Lapwing wrote:I am a little miffed, but I don't actually care that much. I just wanted the oppurtunity to stir up Davies

Fair enough, but you've got the wrong Davies!

So it's not the fun Davies? Damn...

Well, he can be fun if you can piss him off like Shinobu Katayama did.

Post by **DemocalypseNow** » 19 Dec 2012, 22:13

If San Marino hadn't stolen the name already, I'd have suggested the Mediterranean Grand Prix at Enna-Pergusa!

How about...

Alitalia Festa della Velocità at Autodromo Riccardo Paletti
Gran Premio di Sicilia at Autodromo di Siracusa
III Gran Premio di Milano at Parco Sempione

Post by **Ataxia** » 19 Dec 2012, 22:53

Autosport wrote:Fusion to no longer enter Baltic Grand Prix
Although Fusion Motorsports were accepted into the Baltic Grand Prix, they have withdrawn their entry to allow a team that currently competes in the F1RWRS in. Team boss Jake Legge said "We were definitely up for going to see what we could do. However, the current F1RWRS teams have kicked up such a stink that we feel it would be unfair of us to occupy a space that we've got no claim to. Also, we'd have had to rent out a car and an engine, and run it for a few days for our tech team to get used to. Basically, it's an unnecessary expense."

Diego Alvarez Torrente and Marko Jantscher were going to drive for Fusion in that race, but will now attend a PR event for title sponsors Gatorade instead.

RonDenisDeletraz · Post by **RonDenisDeletraz** » 19 Dec 2012, 23:18

Autodynamics would like to take the opened up spot

the Masked Lapwing · Post by **the Masked Lapwing** » 19 Dec 2012, 23:28

eurobrun wrote:Autodynamics would like to take the opened up spot

Hey, I already stated my entry attempt

RonDenisDeletraz · Post by **RonDenisDeletraz** » 20 Dec 2012, 00:27

the Masked Lapwing wrote:
eurobrun wrote:Autodynamics would like to take the opened up spot

Hey, I already stated my entry attempt

I thought that after BLN pulled out is was first come first served

Phoenix · Post by **Phoenix** » 21 Dec 2012, 12:46

Aeroracing Engineering doesn't have the smallest interest on entering non-Championship races. Instead, the team may hold a test session with both official drivers and any pay-driver who wants to have a crack at driving a race-winning, top league car, no matter if he's a current F1RWRS driver or from whatever category, at Silverstone.

pasta_maldonado · Post by **pasta_maldonado** » 21 Dec 2012, 14:52

Phoenix wrote:Aeroracing Engineering doesn't have the smallest interest on entering non-Championship races. Instead, the team may hold a test session with both official drivers and any pay-driver who wants to have a crack at driving a race-winning, top league car, no matter if he's a current F1RWRS driver or from whatever category, at Silverstone.

Martyn Rietacher, Fern Bay RoLFS feature race winner and RoLFS championship contender would like to attend the test

pasta_maldonado · Post by **pasta_maldonado** » 21 Dec 2012, 20:08

Here's a few shots of the car FGCR will be using for the Baltic Grand Prix:

Yes, I know that's Mika Hakkinen's helmet, don't ask why he was driving it - he just was

Well, actually, if you must know, it's because the Foster's livery is a skin over the 1994 McLaren one, and I didn't design a helmet, so Hakkinen's remained.

dr-baker · Post by **dr-baker** » 21 Dec 2012, 20:12

Phoenix wrote:
Phoenix McAllister wrote:...

As of now, we are considering giving Tanner Jason a drive in The Stig's place, but Pippa's seat is still free while we decide who should replace her.

Pippa Mann does not have a seat at your team for the next race? As Ben Fleet is returning to Alitalia for the next race, Pippa might delay Martin McFry's return further to Foxdale by taking a seat back at her own team again, until she gets her seat back.