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Klon wrote:
Warren Hughes wrote:Prospec would like to enter three cars for Lon, Mestolio and, if he's available, Dan Greenlaw.


Kay Lon wrote:Sorry to be that guy, Gary, but my contract says clearly that I don't have to participate in non-championship rounds in the United States unless I wish to. And I don't.

Right then, Lon is out, and we will run 2 cars only.
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Qualifying

Barii Mori wrote:I had a broken anti roll bar, which caused me to be seconds off the pace but I am happy with qualifying, especially with Du Lei planting the car on the front row. I hope she can score a few points.


Saeed Al Faisal wrote:I have done something that even Daniel Melrose nor F2RWRS champion Mitchell Macklin couldn't do and qualify a Simpson car, I am looking forward to the race, any finish will be good. Dave Simpson has already got the fizzy rose water out.


Rosco Vantini wrote:Mama mia, this is not going to work, me and Rhys Davies have different driving styles and it is hard to set the cars up. I am very un'appy.


Shinobu Katayama wrote:I struggled with setting up the car and electrical troubles on both cars meant we did not do as much running as we wanted. I am disappointed to not qualify but still think Revolution will score a point in the last three races.


Race Day

Saeed Al Faisal wrote:Well we were near the back and we retired when the engine went bang, but we are happy with the performance and we hope we can prequalify again in the last three races.


Rosco Vantini wrote:I am un'appy, the car was an ugly woman to drive, if Dagnall wins the next race and I do not have a car to get me 2nd then it is over.


Barii Mori wrote:Du Lei did a fantastic job and was unlucky as she would have scored some points. I was unhappy to be bumped from behind and required a pit stop but I drove a fantastic race to get 6th but again if I was not bundled off then maybe I would have got big points, still another Driver of the race award, my 4th of the season. Makes we wonder if I should retire or stay around. I might register as one of the Reserve drivers.


Prince Falik wrote:What was Ron Mignolet doing? 2 Laps behind your team mate is a quick way to be shown the door, you better improve or you'll be kicked out of the front door and you will be lucky to drive the chunky american windycars. Well done to Bosevic, he did well.


We would like to enter a 4 car team for Kamaha in the Indy race if we can. It should have Nathan McKane, Barii Mori, Du Lei and Tomo Kazama.
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F1RWRS 2015 -- ROUND 14 -- CHINESE GP -- Macau

Weather report:

Pre-Q: Heavy Rain
Qualifying: Light Rain
Race: Light Rain

PRE-QUALIFYING

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** ALITALIA, HRT AND SIMPSON PASS. ALITALIA WILL SKIP PRE-QUALIFYING AT ROUND 15

QUALIFYING

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RACE

It could have been the race where Mark Dagnall, in the dominant MRT,
waltzed away to his third straight drivers’ title. It could have been the
race where Rosco Vantini, the surprise of the season, closed Dagnall down
to take the championship to the wire. Instead though, Rhys Davies put
himself firmly back in the hunt for the title with a stellar performance,
completing an excellent weekend of pole, fastest lap and race victory. It
all leaves the Australian in second place now, but still 11 points behind
Dagnall. The race was set up by mid-distance to be a fascinating battle
between the two drivers, with Davies leading the way and Dagnall trying to
close in having started further back on the grid and stuck behind slower
cars in the early stages. Instead though, an uncharacteristic error from
Mark put him out of the race with his car in the barriers, leaving Davies
all alone on track with no-one close to challenge him.
The other factor in the championship battle, Davies’ Jones Racing teammate
Vantini, had another race to forget. A poor qualifying session saw him far
down the grid, and on the first lap he ran wide into the barriers, becoming
the first retirement and earning himself Reject of the Race too. It was a
race which saw very high attrition, helped by Barri Mori’s crazy accident
further round on the first lap which took out a number of drivers,
including The Stig, Jean-Luc Schiller, and James Davies. Mori was out on
the spot but his Chinese teammate Du Lei put in another impressive drive,
holding her own with much faster cars behind her, including Pippa Mann and
Dagnall, in the early stages. She too retired late on however with
suspension failure.
The Aeroracing team suffered another double retirement, something team boss
Phoenix McAllister won’t be happy about. Pippa Mann had been running very
well early on, and aside from Davies and Dagnall, looked one of the
strongest drivers out there, but an Audi engine failure brought her race to
a premature end. At DGN, life is very different now Mark Dagnall has made
the switch early to MRT, but Nicholas Steele drove a great race to collect
a deserved second place as other drivers around him fell away. His
performance compared to Shioya who failed to finish again will put more
pressure on the Japanese driver and won’t impress team bosses considering
him for a drive for 2016. Steele on the other hand is doing everything he
can to make sure he appears on the grid in Australia next year. Behind
Steele, completing the podium was Daniel Martins, with an excellent result
for the Sunshine team who have been a shadow of their former selves this
year. His third place will give them a boost heading into the final two
races of the year.
With Dagnall failing to finish, the focus of the MRT camp switched to
Phillippe Nicholas in the latter stages of the race, and his drive was one
of damage limitation, having been held up badly for most of the race behind
a series of slower cars, including Danny van Rijkens’ Tropico. Whilst
Phillippe eventually recovered to fourth, ensuring MRT protected their lead
in the constructors’ battle against Jones, van Rijkens provided the
feel-good story of the day when he held on to bring the Tropico home in a
fantastic 6th place, earning the team their first ever championship point.
Having racked up 32 DNPQs in 2014, Tropico have turned things around this
year, and van Rijkens’ result, becoming the first African driver not only
to start an F1RWRS race, but now also the first to score a point, is a
fantastic benefit for the sport and earns him the Drive of the Race award.
Between van Rijkens and Nicholas was Douglas Mann, who collected two points
for Foxdale. Mann was on the end of some harsh criticism during the race as
he held up many of the front runners as they came round to lap him. Some
near-misses and bizarre manoeuvres resulted in many within the paddock
calling for his retirement at the end of the year, with Martin McFry having
comfortably out-performed him, but at the family-run team, his future may
still be secure. McFry however suffered his own embarrassing incident as he
crashed whilst trying to lap van Rijkens.
Behind the points finishers, the only other cars to cross the line at the
end were the two Alitalias, underlining their impressive reliability with
Koczo and Fleet finishing 7th and 8th respectively. The attrition helped
them up the order, but they were there at the end, and that was despite
Fleet losing his front wing on the first lap. This will probably be the
closest they will get to a points finish this year, and with Tropico
scoring with van Rijkens, it leaves Alitalia as the only team who have
qualified for over half of the season’s races without any points. The
remaining teams in the race, Kingfisher, Gillet, ArrowTech and HRT all
suffered double retirements in a race that tested the resolve of drivers
and their cars to the absolute limit. They’ll all be looking for an easier
time at the next race at Fuji.

Results
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EXCLUSIVE! Race Results Leaked!

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Good result for Team Name there, they definitely needed a result like that.
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BlindCaveSalamander wrote:Good result for Team Name there, they definitely needed a result like that.

Absolute embarassment for Katayama though, she might as well retire on the spot after such a woeful performance. Lapped four times by a Simpson and twice by a Dofasco, it doesn't get any more humiliating than that.
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I easily have the worst luck with all RWRS series out of anyone.
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Wait what? Noooooooooo! Put us back in Pre-Qualifying! We need the points to win the PreQ cup! DISASTER...
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Stramala [kostas22] wrote:Wait what? Noooooooooo! Put us back in Pre-Qualifying! We need the points to win the PreQ cup! DISASTER...


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Aerond wrote:
Stramala [kostas22] wrote:Wait what? Noooooooooo! Put us back in Pre-Qualifying! We need the points to win the PreQ cup! DISASTER...


Don't be such a crybaby; you almost have it won.


Aerond laying down the law as usual then, I see :lol:
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Fredo Mestolio said:

The conditions were terrible out there; really hard to drive under this conditions. I think in the end I managed to pull a decent lap but the time sheets say it wasn't enough. We mustn't stay negative though; there's still two races to go and our solely aim should be to qualify again the car at both events. I'm pretty much convinced we can do it


Nathan Scott said:

WOT?? I drove the balls off the car out there. I felt competitive enough to qualify today and I feel very sorry for the team; but obviously there's no one to blame: Pre-Qualifying is extremely competitive and we have to live with it.
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Anyone who thinks their teams are bad just be thankful you are not me
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Nathan Scott said:

WOT?? I drove the balls off the car out there. I felt competitive enough to qualify today and I feel very sorry for the team; but obviously there's no one to blame: Pre-Qualifying is extremely competitive and we have to live with it.

Andrea Sassetti wrote:Except Steven Mackintosh. For being slow. And then crashing. Into the pit entrance. There was a reason why Koczo didn't go out in Q1. He's not not driving around like a rabbid squirrel trying to make the cut. He waited for his moment and took advantage of the cirumstances he had created for himself.

Although in fairness, Saeed Al Faisal did the same thing. Twice. And still made it to Qualifying.
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tristan1117 wrote:
Kollin Holles wrote:BOOOOOO! What happened?

I remember Kekkonen holding up Frank Zimmer quite badly. Battani I'm not so sure though.
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Stramala [kostas22] wrote:
tristan1117 wrote:
Kollin Holles wrote:BOOOOOO! What happened?

I remember Kekkonen holding up Frank Zimmer quite badly. Battani I'm not so sure though.


Probably overdosed on Valium again. Boxtel should probably switch him to some sort of amphetamine for next weekend and see what happens :P
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Prefer the PQ list with team names as it makes it easier to work out which teams have done better then others.

Saeed Al Faisal wrote:Another good run, we had a car issues which meant we could not run the first session but I nailed it in the second session, despite spinning a few times due to the water on the track. I hope we can qualify again as a result will put us up the championship table. We have more fizzy rose water too.


Shinobu Katayama wrote:That was horrible, it was really too wet for any one to set a time, nearly everyone aquaplaned. My first session, I aquaplaned off the track and damaged the car and car issues with the spare car did mean I could only do two slow runs. I nope the next race is warm and dry.
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Stramala [kostas22] wrote:Absolute embarassment for Katayama though, she might as well retire on the spot after such a woeful performance. Lapped four times by a Simpson and twice by a Dofasco, it doesn't get any more humiliating than that.
She did spend several laps in the pits due to damage due to aquaplaning but she was 4th as she did finish. :lol:
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SuperAguri wrote:
Stramala [kostas22] wrote:Absolute embarassment for Katayama though, she might as well retire on the spot after such a woeful performance. Lapped four times by a Simpson and twice by a Dofasco, it doesn't get any more humiliating than that.
She did spend several laps in the pits due to damage due to aquaplaning but she was 4th as she did finish. :lol:


The race was bone dry and she had no problem as far as we could tell. :lol:
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Aerond wrote:F1RWRS 2015 -- ROUND 14 -- CHINESE GP -- Macau

Weather report:

Pre-Q: Heavy Rain
Qualifying: Light Rain
Race: Light Rain

PRE-QUALIFYING

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** ALITALIA, HRT AND SIMPSON PASS. ALITALIA WILL SKIP PRE-QUALIFYING AT ROUND 15


Great, so now I have to type up the results? :D

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Wizzie wrote:
SuperAguri wrote:
Stramala [kostas22] wrote:Absolute embarassment for Katayama though, she might as well retire on the spot after such a woeful performance. Lapped four times by a Simpson and twice by a Dofasco, it doesn't get any more humiliating than that.
She did spend several laps in the pits due to damage due to aquaplaning but she was 4th as she did finish. :lol:


The race was bone dry and she had no problem as far as we could tell. :lol:

Aerond wrote:F1RWRS 2015 -- ROUND 14 -- CHINESE GP -- Macau
Weather report:
Pre-Q: Heavy Rain
Qualifying: Light Rain
Race: Light Rain

Where we at the same track? It been forecast for rain most of the weekend so the track looked quite wet from where I am sitting.
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SuperAguri wrote:
Wizzie wrote:
The race was bone dry and she had no problem as far as we could tell. :lol:

Aerond wrote:F1RWRS 2015 -- ROUND 14 -- CHINESE GP -- Macau
Weather report:
Pre-Q: Heavy Rain
Qualifying: Light Rain
Race: Light Rain

Where we at the same track? It been forecast for rain most of the weekend so the track looked quite wet from where I am sitting.


I stand corrected on that first point. But even so, to finish two laps down on a Dofasco with no inherent problem is just downright depressing.
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Alexey Buyvolov wrote:Well, the track conditions were what they were, but it does not change the fact that I presented poorly, what you need to think now about the new season
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SuperAguri wrote:
Stramala [kostas22] wrote:Absolute embarassment for Katayama though, she might as well retire on the spot after such a woeful performance. Lapped four times by a Simpson and twice by a Dofasco, it doesn't get any more humiliating than that.
She did spend several laps in the pits due to damage due to aquaplaning but she was 4th as she did finish. :lol:


She was holding up a friggin' Dofasco in pre-qualifying! :lol:
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BlindCaveSalamander wrote:
SuperAguri wrote:
Stramala [kostas22] wrote:Absolute embarassment for Katayama though, she might as well retire on the spot after such a woeful performance. Lapped four times by a Simpson and twice by a Dofasco, it doesn't get any more humiliating than that.
She did spend several laps in the pits due to damage due to aquaplaning but she was 4th as she did finish. :lol:


She was holding up a friggin' Dofasco in pre-qualifying! :lol:

And the one that is usually the slower Dofasco at that. Tajner was on a mission yesterday...
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And here we are, it's time for easily the most "WTF" moment of the season.

Autosport wrote:Lon signs with MRT for 2016

There was a sensational scene outside the MRT garage as Daniel Melrose, attending his first race since Germany back in July, made several major announcements which may prove pivotal in the ensuing silly season. Firstly, the Australian announced that Prospec refugee Kay Lon will take the second seat alongside Mark Dagnall for 2016. The German has been under pressure to perform and while his career has been on the ropes, the 24 year old believes that he still has plenty of fight left in him. "As many of you recall, I drove with Kay back in 2014 at Jones Racing for the two non-championship races" said Melrose to the waiting press outside the garage. "At the time, I rated he very highly as a driver and, despite his difficult season, I still rate him as one of the best drivers on the grid. He's got a huge amount of experience in these cars for his age, and in a way he reminds me of myself back in my Formula One days, which should make his integration into the team almost seamless."

The second major announcement Melrose made was that, despite many people predicting otherwise, the Tropican government will fund the Tropico Grand Prix team for the next two seasons, much of which is expected to be funded by government revenue collected from PDVSA's expansion into Tropico after large reserves of oil were found off the coast of the Caribbean island. "If you'd asked me two months ago, I probably would have cut funding to the Tropico team for next year" admitted Melrose. "But, with PDVSA expanding into Tropico and El Tropicana Rum Distillery Corporación experiencing record sales thanks to new opportunities in Europe, we've felt that it is now possible to fund both Tropico Grand Prix and MRT for the near-future. Up to now, the Tropican government has had little involvement in the running of the team apart from funding, and it will remain that way as long as I'm President."

Finally, with the news of Lon's departure from Prospec, Melrose announced that the deal between the British team and MRT protege Mitchell Macklin was all but confirmed for 2016. "Right from the outset, Gary (Cameron) has been open to negotiations and it's to his credit that he's considering a young gun like Mitch for next year" said Melrose. "Mitch has had a difficult year at Simpson but he's been chipping away and it's to his and the team's credit that they're now getting out of pre-qualifying on a more regular basis as of late. Hopefully he can make his first start here this afternoon and repay the faith the team has put in him. I've talked to him earlier today and the kid's fully committed to his Simpson drive for as long as Dave wants him in the team for this year, but he's also very excited about the prospect of joining a team with such a rich history in the F1RWRS as the Prospec organsiation for next year."
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Was really not expecting that.

Totally unrelated but it seems like you own half of Tropico GP now. I might be wrong.
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eurobrun wrote:Was really not expecting that.

Totally unrelated but it seems like you own half of Tropico GP now. I might be wrong.


Nah, I just pump Government money into the operation as the Tropico Grand Prix thing is just a massive marketing exercise. It's the German Council (which may or mat not have links to Lon) that own and run the team from wherever it is that they're based.
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Interesting stuff. So that's Phillippe Nicholas on the sidelines too now then. Along with Steele and Spencer, plus does Katayama have a drive? Or Mignolet for that matter? There's an awful lot of talent floating about for the midfield teams to pick up if they fancied. I can see the F2RWRS drivers struggling to find seats for 2016 with the number of decent unattached drivers about.

And Wizzie, obviously you've created plenty of fluff around Melrose and Tropico there, but in terms of the hard facts, I'm assuming Klon still retains the entire ownership of Tropico, and you to MRT, with no crossover between the two? Otherwise people are going to start getting pretty confused, and with your history with the Horizon debacle, people might start pointing fingers. I personally certainly don't want to see Tropico GP become a de facto MRT B team in future, otherwise to keep things simple we might as well just give the Tropico entry to the next person on the waiting list.
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AndreaModa wrote:Interesting stuff. So that's Phillippe Nicholas on the sidelines too now then. Along with Steele and Spencer, plus does Katayama have a drive? Or Mignolet for that matter? There's an awful lot of talent floating about for the midfield teams to pick up if they fancied. I can see the F2RWRS drivers struggling to find seats for 2016 with the number of decent unattached drivers about.


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Cameron 'shocked' by Lon defection

Prospec team principal Gary Cameron has admitted that Kay Lon's move to MRT took him by surprise. The German has had a disappointing 2015, failing to score a single point so far and often being outshone by team-mate Fredo Mestolio, but it seems that has not put off MRT boss Daniel Melrose from signing him for next year - much to Cameron's astonishment. "I'm shocked, to be honest," said the 2010 F1RWRS drivers' champion when questioned about the move. "Kay has had a difficult season, I'm sure he would admit that himself. I had no inkling he was being courted by any other teams, particularly one as high-profile as MRT. I don't know how Kay will deal with being a clear number 2 - he's never hidden his disdain for Mark Dagnall in the past but now he has to work with him, so that should make for interesting viewing next year."

Asked whether he felt let down, Cameron responded, "Yes, I suppose I do a bit. I would at least have liked to know that he was having discussions with other teams. Having said that though, it wasn't at all certain that we were going to keep him on anyway unless his performance level improved considerably in the final two races. Now though, we need to go to the last two races in a positive frame of mind, and end the short association we've had with Kay on a high note."

Cameron also confirmed that Simpson driver Mitchell Macklin - the 2014 F2RWRS champion - would be Lon's replacement for the 2016 season.
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Autosport wrote:Championship races getting tight.
With three races left, the championship battle is coming to a close. Only three drivers can take the championship and here we look at their chances.

Mark Dangnall - 56 Points
Dagnall surpirsed the padock by moving to MRT early, so said that he was throwing the championship away but despite an early streak of wins, he has suffered issues and was in crashes in the DGN car by clocking up more DNFs in a row then any other driver. His qualifying performance has also been woeful. However he then came back with a wonderful win in the North Sea GP putting him back in control. The MRT is not plagued with as many problems as the DGN car but it would be a surprise if Mark Dagnall finished all three races. A second place (or a win) and a failure of Rosco Vantini to score will secure him the championship this race.

Rosco Vantini - 42 Points
Jones gambled on signing the F2RWRS 2014 runner up but Vantini has paid their trust many fold. He has managed to get more podiums then any other driver this season and has only failed to score on a few occasions. Jones have produced a reliable car and Vantini has taken advantage of this. However he knows he must grab as many podiums as possible and hopefully his second win in order to keep his championship dreams alive.

Rhys Davies - 35 Points
Davies must have been gutted to see Mark Dagnall win in the MRT car after he left to join the Jones team early. Davies looked like he would challenge for the championship early on but mistakes by Davies and the unreliablilty of the car scuppered the many chances he had to gain on Mark Dangalls bad luck and let Vantini breeze past. He has a mountain to climb, even if Dagnall scores no points he needs Two wins and a 5th place or A win and 2 second places or he can kiss the championship goodbye.

There are battles from 4th to 9th and from 10th and lower with changes likely before the season ends.

The teams championship with 48 points up for grabs is closer, but realistically it is between two teams.

MRT - 79 Points
Phillippe Nicolas has a point to prove and if he can get podiums and Dagnall some points then MRT should sew up the constructors championship and hopefully sign with a decent midfield team.

Jones - 62 Points
If Davies and Vantini can get the reliable Jones car into the points every race then they could creep up and snatch the championship away.

DGN - 53 Points
Should keep 3rd but probably do not have a hope in hell of getting anything better.

Aeroracing - 49 Points
If they can get the car to the front then they might snatch 3rd away from DGN but it is unlikely they can challenge any higher.

With minor points up for grabs. Gillet will want to keep 5th. Arrowtech, Foxdale, Kamaha, Sunshine and Boxtel will be fighting for 6th. Kingfisher will be hoping for other points outside their lucky 3rd and the rest will be hoping for some points to cement a decent place for TV money.
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Kay Lon at MRT? David Neuberg wasn't available? In that case, ArrowTech will make an offer on him.
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AndreaModa wrote:Or Mignolet for that matter?

WTF? Did ANYBODY notice that he signed with Alitalia WEEKS AGO?!
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AndreaModa wrote:Does Katayama have a drive?


Yes, I think so.

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Re: F1RWRS -- 2015 Season -Macau Quali SUN 2PM, Race 10PM-

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Stramala [kostas22] wrote:
AndreaModa wrote:Or Mignolet for that matter?

WTF? Did ANYBODY notice that he signed with Alitalia WEEKS AGO?!


I did, if it matters...
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