Welcome aboard the Women's GT Junior Cup 2014 / 2015! In this winter series during the silly season between the Women's GT World Championships of 2014 and 2015, 20 factory teams will do battle for the European Championship title, this series has to offer.
Since this is also a young drivers development program, the 6 best drivers and race engineers plus the 3 best Technical Directors from this series will be granted a WDA World Championship licence, which makes them eligible to work for a team in the Women's GT World Championship.
WDA stands for Women Drivers Association, a department of the FIA organizing motorsports event and serieses for female drivers only. President of the WDA is Michele Mouton. The WDA has the last say when it comes to rules and regulations, which means, they follow the official FIA rules and regulations most of the time, but not all the time (like when it comes to car classifications, for example, as you'll see below).
Rules and Regulations (Game Mechanics)
1.) Eligible cars
Most eligible cars in this series are GT3 cars by definition. However, some manufacturers don't build GT3 cars, so all these cars below will be equalized by BoP (Balance of Performance), which in turn will help the Team Principals to spot a true driver talent behind the wheel much easier.
For this series, we will pretend, that each of these manufacturers has built the car and the engine themselves, although that's not the fact in real life.
Most of these factory teams are also part of the Women's GT World Championship, which allows players from that series to build up their own young drivers development program, if they want to.
To help all new players to identify, which team is still available, the teams that are already taken are marked RED.
Aston Martin V8 Vantage GTE
Audi R8 LMS
BMW Z4 GT3
Bugatti EB 110 GT
Chevrolet Corvette C6 Z06 GT2
Dodge (SRT) Viper GTS-R
Ferrari 458 Italia GT3
Ford GT3
Honda HSV-010
Jaguar XKR GT3
Lamborghini Gallardo LP600 GT3
Lotus Evora GTE
Maserati GranTurismo MC GT3
McLaren MP4/12C GT3
Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3
Morgan Aero 8 GT3
Nissan Nismo GT-R GT3
Porsche 911 GT3
Toyota Supra GT500
Venturi GT3
2.) The official calendar of this season
Pre-Season Test Session - Spain (Circuit de Catalunya)
Round 01 - Portugal (Circuito da Boavista)
Round 02 - Spain (Circuit de Catalunya)
Round 03 - France (Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours)
Round 04 - Great Britain (Brands Hatch Circuit)
Test Session - Great Britain (Silverstone Circuit)
Round 05 - Netherlands (Circuit Park Zandvoort)
Round 06 - Belgium (Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps)
Round 07 - Germany (Sachsenring)
Round 08 - Austria (Red-Bull-Ring)
Test Session - Austria (Red Bull Ring)
Round 09 - Czech Republic (Masaryk Circuit)
Round 10 - Slovakia (Automotodrom Slovakia Ring)
Round 11 - Italy (Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari)
Round 12 - Master Trophy (Nürburgring, Germany)
3.) The Points System
1st place - 50 points
2nd place - 40 points
3rd place - 35 Points
4th place - 30 Points
5th place - 26 Points
6th place - 22 Points
7th place - 18 Points
8th place - 15 Points
9th place - 12 Points
10th place - 9 Points
11th place - 7 Points
12th place - 5 Points
13th place - 3 Points
14th place - 1 point
No points are awarded for fastest lap or pole-position.
4.) Car Numbers
In the first season numbers will be given by date of entry. Whoever comes first, receives the numbers 0 / 2 etc. Since there isn't a drivers champion yet, number 1 remains unused. The "unlucky" number 13 will not be assigned.
After the first season, re-entering teams will receive car numbers according to their final standing in the last championship.
5.) Testing
None of the test sessions in the official race calendar are mandatory, except the pre-season test session. If teams decide to test new drivers, race engineers and Technical Directors during these test sessions, the rule "one race to get accustomed to his/her new job" does not apply.
6.) Qualification
A qualifying session is held before the race. All drivers with a lap time outside 105 % of the pole-position are not qualified and may not enter the race.
A maximum grid of 30 cars is allowed to enter each race. Every driver who doesn't make the grid, is listed as DNQ.
7.) Drivers
7.1.) Teamorder
You can set your drivers to First and Second Driver. Internally this means, when they happen to finish 1-2 in a race, your Second Driver has to let your First Driver pass, if she's in front at that time.
If you don't like Team Order, simply say so in your post and both of your drivers will get the code "X", which means, you treat them both equally.
7.2.) Level of Aggressiveness (LoA)
Your drivers can be set to 3 different levels: Aggressive (AGG), Moderate (MOD) and Defensive (DEF). If you don't do so, they'll always race at Moderate.
Aggressive (AGG) - Your driver will attack wherever possible and go to her and the cars limit in each race. Chance of driver errors and accidents is at maximum.
Moderate (MOD) - The default setting. Your driver will attack and defend if necessary. She will rarely go to her or the cars limit. Chance of driver errors and accidents is at normal.
Defensive (DEF) - Your driver will never attack on her own and only defend her current position. She'll never go to her or the cars limit. Chance of driver errors or accidents is at zero.
Unlike old PC games, you don't need to change the LoA before each race. Most of the time Moderate (MOD) will work perfectly for you. This also doesn't mean, that the settings are to be taken literally. Even if you set one driver to DEF, she will attack the car in front of her, if she really really gets the chance to do it safely.
The code I'll use looks either like this:
Car #14: Rahel Frey (1 / AGG)
Car #15: Natacha Gachnang (2 / MOD)
This means, that your drivers are set at First and Second Driver. Rahel is set at Aggressive (AGG) and Natacha at Moderate (MOD).
Or like this:
Car #14: Rahel Frey (X / AGG)
Car #15: Natacha Gachnang (X / MOD)
Same as the first example, only this time "X" indicates, that both drivers are treated equally by their teams.
8.) Miscellaneous
Because this is a young driver development program, this series doesn't feature upgrades, different fuel suppliers or different tyre suppliers, so that each player can figure out much better, how good his personnel is.
The standard tyre supplier for this series is Goodyear, the standard fuel supplier is Shell.
Entering a Team
Please follow the instructions below to enter your team. Then fill everything into the official entry format (also below) to ensure, your entry is complete and correct.
A.) Pick a Team Name and your alias as a Team Principal
Each team in this series is treated as a factory team by definition. But most factories have no resources to run both a World Championship Team and a Junior Team by themselves, so you are allowed to pick a fictional name for your operation, as long as it includes the name of the brand you're working for.
Examples: Audi Team ABT, BMW Junior Team, Ford Team Italy...
Your alias as a Team Principal can be real or fictional, male or female. If you chose a real person, make sure he / she will be alive and well in the Winter of 2014 / 2015 and please do not chose any person from the lists below as your Team Principal!
B.) Choose your car
Choose a car from the list above. If you already manage a team in the Women's GT World Championship, you may as well pick its counterpart in the Junior Cup as well.
Because I've pre-selected them for a reason, you can't choose a car that is not on the list.
C.) Choose your Technical Director
He/she is in charge of the technical staff. The capability of your Technical Director certainly plays an important role on the performance of your cars. Please pick only from this list. You may suggest other Technical Directors, but they are not allowed to partake in this season, because a strict evaluation process will be in need to determine, if they are eligible for a FIA Standard licence or rather a WDA World Championship licence.
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Ben Agathangelou
Tino Belli
Loic Bigois (MASERATI)
Gustav Brunner
Aldo Costa (FERRARI)
Mike Coughlan (BUGATTI)
Andre de Cortanze (DODGE)
Riccardo de Marco
Richard Divila
Bernard Dudot
Claude Gallopin
Mike Gascoyne (NISSAN)
John Gentry
Tim Goss
Jean-Paul Gousset
Andrew Green
Mark Handford
Rene Hilhorst
Alex Hitzinger
Alan Jenkins (JAGUAR)
Ignazio Lunetta
Sam Michael (LOTUS)
Nicolo Petrucci
David Pitchforth
Ian Pocock
Willy Rampf
Stefan Reinhold
Adrian Reynard (MERCEDES-BENZ)
Sergio Rinland (CHEVROLET)
John Russell
Mark Smith
Keizo Takahashi (TOYOTA)
Dr. Antonia Terzi (McLAREN)
Willem Toet
Nick Wirth (MORGAN)
Jörg ZanderD.) Choose your drivers
Please pick only from this list. You may suggest other drivers, but they are not allowed to partake in this season, because a strict evaluation process will be in need to determine, if they are eligible for a FIA Standard licence or rather a WDA World Championship licence. You need two drivers.
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- A -
Mishael Abbott (MORGAN)
Nathalie Abrahamsson
Mikaela Ahlin-Kottulinsky (FERRARI)
Amber Anderson (TOYOTA)
Madalena Antas
Arianna Armati
Alexandra Asmasoebrata (BUGATTI)
- B -
Julia Ballario
Alessia Belometti
Anett Benik-Garami
Charlotte Berton
Sandra Bocande
Jessica Brannam
Marlene Broggi
Jessica Brunelli
Kristin Bumbera
- C -
Valeria Vanessa Carballo Berroteran
Juliana Carreira
Tiffany Chittenden (DODGE)
Louise Cook
Becky Beth Cox
Kim Crosby
Nadia Cutro
- D -
Martina Danhelova
Tiffany Daniels
Collete Davis (McLAREN)
Michelle de Jesus
Sylvie Delcour
Gabi di Carlo
Marika Diana (CHEVROLET)
- E -
Burcu Erenkul
- F -
Chiara Felici
Catharina Felser
Taylor Lynn Ferns
Ashley Force
Courtney Force (JAGUAR)
Amandine Foulard
Natalia Freidina
- G -
Cassie Gannis
Lucy Glöckner
Samin Gomez Briceno
Juliana Gonzalez
Kara Guenette
- H -
Charlotte Haegermark
Eva Harkema
Diana Harker
Destiney Hays
Jodie Hemming
Jennie-Lee Hermansson
Gwendolyn Hertzberger (MORGAN)
- J -
Gabriela Jilkova
Carmen Jorda (MASERATI)
Hiromi Kajikuma (JAGUAR)
Kristy Kester
Ramona Kiss (TOYOTA)
Becky Kirvan
Alexandra Kocsis
Katharina König
Anett Kovary
Natalia Kowalska (LOTUS)
Ulrike Krafft
Jenni Krohn
Robyn Kruger
Julia Kuhn
- L -
Marguerite "Margot" Laffite
Elena Lana (BMW)
Fabienne Lanz
Isabella Lauer
Kristina Lönnqvist
Nicole Lüttecke
Nicole Lyons
- M -
Alison MacLeod (DODGE)
Wendy Mathis
Veronica McCann
Sarah McCune (NISSAN)
Shannon McIntosh (McLAREN)
Verena Mei
Jana Meiswinkel
Gaby Dela Merced (MASERATI)
Kazumi Mikami (BUGATTI)
Elena Missaglia
Nicole Müllenmeister
Leilani Münter (LOTUS)
Elena Myers
- N -
Alessandra Neri (AUDI)
Christina Nielsen
Ksenya Niks
- O -
Christina Orr
Alli Owens
- P -
Graziela Paioli
Lucie Panackova
Larissa Papenmeier
Fernanda Parra
Vittoria "Vicky" Piria (NISSAN)
Klaudia Podkalica
Katja Poensgen
Nina Prinz
Leah Pruett (MERCEDES-BENZ)
- R -
Deborah Renshaw
Estefania Reyes
Mathilde Riehl
Debora Rodrigues
Elena Rosell
Maria Cristina Rosito
- S -
Szilvia Sas
Eve Scheer
Cora Schumacher
Emma Selway
Vibe Smed
Bianca Steiner
Amanda Stretton
Christina Surer
Sandra Sutter
Laura Suvanto
Hayley Swanson (AUDI)
- T -
Molly Taylor (BMW)
Valerie Thompson
Laura Tillett
Emilee Tominovich (CHEVROLET)
Morgan Turpen
- V -
Veronica Valverde (FERRARI)
Alexandra van de Velde
Manuela Vasquez Blandon
Adrienn Vogel
Brittany Jordan Vorster
- W -
Syndiely Wade
Jacqueline "Jackie" Weiss
Corry Weller
Hillary Will (MERCEDES-BENZ)
Sara WilliamsE.) Choose your race engineers
You need one for each driver. The race engineers will help improve the performance of your drivers. Please pick only from this list. You may suggest other race engineers, but they are not allowed to partake in this season, because a strict evaluation process will be in need to determine, if they are eligible for a FIA Standard licence or rather a WDA World Championship licence.
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Mehdi Ahmadi
Angel Baena
Claudio Balestri (MASERATI)
Lucas Berger
Olaf Bulgrin (CHEVROLET)
Caroline Carlsson (NISSAN)
Simon Cayzer
Phil Charles (JAGUAR)
Franco Chiocchetti
Cass Cole
Richard Connell
Valentino Conte (McLAREN)
Laurent Coppee
Humphrey Corbett (MORGAN)
Antonio Cuquerella
Giampaolo Dall'ara (LOTUS)
Remi Decorzent (CHEVROLET)
Jody Egginton (AUDI)
Dieter Gass
Peter Gibbons (JAGUAR)
Dave Greenwood
Howden Haynes
Gerry Hughes (BMW)
Mark Hutcheson
Karl Jennings
Gill Jones (TOYOTA)
Bradley Joyce
Jürgen Jungklaus
James Key (FERRARI)
Ayo Komatsu (BUGATTI)
Mike Krack
Gianpiero Lambiase
Andrea Landi
Rosella Manfrinato (DODGE)
Martin Marx (MERCEDES-BENZ)
Tom McCullough (BMW)
Laurent Mekies
Markus Michelberger
Florian Modlinger
Francesco Nenci
Ossi Oikarinen (MERCEDES-BENZ)
Alan Permane (FERRARI)
Ciaron Pilbeam (MORGAN)
Gianluca Pisanello
Tim Preston (NISSAN)
Xevi Pujolar
Axel Randolph (BUGATTI)
Simon Rennie
Andreas Roos
Tony Ross (MASERATI)
Michael Schauer
Marco Schüpbach
Antonia Scott (AUDI)
Stefano Sordo
Alexander Stehlig
Craig WilsonF.) The official entry format
After following all instructions above, please fit everything into the official entry format below:
Team:
Team Principal:
Technical Director:
Driver #1:
Driver #2:
Race Engineer Driver #1:
Race Engineer Driver #2:
G.) Deadline for entries
I will either close the entries on Thursday the 27th, 12 pm (CET) or when every team has been taken or when no one is signing up anymore (whatever comes first).
H.) RNG / D20
If more than one team should want to hire the same driver / race engineer / Technical Director, the RNG or a throw with a 20-sided dice will determine, which contract said person will sign in the end.
The official entry list
Team: McLaren Automotive
Team Principal: Michael Andretti (mike robers)
Technical Director: Dr. Antonia Terzi
Car #0: Shannon McIntosh (X / AGG)
Car #2: Collete Davis (X / AGG)
Chief Engineer: Valentino Conte
Team: BMW Vitaphone Racing
Team Principal: Michael Bartels (Wizzie)
Technical Director: Michael Bartels
Car #3: Elena Lana (X / AGG)
Car #4: Molly Taylor (X / AGG)
Race Engineer Car #3: Gerry Hughes
Race Engineer Car #4: Tom McCullough
Team: Audi Motorsports
Team Principal: Steffi Schmidt / Vanina Ickx (Australian Stig)
Technical Director: Vanina Ickx
Car #5: Hayley Swanson (2 / AGG)
Car #6: Alessandra Neri (1 / AGG)
Race Engineer Car #5: Jody Egginton
Race Engineer Car #6: Antonia Scott
Team: Kellogg's All-Bran EuroBran Racing with Morgan
Team Principal: Herrmann Mann (pasta_maldonado)
Technical Director: Nick Wirth
Car #7: Gwendolyn Hertzberger (X / AGG)
Car #8: Mishael Abbott (X / AGG)
Race Engineer Car #7: Ciaron Pilbeam
Race Engineer Car #8: Humphrey Corbett
Team: Programma Giovane Pilota della Ferrari
Team Principal: Marc Henri (go_Rubens)
Technical Director: Aldo Costa
Car #9: Mikaela Ahlin-Kottulinsky (X / AGG)
Car #10: Veronica Valverde (X / AGG)
Race Engineer Car #9: James Key
Race Engineer Car #10: Alan Permane
Team: Scuderia Maserati
Team Principal: Enzo Coloni (This)
Technical Director: Loic Bigois
Car #11: Gaby Dela Merced (1 / AGG)
Car #12: Carmen Jorda (2 / AGG)
Race Engineer Car #11: Claudio Balestri
Race Engineer Car #12: Tony Ross
Team: Haas Automation Racing Chevrolet
Team Principal: Gene Haas (Onyx Wrecked)
Technical Director: Sergio Rinland
Car #14: Marika Diana (X / AGG)
Car #15: Emilee Tominovich (X / AGG)
Race Engineer Car #14: Remi Decorzent
Race Engineer Car #15: Olaf Bulgrin
Team: Dodge SRT Racing Team
Team Principal: Craig Harris (V8fan12)
Technical Director: André de Cortanze
Car #16: Tiffany Chittenden (X / MOD)
Car #17: Alison MacLeod (X / AGG)
Chief Engineer: Rosella Manfrinato
Team: Toyota Racing by Loyer
Team Principal: Herbert Loyer (Hermann95)
Technical Director: Keizo Takahashi
Car #18: Ramona Kiss (X / MOD)
Car #19: Amber Anderson (X / MOD)
Chief Engineer: Gill Jones
Team: Vodafone Nissan Racing
Team Principal: Anthony Reid (East Londoner)
Technical Director: Mike Gascoyne
Car #20: Vicky Piria (X / AGG)
Car #21: Sarah McCune (X / AGG)
Race Engineer Car #20: Caroline Carlsson
Race Engineer Car #21: Tim Preston
Team: Techcraft and DAMS powered by Bugatti
Team Principal: Asuka Kuwashima / Jean-Paul Driot (FMecha)
Technical Director: Mike Coughlan
Car #22: Alexandra Asmasoebrata (1 / MOD)
Car #23: Kazumi Mikami (2 / AGG)
Race Engineer Car #22: Axel Randolph
Race Engineer Car #23: Ayo Komatsu
Team: Lotus Juniors
Team Principal: Claire Williams (dr-baker)
Technical Director: Sam Michael
Car #24: Leilani Münter (2 / MOD)
Car #25: Natalia Kowalska (1 / MOD)
Chief Engineer: Giampaolo Dall'Ara
Team: Lamb Jaguar Racing
Team Principal: Kelvin Lamb (KL-racer)
Technical Director: Alan Jenkins
Car #26: Courtney Force (X / MOD)
Car #27: Hiromi Kajikuma (X / MOD)
Race Engineer Car #26: Peter Gibbons
Race Engineer Car #27: Phil Charles
Team: Riccetti Competition Mercedes-Benz-AMG Jr. Iron Ladies
Team Principal: Mark Riccetti jr. (Wallio)
Technical Director: Adrian Reynard
Car #28: Hillary Will (X / MOD)
Car #29: Leah Pruett (X / AGG)
Race Engineer Car #28: Ossi Oikarinen
Race Engineer Car #29: Martin Marx
This list will be kept up-to-date over the course of this season.
The official waiting list
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If any of you should have questions, feel free to ask.
I really hope, you'll give this one a try and I look forward to your entries now!
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