Formula Winter League 2001 Sign Up.

Shadaza · Post by **Shadaza** » 06 Oct 2014, 10:17

Formula 1 is a global sport watched by millions, but viewer dedication and fanatical support of teams is nowhere near the level of football. The FIA have decide to start a new league based motor racing series where teams run large squads of real drivers based around a home circuit where they can have home and away race meetings.

This series will take place during the winter F1 off-season, beginning in 2001.

This sign up features:

Squads of 8 drivers in which 6 of them race at any given weekend.
A chosen home racing circuit for your team, the team name must include the circuit or circuit region in it's name somehow.
A base colour for home and away liveries.
A pace vs Grip range vs Reliability team combination/upgrade system.
A League Table.
Team Captains.
RNG based driver selection.
A Preseason Transfer Window
A Midseason Transfer Window.

The program used to simulate will be GP2, but with plenty of in-house modifications.

For now, this is the entry form so I can gage interest and move on to the next step.

Team Name:
Home Race Circuit : (Must not be a street circuit, but can otherwise be fictional.)
Home Colours:
Away Colours:
Alternate Colours: (If there is a clash with the other 2 schemes.)

Entry List:

Catalunya Rejects - Circuit de Catalunya.
Captain: HWNSNBM

Rejects from Downunder - Phillip Island?
Captain: Ryan Briscoe

Time Brazil - Interlagos
Captain: Rubens Barrichello

Bat Vita Racing - Pergusa
Captain: Luca Badoer

Spa Weather Kings - Spa
Captain: Michael Schumacher

Old Racing - Sandown Melbourne
Captain: Craig Lowndes

Silverstone Silverbacks - Silverstone
Captain: Dario Franchitti

Motegi Twin Stars - Twin Ring Motegi
Captain: Ryo Michigami

Team Dixie - Nashville Speedway
Captain: Eddie Cheever

Team Kiwi Racing - Pukekohe Park
Captain: Scott Dixon

Korean Air Racing Team (Kart) - Yeongnam
Captain: Vitaly Petrov

Symmons Plains Racing Team (SPRT) - Symmons Plains
Captain: Jamie Whincup

Formula Arwhelier - Nurburgring
Captain: Ralf Schumacher

Team New Zealand - Auckland
Captain: Greg Murphy

Team Swelgian Warriors - Zolder
Captain: Bertrand Gachot

Team Croft UK - Croft
Captain: Kimi Raikkonen

TheFlyingCaterham · Post by **TheFlyingCaterham** » 06 Oct 2014, 10:45

Team Name: Catalunya Rejects
Home Race Circuit : (Must not be a street circuit, but can otherwise be fictional.) Circuit de Catalunya
Home Colours: Red with Yellow Stripe
Away Colours: Yellow with Dark Red Sidepods
Alternate Colours: (If there is a clash with the other 2 schemes.) Black with small red and yellow stripes.

Just wanna put out that I will try to make as many of my drivers as possible F1 Rejects in order to fit the name of my team

Dom_Wings · Post by **Dom_Wings** » 06 Oct 2014, 14:20

Team Name: Rejects from Down Under
Home Race Circuit : Albert Park (Melbourne)
Home Colours: Green w/ yellow sidepods
Away Colours: White w/ red sidepods and blue wings
Alternate Colours: Yellow w/ white sidepods and red wings

P.S. I am not Australian btw

Edit: Changed the RWing to both wings.

FantometteBR · Post by **FantometteBR** » 06 Oct 2014, 15:51

Team Name: Time Brasil
Home Race Circuit : Autódromo José Carlos Pace (aka Interlagos), São Paulo, Brazil
Home Colours: Yellow with Green Sidepods and blue wings
Away Colours: blue with white sidepods and wings
Alternate Colours: Green wings, blue and white

Normal32 · Post by **Normal32** » 06 Oct 2014, 16:30

Team Name: BAT Vita Racing
Home Race Circuit : Pergussa, Italy
Home Colours: 555 livery
Away Colours: Red and White Lucky Strike livery
Alternate Colours: half and half livery

Hermann95 · Post by **Hermann95** » 06 Oct 2014, 17:39

Team Name: Spa Weather Kings
Home Race Circuit : Spa Francochamps
Home Colours: Black base car with orange wings
Away Colours: yellow base car with red wings.
Alternate Colours: Dark Blue with Red Wings and yellow sidepod.

Shadaza · Post by **Shadaza** » 06 Oct 2014, 18:45

Reject_Dom wrote:Team Name: Rejects from Down Under
Home Race Circuit : Albert Park (Melbourne)
Home Colours: Green w/ yellow sidepods
Away Colours: White w/ red sidepods and blue wings
Alternate Colours: Yellow w/ white sidepods and red wings

P.S. I am not Australian btw

Edit: Changed the RWing to both wings.

Albert Park is a street circuit when all rounds need to be on permanent race courses, but there is the local Sandown raceway that is also in Melbourne, which I can run.

roblo97 · Post by **roblo97** » 06 Oct 2014, 18:52

Team Name: Old Racing
Home Race Circuit : Sandown (Melbourne)
Home Colours: black with orange bits
Away Colours: blue with gold chrome bits
Alternate Colours: magenta with burgundy bits

Salamander · Post by **Salamander** » 06 Oct 2014, 18:54

Team Name: Silverstone Silverbacks
Home Race Circuit: Silverstone
Home Colours: Silver w/ black Cunningham stripes
Away Colours: Black w/ silver Cunningham stripes
Alternate Colours: Silver

FMecha · Post by **FMecha** » 06 Oct 2014, 19:05

Team Name: Motegi TwinStars
Home Race Circuit: Twin Ring Motegi (road course)
Home Colours: Blue, white, green (circuit logo colors)
Away Colours: White with red linings
Alternate Colours: Night blue

Klon · Post by **Klon** » 06 Oct 2014, 20:18

Team Name: Team Dixie
Home Race Circuit: Nashville Superspeedway
Home Colours: Red
Away Colours: Blue
Alternate Colours: White

TomWazzleshaw · Post by **TomWazzleshaw** » 06 Oct 2014, 20:31

Team Name: Team Kiwi Racing
Home Race Circuit: Pukekohe Park
Home Colours: Black with White stripes
Away Colours: White with Black stripes
Alternate Colours: Green with Silver highlights

TheFlyingCaterham · Post by **TheFlyingCaterham** » 06 Oct 2014, 21:15

Shadaza wrote:
Reject_Dom wrote:Team Name: Rejects from Down Under
Home Race Circuit : Albert Park (Melbourne)
Home Colours: Green w/ yellow sidepods
Away Colours: White w/ red sidepods and blue wings
Alternate Colours: Yellow w/ white sidepods and red wings

P.S. I am not Australian btw

Edit: Changed the RWing to both wings.

Albert Park is a street circuit when all rounds need to be on permanent race courses, but there is the local Sandown raceway that is also in Melbourne, which I can run.

I will also suggest Phillip Island, if you have a mod for it. It's a fast, flowing circuit with not too many braking points. Also has some decent elevation, mainly noticeable in the last part of the lap.

tristan1117 · Post by **tristan1117** » 07 Oct 2014, 00:05

Team Name: Korean Air Racing Team (KART)
Home Race Circuit : Yeongam
Home Colours: Blue and Black
Away Colours: Red and Black
Alternate Colours: White and Blue

HawkAussie · Post by **HawkAussie** » 07 Oct 2014, 00:40

Team Name: Symmons Plains Racing Team (SPRT)
Home Race Circuit : Symmons Plains
Home Colours: Green and Red
Away Colours: Red and White
Alternate Colours: White and Green

AustralianStig · Post by **AustralianStig** » 07 Oct 2014, 00:45

Cool idea, I'm liking this.

Team Name: Formula Deutschland
Home Race Circuit : Nürburgring (probably the GP course, I doubt the FIA would allow the Nordschleife!)
Home Colours: Mainly black, with some red and yellow details
Away Colours: The traditional 'Silver Arrows' colour scheme, with red numbers.
Alternate Colours: Mainly white, with some red and yellow details

V8fan12 · Post by **V8fan12** » 07 Oct 2014, 02:15

Team Name: Team New Zealand
Home Race Circuit: Levels Raceway, Timaru, New Zealand
Home Colours: Black with silver wings & sidepods
Away Colours: White with black wings & sidepods
Alternate Colours: Silver with black wings & sidepods

Dom_Wings · Post by **Dom_Wings** » 07 Oct 2014, 12:40

TheFlyingCaterham wrote:
Shadaza wrote:Albert Park is a street circuit when all rounds need to be on permanent race courses, but there is the local Sandown raceway that is also in Melbourne, which I can run.

I will also suggest Phillip Island, if you have a mod for it. It's a fast, flowing circuit with not too many braking points. Also has some decent elevation, mainly noticeable in the last part of the lap.

As Sandown has been taken now, I will go for Phillip Island.

I know that track very much from some MotoGP/SBK games I played and it is really entertaining IMHO.

andrew · Post by **andrew** » 08 Oct 2014, 07:07

Team name: Swelgian warriors
Home curcuit: spa
Home colours: th belgian flag
Away colours the swiss flag
Alternate: white red and gold

Dom_Wings · Post by **Dom_Wings** » 08 Oct 2014, 11:28

We got one with a Spa home track...

...but can multiple people have the same home track btw?

Shadaza · Post by **Shadaza** » 08 Oct 2014, 19:56

Reject_Dom wrote:We got one with a Spa home track...

...but can multiple people have the same home track btw?

Nope, Swelgian Warriors will be moved to Zolder unless they want to go somewhere else, or the current Spa team wish to share the venue.

A few of these circuits I can't find GP2 track files for, but that doesn't mean they don't exist somewhere so a link to them would be great, I am missing:

Phillip Island - Australia
Levels Race Way - New Zealand
Montgomery Motor Speedway - USA

Also 16 teams is the max I can run and we have 15 entered, so only one spot remaining.

The next step if for all teams to nominate a driver to be their team captain. If multiple teams want the same driver to lead their team then I shall use weighed RNG to decide, weighing it on who requested the driver first and distance away from said driver's home country (the closer the better.) Though the weight affect will only be a small one.

You can start nominating drivers for the captain and only the captain roll, now. You may want to have a couple of backup drivers in case your first choice gets taken.

Besides generically leading the team, the captain will be important for increasing your chances of signing drivers affiliated with him and will also play a roll in the stability (Random Grip Range) of all drivers in the team, so make sure you have someone quick, reliable and respected.

Normal32 · Post by **Normal32** » 08 Oct 2014, 20:06

Vita will offer a captain seat to Luca Badoer

V8fan12 · Post by **V8fan12** » 08 Oct 2014, 20:08

Shadaza, if you can't find a GP2 track file for Levels Raceway, Team New Zealand's home track will have to be moved to Queensland Raceway (unless there is another New Zealand GP2 track besides Pukekohe available?).

Anyway here's my team captain nominations:
1. Scott Dixon
2. Greg Murphy
3. Paul Radisich
4. Craig Baird

Klon · Post by **Klon** » 08 Oct 2014, 20:10

Team Dixie will move to the Nashville Superspeedway - I totally overlooked the fact that you are using GP2. I would like to change my colours then as well, if that's possible. I have edited my post to account for that.

Phillip Island can be found on http://gp2v8.i8.com/ - don't know whether it works, though.

Team Dixie's lead driver will be either Eddie Cheever, Michael Andretti or Sarah Fisher.

TheFlyingCaterham · Post by **TheFlyingCaterham** » 08 Oct 2014, 20:38

I will choose HWNSNBM to be the lead driver for my team. Not joking

roblo97 · Post by **roblo97** » 08 Oct 2014, 20:44

My team will offer Craig Lowndes the Captaincy

Hermann95 · Post by **Hermann95** » 08 Oct 2014, 20:50

The Spa Weather Kings won't like to share our hometrack.

For drivers:
(if F1 drivers are allowed):
1.Michael Schumacher
2.Mika Häkkinen
3.David Coulthard
4.Rubens Barrichello

(if F1 drivers are not allowed):
1. Gil de Ferran
2. Michael Andretti
3. Helio Castroneves
4. Jeff Gordon

Shadaza · Post by **Shadaza** » 08 Oct 2014, 20:55

Hermann95 wrote:The Spa Weather Kings won't like to share our hometrack.

For drivers:
(if F1 drivers are allowed):
1.Michael Schumacher
2.Mika Häkkinen
3.David Coulthard
4.Rubens Barrichello

(if F1 drivers are not allowed):
1. Gil de Ferran
2. Michael Andretti
3. Helio Castroneves
4. Jeff Gordon

F1 drivers are very much allowed, driver budgets are not a concern either.

Salamander · Post by **Salamander** » 08 Oct 2014, 21:32

The Silverstone Silverbacks will nominate Dario Franchitti to be our captain.

AustralianStig · Post by **AustralianStig** » 08 Oct 2014, 23:29

Formula Deutschland of course are completely committed to promoting German talent, and would like to extend a warm welcome to the both Michael Schumacher and Ralf Schumacher for the inaugural campaign. Michael is our first preference for team captain, with Ralf our fallback.

FantometteBR · Post by **FantometteBR** » 09 Oct 2014, 01:12

Time Brasil will select Rubens Barrichello as our captain

HawkAussie · Post by **HawkAussie** » 09 Oct 2014, 01:13

Symmons Plains Racing Team will like to nominate Jamie Whincup for our first preference and Mark Webber is our fallback

tristan1117 · Post by **tristan1117** » 09 Oct 2014, 01:16

KART will nominate Vitaly Petrov as their captain.

FMecha · Post by **FMecha** » 09 Oct 2014, 04:04

TwinStars will nominate Ryo Michigami as the captain.

Also, is Yeongam too anachronistic with the series' setting? This is 2001, not 2011.

AustralianStig · Post by **AustralianStig** » 09 Oct 2014, 04:20

AustralianStig wrote:Cool idea, I'm liking this.

Team Name: Formula Deutschland
Home Race Circuit : Nürburgring (probably the GP course, I doubt the FIA would allow the Nordschleife!)
Home Colours: Mainly black, with some red and yellow details
Away Colours: The traditional 'Silver Arrows' colour scheme, with red numbers.
Alternate Colours: Mainly white, with some red and yellow details

Sorry to be a pain, but could we please change my team name to Formula Ahrweiler? That way it feels a little less A1GP and a little more club-based.

Ahrweiler is the district in which Nürburg is located.

Thanks

andrew · Post by **andrew** » 09 Oct 2014, 06:52

Well take zolder

Drivers
Bertrand Gachot
Eric van de Poele
Thierry Bousten
Clay regazzoni
Jean-Denis Délétraz

Manager will be Dam. Brosio

TheFlyingCaterham · Post by **TheFlyingCaterham** » 09 Oct 2014, 07:42

This will hopefully be my driver lineup for the season

Main Drivers:
HWNSNBM
Fernando Alonso
Andrea de Cesaris
Alex Zanardi
Pedro de la Rosa
Alex Yoong

Reserves:
Allan McNish & Pedro Diniz
Backups: Jean Alesi & Enrique Bernoldi

Dom_Wings · Post by **Dom_Wings** » 09 Oct 2014, 12:46

Jesus is there any other Australian racetrack!?!?!

Rejects from Down Under

Driver nominations (main drivers):
Ryan Briscoe
Mark Webber
David Brabham
Scott Dixon
Jamie Whincup (because he is 18 and awesome)

Backups:
Craig Lowndes
Jason Bright (he did have a CART stint tho)
Fabian Coulthard
Gary Brabham
Mark Skaife (Oh Jesus.)

Shadaza · Post by **Shadaza** » 09 Oct 2014, 19:08

FMecha wrote:TwinStars will nominate Ryo Michigami as the captain.

Also, is Yeongam too anachronistic with the series' setting? This is 2001, not 2011.

I did say I would allow fictional tracks, so just picture it as built very early.

tristan1117 wrote:KART will nominate Vitaly Petrov as their captain.

Petrov is only 16 at this point with the Lada championship to his name, An interesting choice of team leader for sure!

Shadaza · Post by **Shadaza** » 09 Oct 2014, 19:38

15 teams, 14 have nominated a captain, some very interesting choices it has to be said.

Just a final shout out for one more team to enter then captains will be announced, it seems most will be uncontested.