Peugeot (Aeroracing) - €201,000,000
Phoenix wrote:Team: Peugeot.
Engine: Peugeot.
Price: €140,000,000.
Chassis: B.
Brothels: High Class.
I think you might want to invest in a calculator...
Peugeot (Aeroracing) - €201,000,000
Phoenix wrote:Team: Peugeot.
Engine: Peugeot.
Price: €140,000,000.
Chassis: B.
Brothels: High Class.
Sebastian Vettel wrote:If I was good at losing, I wouldn't be in Formula 1
Salamander wrote:Peugeot (Aeroracing) - €201,000,000Phoenix wrote:Team: Peugeot.
Engine: Peugeot.
Price: €140,000,000.
Chassis: B.
Brothels: High Class.
I think you might want to invest in a calculator...
Klon, on Alt-F1 wrote: I like to think it's more poker than gambling, though.
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Klon wrote:
With all the cars ready, we can now sign some drivers. For those of you who are still with this game from 2016, the system will not be unfamiliar to you. Basically you pick drivers and the gods of RNG decide in case of a real-life driver and the users decide for their fictional drivers.
pycku wrote:Klon wrote:
With all the cars ready, we can now sign some drivers. For those of you who are still with this game from 2016, the system will not be unfamiliar to you. Basically you pick drivers and the gods of RNG decide in case of a real-life driver and the users decide for their fictional drivers.
Erm, we are not quite ready, as we are awaiting response for an engine deal.
Biscione wrote:"Some Turkemenistani gulag repurposed for residential use" is the best way yet I've heard to describe North / East Glasgow.
Mitch Hedberg wrote:I want to be a race car passenger: just a guy who bugs the driver. Say man, can I turn on the radio? You should slow down. Why do we gotta keep going in circles? Man, you really like Tide...
Sebastian Vettel wrote:If I was good at losing, I wouldn't be in Formula 1
Biscione wrote:"Some Turkemenistani gulag repurposed for residential use" is the best way yet I've heard to describe North / East Glasgow.
Pasta_maldonado wrote:I think normal32 is an old English farmer re-incarnated
Mario on Gutierrez after the Italian Grand Prix wrote:He's no longer just a bit of a tool, he's the entire tool set.
Fetzie on Ferrari wrote:How does a driver hurtling around a race track while they're sous-viding in their overalls have a better understanding of the race than a team of strategy engineers in an air-conditioned room?l
Mexicola wrote:shinji wrote:Mexicola wrote: I'd rather listen to a dog lick its balls. Each to their own, I guess.
Does listening to a dog licking its balls get you excited?
That's between me and my internet service provider.
Klon wrote:more liek Nick Ass-idy amirite?
Klon, on Alt-F1 wrote: I like to think it's more poker than gambling, though.
Phoenix wrote:As for the second driver, we'd like to keep Jérome d'Ambrosio for this season (1-year contract) with a wage of €2.000.000 and no additional clauses.
Mexicola wrote:shinji wrote:Mexicola wrote: I'd rather listen to a dog lick its balls. Each to their own, I guess.
Does listening to a dog licking its balls get you excited?
That's between me and my internet service provider.
Autosport wrote:Frank Williams blasts "money grabbing" driver managers
After Daniel Ricciardo signed for underdogs Mahrinda for a record 8m euros, Frank Williams was quick to lay into Daniel Ricciardos manager for giving his driver bad advice.
"I am disappointed that Daniel Riccardo did not sign for Williams. We gave him an offer which if he let his racing do the talking would have netted him up to 15m euros. Instead he is going to waste the year, and no disrespect to Mahrinda, driving around the back of the field getting the odd point here and there. It's not the first time drivers have signed for poor performing teams, James James Davies basically hindered Brabham as they spent too much on his wages and not enough on car developement and Nico Rosberg rather then signing a contract that probably would have netted him the WDC decided to go to the poor performing team and has wasted his career. We wish Daniel all the best and hope he doesn't regret his signing, we don't blame him but his money grabbing [censored] of a manager is not on our christmas card list."
It could be argued that Frank Williams is known to pay poor wages but no one can argue that his bonuses mean that drivers can easily earn more then double the top paid drivers. As of press, neither Daniel Riccardo or his manager returned our calls for a comment.
Williams sign 2014 Indycar champion Will Power
A day after, Frank Williams was in front of the cameras again with Dave Cassidy and his new signing Will Power. Frank beaming from ear to ear said, "We are pleased to sign Will Power, he was ignored for too long by F1 and we believe with Dave will win us our forth WCC.", Will added "I was not interested in F1, however when a top team like Williams come knocking at your door you listen to what they say and I am pleased that I will be able to show my skills in F1."
At 36, some say that Power has probably missed the boat, however Damon Hill also won his championship at 36, so Power may surprise. However sources close to Williams have said if Power fails to ouotperform Cassidy bny mid season he may end up being replaced with Anton de pasquale.
HawkAussie wrote:Here comes cranky me again:
The 2014 IndyCar season wasn't finished in our world as it collapsed in August with Ashley Cassidy being the leader.
Sebastian Vettel wrote:If I was good at losing, I wouldn't be in Formula 1
Klon wrote:Phoenix wrote:As for the second driver, we'd like to keep Jérome d'Ambrosio for this season (1-year contract) with a wage of €2.000.000 and no additional clauses.
No can do, I am afraid. Since you won't get any sponsorship money after the driver market (you picked the advancement clause), you must hire one of your draftees at minimum wage. Luiz Razia is your only choice, I am afraid.
RejectSport wrote:REJECTSPORT EXCLUSIVE: F1 2017 season preview by James James Davies!
Well, having been a Formula 1 driver as recently as two seasons ago, I can provide a unique, and unparalleled insight into the sport. So let's not waste any time and get straight to business!
Williams
Frank Williams is a liar and a cheat, and that is all I will say about him personally. However, I have to admit he's put together a great race team for the past few seasons, but from what I've gathered, 2017 will be the toughest challenge for the reborn team. The team remains as hostile to good drivers as ever, which is why Lewis Hamilton left - a 1 million euro contract for a World Champion is a goddamn insult, which explains why Dave Cassidy remains with them. Alongside Cassidy and replacing Hamilton, following Daniel Ricciardo's snub, will be former IndyCar champ Will Power - and after a career spent Stateside, don't expect anything special from the Australian. I can attest that those cars and modern F1 cars are a world apart. The car itself seems to not be quite as quick as their immediate rivals, however, the powerful Peugeots should vault the team into championship contention, but they are no longer the favourites here.
The bottom line:
You can't count Williams out as title contenders, but I just can't see them winning either title this year. They've got a bit too much ground to make up.
WCC prediction: 3rd
Caterham
It's hard to say anything about the management of Caterham - being tied up in the byzantine mess that is the Commonwealth Group, I dunno who to credit with their rise to power. Whoever it is, though - great job! Their rise to fame has been incredible, and their driver management has been great as well. They have finally seemed to get the potential out of Sebastian Vettel that everyone knew was there, as well as uncovering a real diamond in Daniil Kvyat. That topped with a solid chassis and the gutsy-yet-reliable Judd engine means they're the team I expect most to walk away with both titles. Kvyat may already be a match for Vettel 9 times out of 10, but the German's experience and sheer talent will shine through and I expect this year we will finally see Vettel's first World Championship.
The bottom line:
The most stable top team and best driver/chassis/engine combination means this year should see Caterham on top by years end.
WCC prediction: 1st
Precision
I gotta hand it to Jeroen Krautmeir: not even I'm crazy enough to take over an entire team to try and win a championship. It's sure worked wonders fast, though. He's quickly found the potential in the engineering and aerodynamics departments that lured me to the team for that disastrous 2011 season, and he's got a solid driver lineup in Bianchi and Bottas. However, 'solid' does not always mean 'World Champion', and I just don't see World Championships in either of them. That plus the laughable Mercedes lump of garbage that they call an engine means Precision will be the latter of the top 4 teams fighting for title glory. The car and drivers will be good enough to give their rivals a good scare every now and then, though.
The bottom line:
They might look threatening for a while, but they'll fizzle out sooner or later.
WCC prediction: 4th
Red Bull
Fernando, what the hell were you thinking when you signed for this pack of jokers? Alonso is just about the only thing this team has going for them. Oh sure, Pierre Gasly is very talented, but he's going into the same hell Alex Lynn has been in for the past 3 or 4 years - driving against a much more immensely experienced driver is never a good situation for a rookie. And what makes it worse is that the car looks like a dog and the team's paying through the nose for Ferrari power, who are quite a bit behind their Judd V10 rivals. This is going to be a long season for all of them. A year after battling for best of the rest - and in fact winning the midfield battle - Red Bull looks in dire shape, fighting with the likes of Calinetic most likely.
The bottom line:
Any team members who are reading: Start applying for jobs elsewhere. This team is going down the drain fast. Unless you enjoy duking it out with Calinetic and DGNgineering.
WCC prediction: 10th
Sauber
The heady days of Pastor Maldonado's outside championship chance and WCC's are over, but Sauber are still a very potent team. After a sabbatical, Maldonado is back with the team where he made his name, and none the worse for wear. Alongside him is another newcomer from the American scene, France's Simon Pagenaud. Pagenaud has been quiet but respectable in his results, but I don't expect anything more than a solid number 2 performance from him. The car looks good and the Judd power will see them in a battle with Haas for the best of the rest.
The bottom line:
Solid but unspectacular, Sauber will continue to plod around in the midfield. Maldonado might pick up a stray win, but more is unlikely with now 4 teams clearly ahead of Sauber.
WCC prediction: 6th
Haas
I gotta respect what Gene Haas has done here - in almost no time at all he's put together a solid midfielding team, with a lot of potential to move forward in the coming years. On the driving front, Stoffel Vandoorne is coming off the back of a superb debut season with 2 unlikely victories, and will want to continue that form into next season. Robert Kubica comes off the back of a disastrous season with DGNgineering, but one in which he put one over on Daniel Ricciardo and restored his reputation somewhat. Both will do a good job for the team, and with a good car, this is the team that I think is most likely to give the top 4 the most headaches.
The bottom line:
Another building year, but the potential is there and it will pay off in time. They may not win as many races as 2016, but they will look a more well-rounded team nonetheless.
WDC prediction: 5th
Ferrari
After struggling to find anyone capable of doing what I did with the Scuderia, Ferrari seem to have finally got themselves back in title contention where they belong. Arguably the strongest car out of anyone, the sticking point on the mechanical front remains their engine which cannot live with the more powerful Judds and Peugeots. On the driver front as well are two big question marks - Sebastien Bourdais was immense 5 years ago, but he seems to be tailing off with age, whereas Einar Ármannsson drove for the abysmal Mansell "team", so who knows how good he actually is. However, I do still have a few contacts within Maranello, and I can say that the team is looking to pry Nathan McKane from that crappy F1 knock-off series and get him back where he belongs, at the pinnacle of motorsport. If they get him soon enough, he might even be a dark horse for the title.
The bottom line:
They can't afford to hang about - great cars don't fall off trees, Bourdais isn't the driver to get them a title, and they can't risk relying on Ármannsson. They need McKane and fast - he's about the only driver in the world besides yours truly who can win a title starting mid-season.
WCC prediction: 2nd (assuming they land McKane)
DGNgineering
I have no idea what to say here. As McLaren-in-name-only they instantly took the fight to Williams and delivered to the world a new superstar in the form of Daniel Ricciardo in 2015. We looked set to have DGNgineering prove that their success in F1RWRS was not down to awful competition, only for them to spend 2016 wasting everyone's time with the biggest joke of a chassis I've seen in a long time. They seem to want to one-up themselves - the 2017 car looks practically medieval compared to its competitors, and they've had to resort to hiring Bradley Dagnall, presumably because nobody else wants to be caught dead in that thing. Spare a thought for poor Kevin Magnussen this year, though, he joined the team right as they looked the team to be a part of, and now seems firmly rooted to the back of the grid for the next 2 years.
The bottom line:
Battling a dying Red Bull and a near-dead Calinetic 2 years after winning the WDC and almost the WCC, and it doesn't look like getting better soon.
WCC prediction: 11th
Peugeot
The Peugeot execs seemingly got tired of being stuck in the midfield forever more, so they went to their team administration, gave them a large sack of money, and told them to be relevant for once or they've had it. Judging from the car, they might as well have shut it down there and then. Relative to their competitors, it looks no better than its predecessors. Romain Grosjean continues to be wasted on a team that will never allow him to realise his potential, and they dragged Luiz Razia out of nowhere for god knows what reason. More interesting is what will happen to Peugeot's involvement on the powerplant side of things should they close the team down for good - will they stick with Williams and make them their factory team, or get out while the getting's good?
The bottom line:
Stuck in the lower midfield. Again.
WCC prediction: 8th
Calinetic
Calinetic's existence the last few years has been very fraught. Struggling season-to-season to even exist anywhere, and it seems that 2017 will be no different for Joseph Calinetic's plucky battlers. The sad truth for them is while they may have done a fantastic job with the chassis on their budget, it's no substitute for actually having a budget - for which Mr. Calinetic must be ruing the day he ever signed that Mercedes contract. The team has had no alternative but to sign out the second seat to Jazeman Jaafar for his Petronas monies, becoming only the second Malaysian F1 driver in history in the process. The real excitement though, comes from the guy in the other seat - Max Verstappen. A more clear superstar in the making there has never been in junior formulae - so anticipated was his arrival that Formula 1 as a precautionary measure introduced an age limit. If Calinetic exist in 2018, it will most likely be down to him. So, no pressure.
The bottom line:
It's all or nothing if Calinetic are going to have a long-term future in F1, so the team had better hope that Verstappen has the goods. A hell of a lot of pressure for a rookie, but some can thrive in that situation.
WCC prediction: 12th
Brabham
Can you actually believe I won a title for this team not 3 years ago!? How times change - but then, we already have DGNgineering to remind us of that. Brabham's fall from grace is already yesterday's news, and it is a sign of how desperate the team is that they had to beg the FIA for special dispensation to get a fifth Ferrari engine contract simply because they could not afford the Mercedes. A lot of fans will have sympathy for Nico Rosberg who finally grew a pair and walked out on Williams, only to walk into a team infinitely more troubled. Spare a thought for poor Nyck de Vries though - he has some talent, and it's going to go completely unnoticed as he grapples with hands-down the worst car on the grid, an underpowered engine, and a teammate who desperately wishes he could turn back time and re-sign for Williams.
The bottom line:
Calinetic have a chance of making it through to next year, but Brabham's return to Formula 1 I think is at an end. There's nothing Rosberg can do to drag that car off the bottom of the Constructors' table.
WCC prediction: 13th
Mahindra
Mahindra are an interesting case. They burst on to the F1 scene 3 years ago with a solid car, good drivers, and the potential to climb the WCC... but instead have slipped down to last. You'd expect it to go the other way around. Regardless, the potential might still be there somehow - an unknown Australian consortium purchased the team late last year, and they pulled off probably the 2nd biggest coup in F1 history (topped only by myself, of course), by hiring Daniel Ricciardo from under Williams' nose to lead the team for this season. Nothing needs to be said about the skills of the man who won a title in his debut season, but alongside him is Conor Daly, and he looks about as average as it gets, really. The money from this consortium has funded a competitive car, and it seems Mahindra might be getting back to where they started after a couple years in the wilderness. Whether the team will remain Mahindra in the future is uncertain, but it seems the new management is currently unconcerned with the identity of the team at present.
The bottom line:
I cannot understate how big a coup Ricciardo is for Mahindra. The team should probably be scrapping with Red Bull on pace, but I believe he will be able to drag them forwards to trouble the Peugeots - and probably beat them.
WCC prediction: 7th
Valerian
Last, but not least, are F1's new boys. Valerian are relative unknowns on the world stage, but from all appearances, they seem to have a solid base from which to build from the future. A decent enough car and Ferrari engines will be enough to see them ahead of the backmarkers on sheer pace, and Perez's talent will at least be enough for them to fulfill that. Valsecchi may be a former GP winner, but do not be fooled - the Force India he drove was far better than it gets credit for. Still, he should be able to pick up the odd result here and there. The team should focus on establishing themselves in the midfield fight alongside Mahindra and Peugeot, and take care not to fall by the wayside as Mahindra can already attest.
The bottom line:
A good starting position, this season will be important for them to gain experience. Valsecchi and Perez's experience is a few years out of date, but will be enough to help them build for now.
WCC prediction: 9th
Sebastian Vettel wrote:If I was good at losing, I wouldn't be in Formula 1
pycku wrote:Well it is not Brabham's fault that the RNG hates us and gave us lowest possible grip for the certain chassis type in past few seasons. This led to our downfall and it is a whole miracle we have survived for another season. We will do anything possible to survive this year, too and fresh money from rookie drivers is well appreciated. Besides, we are one of the few teams to give young drivers a chance, which is not to be underestimated.
Sebastian Vettel wrote:If I was good at losing, I wouldn't be in Formula 1
Salamander wrote:RejectSport wrote:Haas
I gotta respect what Gene Haas has done here
Mitch Hedberg wrote:I want to be a race car passenger: just a guy who bugs the driver. Say man, can I turn on the radio? You should slow down. Why do we gotta keep going in circles? Man, you really like Tide...
Dave Cassidy wrote:Man, is it great to finally win at home! Wasn't the easiest race for me, especially that first stint where I was stuck behind Valterri while Daniil was just running away with it, but eventually he broke down, and I was able to take the fight properly to Daniil. The second stint was absolutely key for us, our pace there, combined with the brilliant pitwork, allowed me to jump him at the second stops and from there I wasn't in too much threat from behind. We were all a bit nervous before this race though, we had no idea how we'd stack up against the Caterham's, but at least we know we can fight them now. The important thing now is to do absolutely everything we can with the car, because I don't expect every race to go nearly this well for us, and we know that Caterham's budget advantage is going to mean some pretty nasty upgrades in the pipeline for them as well. But hey, I finally won at home, and that's the important thing today!
Sebastian Vettel wrote:If I was good at losing, I wouldn't be in Formula 1
Klon, on Alt-F1 wrote: I like to think it's more poker than gambling, though.