Grand Prix Rejects

gwoodard41 wrote:The TM Master Cup Round of Georgia is up!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRdRgguzDoA

Now with more Radio Chatter from Quiggles Jr. and Co.

Up next: The Round of England! Will Henton do well in front of the home crowd? Or will someone pull off a upset?!

Comments about the race?

We've had quite the few discussions about the accident between Jaeger, Short and your namesake in the F1R chatroom. In short (hehe), we're sure Woodard played quite the role in the crash, but we're enjoying the argument that has ensued over at EFR. Otherwise, he hope the TIMy tech failure reveals more into the Lycoia/Lenard connection and the Short/Melrose crash leads to more hilarity.

Meanwhile, I'm working on a updated Wernstrom 256. The front grills are kidna lame, and with the engineering prowess of Formula A team MRT they should be able to put something together

RealRacingRoots wrote:Meanwhile, I'm working on a updated Wernstrom 256. The front grills are kidna lame, and with the engineering prowess of Formula A team MRT they should be able to put something together

Plus, Melrose running in the top 10 without his penalty means that the Wernström isn't completely hopeless!

RealRacingRoots wrote:

gwoodard41 wrote:The TM Master Cup Round of Georgia is up!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRdRgguzDoA

Now with more Radio Chatter from Quiggles Jr. and Co.

Up next: The Round of England! Will Henton do well in front of the home crowd? Or will someone pull off a upset?!

Comments about the race?

We've had quite the few discussions about the accident between Jaeger, Short and your namesake in the F1R chatroom. In short (hehe), we're sure Woodard played quite the role in the crash, but we're enjoying the argument that has ensued over at EFR. Otherwise, he hope the TIMy tech failure reveals more into the Lycoia/Lenard connection and the Short/Melrose crash leads to more hilarity.

Meanwhile, I'm working on a updated Wernstrom 256. The front grills are kidna lame, and with the engineering prowess of Formula A team MRT they should be able to put something together

Lenard and Lycoia did a deal where Lycoia was acquired by Lenard and their operations are integrated as of the start of this year. The Lenard/Lycoia conspiracy isn't one. Although there was going to be an attempt to retcon Lycoia being part of Lenard prior to 2011 Round of Indianapolis, but I stopped it after too many issues were brought up.

While my namesake could have backed off as well, it looked like if Short hadn't moved in front of my namesake, he wouldn't have collided with Short at all. But I digress... I think the next time your driver shows up is for the Round of Sweden.

The Round of England was run as a rain race. 6 cars (instead of the usual 4) got the Promoter's Option, and Divina Henton is on the pole.

Cynon wrote:The Round of England was run as a rain race. 6 cars (instead of the usual 4) got the Promoter's Option, and Divina Henton is on the pole.

1. California: Dry Race
2. Carbondale: Post Rain Race
3. Atlanta/Georgia: Pre Rain (Right?) Race
4. England: Rain (Therefore, Pain) Race

I'm guessing it's making up for the lack of a rain race last season (Hopefully it won't be too much pain)

Cynon wrote:6 cars (instead of the usual 4) got the Promoter's Option

3 of them run by F1R users: Melrose and Cardel in the updated MRT Wernstroms (painted by me) and Davies in his own Omecha.

rWo for life!

Expect chaos to ensue.

Could the two be possibly merged to combined the TM and Reject forums

Matt121 wrote:Could the two be possibly merged to combined the TM and Reject forums

I don't think so. The two alternate universes are fundamentally different, and they have a much more formal structure of how they run their various categories than our madhouse here at F1R.

Round 04: England (Brands Hatch)

Discuss and comment away.

Who's also looking forward to seeing the rest of the season?!

gwoodard41 wrote:Round 04: England (Brands Hatch)

Discuss and comment away.

Who's also looking forward to seeing the rest of the season?!

Wernstrom and MRT are! New car is done, just waiting for debut. (I can send you the cars GWoodard so you can render them, too lazy for ten0rs) Can't believe Melrose is 20th in points.

In other news....

Just realized: If you have a FULL TIME TM LIGHTS DRIVER: Either you need to find a sub for said driver for them to participate in the Karjala GP. Yaaaaaaay :/ *beats head against wall*

Any imports from F1 Rejects open to a possible ride with my team (Terra Int'l Motorsports)?

Oh, and Karjala GP sign ups are... up.

gwoodard41 wrote:Just realized: If you have a FULL TIME TM LIGHTS DRIVER: Either you need to find a sub for said driver for them to participate in the Karjala GP. Yaaaaaaay :/ *beats head against wall*

Any imports from F1 Rejects open to a possible ride with my team (Terra Int'l Motorsports)?

Oh, and Karjala GP sign ups are... up.

Please disregard, scheduling conflict has been fixed. Thank you Cynon

Round of France:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFSq_1N7Ess

Watch and Discuss.

Hopefully the Round of Sweden will be a little less wild

gwoodard41 wrote:Round of France:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFSq_1N7Ess

Watch and Discuss.

Hopefully the Round of Sweden will be a little less wild

Adams shall pay for this treason. Putting Voeckler in the wall like that, what a ****!!!!!

Stramala wrote:

gwoodard41 wrote:Round of France:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFSq_1N7Ess

Watch and Discuss.

Hopefully the Round of Sweden will be a little less wild

Adams shall pay for this treason. Putting Voeckler in the wall like that, what a ****!!!!!

The legions of Benoit Voeckler fans will not let this slide.

A rWo member goes to the pole for Sweden! Congrats to Jaeger for shocking the world, and doing it in a MRT-developed machine.

RealRacingRoots wrote:A rWo member goes to the pole for Sweden! Congrats to Jaeger for shocking the world, and doing it in a MRT-developed machine.

The Wernström Jaeger's driving at Sweden doesn't have the MRT upgrade package, remember?

BlindCaveSalamander wrote:

RealRacingRoots wrote:A rWo member goes to the pole for Sweden! Congrats to Jaeger for shocking the world, and doing it in a MRT-developed machine.

The Wernström Jaeger's driving at Sweden doesn't have the MRT upgrade package, remember?

You did post in the twitter thread there were upgrades for the 256. I implied they were MRT derived.

How did the #48 Tutino do in qualifying?

Round of Sweden

Watch it, I demand you all to watch it!

Slight Gravedig...

Karjala Pole Qualifying has taken place, and as described in the last couple of IC weeks (OOC Months, but who's counting, right?) of races, it would be a different format than of previous years.

Qualifying procedure:

- The first qualifying session will lock the top 10 on the starting grid, instead of the top 5.
- The second qualifying session will lock positions 11-30 in (so 20 cars) of the starting grid.
- Everyone else gets in through qualifying races. Unlike last season, once a car passes through a qualifying session, they're in the race in one of the final 12 spots on the grid.

After pole qualifying, this is how the grid looks:

Row 1
#82 Lev Azarov (RUS), 1:33.822
#16 Kurt Plissken (USA), 1:34.244

Row 2
#74 Zack Duff (CAN), 1:34.425
#55 Zelda Ashby (JPN), 1:34.554

Row 3
#5 Michael Sykes (WAL), 1:34.576
#10 Mathias Taube (SWE), 1:34.630

Row 4
#07 Heikki Ventola (FIN), 1:34.633
#11 Divina Henton (ENG), 1:34.691

Row 5
#2 Packer Carroll (USA), 1:34.718
#12 Mélanie Clevenot (SUI),  1:34.768

Notes:
* Daniel Leckliter shook down the 47 car and ran it in pole qualifying. He caused two wrecks.
* Erik Draachreider's car failed post-qualifying inspection and his times for the session were wiped. He would have qualified in 8th.
* Tom Moore's car also failed post-qualifying inspection and his times for the session were wiped. He would have qualified in 10th.

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The final qualifying session saw a few surprises, such as Andrew O'Reilly making a last-gasp run to bump Greg Woodard out of the field, and one of the FIAM cars, driven by Giuseppe Marchetti, storm its way onto the grid despite missing pole qualifying.

All three participants in last year's run to the finish, Leonid Roderick, Mika Paasonen, and Antero Virtanen, all made it back onto the grid.

Alexis Rainsford and Adrien Devereux make for quite a bit of star power, but both will start on row 14.

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Row 6
#17 Louis Kingston (USA), 1:34.523
#7 Yuliya Nosova (RUS), 1:34.948

Row 7
#70 Mika Paasonen (FIN), 1:35.438
#87 Darren Cardel (WAL), 1:35.509

Row 8
#20 Dale Roswell (USA), 1:35.518
#33 Matti Alanko (FIN), 1:35.575

Row 9
#307 Radomir Stanyotchev (BUL), 1:35.711
#81 Danny Savin (USA), 1:35.832

Row 10
#126 Alexander Sybilton (ENG), 1:35.907
#51 Antero Virtanen (FIN), 1:35.972

Row 11
#44 Paul Lyons (USA), 1:36.033
#75 Giuseppe Marchetti (ITA), 1:36.048

Row 12
#8 Yevgeny Kuznetsov (RUS), 1:36.123
#13 Alan Hodges (WAL), 1:36.166

Row 13
#14 Alli Culotta (USA), 1:36.251
#4 Leonid Roderick (USA), 1:36.333

Row 14
#1 Adrien Devereux (FRA), 1:36.366
#27 Alexis Rainsford (USA), 1:36.395

Row 15
#291 Andrew O'Reilly (IRE), 1:36.440
#9 Arto Kekkonen (FIN), 1:36.456

Comments on the top 10 or on the new qualifying structure? What are your hopes and predictions on who will do what if they get in?!

I say it's good

Tom Moore's car was found underweight as well, so Melanie Clevenot takes the last Top 10 Qualifying spot.

In other news, in the low-level Dash Cup Series, an unknown Belgian called Thomas De Bock took his first top ten finish at the Toddring, to the paddock's general surprise

RealRacingRoots wrote:Tom Moore's car was found underweight as well, so Melanie Clevenot takes the last Top 10 Qualifying spot.

Yeah, because I was stupid and sent Moore's car to Cynon with last season's ratings instead of this season's! He fixed the issue though and Moore should be able to pull off something neat.

Shame my namesake got bumped out by a 'Dash Cuppie'. Hmph... oh well, onto the final stretch before the main event!

Bump!

So, with the Rounds of Karjala and Russia now in the bag, what are your predictions for the upcoming Round of Wales?

The rWo scores a big fat goose-egg at Karjala, Voeckler and Melrose getting trolled by others and Cardel and his issues with Zach Duff continues, only for the Autobacs 256 to blow up.

James Davies will be at Wales, could he spoil the battle between Sykesy and Hodges?

Also, gwoodard, check the F1RWRS thread over at EFR.

So... the round of wales... thoughts?

gwoodard41 wrote:So... the round of wales... thoughts?

Woodard drove a great race, but Roderick was robbed. The Mad Uncle's latest episode of severe brain fade was quite disastrous, and as for James Davies... well, at least he has one lap pace down somewhat.

I wonder when the next appearance of the #48 Tutino will be?

Stramala wrote:I wonder when the next appearance of the #48 Tutino will be?

Probably attempting Indianapolis.

Stramala wrote:I wonder when the next appearance of the #48 Tutino will be?

Quebec at the earliest. It did not show up for Darlington, and that race has been run already. Only three promoter's options have been named for Quebec (Auxier, Morgan Le Fey, and Marcos Leonard) so far.

Mélanie Clévenot will start at the back for her collision with Chris Johaanes in pit entry at Wales. Zelda Ashby's time penalty from Russia was overturned, meaning that Ashby was reinstated to 4th place.

I just have a bad feeling about Darlington, and yes, I do completely understand the anger of what people may feel with the end of the Round of Wales, I personally (and through my namesake) wished it turned out differently.

But on a more positive note, who's looking forward to the rest of the season?! I sure am

Well, as I predicted, the Round of South Carolina blew up in my namesake's face. What are your views on this race and the controversy surrounding the Round of Wales?

gwoodard41 wrote:Well, as I predicted, the Round of South Carolina blew up in my namesake's face. What are your views on this race and the controversy surrounding the Round of Wales?

Who Cares?

#RodaForPSi2013

There's a chance that we might see TM Lights sensation Han Yong-Sung in the TMMC Gatineau race.

Round of Quebec is up!

What do you think of the season up to this point?

Are you looking forward to a possible Plissken-Griffith showdown at the Round of Ohio?!

gwoodard41 wrote:Round of Montreal is up!

What do you think of the season up to this point?

Are you looking forward to a possible Plissken-Griffith showdown at the Round of Ohio?!

Forget about that, both MRTs are in the field at Ohio

Meanwhile, in the lower divisions, a little-known Belgian driver called Thomas De Bock is 49th in the Dash Cup standings with three top ten finishes...

Round of Ohio finds Cardel and Wernstrom in victory lane! Congrats!

Thoughts on the race?