Grand Prix Rejects

Aerond wrote:

AndreaModa wrote:

Phoenix wrote:But I don't get the point. Why would Aerond, for instance, blow 1000 credits buying the Chrysler engine for it to have only 750hp when the base power for that engine is 770hp? Not that it's going to prevent me from sleeping tonight, but I am curious to know why.

Because he's generous I guess. Plus he made it clear he was going to wait until the frenzy had died down before making his call so he was always going to be compromised to an extent.

Well, my first aim was to get the Ford Zetec-R, but I was on a 3G connection when the market opened and then my message took longer to arrive than Wizzie´s, so I decided to go for the Chrysler instead. 750 Bhp, with the chance on investing on Mark Dagnall´s race pace should be enough; there will be chances for a better chassis in the future; and with money coming through Mignolet during the season I can upgrade the reliability if needed.

The Fox josses Aston buyout rumours
"This is nothing but rubbish," commented the majority owner of ArrowTech. "We're already rich enough as is and we already get more money from Al Faisal. Besides, why would I give the team to a rich manufacturer? We don't need any more manufacturers in the sport and besides, they do nothing but spend their way to victory anyways. You don't win with an open checkbook."

Brett Johnston, Aston boss, slightly furious over The Fox's comments
In regarding the above news article about The Fox calling Aston Martin "open checkbooks," Aston Martin boss Brett Johnston was irate over The Fox's comments. "We are not open checkbooks, although we may seem rich, we use the money wisely unlike teams like Toyota F1 when they put their money hiring idiots that do nothing anyway, like Half Schumacher and that Fernandes guy."

Half Schumacher found arrested in London after apparently trying to attack Johnston
Yesterday morning the brother of the 7-time world champion, and Half himself, a grand-prix winner and an unsuccessful DTM driver was arrested this morning after attacking Brett Johnston, the Aston Martin Motor Racing boss, with a candlestick, a baseball bat, and a beer bottle. Schumacher was not drunk at the scene. His motives are unknown, though police investigations point to the above article that has Johnston calling Schumacher an "idiot," among other things. Johnston was not available to comment.

ArrowTech looks "good," says Acuri
Just recently this morning ArrowTech technical director and former team owner Andrea Acuri says this year looks promising for ArrowTech. "We have a good chassis, and we certainly have a good deal of engine support from Renault, who supplied the engines for my team last year. We also get a good influx of money from Al Faisal, so that should help fund our team as well. And we've also put up stronger security around the base to prevent the Danish Terrorists from breaking into the base again."

Bosevic likes his car (so far)
ArrowTech driver Mirko Bosevic says he likes the development of his car. With the ArrowTech AT-05 nearly done, the team is very optimistic about the season. Says Bosevic, "I think we'll qualify all the races this season like we did last season!

EDITORS NOTE:
On our previous news article, "Ralf Schumacher found arrested in London after apparently trying to attack Johnston," we made the error by misspelling Ralf Schumacher's name as "Half Schumacher." The writer did not intend this to occur and we regret the misspelling.

Aerond wrote:DGNgineering will spend 250 credits in Mark Dagnall´s race grip. That leaves us with 100 credits

Aerond wrote:Ok, so this is a summary of market operations up to now (Wizzie, please check out for the Chassis and engine list page, our reading of the market operations should match anyway):

TROPICO --
Sell both chassis and engine and buys Minardi M187 and JuddGV10 -- Credits left: 220

AERORACING
Sell Ford DFR engine and gets Isuzu -- Credits left: 130

SIMPSON
Buy Onyx and YamahaV10 -- Credits left: 100

ARROWTECH
Sell Ligier and buy BenettonB191 -- Credits left: 300

SUNSHINE
Buys Ford Zetec-R -- Credits left: 320

HRT
Sell both chassis and engine and buy Rial ARC and Isuzu for 1000 credits -- Credits left: 252

ALITALIA
Sell chassis to Shonan for 250 and buy Jordan 191 -- Credits left: 165

SHONAN
Sell LolaT97 and buy Forti off Alitalia for 250 -- Credits left: 510

PROSPEC
Sell both chassis and engine, buy LigierJS33 and Peugeot engine -- Credits left: 60

KINGFISHER
Sell engine and buy Peugeot -- Credits left: 160

AUTODYNAMICS
Buy BrabhamBT60B and Ilmor -- Credits left: 100

MRT
Buy Ford Zetec-R engine -- Credits left: 450

DGNGINEERING
Buy Chrysler engine -- Credits left: 350

MECHA
Sell DFZ engine, buy Ford HBIV -- Credits left: 115

That´s it for now

tristan1117 wrote:Holy crap, what a convoluted mess I've walked into. Um, Boxtel would like to sell its Simtek chassis in favor of the Larrousse LH93. I believe we have more than enough credits for the operation. Once we by a new chassis, all the previous updates are revoked, right?

tristan1117 wrote:Holy crap, what a convoluted mess I've walked into. Um, Boxtel would like to sell its Simtek chassis in favor of the Larrousse LH93. I believe we have more than enough credits for the operation. Once we by a new chassis, all the previous updates are revoked, right?

Aerond wrote:HRT bough upgrades for 200 credits, they have now 52;

Aerond wrote:MRT bought upgrades for 150, leaving them with 0 credits.

Wizzie wrote:

Aerond wrote:MRT bought upgrades for 150, leaving them with 0 credits.

So what did Lappy spend the 150 credits on?

eurobrun wrote:Someone needs to edit the wiki, I now have the Brabham BT60B chassis, not the Fomet anymore.

kostas22 wrote:I hope the market never operates like this ever again. It is a total farce. It isn't even first come first served. It's first come first whoever the server decides to accept posts from first.

Shizuka wrote:

kostas22 wrote:I hope the market never operates like this ever again. It is a total farce. It isn't even first come first served. It's first come first whoever the server decides to accept posts from first.

So maybe sleeping was a better idea after all... Thanks kostas for the Forti.

Now I could tell you that I originally wanted to buy either the Rial or the Onyx.
Now, I'd like to know how the Forti's reliability stands. I have 510 credits, so I might invest into that later on.

Gillet announce engine rebadging deal with Tropico!

After Tropico announced that they would also use the Judd GV10, they expressed their interest in Gillet's authorisation to rebadge the Judd engine (also used by Gillet) to Gillet.

Tony Gillet has accepted Tropico's offer for a rebadging, and for Tasmania, and indeed the whole season, Nathan Scott and Darren Older Jr will drive a Tropico-Gillet. Could this be the start of a long-term partnership?

Shizuka wrote:No. It was my only possibility to have a better chassis. Period. The other one was more unreliable.

Wizzie wrote:

Shizuka wrote:No. It was my only possibility to have a better chassis. Period. The other one was more unreliable.

Except that chassis moved you precisely nowhere on the pecking order anyway.

eurobrun wrote:

Wizzie wrote:

Shizuka wrote:No. It was my only possibility to have a better chassis. Period. The other one was more unreliable.

Except that chassis moved you precisely nowhere on the pecking order anyway.

Speaking of the pecking order, where roughly would Autodynamics be.

Wizzie wrote:

eurobrun wrote:

Wizzie wrote:Except that chassis moved you precisely nowhere on the pecking order anyway.

Speaking of the pecking order, where roughly would Autodynamics be.

Based on original stats alone, around where Gillet is.

That might sound impressive, except Gillet have fallen from fourth to fourteenth in the space of one day

AdrianSutil wrote:After having some sleep I'd like to apologise for my ranting last night. Bad day, bad evening and crap Internet made me rage a bit.

Anyway, having taken a quick look at the wiki now it's been updated, I think it may be very close between teams from 6th to 16th/17th. A lot of similar engines have been chosen so it'll depend where people go next. Autodynamics look to have done fairly well tbh whilst Dofasco have moved sideways so they might be the perennial backmarkers this year. As for us, a conservative chassis won't help much, so I'm putting all my hopes and dreams on the Peugeot's grunt to move us up the order.

Wizzie wrote:

AdrianSutil wrote:After having some sleep I'd like to apologise for my ranting last night. Bad day, bad evening and crap Internet made me rage a bit.

Anyway, having taken a quick look at the wiki now it's been updated, I think it may be very close between teams from 6th to 16th/17th. A lot of similar engines have been chosen so it'll depend where people go next. Autodynamics look to have done fairly well tbh whilst Dofasco have moved sideways so they might be the perennial backmarkers this year. As for us, a conservative chassis won't help much, so I'm putting all my hopes and dreams on the Peugeot's grunt to move us up the order.

Guess what? That Peugeot engine and conservative chassis moved you pretty much to the top of said midfield.

the Masked Lapwing wrote:

Wizzie wrote:

AdrianSutil wrote:After having some sleep I'd like to apologise for my ranting last night. Bad day, bad evening and crap Internet made me rage a bit.

Anyway, having taken a quick look at the wiki now it's been updated, I think it may be very close between teams from 6th to 16th/17th. A lot of similar engines have been chosen so it'll depend where people go next. Autodynamics look to have done fairly well tbh whilst Dofasco have moved sideways so they might be the perennial backmarkers this year. As for us, a conservative chassis won't help much, so I'm putting all my hopes and dreams on the Peugeot's grunt to move us up the order.

Guess what? That Peugeot engine and conservative chassis moved you pretty much to the top of said midfield.

You need to post this pecking order, so when you are wrong everyone can laugh at you

Wizzie wrote:

Shizuka wrote:No. It was my only possibility to have a better chassis. Period. The other one was more unreliable.

Except that chassis moved you precisely nowhere on the pecking order anyway.

Shizuka wrote:

Wizzie wrote:

Shizuka wrote:No. It was my only possibility to have a better chassis. Period. The other one was more unreliable.

Except that chassis moved you precisely nowhere on the pecking order anyway.

Sorry, but either this, or the Lola chassis, I was screwed from the beginning.

Wizzie wrote:

AdrianSutil wrote:After having some sleep I'd like to apologise for my ranting last night. Bad day, bad evening and crap Internet made me rage a bit.

Anyway, having taken a quick look at the wiki now it's been updated, I think it may be very close between teams from 6th to 16th/17th. A lot of similar engines have been chosen so it'll depend where people go next. Autodynamics look to have done fairly well tbh whilst Dofasco have moved sideways so they might be the perennial backmarkers this year. As for us, a conservative chassis won't help much, so I'm putting all my hopes and dreams on the Peugeot's grunt to move us up the order.

Guess what? That Peugeot engine and conservative chassis moved you pretty much to the top of said midfield.

kostas22 wrote:Don't know where I'll finish and don't care. All my efforts are focused on 2016, the arrival of the Chosen One to F1RWRS. I must have the best possible base package ready for Andrej. The shitebox Cossie HB I have right now will not suffice.

eurobrun wrote:

kostas22 wrote:Don't know where I'll finish and don't care. All my efforts are focused on 2016, the arrival of the Chosen One to F1RWRS. I must have the best possible base package ready for Andrej. The shitebox Cossie HB I have right now will not suffice.

You are wasting your time, he won't have the same ridiculous stats he had in the F1RWRS.

AdrianSutil wrote:

Wizzie wrote:

AdrianSutil wrote:After having some sleep I'd like to apologise for my ranting last night. Bad day, bad evening and crap Internet made me rage a bit.

Anyway, having taken a quick look at the wiki now it's been updated, I think it may be very close between teams from 6th to 16th/17th. A lot of similar engines have been chosen so it'll depend where people go next. Autodynamics look to have done fairly well tbh whilst Dofasco have moved sideways so they might be the perennial backmarkers this year. As for us, a conservative chassis won't help much, so I'm putting all my hopes and dreams on the Peugeot's grunt to move us up the order.

Guess what? That Peugeot engine and conservative chassis moved you pretty much to the top of said midfield.

I wish. I'd like to be close to Prospec as they have the same engine. But to qualify regularly is what we are aiming at.