Grand Prix Rejects

Autosport wrote:Sobczyk:I am pleased with the progress of the team
in a newspaper interview F1RWRS Magazine owner team Dofasco Racing Grzegosz Sobczyk said he is pleased with progress said"What can I say considering we started from I say that we have made progress disputes" also added that began negotiations with Sebastian Groves on the contract for the new season

Klon wrote:I would like to remind everyone interested in her services that Du Lei has become available as a F1RWRS driver from the Belgian Grand Prix onwards.

Not one person on earth wrote:Yes, we are very interested in hiring this talented protege of yours!

Newspapers wrote:[...] team officials also revealed that Chinese youngster Du Lei [...] would most likely be given an opportunity with Prospec towards the end of the 2014 season

Klon wrote:I would like to remind everyone interested in her services that Du Lei has become available as a F1RWRS driver from the Belgian Grand Prix onwards.

Phoenix McAllister wrote:Regarding that unfortunate episody at Paul Ricard, I have to go out and say it was not as big as journalists are making it. Yes, everyone was drunk - and I mean everyone who had retired, including Mark Dagnall, who brough with him a gigantic can of Monster Energy Drink to mix with the alcohol. Yes, I stole a cart and tried to make my way back to the track, but there was no one, not even track workers, to stop me. But I'd say it's nothing every elite racing driver wouldn't do. In fact, the only material damage left was the cart I threw into the pond, and I've already paid for it. It was great fun, and after the race we went and rented a go-kart track to organize a race while we were still drunk and it was great fun too. But I got the message - overdrinking is not right. It won't happen again, I promise. For me and for everyone involved except for Alasdair Lindsay, who will no doubt press on.

Ron Mignolet wrote:Seems i missed a great party. Or not, as i took the girls (female drivers) for a night out in Amsterdam Drinking champagne in my yacht.

Gio Van Dycke wrote:And me visiting midget prostitutes, yeah!

Ron Mignolet wrote:Oh god, you're so disturbing!

AndreaModa wrote:It makes me cry a little every time I see Prospec's slowly diminishing stats on the teams' wiki page with every new DNF and DNQ and DNPQ, they're like the F1RWRS equivalent of Williams!

Klon wrote:

AndreaModa wrote:It makes me cry a little every time I see Prospec's slowly diminishing stats on the teams' wiki page with every new DNF and DNQ and DNPQ, they're like the F1RWRS equivalent of Williams!

Well, is Kay Lon going to be their Rubens Barrichello?

DanielPT wrote:Do you mean that Kay Lon will be left without contract at Sunshine, hired to lead the renaissance of Prospec, ending up overseeing a first mediocre season followed by a disastrous season and then dumped out of the sport altogether in favour of a dubiously talented pay-driver?

DanielPT wrote:(This assuming Senna takes over the seat at Williams)

Klon wrote:

DanielPT wrote:Do you mean that Kay Lon will be left without contract at Sunshine, hired to lead the renaissance of Prospec, ending up overseeing a first mediocre season followed by a disastrous season and then dumped out of the sport altogether in favour of a dubiously talented pay-driver?

The first season wasn't mediocre: if we ignore 2007 - which we safely can because most of Williams' major points where pretty much Alexander Wurz survival festivals - it was the best season since BMW left.

DanielPT wrote:Fine a good season... But that doesn't change the end of the story!

Klon wrote:

DanielPT wrote:Fine a good season... But that doesn't change the end of the story!

A glorious final season with Williams/Prospec returning to winning ways in a spectacular race? And yes, I'm going to be in denial for as long as I can.

Douglas Mann, the day after the race wrote:Wow, I can't believe that I won yesterday. It was a great race. I feel sorry for Jack though, this only puts more pressure on him. But Pippa, Ben, me and most of the Foxdale team had a quiet little barbeque by ourselves to celebrate while everybody else were making fools of themselves. Glad nobody gatecrashed.

Warren Hughes wrote:I see it more as Tyrrell than Williams. But this wouldn't have happened if Rhys hadn't had to run the team for a year without caring about it. And now I'm left with no money and a crap car. Ho hum.

AndreaModa wrote:

Warren Hughes wrote:I see it more as Tyrrell than Williams. But this wouldn't have happened if Rhys hadn't had to run the team for a year without caring about it. And now I'm left with no money and a crap car. Ho hum.

True, but looking at 2012's results, I think the rot was setting in then, despite the two wins. And anyway, Prospec still had a fairly good first half of 2013 before it all went downhill. Not that I'm in any way attributing this to you!

Warren Hughes wrote:Ah yes, but everybody had a clean slate in 2013, and a 'proper' team owner with no other teams may have been able to make better decisions... Then again, if it had been me maybe not

Autosport wrote:Hawaii launches bid for F1RWRS Race

The US State of Hawaii has officially launched a bid to host the F1RWRS United States Grand Prix in the future. While Long Beach's current contract lasts until 2019, the Mexican Grand Prix is allegedly under financial threat despite having one of the largest crowds for the entire year and having local hero Jesus Plaza driving for the ARC team. "Our tourism industry has been flagging in recent years but the F1RWRS is just the ticket to help kickstart the Hawaiian tourism industry back into high-gear." Said acting Hawaiian Governor Brian Schatz. While no official announcment has been made for a planned route, speculation is that the likely venue would be a 6.5km street circuit in downtown Honolulu.

Mackintosh to Tropico?

With the silly season in full swing, even pre-qualifiers Mitie Aviation are involved. Tropico have made an offer to Mitie to take Stephen Mackintosh for 2015, offering the Brit a test-driver role. Whilst nothing has yet been heard from Mackintosh himself, it's believed Mitie are waiting from a word back about HRT and their recent driver changes. Both Mackintosh and Pchelintsev have been offered to HRT to fill a temporary gap, which may be changed into a fulltime drive should HRT decide to take up Mitie's offer. Mr.Alexander confirmed the rumours, "As soon as we hear from HRT, we will contact Tropico. Either way, it looks like Stephen may be leaving."

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Gio Van Dycke wrote:And me visiting midget prostitutes, yeah!

Thomas De Bock wrote:When I saw just what was going on, I was glad to have brought along my interestingly flavoured fruit juice instead of alcohol, as I was probably the only sane guy left in the paddock. Oh, and I was the one who took those pictures

Barii Mori wrote:Well we were pleased with 3rd row on the grid but unhappy that we had car issues which meant we lost points, still we are not downhearted and we shall race harder next race.

Prince Falik wrote:Martins is being caned hard by his team mate, he better start raising his game. And all the drivers that got drunk like yobs should be all punished not just Kay Lon.

Shinobu Katayama wrote:Well I am glad for the podium but finishing behind Foxdale is a bit shameful given how bad they have been. Still the new management seemed to be doing the right things. They were however critical at Kay Lons off track antics.

Autosport wrote:Sunshine lose existing sponsors.

Tamiya and Infiniti have withdrawn sponsorship from Sunshine after rival sponsors and partners were announced, a Infiniti spokesman said "Daihatsu? Is someone having a laugh?", Tamiya just wished the team all the best for the coming season.

Phoenix McAllister wrote:Prince Falik was also drunk as a skunk, nearly as much as Alasdair Lindsay, and he was seen trying to scam some Sicilian investors into putting money on his team.

Shady anonymous ex shareholder of Virgin Inter Corse wrote:For the love of god Falik, don't get in bed with the Cosa Nostra. The Camorra aren't finished with F1RWRS yet. You're going to turn the sport into bloodshed if you go through with this. It may seem like a convenient way to pump cash into the team to start with but it will turn sour and ugly on you very quickly. Having a magnum pointing to your head is not how business transactions are supposed to go down. And man, I wish that was a Kimi Raikkonen reference. But it isn't....

Daniel Melrose wrote:Now I'm not so sure whether to thank HWNSNBM that I was already on my way back to Munich at the time or not.

Aerond wrote:I would recommend any of the smaller teams to hire Ashley Watkinson

The guy has good stats

Aerond wrote:I would recommend any of the smaller teams to hire Ashley Watkinson

The guy has good stats

Phoenix wrote:

Phoenix McAllister wrote:Prince Falik was also drunk as a skunk, nearly as much as Alasdair Lindsay, and he was seen trying to scam some Sicilian investors into putting money on his team.

Prince Falik wrote:Mr McAllister better take back what he said as I, the great Prince Falik am completely tee total and may appear drunk at times due to my medication. No one saw me drink anything but Papaya juice, as for shady investors, I would not grace Arrowtech with some sahdy idiots. Although next year we shall have new sponsors.

Wizzie wrote:Aerond, will it be alright if I take over the running of Jones Racing for the next week until AndreaModa comes back. And with that in mind, can I see the Jones Racing accounts and the car's stats?

Trueba Alitalia submits injunction against MRT
Scuderia Trueba Alitalia has applied for an injunction to stop Melrose Racing Team acquiring the accounts of Castrol Jones Racing. MRT had made the application on the basis of an informal agreement, however Alitalia has moved to block their request.

"Why should they get the advantage of seeing their rival's accouting information while no other team knows?" said Alasdair Lindsay, team principal. "I don't think it should be available to anyone. CJR can manage without this interference. MRT already screwed the system once, I don't see why they should be trusted with such sensitive information."

"My understand is Mr Jones is currently unavailable to fulfil his role for a short period of time. This does not give reason to just hand over a huge quantity of sensitive data to a rival team."

"If the F1RWRS Commission accepts MRT's request we will initiate a lawsuit against them. I hope they see sense and realise this is not a good idea."

Wizzie wrote:I swear it's only a matter of time before Mr Lindsey snaps and kills everyone in the paddock now

Autosport wrote:Lagos not bothered by Infiniti pull out, defends Kay Lon

João Lagos showed himself unfazed by the announcement that Infinit are withdrawing the sponsorship from Sunshine. "We had foreseen this, obviously it would be very hard for Infiniti to stay with us given that we chose, Daihatsu, a rival company, as an engine partner. And we are very pleased with them. Anyway, we will obviously honour our agreement with the previous owner and I guarantee that Infiniti's name will stay until the end of the season. As for the other sponsors we are in contact with them and showing them how serious we are about Sunshine. As I mentioned in our presentation conference, we are happy to welcome them on board". Mr Lagos also mentioned last race events by responding to those who held Sunshine responsible for having an open bar and commented on Kay Lon's misfortunes. "I think it is bollocks. Sunshine cannot be held responsible for whatever other folks did on Sunday. Yes, we had an open bar, but that is not illegal and we didn't forced anyone to go there. What's more, I thought Kay Lon's warning handed by F1RWRS was harsh given that it Lon was sleeping before being taken by Mr McAllister for that infamous cart ride. But I am sure Lon have already put that behind his back and is going to be fully focused in the next race. I also want to give a praise word for Katayama. She drove brilliantly to an amazing 2nd place and I think she deserves more attention to her talent". Mr Lagos finished by saying that Alain Ducasse will do a gourmet meal and appetizers during the next race for the whole paddock.

Daniel Martins wrote:Falik said what? That I am being caned by my team-mate? Oh, no, I am sure he missed the qualifying and and the small part of the race in which I was ArrowsTech front-runner driver from the start until my car gave up. I am sure the team is working hard to solve these problems and Prince Falik is very busy doing whatever he does. Anyway, congrats to my buddy Bosevic for another points finish!

Phoenix McAllister wrote:I want to make clear that Team Phoenix, soon to become Aeroracing Engineering, is siding with Trueba Alitalia on the matter of MRT having access to CJR's confidential data. We'll use all our force on the paddock to block the move.

MA-Racing: Home race nerves.

Mr.Alexander was clearly on edge today when talking to journalists inside the MA-Racing development centre. "Ive just come down to see how our upgrades are coming, and it looks like they should be on the car in the next few races, which is good. However, with the British GP around the corner, the lads are all working as hard as possible to try and get one car on the grid. I'd love to see either David or Matthias start the race at Brands Hatch, as we've given away nearly 3'000 free tickets to our fans to watch us at 'home'."

Wizzie wrote:Aerond, will it be alright if I take over the running of Jones Racing for the next week until AndreaModa comes back. And with that in mind, can I see the Jones Racing accounts and the car's stats?