Grand Prix Rejects

Martin van der Maeyede wrote:I would be happy to compete in the F2RWRS boss, as my nana in Eindhoven used to say, "time und tide wait fur no man"

Autosport wrote:Jones Slams Alitalia For Qualifying Shenanigans

In front of the assembled media following the F2RWRS qualifying session today, Sammy Jones blasted the Scuderia Alitalia team for ensuring his driver Terry Hawkin was held up, thus ruining his quick lap.

"I'm f***ing livid, Hansuke put a great lap in to go 5th, and I'm certain that Terry would have matched that at the very least, but the scumbags at Alitalia aren't content to ruin their own weekend, but feel the need to piss on their competitors too. Terry is only a couple of points behind the two Alitalia drivers in the championship, despite us having to deal with pre-qualifying for the first few races, and it's obvious they're shitting themselves at the thought of being shown up by a clearly superior driver in a team that's been operational for less than 4 months. The fact that Terry then picked up a caution for blocking Bastian later on is just salt in the wound. He was pissed off with that cretin, so what do the stewards expect? Do they honestly think he's just going to accept the fact that the Alitalia drivers are complete arsewipes and cruise back round to the pits content with the fact that his best lap is ruined and he'll start in the middle of bloody no-where?"

After his tirade, Jones pushed through the crowd and proceeded to urinate against the side of one of the Alitalia team's trucks.

Gazzetta Dello Sport wrote:Sassetti shrugs off whining by Jones Racing

After harsh criticism against their drivers in F2RWRS Qualifying in France, Andrea Sassetti has replied to Sammy Jones' scathing comments, saying the Brit needs to stop "whining about his own problems" and actually do something about them.

"It is funny to watch Jones rant, he is like a little kid throwing a tantrum because his parents don't buy him everything he asks for at the toy store," he said. "When Jones took a tantrum that we bought Trueba and they didn't play, we shared. And he still complained. Now he gets his own team, all he does is complain even more. Yes, our team has not done well lately, but doesn't that show we have far more potential? We are expected to do well, and we have two wins this season already. How many do Jones Racing have?"

"He whines too much about his own problems. Maybe if he spent less time acting like a spoiled child and more like a team principal, these things wouldn't happen. I'm not surprised by the way Hawkin reacted in the qualifying session, he is clearly learning from Jones to act out and shoot yourself in the foot when things don't go your way, instead of looking for a proper solution. Hawkin needs a better teacher, and we can open our door to him if he wants to win races in the future."

Sassetti then went on to comment about Alitalia's prospects for the race tomorrow; "The qualifying positions are not ideal, but I think if both Bastiaan and Andrej keep cool and methodically pick their way through the pack they will still get good results. There is no pressure on them from the start so perhaps this will help them."

AdrianSutil wrote:Would there be a problem to promote Martin van der Maayeyde from F3 and demote either Ashley Lilly or Scott Davidson from F2? Martin has been pretty quick in F3 and it might help our chances to qualify for once.

the Masked Lapwing wrote:

AdrianSutil wrote:Would there be a problem to promote Martin van der Maayeyde from F3 and demote either Ashley Lilly or Scott Davidson from F2? Martin has been pretty quick in F3 and it might help our chances to qualify for once.

There shouldn't be as both have done only five races.

Autosport wrote:GLOTCH SACKED AS KAZAMA RUNS AWAY WITH RACE WIN IN FRANCE
After Tomo Kazama's brilliant win in Paul Ricard, Brett Johnson was very pleased, to say the least, of Tomo Kazama, the reigning F3RWRS champion. Kazama led from Lap 3 after passing Albertini for the lead and never looked back. However, teammate Micko Glotch had a completely different story; he qualified last (while Tomo claimed pole position) and Glotch was running near the back of the field before picking up a puncture and then retiring. "It wasn't even a bad puncture," said Johnson, "he could have brought it into the pitlane and we could have fixed it. But he sought it as an excuse to leave the race." Glotch, in five races, has not scored a single point, while Kazama is currently first in the championship with 32 points. No word yet on who will replace Glotch.

JeremyMcClean wrote:

Autosport wrote:GLOTCH SACKED AS KAZAMA RUNS AWAY WITH RACE WIN IN FRANCE
After Tomo Kazama's brilliant win in Paul Ricard, Brett Johnson was very pleased, to say the least, of Tomo Kazama, the reigning F3RWRS champion. Kazama led from Lap 3 after passing Albertini for the lead and never looked back. However, teammate Micko Glotch had a completely different story; he qualified last (while Tomo claimed pole position) and Glotch was running near the back of the field before picking up a puncture and then retiring. "It wasn't even a bad puncture," said Johnson, "he could have brought it into the pitlane and we could have fixed it. But he sought it as an excuse to leave the race." Glotch, in five races, has not scored a single point, while Kazama is currently first in the championship with 32 points. No word yet on who will replace Glotch.

The Triumph Herald wrote:Buyvolov to Aston Martin?
Alexey Buyvolov has been linked to the second Aston Martin seat following Micko Glotch's firing. The young Russian driver managed to escape from pre-qualifying after a marked improvement in Dofasco's fortunes, and impressed many team bosses with his great drive that was ended by an engine failure. No information has come from any party involved yet, but Buyvolov is undoubtedly in demand at the moment and Aston Martin would have to act fast to sign him up.

Speedline.com wrote:Glotch to sue Aston Martin!
The recently sacked Miko Glotch has announced his plans to sue the Aston Martin F2RWRS team for breach of contract and failure to provide a competitive car. The Dutch driver said today that he was shocked and angered by his dismissal, and he accused Tomo Kazama of sleeping with the team boss Brett Johnson in return for favourable treatment.

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Corriere dello Sport wrote:Lindsay: Glotch is a crybaby

Scuderia Alitalia team boss Alasdair Lindsay has hit out at recently sacked Aston Martin driver Micko Glotch, after the latter filed a lawsuit for unfair dismissal. Glotch had failed to score a point during the whole 2015 season, while team-mate Tomo Kazama is currently leading the championship with 32 points to her name.

"With an attitude like this, Glotch is going to fail as a professional racing driver," commented Lindsay. "He was being absolutely destroyed by his team-mate, his team made absolutely the right decision to fire him. We are businesses, and any business should have the right to fire an employee who does not deliver to a reasonable standard."

"I had a brief chat with Andrej [Kremnicky] about this, he was at Aston Martin last season and said both he and Marchesi had equal treatment while he was with the team. Blaming the car and the team for his own shortcomings goes to show how poor a mentality Glotch has, the only way he can make it in racing now is to admit he doesn't have the same natural talent as Marchesi, but to put in hard work and grind away until he improves to a better level. There are drivers out there who maybe don't have the same skill level out of the box as others, but over their careers worked and worked and eventually scored good results."

"It's time for him to stop acting like a crybaby, man up, and take on this new challenge in his career with a better level of maturity."

Tom Douglas wrote:The stewards have decided that Van Nieuwenhuijzen's ban will come into effect for the next race in Britain after his qualifying altercation. Since we've scheduled the event in such a way that the F2RWRS and F3RWRS sessions would take place on different days and with a small fleet of helicopters loaned to us sitting on the tarmac at East Midlands Airport, we'll allow drivers to do both the F2RWRS and F3RWRS races that weekend. Also, Sammy Jones has been given a $10 000 fine for his act of public urination on Saturday. Next time, I'll have to tell those bloody French organisers to NOT put the Alitalia and Jones garages together.

A masked man speaking with a Nigerian accent wrote:Just jealous that you have got competition as the biggest whinger in motorsport I see Lindsay.

Wizzie wrote:

Tom Douglas wrote:The stewards have decided that Van Nieuwenhuijzen's ban will come into effect for the next race in Britain after his qualifying altercation. Since we've scheduled the event in such a way that the F2RWRS and F3RWRS sessions would take place on different days and with a small fleet of helicopters loaned to us sitting on the tarmac at East Midlands Airport, we'll allow drivers to do both the F2RWRS and F3RWRS races that weekend. Also, Sammy Jones has been given a $10 000 fine for his act of public urination on Saturday. Next time, I'll have to tell those bloody French organisers to NOT put the Alitalia and Jones garages together.

eurobrun wrote:

Speedline.com wrote:Glotch to sue Aston Martin!
The recently sacked Miko Glotch has announced his plans to sue the Aston Martin F2RWRS team for breach of contract and failure to provide a competitive car. The Dutch driver said today that he was shocked and angered by his dismissal, and he accused Tomo Kazama of sleeping with the team boss Brett Johnson in return for favourable treatment.

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Autosport wrote:JOHNSON CALLS ALLEGATIONS "OUTRAGEOUS," DENIES AFFAIR
In response to some rumours that Aston Martin boss Brett Johnson has been sleeping with lead driver Tomo Kazama in return for favourable treatment. "I was quite wrong in thinking that Micko would take this reasonably," said Johnson. "But he decides to make a mess out of it." Johnson also claims he had not heard from any lawyers about any lawsuits. He then defended his views that he was not sleeping with Tomo Kazama. "I have never done anything so outrageous as to sleep with any of my coworkers. I have a family with two kids, and to be quite frank, my wife suits me just fine, and I would never think of cheating on her. I wish he would think, even for a moment, before going off blaming people on 'evidence' from tabloids. And besides, when I fired him, I told him, 'it's not the treatment, it's not the car, it's not the mechanics, it's you.'" Johnson then refused to comment any further.

JeremyMcClean wrote:
Out of curiosity, how many driver changes are allowed in a season? (Much like the four-driver rule in F1RWRS?)

Prince Falik wrote:What are you two idiots doing, do you know how much these cars cost? If I was paying you anything then I would be taking it out of your wages. Josh, the engineers said there was nothing wrong with your car, did the big boys at the front scare you back to the back? They say, "boo" and you crash out, crying back to the pits? And Yuka, you had a podium, you could have been on that step, spraying champagne but instead you creep back to the pits like a naughty schoolgirl, trying hard to avoid me after you plant the car into the barriers like it was a pot plant. You take your bollocking like Josh. You two clowns better drive fast and carefully next time. I also hear that some joker tried to take the mickey out of me, if I find out who it is then they will be sorry, yes, yes, yes.

Autosport wrote:BUYVOLOV SIGNED WITH ASTON MARTIN ON TRIAL CONTRACT
In an unprecedented move, Aston Martin has gone ahead and signed Alexey Buyvolov to a three-race contract, starting from Donington, and then to the Norisring and Spa-Francorchamps. Johnson was quite pleased with Buyvolov's racing skills, but was a bit wary of his consistency. "It's worth it, in my opinion, to try out Buyvolov for three races, see how it goes, and decide from there. He obviously has talent - whether or not he can continuously do this is for him to answer and for us to find out."

Autosport wrote:BUYVOLOV SIGNED WITH ASTON MARTIN ON TRIAL CONTRACT
In an unprecedented move, Aston Martin has gone ahead and signed Alexey Buyvolov to a three-race contract, starting from Donington, and then to the Norisring and Spa-Francorchamps. Johnson was quite pleased with Buyvolov's racing skills, but was a bit wary of his consistency. "It's worth it, in my opinion, to try out Buyvolov for three races, see how it goes, and decide from there. He obviously has talent - whether or not he can continuously do this is for him to answer and for us to find out."

kostas22 wrote:

Autosport wrote:BUYVOLOV SIGNED WITH ASTON MARTIN ON TRIAL CONTRACT
In an unprecedented move, Aston Martin has gone ahead and signed Alexey Buyvolov to a three-race contract, starting from Donington, and then to the Norisring and Spa-Francorchamps. Johnson was quite pleased with Buyvolov's racing skills, but was a bit wary of his consistency. "It's worth it, in my opinion, to try out Buyvolov for three races, see how it goes, and decide from there. He obviously has talent - whether or not he can continuously do this is for him to answer and for us to find out."

Um...he isn't your driver to sign. I doubt The Lukas would just gift you his team's best driver

Autosport wrote:IMPORTANT NOTICE:
On Page 1 of our last issue of Autosport, we posted an error on the headline "Buyvolov signed with Aston Martin on trial contract." The title was meant to be read as "Buyvolov rumoured to be signed with Aston Martin on trial contract, and the quotes that were received were put out of context. We apologize for the confusion this may have caused. The editor's assistant, who was in charge of headlines, has been sacked.

Niko Nurminen wrote:Nice job Enrico, good to have at least someone of my drivers doing a good job...

Enrico Molinaro wrote:Bellisimo! Perfetto! If it wasn't for those idiots in the start I could've been-a better.

FMecha wrote:Just a continuity issue - does anyone have the dates for F1RICS and F2RWRS races? Because I have doubts about Anderson's clashing races.

pasta_maldonado wrote:

FMecha wrote:Just a continuity issue - does anyone have the dates for F1RICS and F2RWRS races? Because I have doubts about Anderson's clashing races.

I had clashes with my drivers as well - but then I decided that these were simply different people, with exactly the same name Like the multiple James Davies

Autosport wrote:ASTON MARTIN HOPES TO SIGN CHRISTOPHERSON JR
Reports are coming out that Jack Christopherson Jr, the son of Jack Christopherson, the F1 champion in 1996. The spokesperson for Aston Martin says that Johnston "was in talks with the British driver to race for the team." Aston boss Brian Johnston had no comment on the subject, but F2RWRS driver Tommy Nash says he should have a drive in the series. "Obviously he has the talent to win races, I'm quite surprised nobody's signed him yet." Christopherson Jr and his father were unavailable for comments.

GLOTCH "BREACH OF CONTRACT" LAWSUIT THROWN OUT OF COURT
Former F2RWRS driver Micko Glotch was disappointed as his "breach of contract" lawsuit was thrown out of court. Johnston's lawyers claimed that Glotch had not performed well in his five races and therefore Johnston had every right to fire Glotch. "If the PM was underperforming," the lawyer says, "surely you'd like to fire him as well!" Glotch also claimed that Johnston was sleeping with Tomo Kazama in return for favourable treatment, but the lawyers proved that there was no evidence to support the claim. In the end, the judge said that "there was no evidence to support the plaintiff's claims," and the case was thrown out. Afterwards, Johnston was open to questions, and said "I just feel sorry for the taxpayers who had to pay for this frivolous lawsuit."

RWRS Monthly wrote:Jantscher for F2 in 2016?
Following a good sequence of performances in F3RWRS, Marko Jantscher has been tipped for a move up to F2 for next season. The Austrian driver took his first podium with fledgling team Fusion Motorsports at Monaco, and he's hoping that a continuation of a good season will see him progress his career on a higher level. Team manager Jake Legge said "We've not begun negotiations as of yet as it's rather early in the season, but there's a good chance of him getting a seat if he keeps managing to perform. As Fusion won't be making the step up as of yet, we'd like to get him into ideally a front-running team to really showcase his ability." The team stress that he will complete the F3 season, but it has been suggested that he may want to get experience of the more powerful cars towards the end of the season.

Autosport wrote:TOMMY NASH RESIGNS FROM YOUNG LIONS, MOVES TO ASTON MARTIN
The Canadian F2RWRS driver has announced that he has resigned from the Holden Young Lions team to join the Aston Martin Motor Racing Team.

Aston Martin has recently sacked Micko Glotch due to poor performances, and were looking for new drivers. Nash presented himself after he was benched in favour of Daniel Melville, with little success.

Nash claims that his benching was not the main reason why he made the switch to Aston Martin.

"I was looking for further opportunities in my career," said Nash in the resulting press conference. "The way things were going at Holden, it was looking like things were not going to be good. And as much as I like Holden, I have to keep my career in check. I can't spend forever waiting to make my prescence known, I have to take the opportunities when I can."

Nash seemed thankful, but not regretful of his decision.

"I'd like to thank the Holden team for all the things they've done to help my career, including giving me my first F1RWRS drive. However, my main goal is to become F1RWRS champion one day, and unfortunately, I'm not going to do this by getting part-time drives."

Nash also said he was "very disappointed" that he wasn't in the running to replace Poppy Whitechapel when she left the F1RWRS team after Monaco.

"It's not that I don't like Melrose," said Nash, "it's that he's quite honestly the most overrated driver I've ever seen. He's way past his prime, and he just can't seem to find his dominant pace like he used to have. I don't like to judge other people's driving abilities, but surely he's got to know when to step aside and let a younger driver have the seat instead of a struggling superstar."

Before he left, Nash felt positive of his impact with Aston.

"I don't expect to compete directly with Tomo, as she is clearly the better driver and she has had more time with the car. I know I will have difficulties coming into the team mid-season, but I am positive that I can score points within the first three races.

For Brett Johnson's sake, let's hope he does.

Wizzie wrote:2015 F2RWRS Sainsbury's British Grand Prix

Pre-Qualifying

It's safe to say that Ashley Lilly's Kingfisher career can now be measured in hours after debutant teammate Martin van der Maeyede did everything possible to haul Kingfisher into race day for the first time this year. It all turned out for naught as while Maeyede topped the times, Lilly speared off the road on his only hot lap in the dreadful conditions, before beaching it for good on the very next lap. The awful British weather also caught out Daniel Melville and Phil McCracken as they were the last to set their first lap times, right at the point where the track was at its worst, which meant neither HRT or Aeroracing made it into the Grand Prix. This left Dofasco and Gillet to pick up the spoils for the second race in succession as the latter continue on their quest to escape pre-qualifying permanently after this weekend.

1. M. van der Maeyede (Kingfisher-Holden): 1:30.284
2. L. Seron (Dofasco-Audi): +0.569
3. C. Simpson (Young Lions-Holden): +0.646
4. G. Pascal (Gillet-BMW): +0.845
5. T. Jason (Aeroracing-Audi): +1.250
6. J-V. Albertini (Gillet-BMW): +1.425
7. A. Buyvolov (Dofasco-Audi): +1.601
8. D. Melville (Young Lions-Holden): +3.791
9. P. McCracken (Aeroracing-Audi): +7.083
10. A. Lilly (Kingfisher-Holden): +29.281

the Masked Lapwing wrote:
Dude, there is still an F1RWRS race, an F1RDRS round and RoLFS round to go. PATIENCE!

Kingfisher Holden:
"Unfortunately, Ashley has failed to show us why he should be in the F2 team, and we will Be searching for a suitable replacement soon. Martin has continued his excellent progress with our set-up and will remain in the F2 team for the remainder of the season. Whilst Calvin Brooks and now Scott Davidson continue in F3, we will be reviewing Ashley's seat soon."

Martin van der Maeyede wrote:The car really felt good today, of course it is the first time I'd driven this car competitively but it couldn't have gone better. I was able to take more speed through the corners than anyone else which helped a lot, and was able to put the power down earlier than anyone else which was a huge help in the appalling conditions. Really disappointing to be missing out on a chance to race this weekend, but I'm excited to continue working with the Kingfisher team as I know the guys so well

Grzegosz Sobczyk wrote:we are pleased with the pre-qualifications, we look forward to an even better performance in qualifying and in the race, our drivers can afford making a surprise and not a single"

FMecha wrote:Who's in the F2RWRS waiting list? Andreas Stefano's Scuderia Aqua (yes, resurrection of that 50s team, the assets of the team having fell into Stefano's hands) will join the waiting list, eyeing Dave Anderson as one of it's possible drivers.

Wizzie wrote:From memory, I believe Salamander's first on the list and Pasta's second. Considering what's gone down in the RoLFS, Hydook's slot may become available

BlindCaveSalamander wrote:

Wizzie wrote:From memory, I believe Salamander's first on the list and Pasta's second. Considering what's gone down in the RoLFS, Hydook's slot may become available

Isn't that just for F1RWRS though?