A tribute to the heroic failures of Grand Prix racing
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JeremyMcClean wrote:ArrowTech is using 15 credits on chassis reliability.
Using 90 credits on an engine improvement of 9 BHP.
Jari Kekkonen to get 10 credits of race preformance
Nicolas Steele to get 10 credits of race preformance as well.
That should equal 125 credits spent.
Wizzie wrote:Monaco... my favourite track
Hey Aerond, for next season could you simulate track preferences and driver characters for drivers? (i.e they perform better at one certain type of track than others. For example I would perform better at street circuits than other types of track while someone like Phillippe Nicolas would perform brilliantly in wet weather)
the Masked Lapwing wrote:Wizzie wrote:Monaco... my favourite track
Hey Aerond, for next season could you simulate track preferences and driver characters for drivers? (i.e they perform better at one certain type of track than others. For example I would perform better at street circuits than other types of track while someone like Phillippe Nicolas would perform brilliantly in wet weather)
Yeah, then Davies would be epic at Bathurst, while both Zimmers perform best at Tilkedromes. But have a feeling that this'll be just like sponsorship, too hard to incorporate.
Aerond wrote:It wouldn´t be hard to do, but it would drive me crazy having to change every driver stats at each race.
Wizzie wrote:JeremyMcClean wrote:ArrowTech is using 15 credits on chassis reliability.
Using 90 credits on an engine improvement of 9 BHP.
Jari Kekkonen to get 10 credits of race preformance
Nicolas Steele to get 10 credits of race preformance as well.
That should equal 125 credits spent.
Kekkonen and Steele aren't in your team. Therefore you can't spend credits on them.
the Masked Lapwing wrote:
Dammit. Oh well. Older Jr is a pay driver. As for Massini, sack him, and I'll replace him with Fredo Mestolio. Stealing names from V8SC3 is fun.
)Aerond wrote:F1RWRS 2013 - ROUND 5 - MONACO
QUALIFYING
1. Ben Fleet (Foxdale) -- 1.15.178
2. Hagane Shizuka (Sunshine) -- 1.15.658 (+0.480)
3. Chris Dagnall (Dagnall) -- 1.15.933 (+0.755)
4. Thomas de Bock (Gillet) -- 1.16.011 (+0.833)
5. Mark Dagnall (Dagnall) -- 1.16.164 (+0.986)
6. Dave McFaste (FAT) -- 1.16.413 (+1.235)
7. Sammy Jones (Jones) -- 1.16.528 (+1.350)
8. Saeed Al Faisal (FAT) -- 1.16.649 (+1.471)
9. Douglas Mann (Foxdale) -- 1.16.655 (+1.477)
10. Kay Lon (Jones) -- 1.16.762 (+1.584)
11. Resi Respati (Flying Fish) -- 1.16.927 (+1.749)
12. Shinobu Katayama (Sunshine) -- 1.17.257 (+2.079)
13. Aurelian Moll (Gillet) -- 1.17.648 (+2.470)
14. Ashley Watkinson (HRT) -- 1.18.088 (+2.910)
15. Phillipe Nicolas (MRT) -- 1.18.177 (+2.999)
16. Rhys Davies (HRT) -- 1.18.204 (+3.026)
17. Phoenix McAllister (Phoenix) -- 1.18.205 (+3.027)
18. Yu Hiang Hao (Flying Fish) -- 1.18.252 (+3.074)
19. Barii Mori (Kamaha) -- 1.18.326 (+3.148)
20. Daniel Martins (Arrowtech) -- 1.18.443 (+3.265)
21. Daniel Melrose (Arrowtech) -- 1.18.478 (+3.300)
22. Nicolas Steele (Kamaha) -- 1.18.523 (+3.345)
23. Gary Cameron (Prospec) -- 1.18.606 (+3.428)
24. Dave Simpson (Prospec) -- 1.18.730 (+3.552)
25. Jari Kekkonen (Phoenix) -- 1.18.885 (+3.707)
26. Nathaniel Spencer (MRT) -- 1.19.568 (+4.390)
DNQ. Darren Older Jr (CR) -- 1.23.084 (+7.906)
DNQ. Fredo Mestolio (CR) -- 1.24.154 (+8.976)
Daniel Melrose wrote:Phillippe you bloody legend! 15th on the grid at one of the greatest racetracks in the world in that crapbox of a car is simply unbelievable. Hopefully he'll hang on to score a point or two. The Arrowtech on the other hand is simply abmysal as I have never done so badly in a normal qualifying session at Monaco. Points seem to be out of the question without attrition to help.
Sammy Jones wrote:Wow that was quite a fun race overall! Despite the puncture on the last lap costing me the win, I'm still happy to have finished my first race of the year, giving the team another podium finish. The scrap with Kay and Douglas Mann earlier in the race was great fun, I'm just disappointed for Kay that a water leak has cost him a good result. What is clear however is that our car is fundamentally good, we're comfortably making it past pre-qualifying and consistently qualifying in the top half of the grid. Our race performances haven't been bad at all, and I'm expecting our first double finish to come very soon! Still a win and two podiums from our first three races isn't too shabby at all!
Kay Lon wrote:Well, I can only agree with my team partner, we are looking very strong, although my retirement was unfortunate. I think it's not to inappropriate to say that if we can keep up this performance, the championship lead should go over to me very soon.
The Fox wrote:Well, a double DNF!Just about everything that could go wrong, did go wrong today...
Chris Dagnall said:
Well, I can´t say much. I was leading comfortably and then the car stopped after the pitstop. Now all we can do is pray as we don´t have resources available to improve the reliability. I don´t discard stepping out of the car at one moment or another to make way for some income
Mark Dagnall:
++ Passes by with techno blasting off his headphones and a giant can of Monster Energy ++
Phoenix McAllister wrote:Considering I drove out of my skin to get some good points and Sammy Jones lost a certain victory at the last lap, I am very tempted to make fun of him, but I won't. Let's just enjoy this great result and keep trying to improve the car. We're getting closer to our goals.
Phoenix wrote:Phoenix McAllister wrote:Considering I drove out of my skin to get some good points and Sammy Jones lost a certain victory at the last lap, I am very tempted to make fun of him, but I won't. Let's just enjoy this great result and keep trying to improve the car. We're getting closer to our goals.
BTW how many credits did I gain from my performance today?
Aerond wrote:Phoenix wrote:Phoenix McAllister wrote:Considering I drove out of my skin to get some good points and Sammy Jones lost a certain victory at the last lap, I am very tempted to make fun of him, but I won't. Let's just enjoy this great result and keep trying to improve the car. We're getting closer to our goals.
BTW how many credits did I gain from my performance today?
I think 10 (it´s 5 credits per point earnt), but these are added at the very end of the season
Rhys Davies wrote:Unreliability helped me? What is going on?! Still, I kept it out of the barriers, and Ashley picked up second place. Although I'm disappointed there was minimal mention of him...
Frank Zimmer wrote:Bloody hell...
John Zimmer wrote:Well, I see improvement on the horizon for Calinetic. I just couldn't pull out a good lap in PQ, but Monaco isn't a favourite track of mine.
Dave Simpson wrote:Geez, that was an absolute shocker. The car definitely was not suited to the circuit and it showed with our qualifying performance. Transmission failure in the race was adding insult to injury and to top it off Gary retired with a puncture while battling with a certain driver who I have been criticising recently (*cough* Phoenix McAllister *cough*). Thank goodness the team are bringing their planned upgrades to the next race, I hear that the engine has gained extra power which was most definitely needed, but it was in the region of 5hp or so which I don't think is enough.
Phoenix wrote:Fine, but these credits are for the team only, or my driver has also gained credits for his points earned? And, in which case, are these added at the end of the season too?
Mark Dagnall:
++ Passes by with techno blasting off his headphones and a giant can of Monster Energy ++
Ben Fleet wrote:Hope you're listening to this 'cos that's how I feel about you right now! Don't care that you retired - you got more airtime for your sponsors. Git.
Douglas Mann wrote: Anybody got a concrete block that Pippa and I can take for a swim in the habour, please? This is getting ridiculous. Ben retires from the lead; I retire from second (albeit not too far from the end of race...). Time to take a long walk off a short pier methinks...
Tony Gillet wrote:That was an exciting race, wasn't it? With a bit more luck, we would have taken a 1-2 and the constructor's championship lead, but it wasn't to be. Kudos to Aurelien for staying out of trouble all race and taking his third win and the team's fifth! Now I'll just go celebrate in style!
Thomas De Bock wrote:I'm obviously a bit disappointed about my retirement, especially with such a big lead, but I wasn't expecting the attrition to take effect ahead of me, so I'll admit to being aggressive on the kerbs at the start of the race, and the problem just worsened. It's stupid and I know I shouldn't have done that, but then again, hindsight's a wonderful thing, isn't it?
Aurelien Moll wrote:Well, I'm just over the moon. I'll admit to being extremely lucky, but I guess staying out of trouble the whole race payed off in the end! Qualifying was a bit disappointing, sure, but I didn't get a good feel for the car in quali trim. It felt much better come race day, and the result was me at the top of the podium!
Daniel Melrose wrote:The less said about ArrowTech the better. At no point this weekend could either myself or Daniel Martins get the car to work around the track and the eventual oil leak just put me out of my misery. Onto MRT and Phillipe did an excellent job to score his second point of the season. Hopefully this will help keep us out of pre-qualifying for the rest of the season and help us build from the horror baseline.
The Fox wrote:I am terribly sorry for the trouble Martins and Melrose had gone through in the last race, I don't quite know what happened, really! I need to hire better mechanics...
the Masked Lapwing wrote:Holy crap, Jones Racing didn't qualify
Aerond wrote:the Masked Lapwing wrote:Holy crap, Jones Racing didn't qualify
I´m still shocked as well. I´m also glad that, with the exceptions of Virgin and Horizon, any of them could have qualified. I also think that if Wizzie moves his ass, Horizon could have its options to qualify too.
Sammy Jones wrote:Well I suppose this will teach us a valuable lesson in not resting on our laurels, though to not go through by not even two tenths is pretty galling, particularly as previously we'd breezed through every single weekend. Nonetheless this is just a minor blip in what still promises to be a very good season - we know for a fact that we won't be in pre-qualifying for the second half of the season, so soon we won't even have to deal with, what is for every driver and team in the session, a crazy lottery that can be very unfair. For us though it's only fair that others get the chance to prove themselves in race conditions, so I personally have no problem in sitting out the Pau race. In fact it will give me some ample time to negotiate for next year with some potential new investors.
Kay Lon wrote:What? How? Why? I mean, we have a great car and I am the best driver in this series. This should not have happened. Surely, the F1RWRS management is angered by our success and has decided to rig the session to hurt us. It must be a conspiracy.