F1RWRS -- 2015 Season - ROTY voting!!!

Aerond · Post by **Aerond** » 10 Jan 2013, 00:22

Everybody else feels HRT is going to have a really tough time making the grid again this year? To me, they are number one for ROTY

Aerond · Post by **Aerond** » 10 Jan 2013, 00:36

If we actually get both Revos, both Simpsons and both Tropicos on grid it will be... just great

RealRacingRoots · Post by **RealRacingRoots** » 10 Jan 2013, 00:37

Aerond wrote:If we actually get both Revos, both Simpsons and both Tropicos on grid it will be... just great

I love the weather system rocking Europe right now in the RWRS.

Nessafox · Post by **Nessafox** » 10 Jan 2013, 00:42

Stramala [kostas22] wrote:It is interesting. Will McGovern's current stats carry over to F1RWRS should eventually get a reject license? I may have inadvertently gained a useful asset here.
Also, Aerond, don't be afraid to delve into Voeckler's performance file and make him even worse. If anything, I insist that you do

Next time you do a test, don't forget to reward Lamberigts for winning a F2RWRS-race in a Lancia-powered car! If you want me to turn me into your B-team, you'll have to at least pretend you care about me

Post by **DemocalypseNow** » 10 Jan 2013, 00:59

This wrote:
Stramala [kostas22] wrote:It is interesting. Will McGovern's current stats carry over to F1RWRS should eventually get a reject license? I may have inadvertently gained a useful asset here.
Also, Aerond, don't be afraid to delve into Voeckler's performance file and make him even worse. If anything, I insist that you do

Next time you do a test, don't forget to reward Lamberigts for winning a F2RWRS-race in a Lancia-powered car! If you want me to turn me into your B-team, you'll have to at least pretend you care about me

Well, maybe we can do this, but, will he be a pay driver or standard driver? I am guessing the latter...

Salamander · Post by **Salamander** » 10 Jan 2013, 01:02

Aerond wrote:Everybody else feels HRT is going to have a really tough time making the grid again this year? To me, they are number one for ROTY

If they don't make the grid again, they'd certainly be chief contenders, but right now I think Daniel Melrose and Ron Mignolet should still be considered the favourites for now.

Post by **DemocalypseNow** » 10 Jan 2013, 01:04

BlindCaveSalamander wrote:
Aerond wrote:Everybody else feels HRT is going to have a really tough time making the grid again this year? To me, they are number one for ROTY

If they don't make the grid again, they'd certainly be chief contenders, but right now I think Daniel Melrose and Ron Mignolet should still be considered the favourites for now.

I think Daniel Melrose had this award sown up a long, long, LONG time ago.

tristan1117 · Post by **tristan1117** » 10 Jan 2013, 01:34

Kollin Holles wrote:What the hell guys.

the Masked Lapwing · Post by **the Masked Lapwing** » 10 Jan 2013, 01:48

Aerond wrote:Everybody else feels HRT is going to have a really tough time making the grid again this year? To me, they are number one for ROTY

Yes, money!

TomWazzleshaw · Post by **TomWazzleshaw** » 10 Jan 2013, 02:13

Oh for the love of HWNSNBM Aerond! How on earth am I supposed to catch up with the F2RWRS now? Especially now that I have to make all three races wet.

SuperAguri · Post by **SuperAguri** » 10 Jan 2013, 04:08

Aerond : Shouldnt you put up the results of the Austrian GP before running the Monza GP?

Saeed Al Faisal wrote:I love Monza, I have won a couple of GT races here so I knew I could easily prequalify. I expect Dave Simpson knows he made the right choice now.

Shinobu Katayama wrote:Marie Simon has definately listened to what I had to say and managed to qualify the Revolution. I hope she can do well in the race. With Revolution out of prequalifying then with me and Hagane, they will not go back down there.

FMecha · Post by **FMecha** » 10 Jan 2013, 06:01

PQ polesitter DNPQing? :lol:

And with our team DNPQing and we running out of credits, expect silence from us.

Shizuka · Post by **Shizuka** » 10 Jan 2013, 06:46

Aerond wrote:Revolution will skip Pre-Qualifying at Round 13

WHAT THE F- *boom*

AdrianSutil · Post by **AdrianSutil** » 10 Jan 2013, 06:52

It's a shame it's a damp qualifying, our powerful engines could've put us near the front. As long as both Kinhfisher's make the grid, we could be a dark horse for points on Sunday.

Aerond · Post by **Aerond** » 10 Jan 2013, 08:24

SuperAguri wrote:Aerond : Shouldnt you put up the results of the Austrian GP before running the Monza GP?

Saeed Al Faisal wrote:I love Monza, I have won a couple of GT races here so I knew I could easily prequalify. I expect Dave Simpson knows he made the right choice now.

Shinobu Katayama wrote:Marie Simon has definately listened to what I had to say and managed to qualify the Revolution. I hope she can do well in the race. With Revolution out of prequalifying then with me and Hagane, they will not go back down there.

Oh! I forgot!! Will do before running qualifying. You still can make line up changes yet.

Warren Hughes · Post by **Warren Hughes** » 10 Jan 2013, 09:30

Wizzie wrote:Oh for the love of HWNSNBM Aerond! How on earth am I supposed to catch up with the F2RWRS now? Especially now that I have to make all three races wet.

A taste of one's own medicine being taken here :lol:

TomWazzleshaw · Post by **TomWazzleshaw** » 10 Jan 2013, 09:54

Warren Hughes wrote:
Wizzie wrote:Oh for the love of HWNSNBM Aerond! How on earth am I supposed to catch up with the F2RWRS now? Especially now that I have to make all three races wet.

A taste of one's own medicine being taken here

Indeed it is. Now excuse me while I post about your F2RWRS driver being shite. Again.

Warren Hughes · Post by **Warren Hughes** » 10 Jan 2013, 10:16

Wizzie wrote:
Warren Hughes wrote:
Wizzie wrote:Oh for the love of HWNSNBM Aerond! How on earth am I supposed to catch up with the F2RWRS now? Especially now that I have to make all three races wet.

A taste of one's own medicine being taken here

Indeed it is. Now excuse me while I post about your F2RWRS driver being shite. Again.

Touché.

FMecha · Post by **FMecha** » 10 Jan 2013, 11:13

Warren Hughes wrote:
Wizzie wrote:
Warren Hughes wrote:A taste of one's own medicine being taken here

Indeed it is. Now excuse me while I post about your F2RWRS driver being shite. Again.

Touché.

For the record, my own F2RWRS driver is even more s**te.

TomWazzleshaw · Post by **TomWazzleshaw** » 10 Jan 2013, 11:15

FMecha wrote:
Warren Hughes wrote:
Wizzie wrote:
Indeed it is. Now excuse me while I post about your F2RWRS driver being shite. Again.

Touché.

For the record, my own F2RWRS driver is even more s**te.

Difference is we all expect Anderson to be crap anyway

RonDenisDeletraz · Post by **RonDenisDeletraz** » 10 Jan 2013, 11:57

All my drivers are crap. I win.

Post by **Nuppiz** » 10 Jan 2013, 12:20

eurobrun wrote:All my drivers are crap. I win.

*clears throat* Ahem.

TomWazzleshaw · Post by **TomWazzleshaw** » 10 Jan 2013, 12:22

eurobrun wrote:All my drivers are crap. I win.

To be fair, Battani's actually turning out to pretty good and Pascal's achieving a whole lot more in the Gillet than Swerts ever managed.

RonDenisDeletraz · Post by **RonDenisDeletraz** » 10 Jan 2013, 12:33

Battani can be really fast sometimes, but he has a tendency to qualify like he has overdosed on valium.

Nessafox · Post by **Nessafox** » 10 Jan 2013, 22:34

Stramala [kostas22] wrote:
This wrote:
Stramala [kostas22] wrote:It is interesting. Will McGovern's current stats carry over to F1RWRS should eventually get a reject license? I may have inadvertently gained a useful asset here.
Also, Aerond, don't be afraid to delve into Voeckler's performance file and make him even worse. If anything, I insist that you do

Next time you do a test, don't forget to reward Lamberigts for winning a F2RWRS-race in a Lancia-powered car! If you want me to turn me into your B-team, you'll have to at least pretend you care about me

Well, maybe we can do this, but, will he be a pay driver or standard driver? I am guessing the latter...

As it is a 'reward' he can be considered a standard driver. At least for now.

Post by **DemocalypseNow** » 10 Jan 2013, 22:37

This wrote:As it is a 'reward' he can be considered a standard driver. At least for now.

For now? Once he tests he's locked into a driver type. With the exception of if you picked him as a pay-driver and then he scored 10 points.

Nessafox · Post by **Nessafox** » 10 Jan 2013, 23:56

Stramala [kostas22] wrote:
This wrote:As it is a 'reward' he can be considered a standard driver. At least for now.

For now? Once he tests he's locked into a driver type. With the exception of if you picked him as a pay-driver and then he scored 10 points.

Hm, i thought this started from the moment he entered a race.

Post by **DemocalypseNow** » 11 Jan 2013, 00:05

This wrote:
Stramala [kostas22] wrote:
This wrote:As it is a 'reward' he can be considered a standard driver. At least for now.

For now? Once he tests he's locked into a driver type. With the exception of if you picked him as a pay-driver and then he scored 10 points.

Hm, i thought this started from the moment he entered a race.

I'm 99% sure that's not how it works. But only Aerond can confirm this for us.

Nessafox · Post by **Nessafox** » 11 Jan 2013, 00:12

Hey, i make mistakes too. Very often, actually. Doesnt matter, he's the fastest young talent around. Except when it rains, or when there's space for people to overtake him. Hm, combat skills is not in in the Lamberigts family :lol:

TomWazzleshaw · Post by **TomWazzleshaw** » 11 Jan 2013, 05:30

Wizzie wrote:
Aerond wrote:
Wizzie wrote:
Ah, I stopped paying attention the minute the two MRTs blew the feature race qualifying at South City. And can someone fill me in on what exactly Nicolas has achieved in the last two races?

exactly nothing. Oh, and a critical lack of speed in the wet (as well as Neuberg, may I add, except that Neuberg almost destroyed Stig's race on the final lap at Spa)

And yet Spencer was even worse than BOTH of them in the wet. How that works is beyond me.

And thanks for giving me an excuse to make the next two F2RWRS races wet, which means it'll be twice as chaotic and guaranteed to have someone given a million year ban at the end of it

Holy crap, I'm freaking psychic :mrgreen:

Anyway, may I recommend one Jean-Vincent Albertini to any midfield team looking for a quick pay-driver? The guy's freaking amazing around street courses and he's recently qualified for a Reject License thanks to his win in Germany. His qualifying pace may be a bit on-again, off-again at times but his relentless race pace and consistency more than makes up for it. Only problem is I have no idea who his manager is but he really deserves a F1RWRS gig somewhere.

RonDenisDeletraz · Post by **RonDenisDeletraz** » 11 Jan 2013, 05:35

Wizzie wrote:Holy crap, I'm freaking psychic

Anyway, may I recommend one Jean-Vincent Albertini to any midfield team looking for a quick pay-driver? The guy's freaking amazing around street courses and he's recently qualified for a Reject License thanks to his win in Germany. His qualifying pace may be a bit on-again, off-again at times but his relentless race pace and consistency more than makes up for it. Only problem is I have no idea who his manager is but he really deserves a F1RWRS gig somewhere.

Pointrox I believe, I can't take him because my lineup is already set. (not that Autodynamics can be consiered a midfield team :lol:

)

Aerond · Post by **Aerond** » 11 Jan 2013, 15:02

Stramala [kostas22] wrote:I'm 99% sure that's not how it works. But only Aerond can confirm this for us.

Yup, that's right. A driver is locked into a type from first test.

Aerond · Post by **Aerond** » 11 Jan 2013, 15:37

Austria results up (page 51); will try to run qualify for Monza today, but teams which didn't run pre-qualifying can still do line-up changes.

pasta_maldonado · Post by **pasta_maldonado** » 11 Jan 2013, 22:19

I'm know it' a week late, but....

Please see past the fact that, fundamentally, it's shite.

Aerond · Post by **Aerond** » 12 Jan 2013, 00:19

pasta_maldonado wrote:I'm know it' a week late, but....

Please see past the fact that, fundamentally, it's shite.

This is bloody amazing! You should do this more often!

Post by **Ataxia** » 12 Jan 2013, 03:14

Love it, Pasta!

If you ever think of expanding into a few articles, I'd love to write some. Please don't take it like I'm jumping into your thing, but I wouldn't mind helping out if you did. I do something similar for the GPGSL at grandprixgames.org so I'm no stranger to this sort of thing...[/shamelessplug]

Post by **DemocalypseNow** » 12 Jan 2013, 03:25

I almost started something similar a few years back, but couldn't be arsed putting the proper effort. Let's see if you lot make a better fist of it than I ever did.

SuperAguri · Post by **SuperAguri** » 12 Jan 2013, 05:11

Nice cover, would have been nice if it had small inset stories, something like "Dagnall retires again - Crash coverage on page xx", "Heartbreak for Mori - Engine dies again on page xx"....

Barii Mori wrote:A race I was doing so well, I had 2nd in the bag and if The Stig had a problem then it would have been an easy win for me. The Yamaha engineers packed up and caught the first plane home after the engine blew up as that would have been a good thing as I would have punched their lights out. Steele massively underperformed today and did not impress in the slightess, he is on very thin ice.

Rosco Vantini wrote:Another race and more points. However the car underperformed as I should have been on the podium and not just in the points as a good strong 2nd place would have put me within spitting distance of Mark Dagnall. Sammy Jones apologised to me and has said the next race I will have a top car. I was not 'appy to be behind a woman drive who got put in her place by her male team mate.

Prince Falik wrote:Well done, well done, well done. A podium was a great result, although Katayama should have tried harder as a double podium would have been a fantastic result rather then just a great one.

Later that day

Barii Mori wrote:I would like to announce that we have signed F2RWRS leader Tomo Kazama to be the equal number one driver for Kamaha for the 2016 and 2017 seasons. This does mean I will be retiring but I will still be one of the reserve drivers just in case there are issues. As part of the deal we have had to sign Du Lei for the last 5 races and it does mean that out long association with Nicolas Steele has ended. We do thank Nicolas for some great results last season but he will be the first to admit that this season he has been poor with some comical driving errors. We wish him well for the future.

Shinobu Katayama wrote:Arrowtech and Revolution have agreed that I will race for one more race at Monza before i go to Revolution. I hope I can do well as I have done in the past.

pasta_maldonado · Post by **pasta_maldonado** » 12 Jan 2013, 10:04

Ataxia [BacLettNinj] wrote:Love it, Pasta!

If you ever think of expanding into a few articles, I'd love to write some. Please don't take it like I'm jumping into your thing, but I wouldn't mind helping out if you did. I do something similar for the GPGSL at grandprixgames.org so I'm no stranger to this sort of thing...[/shamelessplug]

Stramala [kostas22] wrote:I almost started something similar a few years back, but couldn't be arsed putting the proper effort. Let's see if you lot make a better fist of it than I ever did.

I hadn't really thought about making it into an actually magazine, but if people would actually read it, I'd be happy to make it into a monthly/fortnightly magazine! And of course, any of you would be welcome to write articles for it!

If it went ahead, I'd probably make it into a downloadable PDF for you all to read

Aerospeed · Post by **Aerospeed** » 12 Jan 2013, 15:34

Nicolas Steele wrote:With the recent news of my sacking, I announce of a sabbatical that is to be taken from here to the end of the season. I will need the time to refocus on my future aspects of my career. I thank the Kamaha team for supporting me for the last three seasons, but I felt my firing was not deserved as the car had serious mechanical issues which were never addressed by engine manufacturer Yamaha.

The Fox wrote:The team is very pleased that Shinobu Katayama has decided to race for us in Italy. Even if she decides not to accept our generous offer for 2016, she will certainly benefit by getting more credits for her prize money, which will certainly be of a benefit to whoever she signs for. As for Mirko, we are happy to announce that he has been offered a contract for the 2016 season. This, like Shinobu's contract, is a very generous offer.