Grand Prix Rejects

Wizzie wrote:In other news on my never-ending quest to get Revolution a title sponsor, the Japanese squad are allegedly on the verge of signing a one-year title sponsorship deal with Australian rock band AC/DC as they prepare for a world tour, which will include headlining both Slane Castle and Glastonbury during 2016.

the Masked Lapwing wrote:If HRT get really needy (i.e. we miss both Cameron and Schiller), we'd gladly hire Douglas Mann for next season. If we start to implode, then maybe Shioya might be targeted

MinardiFan95 wrote:Cameron to step up to F1RWRS with Simpson?

Some of the latest rumours in the paddock have suggested that Michael Cameron has been offered a seat at Simpson Motorsports' F1RWRS team, replacing Mitchell Mackiin, who is off to Prospec, which is coincidentally owned by Michael's father, 2010 champion Gary Cameron. No word on who will replace F1RWRS retiree Prince Saeed Al Faisal yet, though Du Lei, Jean-Luc Schiller, Jesus Plaza, Hansuke Shioya and team boss Dave Simpson are reportedly under consideration.

Autosport wrote:Jesus Plaza to get Brazilian race seat at Kamaha
Kamaha have given Jesus Plaza race seat at the Brazilian GP in place of the impressive Du Lei, Barii Mori said "We want to thank Jesus Plaza for all his hard work this year and we feel a race would be a nice reward. Du Lei is a great driver but we were contracted to use her in our signing of Tomo Kazama. However we feel that Jesus Plaza has talent and will be signed for next season.

Shinji Zanmai to be Kamaha principal for 2016
Barii Mori is to step down as team principle as he tries to find a race seat outside of the Kamaha team, he will still own the team but he will not be involved with the day to day running. He will announce his ex Formula Nippon race engineer and ex Sunshine team principal as the new principal of Kamaha at the end of the season.

Barii Mori has been in contact with Kingfisher, HRT and Gauthier to find a race seat. HRT have laughed Mori off but Kingfisher and Gauthier are having talks with Mori.

Aerond wrote:I didn't get my connection back for the weekend so no F1RWRS this weekend too

I could go back and do just text comments (got a 3G USB Device as a temporal fix) but my guess is you prefer to wait and get a full broadcast.

Stramala [kostas22] wrote:

Aerond wrote:I didn't get my connection back for the weekend so no F1RWRS this weekend too

I could go back and do just text comments (got a 3G USB Device as a temporal fix) but my guess is you prefer to wait and get a full broadcast.

This reminds me. My living situation has changed. It's no longer practical for me to broadcast the races live myself. Which means, I won't be doing any more broadcasting until next season, presuming that next season will begin in April (there's usually about a month gap between seasons right?)

So Aerond, you will either have to do the broadcast production yourself or find someone else to do it! Whoever picks up the reins, I have the F1RWRS channel bug and driver graphic overlays I can send over for use on Manycam. But I think when the circumstances are right again, which will hopefully be right at the start of April, I'd like to return again. Even if I felt quite terrible at it

BlindCaveSalamander wrote:

Stramala [kostas22] wrote:

Aerond wrote:I didn't get my connection back for the weekend so no F1RWRS this weekend too

I could go back and do just text comments (got a 3G USB Device as a temporal fix) but my guess is you prefer to wait and get a full broadcast.

This reminds me. My living situation has changed. It's no longer practical for me to broadcast the races live myself. Which means, I won't be doing any more broadcasting until next season, presuming that next season will begin in April (there's usually about a month gap between seasons right?)

So Aerond, you will either have to do the broadcast production yourself or find someone else to do it! Whoever picks up the reins, I have the F1RWRS channel bug and driver graphic overlays I can send over for use on Manycam. But I think when the circumstances are right again, which will hopefully be right at the start of April, I'd like to return again. Even if I felt quite terrible at it

I thought you did a pretty good job, actually. Though it might be better if you had a co-commentator as opposed to doing it solo.

Nicolas Steele wrote:It was quite good for us to get the podium today. There was a lot of good work put into the car this weekend, and as a result we were able to score this fantastic result. I should think that a team should enlist in my services for 2016.

eurobrun wrote:Am I the only one that thinks Mignolet has Fisichellitis? He was fast at Phoenix and even better for Acuri but was quite deadbeat at DGN. So as long as Alitalia doesn't get dramatically better he will likely do a great job

FMecha wrote:

eurobrun wrote:Am I the only one that thinks Mignolet has Fisichellitis? He was fast at Phoenix and even better for Acuri but was quite deadbeat at DGN. So as long as Alitalia doesn't get dramatically better he will likely do a great job

DGN hired Mignolet merely for the money so Mark Dagnall can win.

Aerond wrote:Well, results up in Page 59. No text this time, but a whole load of pictures instead. If somebody else wants to do the race review, send it to me and I'll gladly post it.

Wizzie wrote:

FMecha wrote:

eurobrun wrote:Am I the only one that thinks Mignolet has Fisichellitis? He was fast at Phoenix and even better for Acuri but was quite deadbeat at DGN. So as long as Alitalia doesn't get dramatically better he will likely do a great job

DGN hired Mignolet merely for the money so Mark Dagnall can win.

Still doesn't change the fact that Mignolet's easily one of the best paydrivers out there. And I think Eurobrun's actually onto something with this because for all intents and purposes, Mignolet was nowhere near Dagnall pretty much the entire time he was at the team.

AndreaModa wrote:

Wizzie wrote:

FMecha wrote:
DGN hired Mignolet merely for the money so Mark Dagnall can win.

Still doesn't change the fact that Mignolet's easily one of the best paydrivers out there. And I think Eurobrun's actually onto something with this because for all intents and purposes, Mignolet was nowhere near Dagnall pretty much the entire time he was at the team.

Apart from the two pole positions and third place finish in the first two races.

He just suffered the majority of the DGN retirements when Dagnall was winning, once that stopped, the two were pretty equal - i.e. both retiring constantly!

the Masked Lapwing wrote:Does anyone mind if I do a bit of a retcon and change the constructor name of GRM to ZimSport? Mostly because the GRM GRM-001 is a stupid name.

Stramala [kostas22] wrote:

the Masked Lapwing wrote:Does anyone mind if I do a bit of a retcon and change the constructor name of GRM to ZimSport? Mostly because the GRM GRM-001 is a stupid name.

Well, if you mean mid-season, then yes, I do, because I wasn't allowed to do this when I purchased Trueba. You will have to wait until 2016.

the Masked Lapwing wrote:

Stramala [kostas22] wrote:

the Masked Lapwing wrote:Does anyone mind if I do a bit of a retcon and change the constructor name of GRM to ZimSport? Mostly because the GRM GRM-001 is a stupid name.

Well, if you mean mid-season, then yes, I do, because I wasn't allowed to do this when I purchased Trueba. You will have to wait until 2016.

You've missed the bit where GRM don't race anymore

AndreaModa wrote:This has reminded me of another issue I've been meaning to resolve recently related to the Mitie/Kingfisher team run by AdrianSutil.

According to the wiki, in 2014, with the team called Mitie Aviation Racing, the chassis was the Mitie MA-01, therefore implying that the constructor's name was Mitie. This year (2015) the team was renamed as Kingfisher Racing, and the new chassis was the Kingfisher KR-002. So my problem here is that it is obviously the same team, same organisation and everything, but the constructors names have changed. So in order to maintain consistency in line with other teams (especially in light of GRM's chassis being retconned as ZimSports) ideally we need a single constructor name in order for the team to keep their stats from both years, otherwise they'll be separated as Mitie and Kingfisher in the table here: http://f1alternate.shoutwiki.com/wiki/List_of_Formula_1_Rejects_World_Race_Series_Constructors.

So for example, for the sake of argument the constructor could be Alexander, after the team's owner, so the team's name remains as Mitie in 2014 and Kingfisher in 2015, but the chassis would be the Alexander MA-01 and Alexander KR-002 respectively. I know this is being nitpicky and splitting hairs somewhat, but it makes sense to keep the stats for the team together, at least in my eyes.

So AdrianSutil, if you'll forgive me for my burst of OCD, I'd be grateful if you could state whether you intend to keep the separate Mitie and Kingfisher constructor names, in which case the stats will be separated, or whether you'd like to retcon a single constructor name for the team, which will keep the 2014 and 2015 stats together and give the team a single page on the wiki. Cheers mate!

Also for any other team owners reading this, please bear in mind this issue, especially if you intend on naming your team after a sponsor, and using that as the chassis name too. If you want the stats of your team to remain together, keep in mind a consistent team name that the chassis can be called. Your team can go from "Martini Racing" to "John Player Team" in the space of two years, but the constructor should remain constant, as in this example, it would be Lotus.

AdrianSutil wrote:Hmm, I didn't think a constructors name would be a problem. I just wanted to change the chassis from MA to KR and keep the number continued for the second year. I want to keep the results for both teams together as its obviously the same team, just the name and financial backers have changed. I don't know what constructor name to have really, I don't like Alexander to be it.

dr-baker wrote:In the written parts, it's clear that the sister teams MAN and AMR merged into Foxdale. Is it fine to leave them seperate, or do they need to merge? I am not bothered either way...

eurobrun wrote:I support what TMLW wants to do on the basis that I can say that RBWRT were never Austalian and were British all along. I think it's more realistic

Wizzie wrote:

eurobrun wrote:I support what TMLW wants to do on the basis that I can say that RBWRT were never Austalian and were British all along. I think it's more realistic

Or you can just go the MRT way and have dual-nationality and just say the team is Australian owned but is based in some factory in the Midlands.

eurobrun wrote:

Wizzie wrote:

eurobrun wrote:I support what TMLW wants to do on the basis that I can say that RBWRT were never Austalian and were British all along. I think it's more realistic

Or you can just go the MRT way and have dual-nationality and just say the team is Australian owned but is based in some factory in the Midlands.

That is what I'm doing for Autodynamics, I strongly regret ever linking RBWRT to Australia as it's unrealistic for a junior driver program to be based outside Europe.

Aerond wrote:Woohoo! Internet is back!