Grand Prix Rejects

Revolution joins Kamaha in both tests with the Shizuka-van Dycke line-up in the first one, in the second one Marie Simon takes the second seat.

New livery for Boxtel with blue wings. Also, Johannes Rueckert will become the official test driver for Boxtel but he will not be participating in any of the preseason tests.

SuperAguri wrote:We shall be running Barii Mori, Nicolas Steele and we are hoping to run Jesus Plaza too. We will be happy to run one more seat for any driver that is interested. We also extend the track use to any other team that wishes to test.

Even Jones Racing?

For the scheduled pre-season tests, Jones will run Sammy Jones and Rosco Vantini as would be expected.

We'll announce any plans for private tests in the future, but may team up with others should the dates work out nicely.

The game doesn't recognise purple? I thought my 2014 car was partly purple? Purple and orange are Prospec's traditional racing colours!

If we make a pay driver to compete in tests, does that count as a driver in our five driver limit or is it separate? I want to hold a gigantic test session with a bunch of random drivers at Zandvoort a la Minardi's 2004 Misano test.

tristan1117 wrote:If we make a pay driver to compete in tests, does that count as a driver in our five driver limit or is it separate? I want to hold a gigantic test session with a bunch of random drivers at Zandvoort a la Minardi's 2004 Misano test.

No, tests don't count towards the 4 driver limit

AndreaModa wrote:Even Jones Racing?

Even Jones racing but they might be given the garages at the end of the pitlane that are mainly used to store things, like gravel, weedkiller and signage.

Aerond wrote:

tristan1117 wrote:If we make a pay driver to compete in tests, does that count as a driver in our five driver limit or is it separate? I want to hold a gigantic test session with a bunch of random drivers at Zandvoort a la Minardi's 2004 Misano test.

No, tests don't count towards the 4 driver limit

Don't you mean FIVE-driver limit?

SuperAguri wrote:We shall be running Barii Mori, Nicolas Steele and we are hoping to run Jesus Plaza too. We will be happy to run one more seat for any driver that is interested. We also extend the track use to any other team that wishes to test.

How about Kay Lon? That'd cause a riot!

dr-baker wrote:

Aerond wrote:

tristan1117 wrote:If we make a pay driver to compete in tests, does that count as a driver in our five driver limit or is it separate? I want to hold a gigantic test session with a bunch of random drivers at Zandvoort a la Minardi's 2004 Misano test.

No, tests don't count towards the 4 driver limit

Don't you mean FIVE-driver limit?

You people first read the rules and then ask questions.

Klon wrote:

SuperAguri wrote:We shall be running Barii Mori, Nicolas Steele and we are hoping to run Jesus Plaza too. We will be happy to run one more seat for any driver that is interested. We also extend the track use to any other team that wishes to test.

How about Kay Lon? That'd cause a riot!

Kay Lon, Sammy Jones and Rhys Davies are obviously excluded from testnig a Kamaha car, even drivers that have full time drives are also prohibited from testing with us. We are keen to test other talent.

AdrianSutil, if Kingfisher need an extra pair of hands, I'm sure van der Maeyede would be happy to help out. It's up to you of course!

Kostas, David Koczo has expressed that his intentions to take part in all Alitalia test sessions this year.

Ok, I need someone to create a wiki table with Pre-Season testing dates; columns should be; Date, Track, Teams and line-up per team)

Aerond wrote:Ok, I need someone to create a wiki table with Pre-Season testing dates; columns should be; Date, Track, Teams and line-up per team)

I'm up for it

Thanks a lot SuperAguri for the livery. It is way better than anything I could come up with!

How it works is this: On the main 2015 page, there is a breif summary of the test - fastest driver, team, veneue, date etc. On the main article, there will be a full entry list, and if anyone can be bothered, the times set in the test

pasta_maldonado wrote:How it works is this: On the main 2015 page, there is a breif summary of the test - fastest driver, team, veneue, date etc. On the main article, there will be a full entry list, and if anyone can be bothered, the times set in the test

Ok, but in my opinion, the title of the seciton should be Just "Tests", and it should be at the bottom of the page, and I need those specific pages to be done because I won´t be coming back in 4 months (or whenever we do the Canadian GP) and check back all the teams that wanted to do a test and the venue, that´s why I need the testing pages done, so it´s easier for me to track tests down and have everything organised regarding testing when it comes to work on an specific carset for a test.

Aerond wrote:

pasta_maldonado wrote:How it works is this: On the main 2015 page, there is a breif summary of the test - fastest driver, team, veneue, date etc. On the main article, there will be a full entry list, and if anyone can be bothered, the times set in the test

Ok, but in my opinion, the title of the seciton should be Just "Tests", and it should be at the bottom of the page, and I need those specific pages to be done because I won´t be coming back in 4 months (or whenever we do the Canadian GP) and check back all the teams that wanted to do a test and the venue, that´s why I need the testing pages done, so it´s easier for me to track tests down and have everything organised regarding testing when it comes to work on an specific carset for a test.

Okay then, for that I need everyone to post their test intentions, who has not already done so, and the dates and locations of the pre-season tests.

I don't plan to do a mid-season test anytime soon. What is the advantage of having mid-season tests other than a smart way to give someone a reject licence?

JeremyMcClean wrote:I don't plan to do a mid-season test anytime soon. What is the advantage of having mid-season tests other than a smart way to give someone a reject licence?

You can always test your car in various conditions, know the effect of an upgrade (as you can compare back to back by asking me to do so), compare various drivers, and it also gives a small ammount of experience points to the drivers taking part in the test.

There is now a worked example up on the wiki

pasta_maldonado wrote:

Aerond wrote:

pasta_maldonado wrote:How it works is this: On the main 2015 page, there is a breif summary of the test - fastest driver, team, veneue, date etc. On the main article, there will be a full entry list, and if anyone can be bothered, the times set in the test

Ok, but in my opinion, the title of the seciton should be Just "Tests", and it should be at the bottom of the page, and I need those specific pages to be done because I won´t be coming back in 4 months (or whenever we do the Canadian GP) and check back all the teams that wanted to do a test and the venue, that´s why I need the testing pages done, so it´s easier for me to track tests down and have everything organised regarding testing when it comes to work on an specific carset for a test.

Okay then, for that I need everyone to post their test intentions, who has not already done so, and the dates and locations of the pre-season tests.

It´s ok to just leave the tables ready to introduce data later, you don´t need it to do it now

By the way, DGNgineering line-up for Pre-Season tests will be;

Test 1;

1.Mark Dagnall
2.Hansuke Shioya

Test 2;

1.Mark Dagnall
2.Ron Mignolet

Only two pre-season tests? Well, ArrowTech will put in Bosevic and Al Faisal in both tests.

HRT will run Zimmer and Whitechapel in both pre-season tests. We will also run a private test at Sandown Raceway the week after the Australian GP at Bathurst for Zimmer, Whitechapel, Tommy Nash and Carter Simpson.

tristan1117 wrote:If we make a pay driver to compete in tests, does that count as a driver in our five driver limit or is it separate? I want to hold a gigantic test session with a bunch of random drivers at Zandvoort a la Minardi's 2004 Misano test.

This is a very interesting question. The five driver limit is to prevent a member from having too much influence over a series, but I'm happy with the rule being that the five drivers must be active (that is, be in a position to start a race for a team), at any one time. That would therefore allow people to have as many drivers as they wanted under their control, but only able to run five of them at once. In theory, over the course of the season you could run as many as possible, swapping drivers in and out so that the limit of five is always adhered to, but that's entirely up to each person.

What do people think of that?

AndreaModa wrote:

tristan1117 wrote:If we make a pay driver to compete in tests, does that count as a driver in our five driver limit or is it separate? I want to hold a gigantic test session with a bunch of random drivers at Zandvoort a la Minardi's 2004 Misano test.

This is a very interesting question. The five driver limit is to prevent a member from having too much influence over a series, but I'm happy with the rule being that the five drivers must be active (that is, be in a position to start a race for a team), at any one time. That would therefore allow people to have as many drivers as they wanted under their control, but only able to run five of them at once. In theory, over the course of the season you could run as many as possible, swapping drivers in and out so that the limit of five is always adhered to, but that's entirely up to each person.

What do people think of that?

Um, that was always how the rule worked

AndreaModa wrote:

tristan1117 wrote:If we make a pay driver to compete in tests, does that count as a driver in our five driver limit or is it separate? I want to hold a gigantic test session with a bunch of random drivers at Zandvoort a la Minardi's 2004 Misano test.

This is a very interesting question. The five driver limit is to prevent a member from having too much influence over a series, but I'm happy with the rule being that the five drivers must be active (that is, be in a position to start a race for a team), at any one time. That would therefore allow people to have as many drivers as they wanted under their control, but only able to run five of them at once. In theory, over the course of the season you could run as many as possible, swapping drivers in and out so that the limit of five is always adhered to, but that's entirely up to each person.

What do people think of that?

To be honest that was sort of my plan anyway, I do like the idea.

Can somebody check what´s wrong with mine as it won´t load in Gp2Edit?

http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/569/dagnallfinal.png

Aerond wrote:Can somebody check what´s wrong with mine as it won´t load in Gp2Edit?

http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/569/dagnallfinal.png

Maybe because the corners are white and not the green colour Gp2edit likes?

Nice self-advertising BTW.

I was pondering the possibility of doing a test session midway through the season at Montmeló to give Tanner Jason a chance to try a F1RWRS car. Any other team would be up to the idea of sharing the track with him?

JeremyMcClean wrote:

Aerond wrote:Can somebody check what´s wrong with mine as it won´t load in Gp2Edit?

http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/569/dagnallfinal.png

Maybe because the corners are white and not the green colour Gp2edit likes?

Nice self-advertising BTW.

Apparently an extra line of pixels appeared somehow at the very bottom of the image. Gonna check out.

EDIT: Yes, the problem was there

Aerond wrote:Can somebody check what´s wrong with mine as it won´t load in Gp2Edit?

http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/569/dagnallfinal.png

It works for me...I just opened it in IrfanView, swapped the palette and saved as .BMP.

I´ve just learnt about something perverse...

pasta_maldonado wrote:AdrianSutil, if Kingfisher need an extra pair of hands, I'm sure van der Maeyede would be happy to help out. It's up to you of course!.

Like I said, any of the drivers for our F2 and F3 programmes could get a chance to taste F1 machinery, depends how well they do. I'm definitely going to run a few mid-season tests but want to pair up with a couple of other british teams first.

AdrianSutil wrote:

pasta_maldonado wrote:AdrianSutil, if Kingfisher need an extra pair of hands, I'm sure van der Maeyede would be happy to help out. It's up to you of course!.

Like I said, any of the drivers for our F2 and F3 programmes could get a chance to taste F1 machinery, depends how well they do. I'm definitely going to run a few mid-season tests but want to pair up with a couple of other british teams first.

If you do get a chance to participate in a test and I do end up having to cancel Neuberg's preliminary contract, could you slot McKane into a spare seat as compensation so I can get him a superlicense and therefore off my books for 2016? Whilst he doesn't have the guarantee like Nicolas does, I'm sure RRR would be very appreciative of your help and besides, who doesn't want a two time F1 World Champion testing for their team?

Wizzie wrote:

AdrianSutil wrote:

pasta_maldonado wrote:AdrianSutil, if Kingfisher need an extra pair of hands, I'm sure van der Maeyede would be happy to help out. It's up to you of course!.

Like I said, any of the drivers for our F2 and F3 programmes could get a chance to taste F1 machinery, depends how well they do. I'm definitely going to run a few mid-season tests but want to pair up with a couple of other british teams first.

If you do get a chance to participate in a test and I do end up having to cancel Neuberg's preliminary contract, could you slot McKane into a spare seat as compensation so I can get him a superlicense and therefore off my books for 2016? Whilst he doesn't have the guarantee like Nicolas does, I'm sure RRR would be very appreciative of your help and besides, who doesn't want a two time F1 World Champion testing for their team?

The last time I go to F1R before I go to sleep and I get greeted with this. I'd be okay with this.

RealRacingRoots wrote:

Wizzie wrote:

AdrianSutil wrote:Like I said, any of the drivers for our F2 and F3 programmes could get a chance to taste F1 machinery, depends how well they do. I'm definitely going to run a few mid-season tests but want to pair up with a couple of other british teams first.

If you do get a chance to participate in a test and I do end up having to cancel Neuberg's preliminary contract, could you slot McKane into a spare seat as compensation so I can get him a superlicense and therefore off my books for 2016? Whilst he doesn't have the guarantee like Nicolas does, I'm sure RRR would be very appreciative of your help and besides, who doesn't want a two time F1 World Champion testing for their team?

The last time I go to F1R before I go to sleep and I get greeted with this. I'd be okay with this.

I'm just trying to get you off my books as soon as I can whilst still trying to get you a superlicense. Depending on how things play out, the latest you'll get a license is just before the 2016 season starts. It'll open up my driver options massively and it means you won't have to take orders from the resident muppet

Kremnicky will replace Fleet at the second pre-season test. Also, does GP2 have Mugello? Or any other Italian tracks aside from Monza and Imola?

kostas22 wrote:Kremnicky will replace Fleet at the second pre-season test. Also, does GP2 have Mugello? Or any other Italian tracks aside from Monza and Imola?

You're in luck as according to this list, Mugello is available. Whether it's any good however is beyond me.

Dofasco line-up for Pre-Season tests

Test 1:
1.Tomislaw Tajner
2.Markus Van de Schoot

Test 2:
1.Tomislaw Tajner
2.Alexey Buyvolov