2006 Alternate GP2 - Monza sprint race / SEASON OVER

andrew · Post by **andrew** » 26 Sep 2013, 15:48

Max performance

Speed
Winklehock
Kubica
Fillipi
Valsecchi
Bianchi

Peteroli34 · Post by **Peteroli34** » 26 Sep 2013, 16:27

Hunter Autosports test drivers

Sebastian Vettel
Robert Kubica
Alexandre Prémat
Ho-Pin Tung
Katherine Legge
Vitaly Petrov
Lucas di Grassi
Timo Glock

Post by **Ataxia** » 26 Sep 2013, 16:40

Aguila Automovilismo will test the following:

Sebastian Vettel
Alx Danielsson
Alvaro Parente
Timo Glock
Bruno Senna
James Rossiter
Jan Charouz

Bleu · Post by **Bleu** » 26 Sep 2013, 17:32

andrew wrote:Max performance

Speed
Winklehock
Kubica
Fillipi
Valsecchi
Bianchi

Jules Bianchi (born in August 1989) is too young. Drivers must have been born between 1974 and 1988.

FMecha · Post by **FMecha** » 26 Sep 2013, 19:01

Upgrade: Maximum performance
Drivers to test:

Ide
Kubica
Vettel
Glock
Flippi

SeedStriker · Post by **SeedStriker** » 26 Sep 2013, 19:12

VRT will go with
Lopez
Viso
Winkelhock
Green
Allmendinger
Kubica

Update: Max Performance

Shadaza · Post by **Shadaza** » 26 Sep 2013, 19:36

Ember Racing Testing Program:

1.Jamie Green
2.Oliver Jarvis
3.Salvador Duran
4.Andre Lotterer
5.Joao Paulo de Oliveira
6.Alexandre Premat
7.Neel Jani

(OOC, I will continue with my mission to never run a driver that raced in F1)

Bleu · Post by **Bleu** » 26 Sep 2013, 20:05

FMecha, how much you will pay to try get update working?

All drivers nominated to testing by Northgate Engineering, Vasquez Racing Team and Ember Racing OK except Kubica at VRT. We have to wait if Celtic Tiger Racing wants to test him.

FMecha · Post by **FMecha** » 27 Sep 2013, 03:33

800k, Bleu.

Bleu · Post by **Bleu** » 27 Sep 2013, 06:44

Vasquez Racing Team maximum performance update not successful.

pycku · Post by **pycku** » 27 Sep 2013, 07:12

DSR are interested in testing these drivers:

Lewis Hamilton

Timo Glock
Alvaro Parente
Robert Kubica
Adrian Sutil
Nelson Piquet
Bruno Senna
Sebastian Vettel

Bleu · Post by **Bleu** » 27 Sep 2013, 07:20

You had one driver too much there but since with Kubica you were in the same situation as VRT I just drop him from the list and it's OK.

Timo Glock and Sebastian Vettel have been chosen by four teams now, so the remaining teams are not allowed to choose them.

RonDenisDeletraz · Post by **RonDenisDeletraz** » 27 Sep 2013, 08:56

Can I test Sutil, Lappierre, Kobayashi and Kohei Hirate

Bleu · Post by **Bleu** » 27 Sep 2013, 13:13

eurobrun wrote:Can I test Sutil, Lappierre, Kobayashi and Kohei Hirate

Everything OK.

Test drivers still needed from
Celtic Tiger Racing
Scuderia Alitalia Coloni
El Cártel Suramericana
Restov Racing
Atari Motorsports

Klon · Post by **Klon** » 27 Sep 2013, 13:34

ECS are going to test Pastor Maldonado, as mentioned before, Nelson Merlo, Lucas Benamo and Gerardo Salaverría.

Post by **DemocalypseNow** » 27 Sep 2013, 13:52

SAC would like to test...

Álvaro Parente
Loïc Duval
André Lotterer
Robert Kubica
Michael Ammermüller
Oliver Jarvis
Alex Yoong

andrew · Post by **andrew** » 27 Sep 2013, 15:29

Bleu wrote:
andrew wrote:Max performance

Speed
Winklehock
Kubica
Fillipi
Valsecchi
Bianchi

Jules Bianchi (born in August 1989) is too young. Drivers must have been born between 1974 and 1988.

Giedo Van Der Garde then

Bleu · Post by **Bleu** » 27 Sep 2013, 18:29

Klon wrote:ECS are going to test Pastor Maldonado, as mentioned before, Nelson Merlo, Lucas Benamo and Gerardo Salaverría.

Maldonado, Merlo and Benamo OK, Salaverria too young (turns 18 after the season has concluded)

So one other driver needed.

Stramala wrote:SAC would like to test...

Álvaro Parente
Loïc Duval
André Lotterer
Robert Kubica
Michael Ammermüller
Oliver Jarvis
Alex Yoong

Kubica not available, explained earlier above. Rest OK. You were earlier asking about Maldonado?

Klon · Post by **Klon** » 27 Sep 2013, 20:14

Would Rodolfo Lavín be an option, then?

Bleu · Post by **Bleu** » 27 Sep 2013, 20:25

Klon wrote:Would Rodolfo Lavín be an option, then?

Lavin is OK.

takagi_for_the_win · Post by **takagi_for_the_win** » 27 Sep 2013, 21:42

As already mentioned, Restov will keep di Resta, and also look to test:

Kamui Kobayashi
Andre Lotterer
Alexandre Premat
Sebastien Loeb (if he's allowable

)
Loic Duval
Robert Wickens

Apologies if any of those drivers are obviously ineligible; I'm a bit woolly at the mo

Oh and that upgrade from last season; could that be for top speed please?

Post by **DemocalypseNow** » 27 Sep 2013, 23:56

SAC gonna go for Giacomo Ricci instead. How much money will he bring?

Bleu · Post by **Bleu** » 28 Sep 2013, 06:36

takagi_for_the_win wrote:As already mentioned, Restov will keep di Resta, and also look to test:

Kamui Kobayashi
Andre Lotterer
Alexandre Premat
Sebastien Loeb (if he's allowable )
Loic Duval
Robert Wickens

Apologies if any of those drivers are obviously ineligible; I'm a bit woolly at the mo

Oh and that upgrade from last season; could that be for top speed please?

Wickens (born 1989) is unavailable. You mean maximum performance (there is no top speed update option)

Stramala wrote:SAC gonna go for Giacomo Ricci instead. How much money will he bring?

After testing I will reveal categories for each new driver similarly as in last year's drivers earlier.

Bleu · Post by **Bleu** » 28 Sep 2013, 07:20

Provisional testing line-up for 11 teams:

Some names in the testing line-up twice to fill in spots. At the moment, these drivers are only testing for the team in question.

shinji · Post by **shinji** » 29 Sep 2013, 22:39

Hey in the interest of fairness and if it doesn't mess things up for you Bleu I'll give up CTR's place for one of the reserves, not fair to take up a place when I won't be actively participating.

Bleu · Post by **Bleu** » 30 Sep 2013, 06:41

shinji wrote:Hey in the interest of fairness and if it doesn't mess things up for you Bleu I'll give up CTR's place for one of the reserves, not fair to take up a place when I won't be actively participating.

Euromotor International was in the first reserve spot. I sent a message to FantometteBR. The team has 2,5M of money following 2005 season.

Additionally, I accept Kubica for Northgate Engineering and Vasquez Racing Team testing list, as they were 3rd and 4th team in the queue testing him, and both had a spot free.

For the testing schedule, following changes:
Liqui Target: Kubica to day 1, van der Garde for day 3.
Vasquez Racing Team: Kubica to day 3 in place of Allmendinger.
Northgate Engineering: Kubica to day 4 in place of Ide.

FantometteBR · Post by **FantometteBR** » 30 Sep 2013, 21:58

Just saw the message, so I will nominate my test drivers for Euromotor

Nelson Philippe (seems we won't get rid of him that easy lol)
Lucas di Grassi
Neel Jani
Nelsinho Piquet
Mike Conway
Mario Domínguez
Andy Soucek

If anyone is unavailable, please tell me

Bleu · Post by **Bleu** » 01 Oct 2013, 06:12

Everyone OK by Euromotor International.
Daily line-up as follows:
1: Jani, Soucek
2: Philippe, Conway
3: Philippe, Piquet
4: di Grassi, Dominguez

I will do testing this evening, if no further announcement, Shimoda and Fukuda will test for Atari on day 1.

Bleu · Post by **Bleu** » 01 Oct 2013, 18:42

Kubica had very good pace from early on in the test. During the first hour he was half a second faster than anyone else with 1.47,3. Only others to get under 1.48 mark were Parente and Hamilton.

Hamilton improved during the second hour and came within two tenths of Kubica. Other Liqui Target driver Speed was also fast, claiming third spot at that point. Lapierre's Vortex Racing car stopped on the side of the track and his morning session ended prematurely.

Third hour saw Kubica still improve, being fastest of the morning with 1.47,137. Vettel had mechanical problem and his morning was done about 20 minutes earlier than the rest.

After the lunch break several drivers improved, but no one could hit Kubica's morning time. Of the drivers in the new teams, Ryo Fukuda had best speed out there.

di Resta's day was done shortly before halfway of the afternoon session, as his car failed. Meanwhile, promising German driver Vettel, who had struggled a lot in the morning, found great lap with 1.47,5.

In the final hour, Speed confirmed that Liqui Target had found great pace on the first testing day, putting second fastest time of the day. But it was quite close. Winkelhock crashed his car with less than hour to go, but car didn't suffer any permanent damage. Legge had a gentle off in the with about ten minutes left, and the only female driver on the circuit had to stop testing a bit early.

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Robert Kubica                 LQT 1.47,137
Scott Speed                   LQT 1.47,230
Lewis Hamilton                DSR 1.47,274
Alvaro Parente                AAR 1.47,384
Neel Jani                     EMI 1.47,443
Ryo Fukuda                    ATA 1.47,577
Sebastian Vettel              NGE 1.47,581
Heikki Kovalainen             VOR 1.47,603
Lucas di Grassi               HUN 1.47,665
Jose Maria Lopez              VRT 1.47,758
Kamui Kobayashi               RES 1.47,816
Timo Glock                    AAR 1.47,829
Markus Winkelhock             VRT 1.47,869
Paul di Resta                 RES 1.47,918
Oriol Servia                  NGE 1.47,920
Adrian Sutil                  DSR 1.47,963
Michael Ammermüller           SAC 1.47,975
Nicolas Lapierre              VOR 1.48,135
Andre Lotterer                SAC 1.48,201
Joao Paulo de Oliveira        EMB 1.48,280
Rodolfo Lavin                 ECS 1.48,326
Andy Soucek                   EMI 1.48,383
Salvador Duran                EMB 1.48,416
Katherine Legge               HUN 1.48,589
Lucas Benamo                  ECS 1.48,708
Hayanari Shimoda              ATA 1.48,815

Testing day 2 on Thursday.

Salamander · Post by **Salamander** » 01 Oct 2013, 19:57

It's gonna be very interesting to see how Kubica and Hamilton stack up against each other this season...

Samster · Post by **Samster** » 01 Oct 2013, 20:29

Atari will test.
Day 2 - Ryo Fukuda and Hayanari Shimoda
Day 3 - Hiroki Yoshimoto and Sakon Yamamoto
Day 4 - Kazuki Nakajima and Kohei Hirate

Bleu · Post by **Bleu** » 01 Oct 2013, 23:20

OK. Kobayashi will get second day with Vortex on day 4.

Bleu · Post by **Bleu** » 03 Oct 2013, 18:34

First hour started with several drivers close to each other. Premat was fastest early on. Maldonado, Kubica, Fukuda and Glock were within two tenths. Shimoda spun to the wall early and this stopped his driving until lunch break.

Vettel moved on top of the timesheets during the second hour. Philippe also made a lot of improvement. Kubica improved further, holding second place at that moment.

Maldonado moved to top just before teams got the break. Kubica showed he had no problem with getting accustomed to different teams as he posted second fastest time. Philippe's car stopped during the third hour but the problem was fixed and he continued after missing an hour of running.

Kubica and Maldonado improved further during the fourth hour and at this point it seemed that almost certain that one of them would end the day on top. Indeed this was the case, as Kubica set a time of 1.46,838 at the end. Glock challenged him well and ended the day in 2nd place.

During the afternoon session, four drivers had mechanical troubles and stopped early: Kobayashi, Ide, Green and Winkelhock, which affected their final times.

Two-time World Rally champion Sebastien Loeb also made surprise visit to testing. He impressed quickly, ending the day in top ten, even though he
was slower of two Restov Racing drivers.

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Robert Kubica            HUN 1.46,838
Timo Glock               NGE 1.47,009
Pastor Maldonado         ECS 1.47,023
Ernesto Viso             VRT 1.47,307
Alexandre Premat         RES 1.47,309
Sebastian Vettel         AAR 1.47,409
Nelson Philippe          EMI 1.47,498
Nelsinho Piquet          DSR 1.47,522
Sebastien Loeb           RES 1.47,556
James Rossiter           AAR 1.47,564
AJ Allmendinger          VRT 1.47,602
Ryo Fukuda               ATA 1.47,764
Kamui Kobayashi          VOR 1.47,767
Jamie Green              EMB 1.47,846
Luca Filippi             LQT 1.47,870
Lucas Benamo             ECS 1.47,872
Loic Duval               SAC 1.47,917
Alvaro Parente           DSR 1.47,958
Markus Winkelhock        LQT 1.47,968
Adrian Sutil             VOR 1.47,985
Alex Yoong               SAC 1.48,021
Neel Jani                EMB 1.48,058
Ho-Pin Tung              HUN 1.48,093
Mike Conway              EMI 1.48,121
Yuji Ide                 NGE 1.48,289
Hayanari Shimoda         ATA 1.48,363

Bleu · Post by **Bleu** » 03 Oct 2013, 21:10

3rd test results on Saturday.

Bleu · Post by **Bleu** » 05 Oct 2013, 18:51

I don't have time to have longer report, but here are the results. This time shorter layout was in use, therefore laptimes were much faster.

FYI, these drivers had their time affected.
Mechanical issues: Ricci, Yamamoto, Lotterer
Incidents: Philippe, Piquet

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Alexandre Premat         HUN 1.12,035
Timo Glock               DSR 1.12,038
Sebastian Vettel         HUN 1.12,203
Jamie Green              EMB 1.12,246
Alx Danielsson           AAR 1.12,443
Nelsinho Piquet          EMI 1.12,474
Robert Kubica            VRT 1.12,524
Oliver Jarvis            EMB 1.12,533
Adrian Sutil             VOR 1.12,564
Giedo van der Garde      LQT 1.12,638
Bruno Senna              DSR 1.12,675
Kohei Hirate             VOR 1.12,823
Ernesto Viso             VRT 1.12,871
Markus Winkelhock        LQT 1.12,878
Hiroki Yoshimoto         ATA 1.12,880
Alex Yoong               SAC 1.12,936
Andre Lotterer           RES 1.12,954
Nelson Philippe          EMI 1.13,081
Sakon Yamamoto           ATA 1.13,113
Yuji Ide                 NGE 1.13,173
Jan Charouz              AAR 1.13,234
Luca Filippi             NGE 1.13,291
Pastor Maldonado         ECS 1.13,295
Loic Duval               RES 1.13,357
Nelson Merlo             ECS 1.13,586
Giacomo Ricci            SAC 1.13,589

4th testing on Monday, after which driver signing period until Wednesday regarding drivers who tested. Further info after 4th results have been announced.

Bleu · Post by **Bleu** » 07 Oct 2013, 19:12

The testing started with Hamilton setting the early pace. He improved further in the second hour, with Vettel giving a good challenge. At that point, di Resta and Loeb had to stop their driving due to mechanical troubles. Valsecchi also ran into troubles early in the third hour.

But at the lunch break, Hamilton was fastest, with Nakajima second, Kubica third and Vettel fourth. All were within just over one tenth of a second.

Soon after the break, Hirate moved on top. His team-mate Nakajima was also having a pace and improved within a tenth of him, until Vettel topped the timesheet. However during the last hour, Hamilton became the only driver to get under 1.12. Hirate's car stopped just two minutes before the end of the session.

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Lewis Hamilton              DSR 1.11,845
Sebastian Vettel            DSR 1.12,038
Kohei Hirate                ATA 1.12,049
Kazuki Nakajima             ATA 1.12,073
Timo Glock                  HUN 1.12,286
Heikki Kovalainen           VOR 1.12,300
Vitaly Petrov               HUN 1.12,322
Robert Kubica               NGE 1.12,372
Alvaro Parente              SAC 1.12,456
Scott Speed                 LQT 1.12,477
Oriol Servia                NGE 1.12,493
Alexandre Premat            EMB 1.12,532
Jamie Green                 VRT 1.12,566
Jose Maria Lopez            VRT 1.12,640
Andre Lotterer              EMB 1.12,654
Oliver Jarvis               SAC 1.12,750
Nelson Merlo                ECS 1.12,757
Bruno Senna                 AAR 1.12,798
Davide Valsecchi            LQT 1.12,823
Sebastien Loeb              RES 1.12,825
Mario Dominguez             ECS 1.12,829
Lucas di Grassi             EMI 1.12,845
Paul di Resta               RES 1.12,853
Jan Charouz                 AAR 1.12,996
Kamui Kobayashi             VOR 1.13,112
Rodolfo Lavin               ECS 1.13,497

Bleu · Post by **Bleu** » 07 Oct 2013, 19:17

Now for the driver signing

* Only drivers who tested for the team in Paul Ricard may be nominated
* The team is allowed to nominate two preferred drivers and up to two reserves (in case of nominating driver who tested for another team(s))
* If multiple teams nominate same driver, the driver's selection is done by a weighted randomizer, taking account the positions from four testing days
* Deadline for nominations Wednesday October 9th 23.59 CET regarding drivers who tested
* If there are vacant spots at that time, team may nominate any driver who meets the driver requirements and is free

Drivers asking pay
Loeb
Drivers offering up to 0,5 million
Danielsson, Dominguez, Fukuda, Kobayashi, Lapierre, Lotterer, Parente, Rossiter, Soucek
Drivers offering up to 1 million
Ammermüller, Conway, de Oliveira, di Grassi, Duval, Glock, Hirate, Ide, Jani, Jarvis, Legge, Nakajima, Premat, Ricci, Shimoda, Valsecchi, Vettel, Yoshimoto
Drivers offering up to 2 million
Benamo, Charouz, Duran, Lavin, Merlo, Petrov, Piquet, Senna, Tung, van der Garde, Yamamoto

Drivers who participated in 2005 were listed in the first page.

Peteroli34 · Post by **Peteroli34** » 07 Oct 2013, 19:22

Hunter Autosport will attempt to sign Robert Kubica and Sebastian Vettel with Alexandre Premat and Timo Glock in reserve

andrew · Post by **andrew** » 07 Oct 2013, 19:31

I will attempt to sign Robert Kubica or Valsecchi

FMecha · Post by **FMecha** » 07 Oct 2013, 19:48

Prefered: Ide (Servia is already secure, right?)
Reserve: Loeb, Kubica