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Re: 2006 Alternate GP2 season - Name drivers for testing
Posted: 26 Sep 2013, 15:48
by andrew
Max performance
Speed
Winklehock
Kubica
Fillipi
Valsecchi
Bianchi
Re: 2006 Alternate GP2 season - Name drivers for testing
Posted: 26 Sep 2013, 16:27
by Peteroli34
Hunter Autosports test drivers
Sebastian Vettel
Robert Kubica
Alexandre Prémat
Ho-Pin Tung
Katherine Legge
Vitaly Petrov
Lucas di Grassi
Timo Glock
Re: 2006 Alternate GP2 season - Name drivers for testing
Posted: 26 Sep 2013, 16:40
by Ataxia
Aguila Automovilismo will test the following:
Sebastian Vettel
Alx Danielsson
Alvaro Parente
Timo Glock
Bruno Senna
James Rossiter
Jan Charouz
Re: 2006 Alternate GP2 season - Name drivers for testing
Posted: 26 Sep 2013, 17:32
by Bleu
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.
Re: 2006 Alternate GP2 season - Name drivers for testing
Posted: 26 Sep 2013, 19:01
by FMecha
Upgrade: Maximum performance
Drivers to test:
Ide
Kubica
Vettel
Glock
Flippi
Re: 2006 Alternate GP2 season - Name drivers for testing
Posted: 26 Sep 2013, 19:12
by SeedStriker
VRT will go with
Lopez
Viso
Winkelhock
Green
Allmendinger
Kubica
Update: Max Performance
Re: 2006 Alternate GP2 season - Name drivers for testing
Posted: 26 Sep 2013, 19:36
by Shadaza
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)
Re: 2006 Alternate GP2 season - Name drivers for testing
Posted: 26 Sep 2013, 20:05
by Bleu
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.
Re: 2006 Alternate GP2 season - Name drivers for testing
Posted: 27 Sep 2013, 03:33
by FMecha
800k, Bleu.
Re: 2006 Alternate GP2 season - Name drivers for testing
Posted: 27 Sep 2013, 06:44
by Bleu
Vasquez Racing Team maximum performance update not successful.
Re: 2006 Alternate GP2 season - Name drivers for testing
Posted: 27 Sep 2013, 07:12
by pycku
DSR are interested in testing these drivers:
Lewis Hamilton
Timo Glock
Alvaro Parente
Robert Kubica
Adrian Sutil
Nelson Piquet
Bruno Senna
Sebastian Vettel
Re: 2006 Alternate GP2 season - Name drivers for testing
Posted: 27 Sep 2013, 07:20
by Bleu
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.
Re: 2006 Alternate GP2 season - Name drivers for testing
Posted: 27 Sep 2013, 08:56
by RonDenisDeletraz
Can I test Sutil, Lappierre, Kobayashi and Kohei Hirate
Re: 2006 Alternate GP2 season - Name drivers for testing
Posted: 27 Sep 2013, 13:13
by Bleu
eurobrun wrote:Can I test Sutil, Lappierre, Kobayashi and Kohei Hirate
Everything OK.
Test drivers still needed fromCeltic Tiger Racing
Scuderia Alitalia Coloni
El Cártel Suramericana
Restov Racing
Atari Motorsports
Re: 2006 Alternate GP2 season - Name drivers for testing
Posted: 27 Sep 2013, 13:34
by Klon
ECS are going to test Pastor Maldonado, as mentioned before, Nelson Merlo, Lucas Benamo and Gerardo Salaverría.
Re: 2006 Alternate GP2 season - Name drivers for testing
Posted: 27 Sep 2013, 13:52
by DemocalypseNow
SAC would like to test...
Álvaro Parente
Loïc Duval
André Lotterer
Robert Kubica
Michael Ammermüller
Oliver Jarvis
Alex Yoong
Re: 2006 Alternate GP2 season - Name drivers for testing
Posted: 27 Sep 2013, 15:29
by andrew
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
Re: 2006 Alternate GP2 season - Name drivers for testing
Posted: 27 Sep 2013, 18:29
by Bleu
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?
Re: 2006 Alternate GP2 season - Name drivers for testing
Posted: 27 Sep 2013, 20:14
by Klon
Would Rodolfo Lavín be an option, then?
Re: 2006 Alternate GP2 season - Name drivers for testing
Posted: 27 Sep 2013, 20:25
by Bleu
Klon wrote:Would Rodolfo Lavín be an option, then?
Lavin is OK.
Re: 2006 Alternate GP2 season - Name test drivers (CTR,RES,A
Posted: 27 Sep 2013, 21:42
by takagi_for_the_win
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?
Re: 2006 Alternate GP2 season - Name test drivers (CTR,RES,A
Posted: 27 Sep 2013, 23:56
by DemocalypseNow
SAC gonna go for Giacomo Ricci instead. How much money will he bring?
Re: 2006 Alternate GP2 season - Name test drivers (CTR,RES,A
Posted: 28 Sep 2013, 06:36
by Bleu
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.
Re: 2006 Alternate GP2 season - Name test drivers (CTR,Atari
Posted: 28 Sep 2013, 07:20
by Bleu
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.
Re: 2006 Alternate GP2 season - Name test drivers (CTR,Atari
Posted: 29 Sep 2013, 22:39
by shinji
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.
Re: 2006 Alternate GP2 season - Name test drivers (CTR,Atari
Posted: 30 Sep 2013, 06:41
by Bleu
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.
Re: 2006 Alternate GP2 season - (FantometteBR, Samster name
Posted: 30 Sep 2013, 21:58
by FantometteBR
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
Re: 2006 Alternate GP2 season - (FantometteBR, Samster name
Posted: 01 Oct 2013, 06:12
by Bleu
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.
Re: 2006 Alternate GP2 season - (Samster name TDs)
Posted: 01 Oct 2013, 18:42
by Bleu
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.
Re: 2006 Alternate GP2 season - 1st testing results
Posted: 01 Oct 2013, 19:57
by Salamander
It's gonna be very interesting to see how Kubica and Hamilton stack up against each other this season...
Re: 2006 Alternate GP2 season - 1st testing results
Posted: 01 Oct 2013, 20:29
by Samster
Atari will test.
Day 2 - Ryo Fukuda and Hayanari Shimoda
Day 3 - Hiroki Yoshimoto and Sakon Yamamoto
Day 4 - Kazuki Nakajima and Kohei Hirate
Re: 2006 Alternate GP2 season - 1st testing results
Posted: 01 Oct 2013, 23:20
by Bleu
OK. Kobayashi will get second day with Vortex on day 4.
Re: 2006 Alternate GP2 season - 1st testing results
Posted: 03 Oct 2013, 18:34
by Bleu
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
Re: 2006 Alternate GP2 season - 2nd test day results
Posted: 03 Oct 2013, 21:10
by Bleu
3rd test results on Saturday.
Re: 2006 Alternate GP2 season - 2nd test day results
Posted: 05 Oct 2013, 18:51
by Bleu
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.
Re: 2006 Alternate GP2 season - 4th test day results
Posted: 07 Oct 2013, 19:12
by Bleu
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
Re: 2006 Alternate GP2 season - 3rd test day results
Posted: 07 Oct 2013, 19:17
by Bleu
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.
Re: 2006 Alternate GP2 season - 3rd test day results
Posted: 07 Oct 2013, 19:22
by Peteroli34
Hunter Autosport will attempt to sign Robert Kubica and Sebastian Vettel with Alexandre Premat and Timo Glock in reserve
Re: 2006 Alternate GP2 season - 3rd test day results
Posted: 07 Oct 2013, 19:31
by andrew
I will attempt to sign Robert Kubica or Valsecchi
Re: 2006 Alternate GP2 season - 3rd test day results
Posted: 07 Oct 2013, 19:48
by FMecha
Prefered: Ide (Servia is already secure, right?)
Reserve: Loeb, Kubica