2018 Free Agency - Sign Drivers

[FMecha]

Scuderia Aqua will consider offering one-year drives for T.K. Wolf or J.C. Wolf.

[DemocalypseNow]

Even though we haven't quite reached the minimum inactivity period for tristan1117 (but it's quite close now), he's had every opportunity to intervene in various actions, such as requests for his drivers and for continuation of his teams, and he has failed to meet these. Given the level of success many of his drivers have had in canon, and thus the level of demand for their services, it has been made necessary to fast-track their DEC reassignment asap to help canon move along.

Due to already having deals in place for 2018, the following drivers will have their entry to the Free Agency system deferred until the next entry point at the beginning of 2019; Dan Greenlaw (USA), Collin Pratchett (USA), Shane Walsh (USA).

All drivers aside from those listed above, and those unhired & currently without pending offers, will be put into a new race-off format called Reject Race-off: Stage III, hosted at Autodromo Treviso.

Provisional list of new entries to RRO: Stage III
Tristan Jung (USA) [F1RWRS, RoLFS, GT-R]
Johannes Rueckert (GER) [F2RWRS]
Lukas Zuber (FRA) [F2RWRS, IFRC]
Victoria Desai (IND) [F3RWRS, 3.5]
Roberto Zayas (USA) [F3RWRS]
David Lee (KOR) [Indy]
Veronika Asimov (RUS) [Indy]
Juan Jose Rendon (ESP) [ARST]
Richard Hershall (GBR) [F3RWRS]
Rusty Gannit [F1RWRS, IFRC, Indy]
Quinton Vos [Trucks]
Alexander von Hegel (GER) [F1RGP2C]
Clivio Durand (FRA) [F1RGP2C]
Jan Maylander (GER) [F3RWRS]
Oscar Duck III (USA) [Indy, Trucks]
Giuseppe Colombo (ITA) [F3RWRS]

[DemocalypseNow]

Rejects Race-Off: Stage III
SAT 20 JAN 2018 | AUTODROMO TREVISO | HEAT A

49 drivers have arrived in the northern Italian town of Treviso, looking to impress onlooking talent scouts for racing teams around the world, looking for new drivers to recruit for the upcoming season.

Four drivers who were expected to be here competing have not shown up at all. T.K. Wolf, along with his young brother J.C, plus Finnish rallycross expert Mika Litmanen and F5000 runner-up Emilio Boni are not here this weekend, and are instead currently round the negotiation table trying to seal contracts of their own.

This puts the latest influx of newcomers to the race-off format in the favourites position. Big name newcomers include former F1RWRS driver Tristan Jung, plus young hot-shots Victoria Desai and Lukas Zuber. Other familiar names amongst the newcomers include Rusty Gannit, F1RWRS' one hit wonder, and Truck ace Quinton Vos.

Heat A Qualifying

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   Driver                Time
 1 Tristan Jung          2:37.938
 2 Lukas Zuber           2:38.136
 3 Brucie Kibbutz        2:38.153
 4 Garry Jones           2:38.430
 5 Quinton Vos           2:38.550
 6 David Lee             2:38.587
 7 Andrei Kolodin        2:38.867
 8 Abdel Genazzi         2:39.000
 9 Chris Bowman          2:39.033
10 Nikolay Djurov        2:39.064
11 Charles Jericho       2:39.259
12 Dan Budd              2:39.283
13 Olivier Gardin        2:39.337
14 Roberto Zayas         2:39.382
15 Niklas Svanberg       2:39.440
16 Haruhi Suzumiya       2:39.517
17 Satoshi Fukuzawa      2:39.567
18 Giuseppe Colombo      2:39.581
19 Johnny Boudermann     2:39.909
20 Michal Syrowatka      2:40.005
21 David Graham          2:40.521
22 Jan Maylander         2:41.044
23 Carlo Waladi          2:41.197
24 Tomas Ondrejka        2:41.449

Jung shows he hasn't lost his sharpness, having kept his skills up in 2017 with some occasional GT racing. Highly rated youngster Zuber is two tenths down, just ahead of another former F1RWRS racer, Brucie Kibbutz. The much derided backmarker Jan Maylander avoids the last row of the grid, beating both Waladi and Ondrejka.

Heat A Results

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   Driver                Time
 1 Tristan Jung              32:15.251
 2 Lukas Zuber               32:20.553
 3 Brucie Kibbutz            32:28.298
 4 Haruhi Suzumiya           32:30.371
 5 Abdel Genazzi             32:30.974
 6 Andrei Kolodin            32:32.398
 7 Garry Jones               32:34.711
 8 David Lee                 32:37.154
 9 Olivier Gardin            32:41.346
10 David Graham              32:42.764
11 Satoshi Fukuzawa          32:47.281
12 Charles Jericho           32:48.711
13 Dan Budd                  32:50.583
----------- QUALIFICATION LINE -----------
14 Niklas Svanberg           32:54.579
15 Chris Bowman              32:54.781
16 Nikolay Djurov            32:57.567
17 Michal Syrowatka          32:57.992
18 Roberto Zayas             33:02.389
19 Giuseppe Colombo          33:04.397
20 Tomas Ondrejka            33:11.640
21 Jan Maylander             33:14.363
 — Carlo Waladi              DNF lap 8
   Quinton Vos               DNF lap 3
   Johnny Boudermann         DNF lap 1

Jung shows the youngsters how it's done, with a comfortable victory ahead of Zuber and Kibbutz. Drive of the Race goes to Haruhi Suzumiya, who after a poor qualifying performance, used his aggressive wheel-to-wheel style cultivated from his rallycross days to elbow his way all the way from 16th to 4th place.

There was some controversy early in the race, as Garry Jones and Quinton Vos collided heavily as the former defended from the latter. Jones soldiered on after losing several places to qualify for the final, but the damage to Vos' car was too heavy to continue, and is the first surprise elimination of the weekend, in unfortunate circumstances.

[DemocalypseNow]

Rejects Race-Off: Stage III
SAT 20 JAN 2018 | AUTODROMO TREVISO | HEAT B

The 'other half' of the field now gets their run-out, attempting to qualify for the grand finale on Sunday. All eyes are on Victoria Desai and Johannes Rueckert, two high-profile youngsters looking to continue their budding careers. Can they overhaul their experience counterparts such as Claude Speed and Rusty Gannit?

Heat B Qualifying

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   Driver                Time
 1 Claude Speed             2:38.211
 2 Victoria Desai           2:38.216
 3 Johannes Rueckert        2:38.305
 4 Rusty Gannit             2:38.514
 5 Clivio Durand            2:38.722
 6 Terry Stein              2:38.806
 7 Andoni Garrido           2:38.900
 8 Richard Hershall         2:38.901
 9 Alexander von Hegel      2:38.959
10 Rhys Jackson             2:39.009
11 Serge Blanco             2:39.061
12 Artur Smolarek           2:39.263
13 Wim-Bert Horrie          2:39.340
14 Grant Fox                2:39.351
15 Richard Young            2:39.457
16 Arthur Daniels           2:39.501
17 Marijo Kovacevic         2:39.520
18 Dimitri Dzagoev          2:39.591
19 Roy Mellows              2:39.750
20 Dominic Strass-Cahn      2:39.898
21 Veronika Asimov          2:39.937
22 Erick Murer              2:39.954
23 Oscar Duck III           2:40.152
24 Salvador da Santa Maria  2:40.304
25 Juan Jose Rendon         2:40.691

Claude Speed edges Indian hotshot Victoria Desai by the narrowest of margins - half a hundredth! With Rueckert less than a tenth behind the leading pair, the battle for victory is sure to be a tense one.

Given her level of top-flight experience, Veronika Asimov disappoints, being thoroughly beaten by her fellow Indy alumni Speed & Gannit.

The surprise package of the session is Clivio Durand, who despite being in his mid-forties, has shown a great turn of pace to make the Top 5.

Heat B Results

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   Driver                Time
 1 Andoni Garrido               32:22.007
 2 Claude Speed                 32:24.999
 3 Arthur Daniels               32:27.126
 4 Dimitri Dzagoev              32:30.412
 5 Victoria Desai               32:34.154
 6 Erick Murer                  32:36.061
 7 Veronika Asimov              32:38.882
 8 Dominic Strass-Cahn          32:40.212
 9 Rusty Gannit                 32:43.214
10 Rhys Jackson                 32:43.762
11 Richard Young                32:44.849
12 Juan Jose Rendon             32:52.827
13 Wim-Bert Horrie              32:54.147
----------- QUALIFICATION LINE -----------
14 Richard Hershall             32:56.119
15 Artur Smolarek               32:57.143
16 Marijo Kovacevic             32:57.595
17 Clivio Durand                32:57.728
18 Alexander von Hegel          33:02.360
19 Johannes Rueckert            33:04.116
20 Terry Stein                  33:08.903
21 Roy Mellows                  33:08.923
22 Salvador da Santa Maria      33:11.010
 — Grant Fox                    DNF lap 9
   Serge Blanco                 DNF lap 7
   Oscar Duck III               DNF lap 6

This heat was far more chaotic than the one which preceded it. No-one seemed to have their heads screwed on properly, and almost all drivers were making mistakes at various points during the race. One of the outstanding drivers of the day was Andoni Garrido, who flawlessly picked his way up from 8th all the way to the top step of the podium. Similarly surprising were Arthur Daniels and Dimitri Dzagoev, who were calm, efficient and determined in their ascendancy from 16th and 18th to 3rd and 4th respectively.

This was in stark contrast to F2RWRS veteran Johannes Rueckert, who bottled it early in the race when running wheel-to-wheel with Terry Stein. Rueckert was struggling for race pace, and in desperation of holding back the Canadian truck specialist, he ended up running both of them off the road at the hairpin. Both dropped all the way to the rear, and simply couldn't recover quickly enough for either to make the qualification cut-off. Clivio Durand, who had done well to start so high up the order, was obliterated by the incident as an innocent bystander, and also failed to make the cut.

This chaos allowed those who started further back to make up places, and Veronika Asimov recovered well from her horrible qualifying mistakes to climb to 7th. Juan Jose Rendon also stunned onlookers from climibing from dead last to 12th by the race's end, doing just enough to make the weekend finale.

[DemocalypseNow]

Just a quick RNG, the only one scheduled for today.

Mika Litmanen
Ranges formulated & RNG rolled by Klon
The Finnish rallycross ace, having snubbed MG's guest appearance offer, now has a more substantial offer from rival factory team Trueba, who operate the works Lancia cars. He would replace Giovanni Roda full-time in #3 Delta S4 from the 3rd round of the season onwards.

1-90 Accepts Lancia offer
91-100 Declines

43. Litmanen finally bags a full-time rallycross drive.

[Ataxia]

RUSSIAN TIME would like to make an offer for Victoria Desai to drive for us in FIA F2 in 2018. Desai has experience with Nebula in AR3.5, and as they currently run RUSSIAN TIME's racing operations would like to use a known quantity within the team to lead our championship challenge. She was originally supposed to effectively swap seats with Nathanael Cameron before tristan disappeared, and so we'd like to keep that deal in place.

[Klon]

Might as well get this offer out of the way:

Best In The World­™ would like to offer Tristan Jung a place in their driver support group. We believe he is too gifted a driver to still suffer in exile for his supposed misdeeds and want to fuel his redemption tour. Unfortunately, we are unable to provide a seat at this point in time for him, do however believe, that we can arrange a good deal for 2019.

[DemocalypseNow]

Rejects Race-Off: Stage III
SUN 21 JAN 2018 | AUTODROMO TREVISO | FINALE

26 drivers proceed from the heats to the grand final, which is slightly longer at 16 laps rather than the 12 seen in the two prior races.

Finale Qualifying

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   Driver                Time
 1 Victoria Desai        2:37.993
 2 Brucie Kibbutz        2:38.123
 3 Lukas Zuber           2:38.129
 4 Garry Jones           2:38.345
 5 Veronika Asimov       2:38.394
 6 Tristan Jung          2:38.642
 7 David Lee             2:38.714
 8 Rusty Gannit          2:38.724
 9 Claude Speed          2:38.800
10 Abdel Genazzi         2:38.813
11 Andoni Garrido        2:38.864
12 Richard Young         2:38.959
13 Haruhi Suzumiya       2:39.086
14 Charles Jericho       2:39.207
15 Rhys Jackson          2:39.216
16 Wim-Bert Horrie       2:39.246
17 Satoshi Fukuzawa      2:39.388
18 David Graham          2:39.534
19 Arthur Daniels        2:39.828
20 Erick Murer           2:39.828
21 Olivier Gardin        2:39.878
22 Dominic Strass-Cahn   2:39.926
23 Dimitri Dzagoev       2:40.017
24 Dan Budd              2:40.267
25 Juan Jose Rendon      2:41.813

Highly rated youngster Desai goes quickest by a decent margin. Kibbutz and Zuber are inseparable behind, while Claude Speed is arguably disappointing down in a mere 9th place. Juan Jose Rendon completely embarrasses himself, 3.9 seconds off polesitter Desai and 1.6 seconds behind the next slowest driver Dan Budd.

Finale Results

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   Driver                Time
 1 Brucie Kibbutz            43:03.639
 2 Lukas Zuber               43:09.453
 3 Tristan Jung              43:11.617
 4 Abdel Genazzi             43:16.686
 5 Garry Jones               43:20.700
 6 Haruhi Suzumiya           43:22.208
 7 Satoshi Fukuzawa          43:24.028
 8 David Graham              43:27.217
 9 Charles Jericho           43:27.225
10 David Lee                 43:30.318
11 Claude Speed              43:30.646
12 Andoni Garrido            43:33.814
13 Arthur Daniels            43:36.979
14 Veronika Asimov           43:40.438
15 Dimitri Dzagoev           43:41.661
16 Victoria Desai            43:42.802
17 Erick Murer               43:43.878
18 Dan Budd                  43:45.283
19 Rusty Gannit              43:48.046
20 Dominic Strass-Cahn       43:52.494
21 Richard Young             43:55.413
22 Wim-Bert Horrie           43:59.475
23 Juan Jose Rendon          43:59.997
 — Olivier Gardin            DNF lap 9
   Rhys Jackson              DNF lap 5

A surprise outcome. Victoria Desai, easily one of the fastest drivers all weekend, lost her nerve entirely when push came to shove, losing the plot entirely when defending from the chasing duo of Kibbutz and Zuber. In the end, against most odds given before the weekend, Kibbutz ended the victory, several seconds up the road from Lukas Zuber. Tristan Jung was close behind, taking the final podium spot.

Relatively disappointing were Claude Speed and Rusty Gannit. The Indy veterans were hotly tipped for Top 5 finishes each. Speed did little more than fail to live up to his name, clocking a mediocre pace that saw him lose a handful of places over the three quarters of an hour the race ran. Gannit meanwhile got involved in too much argy-bargy, damaging his ride and capitulating positions like no tomrrow. He will be disappointed to have managed only 19th place when many suggested he was a dark horse for a podium finish.

[pi314159]

I'd like to sign Victoria Desai. As my FR3.5 team is already full for the season, and I'm only on the waiting list for Formula 2, I would try to find her an F2 seat in a different team. Additionally, she would get an ARWS test at the official young driver test with Kjellerup.

[DemocalypseNow]

T.K. Wolf
The stakes are higher this time. His patience has paid off, and three different race drives have been offered to him. The best offer presented is from DGNgineering - talk of race drives as soon as 2019 is very enticing, especially as he will be allowed to look elsewhere for his debut if a DGN seat is not forthcoming. Precision also have a good track record in F1, but their bid offers less freedom to pursue career progression opportunities. His first impressions of the Scuderia Aqua offer, meanwhile, are bordering on derisory, given their track record in F2RWRS compared to his other suitors.

1-60 DGNgineering F2
61-99 Melrose Racing Team F2
100 Scuderia Aqua F2

79! Clearly there was something about MRT/Precision that Wolf was keen on. What that is, as a completely sane observer, is hard to tell - but regardless, off to MRT he goes.


Emilio Boni
Ranges formulated by pi314159, RNG rolled by Ataxia
Boni has a solitary offer, from Trueba Junior team to race full-time in Formula 2. The Italian driver, who finished 3rd overall in F5000 last season, can clearly see the merits of the offer, but a small part of him is still gnawing away at his brain. No, it's not a tumour, but rather the urge to go back to F5000 and have another crack at winning the title he came so close to lifting last year.

1-90 Formula 2 with Trueba
91-100 Waits for a Formula 5000 offer

64. Boni heads back home from Oceania, joining Italian outfit Trueba to make his F2 debut.


J.C. Wolf
At this point, it's starting to look as if J.C. is, rather successfully, riding on the coat-tails of his far more successful brother. Having already knocked back a nondescript agency offer from Valerian, Scuderia Aqua have come calling for his services. While T.K. wouldn't give the Italian team the time of day, J.C. is infinitely more interested in the proposed drive.

1-95 Accepts
96-100 Waits for an offer from another team with a better track record

35. Wolf will line-up on the F2 grid against his brother, at the Scuderia Aqua team.

[Normal32]

Victoria Desai will be offered a place. Will be in the lookout for any F2 ride avalaible, plus the chances of an ARWS YDT seat, and a guaranteed seat at Valerian's F1 team for 2019. Plus she will hired with immediate effect as simulator driver for the rest of the 2018 season.

Tristan Jung will be offered the seat for Mitsuri's ECV2, starting from round 3.

Juan Jose Rendon will be offered the works seat Skoda, starting from round 3, replacing Jozo Vlahovic.

[V8fan12]

The Peak Motorsport Group would like to make the following offers:

Victoria Desai is offered a guaranteed race seat at the Peak Aeroracing F2 team. She would be the lead driver.

Lukas Zuber is also offered a guaranteed race seat at the Peak Aeroracing F2 team.

[DemocalypseNow]

Repsol Hispania SEAT bids for the services of Juan Rose Rendon, racing full-time in IPC B-Class from the Round of Canada onwards.

[DemocalypseNow]

Victoria Desai
Unsurprisingly, many suitors are clambering over each other for this young Indian's services. Desai has been reasonably successful in both F3 and AR 3.5, and so it is little surprise that many are looking to hire her.

Top of the list is RUSSIAN TIME, run by her previous employers Nebula. Happy with her performances with their 3.5 squad last season, they want to send her to F2, with Nathanael Cameron already having headed in the opposite direction, thanks in part to the major motorsport shuffle that occured at the end of 2017. Peak Aeroracing Engineering have also offered her a drive with their F2 team.

Valerian and Kjellerup have also made management offers, but would need to land her a ride with an F2 team themselves, as they do not have their own entries. The Valerian offer has a more interesting flavour, with promises of a drive with their Formula 1 team in 2019.

1-60 RUSSIAN TIME F2
61-85 Peak Aeroracing F2
86-95 Valerian Management (+ Venturi YDT + Venturi 2019 contract)
96-100 Kjellerup Management

87! Valerian secures one of its most high profile clients yet, with Desai trusting her future will be in safe hands with the French organisation.


Tristan Jung
Jung, the most experienced driver of all currently seeking employment, has two somewhat unsurprising offers on the table. Best In The World have made promises of a career revival, albeit without a drive to go with those promises. Meanwhile, Mitsuri Engineering want him to race their part-time entry in Group B Rallycross. It's something, but hardly the calibre of offer someone with his CV was looking for. There is a strong temptation to bide his time and see if a stronger offer comes along later.

1-25 Mitsuri Lancia GBRC
25-50 Best In The World Management
51-100 Waits for better offers

43. BITW have an international presence, and he puts faith in them to find him a position befitting his level of experience in the near future.

[DemocalypseNow]

Juan Jose Rendon
Ranges supplied by Salamander and Miguel98, RNG rolled by Miguel98
The Spaniard has two offers - half a season with Respol Hispania SEAT in IPC B-Class, or a works Skoda drive in Group B RX. His past experience was in touring cars, so he favours the IPC offer.

1-70 Repsol SEAT IPC
71-100 Skoda GBRC

57. Rendon elects to remain in his comfort zone with Repsol Hispania's touring car effort.


Lukas Zuber
Has only the one offer, to continue in Formula 2 with the Peak Aeroracing team. It's where he wants to be, so unless he has lingering doubts about the Peak buy-in, he has little reason to refuse.

1-95 Peak Aeroracing F2
96-100 Not satisfied with the team in question, wants to wait for another F2 team to request his services.

27. After missing out on Desai, PAE are able to snap up Lukas Zuber instead.

[Gonzalez]

Carrera Granada would like to offer Roberto Zayas to race for them in F5000 on a part time ride. Number of races currently unknown due to an unconfirmed Team nationality.

[Gonzalez]

As agreed with Klon, Carerra Granada would also like to offer Jimmy hopkins to race for f5000. Also, Carerra Granada will become a full time team.

[Klon]

As agreed with Klon, Carerra Granada would also like to offer Jimmy hopkins to race for f5000. Also, Carerra Granada will become a full time team.

I am giving you his DEC. This has nothing to do with the free agency.

[DemocalypseNow]

Roberto Zayas

Zayas is a man with an opportunity, but perhaps not the one he was expecting. After a failed attempt at a single seater career seemed to have ended with some pretty poor performances in F3RWRS, he looked to have found redemption in touring cars, with some promising results in AR GTi last year. However, his only offer comes from the land down under, to race F5000 with Spanish team Carrera Granada.

1-60 Sees this as his only chance to save his racing career, accepts
61-100 Hedges his bets that someone in Leon Supercopa will get the sack mid-season and he can take advantage, waits for management offer to get back into tin-tops

57. Zayas will take the relative security of the F5000 offer, but a case of "what if" lingers in his mind regarding touring cars.

[Normal32]

Giuseppe Colombo, Brucie Kibbutz and Oscar Duck III will be offered reserve drivers for the FIA Prototype Challenge series.

[Miguel98]

Japanese privateer Dojo Racing offers Haruhi Suzumiya offers her a place in GBRC, driving their custom built Nissan 240RS, starting from the Finnish round onwards.

[Pinkd56]

MK Scuderia would like to offer Brucie Kibbutz a seat in their Zytek-Ford Prototype.

[DemocalypseNow]

SIGNING DEADLINES

Giuseppe Colombo - 12 Oct, 21:32
Brucie Kibbutz - 12 Oct, 21:32
Oscar Duck III - 12 Oct, 21:32
Haruhi Suzumiya - 13 Oct, 19:04

[Pinkd56]

I'd also like to bid for Olivier Gardin to be reserve driver for the IPC/Prototype teams.

[DemocalypseNow]

Brucie Kibbutz

Brucie has been waiting a long, long time. After his rise through single seaters came to an abrupt halt not long after making the jump to F1RWRS, he was left out in the cold. The phone never rang, he had no money to buy his way into a seat either. But finally, an opportunity.

1-95 FIA Prototypes drive with MK Scuderia
96-99 FIA Prototype reserve status with series organisers
100 Only wants single seaters

40. Kibbutz is back in business, signing with MK Scuderia's fledgling sportscar team.


Giuseppe Colombo & Oscar Duck III
This isn't the first time in this situation for either of these guys. They know how long and tough the wait can be just to get any offer at all when your racing CV isn't quite up to scratch. There's no guaranteed running time of any sort as a sanctioning body employed reserve, but with little else on the table last time they went through this, is it worth turning it down?

1-75 Accepts
76-100 Wants something that gives some sort of guaranteed seat time

Colombo 50
Duck III 65
Both accept the offers of reserve position, clearly not at all hopeful anything else of note would arrive at a later date.


Haruhi Suzumiya
Suzumiya surprised many by turning down the works MG squad in GBRC. Now, a privateer team from his homeland wants him for their 240RS "kit-car", which competitively speaking promises to be even less enticing than the MG. Having seen both Litmanen and Malmstrom sign works deals, Suzumiya might fancy a vacancy opening up in one at a later time.

1-60 Dojo Nissan GBRC
61-100 Wants an offer from a factory GBRC team

34. Apparently being part of a team from closer to home is a more appealing prospect than a better supported foreign team.

[Miguel98]

Privateer Equipa de Rally's do Paraná offers a contract starting from the Finninsh round onwards to Erick Murer, driving a Renault 5 Maxi Turbo.

GBRC will offer Grant Fox a place as their reserve driver in the series.

[Aerond]

Given HawkAussie has oficially left the PMMF (see ARWS thread, page 13), DGN management want to take care of Akira Yamamura from this point on.

DGN Management can offer Akira an stable ARWS career without the need of being tied to a team for too long and without the hassle of having to find another drive if the team owner decides to fire him. We will nurture the driver, offering always the best possible seat, as we have shown during many years with the long lasting careers of Mark Dagnall, Fredo Mestolio, Jesús Plaza and Hansuke Shioya, who, season after season, have found themselves a home in the increasingly competitive world of ARWS. For now, DGN management can offer Akira a seat at Kamaha to finish the current season, with the chance of a one year extension if the deal is satisfactory for both parts and the chance to pitch him to other teams in case he or Kamaha are not happy. We would like to remind Akira that Kamaha is a team on the up as recent performances by Daniel Melville in Austria and Germany and we're convinced it's the ideal place to grow after a difficult first half of the season at Tassie, he'll be able to qualify for races and from then on see his options for the 2019 season without having to tie for absurdly long contracts.

If interested please contact Margaret White on +44 xxxxx xxxxx

[DemocalypseNow]

As both Akira Yamamura and Hans Einhrin were part of the most recent cycle of Race of Rejects, they both return to the selection pool immediately, having failed to reach the one season maturation period for new owners.

Offers for Akira Yamamura will close on 05 May, 0845 BST.
Offers for Hans Einhrin will close on 06 May, 0921 BST.

[Miguel98]

Lotto Racing would like to offer Hans Einhrin a place in F5000 for 2019.

[AndreaModa]

Jones Racing will offer Akira Yamamura a spot at an exclusive and private test to determine their 2019 driver line-up with the offer of a full time drive on the table should the test be a success. Jones can guarantee a level of competitiveness for Yamamura in 2019 with one of the best chassis packages on the grid. Should the drive be awarded to another driver, Yamamura will be handed official reserve driver role at Jones and due to his high demand, will be allowed to remain race sharp by racing at a competitor ARWS team in 2019, such as Lotto should they still wish to sign him.

Quick question regarding other AWOL members such as Salamander's drivers. Are they effectively frozen until the next Race of Rejects?

[SuperAguri]

Kamaha (me) have agreed with DGN management (Aerond) that we will offer Akira a drive for the rest of the season with a possibility of an extension for 2019.

We will also not stop Akira from testing with any teams for the remainder of the season for a 2019 drive.

[Miguel98]

Jones Racing will offer Akira Yamamura a spot at an exclusive and private test to determine their 2019 driver line-up with the offer of a full time drive on the table should the test be a success. Jones can guarantee a level of competitiveness for Yamamura in 2019 with one of the best chassis packages on the grid. Should the drive be awarded to another driver, Yamamura will be handed official reserve driver role at Jones and due to his high demand, will be allowed to remain race sharp by racing at a competitor ARWS team in 2019, such as Lotto should they still wish to sign him.

Quick question regarding other AWOL members such as Salamander's drivers. Are they effectively frozen until the next Race of Rejects?

Yep, they are.

[AndreaModa]

Okay cool. So who is in charge if (purely theoretically) I wanted to offer a frozen driver an opportunity mid-season? Or turf a frozen driver out? The series owner?

[DemocalypseNow]

Okay cool. So who is in charge if (purely theoretically) I wanted to offer a frozen driver an opportunity mid-season? Or turf a frozen driver out? The series owner?

Nobody. They are locked out.

[SeedStriker]

Union Saver Developments wants to offer Akira Yamamura the position of tester for the remainder of the ARWS' 2018 season. Depending on his ability and the amount of backing he can offer (since he turned his back on us on the 2018's silly season), he can be an option for the 2019 campaing

[Normal32]

Venturi will offer Akira Yamamura a reserve driver spot in their ARWS operation. He will get a minimum of five mid-season tests, and, on top of that, we will try and search for other available drives for him at this season (2018) to gain more experience for a possible drive in Venturi for 2019.

[roblo97]

Rob Lomas Racing would like to offer Akira Yamamura a race seat in place of Jari Kekkonen for the rest of the season with an option for next season as well. Kekkonen will be in the role of test driver.

[Ataxia]

Astro Racing Stars would like to offer Akira Yamamura the chance to join the Racing Stars program, and he will become Fusion's official Asian Brand Liasion Representative. Whilst he would not actually be doing any driving for the team, we will pay for any qualifications he may require through his nascent business career.

[Rated]

The SEAT Leon Supercopa series will offer Akira Yamamura the OFFICIAL reserve driver role of the series.
Yeah, why not ?

[DemocalypseNow]

To allow enough time between his DEC being settled and the next ARWS race, which will apparently be this weekend, I have moved forward the deadline for Akira Yamamura by 24 hours. So in essence, there are around 30 hours left on the clock. If you plan to make an offer and haven't done so, do it now!