Grand Prix Rejects

Klon wrote:Eh, then I will give you benefit of the doubt and write this season off, let's hope 2015 is not quite as one-sided at the top, because in the end this championship is over already.

Aerond wrote:

Klon wrote:Eh, then I will give you benefit of the doubt and write this season off, let's hope 2015 is not quite as one-sided at the top, because in the end this championship is over already.

Anyway, random grip numbers will be changed according to experience by next race. I´m going to take part of your suggestions regarding this and the range will be changed to 1500-2200, with the chance of going down to 1200 as drivers get enough experience.

the Masked Lapwing wrote:

Aerond wrote:

Klon wrote:Eh, then I will give you benefit of the doubt and write this season off, let's hope 2015 is not quite as one-sided at the top, because in the end this championship is over already.

Anyway, random grip numbers will be changed according to experience by next race. I´m going to take part of your suggestions regarding this and the range will be changed to 1500-2200, with the chance of going down to 1200 as drivers get enough experience.

Remember to take into account past careers - Christopherson for example.

Aerond wrote:Anyway, I find it funny that people liked the randomness of F1RWRS when TMLW runned the championship, and, while it´s a little bit more rational now, it´s only front runners (either 2013 or 2014) complaining about the system, specially regarding this random grip thing, which is made to favour teams at the back (from time to time) and to add more variety in the middle (and so far it´s working as I said, as 29 drivers got points last year and 16/19 teams made it to the classification too.

AndreaModa wrote:
I'm not convinced about the pre-qualifying cup though. TMLW ran the Aguri Suzuki Cup during the old incarnation and it died a slow death after about 5 races. With the credits as an incentive that probably won't happen this time, but unless someone is prepared to run it properly then it's not worth it. I think it may be better to keep it more simple by having credits awarded through one system, in-house, and overseen by Aerond.

the Masked Lapwing wrote:Remember to take into account past careers - Christopherson for example.

kostas22 wrote:

the Masked Lapwing wrote:Remember to take into account past careers - Christopherson for example.

BINGO! Give this man a beer etc....

Phil McCracken should not be as woefully rubbish as he has been recently. He was 2nd in the F1 Rejects LFS Cup! How can he suddenly go from being one of the best drivers in that competition to stone dead last in the RWRS system? There is absolutely zero realism to that.

Aerond wrote:

AndreaModa wrote:
I'm not convinced about the pre-qualifying cup though. TMLW ran the Aguri Suzuki Cup during the old incarnation and it died a slow death after about 5 races. With the credits as an incentive that probably won't happen this time, but unless someone is prepared to run it properly then it's not worth it. I think it may be better to keep it more simple by having credits awarded through one system, in-house, and overseen by Aerond.

But what AdrianSutil has proposed is not a new series or something as the Aguri Suzuki cup was. It´s just to award points to Prequalifiers depending on their PreQualifying positions, regardless they actually passed Prequalify of not (as we see often drivers from top 6 in Prequalify failing to pass it). Then at the end of the championship we count the points and award credits to the best teams in PreQualify. I only suggested to do it in a separate thread not to overflood this one. I think is good for the series to have this as it will create more opportunities with back of the field teams to catch up.

Aerond wrote:I have also though of another formula to equalise the money. I´m not very good with maths so I hope somebody can help me out with this. What about if we make a pot with all the TV Money (4000 credits, for 20 teams) and we reversely give it depending on the number of points the teams got, with the champion getting none and 0 points scorers getting the most, or taking completely out of the equation non-scorers (which would still get 200 credits) and doing the pot among scorers?

kostas22 wrote:

the Masked Lapwing wrote:Remember to take into account past careers - Christopherson for example.

BINGO! Give this man a beer etc....

Phil McCracken should not be as woefully rubbish as he has been recently. He was 2nd in the F1 Rejects LFS Cup! How can he suddenly go from being one of the best drivers in that competition to stone dead last in the RWRS system? There is absolutely zero realism to that.

dr-baker wrote:

kostas22 wrote:

the Masked Lapwing wrote:Remember to take into account past careers - Christopherson for example.

BINGO! Give this man a beer etc....

Phil McCracken should not be as woefully rubbish as he has been recently. He was 2nd in the F1 Rejects LFS Cup! How can he suddenly go from being one of the best drivers in that competition to stone dead last in the RWRS system? There is absolutely zero realism to that.

Absolutely zero realism? ChampCar v. F1 may be a real-world comparison - Sebastian Bourdais and Alex Zanardi, successful in one series, but not in the other...

Daniel Melrose wrote:*Bumps into reporter*

Reporter wrote:Any comments on th...

Daniel Melrose wrote:*Gives reporter the bird before storming off in anger*

Aerond wrote:It may have been left Kay Lon asking himself why he switched cars last year, given Sunshine´s current state of form. The German paid for a heavy car in the beggining, only to retire when he had points positions close once his strategy paid off.

Wizzie wrote:

Daniel Melrose wrote:*Bumps into reporter*

Reporter wrote:Any comments on th...

Daniel Melrose wrote:*Gives reporter the bird before storming off in anger*

Yeap, he's in one of THOSE moods again.

DANIEL MELROSE SEEN BUYING TAMPONS AT MEXICAN SHOP??

A sillysillynews reporter followed yesterday Daniel Melrose after he exited Hermanos Rodriguez track after hearing from him in the motorhome "I´m in one of those moods" when talking to an engineer. Our reporter then got discovered by security staff and told to leave MRT´s motorhome but decided to follow Melrose when he left the track and he was seen entering a pharmacy and exiting with what seemed Tampons after our reporter entered right after Melrose and kindly asked the shop assistant for the content of Melrose´s bag while waving a 50$ note. We´ll keep on informing you as soon as we have news on this story.

AdrianSutil wrote:The idea of a pre-qualifying cup seems to be getting a decent amount of positive response so I'll be running it in a seperate thread. A few things I'd like to clear up first before I do:

* Im assuming the F2RWRS point system is for the top 6 so we will run that, if it's top 8 we will do that too.

Aerond wrote:

DANIEL MELROSE SEEN BUYING TAMPONS AT MEXICAN SHOP??

A sillysillynews reporter followed yesterday Daniel Melrose after he exited Hermanos Rodriguez track after hearing from him in the motorhome "I´m in one of those moods" when talking to an engineer. Our reporter then got discovered by security staff and told to leave MRT´s motorhome but decided to follow Melrose when he left the track and he was seen entering a pharmacy and exiting with what seemed Tampons after our reporter entered right after Melrose and kindly asked the shop assistant for the content of Melrose´s bag while waving a 50$ note. We´ll keep on informing you as soon as we have news on this story.

Daniel Melrose wrote:That was actually a bulk pack of cream to help my skin allergy to leather.

Sammy Jones wrote:I'm pissed off, make no mistake. We're sat 4th in the constructors' championship, yet we're having to pre-qualify at the next race. It's almost certainly been our worst weekend for the past two years, and must be up there as one of the worst since the team was founded. I'm deeply deeply unhappy at the team's performance, especially considering we couldn't utilise the improvements we brought to the engine, and the CJR-103 chassis, which we thought had ironed out our reliability problems, clearly seems not to be the case. I just hope to god we don't suffer the same fate Prospec have, and get mired in a ridiculous pre-qualifying lottery.

Autosport wrote:Melrose to Simpson in 2015?

While Melrose has publicly said his preferred option would be to stay with the Jones Team for 2015, sources in the paddock have revealed that the Australian may be about to return the favour that he did for longtime Dave Simpson all those years ago when he recommended the fellow Australian for the BMW Sauber test driver role back in 2007 to replace the Toyota bound Timo Glock. Neither Melrose, Simpson or Sammy Jones were available for comment.

Aerond wrote:

DANIEL MELROSE SEEN BUYING TAMPONS AT MEXICAN SHOP??

A sillysillynews reporter followed yesterday Daniel Melrose after he exited Hermanos Rodriguez track after hearing from him in the motorhome "I´m in one of those moods" when talking to an engineer. Our reporter then got discovered by security staff and told to leave MRT´s motorhome but decided to follow Melrose when he left the track and he was seen entering a pharmacy and exiting with what seemed Tampons after our reporter entered right after Melrose and kindly asked the shop assistant for the content of Melrose´s bag while waving a 50$ note. We´ll keep on informing you as soon as we have news on this story.

That's a good sign that there's nothing to report today.

Sebastian Groves wrote:Although I did place last, we did finish the race today. I was very pleased with the progress from the team today, I can't wait for the next race.

Andrea Acuri wrote:A wonderful race today! I can't believe the progress Ron has made today, heshould be proud of himself! The car should be upgraded by the next race, thanks to all our sponsors. (gives strange looks to the gallery)

DANIEL MELROSE SEEN BUYING TAMPONS AT MEXICAN SHOP??

A sillysillynews reporter followed yesterday Daniel Melrose after he exited Hermanos Rodriguez track after hearing from him in the motorhome "I´m in one of those moods" when talking to an engineer. Our reporter then got discovered by security staff and told to leave MRT´s motorhome but decided to follow Melrose when he left the track and he was seen entering a pharmacy and exiting with what seemed Tampons after our reporter entered right after Melrose and kindly asked the shop assistant for the content of Melrose´s bag while waving a 50$ note. We´ll keep on informing you as soon as we have news on this story.

Sebastian Groves wrote:Although I did place last, we did finish the race today. I was very pleased with the progress from the team today, I can't wait for the next race.

Andrea Acuri wrote:A wonderful race today! I can't believe the progress Ron has made today, heshould be proud of himself! The car should be upgraded by the next race, thanks to all our sponsors. (gives strange looks to the gallery)

JeremyMcClean wrote:Acuri should have 80 credits now, right?
If so, they shall be spent like this:
50 credits on the engine to be upgraded by 3 bhp
30 credits to improve Andrea Acuri's Qualifying performance (60 points in total)

DGNGINEERING TO REPLACE NATHAN SCOTT

DGNgineering boss Chris Dagnall has announced today that he´s going to send Nathan Scott home. "I don´t know for how long, but we need to improve our reliability very urgently so from the US GP onwards a pay driver is going to take the second seat. Who? There´s plentiful of choices, anyone would want to sit in a winning car. Those Scuderia Alitalia guys are doing good business, maybe one of their guys. We have three days to make a choice." The 1991 F1 Champion also had words for Nathan Scott. "I feel terribly sorry for Nathan. He´s a great racer, but we can´t afford it if we want to fight for the drivers championship. We need to keep our cars on track and putting money into reliability is the only way around it. If I can help him to find another seat in the meanwhile I´ll happily do so."

Foxdale Auto Racing Team Press Release

We are pleased to score our first points of the year today with Douglas Mann. While Jack Christopherson just missed out on points, he had a great race from 17th to 9th. If our reliability holds out like this (and unlike last year!), we are hoping for a more successful year than last year was!

And everybody is welcome to our celebratory post-race barbeque!

Aerond wrote:

DGNGINEERING TO REPLACE NATHAN SCOTT

DGNgineering boss Chris Dagnall has announced today that he´s going to send Nathan Scott home. "I don´t know for how long, but we need to improve our reliability very urgently so from the US GP onwards a pay driver is going to take the second seat. Who? There´s plentiful of choices, anyone would want to sit in a winning car. Those Scuderia Alitalia guys are doing good business, maybe one of their guys. We have three days to make a choice." The 1991 F1 Champion also had words for Nathan Scott. "I feel terribly sorry for Nathan. He´s a great racer, but we can´t afford it if we want to fight for the drivers championship. We need to keep our cars on track and putting money into reliability is the only way around it. If I can help him to find another seat in the meanwhile I´ll happily do so."

Autosport wrote:Mysterious consortium to take over Team Phoenix entry?

Following news that Scuderia Alitalia is in talks with Team Phoenix to acquire the team entry, there is now a new report with anonymous sources that a new partnership is coming together to take over Team Phoenix. It is believed that this association is European based but no names have been mentioned yet. Since Phoenix McAllister was unavailable at this time to comment on these rumours, they are still unconfirmed but a source inside the team told us that this contact exists and the new owners were looking to buy the existing team before its folding. Another source with the F1RWRS told us that the entry proposal was stronger than that of Scuderia Alitalia and so they are in front to take Team Phoenix place. More news on this when information becomes available.

Daniel Martins wrote:Another luckless race for me, so there is not much I can say except that this absence of Prince Falik clearly shows how committed he is with the team. But enough of intra-team politics in due to respect for The Fox. About the next races I won't dismiss more points for us. We know our car can work well on its day and we hope to have a few coming.

The Lukas wrote:

Aerond wrote:

DGNGINEERING TO REPLACE NATHAN SCOTT

DGNgineering boss Chris Dagnall has announced today that he´s going to send Nathan Scott home. "I don´t know for how long, but we need to improve our reliability very urgently so from the US GP onwards a pay driver is going to take the second seat. Who? There´s plentiful of choices, anyone would want to sit in a winning car. Those Scuderia Alitalia guys are doing good business, maybe one of their guys. We have three days to make a choice." The 1991 F1 Champion also had words for Nathan Scott. "I feel terribly sorry for Nathan. He´s a great racer, but we can´t afford it if we want to fight for the drivers championship. We need to keep our cars on track and putting money into reliability is the only way around it. If I can help him to find another seat in the meanwhile I´ll happily do so."

Polish Female pay driver Sylwia Jaskowiec interested a drive at the United States GP thanks to money from Doskonale Mleko

Autosport wrote:Scuderia Alitalia snubs DGNgineering

Scuderia Alitalia Team Principal Alasdair Lindsay has refuted any suggestions that DGNEngineering will run a member of their team in place of the withdrawn Nathan Scott, despite an ongoing similar arrangement in F2RWRS between the two organisations.

"The circumstances are different here," said Lindsay. "We currently only have one driver on our books that is eligible for a Superlicense, and he is in the Big Car Championship title hunt so far, so we don't want to jeopardise our performance in that series. I am of course referring to Nobushige Fukuda. I don't believe Carsten Jancker is an option as he hasn't registered a finish so far. And all our other junior drivers have yet to qualify for a superlicense."

"However, if in a few races time [Alessandro] Lucarelli or [Gianluigi] Pazzini have secured good enough results to obtain a superlicense, we will be happy to change our stance on this issue. We don't have a championship to fight for in F3RWRS this season, so our setup in regard to junior series is fully flexible right now."

Klon wrote:I should point out that the Reject License (yes, I am going to keep calling it that way, deal with it ) rules only apply from 2015 onwards. For now, everything and everyone goes.

kostas22 wrote:

Klon wrote:I should point out that the Reject License (yes, I am going to keep calling it that way, deal with it ) rules only apply from 2015 onwards. For now, everything and everyone goes.

Oh. It was my understanding they had kicked in this season

SAY HELLO TO AERORACING ENGINEERING

That's the name the new racing team formed from a consortium between racing driver Phoenix McAllister, entrepreneur Evgeny Romanov and engineer Philip Neumann will take. We have details, too, about the operation:
-The base will be set near Coventry, UK.
-Phoenix McAllister will drive one of the entries, while the other car could be driven by a young charger.
-Sponsorship will come from Spanish petroleum company Repsol and energy drink makers Dark Dog.
-Philip Neumann will be the chief engineer, the other staff being made up from young graduates from Coventry University and the Imperial College.

McAllister said: "It's fantastic. We have almost everything set up, we just don't know our engine supplier yet. The second car could be driven by the best performer from the F2RWRS entry next year. We're looking forward to it."

As for the rumours about him going to drive for Scuderia Alitalia next year, as well as said team taking over their operation, he said: "We're discussing that, yes, but we haven't reached an agreement yet. We're assesing other options too".

Warren Hughes wrote:This loophole needs to be closed whereby struggling teams can shut down, then the team owner can return with a new team and get 1000 credits straight off the bat. It isn't fair for those of us who try to keep teams going on a shoestring with no chance of ever being able to afford a chassis and engine that are actually competitive.

Warren Hughes wrote:This loophole needs to be closed whereby struggling teams can shut down, then the team owner can return with a new team and get 1000 credits straight off the bat. It isn't fair for those of us who try to keep teams going on a shoestring with no chance of ever being able to afford a chassis and engine that are actually competitive.

Aerond wrote:

DGNGINEERING TO REPLACE NATHAN SCOTT

DGNgineering boss Chris Dagnall has announced today that he´s going to send Nathan Scott home. "I don´t know for how long, but we need to improve our reliability very urgently so from the US GP onwards a pay driver is going to take the second seat. Who? There´s plentiful of choices, anyone would want to sit in a winning car. Those Scuderia Alitalia guys are doing good business, maybe one of their guys. We have three days to make a choice." The 1991 F1 Champion also had words for Nathan Scott. "I feel terribly sorry for Nathan. He´s a great racer, but we can´t afford it if we want to fight for the drivers championship. We need to keep our cars on track and putting money into reliability is the only way around it. If I can help him to find another seat in the meanwhile I´ll happily do so."