Grand Prix Rejects

Because why not?

In order to decrease F1RWRS Deprivation during the off-season, I've decided to run a special non-championship event using lawnmowers. This will probably be the simplest entry process ever - all I need is a driver. No teams, no car choices, no money to be spent. Just a driver, up to 5 per member. As long as they have raced at some point during the 2015 season from the F1RWRS down to the F1RDS.

The racing itself will be in three parts.
Part 1 will be the heat races, where every driver who is entered takes part. How many there are will be decided when the entry list closes.
Part 2 will be the finals. The top drivers from each heat (16 in all, I'll decide how many per heat later) take part in 1-on-1 knockout races, eventually resulting in a final race to determine the best driver. On a lawnmower.
Part 3 doesn't really count, but if any drivers want to schedule their own races, to see who is the best or to settle old scores, I'll be happy to do special races for them. And I'll probably let extra drives in this part, because I really want to see Sammy Jones vs Alasdair Lindsay

Wiki page + entry list

You have until the completion of whatever Klon's non-championship race was to enter.

Also, for those who want to know, I'm using the Honda Lawnmower series on V8 Supercars 3.

Since Daniel Melrose has better things to do like run Tropico, he won't enter but he'll be more than happy to answer to any challenges from other competitors. Phillippe Nicolas, Mitchell Macklin, Joel Melrose and James Douglas however will all enter.

I'll go ahead and stick five drivers in then;
Bastiaan van Nieuwenhuijzen
Marcel Agyemang-Badu
Gianluigi Pazzini
Olafur Ragnar Hannesson

and of course, the one, the only...
BENOIT VOECKLER!

I'm in with F1 Rejects Super Touring Cup Shane Morris and F1 Rejects IndyCar's Kohei Hirate. We need Honda Mowers!

Onxy Wrecked wrote:I'm in with F1 Super Touring Cup Shane Morris and F1 Rejects IndyCar's Kohei Hirate. We need Honda Mowers!

They didn't compete in the five main series though, so they'll only be allowed to race if I end up with too few entries (I'm willing to go up to 72 entries, which probably won't happen). They'll be fine to take part in the free races though.

But of course, Phil McCracken simply must take part here.

Nuppiz wrote:But of course, Phil McCracken simply must to take part here.

"F**K OOT MA WAY YA WEEGIE BASTARDS!!!!!!! AV' GOT TAE GET BACK HAME TAE THE ESTATE AN' GET MA JELLY PIECES!!!!!!!!!!!"

I'm game for this.

Tristan Jung
Shane Walsh
Roberto Zayas
Rusty Gannit
Collin Pratchett

I could have sworn I already posted something

Jason Hamilton
Andrea Battani
Mika Paasonen
Deiter Hallenstein
And a fifth driver

tristan1117 wrote:I'm game for this.

Tristan Jung
Shane Walsh
Roberto Zayas
Rusty Gannit
Collin Pratchett

Has Gannit done any RWRS races this season? The others are all fine.

the Masked Lapwing wrote:

tristan1117 wrote:I'm game for this.

Tristan Jung
Shane Walsh
Roberto Zayas
Rusty Gannit
Collin Pratchett

Has Gannit done any RWRS races this season? The others are all fine.

Gannit was in the F1IRCS, does that count?

tristan1117 wrote:

the Masked Lapwing wrote:

tristan1117 wrote:I'm game for this.

Tristan Jung
Shane Walsh
Roberto Zayas
Rusty Gannit
Collin Pratchett

Has Gannit done any RWRS races this season? The others are all fine.

Gannit was in the F1IRCS, does that count?

Nope, he can go on the reserve list with Morris and Hirate.

the Masked Lapwing wrote:

tristan1117 wrote:

the Masked Lapwing wrote:Has Gannit done any RWRS races this season? The others are all fine.

Gannit was in the F1IRCS, does that count?

Nope, he can go on the reserve list with Morris and Hirate.

This is a silly rule. If Top 5 in F1RICS is good enough for a Rejectlicense, why is not good enough for entry into this series?

I'll enter all five of my drivers then.

Thomas De Bock
Aurelien Moll
Laurent Seron
Eric Swerts
Simon Mestach

F1RWRS James Davies will enter, as will Jordan Davies. F1RGP2C James Davies sees all this as beneath him, but if John Zimmer wants to try and get one over on him, he's more than happy to accept the challenge.

Only stupid people will enter this race...but Behrman Reith,Nestra Aya,Quentin Reatherson and Paul Traversen are indeed stupid enough to take part.

Here's my plonker squad

Gary Pacer
Martin van der Maeyede
David Koczo
Martyn Rietacher
Franc Piscine

You never thought you'd see a Swiss on a lawn mower.....

I'll shove my drivers into this race then

Damon Cannon
Poppy Whitechapel
Thomas Butler
Laura Wener
George MacDrage (because why the hell not? )

George MacDrage wrote:People, you've no hope in hell for this one. I grew up racing me father's old ride-on around the fields. Good days, yer know. I have experience in this field.

Laura Wener wrote:Who is this Scottish plonker, and why does he have to constantly slag off everyone else?

George and Ernest Bruno would like to go onto the reserve list.

WaffleCat wrote:Only stupid people will enter this race...but Behrman Reith,Nestra Aya,Quentin Reatherson and Paul Traversen are indeed stupid enough to take part.

We are doing this for the love of competition! It may not be stupid except for how slow the mowers go.

Sammy Jones is all over this like icing on a cake, and definitely up for settling old scores, so step forward Lindsay, McAllister, Mori, etc, etc!

I'll also enter Danny van Rijkens and Terry Hawkin please.

My fleet, if signing up is still possible:

Steven Mackintosh
Dave Anderson
Hendra Naufal
Hiroto Tojo
Mustafa Kurniawan

Jose Pablo and Thiago Mazzacane have nothing better to do over the off-season and would like to take part.

While Thiago is eligible through his F3 races, José Pablo is only on the reserve list.

The Camerons are up for a laugh, so enter Michael and Nathanael, and Gary will also make a one-off return to the cockpit(?) just to prove he's still quicker than his upstart brother and cousin.

I'll enter O.N. Duck III., O.N. Duck Jr. and John Bean (They all did IndyCar in 2015).

I'll enter Jiri Komárek, Jules Vergne and Jari Lappalainen for this

Well, currently Simon Garfünkel has nothing better to do. Whilst Wouter Lamberigts and Ron Mignolet have challenged each other. Gia Van Dycke on the other hand, just wants his/her lawn to be the best in the FxRWRS universe, so this is a good practise session.

Aeromowing Engineering will enter, of course, with Phoenix McAllister, Raul Souto Maior, Francesco Fagioli, Judd McAllister and Juan Manuel Scalabroni.

the Masked Lapwing wrote:

tristan1117 wrote:
Gannit was in the F1IRCS, does that count?

Nope, he can go on the reserve list with Morris and Hirate.

We will use Victoria Desai instead of Gannit then.

If I can get into it

Stephanie Brown
Jalmerson da Cunha
Patrick Feldhoffer

For reserve list
Beth Lestrade (from F1RICS)

Nathan Scott needs experience on Lawnmower seeing how his F1RWRS career is going

Phoenix wrote:Aeromowing Engineering will enter, of course, with Phoenix McAllister, Raul Souto Maior, Francesco Fagioli, Judd McAllister and Juan Manuel Scalabroni.

McAllister the elder and Fagioli haven't done any races this year, so both will go on to the reserve list.

With those last few entries there are 3 spots left, so the reserve list will probably not be used. However, these drivers (and more) are still free to do any races in Part 3. You can confirm any challenges for this part now if you want, I'll add them to the wiki so I don't forget later.

Stuff it, El Presidente is sending out a challenge to McAllister and any other old fart from F1 who wants to have a crack at the mad uncle.

I will compete in the special races ideally with the ones who fail to survive the heat races to the finals.

The thought occurs now that I actually read the 2016 F1RICS thread - is Hirate a real driver?

the Masked Lapwing wrote:The thought occurs now that I actually read the 2016 F1RICS thread - is Hirate a real driver?

Yep, he was a Toyota test driver alongside Kobayashi one year. And if I remember correctly he was actually considered the more promising of the two

eurobrun wrote:

the Masked Lapwing wrote:The thought occurs now that I actually read the 2016 F1RICS thread - is Hirate a real driver?

Yep, he was a Toyota test driver alongside Kobayashi one year. And if I remember correctly he was actually considered the more promising of the two

Indeed that is correct, Hirate is the name of a real driver who never competed in a F1 race, but did a season's worth of testing. It's also a known fact that he is pretty much contractually obligated to Toyota and probably wouldn't be allowed to touch my Cosworth powered IndyCars in real life as they don't have the Toyota name on them. So we have an alternate universe Hirate driving around. Roy Guidry is named as the replacement for Hirate if Hirate is not allowed to compete.

Jones will issue challenges to Lindsay, McAllister, Mori and Melrose too if he wants it!

AndreaModa wrote:Jones will issue challenges to Lindsay, McAllister, Mori and Melrose too if he wants it!

You're on old man! And I'll throw out a challenge to that cretin Rhys Davies as well. And Chris Dagnall, but the latter more out of the spirit of competition than any malice as disliking Daggers is a sin punishable by papaya cannon. Hating on Daggers Jr however is an entirely different ballgame

Dave & Rick Simpson will be entering the Lawnmower race and will be using this sticker on their mowers: