2006 Alternate GP2 - Monza sprint race / SEASON OVER

Bleu · Post by **Bleu** » 22 Sep 2013, 19:57

After the first season, which ended with Nico Rosberg winning the drivers' title and DSR Racing winning teams' title, it's time to move on to 2006.

Drivers' plans
First, the drivers on positions 2 to 10 go through randomizer to evaluate, whether they continue in the series. A maximum of two drivers may leave the series this way.

Giorgio Pantano: 1-50 to stay, 51-100 to move on.
51. Pantano got an offer from Champ Car World Series and leaves.
Lewis Hamilton: 1-70 to stay, 71-100 to move on
24. Hamilton plans to stay in GP2 for another year.
Scott Speed: 1-85 to stay, 86-100 to move on
73. Speed plans to stay in GP2 for another year.
Oriol Servia: 1-91 to stay, 92-100 to move on
27. Servia plans to stay in GP2 for another year.
Heikki Kovalainen: 1-95 to stay, 96-100 to move on
53. Kovalainen plans to stay in GP2 for another year.
Robert Kubica: 1-97 to stay, 98-100 to move on
42. Kubica plans to stay in GP2 for another year
Robert Doornbos: 1-98 to stay, 99-100 to move on
13. Doornbos plans to stay in GP2 for another year
A.J. Allmendinger: 1-99 to stay, 100 to move on
14. Allmendinger plans to stay in GP2 for another year
Adam Carroll: 1-995 to stay, 996-1000 to move on
708. Carroll plans to stay in GP2 for another year

For the remainder of aforementioned drivers, they got points for their championship position in 2005. Once the driver reaches 25, he will leave automatically.

Hamilton 15, Speed 12, Servia 10, Kovalainen 8, Kubica 6, Doornbos 4, Allmendinger 2, Carroll 1.

The points are distributed 25-18-15-12-10-8-6-4-2-1 for top 10. This means:
Hamilton will leave if he finishes top 5
Speed will leave if he finishes top 3
Kovalainen will leave if he finishes top 2

The series winner will leave automatically. Servia will reach the maximum age (32) during 2006 season, so it will be his last regardless of the results.

Eligible drivers
Driver can participate if (s)he's 18 during the day of qualifying (one day before the feature race) Driver can participate in the series until the end of the year (s)he turns 32. Driver also has a maximum of 20 F1 races participated.

Cars
Each existing team will keep the cars it had at the end of 2005 season. One chassis costs 0,5M. A car will lose performance when the chassis gets used. Additionally, crashes may cause additional damage to the chassis.

Updates (revised)
A team can have updates on four settings
- Maximum performance (improve by 0,1 seconds)
- Minimum performance (improve by 0,1 seconds)
- Pit crew (improve by 0,5 seconds for scheduled stops, 1 second for unscheduled stops)
- Reliability (improve by 10%)

The team can spend money to the update five different amounts.
0,2M = 10% chance
0,4M = 20% chance
0,6M = 33,3% chance
0,8M = 50% chance
1M = 75% chance
The update is similar regardless of the money spent, more money just improves a chance to get it work.

Teams with existing updates may choose in which settings they will put existing ones. A maximum of one towards one setting is allowed.

Aguila Automovilismo Racing, Scuderia Alitalia Coloni and Vasquez Racing Team have two updates each. Celtic Tiger Racing, DSR Racing, Liqui Target and Restov Racing have one update each.

During the season, one update for each setting may be gained. Only one update can be tested between two events.

2006 Calendar (like in real-life, with an exception that Monaco will have two races)
Pre-season testing, Paul Ricard 7-10 March (4 sessions)
Pre-season testing, Jerez, 23 March (regular race drivers will participate)
Valencia 8-9 April
Imola 22-23 April
Nürburgring 6-7 May
Barcelona 13-14 May
Monaco 27-28 May
Silverstone 10-11 June
Magny-Cours 15-16 July
Hockenheim 29-30 July
Hungaroring 5-6 August
Istanbul 26-27 August
Monza 9-10 September
Each race weekend contains qualifying, feature race (180 km with one pit stop) and sprint race (120 km). Qualifying makes the grid for feature race, feature race makes the grid for sprint race with top 8 reversed.

Point system
2 points for feature race pole
10-8-6-5-4-3-2-1 for top 8 finishers in the feature race
6-5-4-3-2-1 for top 6 finishers in the sprint race
1 point for fastest lap in each race

Test driver rules
* Each team may name between four and eight drivers for pre-season testing.
* If team names its 2005 drivers, they will automatically test for two days (so if the team is testing both its 2005 drivers, it has a maximum of six drivers. If the team tests just one of its 2005 drivers, it has a maximum of seven drivers.
* A driver participating the test must be eligible to race in 2006 (although not necessarily in the first race)
* A driver who didn't participate Alternate 2005 season and participated Bahrain Grand Prix 2006 is not eligible.

Timetable
* As Samster and The Lukas announced their intention to join for 2006 season, they must confirm participation until September 25th 23.59 CET. If there is no confirmation, anyone can enter new team until September 27th 23.59.
* Teams that participated 2005 season have until September 25th 23.59 CET to retain one of its drivers who participated Spa-Francorchamps race for 2006 season. The team is not allowed to retain both of its driver before testing.
* Teams have until September 27th 23.59 CET to confirm participation for 2006
* After the list of teams is complete, the teams may start nominating drivers for test sessions
* After Paul Ricard tests, teams state the drivers they wish to use. If the driver is in the shortlist for multiple teams, it will go through randomizer weighted by the positions the driver got for each team. So if the driver tested for four teams, was on positions 3, 7, 7 and 9 (s)he is most likely to go to the team where (s)he achieved 3rd place.

Confirmed teams and drivers, money and cars post-Istanbul
DSR Racing (pycku) 2,1M (cars 99/99) - Lewis Hamilton, Timo Glock
Aguila Automovilismo Racing (Ataxia) 2,5M (87,2/88,5) - Andreas Zuber, Alx Danielsson
Scuderia Alitalia Coloni (Biscione) 0,7M (84,7/89) - Michael Ammermüller, Andre Lotterer
Ember Racing (Shadaza) 1,9M (90/88,7) - Jamie Green, Oliver Jarvis
Vortex Racing (RonDenisDeletraz) 5,8M (74,8/91) - Heikki Kovalainen, Adrian Sutil
Liqui Target (andrew) 3,8M (77/63,8) - Scott Speed, Davide Valsecchi
Northgate Engineering (FMecha) 1,1M (63,4/61,3) - Oriol Servià (James Jakes as replacement), Yuji Ide
Vasquez Racing Team (SeedStriker) 3,6M (52,8/65,5) - José María López, Ernesto Viso
El Cártel Suramérica (Klon) 5,5M (69/64,7) - Pastor Maldonado, Nelson Merlo
Restov Racing (takagi_for_the_win) 1M (77,1/73,2) - Paul di Resta, Sebastien Loeb
Euromotor International (FantometteBR) 1,3M (83,1/89,2) - Nelson Philippe, Nelsinho Piquet
Atari Motorsports (Samster) 3,5M (85/85) - Kazuki Nakajima, Kohei Hirate
Hunter Autosport (peteroli34) 3,3M (76,7/82,3) - Robert Kubica, Sebastian Vettel

Drivers' money situation

Drivers are divided into paid drivers, low money drivers, medium money drivers and high money drivers. Included in the list are the 20 drivers who drove for top 11 teams in 2005, excluding Rosberg and Pantano who are not continuing in the series.

Paid drivers:
Allmendinger
Burti
Servia
Yoong

Low money drivers (max 0,5M):
Carroll
di Resta
Doornbos
Green
Hamilton
HWNSNBM
Kovalainen
Kubica

Medium money drivers (max 1M)
Filippi
Lopez
Mondini
Speed
Sutil
Winkelhock

High money drivers (max 2M)
Maldonado
Viso

andrew · Post by **andrew** » 22 Sep 2013, 20:07

Ill enter and retain Speed if possible

Shadaza · Post by **Shadaza** » 22 Sep 2013, 20:09

Ember racing will return.

We will replace both chassis (Though can this be done after preseason testing if there is wear during testing.) and spend 1 million on updating Minimum Speed.
I will not confirm either of my drivers.

Peteroli34 · Post by **Peteroli34** » 22 Sep 2013, 20:34

Is it possible that i can join the waiting list in case new teams dont enter or teams dont return

Samster · Post by **Samster** » 22 Sep 2013, 20:49

I will enter as Atari Motorsports. We will confirm our drivers later on but both will be from Japan.

Bleu · Post by **Bleu** » 22 Sep 2013, 21:07

Shadaza wrote:Ember racing will return.

We will replace both chassis (Though can this be done after preseason testing if there is wear during testing.) and spend 1 million on updating Minimum Speed.
I will not confirm either of my drivers.

Chassis wears during testing.

Scott Speed is confirmed for Liqui Target, giving them 0,8M.

takagi_for_the_win · Post by **takagi_for_the_win** » 22 Sep 2013, 21:21

Restov can confirm they will take part in the 2006 season of the GP2, and we will retain the services of Paul di Resta. We can also confirm that we have no intention whatsoever to run Mondini at any test or any stage of the season; some other team can be lumbered with the big Swiss waste of space

Post by **DemocalypseNow** » 22 Sep 2013, 22:44

SAC will return. However, does Maldonado's 2M mean he will pay us 2M in sponsorship? If so, we want him on our testing roster...

RonDenisDeletraz · Post by **RonDenisDeletraz** » 23 Sep 2013, 01:23

Vortex Racing will continue, and would like to retain both drivers

Post by **Ataxia** » 23 Sep 2013, 01:24

Aguila Automovilismo will be staying, however we wish to pursue a new driver lineup for 2006.

Bleu · Post by **Bleu** » 23 Sep 2013, 06:03

Stramala wrote:SAC will return. However, does Maldonado's 2M mean he will pay us 2M in sponsorship? If so, we want him on our testing roster...

It means he pays something between 1,1-2M. Also we have to wait El Cartel Suramerica's answer whether Maldonado is retained.

eurobrun wrote:Vortex Racing will continue, and would like to retain both drivers

Before pre-season testing you are allowed to retain just one driver. However you are allowed to test both and with two days against one, you are likely to have highest chance for the driver in 2006 (unless he performs badly for your team and well for other team(s))

FMecha · Post by **FMecha** » 23 Sep 2013, 06:14

Even that I won't be active on this thread, Northgate will stay. Servia is in our test-list.

pycku · Post by **pycku** » 23 Sep 2013, 06:24

As a reigning champions, DSR is willing to stay in the series for another year.
We are retaining the services of Lewis Hamilton as well.

As for updates - what is the difference between maximum performance and minimum performance as they seem to give equal bonus.

As for who will be our second driver - we have a huge list of possible drivers. However, AJ is highly unlikely to continue working with us. Once we have information about confirmed drivers by other teams, we will announce our preferences.

Bleu · Post by **Bleu** » 23 Sep 2013, 06:25

FMecha wrote:Even that I won't be active on this thread, Northgate will stay. Servia is in our test-list.

Test list or confirmation that he will drive for your team?

Bleu · Post by **Bleu** » 23 Sep 2013, 06:29

pycku wrote:As a reigning champions, DSR is willing to stay in the series for another year.
We are retaining the services of Lewis Hamilton as well.

As for updates - what is the difference between maximum performance and minimum performance as they seem to give equal bonus.

Without updates, the car performance is between -7 and +7.
With minimum performance update, the car performance is between -6 and +7.
With maximum performance update, the car performance is between -7 and +8.

RonDenisDeletraz · Post by **RonDenisDeletraz** » 23 Sep 2013, 06:31

Bleu wrote:
eurobrun wrote:Vortex Racing will continue, and would like to retain both drivers

Before pre-season testing you are allowed to retain just one driver. However you are allowed to test both and with two days against one, you are likely to have highest chance for the driver in 2006 (unless he performs badly for your team and well for other team(s))

I will confirm Kovalainen then

Bleu · Post by **Bleu** » 23 Sep 2013, 06:37

di Resta will bring 0,4M for Restov Racing
Hamilton will bring 0,3M for DSR Racing
Kovalainen will bring 0,3M for Vortex Racing

pycku · Post by **pycku** » 23 Sep 2013, 07:55

Bleu wrote:
Without updates, the car performance is between -7 and +7.
With minimum performance update, the car performance is between -6 and +7.
With maximum performance update, the car performance is between -7 and +8.

Then we transform our upgrade into minimum performance upgrade. We would like to invest 1 mln into maximum performance upgrade and 0.8 into pitstop crew.

SeedStriker · Post by **SeedStriker** » 23 Sep 2013, 11:34

VRT will continue for the next season wihtout changes in the driver lineup. We'll also start the season with 1M of upgrades

FMecha · Post by **FMecha** » 23 Sep 2013, 12:07

Bleu wrote:
FMecha wrote:Even that I won't be active on this thread, Northgate will stay. Servia is in our test-list.

Test list or confirmation that he will drive for your team?

Actually, make it the latter.

Bleu · Post by **Bleu** » 23 Sep 2013, 12:24

pycku wrote:
Bleu wrote:
Without updates, the car performance is between -7 and +7.
With minimum performance update, the car performance is between -6 and +7.
With maximum performance update, the car performance is between -7 and +8.

Then we transform our upgrade into minimum performance upgrade. We would like to invest 1 mln into maximum performance upgrade and 0.8 into pitstop crew.

Only one upgrade is allowed before Paul Ricard test. I assume you use maximum performance upgrade since pit crew doesn't help until the races start.

SeedStriker wrote:VRT will continue for the next season wihtout changes in the driver lineup. We'll also start the season with 1M of upgrades

As the case with Vortex Racing, only one driver can be retained before pre-season testing. Other driver can be retained after that. Also, with the new system, you have to state what updates do you want. Your team had two updates last season, and you can place them for two of the four possibilities (min performance, max performance, pit crew or reliability) with a maximum of one to each. With the second season starting, you can get second update for somewhere where you had one.

FMecha wrote:
Bleu wrote:
FMecha wrote:Even that I won't be active on this thread, Northgate will stay. Servia is in our test-list.

Test list or confirmation that he will drive for your team?

Actually, make it the latter.

He will request same 0,8M as in 2005.

Bleu · Post by **Bleu** » 23 Sep 2013, 20:11

Ember Racing's minimum speed upgrade was successful.

SeedStriker · Post by **SeedStriker** » 23 Sep 2013, 20:20

Bleu wrote:
SeedStriker wrote:VRT will continue for the next season wihtout changes in the driver lineup. We'll also start the season with 1M of upgrades

As the case with Vortex Racing, only one driver can be retained before pre-season testing. Other driver can be retained after that. Also, with the new system, you have to state what updates do you want. Your team had two updates last season, and you can place them for two of the four possibilities (min performance, max performance, pit crew or reliability) with a maximum of one to each. With the second season starting, you can get second update for somewhere where you had one.

In that case, Jose M. Lopez will be on the lineup for now.

As for the upgrades:
1M for Max performance
1M for Min performance

Post by **Ataxia** » 23 Sep 2013, 21:35

As I had two £1m upgrades last season, I just re-assign them? If yes, I'll put one on maximum performance, and one on minimum performance.

I'll consider purchasing another after testing.

Bleu · Post by **Bleu** » 24 Sep 2013, 07:15

SeedStriker wrote:
Bleu wrote:
SeedStriker wrote:VRT will continue for the next season wihtout changes in the driver lineup. We'll also start the season with 1M of upgrades

As the case with Vortex Racing, only one driver can be retained before pre-season testing. Other driver can be retained after that. Also, with the new system, you have to state what updates do you want. Your team had two updates last season, and you can place them for two of the four possibilities (min performance, max performance, pit crew or reliability) with a maximum of one to each. With the second season starting, you can get second update for somewhere where you had one.

In that case, Jose M. Lopez will be on the lineup for now.

As for the upgrades:
1M for Max performance
1M for Min performance

Lopez added to line-up, he'll bring 0,8M. As for the updates, I placed your last year's updates to min & max performance (this is free) but didn't do yet on this year. Remember only one update is allowed in each break.

FMecha · Post by **FMecha** » 24 Sep 2013, 14:20

Bleu, it's deal for Servia. And we'll take one performance upgrade. Any other drivers available?

Samster · Post by **Samster** » 24 Sep 2013, 19:47

Atari will sign Ryo Fukuda and Hayanari Shimoda.

Peteroli34 · Post by **Peteroli34** » 24 Sep 2013, 20:00

Should of course the lukas or any of the current teams not continue then my entry will be known as Hunter Autosport

roblo97 · Post by **roblo97** » 24 Sep 2013, 21:33

I can confirm that Rob Lomas Racing interested in entering the series

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Drivers
Kubica
HWNSNBM

Bleu · Post by **Bleu** » 25 Sep 2013, 06:24

Samster wrote:Atari will sign Ryo Fukuda and Hayanari Shimoda.

Driver signing period is not open yet, except for one re-signing for each existing team.

FMecha wrote:Bleu, it's deal for Servia. And we'll take one performance upgrade. Any other drivers available?

Which of the four categories and how much you will pay?

Post by **Ataxia** » 25 Sep 2013, 10:45

roblomas52 wrote:I can confirm that Rob Lomas Racing interested in entering the series

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Drivers
Kubica
HWNSNBM

Bleu wrote:Driver signing period is not open yet, except for one re-signing for each existing team.

Rob, you do the same thing every time. I'd love it if, just once, you actually read the rules.

Bleu · Post by **Bleu** » 25 Sep 2013, 10:50

Euromotor International and Yenerg Junior Team can stay in the series by stating the intention until September 27th and they have advantage over new teams from third onwards.

roblo97 · Post by **roblo97** » 25 Sep 2013, 13:57

Ataxia wrote:
roblomas52 wrote:I can confirm that Rob Lomas Racing interested in entering the series

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Drivers
Kubica
HWNSNBM

Bleu wrote:Driver signing period is not open yet, except for one re-signing for each existing team.

Rob, you do the same thing every time. I'd love it if, just once, you actually read the rules.

apart from the fact that I posted about 8 hours before Bleu did

Post by **Ataxia** » 25 Sep 2013, 15:27

roblomas52 wrote:
Ataxia wrote:
roblomas52 wrote:I can confirm that Rob Lomas Racing interested in entering the series

Edit
Drivers
Kubica
HWNSNBM

Bleu wrote:Driver signing period is not open yet, except for one re-signing for each existing team.

Rob, you do the same thing every time. I'd love it if, just once, you actually read the rules.

apart from the fact that I posted about 8 hours before Bleu did

He'd stated it before. Multiple times.

FantometteBR · Post by **FantometteBR** » 25 Sep 2013, 21:26

Euromotor International is intended to stay in the series

Klon · Post by **Klon** » 26 Sep 2013, 02:04

El Cartel Suramericana will continue and will continue with Pastor Maldonado and would like to pay 0.8m for a minimum performance update.

Bleu · Post by **Bleu** » 26 Sep 2013, 08:21

El Cartel Suramericana's request to retain Maldonado was too late. He is still available to test for the team for two days.

The Lukas had no message, so Hunter Autosport will take second new team spot.

12 teams now in the confirmed list. 13th is Celtic Tiger Racing if there is announcement, otherwise it's Euromotor International.

Post by **DemocalypseNow** » 26 Sep 2013, 10:49

SAC will use their two upgrade tokens on max performance and pit crew.

shinji · Post by **shinji** » 26 Sep 2013, 14:02

Sorry for the delay, Celtic Tiger Racing will confirm their entry if that's alright.

Bleu · Post by **Bleu** » 26 Sep 2013, 15:43

After we got the team list complete we can go on. Euromotor International and Yenerg Junior Team can enter the series again for 2007 season.

Test driver rules
* Each team may name between four and eight drivers for pre-season testing.
* If team names its 2005 drivers, they will automatically test for two days (so if the team is testing both its 2005 drivers, it has a maximum of six drivers. If the team tests just one of its 2005 drivers, it has a maximum of seven drivers.
* A driver participating the test must be eligible to race in 2006 (although not necessarily in the first race)
* A driver who didn't participate Alternate 2005 season and participated Bahrain Grand Prix 2006 is not eligible.
* Confirmed drivers (marked with asterisk* below) can test for one team
* Drivers who drove in 2005 Spa-Francorchamps race can test for three teams
* Other drivers may test for four teams

Test driver list:
DSR Racing: Lewis Hamilton*, Timo Glock, Alvaro Parente, Nelsinho Piquet, Bruno Senna, Adrian Sutil, Sebastian Vettel
Aguila Automovilismo Racing: Jan Charouz, Alx Danielsson, Timo Glock, Alvaro Parente, James Rossiter, Bruno Senna, Sebastian Vettel
Scuderia Alitalia Coloni: Alex Yoong, Michael Ammermüller, Loic Duval, Oliver Jarvis, Andre Lotterer, Alvaro Parente
Vortex Racing: Heikki Kovalainen*, Adrian Sutil, Kohei Hirate, Kamui Kobayashi, Nicolas Lapierre
Ember Racing: Jamie Green, Joao Paulo de Oliveira, Salvador Duran, Neel Jani, Oliver Jarvis, Andre Lotterer, Alexandre Premat
Liqui Target: Scott Speed*, Markus Winkelhock, Luca Filippi, Robert Kubica, Davide Valsecchi, Giedo van der Garde
Northgate Engineering: Oriol Servia*, Luca Filippi, Timo Glock, Yuji Ide, Robert Kubica, Sebastian Vettel
Vasquez Racing Team: Jose Maria Lopez*, Ernesto Viso, AJ Allmendinger, Jamie Green, Robert Kubica, Markus Winkelhock
El Cartel Suramerica: Pastor Maldonado, Lucas Benamo, Rodolfo Lavin, Nelson Merlo
Restov Racing: Paul di Resta*
Euromotor International: Nelson Philippe, Mike Conway, Lucas di Grassi, Mario Dominguez, Nelson Philippe, Nelsinho Piquet, Andy Soucek
Atari Motorsports:
Hunter Autosport: Lucas di Grassi, Timo Glock, Robert Kubica, Katherine Legge, Vitaly Petrov, Alexandre Prémat, Ho-Pin Tung, Sebastian Vettel

Drivers with two or more teams:
Timo Glock (4)
Sebastian Vettel (4)
Robert Kubica (4)
Alvaro Parente (3)
Alexandre Premat (3)
Andre Lotterer (3)
Adrian Sutil (2/3)
Jamie Green (2/3)
Markus Winkelhock (2/3)
Bruno Senna (2)
Kamui Kobayashi (2)
Loic Duval (2)
Luca Filippi (2)
Lucas di Grassi (2)
Neel Jani (2)
Nelsinho Piquet (2)
Oliver Jarvis (2)

About updates:
Celtic Tiger Racing, Liqui Target and Restov Racing still need to state where they put the single 2005 updates. (min performance, max performance, pit crew, reliability)

Northgate Engineering needs to state which update they use for 2006.

DSR Racing's maximum performance update was not successful.