Grand Prix Rejects

Arrows to take it to the Max? Now that Arrows has handed two starts each to rookie drivers Tom Coronel and Max Wilson, rumour has suggested that the Leafield squad will renege on its initial decision to hand Coronel the default "number two" seat and instead put Wilson alongside Pedro de l...

Collective test 1, Imola Jacques back on top in Imola test 1997 Formula 1 World Champion Jacques Villeneuve led the way in the first of four collective F1 tests following the San Marino Grand Prix at Imola, setting a 1m22.413s in the morning session in his Mecachrome-powered Winfield Williams car. ...

Round 4 - San Marino Grand Prix - 26 April, 1998 Qualifying https://i.imgur.com/cfzAvWs.png Race McLaren's Dario Franchitti converted an unfancied two-stop strategy into his maiden Formula 1 victory, overtaking Michael Schumacher on-track ahead of the Ferrari driver's retirement. Franchitti, on cou...

Why don't they cover the multitude of online racing series? There have been some interesting headlines there, particularly including Lando Norris (positive), and Kyle Larson (not so positive...) The readership demographic for the magazine is in an older age bracket compared to the website, so it wo...

Round 3 - Argentine Grand Prix - 12th April 1998 Qualifying https://i.imgur.com/2oRhYb5.png Race Michael Schumacher put in a masterclass performance at Buenos Aires, recovering from a first-lap scuffle with Dario Franchitti to streak to a famous Argentine Grand Prix victory. Starting from pole, Sch...

The first of four mid-season tests will take place after the race at Imola. Each test costs: £250k for minimal running £500k for light running £750k for medium running £1m for heavy running Spending more increases your chances of making large performance improvements, but also increases the chance o...

Ah, sorry! Can we offer Otto Rensing and Ellen Lohr the seat for Hockenheim? Highest bidder gets it.

Because I want to get the carset working sometime over the weekend, I'll give Ataxia until 12pm on Saturday to get his bids in - else I'll just give him someone who hasn't been signed by another team. Oh bollocks, sorry! Team: Wood Bros. Racing: 1) Ricky Rudd 2) Kyle Petty 3) Mark Martin 4) Bill El...

Round 2 - Brazilian Grand Prix - 29th March, 1998 Qualifying Positions 1-12 Positions 13-26 Race Ferrari's Michael Schumacher converted a brave one-stop strategy at the Brazilian Grand Prix, beating Formula 1 newcomer Dario Franchitti to victory at Interlagos. Schumacher ran a contrary strategy to ...

Round 1 - Australian Grand Prix - 8th March, 1998 Qualifying https://i.imgur.com/DrixnVl.png Race Giancarlo Fisichella clinched the Australian Grand Prix victory in his Formula 1 debut for Ferrari, assuming the lead late on in the race as long-time leader Michael Schumacher hit trouble. Schumacher ...

CarloSpace wrote:Put me down on the reserve list, thanks!

Wizzie wrote:For the purposes of popping the crowd, would it be possible to run Max Wilson in the 2nd Arrows for the Brazilian and Argentine races in place of Coronel?

Yes to both!

Still a little performance tweaking needed, but here's a test: Barcelona collective pre-season test 1. Michael Schumacher (Ferrari) - 1m21.357s 2. Greg Moore (McLaren-Mercedes) - +0.122s 3. Dario Franchitti (McLaren-Mercedes) - +0.470s 4. Heinz-Harald Frentzen (Williams-Mecachrome) - +0.733s 5. Gian...

User name: Rembrandt Q. Einstein
Team 1: Wood Brothers Racing
Team 2: Richard Childress Racing
Team 3: All-Star Racing

PART TWO: Electric Bidgaloo David Coulthard Lola 1st choice / Driver 1 / £10M (1-60) Heads Stateside to swap with Dario Franchitti (61-100) 89! Lola does not sign Coulthard. Ralf Schumacher Stewart 1st choice / Driver 2 / £6M (1-60) Lola 2nd choice / Driver 1 / £8M (61-100) 46! Schumacher links up ...

Jean-Marc Gounon 1-10: Can't find the extra money for the repair 11-60: Moves up to the next paydriver amount (£50,000 for the remaining 10 races including Monza) 61-90: Moves up two paydriver amounts (£100,000 for the remaining 10 races including Monza) 91-100: Flips out at the request and walks o...

Driver Bids! Jacques Villeneuve Bids: Williams 1st choice / Driver 1 / £12M (1-75) Benetton 3rd choice / Driver 1 / £11M (76-100) 46! Villeneuve remains with Williams. Michael Schumacher Bids: Ferrari 1st choice / Driver 1 / £15M (1-70) Benetton 1st choice / Driver 1 / £15M (71-100) 33! Schumacher ...

F1 Livery Histories wrote:Looking forward to seeing Tyrrell-Peugeot.

On another note, Ataxia what program do you happen to use to sim the racing here?

I'll be using the venerable old GP2 to run this.

Thanks for the bids, RedEyes - I'll sort them this evening.

Rather than wait, let's get going - starting with engine bids: Ferrari 046 Sauber (100%) (this isn't XCOM, I don't need to roll this) Mercedes McLaren (100%) Ford VJ Stewart (100%) Mugen-Honda (x2) Williams / £17m (25%) / 1-25 Dome / £15m (15%) / 26-40 Jordan / £15.4m (18%) / 41-58 Prost / £20m (24%...

Thanks all - just waiting on Minardi and we'll get the ball rolling with bids.

All teams are occupied - Gertrand, you're first reserve. Next up, here's all the stuff: THE BIG SPREADSHEET Drivers - You need to sign a 1st driver, 2nd driver and test driver. - You may bid at the base value as a minimum, but increasing your bid increases your chances - Bid for three drivers per se...

Folks, it's back. Although it was a little-remembered series that died about five years ago, the current situation means I've got some time to run a series like this all again. We ended in mid-'98 last time out, but this time I'll start from scratch. At the moment, all you need to do is pick a team ...

I forgot I was in this!

Let's fix Gounon's bloody car, on the proviso that he gets on the phone and rustles up some more sponsors.

I couldn't give a rat's arse whether it's the shortest path - I was going for a) most interesting and b) longest span over time... 1. Chabiwali Pocket Watch: m 2. Urdu: m 3. Indo-European languages m 4. Dacian language: m 5. Roxolani: m 6. Volga: m 7. Huns: m 8. Battle of the Catalaunian Plains: m 9...

Toro Rosso buys the parts, meaning that it doesn't have to expend resources developing its own for relatively little laptime yield. The STR14 rear end is largely the same as Red Bull's last year, and so it's a proven and reliable set of components. It can then pump that money, time and people into ...

Toro Rosso buys the parts, meaning that it doesn't have to expend resources developing its own for relatively little laptime yield. The STR14 rear end is largely the same as Red Bull's last year, and so it's a proven and reliable set of components. It can then pump that money, time and people into c...

It's been an Hour since the race ended and there has been no sign of this topic... 2- The Stewards. They knew about Leclerc's car since he left the garage so why not deal with it either before or during the race. There wasn't a lot to do this time around... EDIT- I stand by this. It could have been...

Not much rejectfulness IMO this week so..... 2.) Max Verstappen - But not for the reason you may think. KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT LAD! You are the only reason the stewards even bothered to look into the matter in Q3. Just do what Lewis does to the officials, lie! Its not rocket science! Not exactly true...

Robert Kubica, for telling an absolutely whopping dose of porkies.

That wing was never supposed to be used in the race, it was always a test item. Robert's just trying to save face.

To purely nip any speculation in the bud, it's just print that's closing. MN/F1R might find buyers, which I really hope they do, but otherwise the presses will be turned off at some point. We don't know when, though. I'd ask you not to speculate too heavily, especially when we ourselves don't know w...

If they make the 2021 grid I'll freeze my own urine into a popsicle and eat it.

1. Virtual Safety Car . Gifted the race to Mercedes and Hamilton. Pitting under VSC is such an utterly broken system which needs sorting before 2020. 2. Ferrari . Spent most of the race eagerly trying to gift-wrap it for Hamilton. What a shite day. If the boot was on the other foot and Leclerc had ...

We believe Latifi signed for Williams over the Italian GP weekend, so Alfa seems like the only opportunity. But as Ferrari has jurisdiction over the second seat, it might be hard to get Hulkenberg in.

Honestly, this has been the toughest weekend. I'm so lucky to get to do what I do, but after Saturday I just wanted to go home and spend the evening crying. But the show must go on. Thankfully, the race was good. Thankfully Leclerc won. And thankfully, everyone has been there for each other in this ...

I prefer ours

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VU9GjWtpB6s

Naturally, Red Bull/Toro Rosso have data on all three of Kvyat, Albon and Gasly. Clearly, they figured that Albon might represent enough of a step up over Gasly to be a legitimate candidate for next year's seat. One wonders if Kvyat was offered the chance, but decided to stick with Toro Rosso for st...

Nuppiz wrote:Just noticed our anti-spam question was very out of date... updated it now.

Whatever you've changed it to, there's a lovely long line of Russian spam queuing up to get involved...

The Williams looks like a FW13B with a different air intake slapped on. No idea what the McLaren is, but I'm willing to bet it's something crap from circa 1987/88 with a few bodywork amendments.

I've only just noticed that Jake Hughes in still Formula 3. It's his 4th season at F3 / GP3 level and he's 25. How he is still doing this? He should be looking to get a GT drive because won't be progressing much further in single-seaters at his age. HWA have him in to a) give the team a bit of dire...

Here's a ponder: remember at the start of last season, when F1 announced it was getting theme music and everyone was like "why on earth does F1 need a theme song?". What's your thoughts on it now? Is it still far too gratuitous or has it just become part of the F1 experience? I was on the ...

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Ataxia wrote:

Not related to this, but 'taking the form of a terrier's ears sweeping backwards in a strong summer's breeze' made me choke on my lunch.

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