Grand Prix Rejects

Ciaran

I don't speak French, so I'm not sure if this scanned copy of L'Equipe about Life contains anything that wasn't already covered by the old site.

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Aw crap, that's us done for at our home race.

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7 September https://i.imgur.com/q3RzPO7.png What should have been yet another Lamborghini lockout of pre-qualifying was spoiled as Aguri Suzuki broke his suspension on only his second timed lap, after braking too late for the Variante della Roggia he ended up spinning the car into the barriers at t...

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24 August Onyx Odyssey is Over For 26 Grands Prix, the Onyx team have tried their hand at the premier level of open-wheel racing, and have collapsed in acrimony after a dispute between co-owners Peter Monteverdi and Karl Foitek. Monteverdi, being the largest shareholder, managed to get FISA to appr...

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10 August Just as the F1 circus was unpacking its bags in a newly-democratic Hungary, Camel announced that they would be ending their sponsorship of Lotus by the end of the season. Not surprising when you consider they're stuck in pre-qualifying, in fact it's more surprising that they've stuck with...

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27 July The unhappy marriage between Subaru and Coloni has remained for the time being, with Enzo Coloni resorting to the Italian courts to force Subaru to stay so he could keep both of his cars in the main qualifying session. It's likely that Subaru will only do the bare minimum to keep Coloni sup...

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13 July Friday the 13th lived up to its reputation for one team - the woefully slow Coloni. Subaru announced that it wanted to withdraw their support for the team as a result of 15 out of a possible 16 DNQs. Within minutes, Peter Monteverdi, co-owner of Onyx, demanded that FISA demote Coloni to pre...

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6 July Adrian Newey's parting gift for Leyton House was ready as Formula One returned across the Atlantic to Europe. For Alesi, Bernard, Donnelly and Pirro, they would be returning to the site of their F1 debut, but this would be F1's last trip to Le Castellet. From 1991, the French Grand Prix will...

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Driver RNG Motoharu Kurosawa Kurosawa has rejected a Kojima drive already, so he is wary about accepting the Mitsuoka bid. 1-60 Mitsuoka 61-100 Rejects 97! - Kurosawa decides Formula One is not for him, and stays in Japan. Goddammit Gan-san! *ahem* I mean, we at Mitsuoka regret Kurosawa-san's decli...

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Jesus, how many times has the idea of an orange McLaren been suggested on here and now it could be becoming a reality? What a time to be alive. Wait, orange ? Who's the title sponsor? Trump? You say that like Donald Trump being the title sponsor of some low-budget new American privateer Formula One...

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Yeah, quite a few ex-F1 cars have ended up in Interserie. A quick look tells me that was taken from the 1995 Interserie race at Most in the Czech Republic, which also featured a Jordan 191, a Footwork FA12 & FA13 and a Minardi M190.

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Just to reiterate what I said in the IRC channel a few minutes ago, Mitsuoka would like to offer a seat to Motoharu Kurosawa.

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22 June In the week leading up to the Mexican GP, Leyton House confirmed that they had made mistakes in their calculations when designing their 1990 challenger. Adrian Newey, who was getting ready to leave for pastures yellower and bluer at Williams, penned a corrective package ready for the French...

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8 June http://i.imgur.com/5Awa2We.png The only Ford-powered car to reach the main qualifying session on Saturday was Grouillard, thanks to his Osella's Pirelli tyres. The extra power of the Lamborghini V12s meant that the Cosworth DFRs and Neotech L3570s ("L" because it was the 12th lette...

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24 May http://i.imgur.com/XuKyOph.png Olivier Grouillard struck back after a poor effort at Imola, setting a time that would have been good enough for FOURTH on Saturday! Donnelly would once again scrape through as the sole Lamborghini-powered driver, behind the Ligier duo. Meanwhile, Volker Weidle...

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After a lengthy spring break, Formula One has returned and the European leg of the season is underway. Riccardo Patrese has returned after sitting out the Brazilian GP due to a concussion sustained while trying to qualify for the US GP. Emanuele Pirro is another returnee at Tyrrell after a bout of h...

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I hope nobody minds me bumping this thread, I figured it's a more appropriate place for all the talk of Manor going into administration.

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23 March There was no sign of Patrese in the paddock for the weekend, as instead Williams called up someone with experience in filling in for them. No, not John-Louis Schlesser, instead it was Martin Brundle, who had some time to kill before the World Sportscar Championship got underway. For the fi...

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Just out of curiosity, what would happen if all eligible contenders retired from the Grand Final? I'm almost certain that's never happened, but if it did, would the title have gone to the last man standing?

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Wow. Who knew Pacific were so rubbish that they couldn't even score any points in 1994?

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That is a perfect livery for K-Apex. I couldn't possibly improve on that.

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Here's the K-Apex livery (it's bit sparse in terms of logos; does K-Apex itself have one, or any sponsors for that matter?): https://s23.postimg.org/n2v2dlnx7/f4rm94.jpg TBH, I haven't thought of any sponsors. I thought that in this universe the major Korean companies like LG, Samsung and Hyundai c...

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Dammit, I messed up my livery attempt. Somehow the template shrank while I was editing it.

The car is meant to be blue with a white stripe running along the front nosecone and cockpit, and a white accent along the fin of the engine cover.

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Then there was the slghtly off-topic oddball of the Pau Grand Prix in 1938. It wasn't a deep field by any means, especially with Alfa Romeo's pre race withdrawal, but I feel it fits the topic anyway: peculiar circumstances allowing a straight battle between Caracciola/Lang's all conquering Mercedes...

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9 March, 1990 http://i.imgur.com/xn6Tiq9.png Grouillard, aided by his Pirelli-shod Osella, tops the session, followed by Donnelly with a lucky one-shot lap and the two Ligiers led by Alliot. Donnelly crashed out on his second flying lap, and faced a nervous 50 minutes of waiting to see if his time ...

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Updated entry with driver names:

Regenmeister94 wrote:Team Name: K-Apex
Nationality: South Korea
Numbers (2-99): 14, 15

Driver 1: Kwon Sung-tae (KOR)
Driver 1 DEC: Regenmeister94

Driver 2: Choi Seul-hae (KOR)
Driver 2 DEC: Regenmeister94

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Also Polaris will need to chose a number that's not 33, since that's used by Theodore, and get a driver for the second car. If Polaris and K-Apex don't provide new numbers by the 1/1 , they will be assigned random numbers. And if Polaris don't assign a driver by then, they will get Humbert Moyenmou...

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A few changes between the real 1989/90 off-season and this career mode's off-season: ⋅ Nelson Piquet has retired in disgrace after the revelations about his impaired depth perception. Benetton immediately cut off negotiations with him for the 1990 season. Instead, they've signed Roberto M...

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Team Name: K-Apex
Nationality: South Korea
Numbers (2-99): 14, 15

Driver 1: TBA
Driver 1 DEC:

Driver 2:TBA
Driver 2 DEC:

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I remember him mainly for that race (Singapore was it?) where he had an amusing crash and took Rosberg out as well because he couldn't avoid him. That'd be the 2012 Abu Dhabi GP. The hydraulics in Cucumberkayan's steering failed out of T14 (the first corner overlooking the yacht harbour), and Rosbe...

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At Team Impul, we prefer to take solace in Jann's 6th place at Dubai rather than dwell on three power unit failures out of six starts. Given that there were nine power unit failures in Putrajaya, four in Dubai (our only double finish so far) and five in Sao Paulo, reliability is a mere teething prob...

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Here at Mitsuoka we would like to enter the Soviet GP too, to get more money from our sponsors.

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Takahara has already been signed by Ligier for the Japanese Grand Prix. No he didn't... Indeed, it seems #PastaMaths strikes again. Takahara was requested by Ensign, not LIgier! What are you using to keep track of offers Pasta? Pencil and paper? Well, crap. TBH this morning I suddenly remembered Ak...

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You see, this is why I got Palmer fired from Tyrrell instead of Alboreto.

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Team: Mitsuoka (Japan)
Chassis: March 751
Engine: '75 Cosworth DFV

Races: Japan only

Name: Kunimitsu Takahashi
Wage: Tier 2 pay driver
Contract Length: Japan only

Name: Noritake Takahara
Wage: Tier 1 pay driver
Contract Length: Japan only

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1. Esteban Gutierrez, for his career-ending tantrum. Is anyone taking bets on Leclerc to take his seat in Abu Dhabi?
2. Pirelli, for their crap rain tyres.

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Team Name: K-Apex User: Regenmeister94 Nationality: South Korea Car Numbers: 11/111 ---- First Driver ---- Candidate: Ki-Hyun Song (ROK) (DEC owner: me, still awaiting confirmation) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ---- Second Driver ---- Candidate: TBA, offers welcome For your Second Driver It...

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Poor Artemio, he could have scored points in Monaco dammit!

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Team Name: K-Apex
User: Regenmeister94
Nationality: South Korea
Car Numbers: 11/111

---- First Driver ----
Candidate: Ki-Hyun Song (ROK) (DEC owner: me, still awaiting confirmation)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
---- Second Driver ----
Candidate: TBA, offers welcome

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Former F5000 driver Roberto Zayas would be interested in a ride in this series. K-Apex would be happy to have Roberto complete our line-up. BTW Racing Heart, when will we be allowed apply for sponsors? I'm assuming that since no-one else has asked for one, that it's being done after the cars get di...

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