2020 Asian F4- Preseason Testing Up!

This Could Be You · Post by **This Could Be You** » 02 Feb 2018, 16:59

Asian F4's back for a second season, and with a shiny new logo:

FIA Asian F4 Championship
This series is unsurprisingly rather similar to the other GP2-based F4 series; The weekends will be run as double-headers, with two quali sessions (with a 28-car field, two won't qualify per race) and races, while the points system, injury rulings and penalty points while be run identically to Simtek's Anglo-Irish series in 2020, and this series last year.

Calendar
1. Yaname Electronics F4 Round of Suzuka 18th/19th April
2. JAF F4 Round of Fuji Speedway 16th/17th May
3. Pertamina F4 Round of Sentul 13th/14th June
4. Petronas F4 Round of Sepang 4th/5th July
5. F4 Round of Twin Ring Motegi (Road) 25th/26th July
6. Autobacs F4 Round of Autopolis 8th/9th August
7. Panasonic F4 Round of SUGO 30th/31st August
8. Sprite F4 Round of Pearl River 26th/27th September
9. F4 Round of Marina Bay 3rd/4th October
10. Casio F4 Round of Okayama 17th/18th October
Cars:
All 14 teams will be running Dome F110 F4 chassis with 1.6L TOM's Toyota engines, with no setup variation, as in 2019. Liveries can be either supplied by the teams or I can make them myself, based on a colour scheme and sponsors provided (although please keep them relatively simple, this is GP2 we're talking about here!)

Drivers:

The driver requirements for Asian F4 have been tweaked for 2020, as a result of both complaints last year and FIA rulings- drivers must be aged 15-21 and have no experience of higher categories than F4 (barring special cases of drivers moving series too early which are handled at the discretion of me, the organiser). Asian or Australasian drivers are heavily preferred for this series, unless you can convincingly argue why your driver is competing in Asia. Real-life drivers are also allowed provided they meet the prior requirements, with their signing decided by RNG if there are multiple bids
There will be two driver tests in 2020- a pre-season test for drivers entering for a second year, and a mid-season test which all drivers can attend. Both are optional, but these tests can be used by teams to improve the performance of their drivers in one of three areas- Quali Pace, Race Pace or Consistency- by up to 15%, with the extent of this improvement decided by RNG

Teams:
There will be 14 teams in the series, each fielding two cars. These teams must be based in Asia or failing that, Oceania (as there is no "Tasman F4" yet), although entries based in the former continent will be preferred in the case of over-subscription.

Race numbers are decided by the teams, and can be from 2-99, with the exception of K-Apex, who can also choose #1 due to having won the championship with Kwon Sung-Tae in 2019. In the case of two teams choosing the same number, whoever posted first gets to have it, unless an agreement is made between the two users to the contrary.

Entry List:

Kubota United Nippon Team (Wizzie)
#73 Kane Shepard
#74 Ben Grimes

Red Dragon Junior Team (CarloSpace)
#38 Xu Shiqing
#39 Mo Shuren

Team Mecha Racing Jr. (FMecha)
#11 Rudiartono
#12 Sakura Sekai

Fujibayashi Racing Team Juniors (Gonzalez)
#33 Kurumi Fujibayashi
#34 Atsushi Koizumi

Korea Motorsport Holdings (V8fan12)
#19 Seong-Jin Cho
#88 Aggi Dilimanto

Luxray Engineering (RealRacingRoots)
#27 Kosuke Setou
#28 Isyraf Danish

Tsujimura Scuderia (novitopoli)
#80 Satoshi Murakami
#81 Hatsune Miyazaki

Aspire Formula (pinkd56)
#21 Omar Aswat
#22 Hamda al Qubaisi

Khmer Racing Organisation (Normal32)
#17 Saloth Vichara
#18 Khieu Banh

TATA Racing Academy (Reject_Dom)
#55 Kush Maini
#56 Sanjay Singh

Houkago Race Time (Racing Heart)
#67 Mitsuru Asahira
#76 Akie Konoe

St. George Racing Alliance (takagi_for_the_win)
#7 Yuki Usami
#8 Ryoma Kamada

AirAsia Magnum Petronas Team Malaysia (Gertrand Bachot)
#49 Nazim Azman
#50 Muizzuddin Gafar

Spark Team Black (aggi)
#3 Liam Lawson
#4 Amara Singh

TBA (Bandon23)
#TBA TBA
#TBA TBA

Waiting List
1. Bandon23 (applied 03/02/18 at 6:21PM GMT)
2. Dexter249 (applied 03/02/18 at 10:37PM GMT)
3. TomDilain (applied 19/02/18 at 1:39PM GMT)
4. AcesCalifornia (applied 10/06/18 at 1:40PM BST)
5. John Rafael (applied 12/06/18 at 1:43PM BST)

Dom_Wings · Post by **Dom_Wings** » 02 Feb 2018, 17:02

I'd like to sign up into the waiting list.

Normal32 · Post by **Normal32** » 02 Feb 2018, 17:06

I too will enter the waiting list.

CarloSpace · Post by **CarloSpace** » 02 Feb 2018, 17:25

Red Dragon Junior Team will continue to develop Chinese talent in F4.

Pinkd56 · Post by **Pinkd56** » 02 Feb 2018, 17:41

ASPIRE will continue to make the slog over to the Far East.

Racing Heart · Post by **Racing Heart** » 02 Feb 2018, 17:42

I apply for a spot on the waiting list.

pasta_maldonado · Post by **pasta_maldonado** » 02 Feb 2018, 19:32

Eastern Racing Alliance will not return for 2020, after a lack of success in 2019 eliminated our budget.

I thought the series was excellently run, but I thought seen as I have a large enough canon presence I may as well let someone else have a go.

takagi_for_the_win · Post by **takagi_for_the_win** » 02 Feb 2018, 19:39

May I pls also go on the waiting list?

Post by **Ataxia** » 02 Feb 2018, 19:46

I won't be returning for 2020, and thanks for accommodating me!

Gertrand Bachot · Post by **Gertrand Bachot** » 02 Feb 2018, 19:48

May I also go on the waiting list, and do any of the races clash with the ELMS series?

This Could Be You · Post by **This Could Be You** » 02 Feb 2018, 19:54

Gertrand Bachot wrote:May I also go on the waiting list, and do any of the races clash with the ELMS series?

I can't be sure if any of the rounds clash with ELMS, as I haven't decided on the rounds, but I reckon at least one will to be honest

V8fan12 · Post by **V8fan12** » 02 Feb 2018, 20:09

Korea Motorsport Holdings will be back in 2020

Post by **DemocalypseNow** » 02 Feb 2018, 20:26

Rather than form my own team, I'd like to ask Regenmeister94 if he'd be willing to go 50/50 on his team, with a specific purpose.

I would propose the name is shifted to K-Apex Unity Formula, with North Korean starlet Joo-Woon Song placed in one of the seats. The team would run under the Korean Unification Flag, hopefully with a South Korean driver in the other seat.

If Regenmeister94 passes on this proposal, then Song will consider offers from other teams.

This Could Be You · Post by **This Could Be You** » 02 Feb 2018, 20:49

DemocalypseNow wrote:Rather than form my own team, I'd like to ask Regenmeister94 if he'd be willing to go 50/50 on his team, with a specific purpose.

I would propose the name is shifted to K-Apex Unity Formula, with North Korean starlet Joo-Woon Song placed in one of the seats. The team would run under the Korean Unification Flag, hopefully with a South Korean driver in the other seat.

If Regenmeister94 passes on this proposal, then Song will consider offers from other teams.

I thought I'd signed Song for Asian F3? Otherwise that plan would be viable is Regemeister94 agrees

Normal32 · Post by **Normal32** » 02 Feb 2018, 21:08

Autosport Japan wrote:Cambodian F4 team confirms entry into Asian series

A new team, Khmer Racing Organization, is expected to enter, the first ever Cambodian team on the series.

Team principal Hun Sar said in a press release at Phnom Penh;

"We are very happy to finally do justice for the Khmer people and country on motorsport. We will make sure that they won't be ashamed of it either."

TomDilain · Post by **TomDilain** » 02 Feb 2018, 21:50

Waiting list, please

aggi · Post by **aggi** » 02 Feb 2018, 21:52

I'd like to be added to the waiting list

Dom_Wings · Post by **Dom_Wings** » 02 Feb 2018, 22:04

I will run the TATA Racing Academy, in order to promote Indian racing talent.

novitopoli · Post by **novitopoli** » 02 Feb 2018, 22:16

Tsujimura Scuderia will return in 2020.

RealRacingRoots · Post by **RealRacingRoots** » 03 Feb 2018, 08:43

All right lets keep going with Luxray..

Gonzalez · Post by **Gonzalez** » 03 Feb 2018, 17:16

The Fujibayashi family will return to the grid this season

Bandon23 · Post by **Bandon23** » 03 Feb 2018, 18:21

I'll go for waiting list.

Dexter249 · Post by **Dexter249** » 03 Feb 2018, 22:37

I will join the list as well.

Peteroli34 · Post by **Peteroli34** » 04 Feb 2018, 20:33

Narita Engineering will not continue into 2020

Racing Heart · Post by **Racing Heart** » 06 Feb 2018, 16:00

Houkago Race Time is an upcoming driver academy which currently runs in the ST-5 and ST-4 categories of Super Taikyu with a Honda Fit and S2000 respectively. They aim to use F4 and hopefully F3 as a platform for which to eventually launch drivers into the penultimate step of Asian GT racing, the PES Group 2 class. The name is a recurring theme and in-joke where many of the team personnel and drivers are from various universities in Osaka and Nagoya.

Drivers for this season are ST-5 'graduate' Yui Hashimoto (born November 27, 2003) and national karting regular Mitsuru Asahina (born August 8th, 2004).

aggi · Post by **aggi** » 07 Feb 2018, 00:51

Yo, an Indonesian driver Aggi Dilimanto (2004/04/04) is looking for a seat. He'll bring sponsors but don't worry, you don't have to change your team name with 'Jagonya Ayam' thingy.

FMecha · Post by **FMecha** » 07 Feb 2018, 01:50

Team Mecha will continue to this season.

TomWazzleshaw · Post by **TomWazzleshaw** » 11 Feb 2018, 08:56

Having been sensationally dumped by Calsonic in the off-season, our team will return under the new banner of Kubota United Nippon Team

This Could Be You · Post by **This Could Be You** » 19 Feb 2018, 12:00

Erm, I've just realised I kind of forgot my own deadline ( :facepalm:

) so seeing as it's already past, it's time to finalise the team lineup:

As their respective users have not responded in time, Nakamura Motors, Team Rising Sun and most sensationally last year's champions K-Apex will not return for 2020, along with Dandelion Racing, Eastern Racing Alliance and Narita Engineering whose users declined to continue. This means that the Khmer Racing Organisation, TATA Racing Academy and Houkago Race Time, as well as as-yet-unnamed teams by takagi_for_the_win, Gertrand Bachot and TomDilain will make their Asian F4 debuts.

Now we can move on to driver signings and liveries- I have provided a form below to make this process as simple as possible:

Code: Select all

Team Name:
User:
Livery/Sponsors: (provide a link if self-made)
Numbers (2-99): 
Driver 1: 
Driver 1 DOB: 
Driver 1 DEC (if fictional): 
Driver 2:
Driver 2 DOB:
Driver 2 DEC (if fictional):

The template for the F4 car (and its carshape, if you want to test it in GP2) is here, although of course if you can't or don't want to design your own livery, you can simply give a description of your colour scheme and sponsors (if any...) in the form.

Dom_Wings · Post by **Dom_Wings** » 19 Feb 2018, 13:09

Team Name: TATA Racing Academy
User: Reject_Dom
Livery/Sponsors: Similar to this, please
Numbers (2-99): 55-56
Driver 1: Kush Maini
Driver 1 DOB: Sep 22, 2000
Driver 2: Sanjay Singh
Driver 2 DOB: Mar 30, 2003
Driver 2 DEC (if fictional): Reject_Dom

TomDilain · Post by **TomDilain** » 19 Feb 2018, 13:39

Can I stay on the waiting list this year? Pass the slot to the next person, please?

This Could Be You · Post by **This Could Be You** » 19 Feb 2018, 14:39

TomDilain wrote:Can I stay on the waiting list this year? Pass the slot to the next person, please?

I'm not sure why you'd do that, but sure- however, you will be third on the waiting list, seeing as you are essentially quitting the series and reapplying. This means aggi now has a team for 2020

In other news, here's the TATA Racing Academy livery:

Gertrand Bachot · Post by **Gertrand Bachot** » 19 Feb 2018, 18:09

Magnum Petronas Team Malaysia (is 3 sponsors OK?) is a new Malaysian motor racing squad designed to promote the latest and greatest Malaysian talent in open-wheel racing, first in F4 and in a couple of years F3, and have sought some European help from ex-F1 driver Silvio Bachot (who offered his input at a meeting during his visit to the Okayama Circuit during the 2019 F1 Japanese Grand Prix) and will be using the team as a launching pad for his own racing teams and we will be using these drivers:

Team Name: Magnum Petronas Team Malaysia
User: GertrandBachot
Livery/Sponsors: I will put the livery up when I finish it and the sponsors are AirAsia, Magnum and Petronas
Numbers (2-99): 49-50
Driver 1: Isyraf Danish, failing that we’ll take Nazim Azman
Driver 1 DOB: 19/2/2001 (17/8/2001)
Driver 2: Muizzudin Gafar
Driver 2 DOB: ?

Gonzalez · Post by **Gonzalez** » 19 Feb 2018, 18:48

Sakura Sekai will be released from Fujibayashi but she's still interested in racing with another team here.

User: Gonzalez
Livery/Sponsors: Same as before
Numbers (2-99): Same as before
Driver 1: Kurumi Fujibayashi
Driver 1 DOB: 28/04/2004
Driver 1 DEC (if fictional): Me
Driver 2: TBA
Driver 2 DOB: TBA
Driver 2 DEC (if fictional): TBA

Normal32 · Post by **Normal32** » 19 Feb 2018, 19:43

Team Name: Khmer Racing Organization
User: Normal32
Livery/Sponsors: A red car with a yellow Angkor Wat, NBC.
Numbers (2-99): 17-18
Driver 1: Saloth Vichara
Driver 1 DOB: 19/05/2005
Driver 1 DEC (if fictional): Normal32
Driver 2: Khieu Banh
Driver 2 DOB: 27/07/2005
Driver 2 DEC (if fictional): Normal32

CarloSpace · Post by **CarloSpace** » 19 Feb 2018, 20:23

Team Name: Red Dragon Junior Team
User: CarloSpace
Livery/Sponsors: Same as last season:

This Could Be You wrote:here's the Red Dragon livery

Numbers (2-99): 38 & 39
Driver 1: Xu Shiqing
Driver 1 DOB: 13th August 2003
Driver 1 DEC (if fictional): CarloSpace
Driver 2: TBA, must be Chinese

This Could Be You · Post by **This Could Be You** » 19 Feb 2018, 20:57

Here's the Khmer livery (To make it look less like the Red Dragon but with a different political symbol, I've been fairly inventive with the Angkor Wat placement, inspired by the 2006-08 Toro Rosso livery):

aggi · Post by **aggi** » 20 Feb 2018, 03:56

Team Name: Spark Black Racing Team (NZL)
User: aggi
Livery/Sponsors: All black car, with silver fern symbol on both sides of the upper/engine cover. Sponsors: Spark New Zealand (main), Air New Zealand
Numbers (2-99): #3, #4
Driver 1: Liam Lawson (NZL)
Driver 1 DOB: February 11, 2002
Driver 2: Amara Singh (NZL)
Driver 2 DOB: February 14, 2005
Driver 2 DEC (if fictional): me aka aggi

V8fan12 · Post by **V8fan12** » 20 Feb 2018, 10:13

Team Name: Korea Motorsport Holdings
User: V8fan12
Livery/Sponsors: Korean Air, FILA, Hankook Tires (Livery to use the South Korea flag colours)
Numbers (2-99): 18, 88
Driver 1: Seong-Jin Cho
Driver 1 DOB: 19 July 2003
Driver 1 DEC (if fictional): Me
Driver 2: Aggi Dilimanto
Driver 2 DOB: 4 April 2004
Driver 2 DEC (if fictional): Aggi (permission pending)

aggi · Post by **aggi** » 20 Feb 2018, 14:12

V8fan12 wrote:Team Name: Korea Motorsport Holdings
User: V8fan12
Livery/Sponsors: Korean Air, FILA, Hankook Tires (Livery to use the South Korea flag colours)
Numbers (2-99): 18, 88
Driver 1: Seong-Jin Cho
Driver 1 DOB: 19 July 2003
Driver 1 DEC (if fictional): Me
Driver 2: Aggi Dilimanto
Driver 2 DOB: 4 April 2004
Driver 2 DEC (if fictional): Aggi (permission pending)

I accept this offer.