1997 Rejects-1 Season: It's done

AxelP800 · Post by **AxelP800** » 02 Apr 2015, 15:26

New chassis generation, new engine generation, improved safety. Welcome to 1997!

Chassis list:
1993 Lola T93/30; 1993 Tyrrell 021
1994 Pacific PR01; 1994 Simtek S941; 1994 Lotus 109
1995 Forti FG01
No 1996 cars due to mod compatibility

Entry template:
Team's name (Country) (User)
D1 #n:
D2 #n (if 2 cars):
Test driver/reserve (if any)
Chassis: Your preferred chassis. As in 1994, I will see how many people applied entry then sorted out the chassis allocations
Budget: Currently still use the post-season 1996 with upkeep cost counted. There will be some budget increase for the team who completed 1996, but it all depends on the option (like 1 car, 2 cars, upgrades) which will be sorted later.

1996 teams please confirm your entry or your decision

Entry list

HURT Racing (AUS) (simonracer)
D1 #47: Sam Pritchard
TD/R:
Chassis: 1994 Lotus 109
Budget: 1235 AUD

Foxhound Life (GBR) (Shizuka)
D1 #44: Pjotr Madunochev (RUS)
TD/R: Sergej madunochev (RUS)
Chassis: 1994 Lotus 109
Budget: 315 AUD

Ursus Racing (ICE) (The Dutch Bear)
D1 #5: Fidrik Arnason (ICE)
D2 #25: Algernon Bell (USA)
TD/R: Anna Gunnarsdottir (ICE)
Chassis: 1994 Pacific PR01
Budget: 4055 AUD

Hunter Autosport (GBR) (peteroli34)
D1 #36: Deanna McMahon (GBR)
D2 #37: Thomas Day (GBR)
TD/R: Goker Peynirci (TUR)
Chassis: 1994 Lotus 109
Budget: 1120 AUD

Rockets to Russia (USA) (tristan1117)
D1 #35:
D2 #53:
TD/R :
Chassis:
Budget: 17470 AUD

Northgate Engineering (USA) (FMecha)
D1 #11: Patrick Boon (USA)
TD/R:
Chassis: 1995 Forti FG01
Budget: 4985 AUD

Blokkmonsta Racing (GER) (CaptainGetz12)
D1 #0: Shad Griffth (USA)
TD/R:
Chassis: 1995 Forti FG01
Budget: 5455 AUD

Viação Inter Municipal Dadinho Almeida (V.I.D.A.) (BRA) (FantometteBR)
D1 #333: Julio Vaca (BOL)
D2 #444: Joaquim Alcantara (POR)
TD/R: Pierre Abbleggen (SWI)/Cleide do Nascimento (BRA)
Chassis: 1994 Simtek S941
Budget: 12360 AUD

Buoygues Telecom EBL (BEL) (go_rubens)
D1 #84: Bernard Leclercq (BEL)
D2 #222: Jean-Philippe Henri (FRA)
TD/R:
Chassis: 1994 Simtek S941
Budget: 1450 AUD

Great Leap Backward (CHN) (This)
D1 #3: Carlos Marquez
D2 #31: Kim-Jong Sug
TD/R: Josip Stalic (YUG)
Chassis: 1995 Forti FG01
Budget: 5 AUD

Scuderia Asso di Fiori (ITA) (RonDenisDeletraz)
D1 #88:
TD/R: -------
Chassis:
Budget: 4250 AUD

Valerian Engineering (FRA) (Normal32)
D1 #100: Shigeru Hashimoto (JAP)
D2 #200: Rhoda Manuel (USA)
TD/R: Gary Ceara (BRA), Jeice Swan (IRE)
Chassis: 1993 Lola T93/30
Budget: 140 AUD

Panther Racing (USA) (Klon)
D1 #4: Rafael Modena
TD/R:
Chassis: 1993 Tyrrell 021
Budget: 10000 AUD

Points system: 20-15-12-10-8-6-4-3-2-1, with single point bonus from pole and fastest lap.

Chassis allocation:
1993 Lola T93/30: 2/8
1993 Tyrrell 021: 1/8
1994 Pacific PR01: 2/8
1994 Simtek S941: 6/8
1994 Lotus 109: 4/8
1995 Forti FG01: 4/8

Money system and upgrades system
Currency used is Australian Dollar (AUD)
Prize money structure defined as:
For race finishing position,
1st - 1000 AUD
2nd - 750 AUD
3rd - 600 AUD
4th - 450 AUD
5th - 350 AUD
6th - 250 AUD
7th - 200 AUD
8th - 150 AUD
9th - 125 AUD
10th - 100 AUD
Finishing outside top 10 until 85% leader's distance - 75 AUD
Now driver will be classfied until 85% leader's distance
Retiring - 50 AUD
DNQ - 25 AUD
Pole and fastest lap get each 75 AUD.

Starting budget for 1 car team is 10000 AUD, while for 2 cars team is 20000 AUD

Upgrade system
Driver upgrades (per single point upgrade)

Driver performance upgrade (and rain) = 250 AUD
Start upgrade (faster start, reduced stalls) = 300 AUD

Cars upgrade (per single point upgrade)
Left price is for 1 car teams, right price is for 2 cars teams

Engine reliability upgrade = 200 AUD / 400 AUD
Overall drag reduce = 300 AUD / 600 AUD
Increase car downforce = 500 AUD / 1000 AUD
Reduce wing drag = 350 AUD / 700 AUD
Mass 1 kg reduce = 600 AUD / 1200 AUD
Engine torque (acceleration) upgrade = 350 AUD / 700 AUD
Engine power (peak power) upgrade = 350 AUD / 700 AUD

Official waiting list:
1. V8Fan12

CaptainGetz12 · Post by **CaptainGetz12** » 02 Apr 2015, 16:46

Autosport wrote:Sunset to leave Rejects-1 with 1996 Title

In an unexpected twist, last year's Rejects-1 drivers Champion Vic Sunset decided to not continue racing in 1997. When interviewed Sunset claimed that he has attracted attention elsewhere and that he doesn't want to stick too long in Rejects-1. "This series has been my ticket to professional motorsport, and I can't thank it and my team enough for letting me drive for all of these years. But I feel that other opportunities await, and my team understands that its time for me to leave the nest."

This leaves the defending constructors champions, Blokkmonsta Motorsport, without a driver for their one-car team. As of yet the team has not announced a replacement.

So with this Vic Sunset leaves Rejects-1 in preparation for his time as a test driver in F1GP2C. This leaves the driver spot open, the driver who picks it would receive the number 0 for the season.

Normal32 · Post by **Normal32** » 02 Apr 2015, 17:14

[quote="CaptainGetz12"]

So with this Vic Sunset leaves Rejects-1 in preparation for his time as a test driver in F1GP2C. This leaves the driver spot open, the driver who picks it would receive the number 0 for the season.[/quote
Shad Griffth is interested in the Blokkmonsta slot.
Valerian Engineering is carrying onto 1997, drivers TBA. And the chassis stats?

Shizuka · Post by **Shizuka** » 02 Apr 2015, 18:26

Foxhound Life enters for 1997.

Seeing how the chassis list left Lambo out, we would like to keep the L line after Life and Lambo, so a Lotus chassis for us and the same driver line-up too.

Nessafox · Post by **Nessafox** » 02 Apr 2015, 19:35

Great Leap Backward (CHN) (This)
D1 #3: Carlos Marquez
D2 #31: Kim-Jong Sung
TD/R: Josip Stalic
Chassis: Forti!
Budget: 5 AUD

Stalic is allowed to return to the team.
The GLB colours would be perfectly aligned with the actual Forti livery!

Post by **DemocalypseNow** » 02 Apr 2015, 19:53

CaptainGetz12 wrote:So with this Vic Sunset leaves Rejects-1 in preparation for his time as a test driver in F1GP2C. This leaves the driver spot open, the driver who picks it would receive the number 0 for the season.

Rafael Modena puts forward his interest.

HawkAussie · Post by **HawkAussie** » 02 Apr 2015, 21:51

Autosport wrote:Aussie Motorsport manager declares bankruptcy

In the space of a day, Aussie Motorsport will not be on entry list for the 1997 season after manager Harry Toucan declared bankruptcy after losing all of the renaming cash on a horse in Melbourne which would come last.
More later

This means that I won't be continuing in the series so Nic Tooas and Sam Sun are free agents for another team to pick up.

FantometteBR · Post by **FantometteBR** » 02 Apr 2015, 22:03

V.I.D.A. enters as it follows

D1 #333: Julio Vaca (BOL)
D2 #444: Joaquim Alcântara (POR)
TD/R: Pierre Abbleggen (SWI)/Cleide do Nascimento (BRA)
Chassis: Simtek

simonracer · Post by **simonracer** » 02 Apr 2015, 22:06

HURT Racing (AUS) (simonracer)
D1 #47: Sam Pritchard
TD/R:
Chassis: 1994 Lotus 109
Budget: 1235 AUD

CaptainGetz12 · Post by **CaptainGetz12** » 02 Apr 2015, 23:05

Blokkmonsta will choose the Forti for the 1997 season.

AxelP800 · Post by **AxelP800** » 03 Apr 2015, 02:11

Normal32 wrote:
CaptainGetz12 wrote:

So with this Vic Sunset leaves Rejects-1 in preparation for his time as a test driver in F1GP2C. This leaves the driver spot open, the driver who picks it would receive the number 0 for the season.[/quote
Shad Griffth is interested in the Blokkmonsta slot.
Valerian Engineering is carrying onto 1997, drivers TBA. And the chassis stats?

The new chassises has almost identical physics ( but not same) such as top speed may differ by only 5 kph instead of 20 like the old one..... So does the downforce

Entry list updated

go_Rubens · Post by **go_Rubens** » 03 Apr 2015, 02:59

Buoygues Télécom EBL will return for the 1997 season. The driver lineup remains the same as it has been since the team started up. We have to say goodbye to the highly successful Fondmetal chassis, so we will make a dynasty out of the Simtek chassis to continue the legacy. Whenever upgrades can be added, everything goes into relability.

The car livery will change once again. Here are the main requests for this new look EBL for the new look R1:

-New main body color red
-Wings and sidepods remain black
-Airbox completely yellow
-Yellow stripe down the middle of car
-Driver's names on airbox in red
-Buoygues Télécom logo on wings and sidepods per request by Buoygues Télécom

Bernard will change his helmet to red, while Jean-Phillipe will have his helmet changed to dark blue.

Normal32 · Post by **Normal32** » 03 Apr 2015, 06:21

Okay, as such, i select the Lola chassis.
Livery is going to change slightly. Make it look like the 1992 Scudria Italia.

FMecha · Post by **FMecha** » 03 Apr 2015, 08:40

To cut costs, Northgate will be a one-car operation featuring Patrick Boon. And we will pick the Forti.

Livery should be pretty much the same as last year (gray with blue airboxes and front/rear wings), with same sponsors as last year, plus Advance Auto Parts.

Klon · Post by **Klon** » 03 Apr 2015, 09:48

Well, let's try our hand at this then. I hope there is room for a new team.

Panther Racing (USA) (Klon)
D1 #4: Rafael Modena
Chassis: 1993 Tyrrell 021

Livery: Something like this

Peteroli34 · Post by **Peteroli34** » 03 Apr 2015, 10:11

Hunter Autosport (GBR) (peteroli34)
D1 #36: Deanna McMahon
D2 #37: TBA
TD/R: TBA
Chassis: 1994 Lotus 109
Budget: 1120 AUD

Livery: Similar to this although with the Irise sponsorship replaced with Hunter Industries sponsorship

Shizuka · Post by **Shizuka** » 03 Apr 2015, 11:07

Anyone willing to make a basic livery for Foxhound Life?

No sponsorship decals, so an easy thing to do, I'd really appreciate it. Thanks in advance!

LolLola · Post by **LolLola** » 03 Apr 2015, 12:13

As I have said I will leave Rejects-1. Thanks for the time. All three drivers is free agent, feel free to use them

roblo97 · Post by **roblo97** » 03 Apr 2015, 12:26

My team (RLR) are staying but we are going to be using the 1994 Simtek chassis

Car #27 Archibald March

Car #666 Nic Tooas

TD Sam Sun

Also...

Autosport wrote:Prost F1 announces drivers

Alain Prost's eponymous F1 team have announced Olivier Panis and Mikhail Karimov as their 2 drivers for this season.
More later

The Dutch Bear · Post by **The Dutch Bear** » 03 Apr 2015, 12:33

Ursus Racing will enter
D1 #5: Fidrik Arnason (ICE)
D2 #25: Algernon Bell (USA)
TD/R: Anna Gunnarsdottir (ICE) *available for a full time ride elsewhere
Chassis: Pacific PR01 (I know, what an enormous surprise)

Livery: original car is fine as it is.

Peteroli34 · Post by **Peteroli34** » 03 Apr 2015, 22:26

Any Team looking for a driver Turkish driver Gokor Peynirci

CaptainGetz12 · Post by **CaptainGetz12** » 04 Apr 2015, 16:23

After deliberation, we have decided to allow Shad Griffith to driver for Blokkmonsta this year. We will post our pre-season upgrades once this is confirmed.

Normal32 · Post by **Normal32** » 04 Apr 2015, 17:28

CaptainGetz12 wrote:After deliberation, we have decided to allow Shad Griffith to driver for Blokkmonsta this year. We will post our pre-season upgrades once this is confirmed.

Griffith confirms his interest for the Blokkmonsta drive.
Also:
#100: Shigeru Hashimoto (JAP)
#200: Rhoda Manuel (USA)
TD/R: Gary Ceara, Jeice Swan

AxelP800 · Post by **AxelP800** » 05 Apr 2015, 04:23

Entry list updated

FMecha, would you tell me which number you like to use for 1997? 11 or 12?

Peteroli34 · Post by **Peteroli34** » 05 Apr 2015, 10:24

Hunter Autosport will promote Thomas Day to their second seat and sign Gokor Peynirci to be our test driver

FMecha · Post by **FMecha** » 05 Apr 2015, 15:23

AxelP800 wrote:Entry list updated

FMecha, would you tell me which number you like to use for 1997? 11 or 12?

#11

AxelP800 · Post by **AxelP800** » 06 Apr 2015, 04:49

Entry list updated.

Now each chassis allocations are 8. See first post

RonDenisDeletraz · Post by **RonDenisDeletraz** » 10 Apr 2015, 12:01

Asso di Fiori are returning with car 88, Albertson is welcome back, and a second car is desired but certainly not essential

AxelP800 · Post by **AxelP800** » 19 Apr 2015, 04:41

Just to announce that this thing is not dead, just delayed much due to real-life activities. Expect full blown at June

Salamander · Post by **Salamander** » 14 May 2015, 20:59

Okay Axel, I have some concerns with what you've written on the wiki page.

The first and most pressing for me - wildcard entry for Jeff Gordon? Seriously? Seriously??? I mean, leaving aside how absurdly ridiculous it would be for Rick Hendrick to risk not only his star driver, but arguably the driver in the process of changing the face of NASCAR itself, in a series with such a terrible track record in terms of safety, not to mention that this is in a year where he only edged the title by a mere 14 points, that race you signed him up for? It clashes with Sonoma. Yeah, somehow I don't think that would happen in any possible set of circumstances.

Second - Nelson Piquet. In canon, his career was ended in 1980. He can't race.

Third (getting into the less serious ones now) - some of these race titles you have seem... a bit weird. I mean, "Rejects-1 Grande Prêmio do Brazil: Care for Radioactive Victim"? Not really sure what you're trying to achieve with these - I mean, aside from showing you don't know the difference between the Andes and the Ardennes I guess?

And last, and most definitely least, the track names you posted in the calendar table for China and Japan are in Chinese and Japanese. I don't have a problem with the race name being in the native language, but it might be helpful to have at least the track names in a language everyone here can read?

AxelP800 · Post by **AxelP800** » 15 May 2015, 10:52

Salamander wrote:(getting into the less serious ones now) - some of these race titles you have seem... a bit weird. I mean, "Rejects-1 Grande Prêmio do Brazil: Care for Radioactive Victim"? Not really sure what you're trying to achieve with these - I mean, aside from showing you don't know the difference between the Andes and the Ardennes I guess?

And last, and most definitely least, the track names you posted in the calendar table for China and Japan are in Chinese and Japanese. I don't have a problem with the race name being in the native language, but it might be helpful to have at least the track names in a language everyone here can read?

Care for Radioactive Victim is for this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goi%C3%A2nia_accident

Post by **DemocalypseNow** » 15 May 2015, 12:26

AxelP800 wrote:Care for Radioactive Victim is for this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goi%C3%A2nia_accident

Doesn't make it in the slightest appropriate as a race name.

AxelP800 · Post by **AxelP800** » 15 May 2015, 13:14

Biscione wrote:
AxelP800 wrote:Care for Radioactive Victim is for this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goi%C3%A2nia_accident

Doesn't make it in the slightest appropriate as a race name.

For you

Post by **DemocalypseNow** » 15 May 2015, 13:43

AxelP800 wrote:
Biscione wrote:
AxelP800 wrote:Care for Radioactive Victim is for this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goi%C3%A2nia_accident

Doesn't make it in the slightest appropriate as a race name.

For you

...no, anyone with some common sense can see that's an inherently distasteful choice. Back down or this doesn't end well for you.

AxelP800 · Post by **AxelP800** » 15 May 2015, 14:31

Biscione wrote:
AxelP800 wrote:
Biscione wrote:Doesn't make it in the slightest appropriate as a race name.

For you

...no, anyone with some common sense can see that's an inherently distasteful choice. Back down or this doesn't end well for you.

No. Anyway this is just (JUST) a fictional fun series, so it will just do a minimal impact to real-life, smaller than 1 yocto. :dance:

FMecha · Post by **FMecha** » 15 May 2015, 14:52

Even if you said this is a for-fun series, R-1 is a canon series and canon series must be run seriously. :facepalm:

roblo97 · Post by **roblo97** » 15 May 2015, 15:35

Right, I am fed up with the constant ineptitude shown by the management of the series and I am pulling my team out with immediate effect. I think the management is a f****** disgrace and that the series should be dissolved. The bias shown by the management last years was inexcusable and that robbed RLR and Archibald March of the drivers and teams championship and also put paid to Mikhail Karimov's chances of winning it.

AxelP800 · Post by **AxelP800** » 15 May 2015, 17:11

Well if you (all of you) complained about something that is not even important at all, then I might as well pull the plug of this series now. It's quite astonishing there are many opinions and rules scattered out of place. Some people said that this is canon so don't take it seriously, but some other said this canon thing has to be taken care just as a real-life series. I'm still not sure how a race title named "Care for Radioactive Victim" is bad, there are races run for charity reason. And Jeff Gordon thing. And Nelson Piquet thing. If Zanardi can do it, why he doesn't? Does all of you don't like to try to think positively? Well I'm not a type of person who likes to rant before find the many positives of things. With people demanding too much for circumtances now, the best mutual action is to cancel the whole series altogether. Thanks for the good time and support you had given. Forget the sabotage thing. Why would you even angry on a random algorithms for a fictional thing? Only you knows the answer.
That's may be not enough of minds that I have kept inside silent, but it's a good representation.

Goodbye Rejects-1

Salamander · Post by **Salamander** » 15 May 2015, 17:23

AxelP800 wrote:And Jeff Gordon thing.

I already explained why I don't think a Jeff Gordon wild card is particularly a good idea. If you want to try and convince me otherwise, I'm open to hearing your argument, but even as someone who really honestly would like to see Gordon used in canon in other series, I just don't see it as ever being something realistic.

AxelP800 wrote:And Nelson Piquet thing. If Zanardi can do it, why he doesn't?

Because Piquet's crash was in a different era, when medical knowledge was not as good as it was when Zanardi had his accident. Piquet also hadn't even won a GP when he was injured. It was a very serious injury as well, as I recall, it should have been fatal, but, well, killing him would've been a bit much, frankly. As pasta outlined here, Piquet's F1 career, if nothing else, was over, and since R1 uses ex-F1 machinery, I should think that would rule him out of driving in R1 too.

As for the Brazilian race name thing, well, why would you hold a charity race for something that happened several years ago? It's like holding a charity thing for the Eschede train disaster today.

simonracer · Post by **simonracer** » 16 May 2015, 02:02

Why not run the damn thing as a non-canon series? Who cares whether it's canon or not, it's a not completely serious series set during the 90s for god's sakes.