Race of the Champions (provisional) driver line-upOkay, here is the driver line-up for the upcoming Race of Champions. If you see a team, that could be improved in either way (by making it more awesome or more rejectful, whatever you like best), please let me know.
But please note, that not all teams are going to make it into the RoC. There will be a pre-qualification on Saturday before the main event. So don't make a line-up too rejectful, if you want to see them make it into the race!
#0 Acura ARX-02ATakuma Sato, Kazuki Nakajima, Keiko Ihara
#2 Acura ARX-02AHideki Noda, Yuji Ide, Ukyo Katayama
#3 Alpine A450Vincenzo Sospiri, Riccardo Rosset, Domenico Schiattarella
#4 Aston Martin AMR-OneDamon Hill, Bruno Senna, Nicolas Prost
#5 Audi R18 e-tron quattroRahel Frey, Vanina Ickx, Cyndie Allemann
#6 Audi R18 e-tron quattroAllan McNish, Tom Kristensen, Andre Lotterer
#7 Bentley Speed-8Juan-Pablo Montoya, Valtteri Bottas, Danica Patrick
#8 Bentley Speed-8Katherine Legge, Susie Wolff, Pippa Mann
#9 BMW V12 LMRNick Heidfeld, Bruno Spengler, Joey Hand
#10 Caddilac LMP 02Mario Andretti, Michael Andretti, Marco Andretti
#11 Courage LC70 AERAugusto Farfus, Jamie Green, Martin Tomczyk
#12 Courage-Oreca FLM09 ChevroletMax Chilton, Charles Pic, Adrien Tambay
#14 Creation CA07 AIMAlex Yoong, Michelle Bumgarner, Jutta Kleinschmidt
#15 DBA4 03s ZytekJenson Button, Andrea Bertolini, Ashley Freiberg
#16 Dome S102/5 JuddToranosuke Takagi, Shinji Nakano, Kosuke Matsuura
#17 Embassy Racing WF01 ZytekJacques Villeneuve, Paul di Resta, Kimi Raikkonen
#18 Embassy Racing WF01 ZytekGiancarlo Fisichella, Gabriele Tarquini, Milka Duno
#19 Epsilon Euskadi EE1 JuddAmber Cope, Angela Cope, Niclas Schönström
#20 Ferrari 333 SPJean Alesi, Fernando Alonso, Rubens Barrichello
#21 Ginetta GZ09s ZytekNigel Mansell, Greg Mansell, Leo Mansell
#22 Lavaggi LS1 FordGiovanni Lavaggi, Jean-Denis Deletraz, Luca Badoer
#23 Ligier JS-P2 NissanAlain Prost, Yvan Muller, Laurent Aiello
#24 Lister Storm LMP HybridRoberto Moreno, Jarno Trulli, Giedo van der Garde
#25 Lotus B12/60 ToyotaVitaly Petrov, Davide Valsecchi, Vitantonio Liuzzi
#26 Lotus B12/60 ToyotaRomain Grosjean, Beitske Visser, Edoardo Mortara
#27 MG-Lola EX265C (yup, this one's for the Japanese fans in reminiscence of the 90s' Brabham line-up plus one more name that sounds alike
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Mark Blundell, Alex Brundle, Henry Arundel
#28 Morgan LMP2 NissanDario Franchitti, Helio Castroneves, Kyle Busch
#29 Nasamax DM139 JuddRiccardo Teixeira, Brendon Hartley, Adrian Sutil
#30 Pescarolo 03 JuddOlivier Beretta, Mikko Hirvonen, Jules Bianchi
#31 Peugeot 908Sebastien Loeb, Sebastien Bourdais, Sebastian Vettel
#32 Peugeot 908Natacha Gachnang, Simona de Silvestro, Marguerite Laffite
#33 Porsche RS Spyder EvoMark Webber, Mika Hakkinen, Daniel Ricciardo
#34 Radical SR9 JuddDavid Brabham, Gary Brabham, Geoff Brabham
#35 Toyota TS030 HybridAshley Force, Courtney Force, Brittany Force
#36 Toyota TS030 HybridChristophe Bouchut, Nicolas Lapierre, Alexander Wurz
An important rule change for the Junior CupSince the beginning of the Women's GT World Championship (and also during the Junior Cup), I've noticed a lot of players having trouble with the current concept of race engineers. That actually didn't surprise me, because race engineers are like the drummers in a rock band. They're important, but fans only know the singer and lead guitarist (metaphorically speaking).
Therefore I think it might be best to replace the two seperate race engineers with one Chief Engineer. Why? Simple: The Chief Engineer is responsible for both drivers at the same time, minimizing the unwanted side-effect of your drivers qualifying at opposite ends of the grid, which is pretty common in the Junior Cup at the moment.
There will still be differences in the performance of your drivers, depending on the capability of the drivers themselves, but not as much as right now. Also, if your drivers underperform without it being their fault, you'll only have to fire one Chief Engineer instead of two race engineers. Right now it won't effect your management too much, because unfortunately the Junior Cup isn't such a big challenge for managers at all, but you will thank me for this new rule once the much more demanding Women's GT World Championship starts again.
Since I'm already calculating Round 6 - Belgium, this rule change will come into play from Round 7 onwards.
But it's not mandatory! If you feel comfortable with two seperate race engineers, you can keep this constellation until the end of this season. If you like my idea, because it'll make things easier for you to overlook, please let me know which one of your current race engineers you'd like to promote to Chief Engineer.
In case you're wondering: All current race engineers will be promoted to Chief Engineers in the near future, so nobody needs to worry that I'd be coming along with even more names most of you have never heard of.
Also...I'm going on a small vacation from tomorrow until Tuesday, which means I will post Round 6 - Belgium tomorrow as planned and then I'll be on my way. This gives each of you ample time to figure out the Chief Engineer stuff. Need to start packing my bags now. So, until tomorrow for Round 6!