Create Your Own Team!

Jeroen Krautmeir · Post by **Jeroen Krautmeir** » 03 Jun 2010, 10:15

I really wasn't sure where to put this, but here goes! All you need to do is choose your team name, engine, designer, drivers, test drivers and other extras if you want! There are no limitations to what your choices are (so feel free to put Nino Farina or anyone from the old days or anyone from another competition)! The below is my crazy team;

BRT Grand Prix

Chief Designer: John Barnard/Loic Bigois
Engine: Mugen-Honda V10
Driver 1: Nicolas Lapierre
Driver 2: Alex Brundle (mark my words, he'll do what Martin couldn't)

Test Driver(s): HWNSNBM and Christian Klien

TomWazzleshaw · Post by **TomWazzleshaw** » 03 Jun 2010, 10:25

I think there was a thread like this last year. Anyways here we go:

Melrose Racing Team:

Chief Designer: Sergio Rinland
Engine: Renault V10
Driver 1: Bob Kubica
Driver 2: Nico Rosberg
Test Drivers: Tonio Liuzzi & Nick Heidfeld

coops · Post by **coops** » 03 Jun 2010, 10:40

Team Independant F1

Chief Designer: John Barnard
Team Principle: Flavio Briatore
Engine: Ferrari V12
Driver 1: Martin Brundle
Driver 2: Fabrizio Barbazza
Test Drivers: Justin Wilson & Ivan Capelli

FullMetalJack · Post by **FullMetalJack** » 03 Jun 2010, 10:43

USF1 The U and the S stand for Unreliable and Slow

Chief Designer: Gustav Brunner
Engine: Judd V8
Driver 1: Olivier Grouillard
Driver 2: Gregor Foitek
Test Drivers (here it goes): Bernd Schnieder, Eric Van de Poele, Luis Perez Sala, Yannick Dalmas and Paolo Barilla

As you can see, I'm taking the Midland approach for test drivers.

MinardiFan95 · Post by **MinardiFan95** » 03 Jun 2010, 11:27

F1 Rejects Racing
Chief Designer: Nick Wurth (using CFD - also known as Complete F***** Disaster or Crayon Finished Drawings)
Engine: Life W12
Driver 1: HWNSNBM
Driver 2: Luca Badoer
Test Drivers: The winners of the F1 Rejects Championships

EDIT: Here is the team's livery

(Yes I know that is Albers' helmet, because I couldn't be bothered to change it.)

Yannick · Post by **Yannick** » 03 Jun 2010, 12:23

Chief Designer: Mark Smith / Eghbal Hamidiy (spelling?)
Engine: Mercedes V8
Driver 1: Kamui Kobayashi
Driver 2: Nigel Mansell (you know, he's not retired)
Test Driver(s): ???

MaxZero · Post by **MaxZero** » 03 Jun 2010, 12:47

Sorry to ignore the format, tho this is my team from F1Project.org
I've been running it for the past 9 or so months

(Been promoted to F1 this season (from F2), first race, both my cars crash out

shinji · Post by **shinji** » 03 Jun 2010, 12:59

GoesOutta Racing - Hino/Harris

Team Principal: Nakano Shinji
Chief Designer: Andy Warhol
Driver 1: Me
Driver 2: Kobayashi
Test Drivers: All the Young Dudes
Livery: Campbell's Soup tins

Enforcer · Post by **Enforcer** » 03 Jun 2010, 15:33

Jordan Reborn

Team Principal: Eddie Jordan
Chief Designer: Gary Anderson
Engine: Does it matter as much these days? Mercedes, I suppose.
Driver 1: Robert Kubica
Driver 2: Mark Webber (can pick him up once he permanently falls out with Red Bull)
Test Driver: Adam Carroll

RejectSteve · Post by **RejectSteve** » 03 Jun 2010, 16:40

PITT Grand Prix

Logical
Team Principal: Ron Dennis
Chief Designer: Mike Gascoyne
Engine: BMW P86/9 (last year's BMW engine)
Driver 1: Vitaly Petrov
Driver 2: Kamui Kobayashi
Testers: Alexander Wurz
Junior Team: Alexander Rossi
Livery: Based upon:

Absurd
Team Principal: Andrea Sassetti
Chief Designer: Luigi Colani
Engine: Kamaz YMZ-7E846 (17.24l Diesel V8, 730 hp)
Driver 1: HWNSNBM
Driver 2: Tazio Nuvolari
Testers: Heinz-Harald Frentzen
Junior Team: Ferenc Szisz
Livery: Pink all over without sponsors

watka · Post by **watka** » 03 Jun 2010, 19:18

Team Bailusout

Team Principal: Colin Kolles
Chief Designer: Outsourced to Reynard
Engine: Kolles V10 (rebadged Motori-Moderni)
Tyres: Avon Cooper
Brakes: Drum
Wheels: Enkei
Fuel: BP
Gearbox: Xtrac
Hydraulics: Pimlico Plumbers

Driver 1: Pedro Diniz
Driver 2: Giovanni Lavaggi
Test Driver: Roy Nissany

Livery loosely based on this: http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1104/129 ... 4bd42c.jpg

Post by **DemocalypseNow** » 03 Jun 2010, 21:20

Team Principal: Tom Walkinshaw
Chief Designer: None (Old Arrows A22s bought instead and upgrades outsourced to Complete F***ing Disaster Research)
Engine: HKS V12
Tyres: Pirelli
Brakes: Milk bottle tops
Wheels: DUB Pimpstars
Fuel: Chip Fat
Gearbox: BMW Motorsport
Hydraulics: Williams

Driver 1: Andrea De Cesaris
Driver 2: Taki Inoue
Test Driver: Bjorn Wirdheim, Plamen Kralev, Jaap van Lagen, Franz Engstler, Tom Coronel
Livery: TBA

FullMetalJack · Post by **FullMetalJack** » 03 Jun 2010, 22:20

kostas22 wrote:Test Driver: Bjorn Wirdheim, Plamen Kralev, Jaap van Lagen, Franz Engstler, Tom Coronel

Ah, taking the Midland approach with the Test Drivers like me. Very different drivers to me though.

Nessafox · Post by **Nessafox** » 04 Jun 2010, 00:46

the return of ENB (ecurie nationale belge)

Relatively realistic version
Chief Designer: Tony Gillet
Team Principal: Thierry Boutsen
Engine: The same Maserati-engine that powers the Gillet Vertigo 5
Driver 1: Bertrand Baguette
Driver 2: Vanina Ickx
Test Driver(s): Eric Van De Poele, Marc Goossens, Jerôme D'ambrosio
Reserve Driver: Jerôme D'ambrosio
Junior Team: Benjamin Bailly, Laurens Vanthoor, Maxime Soulet
Livery:the colors of beer manufacturer Jupiler (red and white with some black)

Back to the old glory
Chief Designer: Ferrari customer-chassis
Team Principal: André Pilette
Engine: Ferrari V12
Driver 1: Olivier Gendebien
Driver 2: Lucien Bianchi
Test Driver(s): Paul Frère
Reserve Driver: Willy Mairesse
Junior Team: Jacky Ickx, Patrick Nève
Livery: Yellow

Absurd
Team Principal: Jean-Pierre Van Rossem, Yves Leterme
Aerodynamics: art nouveau architect Victor Horta
Engine: Van Hool (Bus manufacturer)
Technical Director: Bombardier (train-manufacturer)
Driver 1: Me
Driver 2: Walter Grootaers (belgian singer who thinks he can race cars)
Test/reserve Driver(s): Koen Wauters (belgian singer who thinks he can race cars)
Junior Team: King Léopold II
Livery: Fluorescent black
Commercial Manager: Hendrik Van Veldeke (14th century troubadour)
Mascotte: Queen Fabiola

McDuck · Post by **McDuck** » 04 Jun 2010, 01:07

Excellent thread! I think about this all the time at work when I should be working!

Kentucky Fried Chicken® ThornTech® Engineering Formula 1 Team®

Chassis: ThornTech® Engineering 001® (Note: 001® is pronounced Double-ought 1®)

Engine: BIG MONEY® (a proud wholly-owned subsidiary of The ThornTech® Group) Power Generation Unit Specification 3 Step 2.
3.0L V10 25,000RPM redline 1700WHP (estimate)

Team Principle: Me
Chief Designers: Me & Nigel Stepney + more Americans to offest me hiring Nigel Stepney in the first place.

Driver 1: Me $$$$$
Driver 2: $cott $peed

Livery:

Sidepods and front and rear wing endplates.

+
Front and Rear wing elements.

Uniforms:
Pit crew and trackside staff wear American Revolutionary soldier inspired Nomex fire suits.

Sponsers:
KFC (duh!), Budweiser, Texico, and other fine American companies.

Pointrox · Post by **Pointrox** » 04 Jun 2010, 12:34

Another Russian attempt to create an F1 team, which is called...

Chief Designer: Gustav Brunner (they couldn't find any Russian with racing engineering experience)
Team Principal: Vagit Alekperov
Engine: Cosworth V8 (rebadged as LADA)
Driver 1: Mikhail Aleshin
Driver 2: Sergei Afanasyev
Test Driver(s): Sergei Zlobin, Viktor Maslov
Reserve Driver: Daniil Move
Junior Team: Sergey Mokshantsev, Anton Nebylitskiy
Livery: Red with white and blue stripes going through the whole car

Their car - TF2010 - is based on 2003 Jordan EJ13.
Here it is, still in 2003 spec, driven by...
Some say that he can kill two stones with one bird, and when he once laughed, Hungary hasn't recovered fully from the aftershocks... all we know is, he's called HWNSNBM.

Sponsors: Lukoil, LADA, Marussia, Rosbank, Novolipetsk Steel, Novatek, Chelsea FC

RejectSteve · Post by **RejectSteve** » 06 Jun 2010, 04:05

Pointrox wrote:Another Russian attempt to create an F1 team, which is called...
...
Driver 1: Mikhail Aleshin
Driver 2: Sergei Afanasyev
Test Driver(s): Sergei Zlobin, Viktor Maslov
Reserve Driver: Daniil Move
Junior Team: Sergey Mokshantsev, Anton Nebylitskiy

I approve of this message, however, I have two words: Daniil Kvyat.

Captain Hammer · Post by **Captain Hammer** » 06 Jun 2010, 05:23

MARATHON* Grand Prix Engineering - Maserati (also known as M* ["M-star"])

Team Principal: ???
Chief Designer: ???
Driver I (#26): Will Power
Driver II (#27): Ana Beatriz
Test/Reserve Drivers: Nathanel Berthon, Sten Pentus, Anton Neybiltsky
Junior Team: Giacomo Ricci, Mihai Marinescu
Livery: Matte black with electric green wings and electric green strip down engine cowling and around base of car
Sponsors: Coke Zero, Sony Ericsson, XM Satellite Radio, Sonangol, IZOD

Pointrox wrote:Another Russian attempt to create an F1 team, which is called...

Technically, it's the first effort - Alex Shnaider was born in St. Petersburg, but he was a Canadian national and spent most of his life there. In fact, the Midland Group is registered in and based out of Canada. There was nothing Russian about it.

thehemogoblin · Post by **thehemogoblin** » 06 Jun 2010, 05:29

Captain Hammer wrote:
Pointrox wrote:Another Russian attempt to create an F1 team, which is called...

Technically, it's the first effort - Alex Shnaider was born in St. Petersburg, but he was a Canadian national and spent most of his life there. In fact, the Midland Group is registered in and based out of Canada. There was nothing Russian about it.

You're actually quite wrong. The team was registered in Russia, therefore making it a Russian Formula One team.

Captain Hammer · Post by **Captain Hammer** » 06 Jun 2010, 05:35

thehemogoblin wrote:You're actually quite wrong. The team was registered in Russia, therefore making it a Russian Formula One team.

I know that. My point is that aside from the registration, there was nothing Russian about the team except for Shnaider's connection to the country. The team was not based in Russia, none of the key personnel were Russian and did not run a Russian driver. The only Russian person of any note within the team was Roman Rusinov, who was only a test driver - he never raced and he never even got to have a go on Fridays. He largely felt like he was there to give the team's claim to its Russian heritage some merit.

The team was Russian in name only. My best friend is Russian (sort of ... she was born in Moscow, and moved to Chisinau before the fall of communism and so is technically Moldovan, but she is Russian on one side of her family) and says that if Russia at large had known about Midland and the way it claimed to be Russian without actually being Russian, actual Russians wouldn't have taken kindly to it.

Post by **DemocalypseNow** » 06 Jun 2010, 18:45

Captain Hammer wrote:
thehemogoblin wrote:You're actually quite wrong. The team was registered in Russia, therefore making it a Russian Formula One team.

I know that. My point is that aside from the registration, there was nothing Russian about the team except for Shnaider's connection to the country. The team was not based in Russia, none of the key personnel were Russian and did not run a Russian driver. The only Russian person of any note within the team was Roman Rusinov, who was only a test driver - he never raced and he never even got to have a go on Fridays. He largely felt like he was there to give the team's claim to its Russian heritage some merit.

The team was Russian in name only. My best friend is Russian (sort of ... she was born in Moscow, and moved to Chisinau before the fall of communism and so is technically Moldovan, but she is Russian on one side of her family) and says that if Russia at large had known about Midland and the way it claimed to be Russian without actually being Russian, actual Russians wouldn't have taken kindly to it.

Red Bull Racing is run entirely out of Milton Keynes but uses an Austrian racing license.

While your point about the team's actual location is perfectly valid, officially Midland was the first ever Russian F1 team, so it's not really disputable....

Nessafox · Post by **Nessafox** » 06 Jun 2010, 22:26

thehemogoblin wrote:
Captain Hammer wrote:
Pointrox wrote:Another Russian attempt to create an F1 team, which is called...

Technically, it's the first effort - Alex Shnaider was born in St. Petersburg, but he was a Canadian national and spent most of his life there. In fact, the Midland Group is registered in and based out of Canada. There was nothing Russian about it.

You're actually quite wrong. The team was registered in Russia, therefore making it a Russian Formula One team.

midland is not the first attempt, but the first one to actually race, because in the sixties, the great russian car manufacturer moskvitch have built a formula1 car!

(also interesting, the czechoslowakian tatra has also built an F1, must be in the 50's i think, which raced some non-championship events, don't know if they actually raced non-championship F1 or F2 races, can't remember)

Captain Hammer · Post by **Captain Hammer** » 07 Jun 2010, 00:23

kostas22 wrote:Red Bull Racing is run entirely out of Milton Keynes but uses an Austrian racing license.

But the likes of Maetschitz and Marko are Austrian.

thehemogoblin · Post by **thehemogoblin** » 07 Jun 2010, 06:07

Captain Hammer wrote:
kostas22 wrote:Red Bull Racing is run entirely out of Milton Keynes but uses an Austrian racing license.

But the likes of Maetschitz and Marko are Austrian.

And Alex Shnaider is Russian.

Captain Hammer · Post by **Captain Hammer** » 07 Jun 2010, 10:00

thehemogoblin wrote:And Alex Shnaider is Russian.

No, he's Russian-born. His citizenship is Canadian.

Post by **mario** » 07 Jun 2010, 11:54

This wrote:midland is not the first attempt, but the first one to actually race, because in the sixties, the great russian car manufacturer moskvitch have built a formula1 car!

(also interesting, the czechoslowakian tatra has also built an F1, must be in the 50's i think, which raced some non-championship events, don't know if they actually raced non-championship F1 or F2 races, can't remember)

Over on 8w, they have an interesting article on the Sokol, which was the first attemply by the USSR to create a racing car. It was based on the last Auto Union car (the Type E), and was bankrolled by Vasily Stalin (Stalin's son, who was, at the time, also commander of a Russian air division). Vasily was obsessed with fast cars and aircraft, and wanted to show that the Soviet technicians (including quite a few ex-Auto Union engineers behind the Iron Curtain) were capable of competing with the Western powers in all areas of technology.
However, the cars proved to be quite difficult to drive (being based on the Auto Union cars, which were, despite being quite sphisticated in many respects, pretty poor in terms of handling and suspension developments), as well as being difficult to maintain, and after the fall of Stalin, Vasily was forced into exile, and the cars were abandoned in East Germany (one survived, and is now over at Donington Motor Museum, whilst the second, given to a local university for design studies, is thought to have basically fallen to bits, and be little more than scrap metal by now).

Bleu · Post by **Bleu** » 07 Jun 2010, 16:45

Just from the reject standpoint

Chief designer: Eric Broadley (he designed Lola T97/30)
Driver, car number 46: Valentino Rossi
Driver, car number 47*: Olivier Tielemans (Chanoch Nissany beat him twice in three qualifying sessions in International F3000)
Reserve driver: Luca Badoer
Test drivers: Safety car driver at Pau WTCC race in 2009, Mohammed bin Sulayem
Engines: SIsu truck engines (not saying that they would be bad, but as a Finn I wanted something Finnish in the team)

* We were forced to have cars with two successive numbers and Rossi needed his own racing number.

thehemogoblin · Post by **thehemogoblin** » 07 Jun 2010, 17:11

Captain Hammer wrote:
thehemogoblin wrote:And Alex Shnaider is Russian.

No, he's Russian-born. His citizenship is Canadian.

Where he chooses to live and what he identifies as are two different things.

Nessafox · Post by **Nessafox** » 07 Jun 2010, 22:20

mario wrote:
This wrote:midland is not the first attempt, but the first one to actually race, because in the sixties, the great russian car manufacturer moskvitch have built a formula1 car!

(also interesting, the czechoslowakian tatra has also built an F1, must be in the 50's i think, which raced some non-championship events, don't know if they actually raced non-championship F1 or F2 races, can't remember)

Over on 8w, they have an interesting article on the Sokol, which was the first attemply by the USSR to create a racing car. It was based on the last Auto Union car (the Type E), and was bankrolled by Vasily Stalin (Stalin's son, who was, at the time, also commander of a Russian air division). Vasily was obsessed with fast cars and aircraft, and wanted to show that the Soviet technicians (including quite a few ex-Auto Union engineers behind the Iron Curtain) were capable of competing with the Western powers in all areas of technology.
However, the cars proved to be quite difficult to drive (being based on the Auto Union cars, which were, despite being quite sphisticated in many respects, pretty poor in terms of handling and suspension developments), as well as being difficult to maintain, and after the fall of Stalin, Vasily was forced into exile, and the cars were abandoned in East Germany (one survived, and is now over at Donington Motor Museum, whilst the second, given to a local university for design studies, is thought to have basically fallen to bits, and be little more than scrap metal by now).

most of my information comes from here http://www.autosoviet.altervista.org/main-english.htm but i can't remember everything, i haven't read the website in a long time, probably the thing you mentioned is mentioned here too.
they have a page specifically about 'eastern racing cars'
the rest is all about regular east-european cars and bikes, interesting stuff from a rejects point of view 8-)

jackanderton · Post by **jackanderton** » 09 Jun 2010, 17:28

Team Name: Anderton Racing
Engine Supplier: Renault
Driver 1 - Me
Driver 2 - Nigel Mansell (!!!!)
Team Principal - Me!
Chief Designer - Adrian Newey
Reserve Driver - Luca Badoer
Test Drivers - Tarso Marques, Norberto Fontana and the Fire King
Team Livery - Black!

The idea would be to bankroll an incredibly expensive, unreliable, yet on its day world-beating team.

Captain Hammer · Post by **Captain Hammer** » 10 Jun 2010, 14:23

thehemogoblin wrote:
Captain Hammer wrote:
thehemogoblin wrote:And Alex Shnaider is Russian.

No, he's Russian-born. His citizenship is Canadian.

Where he chooses to live and what he identifies as are two different things.

Well, considering that he's got pretty much all of his business interests in Canada, one has to wonder. The Russian thing was just a gimmick.

thehemogoblin · Post by **thehemogoblin** » 10 Jun 2010, 19:35

Captain Hammer wrote:
thehemogoblin wrote:
Captain Hammer wrote:No, he's Russian-born. His citizenship is Canadian.

Where he chooses to live and what he identifies as are two different things.

Well, considering that he's got pretty much all of his business interests in Canada, one has to wonder. The Russian thing was just a gimmick.

My mother has spent more of her life in America than in Germany. Three of her four kids live in the States and the fourth is in the US Navy. Does that make her not German anymore? No? Same thing applies here. You can call yourself something and live somewhere else.

RejectSteve · Post by **RejectSteve** » 17 Jun 2010, 04:16

thehemogoblin wrote:
Captain Hammer wrote:
Captain Hammer wrote:No, he's Russian-born. His citizenship is Canadian.

Well, considering that he's got pretty much all of his business interests in Canada, one has to wonder. The Russian thing was just a gimmick.

My mother has spent more of her life in America than in Germany. Three of her four kids live in the States and the fourth is in the US Navy. Does that make her not German anymore? No? Same thing applies here. You can call yourself something and live somewhere else.

Andreas Zuber. Austrian or Emerati?

thehemogoblin · Post by **thehemogoblin** » 17 Jun 2010, 04:31

RejectSteve wrote:
thehemogoblin wrote:
Captain Hammer wrote:Well, considering that he's got pretty much all of his business interests in Canada, one has to wonder. The Russian thing was just a gimmick.

My mother has spent more of her life in America than in Germany. Three of her four kids live in the States and the fourth is in the US Navy. Does that make her not German anymore? No? Same thing applies here. You can call yourself something and live somewhere else.

Andreas Zuber. Austrian or Emerati?

It's up to him.

go_Rubens · Post by **go_Rubens** » 11 Sep 2013, 01:58

Bump

My insane idea for a team.

Autá Hawk Závodné

Nationality: Slovakia
Team Principal: Me, myself, and I
Designer: Eghbal Hamidy
Engine: Apal (rebadged Porsche V6 turbo)
Gearbox: Xtrac
Chassis: Hawk HRC-01
Driver 1: Nico Hülkenberg
Driver 2: Sergio Pérez
Test drivers: Robin Frijns, Luca Badoer, Alex Wurz
Main sponsor: Petronas
Associate Sponsors: Telmex, Vajda Group

SeedStriker · Post by **SeedStriker** » 11 Sep 2013, 11:59

Name: Squadra Racing Dreams
Crew Chief: Alfred Neubauer
Chief Engineer: Derek Gardner
Engine: Lamborghini V12
Tires: Michelin
Driver 1: Ayrton Senna
Driver 2: Gilles Villeneuve
Testers: Alain Prost, Michael Schumacher
Main Sponsor: Monster Energy Drink

Wallio · Post by **Wallio** » 11 Sep 2013, 15:51

This could be fun.

La Scuderia Riccetti

Team Principal: Christian Horner
Chief Engineer: My Father (not as lame as it sounds, my old man was head Mechanic on a Professional Drag team for a few years)
Chief Designer: Gary Anderson
Engine: Our Own In-House V8 (my old man builds my race engines currently, although 8.5litres will NEVER be legal in F1 lol)
Driver 1: Me
Driver 2: DC (I'd throw a big bag of money at him to have an old hand help with development)
Test Driver: Alex Rossi
Sponsors: Whoever has the bank!

Post by **kevinbotz** » 11 Sep 2013, 17:27

Name: HSBC Commonwealth Honda Racing
Base of Operations: Northampton, United Kingdom
Engine: Honda V10 (RA005E)
Chief Technical Director: Adrian Newey
Chief Aerodynamicist: Loic Bigois
Chief Chassis Engineer: Pat Fry
Team Principal: Ross Brawn
Tires: Michelin
Driver 1: Robert Kubica
Driver 2: Jenson Button
Test Drivers: Pedro de la Rosa, Anthony Davidson
Main Sponsor: HSBC
Subsidiary Sponsors: Sony Corporation, Lenovo Group, Symantec Corporation

dr-baker · Post by **dr-baker** » 11 Sep 2013, 20:12

For me...

Team Name: Foxdale Auto Racing Team (FART)
Team boss: Claire Williams
Chief Designer: Adrian Newey
Engine: contemporary Renault

Driver 1: Pippa Mann
Driver 2: Katherine Legge

Test drivers: Alice Powell, Beitske Visser

Sponsorship: MasterCard, MTV

good_Ralf · Post by **good_Ralf** » 11 Sep 2013, 20:17

dr-baker wrote:
Chief Designer: Adrian Newey

I thought you would have chosen Antonia Terzi...