Grand Prix Rejects

Season 2 of the REECCS is finally upon us, with the addition of absolutely no new manufacturers. The series will take on a different approach this season, with reverse grid sprint rounds joining the schedule, as well as the usual normal rounds and end of season enduro. Will Bellic take the title again? Could O'Lauchlan take the title he barely missed last season? Or could a new challenger step up to the plate?

This series is based off the EastCars mod for RFactor (http://www.rfactorcentral.com/detail.cfm?ID=EastCars)

There are 7 cars to choose from; the Lada 2101, Skoda 110R, Trabant 601, Polski-Fiat 126P, Dacia 1300, Wartburg 353w and Moskvich 2140. All races will be 20 minutes long, unless specified otherwise.

Tracks:

• Birmingham Superprix
• Autumn Ring Mini
• Top Gear Test Track
• Awesomering Vanautu
• Monaco
• Lienz GP
• Kicevo
• Varshko (ice)
• Usce
• Miseluk
• Omnitel 1000km
• Rabaring
• Opatija
• Lyngas
• Norisring
• Adelaide
• Surfers Paradise
• Miami Terminal Circle
• Crazy Cooters 8

Entrant List:

0. Simon Garfunkel, Wartburg
1. Niko Bellic, Lada
2. Rhys Davies, Lada
3. Dennis Scott, Trabant
11. Samael Meerwick, Skoda
13. Gio Van Dycke, Trabant
14. Tetsuya Takagi, Polski-Fiat
18. Brucie Kibbutz, Lada
20. Jorma Kalervo, Dacia
22. Peter Senreson, Lada
25. Laurent Seron, Dacia
26. Ricky Bobby, Trabant
27. James Davies, Lada
33 1/3. Frank Drebin, Trabant
34. Frank Zimmer, Dacia
37. Guillaume Gauthier, Lada
43. Krzysztof Holowczyc, Lada
44. Helena Bertinelli, Skoda
45. Dinah Lance, Skoda
47. Carsten Jancker, Lada
49. Leon Albertini, Polski-Fiat
51. Marcel Agyemang-Badu/Andraž Velikonja, Lada
53. Maxim Simonov, Lada
55. Jean Girard, Trabant
68. Zbynek Benes, Skoda
69. Ferdinando Blaszikowski, Polski Fiat
70. Jacek Piscopo, Polski-Fiat
71. Ruby, Polski-Fiat
73. Tom Douglas, Skoda
74. Jackson Donaldson, Skoda
074. Merak Keznorski, Skoda
91. Nikolai Nurmovitsch, Lada
92. Njord Munk, Lada
95. Rick Simpson, Lada
99. Rudi J. Blass, Trabant
117. Jonas Mortarhouse, Lada
121. Dargaan Zorzanov, Skoda
126. Matej Uram, Polski-Fiat
256. Rafeel Lepel, Polski-Fiat
259. Jason Hamilton, Skoda
666. Richie White, Lada
767. Kodosky Vulkatin, Dacia


When entering use this format:

Driver name:
Car:
Number:
Sponsors:
Car Colour(s):

You can paint your own car by using one of the templates in this zipped folder (http://www.sendspace.com/file/xczme4), although if you have good editing skills in photoshop you may consider downloading the proper templates supplied with the EastCars mod.

Driver name: Laurent Seron (making his global racing debut)
Car: Dacia 1300
Number: 25
Sponsors: Dexia Bank, Belgacom
Car Colour(s): Dark blue, light blue, white

Daniel Melrose doesn't like racing tintops so it's over to his Australian-American friend to do all the work:

Driver name: Dean O'Lauchlan
Car: Skoda 110R
Number: 73 (The number he used in his dirt racing days)
Sponsors: DHL, Shell
Car Colour(s): Yellow, Red

Driver: Maxim Simonov
Car: Lada
Number: 53
Sponsors: Izvestia, Tupolev



Livery

That is one genius idea. I might join this.

Driver name: Kay Lon
Car: Trabant 601
Number: 2
Sponsors: Avira, Oldesloer
Car Colour(s): Black And White (see what I did there?)
Livery: Here

Driver name: Ben Fleet
Car: Wartburg
Number: 69
Sponsors: Back to the Future film franchise, Dr Who/BBC
Car Colour(s): orange/yellow/black

Livery to include:

Driver name: Samael Meerwick
Car: Wartburg
Number: 11
Sponsors: Nobody...
Car Colour(s): Plain black

I'll join this champ:

Driver name: Njord Munk (pay-driver)
Car: Fiat 126P
Number: 92
Sponsors: Grundfos, Kelkoo, USAG, Wild Turkey, VIT
Car Colour(s): Black with lines in red and yellow

How many cars is allowed in? My first team was based on Russian car, driver and sponsors and had a similar plan on some others, if there are not many joining I could do one for Skoda, with Czech driver and sponsors.

Driver name: James Davies
Car: Dacia 1300
Number: 27
Sponsors: Twinings Earl Grey Tea, Marmite
Car Colour(s): Yellow and Black

Bleu wrote:How many cars is allowed in? My first team was based on Russian car, driver and sponsors and had a similar plan on some others, if there are not many joining I could do one for Skoda, with Czech driver and sponsors.

At the moment there is no limit on cars, the only limit will be grid sizes and amount of pit boxes on some tracks. However I'm thinking of limiting the number of drivers/teams one person can have to either 2 or 3.

Driver name: Frank Zimmer
Car: Skoda 110R
Number: 34
Sponsors: Valvoline, Repco
Car Colour(s): Navy, blue, red & white (so basically the '01 GRM.)

Team name: Team Phoenix
Driver name: Niko Bellic (Phoenix McAllister was unavailable due to his F1 and F1RWRS commitments, so he took on a promising Serbian driver, which is fitting considering the championship is run with Eastern European cars).
Car: Skoda 110R
Number: 17
Sponsors: Rockstar Games, Rockstar Energy Drink, Stefan GP.
Car livery: Black, yellow, gold.

BTW, I'd really appreciate if someone could do the livery for me. Thank you.

Official Entry List - As of round 11.

Driver name: Yoshio Ikemachi (JPN)
Car: Lada 2101
Number: 8
Sponsors: Lada, Renault, Takara Tomy, NTT Docomo
Car Colour(s): White with Red (primary) with Black and Yellow strips.

Driver Name : Frank Montana (USA)
Car : Lada 2101
Number : 77
Sponsors : Infiniti, Nissan, 7-Up
Car Colour(s): 7-Up Green with a splash of red and a white flash around the car and on the roof.

Lada is part of the Renault Nissan group and a works car program has been entered by Sunshine Nissan. Yoshio Ikemachi is part of the Nissan driver training program and will be racing for the team, was part of the WRC and has won Rally races. Frank Montana is an experienced rally driver who won various mountain rallies in the states as well as touring car races.

Ben Fleet




Ben Fleet is loving his livery, thank you!

My second entry

Driver: Zbynek Benes
Car: Skoda 110R
Number: 68
Sponsors: Ceska Pojistovna, OKD, Mountfield, Masaryk Circuit
Car livery:



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My proposals for the calendar

Lienz Alstadt (at least I had it in the game when buying it)
Sardian Heights Short (ditto)
Indianapolis Oval

Some Eastern European (old Warsaw Pact area) tracks should be also considered:

Most, Brno, Hungaroring, Oschersleben, Sachsenring, Lausitz...
Probably Rijeka from Croatia too.

Bleu wrote:Lienz Alstadt (at least I had it in the game when buying it)

If anything we have to have the 24 Hours track in Lienz.

Driver name: Gio Van Dycke
Car: Trabant
Number: 13
Sponsors: Cillit Bang!
Car Colour(s): Fuchsia, Violet, White

If a second one is allowed:
Driver name: Wouter Lamberigts
Car: Wartburg
Number: 31
Sponsors: Lotus Professional
Car Colour(s): White, blue

if possible, the bucharest street track that wtcc and fia gt has raced on!

As for tracks, the Norisring and AVUS should be on the list!

What about the Top Gear test track if possible? They already have experience with jalopies running there, after all

I just had Trabant race in Monaco. The lap times were over three minutes

Another funny thing is that cars have so bad acceleration when using standing start, the race control declared safety car instantly despite there was no accident.

Driver name: Jonas Mortarhouse
Car: Lada
Number: 17
Sponsors: GE, Webster's Dictionary
Car Colour(s): Orange and Green

Driver Name: Peter Senerson
Car: Polski-Fiat
Number: 22
Sponsors: Nike, NBC and Bic pens.
Car Colour: Purple and Gold

MinardiFan95 wrote:James Davies

Excellent! That's exactly how I wanted it to look! Well done!

Well if people are entering second cars, I may as well do that:

Driver: Brucie Kibbutz.
Number: 18
The rest is like the other car, including the car model.

Car: Skoda 110R
Driver: Zsolt Baumgartner
Livery: Orange on one side and Dark Blue on the other
Sponsors: Jagermeister and Red Bull (Jagerbomb)
Car Number: 42

Driver Name: Jari Kekkonen
Car: Dacia 1300
Number: 1, 364
Sponsors: Tata Motors, Andrea Moda, European Aviation, PDVSA
Car Colours: Anything but plain WHITE!

I've updated the track list as well as the liveries, so please check those out. I'm currently limited to the tracks that I already have installed, as my internet has been terribly slow for almost a week (it is almost as slow as the stock Trabant at the moment). As I said in the first post, the track list is subject to change, so feel free to suggest some changes.

The grid sizes will depend on how many cars the pits/grid can hold, so if it exceeds the limit some cars will be unable to race. I'm thinking of a system where the slowest cars from each manufacturer are knocked out instead of the overall slowest cars. Oh, and by the way, they will be nowhere near as slow as what Bleu's Monaco laptimes suggested, as each car will be using the "Class 3" upgrades.

MinardiFan95 wrote:

PERFECT

MinardiFan95 wrote:

this one looks professional

Driver Name: Krzysztof Detmer
Car: Polski Fiat 126p
Number: 49
Sponsors: Wyborowa, Bison Grass Vodka, Castrol, Polski Fiat, FKS PZL Stal Mielec
Car Colours: Red and white
Skin: http://img189.imageshack.us/img189/2440/fiat126.png

can i suggest the short track of chimay http://www.silhouet.com/motorsport/tracks/chimay02.jpg because it's rumoured to be one of the most annoying tracks to drive on

This wrote:can i suggest the short track of chimay http://www.silhouet.com/motorsport/tracks/chimay02.jpg because it's rumoured to be one of the most annoying tracks to drive on

Perfect for this series. Otherwise, I would have recomended the old track, despite there being fatalities on both circuits.

My livery is the most boring, but it was worth it!

This wrote:can i suggest the short track of chimay http://www.silhouet.com/motorsport/tracks/chimay02.jpg because it's rumoured to be one of the most annoying tracks to drive on

I would include it if there was a version of the track for rFactor...

Anyway, I'll be starting this series either tomorrow or Saturday, so if you haven't entered yet and don't want to miss the first round, enter now!

Pre-Season Round - Birmingham Wheels Oval

The Superprix track was not ready in time for the original scheduled date, so a pre-season round was held at short oval Birmingham Wheels. The crowd was quite large for a minor event like this (the organisers may have payed them though).
The racing was a lot cleaner than originally expected, though the high kerbs did claim two victims, Ricky Bobby and Zybnek Benes.



Judging from the pace from this round, the Skodas look like the cars to beat, with everyone else quite a way behind. The Ladas look to be semi-competitive, while the Wartburg drivers may as well have not turned up. In the end HWNSNBM was absolutely dominant this round, working his way around lapped traffic with ease; something most of the other drivers couldn't manage. The Rockstar cars of Niko Bellic and Brucie Kibbutz were battling for position all through out the race, with Brucie taking the upper hand in that inter team battle.

That is genial... 4 laps down!

Daniel Melrose has considered this series so epic that he's decided to enter it himself:

Driver Name: Daniel Melrose
Car: Wartburg 353w
Number: 74
Sponsors: Kirk's Creaming Soda, Mother
Car Colours: Pink, White, Black, Red (Not all colours are necessary, just a combination that works)