KL-racer's F1 Management:2008 ROTY PODIUM UP!

KL-racer · Post by **KL-racer** » 23 Jan 2015, 01:56

KL-racer’s F1 Management 2008

What’s going on, guys? If the last two rounds of 2007, are any indication of this season, then it should be as good as 2006 if not better. However, since the last round of 2007 at Interlagos, there has been a name change at Toro Rosso, because Red Bull was embarrassed by being beaten by their own junior team. So, Red Bull decided to remove their logos from the Toro Rosso cars. In a response to this news, Toro Rosso’s entry went up for sale, and was bought by Vijay Mallya and their name was changed to Force India. Speaking of name changes, Midland will now be called MSR, now using an updated spec of the Spyker V8 engine.

Meanwhile, Jarno Trulli, the 2007 ROTY is looking for another chance with a different team. Can Alonso make it four-in-a-row? How about Ferrari and Michael Schumacher, can they retake either title this season? In addition, can Carlin finally catch a break for once and score a point this season?

In other news, I added the FIA prize money from 2007 to your leftover budgets. All entries have been confirmed, and the RNG'S have been all finished. So, here's the entry list as of now

Entry list

Renault: $4.9 million – Phoenix

1 Fernando Alonso
2 Pedro De La Rosa
TD: Adrian Sutil

Ferrari: $1.4 million – Roblomas52

3 Michael Schumacher
4 Lewis Hamilton

McLaren-Mercedes: $26.3 million – Normal32

5 Kimi Raikkonen
6 Rubens Barrichello
TD: Luca Badoer
Lucas Di Grassi

Force India-Mercedes: $13 million – collieafc

7 Sebastian Vettel (2 year deal)
8 Felipe Massa
Kamui Kobayashi (2 year deal)

Prodrive-Ferrari: $12.3 million – Miguel98

9 Jarno Trulli
10 Andre Lotterer
TD: Andrea Zuber
TD: Takuma Sato

Sauber-BMW: $12.55 million – redeyes504

11 Nick Heidfeld
12 Timo Glock

MSR-Spyker: $32.3 million – mrfakeboullier

14 Nicolas Lapierre
15 Sebastien Bourdais
TD: Luca Filippi

Toyota $69.3 million – Klon

16 Ralf Schumacher (signed until 2010)
17 David Coulthard
TD: Mike Conway

Williams-Renault: $1.4 million – W12

18 Robert Kubica
19 Giancarlo Fisichella
TD: Kaz Nakajima

Honda: $14.6 million – peteroli34

20 Christian Klien
21 Bruno Senna
TD: Narain Karthikeyan
Injured: Mark Webber

Red Bull-Honda: $0.9 million – good_ralf

22 Nico Rosberg
23 Jenson Button
TD: Nelson Piquet

Carlin-BMW: $6 million – Ice1Racing

24 Heikki Kovalainen
25 Markus Niemela (for the final two races)
TD: Karun Chadhok
TD: Giedo Van der Garde

Super Aguri-Cosworth: $7.5 million – theflyingcaterham

26 JR Hildebrand
27 Sakon Yamamoto
TD: Vitaly Petrov

Driver’s standings with 1 round left

Kubica 85 pts
Heidfeld 76 pts
M. Schumacher 72 pts
Hamilton 67 pts
Glock 57 pts
Alonso 54 pts
Raikkonen 53 pts
Massa 44 pts
De la Rosa 42 pts
R. Schumacher 33 pts
Vettel 28 pts
Fisichella 15 pts
Trulli 14 pts
Barrichello 8 pts
Di Grassi 4 pts
Webber 4 pts
Klien 3 pts
Kovalainen 2 pts
Bourdais 2 pts

Team standings with 1 round left

1 Ferrari 139 pts
2 Sauber-BMW 133 pts
3 Williams-Renault 100 pts
4 Renault 96 pts
5 Force India-Mercedes 72 pts
6 McLaren-Mercedes 65 pts
7 Toyota 33 pts
8 Prodrive-Ferrari 14 pts
9 Honda 7 pts
10 MSR-Spyker 2 pts (wins the tiebreak by having more 9th place finishes 3-1)
11 Carlin-BMW 2 pts
12 Red Bull-Honda 0 pts (best finish 9th x2)
13 Super Aguri-Cosworth 0 pts (best finish 13th x1)

Waiting List:

andrew

The Race Calendar:

Melbourne
Malaysia
China
Bahrain
Catalunya
Monaco
Magny-Cours
Canada
Sliverstone
Hockenheim
Valencia Street Circuit
Hungaroring
Spa
Monza
Istanbul
Singapore
Suzuka
Interlagos

Testing and upgrades

There will be a pre-season test at Jerez. In addition, there will be 3 in-season tests after the races at Catalunya, Silverstone, and Spa. There will be also a Young driver's test at Catalunya after the race in Istanbul.

As for the upgrade cost and rules: One area will cost $500,000 and two areas will cost $900,000. As for the areas you can select from, these are as follows

Engine Power: Raises both Qualiyfing and race engine power output
Reliability: Reduces the likelihood of failures
Qualifying pace: Improves the pace of the vehicle during qualifying runs
Race Pace: Improves the pace of the vehicle during race runs
Aero: Improves the overall consistency of the car

Good luck to everyone!

FMecha · Post by **FMecha** » 23 Jan 2015, 04:17

I'm making Super Aguri available. Thanks for the fun, guys

TheFlyingCaterham · Post by **TheFlyingCaterham** » 23 Jan 2015, 04:48

FMecha wrote:I'm making Super Aguri available. Thanks for the fun, guys

If there's no one on the waiting list, I'll claim it

good_Ralf · Post by **good_Ralf** » 23 Jan 2015, 11:20

I would be interested in taking over Red Bull Racing.

Peteroli34 · Post by **Peteroli34** » 23 Jan 2015, 11:23

Honda will return and hope that 2008 brings better results

Klon · Post by **Klon** » 23 Jan 2015, 12:17

Toyota's Five-Year-Plan is only two steps away from completition, we will continue.

mrfakeboullier · Post by **mrfakeboullier** » 23 Jan 2015, 16:15

The Midland Publiocrap Department wrote:The Midland group would like to announce the conclusion of negotiations with Spyker Cars to purchase the team, which will now be known as Midland Spyker, or MSR. We also confirm our entry into the 2008 FIA Formula One Season.

roblo97 · Post by **roblo97** » 23 Jan 2015, 16:24

Ferrari are taking part this year.

Normal32 · Post by **Normal32** » 23 Jan 2015, 20:13

McLaren will carry on to 2008

Collieafc · Post by **Collieafc** » 24 Jan 2015, 13:18

In case it wasnt confirmed enough, Force India (Formerly Toro Rosso) are in 2008 as we hope to consolodate our performance form last season.

Phoenix · Post by **Phoenix** » 24 Jan 2015, 13:49

Renault will continue! Of course we will...

KL-racer · Post by **KL-racer** » 24 Jan 2015, 22:04

Bidding Information

Okay, I got confirmation from all 13 teams. So, we can start the next step, the bids!

Step 1: Chassis bids

Yes, I have decided to raise the cost of the chassis slightly for this year. Select one of the following tiers

Cost/RNG Parameters

Tier 1 $30 million/4000-5000
Tier 2 $26 million/4000-6000
Tier 3 $22 million/4000-7000
Tier 4 $18 million/4000-8000
Tier 5 $14 million/4000-9000
Tier 6 $10 million/4000-10000

Step 2: Engine bids

Yes, I have also decided to modify the cost of the engines accordingly, overall, unlike the chassis, the engine cost went down a little bit due to the great recession. All engine makers, except Spyker and Cosworth can only supply two teams at a time. You could bid for up to three engines.

Renault $17.5 million
Ferrari $15.5 million
Mercedes $13.5 million
Spyker $12.5 million Prefers MSR
BMW $11.5 million
Toyota $10 million
Honda $8.5 million
Cosworth $7 million

Step 3: Driver Bids
You must bid for two race drivers AND 1 test/reserve driver. Just because, you never know if one of your race drivers would get injured! You can bid for up to 3 drivers for each seat

Fernando Alonso $20 million Wants #1 status
Michael Schumacher $16 million Wants #1 status
Kimi Raikkonen $13.5 million Wants #1 status
Lewis Hamilton $10 million
Sebastian Vettel $7.5 millon
Pedro De La Rosa $5.5 million
Nick Heidfeld $4.5 million
Jarno Trulli $3.5 million Does NOT want McLaren
Ralf Schumacher $3 million
Nico Rosberg $2.5 million
Giancarlo Fisichella $2 million
Christian Klien $1.75 million
Robert Kubica $1.5 million
Mark Webber $1.25 million
Rubens Barrichello $1.25 million Wants a race seat, or else he would move to a different racing series
Heikki Kovalainen $1 million
Jenson Button $1 million
Sebastien Bourdais $1 million Attempting to come back to F1, after not getting a race seat in 2007
Timo Glock $0.75 million
David Coulthard $0.75 million will be retiring at the end of this season, hence the discount
Takuma Sato $0.6 million
Felipe Massa $0.6 million Coming back from Injury, hence the discount
Nelson Piquet Jr. $0.5 million
Kaz Nakajima $0.5 million
Lucas Di Grassi $0.5 million
Nicolas Lapierre $0.45 million
Luca Filippi $0.4 million
Sebastien Buemi $0.35 million
Adam Carroll $0.35 million
Bruno Senna $0.3 million
Mike Conway $0.3 million
Javier Villa $0.25 million
Jose Maria Lopez $0.25 million
Anthony Davidson $0.25 million
JR Hildebrand $0.2 million
Andy Soucek $0.2 million
Hiroki Yoshimoto $0.2 million
Kazuya Oshima Discount off Toyota Engines
Narain Karthikeyan PD $4.5 million
Karun Chadhok PD 4 million
Sakon Yamamoto PD 3.5 million
Giedo Van de Garde PD $3 million
Vitaly Petrov PD $2.5 million
Adrian Sutil PD $2 million

And before I forget, you must send all of your bids via PM! Good luck!

roblo97 · Post by **roblo97** » 24 Jan 2015, 23:22

Bids sent from Ferrari.

mrfakeboullier · Post by **mrfakeboullier** » 25 Jan 2015, 03:41

MSR bids sent

TheFlyingCaterham · Post by **TheFlyingCaterham** » 25 Jan 2015, 04:11

Chassis and engine bids sent from Super Aguri. Will send driver bids soon.

EDIT: Driver bids have been sent.

W12 · Post by **W12** » 26 Jan 2015, 15:10

Willams bids sent.

andrew · Post by **andrew** » 27 Jan 2015, 16:57

I'll go on the waiting list.

KL-racer · Post by **KL-racer** » 02 Feb 2015, 02:21

So, I finally got a proper job. Meanwhile, I still haven't got bids from Renault and Red Bull. So, if you can send them via PM it would be helpful. Finally, expect me to be on here on the weekends only, once I start work, of course.

Phoenix · Post by **Phoenix** » 02 Feb 2015, 15:59

Dude, I did send you my bids. Check again.

good_Ralf · Post by **good_Ralf** » 02 Feb 2015, 20:31

At last Red Bull have sent their bids

KL-racer · Post by **KL-racer** » 03 Feb 2015, 23:27

Phoenix wrote:Dude, I did send you my bids. Check again.

I did check my PM on here and my email account and I never received a message for it, as far as I am concerned. Would you mind posting your bids on here because that's the only team that I am missing, anyway.

And if I did deleted it in the first place, It would have been in the spam folder on accident because I emptied it once this week.

good_Ralf · Post by **good_Ralf** » 04 Feb 2015, 12:08

KL-racer wrote:
Phoenix wrote:Dude, I did send you my bids. Check again.

I did check my PM on here and my email account and I never received a message for it, as far as I am concerned. Would you mind posting your bids on here because that's the only team that I am missing, anyway.

And if I did deleted it in the first place, It would have been in the spam folder on accident because I emptied it once this week.

Have you received my RBR bids or do I have to re-post them?

KL-racer · Post by **KL-racer** » 04 Feb 2015, 18:21

good_Ralf wrote:
Have you received my RBR bids or do I have to re-post them?

Yes, I did receive the RBR bids, so you don't need to send them again.

KL-racer · Post by **KL-racer** » 06 Feb 2015, 17:30

Engine Bids:

So, I finally got the last bid from Phoneix! So, I can now do the RNG’S! Starting with the engines!

Renault Part 1

Well, with Renault supplying their own works team already that means only one other team among McLaren, Williams, MSR and Force India will use them. Among these four teams, Force India and Williams had Renault as their first choice. But Force India did bid for slightly more money than Williams. However, McLaren and MSR had it as their second choice, so their chances are less likely.

Force India 1-40, Williams 41-70, McLaren 71-90, MSR 91-100

The number is . . . 96, so MSR got a break on the RNG and MIGHT use the Renault customer engine. Of course, it pisses off Spyker Cars so much that they decided to wait for Spyker’s decision to come in before making it official

Ferrari

Other than Ferrari itself, the only other team that bidded for Ferrari engines is . . . McLaren, but of course the Tifosi is so hateful towards McLaren, which are their arch rivals for the longest time, their bid wasn’t considered.

Mercedes Part 1

Okay, two teams will get Mercedes motors, among the teams that bidded for them are Force India, McLaren, Prodrive and Williams.

McLaren 1-35, Force India 36-70, Prodrive 71-85, Williams 86-100

The 1st number is . . . 56, so Force India will use Mercedes motors.

Mercedes Part 2

McLaren 1-50, Prodrive 51-75, Williams 76-100

The 2nd number is . . . 39, so McLaren will keep using the Mercedes engine.

Spyker

Supply MSR 1-80, Supply Carlin 81-100

The number is 99, the Spyker Cars board has decided to supply Carlin instead of midland, which means the earlier standing of Midland getting Renault engines stands, but with one problem, Carlin can’t afford the Spyker engines right now, so that above RNG becomes moot point, and MSR will officially use Spyker motors NOT Renault motors.

Renault Pt 2

After McLaren renewed their Mercedes Contract, MSR using Spyker engines after a long fight, and Force India receiving Mercedes engines. The only team leftover that bidded for Renault engines is Williams, so they will use Renault’s.

BMW

Sauber will continue using BMW engines. The only other team leftover that bidded for BMW motors were Carlin. They can continue using them, if they can successfully sign a pay-driver to cover the bills.

Toyota

No other team besides Toyota bidded for Toyota engines. Next up

Honda

Red Bull and Super Aguri bidded for Honda Engines. It’s a 50-50 chance

Super Aguri 1-50, Red Bull 51-100

The number is . . . 75, Red Bull will now use Honda engines, which means Super Aguri will have to use Cosworth V8’s for 2008
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The only team without an Engine deal, after all of this mess is . . . Prodrive, so they can either buy Ferrari’s or Toyota’s at list price. I am assuming, Miguel98 you want Ferrari motors, if I am not mistaken?

The next post will be . . . the driver bids

Post by **Miguel98** » 06 Feb 2015, 18:09

Ferrari engine please.

KL-racer · Post by **KL-racer** » 06 Feb 2015, 21:02

Driver Bids

Fernando Alonso: The 3-time defending champion only received offers from his current team and MSR.

Stays at Renault 1-90, joins MSR 91-100

Number is . . . 65, Alonso stays put

Lewis Hamilton: An improbable race winner in his Rookie year, Hamilton has many varied offers.

Signs with Renault 1-35, Signs with Ferrari 36-70, Signs with Force India for 2 seasons 71-90, Waits for MSR 91-100

Number is . . . 64, he signs with Ferrari for his second season in F1

Pedro De La Rosa: This Veteran has offers from Renault as their #2 driver or staying put at Prodrive as their #1.

Signs with Renault 1-70, Stays at Prodrive 71-100

Number is . . . 60, he jumps ship to Renault.

Adrian Sutil Pt 1: After being sacked by Sauber last year, he wants another chance.

Signs with Renault as TD 1-75, Waits for Carlin race seat 76-90, Waits for Super aguri race seat 91-100

Number is . . . 84, he waits for a race drive at Carlin

Michael Schumacher: Obviously, Ferrari has made an offer but Force India made a strong enough case to at least consider it.

Stays at Ferrari 1-75, Signs with Force India 76-100

Number is . . . 29, he stays put at Ferrari

Kimi Raikkonen: He only received an offer to stay put at McLaren, he accepts their offer

Lucas Di Grassi: The GP2 runner-up has two offers

Signs with McLaren 1-95, Signs as TD for MSR 96-100

Number is . . . 16 He signs on with McLaren as their #2 driver.

Luca Baoder: He stays on as TD for McLaren

Sebastian Vettel: This German prodigy had only a single offer from Force India to be their #1 for 2 years at $9 million. He accepts

Nico Rosberg: He had a total of five offers

Signs with Force India as #2 driver 1-30, Signs with MSR as #2 driver 31-60, Signs with Red Bull as #1 61-80, Waits for BMW Sauber race seat 81-90 Waits for Williams #1 race seat 91-100

Number is . . . 79, he signs on with Red Bull.

Jenson Button

Signs with Force India as #2 1-40, Signs with Red Bull as #2 41-65, waits for Prodrive #1 race seat 66-85, waits for Honda Race seat 86-100

Number is . . . 54, he joins Red Bull as #2.

Felipe Massa: After an injury forced him to miss the majority of 2007, he was successfully cleared to go race again. Question is, where he is going to go?

Signs with Force India as #2 1-30, Signs with Carlin as #1 31-60, Signs with Toyota as TD 61-75, Signs with Williams as TD 76-90, Signs with Red Bull as TD 91-100

The number is . . . 14, he signs on with Force India as #2

David Coulthard: He had a test offer from Force India or a #2 Race seat at Toyota.

Signs with Force India as tester 1-50, Signs race seat with Toyota 51-100

Number is . . . 98, he signs a race seat with Toyota.

Kamui Kobayashi: He accepts the TD role at Force India, after a decent YDT in 2007.

Jarno Trulli: The 2007 ROTY is looking for redemption at a new team, but will he get it?

Signs with Prodrive as #1 1-60, Signs with Williams as #1 61-100

The number is . . . 27, he signs with Prodrive to attempt to prove that his 2007 ROTY is a fluke!

Takuma Sato: He only has one offer left, at Prodrive to be their #2, he accepts it because anything is better than a Super Aguri!

Andreas Zuber: He remains the tester for Prodrive.

Nick Heidfeld: He only received an offer to stay put at Sauber, so he accepts it

Timo Glock: The GP2 Champion had two decent race offers for 2008.

Accepts #2 seat at Sauber 1-55, Accepts #1 seat at MSR 56-100

Number is . . . 43, he takes the second seat at Sauber

Nicolas Lapierre Pt 1: He only received a test driver offer from MSR, he accepts it, but he might have to be promoted to a race seat, depending on the rest of the RNG’S

Mike Conway: Not that much choices to choose from, he will stay at Toyota as their TD.

Robert Kubica: He will sign with Williams because that’s the only offer he received.

Giancarlo Fisichella: He will also sign with Williams, that’s his only offer right now.

Nelson Piquet Jr.

Signs with Williams as TD 1-34, Signs with Red Bull as TD 35-68, Wait for Carlin #1 seat 69-100

Number is . . . 50, he signs with Red Bull as their Tester

Kaz Nakajima: He only had a TD offer from Williams, he accepts it

Christian Klien/Mark Webber: Both of them only received race offers from Honda to stay put, so they avoid being axed for one more season

Narain Karthikeyan: This pay driver only had two Testing offers

Signs with Honda as TD 1-65, Signs with Carlin as TD 66-100

Number is . . . 46, he signs with Honda as their tester.

Heikki Kovalainen : He only received a race drive from Carlin, he accepts it

Giedo Van der Garde: After Toyota decided to go a different direction, his only other choice is a #2 race drive for Carlin. He accepts it.

Karun Chadhok: After making his F1 debut for Ferrari at Silverstone last season, he had two test driver offers.

Signs a TD contract for Carlin 1-80, Waits for Super Aguri TD role 81-100

Number is . . . 78 he signs a TD contract with Carlin

JR Hildebrand: After testing for Toyota during the YDT, he receives an offer from backmarkers Super Aguri to race in 2008, but he’s not 100% sure if he wants to take it.

Signs with Super Aguri 1-90 Stays in America 91-100

Number is . . . 34, so he will accept the offer

Sakon Yamamoto: This pay driver only had a #2 race offer from Super Aguri, however with them not getting Honda Engines, he’s not so sure if he’s willing to help them out.

Signs with Super Aguri 1-80 Goes to SUPER GT 81-100

Number is . . . 2, he signs with Super Aguri.

Anthony Davidson/Vitaly Petrov: It’s a 50-50 chance between Davidson and Petrov for the Super Aguri test role.

Signs Davidson 1-50, Signs Petrov 51-100

The number is . . . 100, they decided to go with Pay driver Petrov as their tester.

Adrian Sutil Pt. 2: After failing to hear from Carlin on their race seat, he finally accepts the TD role at Renault.

Nicolas Lapierre Pt 2: After MSR missing out on so many other drivers, Lapierre will be promoted to a race seat at MSR. The question is who will become his teammate?

Sebastien Bourdais: It happens to be the Champcar veteran, who was out of F1 in 2007, that takes the #2 seat at MSR.

WOW! That was a mouthful to type it out, indeed! And by the way, Miguel98, your request to use Ferrari Engines have been approved. The entry list in the first post will be of course updated with all of the latest stuff. And one final thing, when I PM each of you, your team stats for 2008. I will caution you on this one detail, the driver’s stats have been adjusted accordingly. Some drivers actually benefitted from this adjustment, while others actually have a negative impact from it and some drivers didn’t benefit at all.The Pre-season test will hopefully happen sometime on Sunday afternoon, but if that doesn’t happen until then, expect it to be done on the following weekend.

KL-racer · Post by **KL-racer** » 01 Mar 2015, 15:41

Pre-season testing from Jerez:

Alright, I am back! Due to the fact that I have to use a MSN account now, and we all lost almost a month due to the forum being moved. Because of these two reasons, upgrades can’t be done until after the round at Catalunya. Remember, I will be on here less often, due to work commitments, but at the worst case, expect me to be on during the weekends. So, without any further delay here’s the times from pre-season testing at Jerez!

Testing Results:

1 Lewis Hamilton (Ferrari) 1:23.018
2 Michael Schumacher (Ferrari) +0.096
3 Ralf Schumacher (Toyota) +0.175
4 Kimi Raikkonen (McLaren-Mercedes) +0.215
5 Robert Kubica (Williams-Renault) +0.295
6 Pedro De La Rosa (Renault) +0.304
7 Fernando Alonso (Renault) +0.342
8 Nick Heidfeld (Sauber-BMW) +0.385
9 Felipe Massa (Force India-Mercedes) +0.430
10 Timo Glock (Sauber-BMW) +0.439
11 Sebastian Vettel (Force India-Mercedes) +0.559
12 Jarno Trulli (Prodrive-Ferrari) +0.681
13 Heikki Kovalainen (Carlin-BMW) +0.818
14 Jenson Button (Red Bull-Honda) +1.013
15 Lucas Di Grassi (McLaren-Mercedes) +1.243
16 Christian Klien (Honda) +1.248
17 Sebastian Bourdais (MSR-Spyker) +1.292
18 Nico Rosberg (Red Bull-Honda) +1.324
19 Mark Webber (Honda) +1.373
20 David Coulthard (Toyota) +1.489
21 Giancarlo Fisichella (Williams-Renault) +1.577
22 Nicolas Lapierre (MSR-Spyker) +1.874
23 Takuma Sato (Prodrive-Ferrari) +2.807
24 Giedo Van der Garde (Carlin-BMW) +2.811
25 JR Hildebrand (Super Aguri-Cosworth) +2.858
26 Sakon Yamamoto (Super Aguri-Cosworth) +3.324

This is shaping out to be a lot more interesting than last season, for sure. Hamilton and M Schumacher lead the timesheets for Ferrari. A big surprise is Kubica in the new Renault-powered Williams cracking the top 5. Renault are going to have their hands full defending both titles, their cars came in 6th and 7th. Both Sauber-BMW’s in the top 10 is a promising sign. Trulli seems to be finding the new Ferrari-powered Prodrive more favorable than the McLaren of 2007. The biggest surprise is Heikki getting the Carlin in 13th. Maybe, they might sneak in the points finally. I was shocked that MSR was off the pace, especially given that the Spyker engine is a brand new unit, but considering that Bourdais didn’t race in F1 in 2007, and Lapierre is a F1 Rookie, they would have some struggles getting points at this pace. Less of a surprise, is Super Aguri, who occupy the last two slots on the time sheets. Overall, the top 20 cars are all within 1.5 seconds of each other, so that’s a great sign. But then again, testing is testing, so until you get the cars over a full race distance, it’s like guesswork. The season opener from Melbourne will be posted sometime later today, I hope.

Post by **Miguel98** » 01 Mar 2015, 15:58

I have a feeling Sato won't last long in the seat if his performance will always be like that.

mrfakeboullier · Post by **mrfakeboullier** » 01 Mar 2015, 19:41

When I saw the RNG I thought MSR were bathplugged. Now I KNOW we are bathplugged

KL-racer · Post by **KL-racer** » 04 Mar 2015, 01:01

Round 1 Melbourne

Yes, I was kind of surprised as well that MSR got so unlucky on the driver RNG’S. Normally, a team would have gotten at least one race seat filled during this process, but I guess that wasn’t the case. Anyways, back to more practical matters, as promised, here’s the first round recap.

Qualifying results

1 Michael Schumacher 1:25.005
2 Robert Kubica +0.052
3 Ralf Schumacher +0.091
4 Lewis Hamilton +0.364
5 Felipe Massa +0.376
6 Kimi Raikkonen +0.423
7 Fernando Alonso +0.432
8 Pedro De La Rosa +0.559
9 Jarno Trulli +0.751
10 Nick Heidfeld +0.781
11 Sebastian Vettel +0.842
12 Lucas Di Grassi +0.927
13 Timo Glock +0.979
14 Heikki Kovalainen +1.081
15 Nico Rosberg +1.114
16 David Coulthard +1.123
17 Christian Klien +1.171
18 Mark Webber +1.353
19 Giancarlo Fisichella +1.486
20 Sebastian Bourdais +1.543
21 Jenson Button +1.774
22 JR Hildebrand +2.614
23 Takuma Sato +2.809
24 Giedo Van der Garde +2.946
25 Nicolas Lapierre +3.082
26 Sakon Yamamoto +4.588

M. Schumacher got the first pole of the season, but Kubica and R. Schumacher were right on his tail. Massa starting in the top 5 was a surprise for Force India. At this rate, Alonso will have to earn every single point that he can get, he would start 7th alongside his new teammate De La Rosa. For some odd reason, Lapierre was off the pace in the MSR. Sato got beaten by Hildebrand, which was another embarassment.

Race recap

Our first DNF of the season, came from Fisichella on Lap 6. Massa had a water leak on Lap 10 from 3rd, his day was done. On Lap 12, Webber went off track and Rosberg retired due to a gearbox issue. On the next lap, Kubica had a loose right-rear tire from 3rd, and he almost made it back to pit lane, but sadly he had to retire the car. Lap 15, Heidfeld retired as well. On Lap 36, Hamilton retired while running in 3rd. On Lap 39, Coulthard retired. On the next lap, Kimi Retired from 4th due to a left-rear puncture. At the same time, De La Rosa retired due to an electrical issue also from 4th. With five laps left to go, Yamamoto retired. In the end, M. Schumacher drew first blood. R. Schumacher came in 2nd and Alonso managed a 3rd. Vettel got Force India a solid 4th, Trulli got a top 5 finish for Prodrive. Glock in his return to F1, managed to score 3 points. The two biggest surprises, however, are Carlin finally scoring their first ever points with a 7th by Heikki and Di Grassi scoring his first point for McLaren, which by the way he didn’t do in real life!

Race Results

1 Michael Schumacher 1:24:21.895
2 Ralf Schumacher +10.462
3 Fernando Alonso +33.846
4 Sebastian Vettel +57.745
5 Jarno Trulli +1:03.121
6 Timo Glock +1:17.344
7 Heikki Kovalainen 1 lap
8 Lucas Di Grassi 1 lap
9 Christian Klien 1 lap
10 Sebastien Bourdais 1 lap
11 Jenson Button 1 lap
12 Mark Webber 1 lap
13 JR Hildebrand 2 laps
14 Takuma Sato 2 laps
15 Nicolas Lapierre 2 laps
16 Giedo Van der garde 2 laps
DNF Sakon Yamamoto oil leak
DNF Pedro De La Rosa electrical
DNF Kimi Raikkonen Puncture
DNF David Coulthard Transmission
DNF Lewis Hamilton Suspension
DNF Nick Heidfeld Transmission
DNF Robert Kubica Loose Wheel
DNF Nico Rosberg Transmission
DNF Felipe Massa Water Leak
DNF Giancarlo Fisichella Transmission

ROTR: Williams-Renault for a Double-DNF, especially after Kubica kept up with the front runners before the wheel goes flying away! Honorable mention goes to Sato for finishing behind Hildebrand’s Super Aguri.

Ice1Racing · Post by **Ice1Racing** » 08 Mar 2015, 03:29

Great drive Heikki

KL-racer · Post by **KL-racer** » 17 Mar 2015, 17:38

Round 2 Malaysia

After Carlin and Di Grassi scored their first ever points in this series. What would be the next headline? It’s anybody’s guess as we head into Malaysia

Qualifying Results

1 Lewis Hamilton 1:37.579
2 Michael Schumacher +0.250
3 Ralf Schumacher +0.266
4 Robert Kubica +0.346
5 Kimi Raikkonen +0.395
6 Nick Heidfeld +0.436
7 Fernando Alonso +0.477
8 Timo Glock +0.478
9 Pedro De La Rosa +0.487
10 Felipe Massa +0.563
11 Sebastian Vettel +0.616
12 Jarno Trulli +0.750
13 Heikki Kovalainen +1.097
14 Jenson Button +1.309
15 Christian Klien +1.459
16 Nico Rosberg +1.543
17 Lucas Di Grassi +1.585
18 Sebastien Bourdais +1.674
19 Mark Webber +1.722
20 David Coulthard +1.765
21 Giancarlo Fisichella +1.901
22 Nicolas Lapierre +2.290
23 Giedo Van der Garde +3.269
24 JR Hildebrand +3.349
25 Takuma Sato +3.398
26 Sakon Yamamoto +3.800

Race Summary

On the second lap, Glock’s engine blew up down the back straight. The next lap, Kubica spun off track at turn 6, dropping him all the way to the back of the pack. Lap 12, Hamilton retired with a transmission issue while leading. Lap 15, Button had an electrical problem with his Red Bull but was able to make it back to pit lane in time. Lap 19, Di Grassi took an early exit. On Lap 24, Sato had Right-rear suspension failure at turn 1. On Lap 29, Klien was out of the race. On Lap 31, Heikki retired with engine issues. And on the next lap, Trulli in the other prodrive retired with an engine problem as well. On Lap 35, Vettel had to pit for a loose front-left wheel. On Lap 40, Yamamoto and Coulthard collided, both were able to continue on. On the next lap R. Schumacher retired. In the end, make it 2 wins in 2 races for M Schumacher.

Race Results
1 Michael Schumacher 1:26:28.228
2 Kimi Raikkonen +11.316
3 Pedro De La Rosa +22.151
4 Felipe Massa +23.092
5 Nick Heidfeld +23.176
6 Fernando Alonso +29.682
7 Robert Kubica +34.495
8 Sebastian Vettel +1:06.359
9 Nico Rosberg +1:18.757
10 Sebastien Bourdais +1:31.283
11 Mark Webber +1:32.178
12 Jenson Button +1:32.217
13 Giancarlo Fisichella 1 lap
14 Nicolas Lapierre 1 lap
15 Giedo Van der Garde 1 lap
16 JR Hildebrand 2 laps
17 Sakon Yamamoto 2 laps
18 David Coulthard 2 laps
DNF Ralf Schumacher Puncture
DNF Jarno Trulli Engine
DNF Heikki Kovalainen Engine
DNF Christian Klien Transmission
DNF Takuma Sato Suspension
DNF Lucas Di Grassi Puncutre
DNF Lewis Hamilton Transmission
DNF Timo Glock Engine

ROTR: Yamamoto, for being a moving chicane and closing the door on Coulthard at the final turn.

Paddock News:

FIA gives Sakon Yamamoto a one-race suspension for causing the Collision with Coulthard along with other factors.

The FIA after the race has decided to give Yamamoto a one-race suspension for avoidable contact with Coulthard on Lap 40 at the final turn. In addition, they stated that “during the first two races, he wasn’t really moving over right away when the faster cars are coming. Also, we took into consideration his qualifying times during the first two races as well. Hence, that’s the reason why we feel that a one-race suspension was the right course of action to take.”

Meanwhile, Toyota’s management wasn’t able to comment about this news yet, but they will be open to state their position at a date TBD. As for Super Aguri, reports are indicating that Vitaly Petrov, would probably get the #2 seat for the next race, but in terms of him getting more races this season, Aguri Suzuki denied to comment on the matter.

The Next round will be posted within the next couple days because of spring vacation at my workplace! Yay for me!

Klon · Post by **Klon** » 17 Mar 2015, 17:55

Toyota considers Yamamoto's behaviour regrettable and feel this punishment is an appropriate response.

Post by **Miguel98** » 17 Mar 2015, 19:15

Sato is not driving the next round. We will be bringing back Andre Lotterer to the car.

TheFlyingCaterham · Post by **TheFlyingCaterham** » 17 Mar 2015, 20:17

Well then. That happened.

Vitaly Petrov shall indeed replace Yamamoto for the next Grand Prix, and we also might keep him racing for longer, depending on how well he goes in the next GP

Collieafc · Post by **Collieafc** » 19 Mar 2015, 12:58

Massa is already looking like the bargain of the season.

KL-racer · Post by **KL-racer** » 21 Mar 2015, 22:33

Round 3 China

Okay, so there has been a couple of changes. Petrov will finally make his F1 debut and Lotterer is back in the Prodrive, for a second stint with the team. Hopefully this race doesn’t turn into a snooze-fest like the first GP of 2015 did in real life. Anyways, here’s the recap from China

Qualifying results

1 Fernando Alonso 1:34.287
2 Lewis Hamilton +0.076
3 Pedro De La Rosa +0.130
4 Michael Schumacher +0.179
5 Felipe Massa +0.401
6 Robert Kubica +0.540
7 Jarno Trulli +0.604
8 Timo Glock +0.733
9 Nick Heidfeld +0.818
10 Sebastian Vettel +0.829
11 Kimi Raikkonen +1.004
12 Sebastien Bourdais +1.278
13 Ralf Schumacher +1.284
14 Heikki Kovalainen +1.418
15 Giancarlo Fisichella +1.648
16 Andre Lotterer +1.688
17 Lucas Di Grassi +1.697
18 Christian Klien +1.746
19 Mark Webber +1.793
20 David Coulthard +1.832
21 Jenson Button +2.162
22 Nico Rosberg +2.385
23 Nicolas Lapierre +2.563
24 Giedo Van der Garde +2.703
25 Vitaly Petrov +2.938
26 JR Hildebrand +3.408

Obviously, the relatively long back straight at this track means that engine power would be a key factor. Likewise, this circuit is a tricky one to set up for. Alonso took pole position barely from the Ferrari of Hamilton. A big disappointment for Kimi, he can only muster 11th. A pleasant surprise from Bourdais, he will start 12th.

Race summary

On Lap 2, Hamilton got clipped by Kubica at the end of the back straight, he dropped all the way down to the back of the pack. On the next lap, Vettel went wide at the same spot and collected Fisichella, damaging the Italian’s front wing in the process. On Lap 5, a scary moment happened when Klien’s front wing flew off down the back straight, causing him to almost going to the wall at the end of the track, but he saved it, and made it back to the pits successfully. When this was going on, Trulli and glock collided at the end of the front straight, taking glock’s front wing off and Trulli understandably pissed off. Both were able to continue on. Lap 8, Webber’s right-rear wheel flew off down the back straight, forcing him to retire the car. On lap 34, Petrov suffered a loose right-rear wheel down the front straight and had to retire. Lap 38, Rosberg’ engine let go. While this was going on, Vettel retired from the top 5 with a puncture. With 10 laps left, Van der garde retired due to a gearbox problem and a few laps later Heikki’s engine failed. In the end, Alonso wins by a small margin over M. Schumacher and De la Rosa rounds off the podium.

Race Results
1 Fernando Alonso 1:43:13.193
2 Michael Schumacher +3.580
3 Pedro De La Rosa +14.327
4 Felipe Massa +35.856
5 Robert Kubica +43.469
6 Kimi Raikkonen +51.614
7 Lewis Hamilton +54.507
8 Nick Heidfeld +57.887
9 Sebastian Bourdais +1:22.079
10 Jarno Trulli +1:36.214
11 Ralf Schumacher 1 lap
12 Lucas Di Grassi 1 lap
13 Andre Lotterer 1 lap
14 Timo Glock 1 lap
15 David Coulthard 1 lap
16 Giancarlo Fisichella 1 lap
17 Christian Klien 1 lpa
18 Jenson Button 1 lap
19 Nicolas Lapierre 1 lap
20 JR Hildebrand 2 laps
DNF Heikki Kovalainen Engine
DNF Giedo Van der Garde Transmission
DNF Sebasitan Vettel Puncture
DNF Nico Rosberg Engine
DNF Vitaly Petrov Loose Wheel
DNF Mark Webber Loose Wheel

ROTR: No one

TheFlyingCaterham · Post by **TheFlyingCaterham** » 22 Mar 2015, 00:31

May I ask what place Petrov was running at when he DNFed?

KL-racer · Post by **KL-racer** » 28 Mar 2015, 17:10

TheFlyingCaterham wrote:May I ask what place Petrov was running at when he DNFed?

Well, Petrov was running just ahead of Hildebrand and he was 23rd at the time of the DNF. Thanks for asking.

By the way, the next round would be posted sometime this weekend.

Normal32 · Post by **Normal32** » 28 Mar 2015, 23:04

McLaren would like to enquire the services of Jose Maria Lopez.