Grand Prix Rejects

Posted: **10 Apr 2017, 10:50**

takagi_for_the_win wrote:Driver RNG's Part the Fourth - Takagi Reverts Back To Alcoholism

Next is Pedro Diniz. The diminutive Brazilian has several offers; he can stick with the Forti team that gave him his debut, he can test for McLaren, or he can move up the grid to either Jordan or Arrows. He prefers the Jordan and Arrows offers, seeing as they're the most competitive, but he isn't amiss to testing for a team like McLaren either. Forti sadly appear to be a mere afterthough.

1-15 McLaren
16-65 Jordan
66-95 Arrows
96-100 Forti

4! Diniz decides to take his moolah to a testing role with McLaren.

Our next Brazilian pay driver is Tarso Marques. Young Tarso has four offers remaining; he can choose to test for either Tyrrell or Jordan, or he can choose to race for either Forti or Minardi. Like any young aspiring paydriver he'd prefer to race, but getting a testing gig at a midtable team is weirdly enticing.

1-45 Minardi
46-48 Tyrrell
49-93 Forti
94-100 Jordan

17! Lamy will debut for Minardi this year.

Up next on the paydriver wheel of fortune is Andrea Montermini. The Italian has a testing offer from Jordan, as well as offers of a race seat from both Arrows and Forti. Montermini would prefer to drive, but again, testing for an established midtable team isn't a bad offer.

1-40 Forti
41-50 Jordan
51-100 Arrows

85! Montermini completes the racing line-up at Arrows.

Another RNG, another Brazilian pay-driver. This time it's the turn of Ricardo Rosset, who has the unenviable choice of either racing for Forti, or testing for one of Ligier, Jordan or Arrows. Again, he fancies making the step-up from F3000 to a raceseat, but testing for a midtable team is a viable alternative.

1-20 Ligier
21-70 Forti
71-80 Arrows
81-100 Jordan

56! Forti have their first driver, and Rosset has his F1 debut in the bag.

We're at that stage in the off-season where most seats have been taken, but one driver remains popular for his moolah. I'm talking about Giovanni Lavaggi, who has the offer of a race seat with Forti, or the offer of testing with one of Minardi, Tyrrell or Ligier. As always, the race seat takes precedence, followed by testing in order for bigger teams.

1-5 Minardi
6-25 Ligier
26-30 Tyrrell
31-100 Forti

23! Montermini takes up the testing berth at Ligier.

Luca Badoer only has one offer, that of a testing seat at Ferrari. He duly accepts.

Likewise, Gil de Ferran snaps up his sole offer; a testing contract with Williams.

Because of the way that the cards have fallen, Patrick Lemarie has been offered an entry into the world of open wheeled racing with a testing offer from Forti. He accepts. Finally, this frees up Norberto Fontana to accept a testing contract from Minardi.

2 things. Firstly, do I have Marquez or Lamy in my second seats as the driver name changes around the Rng (we have Marquez in bold font, but after the result it says I have Lamy) secondly my testing block is shown as empty but it also says that Fontana signed for me.

Posted: **10 Apr 2017, 12:22**

andrew wrote:2 things. Firstly, do I have Marquez or Lamy in my second seats as the driver name changes around the Rng (we have Marquez in bold font, but after the result it says I have Lamy) secondly my testing block is shown as empty but it also says that Fontana signed for me.

Ah, guess that's my comeuppance for RNG'ing at 2 in the morning. Both issues are just typos, a lack of concentration on my part. Tarso Marques is your driver, Lamy is driving for Ligier; and Fontana is your test driver, sorry.

This Could Be You wrote:Could we get enough money out of Domenico Schiatterella (think that's how it's spelt) as test driver? Failing that, what about Taki Inoue? (we're desperate, really)

Schiatterella brings 2 mill, Inoue brings 3. Your choice, either way you're mildly screwed in terms of car development.

As drivers will be more desperate for gainful employment at this point in the off-season, they'll be more likely to snap the first realistic offer that comes their way. To reflect this, I'll be running RNG's every evening regarding the day's offers until the grid is completed.

Posted: **10 Apr 2017, 12:31**

Tyrrell will go for Inoue. By the way, if you want I can produce liveries for the cars similar to the ones I did for BioBiro's F1 1984+ (some of them look quite different, such as the Sauber, which I've already done)

Posted: **10 Apr 2017, 12:38**

This Could Be You wrote:Tyrrell will go for Inoue. By the way, if you want I can produce liveries for the cars similar to the ones I did for BioBiro's F1 1984+ (some of them look quite different, such as the Sauber, which I've already done)

Yeah, I see no reason why not.

Do you mind PM'ing me the Sauber if you have it done?

Posted: **10 Apr 2017, 22:44**

Aislabie wrote:Kenny Brack please; we'll bid a million for his services.

Brack, fresh from coming 3rd in F3000, gladly accepts the offer.

RedEyes504 wrote:[b]Benetton

Driver #1
Jacques Villeneuve 10 million
Johnny Herbert 6 million

Driver #2
Mika Salo 5 million
Ralf Schumacher 2 million

Test Driver
Vincenzo Sospiri 500k
Jarno Trulli 500k

Villeneuve accepts, having made it his priority to conquer F1. Salo also accepts, realising that this is the biggest opportunity of his career, and Sospiri completes the triumvirate.

This Could Be You wrote:Tyrrell will go for Inoue.

Inoue accepts.

The only seats left now are the McLaren second seat, Jordan second seat and test driver, and the Arrows test driver, so if Gonzalez, thor97 and Pi please post their picks in the next 48 hours please. Budgets have been updated so you can see how much money you have left to play with, and there's still a large amount of talent unpicked.

Posted: **10 Apr 2017, 23:10**

Since Berger is the only best driver still avaliable, Mclaren will try and lure him back to the team where he can end his career with us, whenever he feels

Posted: **11 Apr 2017, 00:36**

2D Martin Brundle
TD Allan Mcnish

Posted: **11 Apr 2017, 09:44**

Put me to the waiting list, pls.

Posted: **11 Apr 2017, 22:31**

Gonzalez wrote:Since Berger is the only best driver still avaliable, Mclaren will try and lure him back to the team where he can end his career with us, whenever he feels

thor97 wrote:2D Martin Brundle
TD Allan Mcnish

All accept.

Reject_Dom wrote:Put me to the waiting list, pls.

Have done.

Posted: **12 Apr 2017, 09:07**

Test driver for Arrows: Jean-Denis Deletraz

Posted: **12 Apr 2017, 11:43**

pi314159 wrote:Test driver for Arrows: Jean-Denis Deletraz

Perfect.

And with that, pre-season testing can begin. All teams and drivers will attend the test at Circuit de Catalunya, and I'll have the times up, with a shoddily written season preview, by this evening.

Posted: **12 Apr 2017, 13:16**

Go ahead and put me on the waiting list (I know it's going to be long, need a patience)

Posted: **12 Apr 2017, 17:24**

Pre-season testing has came, and went, in the blink of an eye!

Circuit de Catalunya - Barcelona

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1. Mika Hakkinen (Williams-Renault) 1:20:912
2. Jean Alesi (Williams-Renault) 1:21:092
3. Michael Schumacher (Ferrari) 1:21:890
4. Gil de Ferran (Williams-Renault) 1:22:115
5. Damon Hill (Ferrari) 1:22:206
6. Jacques Villeneuve (Benetton-Renault) 1:22:465
7. Mika Salo (Benetton-Renault) 1:22:667
8. Gerhard Berger (McLaren-Mercedes) 1:22:751
9. Heinz-Harald Frentzen (McLaren-Mercedes) 1:22:850
10. Luca Badoer (Ferrari) 1:23:117
11. Olivier Panis (Ligier-Mugen) 1:23:361
12. Rubens Barrichello (Sauber-Peugeot) 1:23:476
13. Vincenzo Sospiri (Benetton-Renault) 1:23:515
14. David Coulthard (Jordan-Yamaha) 1:23:529
15.Martin Brundle (Jordan-Yamaha) 1:23:681
16. Eddie Irvine (Tyrrell-Ford) 1:23:792
17. Giancarlo Fisichella (Tyrrell-Ford) 1:23:953
18. Pedro Diniz (McLaren-Mercedes) 1:23:956
19. Pedro Lamy (Ligier-Mugen) 1:24:059
20. Marc Goossens (Sauber-Peugeot) 1:24:217
21. Jan Magnussen (Arrows-Yamaha) 1:24:299
22. Allan McNish (Jordan-Yamaha) 1:24:329
23. Ukyo Katayama (Sauber-Peugeot) 1:24:359
24. Giovanni Lavaggi (Ligier-Mugen) 1:24:465
25. Jos Verstappen (Minardi-Hart) 1:24:616
26. Andrea Montermini (Arrows-Yamaha) 1:25:162
27. Pedro Lamy (Minardi-Hart) 1:25:617
28. Norberto Fontana (Minardi-Hart) 1:25:850
29. Kenny Brack (Forti-Hart) 1:27:124
30. Ricardo Rosset (Forti-Hart) 1:28:182
31. Taki Inoue (Tyrrell-Ford) 1:28:888
32. Patrick Lemarié (Forti-Hart) 1:29:457
33. Jean-Denis Deletraz (Arrows-Yamaha) 1:30:323

Ominous signs from Barcelona, as the Williams cars romped to the top of the timing screens without any real issues; the only problem for Williams this year seems to be deciding which one of their drivers will be allowed to win. Ferrari and Benetton appear to be relatively evenly balanced. McLaren seem to be in the no-mans land between the top 3 and the midfield, which appears to be more competitive than ever. Ligier, Jordan and Sauber all appear to have good cars, while Tyrrell have made a big step-up from last year. At the back, it could be a very long year ahead for Arrows, Minardi and Forti.

Teams can of course upgrade their cars between now and the first race, which I will start to run on Saturday. Teams can upgrade grip, speed, and reliability, and you can make small, medium or large upgrades in each area. Teams can upgrade in a maximum of two areas at a time. Small upgrades cost £250,000, medium cost £500,000 and large cost £1,000,000. Post upgrades in the thread pls.

I'll stick a team-by-team preview up in the next 24 hours, featuring illustrations from This Could Be You.

Posted: **12 Apr 2017, 17:32**

Going to break the bank a little bit with the following upgrades for Forti:

Large grip upgrade
Large speed upgrade

Posted: **12 Apr 2017, 17:48**

Tyrrell will blow half our development budget ( :facepalm:

) with a small reliability upgrade, as this was our and Ford's shortcoming last year.

Posted: **12 Apr 2017, 17:57**

Well we are slow but still have a lot in the bank, large grip and and large speed please.

Posted: **12 Apr 2017, 18:45**

Large Speed & Grip for us

Posted: **12 Apr 2017, 18:58**

Medium Grip and Speed upgrades.

Posted: **12 Apr 2017, 20:13**

Ligier will opt for Large upgrades in Speed and Reliability.

Posted: **12 Apr 2017, 22:42**

Williams will go for Large Speed and Reliability upgrades

Posted: **13 Apr 2017, 23:46**

Mclaren will go for Large Speed and Medium Reliability upgrades.

Posted: **15 Apr 2017, 14:27**

1996 Australian Grand Prix - Qualifying

Proving that their times in pre-season testing were no fluke, Williams romped to the front row, with Ferrari obviously best of the rest. Benetton and McLaren appear evenly matched around the new Albert Park circuit. The midfield was as tight as ever, with strong laps from Barrichello's Sauber and Irvine's Tyrrell. Forti were the only team to fall foul of the 107% rule, with both drivers missing the cut.

1. Mika Hakkinen (Williams-Renault) 1:32:233
2. Jean Alesi (Williams-Renault) 1:32:407
3. Damon Hill (Ferrari) 1:33:453
4. Michael Schumacher (Ferrari) 1:33:458
5. Jacques Villeneuve (Benetton-Renault) 1:34:495
6. Heinz-Harald Frentzen (McLaren-Mercedes) 1:34:499
7. Gerhard Berger (McLaren-Mercedes) 1:34:520
8. Mika Salo (Benetton-Renault) 1:34:667
9. Rubens Barrichello (Sauber-Peugeot) 1:34:829
10. Eddie Irvine (Tyrrell-Ford) 1:35:339
11. Olivier Panis (Ligier-Mugen) 1:35:504
12. David Coulthard (Jordan-Yamaha) 1:35:574
13. Ukyo Katayama (Sauber-Peugeot) 1:35:705
14. Giancarlo Fisichella (Tyrrell-Ford) 1:35:711
15. Martin Brundle (Jordan-Yamaha) 1:35:870
16. Jan Magnussen (Arrows-Yamaha) 1:36:084
17. Pedro Lamy (Ligier-Mugen) 1:36:612
18. Jos Verstappen (Minardi-Hart) 1:36:835
19. Andrea Montermini (Arrows-Yamaha) 1:37:790
20. Tarso Marques (Minardi-Hart) 1:37:934
107% time: 1:38:689
-- Kenny Brack (Forti-Hart) 1:39:575
-- Ricardo Rosset (Forti-Hart) 1:40:114

If you have any specific requests for strategy, PM them to me before 12:00 GMT tomorrow. Also, next opportunity for upgrades will be after the 3 flyaway races, before round 4.

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Also, I had two attempts at doing a professional style season preview but both times my laptop shat itself and ate the document. Having decided that this was fate telling me not to bother, I listened to fate, and instead shall stick This Could Be You's lovely artwork into the OP instead.

Posted: **15 Apr 2017, 15:44**

Those cars are gorgeous, @TCBY! :lol:

Posted: **21 Apr 2017, 21:10**

If anyone's wondering about the seeming lack of progress beyond qualifying in this, fear not. Basically my laptop alternates between working, and not working, and the upshot of this is that simming 58 laps is a lottery when your laptop can die at any point. Currently simming it lap by lap, hopefully I'll have results up by Tuesday or so. Sorry for the delay and lack of communication.

Posted: **26 Apr 2017, 12:51**

Okay then, having reached lap 38 of 58, my laptop finally reached the point of no return, and committed suicide. Also, as I am a tremendous dunce, I neglected to email all the relevant spreadsheets to myself, so they were also lost in the Great Laptop Suicide of 2017. I have various bits of data written down on paper floating around so it's not completely catastrophic, but long story short I'm going to have to re-run the entire event; qualifying and all. Sorry about this everyone.

Posted: **08 Nov 2017, 21:26**

Alrighty chaps. You may have noticed me floating around the forums like a mildly alcoholic, sweary ghost recently, and alas, I have returned. Again. I also appear to have a working laptop again *touches wood, crosses fingers, pulls foot off of rabbit*, and thus, can run my spreadsheet based game of fun again.

Obviously there's a possibility that people involved in this series may have run off or no longer wish to participate; this is of course not fine at all, and anyone who wishes to pull out must duel me to the death.

Thus, if you've a team in this series, could you please post in here if you wish for me to carry on with this series or if you'd like to withdraw or whatever, ta.

Posted: **08 Nov 2017, 21:49**

Oh Christ, I signed up for Forti didn't I... what was I thinking?

Eh - I mean yeah, sure, let's do this thing.

Posted: **08 Nov 2017, 22:08**

I'll keep bankrupting Tyrrell in search of upper-midfield results

Posted: **09 Nov 2017, 01:11**

Jordan's in

Posted: **09 Nov 2017, 09:16**

I’m still happy to participate, either as in the waiting list or taking any team where the owner has fallen by the wayside

Posted: **09 Nov 2017, 09:37**

I shall resume as head of Williams

Posted: **09 Nov 2017, 09:54**

Someone else may take Sauber.

Posted: **09 Nov 2017, 13:00**

takagi_for_the_win wrote:Obviously there's a possibility that people involved in this series may have run off or no longer wish to participate; this is of course not fine at all, and anyone who wishes to pull out must duel me to the death.

Ataxia wrote:Someone else may take Sauber.

Oi, me, you, outside now.

Posted: **09 Nov 2017, 14:53**

I'm still here, although on the waiting list

Posted: **09 Nov 2017, 15:33**

Count me in, mate.

Posted: **09 Nov 2017, 19:37**

I'm here, actually on the waiting list.

Posted: **10 Nov 2017, 09:31**

Benetton will be back

Posted: **12 Nov 2017, 15:19**

Gonzalez, Salamander, Pi and Andrew all have until 12:00 PM on Tuesday to post whether or not they wish to continue in this series. Otherwise, I'll assume they're not active here and their teams (McLaren, Ligier, Arrows and Minardi), as well as Sauber, will be opened up to the lovely people on the waiting list.

Posted: **12 Nov 2017, 15:27**

Sure, I guess, why not.

Posted: **14 Nov 2017, 17:59**

I'll keep Arrows and try to repair the mess I got them into.

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