Grand Prix Rejects

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Special Event - McLaren For the second time, this year, a long-established team Formula One team has become insolvent: Marlboro McLaren Honda Nationality: British Starting budget: £839,272 Remaining budget: £789,272 McLaren Downforce increase of 4% (Downforce = 55% > Downforce = 59%). D&T cost ...

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Round 14 - European Grand Prix, Brands Hatch, 6th October 1985 Qualifying Results: Rain was forecast all weekend, and Saturday's qualifying session would receive a light sprinkling throughout. Even in it's Grand Prix configuration, the many corners and few possibilities for heavy acceleration aroun...

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D&T after Round 13 I walked past 'South Yorkshire Kart Club' the other day. Anyone here a member? Track looks nice. McLaren Downforce increase of 4% (Downforce = 55% > Downforce = 59%). D&T cost was £880,000. Reliability increase of 3% (Reliability = 72% > Reliability = 75%). D&T cost w...

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We will also take the plunge and accept Subaru's engine offer. We look forward to a strong and mutually beneficial relationship. Thank you for your decision . Just to confirm, you will be using Subaru's F1-level variant of their 'EA-82T' turbocharged flat-four engine for 1986. For 1987, you will be...

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Special Event - Tyrrell In July, this year, a consortium of major Japanese auto manufacturers formed under the name 'SIDEWAIS:86' . 'SIDEWAIS:86' consisted of official, corporate motorsport representatives from Nissan , Mitsubishi and Subaru . According to Dentsu, who had been employed as the conce...

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Round 13 - Belgian Grand Prix, Spa-Francorchamps, 15th September 1985 Qualifying Results: Prost's steady hand would grant him pole position in Belgium, three-tenths ahead of team-mate Pironi who appeared to enlist a much more aggressive approach to the turns, ultimately costing him time. Winkelhock...

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D&T after Round 12 Updated my CV on the job websites, and now getting spammed with calls and emails from every recruitment agency that has ever existed... Brabham Development of next year's car. D&T cost was £640,000. Development of next year's car. D&T cost was £680,000. Lotus Developm...

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Aislabie wrote:Next year's car for all our remaining development please.

peteroli34 wrote:In that case every D&T we be placed on Alfa's 1986 challenger. Until Stated overwise,

Reject_Dom wrote:Lola would also like to throw all remaining D&T's into the 1986 car.

Oh~, it seems many people want to take advantage of my hassle-free 'auto-schedule' service

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Enjoy this convenience while it lasts, because bad~~~ things are going to happen to everyone, come 1986

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thor97 wrote:[Lotus will gladly ask for that

No problem.

I shall auto-schedule the Lotus team's D&T for their 1986 car, for any 1985 races where I don't hear from you.

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Tyrrell will use both D&Ts on next year's car It's a lonely road, isn't it - being the Tyrrell team? Nothing ever happens to you; you just show up at every race, do your job, and prepare for next year. Williams will be passing up this D&T oppertunity in favour of team training I assume this...

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FOCA TV Money Distribution - Third Quarter Please enjoy your penultimate payment of TV money. Ferrari have been credited £2,160,000 Williams have been credited £1,460,000 Brabham have been credited £1,160,000 Minardi have been credited £1,110,000 BMW have been credited £1,100,000 Arrows have been c...

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Round 12 - Italian Grand Prix, Monza, 8th September 1985 Qualifying Results: With a 25 km/h straight-line speed advantage - and a season's worth of steady development - the Minardi's looked quicker than ever in practice, and sure enough, would take their first pole position. Patrese, while still qu...

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D&T after Round 11 Is enjoying playing 'Root Double'. Brabham Development of next year's car. D&T cost was £600,000. Ferrari Development of next year's car. D&T cost was £1,500,000. Tyrrell Development of next year's car. D&T cost was £840,000. Alfa Romeo Development of next year's ...

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1 D&T for next years car and 1 for the Tires. After a (very) long streak of two-opportunities-per-race, we've only got the one, this time. I'm assuming~ you'll want to go with next year's car, rather than tyre development. My assumption is based on the following metaphor: "Imagine you're o...

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Round 11 - Samba Grand Prix, Hockenheimring, 25th August 1985 Qualifying Results: With everything turned-up to maximum revs, full turbocharger boost pressure, and ultra low-downforce configurations, even the quickest cars down the Hatzenbachbogen - the Minardis - could not quite compete on equal te...

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D&T after Round 10 Brabham Development of next year's car. D&T cost was £520,000. Development of next year's car. D&T cost was £560,000. Ferrari Development of next year's car. D&T cost was £1,380,000. Development of next year's car. D&T cost was £1,440,000. Development of next ...

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AdrianBelmonte_ wrote:I would like to join the waiting list pls

Welcome to...

The List™ Ft. You...

BioBiro wrote:... at the moment, patiently stood in-line are:
takagi_for_the_win
Regenmeister94
novitopoli
Normal32
AdrianBelmonte_

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One other thing I was wondering - Williams now has an F3000 junior team. What are the costs and benefits, and would Minardi be able to do the same? Hellooo~ You may find an overview of the deal, in this post . On the surface, at least, it appears to be quite the deal, wouldn't you agree? would Mina...

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Round 10 - Austrian Grand Prix, Österreichring, 18th August 1985 Qualifying Results: If not for the hard work of Didier Pironi, it may have easily have been an all-Minardi front row in Austria. At over twenty kilometers-an-hour faster than second-place speed demons, Ferrari, the Formula One circus ...

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D&T after Round 9 ... is thinking about releasing an album of love songs. McLaren Mechanical grip increase of 5% (Mechanical grip = 56% > Mechanical grip = 61%). D&T cost was £800,000. Downforce increase of 6% (Downforce = 49% > Downforce = 55%). D&T cost was £840,000. Ferrari Engine ho...

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I'm not quite sure why we've actually been docked five points since Silverstone, but still, third place seems safe-ish so we will spend our D&Ts on next year's car. Thank you for noticing and correcting this issue . It was... er~... the FIA's Lotus 1-2-3 diskette was a bit wobbly in the drive ....

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Round 9 - German Grand Prix, Nürburgring, 4th August 1985 Qualifying Results: It's an all-business front row at the Nürburgring, with Alboreto taking pole by over a second. Pironi, who continues to appear as the slightly weaker of the three Ferrari drivers, filled the second row, alongside his marg...

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D&T after Round 8 That's a-OK with me, Williams team . McLaren Reliability increase of 4% (Reliability = 63% > Reliability = 67%). D&T cost was £720,000. Reliability increase of 5% (Reliability = 67% > Reliability = 72%). D&T cost was £760,000. Brabham Development of next year's car. D&...

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Williams are happy to accept these terms, and by doing so wish to turn Grove into Britians answer to Maranello Thank you, Williams team . PMC Motorsport is now featured as the sole entry under the' Formula 3000 Teams' header, at the start of the thread, in this post. There is... just one more thing...

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Very, very sorry for the delay, Williams team. I've been distracted with some outside work for the past four/five days, and the answers to your questions are coming much too late from me. Williams would like to ask for some points of clarification regarding this potential merger of PMC and their re...

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Special Event - Williams PMC - Peter McIntosh Consultants - Motorsport, was incorporated last year to compete in the European Formula Three series, as part of a dual-team relationship with ex-F1 entrant, BS Fabrications - a British engineering company. Success came quickly, with the pair's three ca...

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FOCA TV Money Distribution - Second Quarter Ferrari have been credited £1,605,000 Williams have been credited £1,087,500 Brabham have been credited £952,500 Tyrrell have been credited £847,500 Arrows have been credited £802,500 Minardi have been credited £780,000 McLaren have been credited £720,000...

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Round 8 - British Grand Prix, Silverstone, 21st July 1985 Qualifying Results: A wet qualifying session resulted in some erratic performances up-and-down the field; only Prost seemed immune to making clumsy mistakes and waddling around the shallow puddles on the circuit, while everyone else struggle...

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D&T after Round 7 McLaren Reliability increase of 5% (Reliability = 58% > Reliability = 63%). D&T cost was £640,000. Development of next year's car. D&T cost was £680,000. Brabham Development of next year's car. D&T cost was £360,000. Development of next year's car. D&T cost was...

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The roll continues, but (hopefully) ends here, because I've had my fill of interviews with Tora Takagi. A short interview with Tora at the end of the 1998 Japanese Grand Prix. Bonus: something I've never seen before - an interview with Ricardo Rosset from 1998; he appears to be telling a reporter wh...

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I'm on a roll~...

Here's an interview with a very happy(?) Takagi, after crashing-out of the 1999 European Grand Prix..

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I know this is a ridiculous bounce (and I also don't remember why I thought of this thread, since I wasn't a member when it was posted, and I don't remember originally reading it), but I was watching a video on YouTube just now, and when I saw this... I thought of you. It's a 1997 interview with Tak...

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'Kinnock completes overthrow of Thatcher government' - The Observer, Sunday, 14th July 1985 Neil Kinnock, leader of the Labour party, has been elected Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. This marks the first successful motion of no confidence in Britain's democratically-elected government, since ...

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Round 7 - French Grand Prix, Paul Ricard, 7th July 1985 Qualifying Results: Surrounded by great swathes of French fans - some of them adorning - Prost took pole in Paul Ricard, nearly four seconds faster than either of his Ferrari team-mates. In fact, Prost's greatest threat came from the Minardi o...

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D&T after Round 6 Full house~! McLaren Reliability increase of 4% (Reliability = 54% > Reliability = 58%). D&T cost was £540,000. Development of next year's car. D&T cost was £600,000. Brabham Development of next year's car. D&T cost was £280,000. Development of next year's car. D&a...

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dinizintheoven wrote:I will give this reviewing lark a stab at some stage, because Spirit's Formula One is a reject game with an even more rejectful background.

Spirit made a Formula One video game?

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Strap a 1500 horse-power behemoth in the back of that and I'd have expected it to get better, not worse. It's er~... the turbocharger lag, you see. All four seconds of it. So, your unrealistic performance is planned, all along, and totally not the result of simulation problems.... Given that I've a...

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Not sure how we've managed to be so awful so far despite having a car with such good base numbers. Anyhow, one downforce update for us. I started to wonder this, also. Although I wrote the code that simulates the sessions, I don't really understand why it treats your car this way. On a fast track (...

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Round 6 - Detroit Grand Prix, Detroit, 23rd June 1985 Qualifying Results: Alboreto made short-work of the haphazard, stereotypical angular Detroit street track, revisited for the fourth time. His Ferrari chassis looked especially grippy, and the V6 turbo engine in the back seemed to behave predicat...

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D&T after Round 5 McLaren Mechanical grip increase of 7% (Mechanical grip = 49% > Mechanical grip = 56%). D&T cost was £520,000. Ferrari Reliability increase of 3% (Reliability = 83% > Reliability = 86%). D&T cost was £780,000. Alfa Romeo Development of next year's car. D&T cost was...

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