Grand Prix Rejects

Shawn040217

FortiWinks wrote:As an Aussie who enjoys V8 Supercars I’m compelled to enter this series! (Even though I was only 3 at the time )

HRT & Dynamik for me please!

Alrighto, you're in!!

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Welcome lads, to the 2005 Qantas V8 Supercar Championship Series! Coming off the back of a brilliant 2004 season, can Marcos Ambrose clinch his third consecutive championship? Can Jason Bright and Rick Kelly build on from last year to launch a full-on assault for their first title? Can Mark Skaife a...

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Round 1: Marlboro Grand Prix of Miami (Homestead Miami Speedway) (March 3-5, 2000) Paul Page: Racing is a high-speed game of dare, with danger lurking around every corner. This danger leads to a high range of emotions which can boil over into desperation, frustration, anger, disappointment and deje...

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Sorry for taking a little while, but nevertheless here goes then.... Paul Page: The flag is about to drop on another thrilling season. This off-season has been one of change, so much so that every team has had at least one new driver, and with that a host of 13 talented rookies looking to mark their...

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Team : Audi Sport Team Rosberg (12 CP assigned)
Mechanical Grip - 9 (+6 CP)
Ease on Tyres - 6
Reliability - 7 (+ 1 CP)
Wet Weather - 7 (+1.5 CP)
Ease of Setup - 7 (+ 2 CP)
Qualifying - 7 (+ 1.5 CP)

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All rite them. So time to get the full-on Red Bull blowtorch fully lit I suppose.....
For Car #31.....
1] Patricio O'Ward (MEX) (first choice)
2) Colin Braun (USA)
And Car #33...
1) Mattias Ekstrom (SWE) (first choice)
2) Robyn Kruger (RSA)

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Shawn040217 wrote:I'll take Audi Team Rosberg.
I shall bid for the following drivers:
#33 Rene Rast
#53 Laurens Vanthoor (1st choice) or André Lotterer

Also we would like to enlist the services of a wildcard driver for the race at Brno:
Red Bull :#93 Marc Marquez

Cos why not, really?

Shawn040217

I'll take Audi Team Rosberg.
I shall bid for the following drivers:
#33 Sam Bird (1st choice) or Nicki Thiim (scru ya Aston)

#53 Laurens Vanthoor (1st choice) or André Lotterer
Edit: Replaced Rast with Bird

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Red Bull Racing Africa LMP2 Car: Dallara LMP217 #31 1) Jordan Pepper (RSA) 2) Jonathan Aberdein (RSA) 3) Felipe Fraga (BRA) #33 1) Tasmin Pepper (RSA) 2) Rui Andrade (ANG) 3) Thomas Laurent (FRA) For the four-hour events we will be running Pepper and Fraga in the #31 while we will be running Laurent...

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Pencil me in for RB Racing Africa, please.

Drivers to come once I wake up eight hours later before online class.

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Mid-Ohio Test Day 1 1) #8 Tom Kristensen 1:06:091 2) #3 Gil de Ferran +0.345 3) #20 Max Papis +0.387 4) #9 Christian Fittipaldi +0.435 5) #6 Michael Andretti +0.522 6) #5 Jenson Button +0.694 7) #32 Kenny Brack +0.723 8) #96 Roberto Moreno +0.744 9) #17 Cristiano da Matta +0.772 10) #27 Tony Stewar...

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Team Name: Castrol Jordan Motorsport
Test Fee: $750k
Drivers: Alessandro Zanardi, Jorg Muller

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CART Testing Day 1: Montoya tops the charts as Franchitti shunts 1) #1 Juan Pablo Montoya 0:25:674 2) #34 Memo Gidley +0.134 3) #7 Jimmy Vasser +0.246 4) #40 Adrian Fernandez +0.276 5) #17 Cristiano da Matta +0.355 6) #33 Paul Tracy +0.412 7) #3 Gil de Ferran +0.424 8) #97 Alex Barron +0.495 9) #37...

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Donington Park (National): Round 5 The BTCC descended on Donington once more, this time for proper race time and with the championship well and truly descending into a fight between Mansell, Rydell and Menu. However in a bid to keep up several teams introduced a raft of upgrades, Renault's being the...

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Team LeMans

Mechanical Grip - 8(2*2 CP=4 CP)
Wet Weather - 7 (+1.5 CP)
Qualifying - 6
Reliability - 7 (+1 CP)
Ease on Tyres - 6
Ease of Setup - 7 (+2 CP)

Edit: 4+1.5+1+2=8.5 CP (0.5 CP remaining)

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Team: Valvoline Walker Racing Homestead Test Driver for Day 1: Jenson Button Area for Driver Improvement : Acceleration Driver for Day 2: Jenson Button Area for Driver Improvement: Technicality Mid-Ohio Test Driver for Day 1: Jenson Button Area for Driver Improvement: Acceleration Driver for Day 2:...

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So here comes Spring Training then!! How does it stack up? -There will 2 two-day tests, at Homestead and Mid-Ohio respectively. -CART will cover the travel costs for this one. -In these sessions you may opt to place particular focus on a particular area that you reckon your driver needs improving. I...

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Team Penske: = $6,155,000 [/color] Team Hogan: = $9,955,000 Team Green = $6,250,000 Patrick Racing = $12,795,000 Team Rahal = $9,425,000 Chip Ganassi Racing = $7,150,000 Payton/Coyne Racing = $10,600,000 PacWest Racing Enterprises = $11,970,000 Mo Nunn Racing = $9,560,000 Forsythe Racing = $7,580,00...

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Team Name: Team LeMans Sponsor Tier : Tier 2 Engine: We would like to take a bold step and opt for Honda motors. We would like to run two cars, which we would like to offer to the following: Driver 1: Scott McLaughlin (NZ) Driver 1: Felix Rosenqvist (SWE) Driver 1: Stoffel Vandoorne (BEL) Driver 2: ...

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Driver Signings Part 1.75 Helio Castroneves Having landed the jackpot with the five-race Penske deal, Helio has received an offer coming from PacWest to drive the remaining races, and with their equipment there's also the minute possibility of him potentially challenging for....a title? 1-55 Races ...

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Driver Signings Part 1.5 Sarah Fisher After opting to wait, Sarah has come to a final decision: 1-35 Opts to race fulltime with Mo Nunn 36-65 Will race with Mo Nunn,but only on ovals 66-100 Goes for Walker in IRL And its......32!! Sarah will race the full season and is giddy to have an accomplished...

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Pencil me on for TeamLeMans, please.

Anyway, I know what happened to him in Alt-F1, but is it possible for Kobayashi to return, in a Zanardi or Nannini-style of sorts?

Shawn040217

User name: Just Shawn Team : Stavola Brothers Racing We would like to give our seat to the following drivers, in order of preference: 1] Mark Martin 2] Joe Ruttman 3} Terry Labonte 4} Mario Andretti 5] Alan Jones ( I know, fite me) 6] Rusty Wallace 7] Ken Schrader 8] Buddy Baker 9] Dave Marcis 10] D...

Shawn040217

Yay, I would like to take Lotus, please.

Shawn040217

And while we're at it, here's a pic of V8 Supercars announcer Neil Crompton testing for Tasman Motorsports in '96....

And that's not the only series he'll be presenting in '00.....

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Drivers Part 1 So here's a list of which drivers that have been approached by which team: Gil de Ferran: Newman Haas, Rahal, Penske, Patrick Helio Castroneves: Newman Haas, Walker, Penske Olivier Panis: Newman Haas Christian Fittipaldi: Newman Haas, Hogan Raul Boesel : Hogan Alex Zanardi: Newman Ha...

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Well, we've given every team the same budget, so I guess that helps somewhat hehehe.... Anyway, the ultimate goal here is to have a maximum of 3 international rounds excluding Canada, US, Brazil and Mexico,(currently we have Motegi and Adelaide) and with the third international event for the next co...

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Thanks! And so time to wrap this up then..... Sponsors Part 2.5 Qantas The Australian airline company received three bids from Della Pena, PPI and Bettenhausen respectively. Della Pena 1-25 PPI 26-65 Bettenhausen 66-100 And it's.....67!! Bettenhausen gets it. DIRECTV Well, DirecTV's pretty shite the...

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No f king way!! Kristensen 4th ,ahead of both McLarens, a Williams and a Benneton? Bollocks that's brilliant! It's a tad surprising to see Alex qualify behind his rookie teammate, but we understand he's been used to cars with more power, less grip, less downforce and more forgiving to mistakes over ...

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FortiWinks wrote:Thanks Shawn!

All American Racers
Molson Brewery

No probs!

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Primary Sponsors A(Will only sponsor both cars of two-car teams) Marlboro ($4 million) Nationality: American (signed by Penske) KOOL ($ 3.8 million) Nationality: American (signed by Green) Players ($ 3.7 million) Nationality: Canadian (Must sign one Canadian driver) (Prefers sponsoring Forsythe) (s...

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FortiWinks wrote:Do you mind posting the updated list please Shawn before I bid?

Allrighty, Winks.

Shawn040217

Penske Racing Secondary Sponsors: Mobil 1 DirecTv (Indeck in case both Tracy and Moore gets chosen) I will keep Indeck aside only until both Canadians Tracy and Moore accepts to race Penske. Failing otherwise, I'll look at DirecTV instead. Would this also mean Hogan gets the same Secondary sponsors...

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Vauxhall will install one Technicality upgrade for our '98 shitbox and the other on Acceleration for next year's hopefully-not-a-shitbox. DC Cook will do the same as well, since has proven that Darren can wring some solid results out of the machinery he has to deal with, while Paula is slowly but su...

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User Name: Just Shawn
Team 1: Stavola Brothers Racing
Team 2: Blue Max Racing
Team 3: Wood Brothers Racing (just because I'm a bit of a DiBurrito fan)

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Sponsor Signings Part 2 Here's a list of which teams have applied for which sponsor: Secondary Sponsors: Panasonic : Ganassi Indeck : Forsythe Coca-Cola : Ganassi, Newman Haas, Bettenhausen Fujifilm : Ganassi Gillette : PPI, Green VISA : Della Pena, Forsythe, Newman Haas, Mo Nunn Mobil 1 : Ganassi,...

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With Patrick Racing ending up with Tecate sponsorship and Adrian Fernandez as a driver I just announce that I will not make any changes to #20 offers (de Ferran, Kanaan, Papis). #40 offers (Carpentier, Gordon, Gidley) are voided. With PPI I would ask to swap car sponsorships - Nextel taking #96 and...

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Sponsor Signings (Part 1) As a reference, here's a list of which teams have applied for which sponsor: Primary Sponsors A Marlboro : Ganassi, Penske, Penske-Hogan, PacWest KOOL : Green Players : Forsythe Target : Ganassi Texaco : Newman Haas, Patrick K-Mart : Newman Haas, Patrick Primary Sponsors B ...

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And off we head to..... Engines Mercedes Type IC180-E Bettenhausen Racing 1-15 Walker Racing 16-25 Chip Ganassi Racing 26-55 Forsythe Racing 56-80 PacWest Racing Enterprises 81-100 The first number will be....4...9! Ganassi has first dibs on werks Mercs. Bettenhausen Racing 1-15 Walker Racing 16-25 ...

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Since they're the only team available and having managed CART at a previous non canon Cart season i'll intend to take over Penske and it's Hogan Penske driver bids Car #2 Paul Tracy - $2.8 million Gil De Ferran - 2.5 Million Car #3 Greg Moore - 2.5 Million Helio Castroneves - 2.5 Million Gil De Fer...

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