Grand Prix Rejects

1993



Welcome back to another glorious year of alt-Mario Kart, the mad series that threatens to end us all. After a climactic season, it was a straight fight between the business magnate Mario family and the Koopa royalty for the championship. Mario himself being hopeless, it was up to his brother Luigi to take the crown at the final round. With the first season in the bag, it’s time to get going for another one. This will be Wario’s first full season, and rumours are that Daisy, another member of royalty (which one, who knows?) also desires to participate. As the fame of the series grows throughout the Mushroom Kingdom, is the prestigious class of Mario Kart threatened? Can Mario Kart afford to open up to the upper-middle classes?

Find out in this glorious year of 1993.


1993 rule changes
- Lakitu (the camera car) will now be forced to fully fuel for each race, thus reducing the risk of a red-flag situation.

- Wario Jumpman, and any other future customer car, will not be able to influence engine or tyre development. Therefore, they will receive only five development tokens due to their reduced status (and the fact that they will benefit from those engine and tyre developments anyway).

- Going into the season, any car with fewer than 16 attribute points will be declared too slow and unfit for the 1993 rules. All those drivers will be assigned a standard SMK/93, which will have a standard 2-2-x-x-2-2-2-2 stats.

- Any team with a car holding 16+ attributes may choose whether to swap for the standard SMK/93 chassis or to continue with their current car entered as an SMK/92B If they take the SMK/93, they don’t have to pay anything. HOWEVER:
o To enter an SMK/92B, the drivers must be able to prove that their car is safe. To do this, they need to spend, in tokens, the difference between their current car level and the 16-attribute car level. Therefore, if a car has 24 points, that driver must spend 8 tokens to keep it for 1993.
o Obviously, if a driver doesn’t have the tokens, they must ditch their unsafe kart and take a standard SMK/93. The good part is that they don’t have to spend any tokens to keep what they have if that’s what they want.
o After, and only after, the assigning of karts, will the standard 8 development points be handed out in the run-up to 1993.

- Engine and tyres will suffer no depreciation. Their stats remain as they were at the end of 1992.


Current entries so far are:

#1. Luigi Mario. Age 25 with Equipe Luigier, driving the LD01/93 (SMK/92B).
#2. Bowser Koopa. Age 39 with Bowser Motorworks, driving the B.M.W. E93 (SMK/93).
#3. Toad Toadstool. Age 22 with 1-UP Racing Team, driving the FNG1 (SMK/93).
#4. Yoshi Munchakoopas. Age 31 with Yoshimura Kartabusa, driving the Mitsuyoshi Mk. II (SMK/93).
#5. Kooper Troopa. Age 36 with PowerStar Koopra Sport, driving the Koopra KS2 (SMK/93)
#6. Donkard “Donkey” Kong Jr. Age 43 with D&K Fabrications, driving the DKC-02 (SMK/93)
#7. Peach Toadstool. Age 27 with Peachific, driving the De Toadmaso PR01B (SMK/92B).
#8. Mario Mario. Age 29 with Scuderia Mario, driving the SM50B (SMK/93).
#9. Wario Jumpman. Age 31 with Super Wario Racing, driving the SWR-01 (SMK/93).
#10. Daisy Sarasaland. Age 26 with Sarasland Squadron, driving the Sarasland Rover 93 (SMK/93).
#11… (pending).

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1993 Calendar:

Mushroom Cup (Rounds 1-4)
1. Mario International Circuit (Inner Layout)
2. Mario International Circuit (International Layout)
3. Ghost Valley (Speedway Edition)
4. Donut Plains (Outer Loop)

Flower Cup (Rounds 5-8)
5. Mario Circuit (Endurance Circuit)
6. Choco Island (Outer Loop)
7. Bowser's Castle (Endurance Circuit)
8. Donut Plains (National Circuit)

Star Cup (Rounds 9-12)
9. Mario Circuit (National Circuit)
10. Choco Island (Endurance Circuit)
11. Vanilla Lake (Oval)
12. Bowser's Castle (International Circuit)

Special Cup (Rounds 13-16)
13. Ghost Valley (International Circuit)
14. Vanilla Lake (Outer Oval)
15. Donut Plains (International Circuit)
16. Rainbow Road :flag_sp:

Points are awarded as follows:
1st: 9 points
2nd: 6 points
3rd: 3 points
4th: 1 points
5th and lower: 0 points


If you’re interested in joining (or you want to quit), put up a post and I’ll confirm it. Pinkd56 is at the front of the queue for joining, as has been noted. They are free to take Daisy, who will debut this season. Anyone else is free to suggest drivers, and we can work out how to rope them into alt-Mario Kart

Driver: Bowser Koopa
Team name: whatever it was called last season(or if kinnik want's to change it)
Car name: B.M.W. E93 (new chassis)

Driver: Peach Toadstool
Team name: Peachific Grand Prix
Car name: De Toadmaso PR 01B (which is a SMK/92B)

Name: Donkard Kong Jr
Team: D&K Fabrications
Kart: SMK/93 (DKC-02)

Name: Kooper Troopa
Team: PowerStar Koopra Sport
Kart: SMK/93 (Koopra KS2)

1993 welcomes its newest participant. Coming from the kingdom of Sarasaland, famously liberated in 1989 by Mario Mario himself, Princess Daisy (with whom I guess Mario's lost interest with by this point ) joins the Mario Kart Circuit for this season. Pinkd56 will be running the new customer entry alongside her friend Peach Toadstool, with Peachelin tyres and Yoshimitsu engines.

Like Wario Jumpman, Daisy will not be able to contribute to development of the engines or tyres she has been provided. Along with this, she will operate at a reduced development rate (6 tokens instead of the usual 8).

Name: Wario Jumpman
Team: Super Wario Racing
Kart: SMK/93 (SWR-01)

Name: Luigi Mario
Team: Equipe Luigier
Kart: SMK/92B (LD01/93)

With all the car types confirmed, I hereby declare that the pre-season development is open for 1993! I am to race the Mushroom Cup this coming Tuesday, so make sure you do your development more than five minutes before then

As with every session, you have a maximum of 16 spendable points in one go.

And here's where you spend them

Donkard kong jr.

-1 token into reliability

-1 into aero

2 into set up.

3 grip
3 quali
1 tyres

Driver: Yoshisaur T. Munchakoopas
Team: Yoshimura Kartabusa
Kart: SMK/93 (Mitsuyoshi Mk. II)

Gib dev in 2x Aero, 2x Grip and Qualy pls

Equipe Luigier will spend 4pts on aero, 2pts on qualifying, and 1pt on grip and setup

Gonna spend last token on Aero, just letting Luigi know the development war is on!

Bowser would like to get 2 upgrades each, in Aero, Grip and Setup. After those we'll evaluate and spend more. Pls. tag me on Discord when the upgrades are run, if possible.

Wario Jumpman will spend his tokens on:

3 - Grip
2 - Aero
2 - Setup
1 - Qualifying

Development success stats for pre-season 1993 so far:

3/4 for DK Jr.
7/9 for Peach
7/9 for Yoshi
6/8 for Luigi
7/8 for Wario
6/6 for Bowser

Yoshi wishes to upgrade Engine, as well as Grip, Qualy and Aero

DK will spend one toke each on:

-Grip
-qualifying

Bowser will buy one upgrade for the engine and the tyres please.

Driver: Mario Mario
Team: Scuderia Mario
Kart: SMK/93 (SM50B)

Upgrades:
4x Engine (8 points)
4x Tyres (8 points)

Name: Princess Daisy von Sarasland
Team: Sarasland Squadron
Kart: SMK/93 (Sarasland Rover 93)

2x tokens into aero, 2x tokens into qually, 2x tokens into setup please!

Name: Kooper Troopa
Team: PowerStar Koopra Sport
Kart: SMK/93 (Koopra KS2)

Upgrades:
-Aero x2
-Grip x2
-Engine x1
-Tyres x1
-Reliability x1
-Setup x2
-Qualifying x2

There's clearly a development war going on, & the Koopa's won't be left behind.

Bowser will spend his last four development points as follows:
2 x qualifying
1 x aero
1 x grip

DK JR will spend tokens on:

-aero
-Qualifying
-Grip

DK JR will spend one token each on:

-Grip
-Setup
-Qualifying.

The calendar has been confirmed. No Mushroom Kingdom circuits were removed, but three Koopa Land circuits were. Some are blaming it on meddling from the Mario Brothers in attempting to influence the calendar in their favour. After all, Bowser especially did incredibly well at his home races, and it is thought that with fewer home races, the advantage will have moved.

There has also been rather angry mutterings from their opponents that the Mario Brothers have purposefully bent the rules against the sporting code to benefit Luigi Mario going into 1993. During the off-season, Mario Mario has used all his development time to build up the Marioserati engines and Pirelluigi tyres instead of his own chassis, thus greatly aiding his brother Luigi's upcoming championship defence. Of course, nothing in the rules prevents this, but at the drivers' tests Luigi was forced to defend his brothers actions.

"Ok, a-here's a deal," Luigi said to the press and drivers. "If-a Wario beats my brother after-a Rainbow Road, he's-a gonna win preferential treatment instead".

The crowd murmured agreement to this and seemed content. Mario Mario, who had not been consulted pre-briefing, was furious and kicked a table on his way out of the conference.

Mushroom Cup



Despite losing some stats in the off-season, Yoshi went into the 1993 season absolutely guns-blazing. Three poles in four races, and a front row start in the other one, he used those fantastic grid positions to dominate the Mushroom Cup and take his first cup win.

There was some incredible pace from Wario and Daisy, our new drivers. While they weren't consistent, their pace was absolutely great. LUIGI MARIO #1 had pace too, and remains a contender for the championship in spite of some uncharacteristic mistakes in the first few races. It seems he and Bowser swapped cars, with Bowser being way more consistent than usual.

Mario ended his record run of 10 consecutive retirements and 11 consecutive pointless finishes with a mighty 4th place. D.K. Jr.'s pace seems to have come from nowhere, and it remains to be seen whether it was simple fluke or genuine speed for the rest of the season.

See you next week for the Flower Cup!

Peach will spend
3x on the Peachelin tyres, we hope Mitsuyoshi will take care of their side of the garage with the engines, though they can do it on their pace.
2x grip

DK JR will spend once on engines and tires as well as once on Grip pls.

DK JR will spend twice on engines and once on both setup and qualifying pls. Plus, once on tires.

DK JR will spend one token on grip plas

Seeing how developments have panned out, Mitsuyoshi cannot let the side down. We therefore ask:
2x Engine upgrades
2x Reliability

The Bowser upgrade package should look like this, pls:

2x Engine
2x Tyres
1x Grip
1x Aero
1xSetup
3x Qualifying

This should be a total of 14 Tokens.

Mario is to do additional upgrades:
4x Engine (8 points)
4x Tyres (8 points)

Two tokens on qually, one on setup and two tokens on grip please for Daisy!

Equipe Luigier will spend 2 tokens on Grip, 2 tokens on Setup and one token each on Aero and Qualifying

DK JR will spend 2 token on aero, 1 on setup and one on qualifying pls.

Peachific : whatever many attempts is needed to max the tyres and grip, if by miracle i have tokens left, put that on setup.

DK jr will spend two tokens on qualifying, two on grip, one on aero and one on setup. YOLO