2013 IndyCar season - Cancelled

HawkAussie · Post by **HawkAussie** » 04 Aug 2014, 23:50

After Ryan Hunter-Reay won the 2012 season by only 3 points from Will Power. A change in the top was seen with HawkAussie taking the top role which was a shock for many. The silly season was sure to change the grid up with new rules and races.

Welcome to my first series as we travel to North America for the 2013 IndyCar season. The rule changes for this season of IndyCar.

- Each team must have only one test driver which must be in the lower 3 divisions (Indy Lights, Pro Mazda Championship, U.S. F2000 National Championship)
- The triple crown will return for the first time since 1989 with Poconno, Indianapolis and Fontana.
- The Indianapolis quali point system will drop to only have the top 9 scoring points.
- Teams are now only to have 2 drivers that is eligible for the team championship.
- The Road and Oval champions will be dropped.'

NOTE: I will be using AustralianStig excel sheet to simulate the races. This will be extremly detailed and can

If you are interested in running a team, please indicate below. Note that who gets what team will be decided by a RNG, so if you are dying to run Team Penske you might end up with Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing. If you get one of the three TBA teams then you can create the personallity of the team.

HawkAussie · Post by **HawkAussie** » 04 Aug 2014, 23:51

Teams and Drivers

A. J. Foyt Enterprises
Manager: Normal32
Engine: Honda
Driver: #14 Milka Duno (1 year)
Test Driver: Wade Cunnigham

Andretti Autosport
Manager: roblomas52
Engine: Chevrolet
Driver: #26 Marco Andretti (Automatily joins the team)
Driver: #27 James Hinchcliffe (2 years)
Driver: #28 Ryan Hunter-Reay (2 years)
Test Driver: N/A

Chip Ganassi Racing
Manager: V8fan12
Engine: Honda
Driver: #9 Scott Dixon (2 years)
Driver: #10 Dario Franchitti (1 year)
Driver: #38 Juan Pablo Montoya (1 year)
Driver: #39 Josef Newgarden (1 year)
Test Driver: James Jakes (1 year)

Dale Coyne Racing
Manager: W12
Engine: Honda
Driver: #18 Justin Wilson (1 year)
Driver: #19 Esteban Guerrieri (1 year)
Test Driver: N/A

Dragon Racing
Manager: Reject_Dom
Engine: Lotus
Driver: #6 Christijan Albers (2 years)
Driver: #7 Sébastien Bourdais (2 years)
Test Driver: Conor Daly (1 year)

Dreyer & Reinbold Racing
Manager: Klon
Engine: Lotus
Driver: #33 Cale Gale (1 year)
Test Driver: Petri Suvanto (1 year)

Ed Carpenter Racing
Manager: FantometteBR
Engine: Chevrolet
Driver: #20 Ed Carpenter
Test Driver: Ana Beatriz (1 year)

KV Racing Technology
Manager: go_Rubens
Engine: Chevrolet
Driver: #8 Rubens Barrichello (1 year)
Driver: #11 Tony Kanaan (2 years)
Test Driver: Jack Hawksworth (1 year)

Lotus–HVM Racing
Manager: mrfakeboullier
Engine: Lotus
Drivers: #76 Nicolas Prost (1 year) (Road)/Mikhail Aleshin (1 year) (Oval)
Driver: #78 Simona de Silvestro (2 years)
Test Driver: N/A

Panther Racing
Manager: Miguel98
Engine: Chevrolet
Driver: #4 J. R. Hildebrand (1 year)
Test Driver: Peter Dempsey (1 year)

Team Barracuda – BHA
Manager: HawkAussie
Engine: Lotus
Driver: #98 Tristan Vautier (1 year)
Test Driver: Gustavo Yacamán (1 year)

Team Penske
Manager: Phoenix
Engine: Chevrolet
Driver: #3 Hélio Castroneves (2 years)
Driver: #12 Will Power (1 year)
Driver: #77 Simon Pagenaud (2 years)
Test Driver: N/A

Carlin Motorsport
Manager: Salamander
Engine: Honda
Driver: #2 Ryan Briscoe (2 years)
Driver: #83 Charlie Kimball (1 year)
Test Driver: Luca Filippi (1 year)

Newman-Haas Racing
Manager: mike robers
Engine: Chevrolet
Driver: #63 Pippa Mann (1 year)
Driver: #70 Johanna Long (1 year)
Test Driver: Ashley Freiberg (1 year)

Upgrades
Three times in the year (before Indianapolis, Iowa and Mid-Ohio) each team will have the opportunity to install upgrades on their vehicles. Only one parameter may be upgraded each time, aside from pit stops which you can do every time. I'm going to keep this pretty simple here, so the following upgrades are possible:

- Reliability
- Race Pace (Road)
- Race Pace (Oval)
- Qualifying Pace
- Tyre Life
- Pit stops (free)

When you have decided on which upgrade you would prefer, you can then choose how radical or conservative you would like it to be:

- Conservative - high chance of success, small gains
- Standard - average chance of success, average gains
- Radical - low chance of success, high gains

Success or failure will be decided by RNG. Note that a bad failure may have the opposite effect to what you were hoping for, so choose carefully. Teams will also be advised of the degree of success or failure.

For example, Dragon Racing may wish to attempt to improve their tyre life. They need to take the risks to catch up to the rest of the teams, so are opting for a standard approach to tyre life. As all teams can attempt to improve pit stops for free, they would also like to do this, and are going to take a radical approach to try and get ahead of the other teams on pit road.

Wallio · Post by **Wallio** » 04 Aug 2014, 23:54

I'll have Andretti Please.

Klon · Post by **Klon** » 05 Aug 2014, 00:01

KV Racing is mine, bitches.
If you don't rig the RNG to make sure it is, I will make sure you will never, ever get ahead in the Alt-F1 waiting list. :twisted:

HawkAussie · Post by **HawkAussie** » 05 Aug 2014, 00:03

Klon wrote:KV Racing is mine, bitches.
If you don't rig the RNG to make sure it is, I will make sure you will never, ever get ahead in the Alt-F1 waiting list.

You won't actually do that, right

go_Rubens · Post by **go_Rubens** » 05 Aug 2014, 00:05

Schmidt-Hamilton Motorsports for me please.

EDIT: Ah, it looks like I didn't read over the rules!

I'm interested in being a manager.

FantometteBR · Post by **FantometteBR** » 05 Aug 2014, 00:30

Grab me some Penske, please

RonDenisDeletraz · Post by **RonDenisDeletraz** » 05 Aug 2014, 01:14

Can I have Coyne please

V8fan12 · Post by **V8fan12** » 05 Aug 2014, 03:42

Can I haz Ganassi?

Normal32 · Post by **Normal32** » 05 Aug 2014, 03:52

Foyt (the team)
Speaking of Alt-F1,you never ad me to the list,if you want i show you the post when i request it.

HawkAussie · Post by **HawkAussie** » 05 Aug 2014, 06:10

Normal32 wrote:Foyt (the team)
Speaking of Alt-F1,you never ad me to the list,if you want i show you the post when i request it.

I'm not the Alt F1 manager, Klon is.

I am doing a RNG for the teams, not choosing your team :oops:

Salamander · Post by **Salamander** » 05 Aug 2014, 07:32

Make sure I get Schmidt-Hamilton Peterson Motorsports if you know what's good for Kiwi Racing in ARST.

Post by **Miguel98** » 05 Aug 2014, 07:44

I shall be a manager.

roblo97 · Post by **roblo97** » 05 Aug 2014, 08:00

I will be manager for a team. Preferably Andretti, Penske or Ganassi.

Dom_Wings · Post by **Dom_Wings** » 05 Aug 2014, 08:42

I'll take Dragon Racing, please.

mrfakeboullier · Post by **mrfakeboullier** » 05 Aug 2014, 10:31

I'd like to take a team, be it Penske or a TBA team

Phoenix · Post by **Phoenix** » 05 Aug 2014, 11:15

I'll try and give some respectability to Dreyer & Reinbold Racing.

W12 · Post by **W12** » 05 Aug 2014, 18:00

I'm interested in managing a team, preferably Penske. BTW, why does Schmidt–Hamilton Motorsports only have one car while they had two on the 2013 season?

Salamander · Post by **Salamander** » 05 Aug 2014, 18:44

Also, if anyone is stuck for ideas with a TBA team, may I suggest running as Carlin?

W12 · Post by **W12** » 05 Aug 2014, 18:59

Salamander wrote:Also, if anyone is stuck for ideas with a TBA team, may I suggest running as Carlin?

Or Coloni

HawkAussie · Post by **HawkAussie** » 05 Aug 2014, 22:35

W12 wrote:I'm interested in managing a team, preferably Penske. BTW, why does Schmidt–Hamilton Motorsports only have one car while they had two on the 2013 season?

Because this is based on the 2012 season.

Salamander · Post by **Salamander** » 05 Aug 2014, 22:43

HawkAussie wrote:
W12 wrote:I'm interested in managing a team, preferably Penske. BTW, why does Schmidt–Hamilton Motorsports only have one car while they had two on the 2013 season?

Because this is based on the 2012 season.

Then why is the thread titled '2013 IndyCar season'?

HawkAussie · Post by **HawkAussie** » 06 Aug 2014, 03:14

Salamander wrote:
HawkAussie wrote:
W12 wrote:I'm interested in managing a team, preferably Penske. BTW, why does Schmidt–Hamilton Motorsports only have one car while they had two on the 2013 season?

Because this is based on the 2012 season.

Then why is the thread titled '2013 IndyCar season'?

Based off the silly season, anyway time for the RNG's and I might get hate for this

Wallio - TBA (New Team)
Klon - Dreyer & Reinbold
go_Rubens - KV Racing
FantometteBR - Ed Carpenter
RonDenisDeletraz - Schmidt-Hamilton
V8fan12 - Ganassi
Normal32 - Foyt
Salamander - Rahal Letterman Lanigan
Miguel98 - Panther
roblomas52 - Andretti
Reject_Dom - Dragon
mrfakeboullier - Lotus–HVM
Phoenix - Penske
W12 - Dale Coyne
TBA - Sarah Fisher Hartman
TBA - Team Barracuda – BHA
TBA - TBA (New Team)
TBA - TBA (New Team)

I will take Team Barracuda – BHA for the moment until we have enough members to compete.

You can look at the team that you have and for go_Rubens, Phoenix, V8fan12, roblomas52 they will have to choose 2 drivers to follow up with this rule:

- Teams are now only to have 2 drivers that is eligible for the team championship.

The next thing we now need to start to work out is the driver contracts and car numbers. You may extend your operations to a two car operartion but depending on the possibility, you might not get it. By default, the actual drivers that competed in most rounds of the 2012 season would have expired contracts, but you can give them a contract extension or just completely fired them. If going for the contract extension, place your intentions below such as "Scott Dixon - 2 year contract extension".The RNG will decide whether you are successful or not.

If you are attempting to sign a driver that isn't in your team you should make this known below also. You can make bids for as many drivers as you like, but order them in preference. Each team should sign at least one test driver from the lower 3 series as injuries could be possible.

Here is the list of drivers that isn't available link because this series is based on the NewF1 series so those drivers will be unavailable.

Klon · Post by **Klon** » 06 Aug 2014, 03:23

Alright, with the very first act as manager of Dreyer & Reinbold Racing, I am telling Oriol Servià to take a hike to St. Cock Town, because he is fired.

V8fan12 · Post by **V8fan12** » 06 Aug 2014, 04:01

You want me to remove two drivers? Ok then, bye bye to Graham Rahal and Charlie Kimball

HawkAussie · Post by **HawkAussie** » 06 Aug 2014, 05:27

V8fan12 wrote:You want me to remove two drivers? Ok then, bye bye to Graham Rahal and Charlie Kimball

You won't need to because DasStooge brang up a good point by following the two cars eligible rule in European F3 for the teams championship. But I reckon you will go with Dixon and Franchitti. Am I right?

go_Rubens · Post by **go_Rubens** » 06 Aug 2014, 06:07

Ah, I like being in control of KV. Look at my username

We'll offer a 1 year contract extension to Rubens Barrichello and a 2 year extension to Tony Kanaan. EJ Viso will be fired.

We would like to bring in Jack Hawksworth as a test driver, on a 1 year deal.

roblo97 · Post by **roblo97** » 06 Aug 2014, 07:48

Andretti will keep Hinchcliff and Hunter-Reay with Charlie Kimball as test driver.

W12 · Post by **W12** » 06 Aug 2014, 08:02

Alright, we will look for a better driver for the #19, Jakes will be our test driver. So...

Justin Wilson - 2 year contract
James Jakes - Test driver, 1 year contract

Driver 2 bids: Esteban Guerrieri - 1 year contract, Vitor Meira - 1 year contract, Tristan Vautier - 1 year contract

Salamander · Post by **Salamander** » 06 Aug 2014, 08:31

Can I swap Rahal for one of the TBA teams, or Bryan Herta Autosport?

Post by **Miguel98** » 06 Aug 2014, 08:37

Hildebrand :lol:

Nice.

Panther will offer a Test Driver role to Peter Dempsey, on a 1 year basis.

Phoenix · Post by **Phoenix** » 06 Aug 2014, 12:12

This decision is going to be controversial, but I've decided the guy who gets the boot at Penske is Ryan Briscoe, and not James Allen. I'd like to sign Simon Pagenaud to replace Briscoe on a 2-year contract. I've also extended 2-year contracts to both Power and Castroneves.

As for the test driver role, I'll have Sage Karam on a 1-year contract.

Klon · Post by **Klon** » 06 Aug 2014, 13:51

Dreyer & Reinbold Racing will offer a two-year contract to the following individuals, in order of preference:
1) Ralf Schumacher
2) Paul Tracy
3) Cale Gale
4) Townsend Bell

Dreyer & Reinbold Racing will offer a two-year testing contract to the following individual:
1) Neil Alberico

Dom_Wings · Post by **Dom_Wings** » 06 Aug 2014, 14:14

Dragon will sign Bourdais to a two year contract. Legge is signed for one year. Carlos Muñoz is signed as a test driver for a year, with a possibility to be the second driver after Legge's contract runs out.

Had to edit as I think I made it all wrong.

Wallio · Post by **Wallio** » 06 Aug 2014, 15:30

What's to stop any team from running more than 2 drivers? Sure number 3 won't score points, but so what?

Riccetti Competition is very interested in running 3 Drivers.

More Specifically:
Paul Tracy
Buddy Rice
and Jean Alesi

V8fan12 · Post by **V8fan12** » 06 Aug 2014, 20:00

HawkAussie wrote:
V8fan12 wrote:You want me to remove two drivers? Ok then, bye bye to Graham Rahal and Charlie Kimball

You won't need to because DasStooge brang up a good point by following the two cars eligible rule in European F3 for the teams championship. But I reckon you will go with Dixon and Franchitti. Am I right?

Ok yeah, I'll go with that.

FantometteBR · Post by **FantometteBR** » 06 Aug 2014, 20:21

Ed Carpenter will inquiry these following drivers for the test role

Luiz Razia - 1 year contract
Ana Beatriz 'Bia' Figueiredo - 1 year contract

HawkAussie · Post by **HawkAussie** » 06 Aug 2014, 22:43

Salamander wrote:Can I swap Rahal for one of the TBA teams, or Bryan Herta Autosport?

I will give you one of the TBA teams

Salamander · Post by **Salamander** » 07 Aug 2014, 00:01

HawkAussie wrote:
Salamander wrote:Can I swap Rahal for one of the TBA teams, or Bryan Herta Autosport?

I will give you one of the TBA teams

Okay, sure, but why can't I pick my engine?

Regardless, Carlin will offer 1-year contracts to the following drivers (except Briscoe, who will be offered a 2-year deal), until we fill two race seats:

1) Ryan Briscoe
2) Charlie Kimball
3) Mikhail Aleshin
4) Oriol Servia
5) Luca Filippi

Should Aleshin or Filippi remain unsigned, we will offer them a 1-year testing contract. If they are not, we will extend the same offer to Matthew Brabham.

HawkAussie · Post by **HawkAussie** » 07 Aug 2014, 02:49

I'm waiting for RonDenisDeletraz, V8fan12, Normal32, mrfakeboullier for their contracts, then it will be RNG time.