2017 AR Indy World Cup

[pi314159]

As agreed with Pasta, Martin van der Meyde will join Mazzacane Motorsport for the 2017 season.

Mazzacane Motorsport would like to sign the following real-life drivers to drive the #12 car (by priority):
1. Scott Dixon
2. Carlos Munoz
3. Mike Conway (road circuits) / Ed Carpenter (ovals)

[pasta_maldonado]

Okay, housekeeping time. First item on the list, Michael Bright Racing will no longer be renamed. We also confirm that we will be continuing with the numbers 3 and 4.

As for drivers, we can confirm that a deal has been signed with Ryan McReynolds to drive the #3. We also offer a deal to Ralf Schumacher to drive the #4.

[Ataxia]

With real-life drivers, Alvarez Competicion would like to formally extend offers to Simona de Silvestro, Roberto Merhi and Jack Harvey, in that order.

We then require a fictional driver to fill the second seat. We would like to invite Martin van der Meyde, Jari Kekkonen and Danilo di Meglio to join us. Again, that order.

[kevinbotz]

CWG Data Collection are highly interested in procuring the services of Ashley Watkinson for the 2017 IWC season.

[Salamander]

If anyone's stuck for ideas for real-life drivers, here, have a giant list.

Carlos Munoz
Ryan Briscoe
James Hinchcliffe
Josef Newgarden
Charlie Kimball
Mikhail Aleshin
Jack Hawksworth
Sage Karam
Luca Filippi
Gabby Chaves
Zach Veach
Alex Rossi
Matt Brabham
Spencer Pigot
Scott Hargrove
Shelby Blackstock
Florian Latorre
R. C. Enerson
Jake Eidson

[HawkAussie]

Driving in the 57 car will hopefully be Ryan Briscoe, Alexandra Rossi and Simona de Silvestro in that order

While in the 58 car we will bring in the Charlie White (AUS) who recently competed in the Indy Lights last season finshing 4th in the standings.

[Salamander]

Alexandra Rossi

Yeah, sure...

[SeedStriker]

Matteo Vasquez will continue in the lead USD for the canon.

The second seat, the RL seat, will be contested for the following drivers:

Juan Pablo Montoya
Helio Castroneves
Jean-Eric Vergne
Jack Hawksworth
Peter Dempsey

If any RL accepts the deal, Hayato Kazami will go to the second USD seat

[Nuppiz]

If any RL accepts the deal, Hayato Kazami will go to the second USD seat

In which case I'll point out that Kazami is unable to contest Round 9 of the IWC due to already running in AR 3.5 that weekend.

[Peteroli34]

Paulo Serafim Joins Hunter-Maple Racing for IWC

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[FantometteBR]

Euromotor International (GER) wants the following drivers

#23 - a real life driver
Tony Kanaan
James Hinchcliffe
Max Chilton
Luiz Razia
Robin Frijns

#69 - to be filled by our faithful lady for American openwheel ventures, Beth Lestrade (GBR)


Euromotor will run with Honda engines in 2017]
#69

[Salamander]

Euromotor International (GER) wants the following drivers

#23 - a real life driver
Kevin Magnussen

DGNgineering demands that Euromotor cease and desist any attempts at signing Kevin Magnussen for the upcoming ARIWC season, or we will be forced to take legal action. Kevin is a very valued member of our team, and will be a DGNgineering F1 race driver for the next 2 seasons, and hopefully more to come. We do not appreciate upstarts attempting to poach our valued staff members in the slightest.

[FantometteBR]

Euromotor International (GER) wants the following drivers

#23 - a real life driver
Kevin Magnussen

DGNgineering demands that Euromotor cease and desist any attempts at signing Kevin Magnussen for the upcoming ARIWC season, or we will be forced to take legal action. Kevin is a very valued member of our team, and will be a DGNgineering F1 race driver for the next 2 seasons, and hopefully more to come. We do not appreciate upstarts attempting to poach our valued staff members in the slightest.

If you want, he is all yours

[DemocalypseNow]

Watkinson signs with RonDen for Indy World Cup

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[Onxy Wrecked]

#30: Kohei Hirate is top priority with Sage Karam as backup option
#33: Roy Guidry (brought in as a Gachnang replacement per rule change of requiring fictional driver as Clint Hillman's gone full Mansell)

Standard Shierson Domino's Livery from the 1980s will be requested.

[kevinbotz]

CWG Data Collection Driver Arrangements - 2017

Car 67:

Scott Dixon
James Hinchcliffe
Jenson Button
Juan Pablo Montoya
Helio Castroneves

Car 68

Evgeny Restov (Confirmation from Takagi received.)

[Nessafox]

Watkinson signs with RonDen for Indy World Cup

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He'll get #32

[Phoenix]

Niko Bellic and Lance Vance should keep their seats.

[FMecha]

For Biscione: Liveries, both A.E.T. (ARIWC) and Sentinel (ARIA).

Both are paint bucket and sponsor sticker jobs, but it's better than nothing, I guess.

[Hermann95]

Ok, for the #94 seat i'll go with a real life driver. Here is a short list sorted by preference:
Takuma Sato
Ryan Hunter-Reay
Alexander Wurz

For the #95 seat i'm still searching for a driver.

[DemocalypseNow]

RNG has been determined for real life drivers;

CR Motorsport - Marco Andretti
RonDen Racing Engineering - Max Chilton
Hunter-Maple Racing - Ryan Hunter-Reay
Onyx Racing - Kohei Hirate
Mazzacane Motorsport - Scott Dixon
Michael Bright Racing - Ralf Schumacher
Alvarez Comepticion - Simona de Silvestro
Tassie Racing - Ryan Briscoe
Union Saver Developments - Helio Castroneves
Euromotor International - Tony Kanaan
CWG Data Collection - James Hinchcliffe
Loyer Racing Technologies - Takuma Sato
AET Alliance - Sage Karam

The following drivers turned down all offers presented to them, and will not entertain further offers to join the series for the duration of the 2017 season;
Jenson Button
Juan-Pablo Montoya

The following teams are still missing drivers following the RNG;
Tassie Racing - 1 driver, fictional only
Loyer Racing Technologies - 1 driver, fictional only

[Ataxia]

I notice earlier that Alvarez Competicion showed interest in hiring Jari Kekkonen - if the interest is still there, he's all yours Ataxia.

Awesome, thanks. I'll get to work on my liveries over the next few days.

[FMecha]

The currently empty AET Alliance seat will go to Sage Karam

[DemocalypseNow]

The currently empty AET Alliance seat will go to Sage Karam

Seeing as you're the only team still in a position to hire a RL driver, I'll run his RNG now...

1-90 Karam takes his only shot of a full-time ride in IWC
91-100 Prefers to wait and see if he can get an Indy 500 one-off with one of the well established top teams

32. Karam is AET Alliance's second driver.

[V8fan12]

Biscione please note that for any IWC races that clash with the ARST races that he was competing in, Mackintosh will be replaced by:

Houston - Viktor Pasitchnjuk
Singapore - Dakota Summers

[FantometteBR]

Tony Kanaan? I am very fine with it

[DemocalypseNow]

Biscione please note that for any IWC races that clash with the ARST races that he was competing in, Mackintosh will be replaced by:

Houston - Viktor Pasitchnjuk
Singapore - Dakota Summers

The above doesn't make sense. IWC does not visit Houston.

[V8fan12]

Biscione please note that for any IWC races that clash with the ARST races that he was competing in, Mackintosh will be replaced by:

Houston - Viktor Pasitchnjuk
Singapore - Dakota Summers

The above doesn't make sense. IWC does not visit Houston.

Sorry was looking at this which must be out of date...

Heres the correct replacements and races:
France - Viktor Pasitchnjuk
Singapore - Dakota Summers

[DemocalypseNow]

Heres the correct replacements and races:
France - Viktor Pasitchnjuk
Singapore - Dakota Summers

You will need to choose a different driver for Singapore. After reviewing her career to date, Summers has nowhere near the required experience to participate in ARIWC. Only the most outstanding drivers from 2.0 would be considered for a straight jump into IWC, and Summers has not proven to be any more than somewhat competent in said series thus far. She needs to either be a title protagonist in 2.0 or have a year of ARIA under her belt before being allowed a license to compete.

[HawkAussie]

Christian Poulsen will go into the lineup for Tassie Racing.

[DemocalypseNow]

Christian Poulsen will go into the lineup for Tassie Racing.

No canon rookies allowed. Find a driver who has the required experience to compete in a top-level series (i.e. has experience in F1RWRS, F1, F1RICS, F2RWRS, AR3.5, RoLFS, etc).

This really shouldn't be too difficult - there are plenty of eligible drivers free following the collapse of the stillborn Le Mans Cup. To name just a few;

Damon Cannon, David Koczo, Yu Hao, Simon Redman, Mitchell Macklin (though maybe not, I heard he might have done some F5000 races...), Vidal Reyna-Sanchez, Antonio Reyna-Sanchez, Elinor Yurko, Poppy Whitechapel, Saeed Al Faisal, John Bovy....these are all reasonable choices.

Even from F1RICS, there are some drivers who finished well up the championship order that are without a seat - Rusty Gannit, Rafael Carlos to name two. You are spoiled for choice. So go and ask their owners for a contract...there is no excuse.


Oh, also, a note to everyone in the field, if at any point your driver is injured or otherwise engaged, and a replacement is not nominated in time for the next round, you will have the punishment driver imposed upon you - Benoit Voeckler. And trust me, you don't want that!

[V8fan12]

Heres the correct replacements and races:
France - Viktor Pasitchnjuk
Singapore - Dakota Summers

You will need to choose a different driver for Singapore. After reviewing her career to date, Summers has nowhere near the required experience to participate in ARIWC. Only the most outstanding drivers from 2.0 would be considered for a straight jump into IWC, and Summers has not proven to be any more than somewhat competent in said series thus far. She needs to either be a title protagonist in 2.0 or have a year of ARIA under her belt before being allowed a license to compete.

Ok peteroli has offered me Luke Gilson-Clarke for Singapore so I'll go with him if that's allowed (he finished 4th in the 2017 season of AR2.0NA).

[HawkAussie]

I will bring in Elinor Yurko then

[DemocalypseNow]

Heres the correct replacements and races:
France - Viktor Pasitchnjuk
Singapore - Dakota Summers

You will need to choose a different driver for Singapore. After reviewing her career to date, Summers has nowhere near the required experience to participate in ARIWC. Only the most outstanding drivers from 2.0 would be considered for a straight jump into IWC, and Summers has not proven to be any more than somewhat competent in said series thus far. She needs to either be a title protagonist in 2.0 or have a year of ARIA under her belt before being allowed a license to compete.

Ok peteroli has offered me Luke Gilson-Clarke for Singapore so I'll go with him if that's allowed (he finished 4th in the 2017 season of AR2.0NA).

Still not good enough to make the grade. AR2.0NA was a one man show, Roger Ibe is the only guy getting the required license from that series as of the 2017 IWC season.

It's still a long way to go until Singapore. Just wait. Wait and see who is doing well in Indy Academy mid way through the year and hire one of those guys. They don't have a race on the Singapore weekend.

[Nuppiz]

If you can't find anyone else in time, Nick Nurmester could stop by in Singapore on his way to the Japanese round of F2RWRS (I just checked and there aren't any clashes).

[Salamander]

Calvin Brooks, a winner of the 2015 Aston 24 Hours, who has F1RWRS experience, and is looking to compete in ARIA this season, is interested in racing at Singapore. Although the Canadian declined to make a full statement, he expressed great enthusiasm at the prospect of racing in ARIWC.

[V8fan12]

If you can't find anyone else in time, Nick Nurmester could stop by in Singapore on his way to the Japanese round of F2RWRS (I just checked and there aren't any clashes).

Peak Motorsport Canada would be honoured to have a driver of Nurmester's caliber drive for them at Singapore. We accept the offer. Our apologies to Calvin Brooks, but we feel that Nurmester is the best choice for the role.

[Salamander]

If you can't find anyone else in time, Nick Nurmester could stop by in Singapore on his way to the Japanese round of F2RWRS (I just checked and there aren't any clashes).

Peak Motorsport Canada would be honoured to have a driver of Nurmester's caliber drive for them at Singapore. We accept the offer. Our apologies to Calvin Brooks, but we feel that Nurmester is the best choice for the role.

If you want to lose, then yes, he would be.