Grand Prix Rejects

First Round Driver RNG

The following drivers are locked in without the need for a roll;

Charles Milesi | Abiadura Euskara
Andrea Rosso | RB4 Saxon Racing
Leonardo Lorandi & Michele La Rosa | RP Motorsport
Ivan Grigoriev, Pavel Bulantsev & Alexandr Smolyar | SMP Racing
Alessandro Di Cori | Scuderia Acquarone
Sami Taoufik & David Schumacher | Team Lazarus
David Vidales | Mediterranean Motorsport


Now, the drivers who require RNG;

Alessandro Giardelli
Both RP Motorsport and Vincenzo Sospiro Euronova Racing are competing for Giardelli's signature. VS Euronova are his incumbent team, but they underwhelmed last season in comparison to RP Motorsport. Between keeping consistency and looking for a slight upwards move, it's a 50/50 decision.
1-50 VS Euronova
51-100 RP Motorsport
18. Giardelli values continuity over opportunism, rejecting RP Motorsport for the second time in two years.

Victor Martins
The French driver has offers from Prema Powerteam and RB4 Saxon Racing. The latter are F4 debutants, the former are a junior formulae powerhouse.
1-75 Prema Powerteam
76-100 RB4 Saxon Racing
69. Martins takes the #28 Prema machine.

Dennis Hauger
Hauger was originally promoted by Prema to their Formula 3 team. They have now reneged on that deal and are trying to demote him back down to Formula 4. Does he agree with them that he needs another year in F4, or will he throw a fit at his F3 contract being torn up and storm out of the team?
1-80 Accepts his demotion
81-100 Absolutely fuming, he walks out to try and save face
37. Hauger begrudgingly accepts being bumped back down to F4.

Enzo Fittipaldi
The Brazilian driver is doing a full campaign in South American F4. In theory he could do both series, missing only Round 5 at Treviso in the Italian calendar while doing the full SAF4 series. Pulling it off would mean a lot of transcontinental travel, perhaps too much to do a proper job in either series.
1-20 Accepts
21-100 Focuses on SAF4 only
88. Fittipaldi does not want to face the drag of weekly transcontinental commuting.


First Round Driver Mentor RNG

Luca Badoer
Badoer has two offers this year; to stay on at Abarth Leonetti, where his coaching helped Paolo Leonetti on his way to last year's title, or to switch across to Prema Powerteam. The latter may be bigger, but he's already settled in well at the former.
1-66 Leonetti
67-100 Prema
32. Badoer is happy to stay on with the reigning champions.

Alexander Wurz
Having missed out on poaching Badoer, Prema now turn to Alex Wurz for sage advice. Wurz though has loftier diplomatic ambitions - can he fit this into his schedule as well?
1-50 Accepts
51-100 Too busy
24. Wurz eeks out some time in his 2019 calendar to help out with some driver coaching for Prema.

Pedro de la Rosa
PDLR has been offered a renewal by Memo. Happy with his work turning Torelli from an erratic upper-midfielder to a title challenger last season, he seems reasonably happy to stay put for another season.
1-75 Renews
76-100 Declines
45. PDLR is happy with how things have been going and agrees to stay on.

Christian Klien
Klien continues to be active in racing, and has shown his willingness to get stuck in to new opportunities. A chance to help young drivers improve is a challenge that interests him, therefore.
1-60 Signs
61-100 Can't fit it into his schedule
50. Klien agrees to assist RB4 Saxon with driver training.

Jarno Trulli
Trulli acted as driver coach for his own team last season - will he continue in the role, or insist it is given to someone else?
1-95 Stays on in the position
96-100 Wasn't happy with outcomes last year, feels someone else needs to take over
15. Clearly thinks he can still make a difference despite the Legeret collapse.

Vincenzo Sospiri
Like Trulli, Sospiri also acted as driver coach for his own team last season.
1-95 Stays on in the position
96-100 Wasn't happy with outcomes last year, feels someone else needs to take over
28. Feels he can still get the job done.

Mikhail Aleshin
Aleshin has been part of the SMP setup for some time now. The F4 team's management want him there, but other members of the SMP motorsport programme argue it is distracting him from his duties on the other side of the pond.
1-75 Stays on
76-100 SMP upper management intervenes, declines
39. SMP higher-ups accept the F4 team's request.

Giancarlo Fisichella
Fisichella has been approached by Coloni to assist them with driver coaching duties. While they once collaborated on dual ownership of junior formulae teams, this arrangement ended some time ago, though it at least helps they have an existing (if faded) relationship. His strong FCA ties help however in regards to the Formula 4 series specifically..
1-60 Accepts
61-100 Declines
19. Fisi agrees to reunite with Coloni.

RP Motorsport have signed Saara Seppanen for the #22 car, in agreement with Normal32.

(psssst you also forgot our third car bid for "gentleman" Michele La Rosa...unless there's too many in the field, then in that case forget it)

Just want to make it clear that Guillaume Gauthier will remain at Abiadura Euskara as driver mentor, paying him in Gauloises and Pernod.

As a result of David Luis Chavarria being joined by David Vidales as Teammates, Chavarria will be nicknamed and often be referred to as "Lucha" in account of the first pronunciations of his middle and last name to avoid name confusion with his teammate with the same first name as his. Obviously, his original full name will still remain intact on all the Results and Standings.

Sounded cool, isn't it?

Ataxia wrote:(psssst you also forgot our third car bid for "gentleman" Michele La Rosa...unless there's too many in the field, then in that case forget it)

That car takes us to 39/40, so still good.

Given current field spread, I am only willing to allow Slot 40 to be taken by a gentleman driver.

Scuderia Del Prete would like to apply to run Luigi Ferrara in a third car for the team

Vacant Seats
Here's a sitrep on the remaining seats to be filled (or withdrawn, 1 car teams are permitted);

#2 | RB4 Saxon Racing
#18 | Trulli GP
#99 | Scuderia Coloni

V8fan12 wrote:Scuderia Del Prete would like to apply to run Luigi Ferrara in a third car for the team

As a former champion of Italian Formula 3, the organisers declare him ineligible for the Gentleman's Class.


Driver DOBs
As you may well know, there's a strict age window of between 15 and 20 years of age for Formula 4 drivers, with the exception of the Gentlemen's Class, which is 35+. To ensure this rule is adhered to, and can be monitored, at all times, please create wiki pages for those drivers who do not already have them.

Click on your driver below, and paste the code underneath the list into the editor, whilst changing the PLACEHOLDERS denoted in capital letters to the correct information. You are of course free (and encouranged) to add extra bio information into the main text if you wish.

• Gianluigi Leonetti
• Alex Schmidt
• Benjamin Brazier
• Marolo Patron
• Giuseppe Domenicali
• Mario Davide
• Vincenzo Guardavaccaro
• Sabino Lavopa
• Jake Olsen

A note specifically aimed at alg2159; I couldn't paste a working link for Romain Lefébure in here (accent messes with the link) so his page has been pasted in already, without the required values. Please go here, press 'Edit' and amend the placeholder info please.

Trulli will withdraw their second car.

For anyone that wants to make a helmet for their driver, the PSD template for it is now available in the first post. If getting there is too much effort, here's another link to it.

DemocalypseNow wrote:

V8fan12 wrote:Scuderia Del Prete would like to apply to run Luigi Ferrara in a third car for the team

As a former champion of Italian Formula 3, the organisers declare him ineligible for the Gentleman's Class.

In that case, we offer Philippe Haezebrouck the seat.

V8fan12 wrote:

DemocalypseNow wrote:

V8fan12 wrote:Scuderia Del Prete would like to apply to run Luigi Ferrara in a third car for the team

As a former champion of Italian Formula 3, the organisers declare him ineligible for the Gentleman's Class.

In that case, we offer Philippe Haezebrouck the seat.

This offer is acceptable, but I will wait to see if anyone else weighs in with viable alternatives before signing off on the final seat.

Scuderia Coloni will sign Davide Venditti for the 99 car

Let's enter some scrub, eh?

Team Name: Scuderia San Marino
Team Nationality: Sammarinese
Car Numbers (1-99): 51
Livery: something in the colours of San Marino.

Driver 1 Name: Paolo Meloni
Driver 1 Nationality: Sammarinese

And with that, the grid is full.

I'm putting the finishing touches to the Indy Lights carset - once that season is underway, then Italian F4 will get started.

DemocalypseNow wrote:

V8fan12 wrote:In that case, we offer Philippe Haezebrouck the seat.

This offer is acceptable, but I will wait to see if anyone else weighs in with viable alternatives before signing off on the final seat.

I forgot to mention - with RB4 Saxon failing to fill their lead car, this is approved. However, you need a number for your third car - if you don't reply with one, he will continue with #77 which he used last season.

DemocalypseNow wrote:

DemocalypseNow wrote:

V8fan12 wrote:In that case, we offer Philippe Haezebrouck the seat.

This offer is acceptable, but I will wait to see if anyone else weighs in with viable alternatives before signing off on the final seat.

I forgot to mention - with RB4 Saxon failing to fill their lead car, this is approved. However, you need a number for your third car - if you don't reply with one, he will continue with #77 which he used last season.

#77 is fine