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In early 2015, a book by a former Peugeot employee revealed severe corruption within the World Endurance Series. The pet project of Jean Todt, who was already facing massive criticism for his relatively lax attitude in fighting F1RWRS's expansion, was dead within months. While the FIA did manage to salvage the 24 Hours Of Le Mans and the 6 Hours of Silverstone, the series broke apart. This left a power-vacuum in the world of endurance racing which attracted the attention of the Reject Council. In cooperation with Best In The World and sponsor Siemens, the Siemens Ausdauer Reject Series was born and publically announced on the 26 September 2015. The goal of the series is to promote Endurance racing in a modern format whilst allowing for technical freedom in a cost-controlled environment.
The series calendar was confirmed a few weeks later, with the premier season involving five races of seven hours:
AR KFC American Grand Prix: Indianapolis Motor Speedway (25 May) - in the program of the 100th Indianapolis 500
AR FedEx Canadian Grand Prix: Circuit Gilles Villeneuve (4 June) - in the program of the F3RWRS race
AR RTBF Belgian Grand Prix: Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps (14 September) - in the program of the Spa SuperPrix
AR Kenvelo Czech Grand Prix: Masaryk Circuit (1 October) - in the program of the IFRC race
AR Mitsukoshi Japanese Grand Prix: High Speed Ring (19 November) - in the program of the GTRWC SuperGP
There is a major difference between this series and most other series in this sub-forum. Your job will be less that of a team manager but more that of a strategist. You will decide how hard your guys should push with the obvious consequences: do you push too hard, you retire or suffer severe damage; you push not enough, you will fall behind. That is why this series will require slightly more effort than other series: unless something odd happens, you will need to send at least 20 messages to me during a season. Be warned.
Anyway - on to business. For a team, you will need the following things:
Team Name: ... that should be obvious.
Team Nationality: ... so should this be.
Class: There will be two classes in this series: Prototype (which are closest to LMP1 cars of the late 2000s) and Road (closest to the GT300 class of Super GT)
Chassis Designation: If you feel like giving your chassis a fancy name, here's your chance.
Chassis Designer: There will be three designers available to design your chassis:
Jose Betran Carbonell
- Most famous for: designing the 2012 CR Motorsport car
- Description: Carbonell is a rather safe designer, his chassi turn out to be reliable, if not spectacular, machines who can deliver performance for hours on end
George West
- Most famous for: being on the design team responsible for the Foxdale F1-3
- Description: the polar opposite to Carbonell, West prefers an aggressive approach to chassis development and can hardly be matched as far as performance over short distances is concerned
Syed Ansari
- Most famous for: nothing yet
- Description: a young designer who just finished his degree at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur: in his thesis he developed a chassis concept which basically nullifies performance decrease after long-term use
Basically these three can be divided in: "gives a general advantage" / "gives an advantage in the early part of the race" / "gives an advantage in the later part of the race". How those advantages actually play out, I will demonstrate when I will explain the general modus of a race weekend.
- Engine: Those are basically decorative elements for now, so feel free to pick any (reasonable) one you wish.
- Drivers: Each car will have three drivers who will have a skill value assigned to them by a weighted RNG which will come into play during a race weekend. Since the series requires so many drivers, you are allowed to use RL drivers as well (which should not cause canon problems since RL drivers do exist in canon and have been part of the F1RICS before). However, each car must have at least one OC.
* So here's the formula
Team Name:
Team Nationality:
Class:
Chassis Designation:
Chassis Designer:
Engine:
Drivers (First Car):
Drivers (Second Car):
I plan on having 12 teams, 6 in each class, for now. So get to it and help me make the long-living dream of Reject Endurance racing true.
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