This wrote:Not bad, not bad at all. Whilst it is good to see Bastian having a very good form lately, Jerry's declining form is really, really worrying...
The car defenitely isn't the problem, so if he doesn't score a podium place, he's either going to be demoted to F3RWRS or dropped altogether.
Mitch Hedberg wrote:I want to be a race car passenger: just a guy who bugs the driver. Say man, can I turn on the radio? You should slow down. Why do we gotta keep going in circles? Man, you really like Tide...
Sammy Jones wrote:Another good race for Marko, the kid has some real talent and through his excellent consistency he remains at the top of the championship. More wins would be good, but I have every faith that he will get them in the latter half of the year. As for Alessandro, he continues to squander his chances at a top team and save his career. He won't be retained for 2015 so it's all down to him to prove to other team bosses that he has what it takes to compete at the top. He's had a couple of good results this year, but nothing like enough. Let's hope he picks it up big time in these last races, he's running out of time.
Novitopoli wrote:Everytime someone orders at Pizza Hut, an Italian dies.
Novitopoli wrote:Juve's Triplete: Calciopoli, doping & Mafia connections.
Autosport wrote:Falik relishing battle with Jones
Prince Falik is relishing a battle with Jones to the teams championship, "We are happily leading and as long as my clowns of Vantini and Ardaoglu score points for the last races then we should clinch it. However me and Sammy [Jones] have a friendly rivalry even if he signs drivers I run, ho ho. Both drivers are also in with a chance of winning the drivers championship but both need to step up their game, yes, yes, yes.". Falik currently lead the championship by 24 points over Jones.
"Samora Mondiane did not disappoint"
Prince Falik was also impressed by Mondianes performance at the Netherlands race, "Samora Mondiane did not disappoint, he qualified in his heat and was running well before he retired.I will be keeping an eye on his career."
OsellaFA1L wrote:Yeah, I am still alive, good to see Speedworld totally failing to live up to their name
SRMP wrote:Say goodbye to Ural Racing
Just before the German round of this year's championship, AutoReject 3.5 officials have told us that Ural Racing, one of the few remaining teams that took part in the series' predecessor Rejects of LFS, have been permanently removed from the entry list and banned from entering any further races in the schedule. According to the officials, the team has repeatedly failed to pay their share of the transport costs in time, and despite numerous demands have failed to make any amends. The team is believed to owe in excess of 300,000 euros to the series' management, and with the series suffering from reduced spectator amounts it is reasonable to think that it's insustainable to have teams failing to pay their debts any further.
AutoSport wrote:Plus One to sign Mathilde Thybes
Mathilde Thybes will step back into a AR 3.5 car to join PORE from the Round of Germany, replacing the injured Joe Harmsky.
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Klon wrote:more liek Nick Ass-idy amirite?
Ataxia wrote:FMecha wrote:It's official, we suck this season.
> Always hires terrible drivers
> Wonders why his team does so badly
Wake up and smell the coffee!
Do you have a good quality driver for AR3.5? I might sign one... 
FMecha wrote:Ataxia wrote:FMecha wrote:It's official, we suck this season.
> Always hires terrible drivers
> Wonders why his team does so badly
Wake up and smell the coffee!
FMecha wrote:Ataxia wrote:FMecha wrote:It's official, we suck this season.
> Always hires terrible drivers
> Wonders why his team does so badly
Wake up and smell the coffee!
Biscione wrote:"Some Turkemenistani gulag repurposed for residential use" is the best way yet I've heard to describe North / East Glasgow.
AndreaModa wrote:FMecha wrote:
Do you want to sign Alessandro Marchesi for next season?
FMecha wrote:Ataxia wrote:FMecha wrote:It's official, we suck this season.
> Always hires terrible drivers
> Wonders why his team does so badly
Wake up and smell the coffee!
Mitch Hedberg wrote:I want to be a race car passenger: just a guy who bugs the driver. Say man, can I turn on the radio? You should slow down. Why do we gotta keep going in circles? Man, you really like Tide...
RealRacingRoots wrote:AndreaModa wrote:FMecha wrote:
Do you want to sign Alessandro Marchesi for next season?
R.T.S is offering Marchesi a contract for next year in AR 3.5. Surely, an Italian driving for a prominent Italian team seems like a match made in heaven, compared to an Italian driving for, arguably, the worst team in the series.
This wrote:I might as well start looking for top drivers for 2018 as well, as i don't plan to promote my junior drivers yet.
Obviously Van Nieuwenhuijzen isn't going to stay in this series next year. Even if he fails to secure a F1RWRS drive, i'd rather see him in F2RWRS. De Boer isn't good enough, so i suggest to let him drive one race in F2RWRS at the end of the year so i can get rid of his contract.
Novitopoli wrote:Everytime someone orders at Pizza Hut, an Italian dies.
Novitopoli wrote:Juve's Triplete: Calciopoli, doping & Mafia connections.
This wrote:I might as well start looking for top drivers for 2018 as well, as i don't plan to promote my junior drivers yet.
Obviously Van Nieuwenhuijzen isn't going to stay in this series next year. Even if he fails to secure a F1RWRS drive, i'd rather see him in F2RWRS. De Boer isn't good enough, so i suggest to let him drive one race in F2RWRS at the end of the year so i can get rid of his contract.
Mitch Hedberg wrote:I want to be a race car passenger: just a guy who bugs the driver. Say man, can I turn on the radio? You should slow down. Why do we gotta keep going in circles? Man, you really like Tide...
AndreaModa wrote:RealRacingRoots wrote:
R.T.S is offering Marchesi a contract for next year in AR 3.5. Surely, an Italian driving for a prominent Italian team seems like a match made in heaven, compared to an Italian driving for, arguably, the worst team in the series.
Excellent! Someone will get him off my books. Speak to Aerospeed as Marchesi is his driver.
Prince Falik wrote:Oh my, that was a great race. Nothing better then a 1-2 in the final. I have been told to say "Jones, your boys took a hellava beating!". I think we have the teams championship in the bag with the fat lady finishing her vocal exercises.
Ataxia wrote:This wrote:I might as well start looking for top drivers for 2018 as well, as i don't plan to promote my junior drivers yet.
Obviously Van Nieuwenhuijzen isn't going to stay in this series next year. Even if he fails to secure a F1RWRS drive, i'd rather see him in F2RWRS. De Boer isn't good enough, so i suggest to let him drive one race in F2RWRS at the end of the year so i can get rid of his contract.
De Boer's going off to the US in 2018. Don't worry about that contract bollocks; just do what you want to.
This wrote:Ataxia wrote:This wrote:I might as well start looking for top drivers for 2018 as well, as i don't plan to promote my junior drivers yet.
Obviously Van Nieuwenhuijzen isn't going to stay in this series next year. Even if he fails to secure a F1RWRS drive, i'd rather see him in F2RWRS. De Boer isn't good enough, so i suggest to let him drive one race in F2RWRS at the end of the year so i can get rid of his contract.
De Boer's going off to the US in 2018. Don't worry about that contract bollocks; just do what you want to.
Okay. In that case, i will honour other contractual obligations, and give the last to races here to Da Cunha, as i haven't used him anywhere yet this season, and he's so slow that i want to get rid of him as fast as possible. I will also promote De Boer to F2RWRS for the last races, just because i want to.
Novitopoli wrote:Everytime someone orders at Pizza Hut, an Italian dies.
Novitopoli wrote:Juve's Triplete: Calciopoli, doping & Mafia connections.
Biscione wrote:You aren't planning on replacing Miccoli are you?!
Bernd Schröder wrote:We are pleased with another solid performance from Thomas Butler, and also that Jiri Komárek has raised his game a little and is now consistently qualifying for the finals at each race.
SRMP wrote:Rain causes chaos at AutoReject 3.5 season finale
Torrential conditions during the semifinal heats of AutoReject 3.5 season finale at Japan's Suzuka Circuit led to high attrition, as drivers attempted to show off their best skills for perhaps the last time this season. While Friday's qualifying session was dry despite a heavy cloud cover, the teams were greeted this morning by the sight of heavy rain pouring down all across the track area and beyond. With most of the drivers being used to good conditions - rain had last been seen at an AR 3.5 race at the season opener in Australia - the day was expected to become difficult and costly as the treacherous conditions made the possibility of accidents much higher.
Some drivers who had already surprised during the dry qualifying session by being much higher in the order than usual continued their solid performances during the races, while some - including all three title contenders - struggled badly. While both races saw their fair share of incidents, leading to one of the highest attrition rates in the series in a long time, Heat B proved to be the more eventful one of the two. This culminated in a heavy collision as Thomas Butler approached Bastiaan van Nieuwenhuijzen in a lapping attempt, but a combination of poor conditions and misjudgment by boith driver saw the two cars hit each other heavily, sending the Dutchman's car spinning into the barriers. Despite the heavy accident he was lucky to avoid major injury, but is most likely not going to contest the non-championship charity race next weekend.
As if this wasn't enough drama, Kenan Ardaoglu retired from the lead with an engine failure on the main straight. As the cameras rolled to show a replay of his car going up in flames, a thunderbolt struck one of the electrical substations of the circuit and blackened all cameras for the remainder of the race despite the Japanese engineering team's best efforts to fix the issue. Because of this no official footage is avaialable from the last three laps of the race.*
All of this lead to some of the perhaps most surprising results with many drivers rarely seen in the points positions at all suddenly occupying podium positions, with Mathilde Thybes - rushed in as a replacement to injured Joe Harmsky a couple of rounds ago - even going as far as snatching the Heat B win. With such surprising results in the heats and the championship leader unable to score any more points, the finale will be a tense battlefield between Marko Jantscher and Rosco Vantini for the 2017 AutoReject 3.5 Driver's Championship title.
Brabants Dagblad wrote:van Nieuwenhuijzen furious with AR 3.5 driving standards
AR 3.5 frontrunner Bastiaan van Nieuwenhuijzen has slammed his rival competitors over poor driving standards, following his involvement in two accidents in the series finale at Suzuka - the latter of which caused the Maaskantje native a minor injury.
"A handful of us are professionals, the rest are kids playing with toys," he said. "There are two types of problem driver in this series; those that use their car as a weapon, and those who use it as a plaything. I was taken out of each running of the race by both, but surprisingly the one that injured me was the latter."
"It's disgusting. We've seen on many occasions that Mathilde Thybes is a dangerous driver, and yet still she is allowed to return time and time again. There are some world class female drivers in single seaters; Pippa Mann was the F1RWRS champion, we also have Marjolein Postma who is doing great things in the lower feeder series right now...but Thybes, she should hang up the helmet and stay in the kitchen."
"Butler...I don't know. Sometimes he drives ok, sometimes he drives like a boy racer who just got his license last week. What am I supposed to do? I left two cars width, I can't leave more than that or else I will just miss the corner entirely and end up in the barrier. Even the most useless pay-drivers can even overtake with that kind of space. Maybe he was sleeping or something, I don't know."
"I'm really angry. This should have been an incredible fight for the title between myself and Marko, and instead it has been ruined and turned into a procession by this melange of retards. I feel sorry also for the fans - they come out here in their thousands in the horrible weather, and they are robbed of the showdown they deserved by complete morons with more money than talent."
AR 3.5 is a series that has gone through many management changes over the last few years. One such form it has taken in the past is Rejects of LFS, in which Japanese driver Nobushige Fukuda was killed in an accident during a race weekend at the Kyoto Ring. Van Nieuwenhuijzen expressed fears of a repeat following his Suzuka accident.
"I was really lucky. My car went into the fence backwards, so I had the entire rear end of the car protecting me and absorbing some of the impact. If I went into that fence at a different angle, it's possible I'm not even here anymore. With these kind of drivers still racing in 3.5, the Fukuda incident will happen again. It is only a matter of time. AutoReject needs to clear out these idiots before one of them kills someone else again."
"I'm glad to be leaving - this series is a joke. I have more race wins than anyone else by a long way, but my car keeps breaking or I get taken out of races by talentless monkeys. I've had enough."
Van Nieuwenhuijzen will graduate to the top level F1RWRS series next year with French team Equipe Gauthier, partnering fellow RoLFS/IFRC/3.5 graduate Danny van Rijkens.
Novitopoli wrote:Everytime someone orders at Pizza Hut, an Italian dies.
Novitopoli wrote:Juve's Triplete: Calciopoli, doping & Mafia connections.
Thomas Butler wrote:I have no earthly idea what that Bastiaan chap is playing at. He was a lap down, he knew he needed to let me by. Why didn't he back off before 130R to ensure there wouldn't be a collision. Prematurely ended both of our seasons, and it need not have happened.
Oh well, it's been a fairly decent year with Schröder. Four podiums and a likely top 10 in the standings is pretty good for my debut season. Hopefully we will be able to race again together next season, and maybe we will earn that maiden victory that unfortunately eluded me this year. A better choice of team mate would be best for business as well, Schröder deserve to be higher than 8th in the standings...
Fetzie on Ferrari wrote:How does a driver hurtling around a race track while they're sous-viding in their overalls have a better understanding of the race than a team of strategy engineers in an air-conditioned room?l
Thomas Butler wrote:I have no earthly idea what that Bastiaan chap is playing at. He was a lap down, he knew he needed to let me by. Why didn't he back off before 130R to ensure there wouldn't be a collision. Prematurely ended both of our seasons, and it need not have happened.
Oh well, it's been a fairly decent year with Schröder. Four podiums and a likely top 10 in the standings is pretty good for my debut season. Hopefully we will be able to race again together next season, and maybe we will earn that maiden victory that unfortunately eluded me this year. A better choice of team mate would be best for business as well, Schröder deserve to be higher than 8th in the standings...
Bastiaan van Nieuwenhuijzen wrote:Oh my, why I do apologise dear fellow, for assuming you weren't completely and utterly incompetent. I made the grave error of assuming there was even an ounce of talent in your possession, and that you were capable of taking 130R on the racing line. How foolish of me! I was unaware that you required several yards of space beyond the racing line to traverse the corner.
You are a f***ing walking stereotype. Don't forget your monocle and cup of tea you posh c***.
Novitopoli wrote:Everytime someone orders at Pizza Hut, an Italian dies.
Novitopoli wrote:Juve's Triplete: Calciopoli, doping & Mafia connections.
Dennis Mignolet wrote:Now Bastian, we don't curse here in our team. We understand that you feel bad because a well diserved title is taken from you by incompetent eh.. people. You made it out alive without life-changing injuries, and when you arrive in F1RWRS, you are assured that these peoplewill probably never be able to race with you again. Don't waste your time and energy on them.
We wish you good luck, we have seen you improve over the last 2 years, and if you keep that improvement, you are going to make us all proud.
On second thought, you can curse, but do it in dutch. Insulting in dutch sounds twice as insulting as you'd do it in english.
Bastiaan van Nieuwenhuijzen wrote:Ok boss! Time to kick some kut!
Autosport wrote:BREAKING NEWS: Bastiaan van Nieuwenhuijzen crowned AR 3.5 champion as Jantscher finishes 12th in season finale
Novitopoli wrote:Everytime someone orders at Pizza Hut, an Italian dies.
Novitopoli wrote:Juve's Triplete: Calciopoli, doping & Mafia connections.
Marko Jantscher wrote:I...I screwed up. My mindset was just sub-optimal for this event, I am sorry. After my performance this weekend, it is surely Bastiaan who deserves the championship. I want to thank Mr. Jones for the chance to succeed in his team, and I would like to announce personally I am going to be in F1RWRS next season with the Nurminen team.
Mitch Hedberg wrote:I want to be a race car passenger: just a guy who bugs the driver. Say man, can I turn on the radio? You should slow down. Why do we gotta keep going in circles? Man, you really like Tide...
Ataxia wrote:Marko won't be racing in the NC event, since after the rigours of a championship battle he's a bit drained. Jerry de Boer and Jari Lappalainen are available, as is Barlini if Voeckler choose to cut ties now.
Novitopoli wrote:Everytime someone orders at Pizza Hut, an Italian dies.
Novitopoli wrote:Juve's Triplete: Calciopoli, doping & Mafia connections.
