Grand Prix Rejects

Team Impul
Engine Toyota
Sponser Tier 1
Cars 2

Driver 1
Mitsunori Takaboshi
Katsumasa Chiyo
Jan Mardenborough

Driver 2
Valteri Bottas
Sacha Fenestraz
Ma Qing Hua

Team Name: Drago Corse
Sponsor Tier: 2

Driver 1: Sena Sakaguchi
Nationality: Japan

Driver 1: Ye Yifei
Nationality: China

Driver 1: Nobuharu Matsushita
Nationality: Japan

Driver 1: Kohei Hirate
Nationality: Japan

What's your engine supplier, Bandon? Judging by your first three driver options it's Honda.

Anyway, driver RNG will take place in the afternoon and we'll continue from there on.

Reject_Dom wrote:What's your engine supplier, Bandon? Judging by your first three driver options it's Honda.

Anyway, driver RNG will take place in the afternoon and we'll continue from there on.

Yes, Drago Corse will take Honda engine for this season.

Driver RNG results

Naoki Yamamoto
1-65: Mugen
66-100: Dandelion
4 - Yamamoto will drive the #1 car at the place he knows best

Ritomo Miyata - accepts the TOM'S offer, no RNG needed

Sho Tsuboi
1-85: TOM'S
86-100: Concentrates on Toyota F1 test duties
41 - TOM'S complete their lineup

Tadasuke Makino - the Honda junior accepts the Nakajima offer without the need of RNG

Hiroaki Ishiura
1-85: Cerumo Inging
86-100: Scales down his commitment to just Super GT for 2020
100 - Ishiura will only take part for Cerumo in Super GT

Alex Palou
1-90: KCMG
91-100: Returns to Europe
9 - Palou signs for KCMG

Kamui Kobayashi
1-70: KCMG
71-100: Kondo
90 - Kobayashi makes his open wheel return for Kondo Racing

Mitsunori Takaboshi
1-90: Impul
91-100: Rejects the offer
69 - Takaboshi moves up the NDDP ladder for this year

Mitch Evans
1-80: Nakajima
81-100: Supercars
75 - Nakajima complete their lineup

Guanyu Zhou
1-85: B-MAX
86-100: Stays in Japanese F3 for another year
24 - Zhou signs for B-MAX

Nirei Fukuzumi
1-50: Dandelion
51-80: Kahama
81-100: ARTA
63 - Kahama get the talented Fukuzumi

Scott McLaughlin
1-40: Cerumo Inging
41-60: LeMans
61-100: Stays in Australia for a shot at another Supercars title
99 - Scotty Mac stays in Australia for the time being

Felix Rosenqvist
1-80: LeMans
81-100: DTM
80 - Rosenqvist really thinks about it, but finally decides Japan may not be a bad idea after all

Valtteri Bottas
1-75: Impul
76-100: Stays in Europe
12 - Team Impul complete their lineup

Toshiki Oyu
1-90: LeMans
91-100: Japanese F3
66 - and so does Team LeMans

Sena Sakaguchi
1-95: Drago
96-100: Rejects the offer
73 - Sakaguchi joins Drago Corse

Yuji Kunimoto
1-90: Cerumo Inging
91-100: Super GT only
53 - Kunimoto thanks his Cerumo partner Ishiura for letting him take his seat

Sacha Fenestraz
1-90: Cerumo Inging
91-100: Stays in F3
23 - and just like that, Cerumo are good to go for 2020

Juri Vips
1-70: Mugen
70-85: KCMG
85-100: Waits for B-MAX
90 - Vips is slightly concerned he will not be up to the task against Naoki Yamamoto, so he will wait for B-MAX

Harrison Newey
1-75: Mugen
76-100: B-MAX
22 - Newey signs for Mugen to become the champ's teammate, while Vips heads to B-MAX

Takuma Sato
1-50: Dandelion
51-100: Retires from single-seaters and moves to Super GT
26 - the 43yo veteran will give it one last crack in Super Formula

Stoffel Vandoorne
1-75: Dandelion
76-100: Europe, most likely DTM
32 - Vandoorne joins Dandelion in their quest for a possible drivers' title

Nobuharu Matsushita
1-90: ARTA
91-100: Super GT
19 - Matsushita becomes ARTA's chosen one for the team's return

Rio Haryanto
1-40: KCMG
41-100: Stays in GT's
53 - Haryanto doesn't feel like needing a change at this time

Sean Gelael
1-70: KCMG
71-100: Stays in GT's
29 - Gelael thanks KCMG for giving him an opportunity and promptly agrees; KCMG cars will now adorn the Kagonya Ayam! livery

2020 DRIVER LINEUP

* Takuma Sato will miss Round 2 due to him compieting in the Indianapolis 500. He will be replaced by Takuya Izawa.
* Harrison Newey will miss Rounds 7 & 9 due to commitments in Formula 1. He will be replaced by Yuki Tsunoda.
* Sho Tsuboi will miss Round 9 due to commitments in Formula 1. He will be replaced by Nick Cassidy.

really happy with getting nobuharu-san. his second half of last season was really impressive, and we hope that with his talent and ARTA's knowhow, we're gonna have a successful return to nippon open-wheel racing!

on the other hand, wow, the field is gonna be insanely competitive this year, with lots of big names! it's as if we returned to the glory years of the 90s!

Yeah, the plan is for Super Formula to be up there quality-wise with F1, ARWS and IndyCar

Reject_Dom wrote:Yeah, the plan is for Super Formula to be up there quality-wise with F1, ARWS and IndyCar

alright, that's cool, but only having 9 races on the schedule...there are some tracks which, with a little renovations and expansions, could host formula NIPPON or super GT rounds in the future:

- sendai hi-land
- tsukuba circuit
- inagawa circuit
- central circuit hyogo
- a rebuild of mine circuit
- a grand prix of Tokyo, using the R246 map from gran Turismo
- A 500 mile race at the motegi oval, know as the "Nippon 500". sure, it's probably unrealistic, but it'd be cool, nontheless

Sendai is already closed as is Mine, Tsukuba is quite short but maybe capable of a NC race or something.

A Motegi oval race is... interesting to say the least.

I will most likely increase the race number to 10 for 2021 with Suzuka-East taking that spot

Well, hopefully Gelael's extra funding can help the team with setup.

Car Setup
Here comes the fun part - time to assign points to your car!

There are no upgrades, so be careful - what you make before the season starts is what you get for the whole season.

Since S.H.I.T., Real Racing and Le Beausset dropped out after 2019, the following teams will get an extra 0.5 CP: Kamaha, Kondo, Nakajima, B-MAX.

Here's the recap of the Car Points rules.

The six attributes you can change are as follows:
Mechanical Grip - base speed of the car - 2 CP
Wet Weather - wet weather pace - 1.5 CP
Qualifying - qualifying pace - 1.5 CP
Reliability - base reliability of the car - 1 CP
Ease on Tyres - slightly increases tyre durability - 1 CP
Ease of Setup - increases setup quality of the car - 1 CP

All attributes are integers from 1 (worst) to 10 (best).

BASE STATS - Drago Corse & ARTA:

BASE STATS - any other team:


The teams will start with the following values:
Mugen - 14 CP
TOM'S - 13 CP
Impul - 12 CP
Cerumo - 11 CP
Dandelion - 11 CP
KCMG - 11 CP
LeMans - 9 CP
Kahama - 8.5 CP
Kondo - 8.5 CP
Nakajima - 7.5 CP
B-MAX - 7.5 CP
ARTA - 7 CP
Drago - 7 CP

You are allowed to decrease car attributes, for example if you decrease Reliability from 6 to 4, you get 2 more CP to assign elsewhere.
Every player is required to assign all of their CP (however if you end up with 0.5 CP, you will start next season with an extra 0.5 CP).

Cerumo
Mechanical Grip - 6 + 2
Wet Weather - 6 + 1
Qualifying - 6 + 1
Reliability - 6 + 1
Ease on Tyres - 6 + 1
Ease of Setup - 5 + 2

TOM'S

Mechanical Grip - 8 (2 * 2 = 4 CP)
Wet Weather - 7 (1.5 CP)
Qualifying - 8 (2 * 1.5 = 3 CP)
Reliability - 7 (1 CP)
Ease on Tyres - 7 (1 CP)
Ease of Setup - 7 (2 * 1 = 2 CP)

= 12.5 CP

ARTA will put two car points on both reliability and qualifying as well as two on mechanical grip

So that's: Mechanical +1, Reliability +2 and Qualifying +2, correct?

Mechanical Grip - 8 (+4)
Wet Weather - 6
Qualifying - 6
Reliability - 9 (+3)
Ease on Tyres - 6
Ease of Setup - 5

=
7CP

(.5 left over!)

Reject_Dom wrote:So that's: Mechanical +1, Reliability +2 and Qualifying +2, correct?

Yup! Which means:

ARTA
mechanical grip 7
Wet weather 6
Qualifying 8
Reliability 8
Ease of tyre 6
Ease of setup 7

remaining CP: 0.5 if my calculations are correct. Pretty decent setup, if i do say so myself

KFC Team KCMG

Mechanical Grip - 8 (2*2= 4 CP)
Wet Weather - 6
Qualifying - 8 (2*1.5 = 3 CP)
Reliability - 7 (1*1 = 1 CP)
Ease on Tyres - 7 (1*1= 1 CP)
Ease of Setup - 7 (2*1 = 2 CP)

4+3+1+1+2= 11 CP

CaptainGetz12 wrote:KFC Team KCMG

Mechanical Grip - 8 (2*2= 4 CP)
Wet Weather - 6
Qualifying - 8 (2*1.5 = 3 CP)
Reliability - 7 (1*1 = 1 CP)
Ease on Tyres - 7 (1*1= 1 CP)
Ease of Setup - 7 (2*1 = 2 CP)

4+3+1+1+2= 11 CP

LOL, a KFC car, now I've seen everything!

Kinnikuniverse wrote:remaining CP: 0.5 if my calculations are correct. Pretty decent setup, if i do say so myself

You actually used up all the CP but it's fine regardless

Kondo with North Star (8.5 CP)
Mechanical Grip - 7 (2CP)
Wet Weather - 6
Qualifying - 7 (1.5CP)
Reliability - 8 (2CP)
Ease on Tyres - 7 (1CP)
Ease of Setup - 7 (2CP)
TOTAL - 8.5

Nakajima Racing

Mechanical Grip - 9 (+6 CP)
Wet Weather - 7 (+1.5 CP)
Qualifying - 4 (-3 CP)
Reliability - 6
Ease on Tyres - 5 (-1CP)
Ease of Setup - 9 (+4 CP)

Drago Corse

Mechanical Grip - 7 (2 CP)
Wet Weather - 6
Qualifying - 6 (1.5 CP)
Reliability - 7 (1 CP)
Eases on Tyres - 7 (1 CP)
Eases on Setup - 6 (1 CP)

Total - 6.5 CP, so thats 0.5 close to the limit of 7 if my numbers are correct.

Bandon23 wrote:Drago Corse

Mechanical Grip - 7 (2 CP)
Wet Weather - 6
Qualifying - 6 (1.5 CP)
Reliability - 7 (1 CP)
Eases on Tyres - 7 (1 CP)
Eases on Setup - 6 (1 CP)

Total - 6.5 CP, so thats 0.5 close to the limit of 7 if my numbers are correct.

Qualifying should be 7, not 6. And Ease of Setup should be 7, not 6. Don't shortchange yourself!

Team LeMans

Mechanical Grip - 8(2*2 CP=4 CP)
Wet Weather - 7 (+1.5 CP)
Qualifying - 6
Reliability - 7 (+1 CP)
Ease on Tyres - 6
Ease of Setup - 7 (+2 CP)

Edit: 4+1.5+1+2=8.5 CP (0.5 CP remaining)

They go as:
2 CP
1.5 CP
1.5 CP
1 CP
1 CP
1 CP

... also Drago's Ease of Setup is actually 8 now

Mugen

Mechanical Grip - 8
Wet Weather - 8
Qualifying - 8
Reliability - 6
Ease on Tyres - 7
Ease of Setup - 8

I counted 7 now Shawn, so I'll give you the 6 for qualifying and then you'll be on 8.5 CP

Dandelion

Mechanical Grip - 6 = 8 (4 CP)
Wet Weather - 6 = 7 ( 1.5 CP)
Qualifying - 6 = 7 (1.5 CP)
Reliability - 6 = 7 ( 1 CP)
Ease on Tyres - 6 = 7 ( 1 CP)
Ease of Setup - 5 = 7 (2 CP)

Impul

Mechanical Grip - +2
Wet Weather - +1
Qualifying - +1
Reliability - +2
Ease on Tyres - +2
Ease of Setup - +1

Petoli you spent 16.5 CP while you only have 12

Mechanical Grip - 6+1 (2 CP)
Wet Weather - 6-1 (-1,5 CP)
Qualifying - 6+4 (6 CP)
Reliability - 6
Ease on Tyres - 6
Ease of Setup - 5+2 (2 CP)

= 8.5 CP, Kahama's allotment

Thank you everyone!

The season will officially begin next week.

CaptainGetz12 wrote:

Bandon23 wrote:Drago Corse

Mechanical Grip - 7 (2 CP)
Wet Weather - 6
Qualifying - 6 (1.5 CP)
Reliability - 7 (1 CP)
Eases on Tyres - 7 (1 CP)
Eases on Setup - 6 (1 CP)

Total - 6.5 CP, so thats 0.5 close to the limit of 7 if my numbers are correct.

Qualifying should be 7, not 6. And Ease of Setup should be 7, not 6. Don't shortchange yourself!

Sorry, I misread it then. Should have changed them to 7 but it's too late I think.

Bandon23 wrote:

CaptainGetz12 wrote:

Bandon23 wrote:Drago Corse

Mechanical Grip - 7 (2 CP)
Wet Weather - 6
Qualifying - 6 (1.5 CP)
Reliability - 7 (1 CP)
Eases on Tyres - 7 (1 CP)
Eases on Setup - 6 (1 CP)

Total - 6.5 CP, so thats 0.5 close to the limit of 7 if my numbers are correct.

Qualifying should be 7, not 6. And Ease of Setup should be 7, not 6. Don't shortchange yourself!

Sorry, I misread it then. Should have changed them to 7 but it's too late I think.

Just change them to be sure, and confirm he has them.

No need to really, I know what he was supposed to change

2020 Super Formula Championship: ROUND 1 - Fuji Speedway
Possibly the last thing Ryo Michigami expected from his Drago Corse team was to win a Super Formula race. They were unsuccessful to even get a podium before making a hiatus after the 2016 season.

And yet... Sena Sakaguchi pulled off an upset. Qualifying in third place (which was already a big surprise), Sakaguchi stayed there until the pitstop phase when a slightly faster pitstop combined with a 1-lap overcut propelled the young Honda junior ahead of both Naoki Yamamoto and polesitter Valtteri Bottas. Yamamoto tried his best, eventually overtaking Bottas for second place and then charging towards Sakaguchi, but to no avail.

Qualifying Weather: Dry - Sunny
3-stage qualifying system. 24 cars take part in Q1, 18 cars in Q2, 10 cars in Q3. At the end of Q3, the three fastest earn 3, 2 and 1 championship point respectively.

1) 20 - Valtteri Bottas (Impul) - 1:22.444 | 3 points
2) 1 - Naoki Yamamoto (Mugen) - 1:22.567 | 2 points
3) 12 - Sena Sakaguchi (Drago) - 1:22.676 | 1 point
4) 27 - Tomo Kazama (Kahama) - 1:22.706
5) 17 - Álex Palou (KCMG) - 1:22.806
6) 38 - Yuji Kunimoto (Cerumo) - 1:22.966
7) 26 - Nirei Fukuzumi (Kahama) - 1:22.972
8) 5 - Takuma Sato (Dandelion) - 1:23.025
9) 37 - Ritomo Miyata (TOM'S) - 1:23.123
10) 39 - Sacha Fenestraz (Cerumo) - 1:23.251
- - - - - - -
11) 65 - Mitch Evans (Nakajima) - 1:23.002
12) 7 - Felix Rosenqvist (LeMans) - 1:23.014
13) 50 - Jüri Vips (B-MAX) - 1:23.148
14) 36 - Sho Tsuboi (TOM'S) - 1:23.157
15) 2 - Harrison Newey (Mugen) - 1:23.198
16) 6 - Stoffel Vandoorne (Dandelion) - 1:23.245
17) 64 - Tadasuke Makino (Nakajima) - 1:23.294
18) 3 - Kamui Kobayashi (Kondo) - 1:23.652
- - - - - - -
19) 18 - Sean Gelael (KCMG) - 1:23.390
20) 19 - Mitsunori Takaboshi (Impul) - 1:23.470
21) 8 - Toshiki Oyu (LeMans) - 1:23.632
22) 4 - Charlie Cook (Kondo) - 1:23.781
23) 55 - Nobuharu Matsushita (ARTA) - 1:23.812
24) 51 - Guanyu Zhou (B-MAX) - 1:23.816

Race (39 laps) Weather: Dry - Sunny, Overcast

1) 12 - Sena Sakaguchi (Drago) - 56:36.971 | 20 points
2) 1 - Naoki Yamamoto (Mugen) +0.322 | 15 points
3) 20 - Valtteri Bottas (Impul) +2.558 | 11 points
4) 65 - Mitch Evans (Nakajima) +4.707 | 8 points
5) 5 - Takuma Sato (Dandelion) +9.628 | 6 points
6) 38 - Yuji Kunimoto (Cerumo) +10.281 | 5 points
7) 37 - Ritomo Miyata (TOM'S) +10.589 | 4 points
8) 36 - Sho Tsuboi (TOM'S) +19.624 | 3 points
9) 27 - Tomo Kazama (Kahama) +20.377 | 2 points
10) 17 - Álex Palou (KCMG) +23.542 | 1 point
11) 2 - Harrison Newey (Mugen) +24.195
12) 6 - Stoffel Vandoorne (Dandelion) +26.884
13) 64 - Tadasuke Makino (Nakajima) +28.083
14) 51 - Guanyu Zhou (B-MAX) +29.776
15) 18 - Sean Gelael (KCMG) +30.879
16) 26 - Nirei Fukuzumi (Kahama) +31.735
17) 50 - Jüri Vips (B-MAX) +32.636
18) 3 - Kamui Kobayashi (Kondo) +33.275
19) 55 - Nobuharu Matsushita (ARTA) +36.287
20) 8 - Toshiki Oyu (LeMans) +57.051
21†) 19 - Mitsunori Takaboshi (Impul) +1 lap (38 laps / steering)
Ret) 39 - Sacha Fenestraz (Cerumo) - 15 laps / driver error
Ret) 4 - Charlie Cook (Kondo) - 14 laps / steering
Ret) 7 - Felix Rosenqvist (LeMans) - 9 laps / engine

Fastest lap: Ritomo Miyata (TOM'S) - 1:24.831 on lap 34

what?? what happened? I thought I had a good setup! then again, teams that are supposed to be good also had a poor weekend...

Welcome to the lottery known as Super Formula

I'm very impressed that Sena pulled off a best drive so far! Happy for him and for team that returned to the series to start the season brilliantly.