FGP 2014

[pantealex]

Team: L A K K A
D1: Ricciardo 9M
D2: Kobayashi 4M
D3: Vitaly Petrov 1M
Chassis: Ferrari 18M
Engine Ferrari 16M
Bonus GP: Brazil

(18+16+9+4+1=48)

[Tazio]

Slash LLC.

Nico Hulkenurg
Daniel Ricciardo

Julia Lipnitskaia
Just kidding

Simona De Silvestro
Chasis
Mercedes
Lump
Wiliams Mercedes
Bonus
India

[airshifter]

Sorry, you should know the rules by now since you are a veteran!

Exploiting the rules is the essence of F1!

[airshifter]

Team Loco Americano F1

Sergio Perez - 10
Pastor Maldanado - 6
Pedro De La Rosa (reserve) - 1

Ferrari Chassis - 18

Lotus F1 Renault Team-Engine - 13

Bonus GP - US GP COTA

[steveaki13]

This is an official announcement from Aki's Hedgehog Racing Team.

"Due to problems securing our second driver, we will have to delay the announcement of our Official Line Up until a later date. This will also serve to see what other teams are going for.

Thus we can announce ART's launch will take place on

Friday 22nd February at around 10am.

If the worlds media and team bosses wish to gather around the computer next Friday, the announcement will be posted in the FGP thread at said time. "

[N. Jones]

Sorry, you should know the rules by now since you are a veteran!

Exploiting the rules is the essence of F1!

[Tazio]

This is an official announcement from Aki's Hedgehog Racing Team.

"Due to problems securing our second driver, we will have to delay the announcement of our Official Line Up until a later date. This will also serve to see what other teams are going for.

Thus we can announce ART's launch will take place on

Friday 22nd February at around 10am.

If the worlds media and team bosses wish to gather around the computer next Friday, the announcement will be posted in the FGP thread at said time. "

I understand Jules Bianchi was at your plant for a seat fitting.

[N. Jones]

This is an official announcement from Aki's Hedgehog Racing Team.

"Due to problems securing our second driver, we will have to delay the announcement of our Official Line Up until a later date. This will also serve to see what other teams are going for.

Thus we can announce ART's launch will take place on

Friday 22nd February at around 10am.

If the worlds media and team bosses wish to gather around the computer next Friday, the announcement will be posted in the FGP thread at said time. "

I understand Jules Bianchi was at your plant for a seat fitting.

Or, maybe he was just there for the cake...

[N. Jones]

Not to be outdone by these early entries, FGPIA announces a new team:

My son!

He has chosen his team by using only one prerequisite - They Had To Be Red:

RedStar Team
Raikkonen - 23
Chilton - 3
de la Rosa - 1
Marussia - 5
Ferrari - 16
Bonus GP - Canada

[rjbetty]

Ford Focus F1 Team sponspored by Dominos Team Statement

We announce today our new team for FGP 2014. Based on a car that team boss rjbetty wants one day (he misses it's involvement in the World Rally Championship and it's a reason he doesn't watch it anymore), we hope this new name will reflect what we believe will be an increase in performance and reliability for us this season, having had enough of Vauxhalls.

We also unveil our new title sponsor: Dominos - The delivery experts. We believe they will share our passion and attention to detail, and that great results will be delivered in 2014, rather than our crusts being stuffed like last year.

Our first season was frankly an embarrassment as we completely ignored all signs of pre-season testing to put all our eggs in absolutely the wrong baskets. We intend to learn from these mistakes: That's why our choice of Engine for 2014 is... McLaren-Mercedes(!)

We can't believe after everything they put us through last year that we are being involved with McLaren again, but rjbetty's questionable wisdom leads us to feel in this case they deserve a second chance (and they had better not let us down this time ).

However, we feel that it will take a looooooooooooooong time to ever trust McLaren enough to put all our eggs in their basket ever again, and devote too much budget to them. Therefore, we now announce our Chassis package will be supplied by the works Mercedes team.

As for drivers, Perez has been sacked, while we took the tough decision to let go of our second driver Esteban Gutiérrez, who we liked, in favour of recruiting Valtteri Bottas. We watched his performances last year for Aki Racing Team with interest, and believe he shows great promise, and we welcome him onboard.

We have noticed that some of our rivals have been quick to snap up Daniel Ricciardo, as he seems to be the bargain of the year. We are in two minds as to whether to do the same, or do something a little more radical (bearing in mind that approach ruined our whole season in 2013)...

Oh lets do it! Our lead driver is Kevin Magnussen, as a replacement for Perez... (oh the irony!) (though I have a bad feeling I may regret trusting in McLaren again...)

Keeping in the spirit of being radical, our 3rd driver, after some agonising will not be Giedo van der Garde, but rather Robin Frijns.

Having chosen Monza as our bonus GP last year, we are going to try the opposite end of the spectrum and go for Monaco.



Mr Jones, is it possible to change our mind about lead drivers and bonus GP before 14th March?