Fgp 2013

[truefan72]

in 3rd place

hanging in there!

[airshifter]

Team Loco Americano Press Release - Worldwide distribution

Speaking on behalf of the TLAF1 principle, I am happen that we had cars racing today. Our equipment finally showed up just in time for the qually sessions. If we can locate our team principle, I am going to suggest that we arrive in time for practice sessions from here on out, and also that we require our drivers to sleep before race day.

On another note, team spirits remain very high. So high in fact that a private jet with the team principle and an entourage of beauties departed the race early for locations unknown. It is also rumored that Sergio Perez may have been stashed on board the aircraft, and that a stand in body double raced for him today. :)

With the team principle not in the area, we are heading for the next race, and this time will depart directly for the right country. Another team first!

Thank you for your support!


Stella Artois - Director of Consumption - Team Loco Americano F1

[N. Jones]

I getting close! My son is sick, which is delaying the results. Right now he is sleeping so I should be able to finally finish watching the race (three/four laps to go) and then calculate the results.

Either way Button/Perez, especially Perez, was a BAD move.

I am calling for it now - McLaren made a Mistake signing Sergio. In a year or two he would have been ready. But watching him toil in 12th all of the time is sad. McLaren should have signed Hulkenberg instead. Let him move to Ferrari or Red Bull in two years THEN sign Sergio.

Oh well. POSF1 will be occupying the lower 1/4 of the standings if you wish to come down and say 'hi'.

[steveaki13]

AKI RACING TEAM Press Release:

"We are happy enough to see our team have a solid race and finish a reasonable 34th compared to how poor our team has been performing this season.
Button done a great job and show he still has alot to offer, but poor old Bottas is still struggling to get his Williams into the points.
The Sauber chassis looks shabby but our Engine! Wow what power. Mercedes getting us most of our points.

We are also happy to be edging away from the likes Vauxhall Astra F1 Team. There 2nd driver might be faster but Bottas is consistant and doesnt wipe out others.

We also notice their team prinicpal is keeping a low profile and maybe didnt even attend the Chinese GP or was saving up for his teams next party.

We at Aki Racing Team hope he sees how we are aiming to improve our team by not having partys. "

[Firstgear]

Hope your son is getting better N. Jones - I hate it when the kids get sick. Family first.

[airshifter]

Hope your son is getting better N. Jones - I hate it when the kids get sick. Family first.

Agreed.


Being the case, Team Loco Americano F1 wishes to invoke Article 983653, Subsection B of the FGP rules which state:

"Upon any delay in publication of official results, the teams shall amass and engage in festivities involving much food, drink, and comradery. It is the desire of the FGP principle to ensure the spirit of unity and family among the competing group."

As TLAF1 principle I would ask that we pause only as appropriate to give thanks for such an opportunity, and reflect upon the family of the FGP principle with best wishes for a speedy recovery in all situations. :)

[N. Jones]

After a "quick" trip to the emergency room, N. Jones Jnr is Much improved but I stayed home today to help his recovery.

The results are up! http://sites.google.com/site/2009fgp/results/china

1 Dudes in F1* 82
2 Liger* 62
3 Team P3ws 47

[N. Jones]

Holy H-double-hockey-sticks, I'm leading the Wooden Spoon competition! !!

Overall Results:

Rank Team Points
1 Dudes in F1 152
2 Borsuk GP* 151
3 Liger 141
3 TrueSpeed F1* 141
5 TAZ Grand Prix Racing* 132
6 Eagle-Parnelli Racing 128
7 Team P3ws* 127
8 Team Cabbage Face 126
9 Spitze Gurke Racing 121
10 BMD Racing 120

http://sites.google.com/site/2009fgp/results/-00-standings

[pino]

11th overall thanks to Alonso, Ferrari, Hulk, and Lotus (Kimi) :D

[Firstgear]

9th overall and hoping to move way up (for a while anyway) this weekend as it's my bonus GP.
As much as it hurts me to say this - Go Vettel (actually Mark up front would be good too)

[airshifter]

A much better race result than I was expecting actually. Not where I want to be but not falling back too far either. A podium finish is still possible, and I'm hoping Sergio and Bottas get into the points soon!


And N. Jones, I hope your emergency room visit wasn't for anything serious or long term. Thanks for taking the time to run the FGP, it's probably my most stress relieving online time!

[jens]

Yellow Jens GP Racing Team is having a bit of a smile. Our goal was at least fourty points per Grand Prix and we just - only just - fulfilled this aim this time! Race-by-race results are improving (33 pts in Oz, 35 in Mal). Hopefully we can keep up the positive trend!

But we must improve further as an over-all team, because once again we are mainly relying on our excellent chassis, which brought the win. Meanwhile Mercedes engine was third best and drivers scoring nothing again. We can't rely only on chassis all season if we want to challenge at the front of the field.

23rd in the championship is encouraging though. We hope our chassis keeps performing and the drivers actually start performing one day too!

[N. Jones]

A much better race result than I was expecting actually. Not where I want to be but not falling back too far either. A podium finish is still possible, and I'm hoping Sergio and Bottas get into the points soon!


And N. Jones, I hope your emergency room visit wasn't for anything serious or long term. Thanks for taking the time to run the FGP, it's probably my most stress relieving online time!

Nope. Mild dehydration in the 4 year old. Some fluids and meds to get his temperature down and we were all good. It just took six hours to get to a good point!

[N. Jones]

Results of the Bahrain GP:

http://sites.google.com/site/2009fgp/results/bahrain

1 Spitze Gurke Racing* 100
2 Team Integrale* 56
3 Stasio i Jasio GP 51
3 Slash Inc. 51

[N. Jones]

Overall Standings:

http://sites.google.com/site/2009fgp/results/-00-standings

1 Spitze Gurke Racing* 221
2 Dudes in F1 187
3 Borsuk GP* 186
4 TrueSpeed F1* 176
5 Liger 175
6 Team P3ws 172
7 Eagle-Parnelli Racing 171
8 TAZ Grand Prix Racing* 167
9 Team Integrale* 163
10 Team Cabbage Face 159

[N. Jones]

40th in the race. 46th and last overall.

I'm done. Finished. There is no way we are moving out of last.

[steveaki13]

2nd last yesterday. Ouch.

[jens]

Thankfully Pérez performed much better this time. :p : And Mercedes engine was second best instead of third this time. However, unfortunately for the first time this season the Ferrari chassis broke down. Well, still can't find the balance, so that the whole package performs well. Must still wait. :p :

[N. Jones]

What do you mean?

[steveaki13]

Looking at some of their other posts they have yet to prove they aren't spamming or trolling.

[N. Jones]

Ah, ok.

[airshifter]

Looks like Perez is upping his game some.... I expect some swings in FGP teams if the trend continues. Kimi staying very consistent and thus far a great driver choice as well.

[steveaki13]

My only hope is my Engine.

Jense starting 14th, Bottas 16th and my chassis is 15th & 19th with the Sauber.

Brilliant stuff.

[steveaki13]

Anyway where is the team leader at the Vauxhall Astra Team?


Havent seen rjbetty posting for a month or more. I miss him. :(

[P3ws]

Where did i end up? Can´t see me in the list of todays result?
I have Ferrari as engine, Lotus chassi, Di Resta as driver. Should give som good points.

[Wasted Talent]

OLD LADIES F1 is missing from Spanish GP results as well - missus not happy...

WT

[airshifter]

I think the two posters above are looking at last years results. Give it some time, N. Jones has a life of his own and can't always get to things right away. You could manually figure out your team results if you want... it's just a little math.

[airshifter]

Where did i end up? Can´t see me in the list of todays result?
I have Ferrari as engine, Lotus chassi, Di Resta as driver. Should give som good points.

<Smack talk mode on>

You should finish behind Team Loco Americano F1, and that's all that really matters my friend! Well that and good parties!

<Smack talk mode off>

Both of us will have good race results, near the top of those not using a bonus GP. I think I only spotted a couple teams will possible higher point combos for this race. You will pull a few points on me since Diresta beat Perez. Which is a good thing as you are one of the teams ahead of me in overall standings that has not used your bonus GP. I think both of us will end up among the top teams not having used a bonus GP yet.

We have very similar teams. Very creative financing on your part, had I exploited that rule we might have had exact same teams!

[henners88]

I'm doing pretty well in 38th place.

[Wasted Talent]

I think the two posters above are looking at last years results. Give it some time, N. Jones has a life of his own and can't always get to things right away. You could manually figure out your team results if you want... it's just a little math.

Ooops! Thanks for the clarification

WT

[airshifter]

I'm doing pretty well in 38th place.

I'm fairly sure that is before the Spain results.... just saying.

[N. Jones]

Yeah, I forgot to delete those results.

Sorry this is taking so long. Sunday was Mother's Day in the US and that made it a pretty busy day. I will watch the race tonight and post the results.

I know either I am going to be last. :(

[N. Jones]

Does anyone know where I can find a how to build a webpage and where is a good hosting site? I really think we might do better with a nicer looking site. This one on Google just looks... well... blah.

[N. Jones]

Results up today. I'm sorry this took so long!

[N. Jones]

Spanish Grand Prix Results:

http://sites.google.com/site/2009fgp/results/spain

1 Team P3ws 49
2 BMD Racing 46
3 Team Loco Americano F1 45

[N. Jones]

Overall Standings:

http://sites.google.com/site/2009fgp/results/-00-standings

1 Spitze Gurke Racing* 254
2 Dudes in F1 226
3 Borsuk GP* 225
4 TrueSpeed F1* 215
5 Liger 212
6 Team P3ws 221
7 Eagle-Parnelli Racing 208
8 TAZ Grand Prix Racing* 193
9 Team Integrale* 190
10 Team Cabbage Face 203

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[COD]

There are some mistakes in the overall standings, teams not in points order

[N. Jones]

Yes they, I'm last!
:D :laugh:

I'll fix it.

[N. Jones]

The overall standings have been fixed. Thanks COD for finding that error.

http://sites.google.com/site/2009fgp/results/-00-standings

[Koz]

Some teams that have had their bonus GP do not have an asterisk, too.

[N. Jones]

Hmmm.... that should not be. Spain was empty of FGP teams.

[Koz]

Hmmm.... that should not be. Spain was empty of FGP teams.

China wasn't.

[N. Jones]

I only missed two! :)

[Firstgear]

Yipppeeeee I'm still up top - thanks to the strategy of using my bonus early in the season. Tops in F1 pickems too. I'll enjoy it while it lasts.

[airshifter]

A podium finish in Spain for my team. It's about time! :)

Only one real stand out team of those that hasn't used their bonus GP yet.... the others are within striking distance for me.

[N. Jones]

I better fin9ish somewhere other than last this time!

[Robinho]

Finally my Rosberg, Merc, Merc combination comes good at Monaco.

Sent from North Korea using the dark network

[jens]

Finally the Mercedes engine brought a win, but the rest of the team were a big let-down.

I can't believe the driver line-up has proven to be such a burden this year, even though on paper it looked like a good choice! Both McLaren and Williams have dropped the ball significantly this year and are struggling to develop the car too. So the season seems doomed!

Whoever picked Force India drivers for a bargain, has found gold.

[N. Jones]

I agree.
Results will be up later tonight (tonight Chicago time).

Great for Button but seeing Perez go out stunk. I was really hoping enough would happen to allow van der Garde up in the points as he was driving really well.

Oh Well, I don't think he got high enough to score a chassis point. Grrr

[N. Jones]

Grand Prix Of Monaco Results:

http://sites.google.com/site/2009fgp/results/monaco

1 Force Yorkshire* 154
2 Team Marlboro Koz Racing* 100
3 Team Purple Frog 77
3 Liger* 77
3 All Eggs in a German Basket 77

[N. Jones]

Overall Standings:

1 Force Yorkshire* 335
2 Team P3ws 298
3 Spitze Gurke Racing* 297
4 Liger* 289
5 Dudes in F1* 266
6 Borsuk GP* 265
7 All Eggs in a German Basket 258
8 BMD Racing 251
9 TrueSpeed F1* 248
10 Team Cabbage Face 243

[Firstgear]

N. Jones, can you recheck the numbers? I'm pretty sure I was in the lead overall before Monaco - and now Team P3ws jumped passed me even though I got more points than him (her?) at Monaco. Oh - and Liger, that's my son. It would be nice if you could find a way to knock him down a notch or two as he's getting too big in my rear view mirrors.

[steveaki13]

Yes Aki Racing Team that has been racing in the bottom 5 this season, finally used the chaos in Monaco to move up the field. 21st place.

In reflection of this season, that is a good result.

The team will get a party tonight. I was going to invite rjbetty team boss of Vauxhall Astra Racing, but he appears not to be coming to the races now.

[steveaki13]

And from 44th to 38th.

A good weekend for my backmarker team.

We will continue to try and improve the car for the rest of the season and hope for a top 30 finish

[N. Jones]

N. Jones, can you recheck the numbers? I'm pretty sure I was in the lead overall before Monaco - and now Team P3ws jumped passed me even though I got more points than him (her?) at Monaco. Oh - and Liger, that's my son. It would be nice if you could find a way to knock him down a notch or two as he's getting too big in my rear view mirrors.

You're right. Somehow I screwed it up.
I will recalculate now.

[N. Jones]

Thanks firstgear, I did screw up the over standings,

They have been revised: http://sites.google.com/site/2009fgp/results/-00-standings

1 Force Yorkshire* 335
2 Spitze Gurke Racing* 294
3 Liger* 289
4 Team Marlboro Koz Racing* 276
5 Dudes in F1* 266
6 Borsuk GP* 265
7 All Eggs in a German Basket 258
7 Team Purple Frog 258
9 TrueSpeed F1* 255
10 Team P3ws 254

[airshifter]

A substantial blow to my team. Things were looking good until Perez (my number 1 driver) collided with Kimi (my chassis)!!!!

Sooooooo.... tied for last on the race, and my chances at a podium for the year went down substantially. I still think the consistency of Kimi will bring me back up quite a bit, and Sergio will be back in the points.

[N. Jones]

No blow to my team, we will be last all year. :(

[rjbetty]

The team will get a party tonight. I was going to invite rjbetty team boss of Vauxhall Astra Racing, but he appears not to be coming to the races now.

Haha no I haven't been around much. I am like the typical backmarker team-boss, losing interest and spending my time in other businesses.
(In real life I am working now, and it's soooo busy I simply can't post any drivel anymore :s pin :)

Now to check how the team has been faring...

Hmmm, since China; 36th 18th 36th and 21st...

Mr Jones, please can I swap my McLaren chassis for a 1998 version?

(2 1998 chassis please)

[N. Jones]

I wish I could.

[N. Jones]

Do I have to calculate the points? I scored an entire 15 today.

My team sucks.

[N. Jones]

Canada Results:

http://sites.google.com/site/2009fgp/results/canada

1 Team Purple Frog* 80
2 Spitze Gurke Racing* 58
3 The Snuggle Bunch 45

[N. Jones]

Overall Standings:>

http://sites.google.com/site/2009fgp/results/-00-standings

1 Force Yorkshire* 375
2 Spitze Gurke Racing* 352
3 Team Purple Frog* 338
4 Liger* 329
5 Team Marlboro Koz Racing* 306
6 Dudes in F1* 299
7 All Eggs in a German Basket 298
7 Borsuk GP* 298
9 BMD Racing 291
10 TrueSpeed F1* 288

[steveaki13]

I believe in FGP terms I was lapped 8 times today.

I finished plum last with 15 points.

After my second driver started 3rd as well.

Oh well just want to not finish last at the end of the season. Then build a better 2014 FGP team

[N. Jones]

You won't.
I am finishing last. The McLaren is a piece of junk.

[jens]

Yellow Jens GP Racing Team gives its drivers Pérez and Bottas until Belgian GP to raise their game or otherwise they will be told that their services in the team won't be retained.

"We really believed in their potential, but unfortunately neither is delivering," says the team principal glumly. "We do not like to hear endless excuses about how the car is bad - bottom line is that we are not getting points on board with this driver line-up."

"I can't believe Grosjean collected us so many more points last year than either Pérez or Bottas has done this year. And we criticized Grosjean for what he did! Well, it turns out he did a splendid job to get almost 100 points, which we can only dream of now."

[Tazio]

Currently residing in fourteenth place, and what I thought would be a championship contending team will do well to finish in the top ten. It looks like it is up to Mercedes to bring home the points for their lump, because McLaren bro sucks, and Perez
has been........ :rotflmao:
I knew it was a bad omen when we lost Slash. :angryfire

[steveaki13]

I knew it was a bad omen when we lost Slash. :angryfire


Dont tell him that. I hear he can do crazy things when angry.

[rjbetty]

VAUXHALL ASTRA TEAM STATEMENT

After another forgettable Grand Prix where we scaled the heights to 36th position, the Vauxhall Astra F1 Team have resigned themselves to fighting it out at the back for the season without a lot of hope for much improvement. Our last race was so bad even henners beat us...

We are currently an entirely un-glorious 37th in the championship, equal on points with the aki racing team. At least we have the satisfaction of our no.1 driver finishing ahead of theirs.

As for Slash inc, we would sure not mind fighting for 14th position, but as it is they are so far above us we can hardly see them.

We had hoped for the McLaren chassis to be transformed significantly, as the Woking team have a good recent history of polishing the sheds they sometimes create into very decent products. We had hoped for a Monza win for Perez as the only high point of a disastrous season, but as it is, even that hope has gone out of the window.

Our aim now is to beat our fellow backmarkers, such as Aki Racing Team, Henners F1, and POS racing, and others. We are confident of at least achieving this, as we rue our gamble on McLaren and Sauber having amazing seasons...

[Robinho]

7th and now top non-bonus GP using team, happy days

[Wasted Talent]

7th and now top non-bonus GP using team, happy days

If Hulkenburg scores any points in Germany - your bonus GP - you will go above Force Yorkshire as we have the same team apart from bonus GP.......

I'll enjoy my moment of glory after my emphatic win in Monaco!

WT
(Force Yorkshire)

[Firstgear]

If Hulkenburg scores any points in Germany - your bonus GP - you will go above Force Yorkshire as we have the same team apart from bonus GP.......

I'll enjoy my moment of glory after my emphatic win in Monaco!

WT
(Force Yorkshire)

This is only true if Mercedes win in Germany, as they did in Monaco. If Mercedes place 2nd, 3rd, etc, - then a Hulkenburg podium may not even be enough for him to jump ahead of you. But don't get too comfortable - The Gurke is closing in and has his thumb hovering over the DRS button. :D

[Wasted Talent]

This is only true if Mercedes win in Germany, as they did in Monaco. If Mercedes place 2nd, 3rd, etc, - then a Hulkenburg podium may not even be enough for him to jump ahead of you. But don't get too comfortable - The Gurke is closing in and has his thumb hovering over the DRS button. :D

Oops, of course you a correct - it was my Rosberg-Merc-Merc winning my bonus GP in Monaco that powered me to the top, so now I just need to hope that Force Yorkshire don't go backwards like a Mercedes on supersofts

WT

[Robinho]

I am counting on the all my all German team step up to the plate and deliver a dominant performance on Germany

Sent from North Korea using the dark network

[N. Jones]

It pains me to calculate the points every GP. McLaren are such rubbish that if either drivers finishes higher than 6th I will be elated.

[airshifter]

Team Loco Americano Press Release
Worldwide Distribution

Having fully accepted the lack of pace from our drivers, we have discovered an alternative that may work. While attending one of our numerous between race parties a cute blond got quite angry with me and insisted that I listen to her or lawyers would be involved. Not fond of lawyers and more fond of cute blonds, I decided to invite her into another room to talk.

Though obviously distracted for a period, this young lady produced a contract for me to read, and I was astonished to find that she is in fact a driver under contract with our team. Susie Wolff is her name, and all this time I've been fond of nothing more than her ability to mix a great drink and attract people to the hospitality areas.

Well long story short, being a sucker for a blond I've agreed to let her drive at some point in the season. I guess I'll have to flip a coin and figure out which driver to boot for a race or two. Sergio seems to be driving well considering the car, but Valteri also seems to be doing better. It may come down to which looks better in a skirt, as they will have to fill the void left by Ms Wolff.

As an added side, placing this young lady in the car will surely help with sponsorship money, which will go a long way towards additional parties. If we are frugal it may allow monies for car development as well.

[Robinho]

i'll take a repeat of todays result next week in Germany please, A rosberg/Merc win and a Hulkenberg point.

[N. Jones]

ARGH! My laptop crashed and it has my spreadsheet on it!

I'll be putting together the results from scratch but it will take some time. My son's birthday party is today too so the results might not arrive until late Chicago time.

[N. Jones]

Before I post the results of the British GP I want to make an announcement:

We are going to have a new site next year. The free Google site just doesn't cut it. I am going to build something that looks much more appealing and it much more functional to our needs.

[N. Jones]

Britain GP Results:

1 BMD Racing 96
2 Blue Ridge Engineering 82
3 Liger 76

http://sites.google.com/site/2009fgp/results/europe

[N. Jones]

Sorry, wrong name up there but it will take you to the correct site.

Overall standings:

http://sites.google.com/site/2009fgp/results/-00-standings

1 Force Yorkshire* 451
2 Team Purple Frog* 414
3 Liger* 405
4 Spitze Gurke Racing* 388
5 BMD Racing* 387
6 All Eggs in a German Basket 374
7 Team Marlboro Koz Racing* 356
8 Blue Ridge Engineering* 340
8 Dudes in F1* 340
10 Borsuk GP* 339

[airshifter]

Before I post the results of the British GP I want to make an announcement:

We are going to have a new site next year. The free Google site just doesn't cut it. I am going to build something that looks much more appealing and it much more functional to our needs.

For what it's worth, I think the current site works just fine. I've been away from the web stuff for a while, otherwise I'd offer to lend a hand. But in this case function is just fine, so anything to want to do.....

[N. Jones]

I just want to let everyone know again:

My team sucks.

[yodasarmpit]

Britain GP Results:

1 BMD Racing 96
2 Blue Ridge Engineering 82
3 Liger 76

http://sites.google.com/site/2009fgp/results/europe

Finally, after about four years, I win one :)

[N. Jones]

Sweet, nothing wrong with winning.

Did I tell you my team sucks?

[N. Jones]

German GP Results:

http://sites.google.com/site/2009fgp/results/britain (the name is wrong but it will send you to the correct page).

1 All Eggs in a German Basket 60
2 Spitze Gurke Racing 50
3 Slash Inc. 44
3 Eagle-Parnelli Racing 44
3 Stasio i Jasio GP 44

[N. Jones]

Overall Standings:

http://sites.google.com/site/2009fgp/results/-00-standings


1 Force Yorkshire* 481
2 Team Purple Frog* 444
3 Spitze Gurke Racing* 438
4 Liger* 435
5 All Eggs in a German Basket* 434
6 BMD Racing* 417
7 Team Marlboro Koz Racing* 398
8 Blue Ridge Engineering* 375
8 Dudes in F1* 375
10 Borsuk GP* 374

[steveaki13]

Aki Racing team has been improving over the last 2 FGP with two top 30 finishes. We caught up with team prinicipal Steveaki13 to get his angle on the tailender teams improving form.

"Well it was a hard start to the season for us with the Chassis and drivers being so poor. However in recent races and with the tyre chaos its helped us climb from 40th-45th in races well into the top 40.

JB had a brilliant race in Germany he showed great experience. He would have got more had the Caterhams not lost him time and allowed that useless Hammy through.

Bottas has yet to score points but he improves all the time and despite his car he is outperforming Gutierrez totally for me. I bet his team are crying into their petrol tank.

The Mercedes Engine is great, but it wears tyres so costs the car winning races.

And finally our Sauber Chassis. Good grief its been poor. But at least it has scored points in the last 2 races.

All in all we are creeping from a tailender to lower midfield team and for us that is progress in 2013".

[N. Jones]

POSF1 Formerly Sponsored by HP is bottom of the table and not likely to move up any time soon. Mclaren's car is rubbish, which is dragging down our drivers. The only true points scoring piece is the engine but even that is not enough to pull us out of the bottom.

Drastic changes are coming for next year as we have begun work on the 2014 car.

[airshifter]

Top 10 for the race, but right now overall still sucking wind. :laugh:

At least Perez got into the points. A lot of teams have him as a driver, so it won't help me in standings much... but at least we now feel we got a good deal. :)

[COD]

Finally one of the drivers of Force Finland scores a point :) Waiting for Bottas to do the same soon!

[N. Jones]

Sigh, my team is junk.
Yeah, I said it again! :D

[Tazio]

Decent result for Slash Inc. :burp:

[N. Jones]

The results will be up in an hour!

[Tazio]

Thnx :)

[N. Jones]

I am sorry this is taking so long. I lost my function-enabled spreadsheet and have been forced to compile the last few races by hand. I am working on fixing this.

Here are the results for Hungary:

http://sites.google.com/site/2009fgp/results/germany

1 Team Marlboro Koz Racing 59
2 Liger 50
2 Force Yorkshire 50
2 Team Purple Frog 50
2 All Eggs in a German Basket 50
6 Awesome Mustangs 47
6 Slipstream Racing 47

[Tazio]

Another solid result for Slash Inc. Looks like a top 10 is a sure thing :bulb:

[N. Jones]

Over all Standings:

http://sites.google.com/site/2009fgp/results/-00-standings

1 Force Yorkshire* 531
2 Team Purple Frog* 494
3 Liger* 485
4 All Eggs in a German Basket* 484
5 Spitze Gurke Racing* 471
6 Team Marlboro Koz Racing* 457
7 BMD Racing* 454
8 Blue Ridge Engineering* 417
8 Dudes in F1* 417
10 Borsuk GP* 416

[N. Jones]

46th overall.

F U McLaren!!!

[steveaki13]

I am starting to creep up from 43rd earlier in the year to mid 30s now.

The glory is going to my head

[airshifter]

I am starting to creep up from 43rd earlier in the year to mid 30s now.

The glory is going to my head

You must be gaining all the positions that I'm dropping. Ferrari is killing me!

[rjbetty]

VAUXHALL ASTRA TEAM STATEMENT

Given that the summer break has been reached and everyone is bored (and there is little funding left for parties), we will release another of what f1rejects calls a publicocrap statement.

To put it mildly, the Astra F1 Team have been so woeful that team boss rjbetty hasn't even bothered turning up to the races anymore.

We are concerned that our drivier pairing of Perez and Gutierrez have only scored a grand total of 18pts this year. To make matters worse, McLaren have basically given up on this year, meaning we can expect their cr@pness to continue for the forseeable future.

At least it's not as bad as the Sauber, which some teams have chosen this year. However, it is in our interest that that car performs well for Gutierrez's sake - so that he might actually score a point. In order to try to boost his performance, the team boss is actually going to cry tears into the fuel tank in an attempt to see if that does anything to help.

But unlike some teams, who blew their bonus GP in the first round, we still have ours at Monza. Hopefully Sergio can produce a decent performance and Mercedes Engined cars can sweep to victory. There is still hope of finishing in the top 40(!!) in this years championship.

[N. Jones]

Belgium Grand Prix Results:

http://sites.google.com/site/2009fgp/results/hungary

1 Bed Rules Racing 80
2 Mexican Narco-trafficking Team 66
3 McLaren Domination Forever...Sans Hamilton 62
4 Team P3ws 60
5 Team Loco Americano F1 56
6 Chequered Flag GP 54
6 HennersF1 54
8 OLD LADIES F1 50
8 Ari GP 50
8 Spitze Gurke Racing 50

[Tazio]

Perez still blows :dozey:

[N. Jones]

Overall Standings:

http://sites.google.com/site/2009fgp/results/-00-standings

1 Force Yorkshire* 573
2 Team Purple Frog* 536
3 Liger* 527
4 All Eggs in a German Basket* 526
5 Spitze Gurke Racing* 521
6 Team Marlboro Koz Racing* 491
7 BMD Racing* 487
8 Bed Rules Racing* 467
9 Team P3ws* 451
10 Blue Ridge Engineering* 450
10 Dudes in F1* 450

[N. Jones]

Oh my do McLaren blow this year.
You watch, next year I will avoid them and they will be awesome. grrr.....

[rjbetty]

Henners F1 came 6th in Belgium and have now leapfrogged me in the championship?!! :eek:

I could never have imagined I'd do so poorly this year. How I miss the glory days of 18th in Bahrain...

At least the next round is Monza - and you know what that means - BONUS GP TIME!

The Vauxhall Astra F1 team are relying on you Sergio.

[N. Jones]

F Sergio. Nico should be in McLaren!

ARGH! This is a disaster. for POS F1.

[Tazio]

F Sergio. Nico should be in McLaren!

I wish I had Slash on my team instead of Chico :confused:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYxgjJK7kD0&list=PL546979130A420106&feature=player_detailpage

[steveaki13]

Henners F1 came 6th in Belgium and have now leapfrogged me in the championship?!! :eek:

I could never have imagined I'd do so poorly this year. How I miss the glory days of 18th in Bahrain...

At least the next round is Monza - and you know what that means - BONUS GP TIME!

The Vauxhall Astra F1 team are relying on you Sergio.

Oh look me and thee were joint 35th even with my so called loser Bottas. ;)

Mind you 39th and 41st out of 45 or 46 doesnt leave us with much to be proud of though. :rolleyes: I am worried about your Bonus GP next week though. :(

Good luck Rj. Hope you have a good one.

[steveaki13]

I wish I had Slash on my team instead of Chico :confused:



Mind you, surely you lose points when Slash, slashes again and is sack mid season???? ;) :grenade:

[rjbetty]

VAUXHALL ASTRA F1 TEAM NEWS

Hey Mr Jones, how did Henners F1 manage 6th in Belgium with McLaren drivers? Are you sure that's right?

(We are protesting the result in true F1 team fashion since he is now ahead of us in the championship)

Also, breaking news, as it turns out Jenson Button and several other sports starts have been arrested on multiple accounts of breaking and entering in recent months! Button, and the other stars, believed to be Jessica Ennis and Rory McIlroy, have committed a spate of offences by breaking into people's homes, then surprising them at inoppurtune moments and explaining to them that they could get 2% cashback on their current accounts and suchlike.

Mrs Smith of Grimsby had this to say: "I joost went t' fridge t' get soom milk for coop of tea; when I closed t' door, I were 'orrified as there were scrooffy man standin n' froont uf me tellin me a load of bank stoof. Didn't make mooch sense to me so I smacked 'im in face with me fryin' pan."

Mrs Smith was only cautioned for her actions as she was deemed to have acted in self defence.

It turns out that Santander bank are involved in these crimes too and are under police investigation. It's also yet to be understood how Button, Ennis and McIlroy were able to actually enter heir victims homes, seeing as in most cases all doors and windows were locked etc.

This has a profound effect on our championship chances as a few of our major rivals have Button as lead driver. 2 of our closest rivals are Aki Racing Team and Henners F1. Since Button is now in jail pending bail, those teams are in a bit of a fix aren't they? This, along with Monza being our bonus GP provides us with a great oppurtunity to leapfrog several rivals and get back into the top 40 overall (sigh).

[steveaki13]

Press Cutting:

Today Aki Racing Team was reported to have joined fierce rivals Vauxhall Astra F1 Team in questioning the Spa GP result, when fellow backmarker Henners F1 managed a shock 6th place. V.A.F1 (Vauxhall Astra F1 Team) made their feelings clear earlier today, but in true F1 fashion the ART (Aki Racing Team) has made it clear they hold VAF1 responsible for the challenge to Henners F1. So should any action be taken against protesting teams then its V.A F1 rather than ART that will be punished.

As for reports on JB being in prison, the ART team principle made a statement earlier.

"We would like to send our support to Jenson at this tough time and hope he enjoys the cake with solid metal filling we have sent him. Following delivery of said cake, we very much hope Jenson can make it back to the paddock for the next race.

[jens]

Yellow Jens GP Racing Team issues a statement that this season has been written off.

"We are incapable of reaching the goals. Unfortunately drivers are rubbish, incapable of improving and adapting to the car and this is the main obstacle of the season. Even re-hiring Grosjean again would have been much better. Ferrari chassis is dropping backwards and all the while Red Bull keeps winning, Mercedes engine is only second-best option."

"Next up is our bonus GP. Well, we can hope to move into Top20 of the championship and this is our best chance, where to finish by the end of the season."

"We overanalyzed before the season when compiling our team. Lessons are learnt from this. We will put together our 2014 more by following gut feeling, common sense and heart."

[N. Jones]

Italian Race Results:

http://sites.google.com/site/2009fgp/results/belgium

1 Team Tango* 84
2 Red Passion Team* 72
3 Yellow Jens GP Racing Team* 66

Overall Standings:

1 Force Yorkshire* 618
2 Team Purple Frog* 581
3 Liger* 572
4 All Eggs in a German Basket* 571
4 Spitze Gurke Racing* 571
6 BMD Racing* 520
6 Team Marlboro Koz Racing* 520
8 Bed Rules Racing* 517
9 Blue Ridge Engineering* 490
9 Dudes in F1* 490

http://sites.google.com/site/2009fgp/re ... -standings (http://sites.google.com/site/2009fgp/results/-00-standings)

[rjbetty]

Thanks N.Jones.

*checks results*

:eek:

What in the world??!!

Do you seriously mean to say I came 4th in the Italian GP??? :eek:

*almost faints from shock and has to sit down*

Are you sure this is right? (not that I'm complaining at all)

[rjbetty]

VAUXHALL ASTRA F1 TEAM PRESS RELEASE

We interrupt this thread to bring you another announcement from VAF1 Team.

The provisional result from the Italian Grand Prix was declared today and it appears that this plucky backmarker team have claimed a shock 4th place in what is surely one of the upsets of the season.

We are keeping celebrations on hold until the result is officially confirmed. We are wondering if the series promoter has been using Mark Webber's spreadsheet program for the last 2 races by mistake. (i.e. one that doesn't work very well)

Despite the fact that neither of our drivers finished in the points, and only one of our silver sheds scraped a 10th place finish (having managed to file his way out of jail in time for the weekend), and this combined with the Mercedes engine claiming only 6th, 9th and 10th places, we appear to have come up with the 4th highest points total for this race.

VAF1 have a sneaky feeling this will be a bit like Brazil 2003 so we are not counting our chickens just yet.

In other news, it is that time of year when we consider our drivers for next year. We think that Nico Hulkenberg has been mighty this weekend and this year. If the top teams don't want him, we will!

[N. Jones]

POSF1 Sponsored by Nobody has nothing to say because we suck.

The races have been fun though. :D

[N. Jones]

Results will be up tomorrow.

[Tazio]

Thanks bro!

[N. Jones]

My team sucks.

[N. Jones]

Singapore Results: http://sites.google.com/site/2009fgp/re ... taly?pli=1 (http://sites.google.com/site/2009fgp/results/italy?pli=1)

1 The Snuggle Bunch 82
2 Spitze Gurke Racing 50
3 Slash Inc. 44
3 Stasio i Jasio GP 44

[N. Jones]

http://sites.google.com/site/2009fgp/re ... -standings (http://sites.google.com/site/2009fgp/results/-00-standings)

1 Force Yorkshire* 709
2 Team Purple Frog* 672
3 Liger* 663
4 All Eggs in a German Basket* 662
5 Spitze Gurke Racing* 654
6 Team Marlboro Koz Racing* 606
7 Bed Rules Racing* 599
8 BMD Racing* 591
9 Blue Ridge Engineering* 568
9 Dudes in F1* 568

[rjbetty]

VAUXHALL ASTRA F1 TEAM STATEMENT

Here are the latest news and updates from our team:

The team were happy to receive one of our now only occasional visits from our team boss rjbetty this Thursday, having arrived to check on his teams progress.

We were quite alarmed and dismayed to check in on the result, looking on longingly at that Red Bull chassis in particular. In an increasingly desperate bid to salvage some success from this season, we are trying to contact Sebastian Vettel with the offer of a unique chance to prove a point to his naysayers who insist his success is all down to the car (i.e. garry walker).

We will offer Seb the chance to swap his chassis with one of ours! Then it is a win-win situation for both of us: We will actually have the chance to score decent results, while Vettel can prove a point (and score some too). The plan is of course to give the car to our driver Sergio Perez rather than Button.

Having scored an equal 33rd in Singapore, VAF1 remain 37th in the championship. Our only goal for this season is to finish in the top 40 overall and out of the bottom 6 (and beat 1 or 2 teams in particular). With 6 races to go, it is very tight, but we are fighting tooth and nail for every point and are determined to remain in the top 40 when the music stops at season's end.

On another note, it seems that the team boss's attempt to coax more pace out of Gutierrez by crying tears into his fuel tank worked a treat as the young Mexican lined up an eye-watering (ahem) 10th on the grid. As usual though, it didn't last and he rolled home 12th and out of the points - though he did at least finish ahead of Bottas.

In light of the qualifying performance, VAF1 have now placed a massive order of onions. It is most ironic having laughed so much at sniffpetrol.com's season preview regarding Paul di Resta, that it is in fact the Vauxhall Astra F1 Team that are now boosted by the pure power of rjbetty's misery.

In addition, there are recent murmurings of a major deal in the works with Shell. The plan is for Shell to become the team's major sponsor in 2014. Alongside this, Shell will formulate the next generation of their much vaunted (but a little too expensive for our liking) V-Power Nitro+ Fuel, the basis of which will be harnessing the power of the guvnor's tears.

On the subject of 2014, we are thinking that we should really begin to start making some plans at some point we guess.

[Firstgear]

N. Jones, can you please recheck those results. After the Italian GP I was tied with All Eggs.. and 1 point behind Liger. In Singapore I scored 9 points more than those teams and instead of leapfrogging them in the overall standings (and getting a taste of the podium) I'm shown as being 8 or 9 points behind them.

Thanks for all your work on this by the way - it really does make the season more enjoyable. Without FGP I'd probably be as tired of seeing Seb & Redbull at the top as many others, but because I picked Redbull for my FGP team and I'm fighting to get onto the podium things are still interesting.

[steveaki13]

Today Aki Racing Team boss Steveaki13 stated he was disappointed with the 2013 season and may look to sell the team for 2014. He was very critical of the teams performance, which at every race is in the top 40, but now the season total see's the team 41st of 46.

He stated: I have never seen such a rabble as we have assembled this season. The Sauber chassis is a real dog, the Mercedes engine may be powerful but both Button & Bottas have been woeful. Even a rubbish driver like Gutierrez who only the most desperate team would employ, is doing better.

The ART gaffer also added that he has set his team an minimum goal.

"I am truly angry at the decisions that have been made this season, but I have sent out a memo, stating that if we can beat AstraF1 & Henners F1 by the seasons end, then we will keep trying to improve next season, if we don't I will Sell the Team or refuse to employ any elements of our currant team next year.

[N. Jones]

N. Jones, can you please recheck those results. After the Italian GP I was tied with All Eggs.. and 1 point behind Liger. In Singapore I scored 9 points more than those teams and instead of leapfrogging them in the overall standings (and getting a taste of the podium) I'm shown as being 8 or 9 points behind them.

Thanks for all your work on this by the way - it really does make the season more enjoyable. Without FGP I'd probably be as tired of seeing Seb & Redbull at the top as many others, but because I picked Redbull for my FGP team and I'm fighting to get onto the podium things are still interesting.

Sure. I hope I didn't goof but you never know!

[N. Jones]

Yep, I miscalculated!
https://sites.google.com/site/2009fgp/r ... -standings (https://sites.google.com/site/2009fgp/results/-00-standings)

1 Force Yorkshire* 659
2 Spitze Gurke Racing* 624
3 Liger* 613
4 All Eggs in a German Basket 612
5 Team Purple Frog* 574
6 Bed Rules Racing* 559
7 Team P3ws 555
8 BMD Racing* 554
9 Eagle-Parnelli Racing* 527
10 Blue Ridge Engineering* 526
10 Dudes in F1* 526

[N. Jones]

Oh my. I am ready to start next season! My team is dog last!!

[Tazio]

Yep, I miscalculated!
https://sites.google.com/site/2009fgp/r ... -standings (https://sites.google.com/site/2009fgp/results/-00-standings)

1 Force Yorkshire* 659
2 Spitze Gurke Racing* 624
3 Liger* 613
4 All Eggs in a German Basket 612
5 Team Purple Frog* 574
6 Bed Rules Racing* 559
7 Team P3ws 555
8 BMD Racing* 554
9 Eagle-Parnelli Racing* 527
10 Blue Ridge Engineering* 526
10 Dudes in F1* 526

Not that I'm complaining mind you, but how can Stasio and I be on a different point total when we have the exact same team and neither of us has bro used our bonus yet?
Thanks for your hard work it is much appreciated.
Best wishes,
http://i.imgur.com/AQ88Y.jpg

[steveaki13]

Not that I'm complaining mind you, but how can Stasio and I be on a different point total when we have the exact same team and neither of us has bro used our bonus yet?
Thanks for your hard work it is much appreciated.
Best wishes,
http://i.imgur.com/AQ88Y.jpg

Because your team was deducted some points for questionable activities by the team boss. :vampire: :stareup:

[N. Jones]

I have no idea. I'll look into it tomorrow.

[Tazio]

Not that I'm complaining mind you, but how can Stasio and I be on a different point total when we have the exact same team and neither of us has bro used our bonus yet?
Thanks for your hard work it is much appreciated.
Best wishes,
http://i.imgur.com/AQ88Y.jpg

Because your team was deducted some points for questionable activities by the team boss. :vampire: :stareup:
#like
That I would understand, but I have the higher point total! :confused: :stareup: :sailor:

[steveaki13]

Then why are you moaning. Do think Red Bull would moan if they found they had been added a few extra points?

[Tazio]

Only interested in fair play mate. If Slash beats Stas' I want it to be a fair fight! :stareup:

[steveaki13]

Only interested in fair play mate. If Slash beats Stas' I want it to be a fair fight! :stareup:

What and no glasses or bottles in sight? :eek:

[Tazio]

Only interested in fair play mate. If Slash beats Stas' I want it to be a fair fight! :stareup:

What and no glasses or bottles in sight? :eek:
Maybe, maybe not. :p:

[N. Jones]

Arg! Forgot to look into this. Let me check.

[N. Jones]

What did you change your name for! I can't find your team......

[N. Jones]

Happy Now? :p :p :p :p


13 The Snuggle Bunch* 523
14 Force Finland 518
14 Team Cabbage Face 518
16 Slash Inc. 509
16 Stasio i Jasio GP 509
18 TrueSpeed F1* 508
19 Mexican Narco-trafficking Team* 503
20 Yellow Jens GP Racing Team* 502

[Tazio]

http://www.wearyourbeer.com/images/Family_Guy_Freakin_Sweet_Blue_Ringer_Shirt.jpg

Yes, so why did you accidently inflate may score, do you secretly want even more members to hate me personally? :sailor: :dork: :stareup:

[N. Jones]

Somehow I gave you more points on one of the GPs. Not sure why exactly...

[airshifter]

Somehow I gave you more points on one of the GPs. Not sure why exactly...

I shall consult Jean Todt on the proper way to protest this action!

Team Loco Americano does not however think that foul play was involved. We simply think that with the proper protest we can accumulate funds for further parties. As we have now misplaced one of our transporters this is a critical step in staying at the races. With enough parties we can easily get a drunken truck driver to offer the services to move the cars.

[Tazio]

Somehow I gave you more points on one of the GPs. Not sure why exactly...

I shall consult Jean Todt on the proper way to protest this action!

Team Loco Americano does not however think that foul play was involved. We simply think that with the proper protest we can accumulate funds for further parties. As we have now misplaced one of our transporters this is a critical step in staying at the races. With enough parties we can easily get a drunken truck driver to offer the services to move the cars.
Slash Inc. is self policing :dozey:
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSHPJhWy4zq1wVTj52cWhYs2rmPmTTjM _mtH7NZ7qfRApjYJZDBnQ

[N. Jones]

:laugh:

[N. Jones]

Korean GP Results:

1 Eagle-Parnelli Racing 55
2 Force Finland 52
2 Bed Rules Racing 52
4 Spitze Gurke Racing 50

http://sites.google.com/site/2009fgp/results/singapore

[N. Jones]

Overall Standings:

http://sites.google.com/site/2009fgp/re ... -standings (http://sites.google.com/site/2009fgp/results/-00-standings)

1 Force Yorkshire* 754
2 Team Purple Frog* 717
3 Liger* 708
4 All Eggs in a German Basket* 707
5 Spitze Gurke Racing* 704
6 Bed Rules Racing* 651
7 Team Marlboro Koz Racing* 648
8 Eagle-Parnelli Racing* 618
9 BMD Racing* 616
10 Blue Ridge Engineering* 611

[N. Jones]

Somehow I gave you more points on one of the GPs. Not sure why exactly...

I shall consult Jean Todt on the proper way to protest this action!

Team Loco Americano does not however think that foul play was involved. We simply think that with the proper protest we can accumulate funds for further parties. As we have now misplaced one of our transporters this is a critical step in staying at the races. With enough parties we can easily get a drunken truck driver to offer the services to move the cars.

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

[steveaki13]

Aki Racing Team achieved a rare high this weekend in Korea when it finished 28th inside the top 30 for only the 3rd time this season. the points haul has moved the team level with Henners F1 and close the gap to just a few points on the Astra F1 team.

Team owner steveaki13 was not in Korea this week, as he was busy at the teams Chelmsford Base. He was working on securing a stronger line up for 2014 despite the uncertainty in the regs for 2014.

A brief quote was captured after the race.

"Yeeeeeeeeeeeeees, fantastic job to finish 28th. Come on Get in there.............."

Once he had calmed down he had another dig at a rival driver. "Gutierrez???? What a mug started in a fast Sauber from 8th and still finished outside the points and just ahead of our guy. I bet his boss is pulling his hair out"

[N. Jones]

POS F1 Sponsored by nobody release this statement:

"AAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHH HHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

[airshifter]

Slash Inc. is self policing :dozey:
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSHPJhWy4zq1wVTj52cWhYs2rmPmTTjM _mtH7NZ7qfRApjYJZDBnQ

The hospitality areas were informed before the season start to make sure that certain drivers only get drinks in thin plastic. We may be drunkards but we aren't fools. :D

[Firstgear]

Overall Standings:

http://sites.google.com/site/2009fgp/re ... -standings (http://sites.google.com/site/2009fgp/results/-00-standings)

1 Force Yorkshire* 754
2 Team Purple Frog* 717
3 Liger* 708
4 All Eggs in a German Basket* 707
5 Spitze Gurke Racing* 704
6 Bed Rules Racing* 651
7 Team Marlboro Koz Racing* 648
8 Eagle-Parnelli Racing* 618
9 BMD Racing* 616
10 Blue Ridge Engineering* 611

Somehow Purple Frog, Liger & All Eggs jumped ahead of me even though I got 5 points more that they did. :confused:

[COD]

Force Finland is very much like the team owner and a good wine, the older the season gets the better the results are. Bonus still unused...

[N. Jones]

Those teams didn't jump ahead of you as they were alreasy ahead of you before Korea:

Team Purple Frog* 672
Liger* 663
All Eggs in a German Basket* 662
Spitze Gurke Racing* 654

[Firstgear]

Yep, I miscalculated!
https://sites.google.com/site/2009fgp/r ... -standings (https://sites.google.com/site/2009fgp/results/-00-standings)

1 Force Yorkshire* 659
2 Spitze Gurke Racing* 624
3 Liger* 613
4 All Eggs in a German Basket 612
5 Team Purple Frog* 574
6 Bed Rules Racing* 559
7 Team P3ws 555
8 BMD Racing* 554
9 Eagle-Parnelli Racing* 527
10 Blue Ridge Engineering* 526
10 Dudes in F1* 526

I was going by this, which is what we had after Singapore. :confused:
I guess something must've changed again after that???

[N. Jones]

Dammmit. I will have to recalculate and see where I made the mistake.
I need to start keeping a spreadsheet tab after every race so I can compare the overall standings so things like this do not happen.

[rjbetty]

VAUXHALL ASTRA F1 TEAM STATEMENT

Here is the Vauxhall Astra F1 Team reporting on the goings on of another mediocre race in our mediocre season.

We will NEVER GIVE UP in the all-important fight for 37th in the championship, which we continue to hold despite an alarming reduction of the gap to the 4 teams behind in Korea.

Our only targets are to finish in the top 40 at season's end, even though one of the closely matched 5 teams are going to miss out on this when the music stops. We are banging our fists on the table and declaring IT WON'T BE US!

Should we fail though, the only possible consolation will be beating the Aki Racing Team (and failing even that, HennersF1), which we will be on course to do if Esteban Gutierrez continues to finish ahead of Valtteri Bottas, as usual, and as he did once again easily last weekend.

We would rather like to see some improved performance from Sergio Perez. It would be nice if he could possibly score even a few top 8 finishes before the season's out. :mad: In short, we are not happy with his lack of results this year: He has gotten involved in too many incidents costing us points. He seems to have shown no consideration of how important it is for VAF1 to beat our rivals in FGP. If we fail to meet our stated targets at the end of the season, we very well know who will be getting the chop for it. :angryfire

In some exciting news, we announce a major deal for next season with immediate effect - our team boss rjbetty has completed negotiations and acquired a Renault Laguna road car to replace his Vauxhall Astra, which in the words of more than one garage mechanic, has frankly, "had it". As such, we request to series promoter N.Jones that we change our name to Renault Laguna F1.

[N. Jones]

Better?????????

http://sites.google.com/site/2009fgp/re ... -standings (http://sites.google.com/site/2009fgp/results/-00-standings)

1 Force Yorkshire* 704
2 Spitze Gurke Racing* 674
3 Liger* 658
4 All Eggs in a German Basket 657
5 Team Purple Frog* 619
6 Bed Rules Racing* 611
7 Team P3ws 591
8 Eagle-Parnelli Racing* 582
9 BMD Racing* 579
10 Force Finland 570

[Koz]

Nope. Now my points are wrong.

Should be in the top 10.

Certain race scores also appear to be wrong?
Italian GP for instance... 15 + 12 + 4 = 31 not 29.

[N. Jones]

GAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Koz]

N. Jones I sent you a PM did you get it?

[N. Jones]

It is going to take me some time to fix this as I have to get data validation, vlookup, and named ranges working again so that I can let the spreadsheet calculate the points instead of me doing it manually.

[N. Jones]

A HA! I have finally fixed my spreadsheet! NOW we will get rid of the demons of miscalculation!

(You know, with all of the times I goofed up the points, why didn't I think to pad my total? THERE'S AN HONEST MAN, JIM!)

[N. Jones]

Oh. My. God.

[Firstgear]

Are you ok N. Jones? You kind of left us hanging there. Sounds like you fell out of your chair or something. :p

[N. Jones]

I F***** Up, and I F***** Badly.

I have fixed my calculations for all Grand Prix's and the overall standings.
I don't what else to say but go have a look at the correct standings for each race:
http://sites.google.com/site/2009fgp/

Overall Standings:
1 Force Yorkshire* 704
2 Spitze Gurke Racing 671
3 Team Purple Frog* 667
4 Liger* 658
5 All Eggs in a German Basket* 657
6 Bed Rules Racing* 611
7 Team Marlboro Koz Racing* 591
8 Eagle-Parnelli Racing* 582
9 BMD Racing* 581
10 The Snuggle Bunch* 572

[steveaki13]

Aki Racing Team Statement:

After considering the reformed standings our team would like to make a statement to Astra F1 Team.

"Ner Ner Ne Ner Ner"

[Tazio]

I F***** Up, and I F***** Badly.

I have fixed my calculations for all Grand Prix's and the overall standings.
I don't what else to say but go have a look at the correct standings for each race:
http://sites.google.com/site/2009fgp/

Overall Standings:
1 Force Yorkshire* 704
2 Spitze Gurke Racing 671
3 Team Purple Frog* 667
4 Liger* 658
5 All Eggs in a German Basket* 657
6 Bed Rules Racing* 611
7 Team Marlboro Koz Racing* 591
8 Eagle-Parnelli Racing* 582
9 BMD Racing* 581
10 The Snuggle Bunch* 572


Thanks my man your work is stellar. Depending on how I do with my bonus race (India) I think about p7 is attainable in the final standings. Not as good as I expected going in, but hey, Slash Inc. will be back next season with bad intentions :devil: :stareup:

[N. Jones]

http://sites.google.com/site/2009fgp/results/japan

Japan Grand Prix Results:

1 Darth Bong 62
2 Eagle-Parnelli Racing 57
3 Bed Rules Racing 54

[N. Jones]

Overall standings:

http://sites.google.com/site/2009fgp/re ... -standings (http://sites.google.com/site/2009fgp/results/-00-standings)

1 Force Yorkshire* 741
2 Spitze Gurke Racing* 721
3 Team Purple Frog* 704
4 Liger* 695
5 All Eggs in a German Basket* 694
6 Bed Rules Racing* 665
7 Eagle-Parnelli Racing* 639
8 Team Marlboro Koz Racing* 631
9 Force Finland 618
10 BMD Racing* 611

[rjbetty]

VAUXHALL ASTRA F1 TEAM STATEMENT - JAPANESE GP

After an even worse than usual week in this frankly, forgettable year, which has been totally bereft of highlights (our best finishes have been 13th at Monza and 18th in China...), we bring news on the recent Japanese GP.

We entered the season with a bold gamble on McLaren and Sauber having amazing seasons. Wouldn't you just know that both outfits would promptly go on to have just about their worst years ever...

Our revised and modest targets were simply to finish in the top 40 (of 46) at seasons' end, and beat a certain team or 2 in particular. Therefore we could only look on in dismay as the corrected results were published - revealing us to fail even those lowly objectives. To make matters worse, we were mocked by our closest rivals to boot.

However, we have the last laugh as our 2nd driver Esteban Gutierrez came a timely 7th on Sunday to finally bank his first points. This has caused our team to score a relatively competitive 34th (sighs - I just want this season to end already...). This brings us back up to equal 39th just a few pts behind Aki Racing Team - though we have both been overtaken by LOTUS NOT LOTUS RACING.

While out front, there is not much of a fight, our team is engaged in an almighty 6 way scrap between 37th-42nd, covered by just 7pts!

Unlike a few days ago, we have reason to hope: We now have a 2nd driver who has proven himself able to score points - unlike some other teams. And there is no reason why he should now not be in with a chance of doing so at every remaining race. Also, we are sure that Checo Perez, nearing the end of the season and knowing he needs to secure his drive, will start performing more strongly than he did at the start. We need him to start outscoring Button, which if he does, will give us the best chance of achieving our objectives. We are confident Perez will perform because if he doesn't, we know who will be getting the chop.

2014 NEWS

We recently realised we had no plans at all for 2014, so we have been moving behind the scenes to correct this. We make a major announcement that we will be running with Renault power in 2014, in conjunction with the fact that team boss rjbetty now has a Renault Laguna with Turbodiesel engine, in time for the new regulations. Sergio Perez will not be part of our 2014 plans unless he pulls his socks in an upwardly direction.

[N. Jones]

I love these!

[Zico]

Bed Rules Racing movin on up! :smokin:

[N. Jones]

POS F1 will no longer have HP, or any company, sponsor them next season due to the horrendous season the team is having.
"We selected a team that we thought would be highly competitive this season" stated Team Principal Garry Gould. "The drivers have not been able to drive that LUMP we developed onto the podium. It also seems that Sergio Perez has not made the leap that the hype said he would." While the rumor is Sergio is going be cheaper next season, the consensus is he is just not ready to score major points. "While we wish him the best we can only hope that someday he becomes a worthwhile addition to any team in FGP." Gould would not talk about the car except to say that we should know that it wasn't returning next season.

There was no comment on driver Jensen Button...

[Firstgear]

While the rumor is Sergio is going be cheaper next season

Link Please :D

[N. Jones]

All stated links are unavailable until Feb '14. :D

[airshifter]

I think Perez fooled us all. Granted the car hasn't performed well this year, but there are a lot of teams that have Perez. The same applies to Bottas, hard to judge the driving without a better car.

I managed to move down when the recalculation fixes took place. Oh well, now I hope the team fights back to middle of the pack.

[N. Jones]

Same here. I was so quick to jump on Button/Perez thinking that McLaren couldn't get worse but they did. I have been last all season long. No recalc is going to change that!

[steveaki13]

Aki Racing Team made a belated Japanese GP Statement after there HQ's internet source was disconnected due to lack of funds from this poor season.

On Japanese GP
"We were happy with our weekends work in Japan as we managed to tie with our closest rival this season, with a Sauber chassis that has improved lately and an Engine which is consistant . Its just our second driver who is now the dead weight. We were fully behind him while he matched the hapless Gutierrez in not scoring points, but after letting the Mexican get ahead of him we are furious with Bottas."

On 2013 FGP Championship
"We at ART (Aki Racing Team) are concerned that despite only 46 teams in FGP this year we are in 38th place going into the last few races. Last year having received plaudits for a decent debut season of 32nd of 57. We are concerned that our new team in FGP is beginning to struggle in the development race and so are looking to right this for 2014. "

On 2014 Plans
"We have nothing confirmed for 2014 but we are making massive plans to evolve our team ready for our 3rd season in FGP in 2014. We have sacked our recruitment manager who chose button & Bottas as our drivers for this season. But mostly our Chassis Manager will be changed for next season having lumbered us with a Sauber chassis all season. "
"Bottas Leaving? Well I can confirm that Bottas will NEVER NEVER EVER drive for us again in the near future. He has been rubbish and let a muppet like Gutierrez score more points than him. "
"We are also looking for a major sponsor too for 2014 to help push us up the grid."

Finally on Rivals
" Fair play to Astra F1 team who have gotten some points out of their second driver, there team boss deserves some credit. We hope his team is still doing OK after I heard rumours that none of his workers like him. "
"We are 38th and 5 points ahead of them so really want to hold on to that lead and maybe squeeze a top 35 finish by Brazil. While Henners F1 is still in the mix too"

"One team we don't consider a threat is the POSF1 team. They appear to run with 3 wheels at most events. Fingers crossed for them for next season."

[N. Jones]

"One team we don't consider a threat is the POSF1 team. They appear to run with 3 wheels at most events. Fingers crossed for them for next season."

It's as if Yuji Ide and Zsolt Baumgartner are hiding under Button and Perez masks! :laugh:

[N. Jones]

Ugh. My best result is 33rd in Hungary!

[N. Jones]

India Grand Prix Results:

https://sites.google.com/site/2009fgp/r ... outh-korea (https://sites.google.com/site/2009fgp/results/-17-south-korea)

1 Slash Inc. 106
2 Liger 54
2 Force Yorkshire 54
2 Team Purple Frog 54
2 All Eggs in a German Basket 54

[steveaki13]

you gotta be joking............................................ ........ second last................................

It was rumoured that Aki Racing Team has given up all hope now of beating their rivals. More to follow.

[N. Jones]

Overall Standings:

1 Force Yorkshire* 795
2 Spitze Gurke Racing* 771
3 Team Purple Frog* 758
4 Liger* 749
5 All Eggs in a German Basket* 748
6 Slash Inc.* 709
7 Bed Rules Racing* 708
8 Team Marlboro Koz Racing* 682
9 Eagle-Parnelli Racing* 679
10 Force Finland 661

https://sites.google.com/site/2009fgp/r ... -standings (https://sites.google.com/site/2009fgp/results/-00-standings)

[N. Jones]

you gotta be joking............................................ ........ second last................................

It was rumoured that Aki Racing Team has given up all hope now of beating their rivals. More to follow.

Hey, you could at least thank me for cushioning you fall! :D

[steveaki13]

Cheers. I would have entered 2014 fantasy GP2 otherwise

[rjbetty]

VAUXHALL ASTRA F1 TEAM STATEMENT - INDIAN GP

Coming off the back of a feel-good day seeing several impressive drives and the coronation of Sebastian the Fourth (congrats btw), it was a good weekend for VAF1. Having publicly admonished our lead driver Sergio Perez, he promptly delivered his best result yet of 5th on Sunday. We would like to see a strong end to the season for Sergio as he understands how important it is to keep his drive.

Our 2nd driver wasn't able to replicate the heroics of Japan, but he was able to show his continued improvement since the start of the season, and once more he finished ahead of the other $6Million driver Bottas, though we understand Bottas is lumbered with a shed far worse than even our McLaren.

With the Mercedes engine that we run also claiming an impressive 2nd in the hands of Nico Rosberg, all this enabled us to claim 28th - a result that's almost respectable, and one of our best results of the season (sigh).

This lands us back up to 37th in the championship. Our rivals Aki Racing Team suffered the misfortune of finishing joint last, failing to score more points than even the lamentable POSF1 outfit, who are the Minardi of FGP 2013. This just shows that you never know what can happen in a race, and we are aware that it can just as easily be us at any of the final 3 races, so we know we can't take anything for granted. Henners F1 is just 1pt behind us while Chequered Flag Racing have drawn level. It's all to play for at the tail end of the field!

[N. Jones]

POS F1 laments that even with a good day (Perez) we get a bad day (Button).

Who thought Caterham was a good idea, anyway?

[rjbetty]

Yeah I was wondering at the beginning of the season what you were thinking of when you chose Caterham?! :p

[Tazio]

India Grand Prix Results:

https://sites.google.com/site/2009fgp/r ... outh-korea (https://sites.google.com/site/2009fgp/results/-17-south-korea)

1 Slash Inc. 106
2 Liger 54
2 Force Yorkshire 54
2 Team Purple Frog 54
2 All Eggs in a German Basket 54

My man Checo came through for the right race :bandit:
Spank you all very much :stareup: ;)

[rjbetty]

Congrats Dr. That was a dominant victory.

[Tazio]

Thank you rj, even Slash had a good race. :) :angel:

[steveaki13]

Baa..........

[N. Jones]

Yeah I was wondering at the beginning of the season what you were thinking of when you chose Caterham?! :p

I was hoping that Button/Perez/Mercedes would keep it on the podium. Caterham would just be bonus points.

Some GPs they are the only points outside of Merc. :/

[N. Jones]

"One team we don't consider a threat is the POSF1 team. They appear to run with 3 wheels at most events. Fingers crossed for them for next season."
:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

[N. Jones]

We make a major announcement that we will be running with Renault power in 2014, in conjunction with the fact that team boss rjbetty now has a Renault Laguna with Turbodiesel engine, in time for the new regulations.

You kinda won't be able to do this next season...

[N. Jones]

This lands us back up to 37th in the championship. Our rivals Aki Racing Team suffered the misfortune of finishing joint last, failing to score more points than even the lamentable POSF1 outfit, who are the Minardi of FGP 2013.

:rotflmao:

[N. Jones]

Grrr.....
(This is what happens when you have nothing to do at work!)
Grosjean - 17
Rosberg - 15
some 3rd - 1
STR - 6
Mercedes - 9
total - 48 M
Total with Japan as bonus, 654, tied for 12th.
WHY do I always go for the underdog??????!!!!! :(

[steveaki13]

This lands us back up to 37th in the championship. Our rivals Aki Racing Team suffered the misfortune of finishing joint last, failing to score more points than even the lamentable POSF1 outfit, who are the Minardi of FGP 2013.

:rotflmao:

:mad: Its not so funny when battle the Astra Team and their Mexican lad. There goes my season long fight with rj. :mad: ;)

[N. Jones]

I was laughing at you calling me the Minardi of FGP.

[jens]

Yellow Jens GP Racing Team answers philosopically: "Sometimes you have to take one step backwards [bad performance in 2013] to make a step forward [challenge in 2014]."

Having said this, team boss has a wry smile on his face. But refuses to open the cards, how are they going to prepare for 2014.

"2014 is a clean sheet design, anyone can get it horribly wrong or right."

"One thing we can tell - we need to hire F1 experts into the team, who can actually properly analyze team and driver performance based on pre-season preparation to get our signings right. We are in talks with Eddie Jordan to become our team advisor in 2014. He always happens to get his predictions right, at least about the driver market. If he could foresee Schumacher and Hamilton going to Mercedes, he may foresee some more valuable things about 2014, which might be useful for our team."

[steveaki13]

Aki Racing Team has announced it has given up on its season long battle with other backmarker teams to finish in the top 40 and beat the Astra F1 team and Henners F1.
Their team boss made the announcement while back at their Essex Base and trying to secure a stronger 2014 line up. He was quoted as saying the following at an interview by a motorsport forum journalist.

Motorsport Forum Journalist: So after that terrible result in India where does it go from here?

Steveaki13: Well its no secret, that I was furious after the race, and this has cost us much chance of a top 40 finish.

MFJ: Really? So you think you're battle with the other backmarkers is over?

SA13: I think so. I still hope we can finish 3rd bottom or above. Luckily POSF1 has last sown up, but I don't think we can catch Astra F1 or Henners F1 now.

MFJ: Whats you're feelings on those teams bosses and how they have gotten ahead of you this season?

SA13: I like them both, they both run decent teams although the signing of Gutierrez is still questionable, although he has beaten our guy.

MFJ: So what can you tell us about next year?

SA13: Well nothing much yet. I can say we are planning a better all round package for 2014 and we are talking to several drivers and engine suppliers. However we are close to signing a chassis already, but at the moment we cant announce much more at the moment.

MFJ: We hear you have an announcement of a sponsor for 2014 near?

SA13: Yes. We will make an announcement around the UAE GP about that.

MFJ: Thanks for you're time today.

SA13: No worries. I bet rjbetty doesn't give you this amount of time. I hear he is always partying or away from the races.

[COD]

No results yet, but Force Finland has allready decided to fire Sauber pit release guy for f***ing up Hulkenbergs race in our bonus GP.

[N. Jones]

Results up very soon.
Stupid McLaren....

[N. Jones]

UAE Grand Prix Results:

https://sites.google.com/site/2009fgp/results/india
1 Force Finland 86
2 The Snuggle Bunch 54
3 Liger 51
3 Force Yorkshire 51
3 Team Purple Frog 51
3 All Eggs in a German Basket 51

[N. Jones]

Overall Standings:

https://sites.google.com/site/2009fgp/r ... -standings (https://sites.google.com/site/2009fgp/results/-00-standings)

1 Force Yorkshire* 846
2 Spitze Gurke Racing* 821
3 Team Purple Frog* 809
4 Liger* 800
5 All Eggs in a German Basket* 799
6 Slash Inc.* 754
7 Bed Rules Racing* 751
8 Force Finland* 747
9 Team Marlboro Koz Racing* 730
10 Eagle-Parnelli Racing* 719

[steveaki13]

F****** Sauber. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Aki Racing Team statement:

We at ART (Aki Racing Team) would like to make clear it blames this weekends results completely on those in charge of the different sections of their team.

"JB our first driver let us down by clipping di Resta and lost us a few points"
"Bottas had a point taken from him by stupid Williams strategy"
"Sauber screwing Hulkenbergs race by letting him exit the pits in front of another Car and losing us massive chassis points"


ART would also like to announce that JB and Sauber have been sacked by team principle steveaki joining Bottas who was let go 3 weeks ago. It now only leaves Mercedes potentially on board for 2014.

[rjbetty]

VAUXHALL ASRA F1 AM SAMN

Du o h fac ha som lrs on rjbys kyboard ar currnly no working, all announcmns ar on hold for h im bing, unforunaly...

[N. Jones]

Friggin McLaren.

Bah! :mad:

[steveaki13]

VAUXHALL ASRA F1 AM SAMN

Du o h fac ha som lrs on rjbys kyboard ar currnly no working, all announcmns ar on hold for h im bing, unforunaly...

Communications break down at Astra F1 then. :D

[N. Jones]

:laugh:

[rjbetty]

VAUXHALL ASTRA F1 TEAM STATEMENT

We belatedly bring you news from VAF1, who have secured a wireless keyboard for the time being, now regaining the use of the letters e, t, and z. This had been causing us nightmares trying to type our 2nd driver's name so we are glad it's rectified. Unfortunately it runs on a battery and I don't know how long...







... So having linked our wireless keyboard to a KERS device, here we go!

INDIAN GP
I can't remember if I actually already did this, but anyway: Well Perez came through for once scoring a timely 5th while our rivals went down the pan. We are inviting Steveaki and N.Jones to a curry we are having to celebrate to help drown their sorrows.

ABU DHABI GP
Friday:
Due to the curry and drinks getting out of hand and turning into a huge party, we are now out of funds again and as such can't pay our drivers. This means they haven't turned up yet as they are still having a massive sulk (while our team employees who have such things as mortgages etc have to tough it out)

Saturday:
Perez starts ahead of the gripless Button again while Gutierrez actually starts behind Bottas for a change.

Sunday: We are not happy at Sutil cheating the track to get ahead of Perez. At least Sergio beat him at the finish to get more points. We think the McLaren drivers swapped seats for this GP... As for Gutierrez, he may not have trounced Bottas this time but at least he has points. :devil:


THE CHAMPIONSHIP
We are still holding on to 37th place with 37th-40th covered by 1pt!! We are determined to beat them down but really need Gutierrez to pull his finger out again. rjbetty is going to cry tears of laughter into his tank again.


OUR RIVALS
Williams enjoyed an improvement in form at Abu Dhabi by reverting to their old exhaust system. We would like to suggest they can gain even more performance by reverting the entire car to the 1992 spec. Elsewhere, it's the same old as POSF1 prop up the table. We appreciate them being there to divert attention away from our dreadful form. We hear that the folks on f1rejects are going to post an article for POSF1 as a new reject team. Watch this space.

[N. Jones]

:rotflmao:

[rjbetty]

VAUXHALLASRAFAMSAMN

hrarnomorannouncmnsforhimbing

Nowvnmorlrsargon,includinghspacbar...

Isgonfrombadowors...

[rjbetty]

VAUXHALL ASTRA F1 TEAM STATEMENT

A very short update today as the spare keyboard is out of juice. Even more letters have gone now, including the spacebar...

USGP
Qualifying:

A decent day from our drivers, qualifying 7th and 10th. But what's this? Valtteri Bottas in 9th! Our forlorn rivals may have hope too since Hulkenberg also starts 4th for Sauber - good news for those using that chassis. This season isn't over yet. This is also the bonus GP for POSF1 Racing sponsored by no-one, but we are sufficiently far ahead to not feel threatened by them.

It turns out that Gutierrez has been penalised 10 places for blocking: well that just would have to happen when it's actually a good day for him, and when we are in a very tight championship fight, wouldn't it? :mad:

This leaves it for lead driver Sergio Perez to save the day. We therefore don't feel too confident of holding off our rivals... :erm:



Gosh that was hard work. Whew.

[COD]

Wohoo! Finally both Force Finland drivers score points! So sad this was not our bonus GP

[N. Jones]

Results will be up tonight.

Finally! The season is near its end. Grosjean is looking mighty good right now.........

[N. Jones]

US Grand Prix Results:

https://sites.google.com/site/2009fgp/results/uae

1 Tire Chains F1 64
2 Force Finland 55
3 Team Marlboro Koz Racing 51
3 Eagle-Parnelli Racing 51
3 Bed Rules Racing 51

[N. Jones]

Rank Team Points

6 POSF1 Sponsored by HP 50

I'M NOT LAST. WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
:imu: :imu:

[N. Jones]

Overall Standings:
https://sites.google.com/site/2009fgp/r ... -standings (https://sites.google.com/site/2009fgp/results/-00-standings)

1 Force Yorkshire* 889
2 Spitze Gurke Racing* 871
3 Team Purple Frog* 852
4 Liger* 843
5 All Eggs in a German Basket* 842
6 Slash Inc.* 803
7 Bed Rules Racing* 802
7 Force Finland* 802
9 Team Marlboro Koz Racing* 781
10 Eagle-Parnelli Racing* 770

[steveaki13]

Aki Racing Team had a decent race this weekend, but due to dire Championship standings have no intention of any race review. All they revealed is that they were sure POSF1 Sponsored by HP had added an illegal part to their car to suddenly claim 6th.

[steveaki13]

A huge bit of news has broken in the race to sign sponsors for next seasons Fantasy GP Championship.

It was today announced that Aki Racing Team has signed a new sponsor for 2014 that they hope will move them towards the midfield and ahead of near rivals Henners F1, Astra Racing Team and a possibly resurgent POSF1 Sponsored by HP.

The new 2014 sponsor of Aki Racing Team has been announced as "Hedgehog Gutter Brush" Number 1 for gutter clutter.

Thus transforming "Aki Racing Team" (ART) into "Aki's Hedgehog Racing Brush Team.

Its hoped this partnership will lift (AHRBT) out of the doldrums for 2014

[N. Jones]

Aki Racing Team had a decent race this weekend, but due to dire Championship standings have no intention of any race review. All they revealed is that they were sure POSF1 Sponsored by HP had added an illegal part to their car to suddenly claim 6th.
It's called traction control.

SSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH, don't tell anyone!

[N. Jones]

POSF1, long the doormat of FGP, is rumored to be going with a Merc-Ferrari lineup next season after the team has lost its sponsor and and respectability.
Or maybe a Romain Grosjean-led squad.
Or maybe, they might retain Jensen Button (who is surely better than this) and put more into the chassis-teamengine combo.

In other news the team has actively lined up some sponsors next season but sadly, due to the state of the team, POSF1 will be forced to spend $40 million instead of the standard $48 million most teams are allotted.

[Firstgear]

Well, with only one race remaining and having almost 20 points between myself and my nearest rivals (ahead and behind) we'll be turning down the rev's just a bit for Brazil.
I think the time has come to congratulate Force Yorkshire on a great season. Even with Vettel winning 8 strait (my team has RBR & Renault) I still wasn't able to close the gap.
However, I will take great delight in the free lunch payed for my buddy (who is currently closer to the bottom of the standings than the top) who was taunting me in the preseason. Yup, lunch always tastes better when someone else pays!

[Tazio]

Another solid performance for Slash Inc. although the best I can really hope for is to hold on to P6 overall. Slash is a stud for taking a bullet for the team before the first turn so he could concentrate on his administrative duties, after which he had a routine visit to the ophthalmologist. :dork:
http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/wp-content/u ... 2011-1.jpg (http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/forc_suti_vale_2011-1.jpg)

[COD]

Another solid performance for Slash Inc. although the best I can really hope for is to hold on to P6 overall. Slash is a stud for taking a bullet for the team before the first turn so he could concentrate on his administrative duties, after which he had a routine visit to the ophthalmologist. :dork:
http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/wp-content/u ... 2011-1.jpg (http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/forc_suti_vale_2011-1.jpg)

And naturally the only aim for Force Finland for Brazil is to pass Slash Inc. for P6 and hopefully earn some more cash for 2014 from Bernie E. of Fgp, Mr. N.Jones

[Tazio]

Nope I have you coveredf.
Stasio can pass both of us but he needs arealltgood rtesut from Checo!@ :dork:

[Firstgear]

Another solid performance for Slash Inc. although the best I can really hope for is to hold on to P6 overall. Slash is a stud for taking a bullet for the team before the first turn so he could concentrate on his administrative duties, after which he had a routine visit to the ophthalmologist. :dork:
http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/wp-content/u ... 2011-1.jpg (http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/forc_suti_vale_2011-1.jpg)

And naturally the only aim for Force Finland for Brazil is to pass Slash Inc. for P6 and hopefully earn some more cash for 2014 from Bernie E. of Fgp, Mr. N.Jones
Now there's an idea - let's make FGP a meritocracy just like F1. The higher you finish, the more cash you get to spend on next years team. :cool:
Winner gets an extra 3mil, podium an extra 2mil, and top ten 1 mil on top of their regular 48mil.

[N. Jones]

Yeouch! That might be a hard one to swallow.
The rates are going to change somewhat next season. I won't say what but for the time being I think it will put a little more thinking into the team choices.

No matter what happens, twice at the bottom in five years is too much to bear. I can only go up in the standings!

[COD]

He really is like Bernie, so hard to give money away :)

[N. Jones]

POSF1, the beleaguered Formula1 outfit, has given Jensen Button an ultimatum: if you want to continue driving for us, finish on the podium.
"The forecast calls for rain. Last year Jensen won in Brazil in rainy conditions from 2nd on the grid. We expect no less from him if he wants to be retained." stated team manager Garry Gould.
"The prestige and respectability of POSF1 Will be restored; and to do that we need the World-Class Jensen, not the -I'll-finish-right-here-in-14th-thank-you-very-much-Jensen." Whether Button has responded internally to the team regarding this ultimatum is unclear. What is clear is that a massive result from Button and Perez would put the team one step above the bottom, which would be a feat in itself since the team has only been out of the top forty once this season. That result was due to its bonus and not anything the team had done to improve the car.

[N. Jones]

He really is like Bernie, so hard to give money away :)

:laugh:

[airshifter]

Another solid performance for Slash Inc. although the best I can really hope for is to hold on to P6 overall. Slash is a stud for taking a bullet for the team before the first turn so he could concentrate on his administrative duties, after which he had a routine visit to the ophthalmologist. :dork:
http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/wp-content/u ... 2011-1.jpg (http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/forc_suti_vale_2011-1.jpg)

And naturally the only aim for Force Finland for Brazil is to pass Slash Inc. for P6 and hopefully earn some more cash for 2014 from Bernie E. of Fgp, Mr. N.Jones
Now there's an idea - let's make FGP a meritocracy just like F1. The higher you finish, the more cash you get to spend on next years team. :cool:
Winner gets an extra 3mil, podium an extra 2mil, and top ten 1 mil on top of their regular 48mil.

I just want to go on record now saying that if we took that approach, I'm already on record as being the Ferrari team. N. Jones with be my Jean Todt, and as usual there will be no bias in the rules regarding Ferrari. :D

[Tazio]

Another solid performance for Slash Inc. although the best I can really hope for is to hold on to P6 overall. Slash is a stud for taking a bullet for the team before the first turn so he could concentrate on his administrative duties, after which he had a routine visit to the ophthalmologist. :dork:
http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/wp-content/u ... 2011-1.jpg (http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/forc_suti_vale_2011-1.jpg)

And naturally the only aim for Force Finland for Brazil is to pass Slash Inc. for P6 and hopefully earn some more cash for 2014 from Bernie E. of Fgp, Mr. N.Jones
I take that back, I think it will take a small miracle for me to actually stay ahead of you, :angryfire that is unless Slash takes out Hulk. :eek: ;)

[rjbetty]

VAUXHALL ASTRA F1 TEAM STATEMENT

The Vauxhall Astra F1 Team have managed to secure another battery for their wireless keyboard again. Hopefully it can last to the end of this statement. Unfortunately this means the drivers are both going to be without KERS this weekend as the team need it for the keyboard, to continue issuing these important releases. Besides, it's not like we can go much slower anyway.

BRAZIL GP QUALIFYING:
Well that's just swell - our drivers Perez and Gutierrez line up 14th and 18th. It's not looking too good to grab a huge haul of points we're afraid. Sergio even binned it at the end of Q2. We don't care if he outqualified Jenson 10 times, he has not scored enough points, and in this incredibly close championship around 40th, we need every single point.

VAF1 currently lie in an extremely precarious equal 40th in the championship - we are looking in great peril of falling short of our targets to finish in the top 40 as at least one other team behind has Brazil as their bonus GP. We are at least fairly optimistic of remaining ahead of Aki Racing Team, who had a shocker in India while we broke into the top 30 for about the 4th or 5th time this season. But with his chassis ahead of ours on the grid, it is going to very tight.

This is it: The music stops tomorrow evening. Who will be left out of the top 40 seats?!


SHOCK 2014 ANNOUNCEMENT
In a shock U-Turn, our recent major deal to run Renault power has been cancelled. RJBetty's Renault Laguna collided with a deer at the start of the month and the car has had to be scrapped. Thankfully the majestic creature seems to have survived as the team boss was able to slow his car considerably on the 50mph road by the time of impact. The animal refused help when rjbetty tried to approach it, bucking around and looking very threatening with it's large antlers, sending the team boss running back to his car.

The Renault did not do so well but could be driven back to the team's secondary Bedfordshire base. Since it was only £500 the team took the decision to invest in a new vehicle altogether rather than attempt extensive repairs on an old vehicle. Thus we announce for the time being, we return to Vauxhall, but this time we have upgraded to Vectra 2.0 Litre Diesel Power. This powerplant offers a significant improvement over the old Astra, not least that it actually runs. It also boasts a rear spoiler for increased downforce, as well as a reduction from £123.75 to £96 for 6 months road tax, saving us more money for parties. It also means we will continue to run in our familiar silver colour scheme rather than the dark green we were planning for 2014.

Drivers will be announced in due time. Needless to say, both will probably be changed. :mad:

[N. Jones]

:up:

[N. Jones]

I know you have all been waiting, so here it is:

https://sites.google.com/site/2009fgp/results/brazil

BRAZIL:

1 Stasio i Jasio GP 96
2 Team Cabbage Face 86
3 Maker's Mark Team Mt. Damavand Racing 84

[N. Jones]

https://sites.google.com/site/2009fgp/r ... -standings (https://sites.google.com/site/2009fgp/results/-00-standings)

I'll break down the top ten in my usual fashion in an hour or so.

[jens]

Following a disappointing season, which saw Yellow Jens GP Racing Team finishing invisibly somewhere in midfield, the team has to announce big news after the season has concluded. Team principal Jens has been sacked as a vote of confidence was held in the factory among all the team personnel. The personnel had been growingly unsatisfied with the way the team has been run recently and decided to take matters in their hands. Jens concluded that if indeed everyone is happy to see the back of him, it is the right time to back out and let someone else run the show. As of yet it is unclear, who would be the new director of the team and what would be the name of the team the next year, but the matters are expected to get resolved before the new year.

Now former team principal Jens however remains convinced that such solution serves best in everyone's interests. "I always like to run team in an open and democratic way, so if people feel I am not doing a good enough job in managing the team, I am most happy to step aside and let someone else run the team."

"My personal future is still unclear and I am looking at various employment options. Remaining in my former team in a new suitable role is also an option, but this will be decided once the management of the new squad has been formed."

"To be honest, I always liked the wheel-gun job in pitstops, so I am open to working in the pit crew next year. But I am certainly looking at other options as well."

[steveaki13]

Good Evening World Media. This is an end of season statement from Aki Racing Team which competed for its second season if FGP.

"So the season has come to an end at last. This season of torment and ridicule has not left our team ART (Aki Racing Team) in a strong position for 2014.
This season has been one of struggles and disappointments.

The Brazilian Grand Prix saw a relative high for ART of a 28th placed finish, which despite being behind Astra F1 and Henners F1, is a good result.

The seasons finish of 43rd of 46 is a massive blow. However we extend as massive thanks to our rivals for a great seasons sport. :)

Anyway we will announce more later"

[Tazio]

Congrats to Force Yorkshire



the best I can really hope for is to hold on to P6 overall.


And naturally the only aim for Force Finland for Brazil is to pass Slash Inc. for P6 and hopefully earn some more cash for 2014 from Bernie E. of Fgp, Mr. N.Jones
:sailor: sorrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrry ;)

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[Wasted Talent]

Congrats to Force Yorkshire

Thanks!!!

After losing a couple of years ago on bonus GP result, Force Yorkshire are delighted to win the 2013 FGP title, fully justifying the desiscion to recruit the 2 Nicos and employ Mercedes technology. It is highly likely, subject to budget constraints of course, that Force Yorkshire will continue with Mercedes power in an attempt to defend their crown next season.

Roll on next season!

WT

[N. Jones]

WT - you can thank Monaco and that massive 154 points you scored.

Anyway, Final podiums, Champions, and Top Ten winners to be formally announced shortly.

[call_me_andrew]

13th in the final standings doesn't sound very impressive, but it's a best for me.

Plus I won Singapore this year.

[aryan]

Statement from Maker's Mark Team Mt. Damavand Racing on ending the 2013 season:

Maker's Mark Team Mt. Damavand Racing finishes the season in a solid but typical 14th position.

Our team has pretty much always finished between 11th to 15th in the last 5 years, but is yet to finish in top 10 ever!

We need to change our approach to our team for next season. Solid and steady seems to result in this. We will adopt a more bang or bust approach for next season.

Perhaps we might also change our title sponsor, since it has come to our attention that Maker's Mark produces some alcoholic beverages, and Mt. Damavand, being headquartered in Tehran, Iran, is solidly against such products. Now if the team was HQed in Shiraz, Iran we could make an exception for a Shiraz-making wine maker as a title sponsor. So we might have to move our HQ as a result. But if we move to Shiraz, there is no point calling ourselves Mt. Damavand anymore since that mountain is the symbol of Tehran. So we might also have to change our name...

[airshifter]

Urged by the security people at Interlagos, members of Team Loco Americano F1 have informed the team principle that the season is over and we need to move the equipment and transporters. Said team principle denied any belief that they are even in Brasil, and promptly locked himself in one of the transporters with the reserve driver. It is reported that he then made several calls mocking other teams for not saving adequate budget for "proper" celebrations.

In the event he becomes sober enough for a statement this week, we will publish it to the press.

[N. Jones]

The fifth season of FGP run by myself has now come to an end. Here is how it all ended:

The 2013 FGP Champion is Wasted Talent’s Force Yorkshire with 930 points!
:champion: :hot:

Our runner up is Firstgear's Spitze Gurke Racing with 921 points!
:bounce:

And on the 3rd and final step of the podium, seb_sh's Team Purple Frog with 893 points!
:wave:

Congratulations to our Champion and podium finishers!!!

Now, on to the top ten:

In fourth - AlexRider's Liger with 884 points.
In fifth - Robinho's All Eggs in a German Basket with 883 points
In sixth - Whatever-Their-Name-Is-This-Week's Slash Inc. with 851 points
Tied for seventh are - Zico's Bed Rules Racing, COD's Force Finland, ojciec dyrektor's Stasio i Jasio GP with 846 points
In tenth - Koz's Team Marlboro Koz Racing with 808 points

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!!
I am humbled that you are all still here after five years of me trying to make this as fun as possible. Thank you so much for playing and talking this season. A significant change is going to happen next season (I'll give you a hint - it will be in how a category is scored) so I hope that will help us add more people.

I was disheartened over the years to see that once I took this over we went from eighty regulars down to around fifty, but I have come to accept it.
Again, THANK YOU.

[COD]

First of all, congratulations to Force Yorkshire for the win and everyone who made it to the podium.

Secondly, big thanks to N.Jones for making this happen, it sure is fun!

As for my team, this was Force Finland's third year in the championship and we have our best result yet. Making it to top ten is a good result, greatly helped by the form found by Hulkenberg at the last races. Of course it is bitter to loose sixth to Slash Inc. but my team wants to congratulate them also for a good final race. As for next year, Force Finland tries to maintain its upward slope and aim for podium in 2014!