FGP 2014

[steveaki13]

rjbetty, did you do that spread sheet.

If so thanks alot. Nice to see

[N. Jones]

The 2014 season has completed and now it is time to announce our winners:

The Champion, holding off second place by four points, is our friend aryan, who skillfully ran:

NSA Team Mt. Damavand F1 Racing

Congrats!!!!!

The runner up, who fought all season long to close a small gap, was FirstGear's:

3-2-1 Ray Sing!

Well Done!

We have a tie for third. Standing together on the bronze step are curry and SkyTom's:

Team 137 and Dudes in F1!

Wonderful!


The full top ten are as follows:

5th - jens' Happy Bubble Racing Team (jens is unfortunately not here due to separating the shoulder used to pat his/her back all season).

6th (tie) - Wasted Talent's Force Yorkshire & COD's Force Finland

8th - Robinho's Bobby's Bits

9th - Tazio's Slash LLC

10th(tie) - Koz's Team Marlboro Koz Racing & truefan72's TruespeedF1

THANK YOU EVERYONE. I don't know why we are losing more and more people but for those of you who are here, thank you.

[N. Jones]

Hmmmm you might need to turn up the zoom in your browser to see that properly.

This is Awesome, thanks rjbetty!

ONE top 20 finish for me? Oh my, I think everyone is getting fired at POSF1

[rjbetty]

Hi guys, yes I did the spreadsheet! I use a colour scheme of QUAL: Red for top 10, Green for 11-20 and Black for 21 onwards. For the race, Red for pts, Green for other finishes, and black for retirements. Been that way since 1999 when I first started nerdily charting the season results. Still maybe have some for 2001. 2002 etc in the attic which I kept on paper at the time and updated each race.

[Tazio]

Thanks for all the work you put into FGP Nick!
I'd like to also take this time to congratulate Aryan, and everyone else who thinks they kicked some butt. Slash has been released with a fair severance, and at this time I would personally like to apologize to all my fans and even the hangers on that have no life. Being in the top 10 is not acceptable when the expectations were much higher. I want to reassure you all that we have already retained the services of SAiG to plan strategy for 2015. The team has spent $1,000,000 of next years budget to have exclusive access to this think tank, and believe it is money well spent. Prospective pilots will have to know that we hold ours to a higher standard, training will be intense, and I will train equally hard as inspiration for our team. Ya' 'awl boys better get with it, or better yet go ahead enjoy the off season, I want you to be fattened up for the kill:

Caesar:
Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look,
He thinks too much; such men are dangerous

[jens]

Happy Bubble Racing Team would like to thank everyone for participating, and Mr. Jones for running this series.

For the former Jens GP Racing Team this was by far the best season the team has ever had, and thus the sale of the team has been justified.

HBRT would like to thank its partners Aki Hedgehog Racing and Ford Focus F1 for a decent support and a decent season in midfield. Thanks to the newly-bought wind-tunnel the McLaren aerodynamic package improved and we had a pretty competitive end to our season. Even though we finished 5th, we managed to remain right among the leading group till the very end.

HBRT would also like to highlight that we were the first team to unveil our line-up for the year. Though we did it very early and had little testing data, we were confident the compromise we made in our line-up, should be a decent one. And so it proved to be!

The plans for 2015 are unclear, as is HBRT's involvement in the team and series. Happy Bubble Company is also considering to become title sponsor of FGP in general. So that a proposal has been made to rename the competition as Happy Bubble FGP 2015 season. Just like we have got Barclays Premier League. It is an inspiration and new way of marketing.

But what happens to the team itself? Who knows... Jens also doesn't know.

[jens]

Press release
In the beginning of December (exact date & time unconfirmed) Happy Bubble Company will hold an official press conference following its HQ boardroom meeting on Dec 2.

Among other things Happy Bubble Company will unveil its financial and marketing plans for the 2015 business year, including its involvement in the FGP series.

#stay tuned

[N. Jones]

Thanks for all the work you put into FGP Nick!

My name is Ed! (I always thought the N stood for Nigel).

[jens]

Press release
In the beginning of December (exact date & time unconfirmed) Happy Bubble Company will hold an official press conference following its HQ boardroom meeting on Dec 2.

Among other things Happy Bubble Company will unveil its financial and marketing plans for the 2015 business year, including its involvement in the FGP series.

#stay tuned

Happy Bubble Company forgot to announce its big plans due to other business adventures in the meantime. The company fell into major turmoil and had to deal with other issues instead of thinking about F1. But as the year closes in, Happy Bubble Company would like to announce something very soon....

P.S. Happy Bubble company had the HQ meeting and a decision about F1 adventures has been made. They are just waiting for the right moment to announce it...

[jens]

Press release

Happy Bubble Company® announces that it has decided to pull out of FGP following its HeadQuarters boardroom meeting. The decision was taken on the back of a relatively successful season in FGP 2014 championship, where Happy Bubble Racing Team was a remote championship contender.

„We have decided to commit our attention to other endeavours, having fulfilled our goals in FGP. Our marketing aim was to create awareness about our brand in racing circles, which we successfully managed on the back of a very competitive season,“ said the spokesman of Happy Bubble Company®.

As for more specific reasons of the pullout, HBC® is concerned about the future prospects of FGP and open-wheel racing in general. „FGP featured barely over 30 teams this season, which is a major setback compared to previous seasons. Following further study on the N. Jones-led series we were dissatisfied with future prospects. We did consider further involvement in FGP series, but in the end conditions, co-operation options and future outlooks were dissatisfactory.“

HBC® also has had a difficult business year, further validating the need to cut costs. „Our philosophy is to live in a happy bubble, and always provide services that make people happy. If we feel an activity has run its course, we need to change something. 2014 in FGP was great fun, but we feel it would not be so fun next year, so decided to commit to other things.“

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The fate of the racing team itself is unclear and HBC® wanted to make an announcement together with a successful sale of the team, hence the delay. But as of Dec 20, the sale of the team has not been completed. It is likely former team principal Jens will re-take control in its team, but he feels that he needs some major investment in the team to keep it going, and also seeks for co-operation from other teams.

„The 2014 season has been absolutely fantastic for us in terms of results, but today is a sad day,“ says Jens, potential new owner. „Happy Bubble Company® has made a great offer that I can get this team off their hands for 1€, but I still need outside investment to cover the running costs of the team in the future. As of today, I do not have a solution for that one, as we need in excess of 40 Million € in a season to remain competitive in FGP.“