FGP 2014

[steveaki13]

Slash LLC wants the record to reflect that we are glad we lost the Ricciardo points and the cheating Red Bulls got butch-slammed.
We don't want any freakin' ill-gotten gains up in here mates!

Aki's Hedgehog Racing Team would like to offer an opposing view.

"Sod that give us all the points we can get, do you think it would help to offer some cash to FGPs Bernie or should I say N.Jones"

[Tazio]

"My revenue is the silly cheat”
Winter's Tale Act 4, Scene 3

[N. Jones]

[quote=scaliwag-2]

https://sites.google.com/site/2009fgp/[/url] and start creating your teams.

For those of you that are new please read the following summary of how FGP is played:

Everyone has a budget of 48,000,000 with which you use to build a team. Your team will consist of:
- two official drivers
- a 3rd driver, which is used if one of your official drivers misses a race and your 3rd driver races.
- one chassis
- one team-engine.
Lastly, choose a Grand Prix that will be your Bonus GP. Your team will score double points at that race.
Once complete please choose a name for your team and then post your entry in this thread.

From this season forward I will be using team-engines. This change means that no longer will we pick an engine and score points based on which engine-powered car crosses the finish line first. Now each team will choose the F1 team's engine and each team will only score points based on the first car to cross the finish line. As an example, if a team choose red bull-renault as their engine that team will score engine points only for the red bull team.

ALSO. UAE/Abu Dhabi will NOT be allowed as a bonus GP.


The deadline for entering a team is the end of Thursday, March 13th.

Thank You for Reading. Good Luck!

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Don't understand, how can my team have less points than McLaren forever after the first race when we have identical teams, and the bonus doesn't come into it.

Regards scaliwag-2[/quote:erxgu0ka]

Because I goofed on McLaren Forever's bonus GP. Fixing it now.

[N. Jones]

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

1 Minardi 122
2 Bobby's Bits 120
2 NSA Team Mt. Damavand F1 Racing 120
4 GP Stood Guard 106

Overall is the same.

[N. Jones]

Tazio - is that a picture of Dr. Detroit??

[Tazio]

Tazio - is that a picture of Dr. Detroit??

The motor city bad boy himself!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmgbbT_Eruc

[N. Jones]

Sweet! (adding letters to meet the ten character limit)

[rjbetty]

FORD FOCUS F1 TEAM STATEMENT

We deliver a belated review of the season opening Australian Grand Prix.

Due to technical problems i.e. rjbetty sitting on his laptop and breaking most o the screen... communications have not been possible.

We were always hopeful of a stronger performance this season, as we now take things more seriously in our 2nd year (no more parties!) The change of our team identity to the strong and reliable Ford Focus (C-Max, or whatever the souped up version is called, that team boss rjbetty wants) from the troublesome Vauxhall Astra (good riddance) has appeared to prove as much a masterstroke as Williams dumping Renault for Mercedes.

We were delighted and amazed to see we had finished the Australian GP in 5th place, our previous best being two top 20 finishes in Monza and Bahrain in 2013. Even more so that we were actually the first of the non-bonus GP teams.

We had a feeling that choosing Monaco as our bonus GP may have been the wrong choice, and did feel we should have gone for Australia. If we had done so, we would have ended up winning the race by 20pts!


ON OUR RIVALS
Much congratulations go to Happy Bubble Racing Team and Aki's Hedgehog Racing Team who we are in a sort of partnership with, sharing Steve's desktop fan and my copy of Grand Prix 2 etc. After being down the fiel last season, they too were both at the sharp end, and even though Ricciardo was disqualified (and we just had a feeling someone would be!) they performed very strongly indeed and look in good form for the season.

We feel we will very much regret passing the opportunity to sign Ricciardo, who is the bargain of the season and believe he will easily outscore Magnussen over the year. Given that we had 1M spare, we may well rue not going for the sensible option and trying to be too radical again...


Even so, we are very proud of what Kevin has done so far and in that way, we are very pleased we signed him.


ON THE 2014 SEASON

Unlike last year, this season loos to be a very closely contested and competitive one, with many teams able to do well. Happily it looks like we are one of them. Though we know it is disappointing entrants are down on last year, 33 is still a good number, and not that much less than last year (13 less). It didn't help that 2013 was dull as dishwater. We still have enough entrants to make this a great season.

[steveaki13]

Aki's Hedgehog racing still holds out hope of getting into the top 10 in Oz once Red Bulls appeal for Riccardo's points goes through

[N. Jones]

I hate my team and will make certain I wait until AFTER testing is complete to build it!