Here are the results for day 2, along with the second effort at F1 Free Practiceby F1_Manager - Grand Prix 4
kedy89 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Where did Robert go, he was supposed to drive in > FP? God dammit, forgot yours is the only team that has it the other way round. I'll re-run it.by F1_Manager - Grand Prix 4
As you may have guessed I've not had a lot of time these past few days to get things so unfortunately the rest of the sessions for this race weekend will just be results just to keep things moving. Ideally I'd like to be able to give full coverage for every session but for me at least that's pretty much impossible at the moment and even the short debriefs I did for Melbourne werby F1_Manager - Grand Prix 4
BCN Top Tight GP2 Practice Given the much longer lap time here at the Sepang International Circuit in Malaysia you'd have been forgiven for thinking that we'd be in for a much spread GP2. However, with four drivers coming within one tenth of one another at the top of the timesheets, and the entire field split by just under seven tenths of a second, it certainly looks like at this earby F1_Manager - Grand Prix 4
Activity Check for June 23rd because I definitely didn't completely forget to do it then: Every manager was active! Good effort lads! The next activity window will close on the 6th of August, and this time I'll try and remember that myself In other news the weekend will start today. Most of the session have already been run, just wanted to make sure I was far enough ahead of tby F1_Manager - Grand Prix 4
Team rankings for Sepang have now been sent out to everyone. This time there is a deadline of midday Monday 21st July for submitting your strategies for the Sepang race weekend.by F1_Manager - Grand Prix 4
Budget info will be coming shortly/in order to save faceby F1_Manager - Grand Prix 4
Montoya Inherits Melbourne Opener Juan Pablo Montoya has won the Australian GP in dramatic fashion after inheriting the lead just a few of laps from the checkered flag. The Colombian took the lead after a stellar drive from Felipe Massa was tragically cut short after his engine failed with just two laps remaining, allowing the BMW man to pick his first win since the 2005 European Grand Priby F1_Manager - Grand Prix 4
Pantano Wins GP2 Sprint Race Giorgio Pantano capped off a strong showing this weekend after taking victory in this mornings GP2 Sprint Race. After setting the pace in yesterday's feature race after setting the fastest lap Pantano charged through the field from his 4th place grid slot to deny Karun Chandhok victory with just two laps to go. Off the start there was little action at tby F1_Manager - Grand Prix 4
F1 Qualifying Q1 Q1 got off to an usual start as whilst there was no rain in the air the track started almost completely due to a rain storm just before the F1 cars took to the track, essentially meaning the drivers had one lap to do the job right at the end of the session. Despite this there was little surprise at the bottom as both Super Aguri cars along with Mark Webber's Red Bull aby F1_Manager - Grand Prix 4
Danielsson Wins Manic GP2 Opener BCN driver Alx Danielsson as won the first GP2 race of the season after taking a brilliant win in the Albert Park GP2 Feature race. However, off the start it was his team mate, Alvaro Parente, who shone first after making a lightning start to lead the pack into turn 1. Danielsson followed soon after by first relieving Nakajima of 3rd place under braking for turby F1_Manager - Grand Prix 4
Albers Heads Arden 1-2 in Second-First GP2 Qualifying With the storm from free practice long gone, the GP2 teams finally got the chance to stretch their legs at Albert Park. However it didn't take long to see who was on top with Christijan Albers immediately dropping down into the 1:38's on first effort, and effort that would not be matched for the remaining 30 minutes. It also dby F1_Manager - Grand Prix 4
Ferrari Leading the Way as 2007 Kicks Off With the rain storm that plagued the earlier GP2 session well out the way it was time for Formula One to return to the track for free practice ahead of the Australian Grand Prix and it was clear early on that Ferrari had the upperhand. First it was Alexander Wurz who topped the time sheets on his first timed effort with team mate Massa just behind,by F1_Manager - Grand Prix 4
Parente Tops Rain Soaked GP2 Practice Nakajima on his way to second overall As the start of the long awaited Formula One season nears it was the newly revived GP2 series which paved the way for the big guys down under in Melbourne Australia. With little to no testing prior to this event everyone was eagerly waiting to see who would be the front runners of the feeder series, however a heby F1_Manager - Grand Prix 4
Just a quick announcement. Deadline for replying to your team ranking PMs will be Midday Wednesday. The vast majority of managers have replied but still waiting on a few replies. Also like to take this opportunity to announce how the race weekends will be uploaded, I'm planning to stick to this schedule: Day 1: 1 - GP2 Free Practice 2 - F1 Free Practice 3 - GP2 Qualifying Dby F1_Manager - Grand Prix 4
GP2 Driver News Kazuki Nakajima - Arden - £3.4m Christijan Albers - Arden - £3.5m Alvaro Parente - BCN - £3m Alx Danielsson - BCN - £3m Nicolas Lapierre - ART - £3m Javier Villa - DAMS - £3m Dan Wheldon - iSport - £3m Andreas Zuber - Trident - £4m Final Budgets That completes the GP2 lineups meaning we're ready to go! PMs will be sent out shortly to let youby F1_Manager - Grand Prix 4
Driver News Nelson Piquet Jr. - Super Nova - £3m Bruno Senna - Super Nova - £4.5m Lucas Di Grassi - Durango - £4m Danica Patrick - Durango - £3.7m Roldan Rodriguez - Piquet - £3m Andy Soucek - Piquet - £3m Mike Conway - DPR - £3.75m Valentino Rossi - DPR - £3.75m Giedo Van der Garde - Racing Engineering - £3.25m Pastor Maldonado - Racing Engineering - £3.25m Giorgio Pantanoby F1_Manager - Grand Prix 4
Finally back home with internet now so I've been able to get a chance to see who will fill the final three slots and that honour goes to KimiHeikki, gareth and Tariknesiric. KimiHeikki will take charge of iSport, gareth of his beloved Arden and Tariknesciric of BCN. Also thank you to everyone who has already got their bids in and also to Silverman who pointed out that the price for Takby F1_Manager - Grand Prix 4
GP2 Manager This gives 11 lucky players the chance to guide a GP2 team to success and runs alongside the F1 Manager series. Teams At the start teams were randomly assigned between the applicants. Here is the current entry list: 2007 Lineups Team 1: iSport International Team Manager: VACANT Driver 1: #1 Karun Chandhok Driver 2: #2 Dan Wheldon Engine: Ferrari Brakes: Hitco Tby F1_Manager - Grand Prix 4
F1 Manager This series (originally established by Chris 2k6) gives 11 lucky players the chance to guide a Formula One team to success, whether it be Ferrari or Minardi. The game started in the 2003 season and has already developed greatly thanks to the choices each manager has made. Also real life events will come in to play, such as Red Bull wanting to take over Jaguar etc but, that doesn’tby F1_Manager - Grand Prix 4
Driver News Liuzzi Makes Step Up After having missed out on re-signing Ralf Schumacher for another season Toyota have turned to rising Italian star Vitantonio Liuzzi to fill the void left by the German's departure. The deal, said to be worth £5m will give the Italian a year as test driver at the Japanese outfit who narrowly missed out on beating their season record for points in the 20by F1_Manager - Grand Prix 4
Driver News Schumacher Jumps Ship to Ferrari, Trulli staying put Word on the grapevine is that current Toyota driver Ralf Schumacher, who of course spent the final four races of the 2006 season playing second fiddle to Jarno Trulli, has left the Japanese outfit with immediate effect. Despite apparently receiving an offer from Toyota to extend his current contract for another year, the two £by F1_Manager - Grand Prix 4
DOTD: Kimi Raikkonen, climbing up from 12th to 2nd and winning the championship for the second timeby F1_Manager - Grand Prix 4
2006 Fuji Television Japanese Grand Prix - Race Welcome everyone to the penultimate round of the 2006 F1 season. The fight for the championship is still on, however it will be decided between the two McLaren drivers. Kimi Raikkonen leads with 8 points, but he only qualified 12th, which means that Robert Kubica, who will start from 4th, has a big chance to close the gap today. Cristiano da Mattby F1_Manager - Grand Prix 4
2006 Fuji Television Japanese Grand Prix - Qualifying Q1 In the first stage of the qualifying the Toyota drivers set the pace, closely followed by Kubica. Both Midland drivers made use of their setup reward and managed to get in Q2, however Frentzen suffered a broken suspension in his second run and thus was unable to continue the session. The drivers who failed to get in the next round are Vby F1_Manager - Grand Prix 4
2006 Fuji Television Japanese Grand Prix - Free Practice Ferrari was the dominating team in the free practice session today, with Fisichella ahead of Massa. Doornbos, who did pretty well here last season until his car let him down, showed another good performance and got 4th, clearly ahead of his teammate Montoya in 10th. Right behind Doornbos in 5th is Ralf Schumacher, beating his teammate daby F1_Manager - Grand Prix 4
Activity Check for Round 16 - Chinese GP The activity window for the Chinese GP – October 12th – October 22nd - has now closed. I can confirm that two managers were inactive during this period: Vomit - BMW Sauber - 3rd Warning mclarenaustralia - Renault - 1st Warning As this is Vomit's 3rd warning he will be removed from his position as BMW team principle and a replacement wiby F1_Manager - Grand Prix 4
DOTD: Kimi Raikkonen: pole position, win, fastest lap and a faultless driveby F1_Manager - Grand Prix 4
2006 Sinopec Chinese Grand Prix - Race Welcome everyone to the third last round of the 2006 F1 season. The fight for the championship is still open, with Kubica leading 2 points ahead of his teammate Raikkonen. Massa and da Matta also still have the chance to win it, but they're over 20 points behind the McLaren duo, so they'd need a good result today combined with few to no points fby F1_Manager - Grand Prix 4
2006 Sinopec Chinese Grand Prix - Qualifying Q1 Much better conditions for the qualifying session today, but nonetheless we already had the first surprise in the first stage, with Villeneuve, Coulthard and also both Red Bulls dropping out. They were joined by Jenson Button in the Renault and Frentzen. Fastest was Massa, ahead of his teammate and da Matta. We had one yellow flag caused by Kubiby F1_Manager - Grand Prix 4