A new era in fictional auto racing begins in just under a month in Adelaide, where the Pete 55 Memorial Trophy will again go on the line as the ultimate prize in the 2013 V8Supercar Fantasy Championship.
V8 Despot Antrodemus took time out from re-rigging the rulebook to share his enthusiasm for the changes to the category in 2013, and is confident of a great year.
“Yeah, yeah, it'll be great,” he said. “Now bugger off - I've still got four cars to build in the next two weeks...”
Now entering its eleventh year on Network Ten-Tenths, this series can always guarantee close racing, dodgy officiating, and heated rivalries. The 2013 V8 Supercar Fantasy Championship Series is back! Gentlemen (and Gentlewomen),
Start Your Engines!
1. Drivers
You can hire up to
3 drivers to drive your cars (
4 in the Enduro rounds), provided that their combined salary comes in below the
$2,000,000 Salary Cap.
Here is how much they cost (Enduro drivers in
blue):
| $1,400,000 |
| Jamie Whincup |
| $1,300,000 |
| Craig Lowndes |
| Mark Winterbottom |
| $1,200,000 |
| Will Davison |
| Paul Dumbrell |
| $1,100,000 |
| Warren Luff |
| Steven Richards |
| Tim Slade |
| Garth Tander |
| $1,000,000 |
| Lee Holdsworth |
| Steve Owen |
| David Reynolds |
| Shane van Gisbergen |
| $900,000 |
| Dean Canto |
| James Courtney |
| Maro Engel |
| Nick Percat |
| $800,000 |
| Jeroen Bleekemolen |
| Fabian Coulthard |
| Alex Davison |
| Greg Murphy |
| $700,000 |
| Jason Bright |
| Russell Ingall |
| Andrew Jones |
| Rick Kelly |
| Jonathon Webb |
| Luke Youlden |
| $600,000 |
| Michael Caruso |
| Steven Johnson |
| Todd Kelly |
| John McIntyre |
| Alex Prémat |
| Andrew Thompson |
| $500,000 |
| Ryan Briscoe |
| Marc Lieb |
| Scott McLaughlin |
| James Moffat |
| Jack Perkins |
| Karl Reindler |
| $400,000 |
| Craig Baird |
| Tony d’Alberto |
| Daniel Gaunt |
| Scott Pye |
| Greg Ritter |
| David Wall |
| $300,000 |
| Taz Douglas |
| Dean Fiore |
| Paul Morris |
| Chris Pither |
| David Russell |
| $200,000 |
| Matt Halliday |
| Chaz Mostert |
| Jonny Reid |
| Ash Walsh |
| Dale Wood |
| Bathurst wildcard drivers |
Other Drivers
If anyone else not listed above drives in one of the non-enduro rounds (excepting in the currently empty seats listed), they will be valued at
$200,000.
Endurance Drivers
Specialist drivers will be available for Sandown, Bathurst and Surfers Paradise. More info below.
2. Hiring & Firing
As Team Owner/Manager, you are permitted to sack any or all of your drivers in the lead-up to a round, and replace them - so long as you don’t blow the salary cap or 3-driver limit.
To sack/hire someone, post here expressing your disappointment in your ex-employee(s), and your hopes for your new driver(s). You will only be charged a driver change if your team is different at the next round, so there is scope to change your mind if need be. The deadline for making changes is the start of first practise.
However, you can only do this
twice during the season.
Enduro Cup (Sandown, Bathurst & Surfers Paradise)
If you wish, you may use one of your two allocated driver changes to hire some of the Sunday drivers that appear for Sandown, Bathurst, and Surfers Paradise. Your driver lineup, including enduro specialists, must still fit inside the $2M salary cap, but you will be allowed an extra pilot, so you can have a maximum of 4 drivers at these three races. You will automatically revert to your normal driver lineup after Surfers, should you choose this option. Note that you do not have to pair up your drivers.
The price list for enduro drivers will be released once we know who they are. As an added incentive, the once-a-year brigade also come with generously discounted price tags
3. Points:
Points are the same as the real series. Whatever a driver scores at each round in real life is what that driver will receive here, including penalties. Your worst round will not be dropped. You will not receive $200 for passing 'Go'.
If you notice that your team hasn't scored as many points as you think they should have (or more than they should have
), there are a couple of likely reasons for this:
1) My maths stinks;
2) I missed your driver change;
3) I've only just realised one of your drivers got penalised somewhere along the line.
Either way, let me know and I'll fix your score so its 100% correct.
4. Other Things You Should Know As Team Owner:
- One team per person, per year.
- You don’t have to use all $2 million (at Surfers, this may be advantageous
), but DO NOT GO OVER BUDGET!!! You will be suitably punished (ie. disqualified from the round) if I discover any creative bookkeeping.
- A driver can be chosen by more than one team - these guys are consummate professionals and are able to drive up to 128 cars simultaneously.
- Points are the same as the real series. If things don't seem to add up, feel free to point out my mathematical ineptitude.
- Round results and championship standings will be posted here following the conclusion of each round.
- After the results have been posted, you can report on your team’s performance (or lack thereof). Show us how good you are at distributing propaganda.
5. Team Announcements:
Once you’ve picked your driving line-up, give your team a name, announce some sponsors, racing numbers, liveries, grid girls/guys, mascots, overseas technical partners and any other stuff you can think of, and of course your manufacturer of choice, then post here giving a detailed description of the copious quantities of hide your team will kick in the forthcoming season.
To make it easy for me, could you please condense the propaganda into this sort of form following your press release:
Quote:
NAME: Jim's Lovely People Racing
SPONSORS: BAT
DRIVERS:
#7 Todd
#11 Michael
#15 Rick
MANUFACTURER: Nissan
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Entries are open as of now, so start issuing those press releases!
Your team can be altered without penalty until first practise at Adelaide.
Comments/suggestions/queries are more than welcome, either here or via PM.
May the Fords be with you (or against you as the case may be),
Antrodemus
Top Dog,
WOOFVESCO (World Organiser Of Fantasy Vee Eight Supercar Competitions)