2008 NASCAR Sprint Cup Fantasy Championship *Open for Entries!*

[carma]

After a half decent 07 Team Tiger Racing is back for 08

Team Tiger Racing
#31 J Burton
#7 R.Gordan
#10 P Carpentier
#21 B Elliot/J Wood/M Ambrose

Sponsers
Bluewater boat services
Riviera
Jeldwen

manufacturer FORD

[Pro Racer]

!!! PRESS RELEASE !!!

All change at Brendon Engineering !!!

Brendon Engineering has sacked all it's drivers and hired new one's in the form of Greg Biffle, Juan Montoya, Mark Martin & Almirola (in the same car) and Sam Hornish Jr.

New Team Line-up:
#16 - Greg Biffle $600,000 - Pontiac G8/Holden VE Commodore
#42 - Juan Montoya $500,000 - Pontiac G8/ Holden VE Commodore
#96 - #8 Mark Martin/Aric Almirola $400,000 - Pontiac G8/Holden VE Commodore
#77 Sam Hornish Jr $200,000 - Pontiac G8/Holden VE Commodore

[Matt]

ALL-AMERICAN RACING RETURNS!


Hello everyone! AAR is back for their second season in the Ten-Tenths Fantasy NASCAR Sprint Cup Championship! After a shaky rookie year, we are expecting nothing but brighter skies ahead for the team. Returning to the team this year is the Colombian firestarter, Juan Pablo Montoya, fresh off of his NASCAR Raybestos Rookie of the Year title! He will be piloting the #4 BOSS Snowplow Chevrolet Impala SS, adorned in it's red, white and black livery. Our two new additions to the team, are veteran Tony Stewart, and Paul Menard. Tony will be in the #64 Chevrolet Impala SS(sponsors are still being figured out as this is written), while Menard will be in the #6 Citgo Chevrolet Impala SS. We are expecting great things out of this years AAR lineup, as they bring consistency, aggressiveness, and aren't afraid to shake things up a bit! The Chevrolet R07 engines have been running excellent in testing, and we expect many good things out of the team. As per our V8 Supercar team, we will be holding parties all year long, except we'll be in the infield, with all of our closest 20,000 fans! All teams are allowed to come over and party with us, as we like to have a good atmosphere for the race weekend! Liveries will be released sometime, haha.

TEAM NAME: All-American Racers
SPONSORS: BOSS Snowplows(4) Citgo(6) TBA(64)

CAR NO. DRIVER SALARY
64 Tony Stewart $900,000
4 Juan Montoya $500,000
6 Paul Menard $300,000

TOTAL SALARY - $1,700,000.

CAR - CHEVROLET Impala SS.

Thanks everyone, and on to a good year!

-Matt Wood
Team Principal - All-American Racers.

PS - Big ups to me main man StuiE for putting on this great competition!

[liquid drano]

Southern Cross racing will enter for the very first time in 08.

Drivers: #17 Matt Kenseth
#29 Kevin Harvick
#47 Marcos Ambrose

Sponsors: Big Dads Pies, Havoline, Bridgestone, and Marlboro.

Manufacturer: FORD.

Lets hear those engines rumble!!!

[Matt]

Well, AAR has decided to reveal the sponsor for the #64 car, driven by Tony Stewart. Walgreens!

[StuiE]

Originally Posted by Jacko44

Just a quick question, are Mark Martin / Almirola classed as 2 drivers or the one because they are in the same car? I know you probably wrote this in your rules somewhere i just wanted to double check.

Sorry, I've just seen this question, that's a mistake, Almirola, McCumbee and Jarrett shouldn't be in the 'non-full time list' by themselves, mistake on my part Which is unfortunately the reason that Team Crashalot's lineup isn't allowed..

Originally Posted by Craig

NAME: Team Crashalot
SPONSOR(S): Budweiser
DRIVERS:
#88 Dale Earnhardt jr
#42 Juan Pablo Montoya
#40 Dario Franchitti
#8 Aric Almirola
MANUFACTURER: Chevrolet

[mattyboy17]

Hi
this is mattyboy17
i am so much trouable understanding how all this works
i have read and read and dont understand how to start my team
could you explain to me
i am sorry about this but this new to me
i have tried to understand all this but its confussing me
thanks mattyboy17

Originally Posted by StuiE

Now entering the 2nd year of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Fantasy Series, we are hoping for a great season ahead, Antrodemus' Iron Horse Racing won last years championship and I'm sure will be looking to defend it's title.





Presented by.....




For those who haven't been a part of something like this before, it's fairly simple, You have a team, and a budget, and make the team of your choice, providing you don't go over budget. You can have a PR person to issue press statements, make liveries make car numbers, sponsers, whatever, it's all good fun.


Here's the not overly large rulebook:

Your Budget: $1,700,000
You can hire up to 4 drivers for your cars.

Driver Values:

$900,000
#48 Jimmy Johnson
#24 Jeff Gordon
#20 Tony Stewart


$800,000
#29 Kevin Harvick
#88 Dale Earnhardt Jr.
#31 Jeff Burton
#17 Matt Kenseth


$700,000
#2 Kurt Busch
#18 Kyle Busch
#99 Carl Edwards
#07 Clint Bowyer
#11 Denny Hamlin
#1 Martin Truex Jr.


$600,000
#16 Greg Biffle
#9 Kasey Kahne
#12 Ryan Newman


$500,000
#19 Elliott Sadler
#43 Bobby Labonte
#7 Robby Gordon
#26 Jamie McMurray
#5 Casey Mears
#28 Travis Kvapil
#22 Dave Blaney
#42 Juan Montoya


$400,000
#66 Scott Riggs
#38 David Gilliland
#70 Jeremy Mayfield
#41 Reed Sorenson
#96 J.J. Yeley
#6 David Ragan
#8 Mark Martin/Aric Almirola Martin 24 races, Almirola 12 races)


$300,000
#15 Paul Menard
#45 Kyle Petty/Chad McCumbee? (Petty 30 or 31 races, McCumbee(?) drives when Petty commentates for TNT)
#40 Dario Franchitti
#01 Regan Smith


$200,000
#44 Dale Jarrett/David Reutimann (Jarrett first 5 races, Reutimann from then on)
#00 David Reutimann/Josh Wise/ Michael McDowell (Reutimann first 5 races, Wise and McDowell sharing from then on)
#55 Michael Waltrip
#83 Brian Vickers
#77 Sam Hornish Jr.
#27 Jacques Villeneuve
#10 Patrick Carpentier
#78 Joe Nemechek
#84 A.J. Allmendinger
#21 Bill Elliott/Jon Wood/Marcos Ambrose


$100,000
Non-fulltime drivers

#02 Brandon Ash
#03 Todd Bodine
#08 Carl Long/Burney Lamar
#09 Sterling Marlin/Max Papis
#33 Kirk Shelmerdine/Scott Wimmer
#37 Eric McClure
#47 Marcos Ambrose
#50 Stanton Barrett
#57 Norm Benning
#60 Boris Said
#49 Ken Schrader
#58 James Hylton
#4 Mike Wallace
#89 Morgan Shepherd
#87 Jeff Fuller



You can have 7 driver changes over the whole season, one thing that is new for this year is this:

If your driver gets fired from his real team, swaps teams etc, you automatically get the new driver in that car, you can also choose to keep the same driver in the new real team, either of these options is ‘free’, it won’t affect the amount of driver changes you have left. Also, there is some drivers sharing a ride, you can pick that car, but there is no concessions if one of the drivers gets fired/leaves etc, excepting Marcos Ambrose, he is scheduled to drive in 12 races in the #21, and 4 in the #47, you can choose to have the #21, but have Marcos if he’s in the #47 for those 4 races. Picking the #00 doesn’t mean you get David Reutimann for ‘free’ when he moves to the #44, he’s not being fired just moving sideways. If a driver you have gets fired, and the new driver isn’t from the list, he’s the same price as the outgoing driver.

I hope this makes sense, it’s been a fair bit of head scratching to try and make part time and shared rides useable in the game, if you have any queries etc, just ask.


Keep track of your driver movements at Jayski's great site here: http://www.jayski.com/pages/2008teams.htm


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. The 'Chase' will not be used. If you notice that your team hasn't scored as many points as you think they should have (or more than they should have), let me know and I'll look into it.

Team Ownership, and you
- You don’t have to use all $1.7 million, but DO NOT GO OVER BUDGET!!! You will be 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 any amount of cars at once.
- Round results and championship standings will be posted here following the conclusion of each round. (if you hadn't noticed, alot of this is just copied from the V8 series, wonder if anyone will notice, just like this I'm writing)
- After the results have been posted, you can write press releases on your team’s performance (or lack of). Show us how good you are at distributing propaganda.


Team Announcements

Once you’ve picked your driving line-up, give your team a name, announce some sponsors, racing numbers, liveries, grid girls (pictures please! ), mascots, overseas technical partners and any other stuff you can think of, and of course your manufacturer of choice (though your manufacturer doesn't affect you points), 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:




(your choice of car numbers and Manufacturer doesn't actually affect anything, is just for fun, and people can make up their own liveries based upon that)


Posting Images and Liveries



Half of the fun of this is creating and posting your own liveries. While everybody likes to show infinite detail at super-high-resolution, not everybody’s screen can take it. While I can handle going over 400x400 (given there are warnings about large images), it's a bit rough posting images wider than a regular screen. I refer you to the piece highlighted in red - 800x600 is probably the largest you should go.

I know there are some real good livery makers here, so get into it (however, I am totally useless at it)


Other
For those of you not so knowledgeable about NASCAR, in the Nextel Cup series, only the top 35 cars in owner (not driver) points is guaranteed a starting stop in the field of 43, the 7 fastest of the rest get in, often there is more than 43 cars competing to even get into the race, hence driver values for drivers in cars out of the top 35 may seem a little low. Rookies and new teams especially will have a hard time, also the top 35 from 2007 is locked in for the first 5 races of 2008.

http://www.nascar.com/races/cup/2007...ngs_owner.html
(look for the real life car number, there is driver names there may not neccesarily be the driver of that car)


So get you entries in people, you can change your team as many times as you like 'till Daytona (before the 1st Duel, 14th Feb), if you enter later than that you'll just score from the 1st round that you start. (schedule here: http://www.nascar.com/races/cup/2008/data/schedule.html)

Any questions/issues etc post here or PM me


Good luck
Stu

[StuiE]

Crooks Motorsport finally announces entry into the 2008 Sprint Cup Fantasy Championship!

Name: Crooks Motorsport

Drivers:
#3 Dale Earnhardt Jr, Sponsored by GM Goodwrench
#5 Paul Menard, Sponsored by his old man
#12 Mark Martin/Aric Almirola, Sponsored by Hyperdrive
#55 Dale Jarrett/David Reutimann, Sponsored by Mobil 1
Car: Chevrolet
King of spin (aka PR officer): Shane Warne

[StuiE]

Originally Posted by mattyboy17

Hi
this is mattyboy17
i am so much trouable understanding how all this works
i have read and read and dont understand how to start my team
could you explain to me
i am sorry about this but this new to me
i have tried to understand all this but its confussing me
thanks mattyboy17

Hi mate, welcome to the forums.


Now, for the comp, all you need is to pick up to 4 drivers, with a total value up to $1,700,000, it's that simple (it just doesn't look like it....). The drivers you chose make up your team, and you can swap drivers up to 7 times as long as you stay under the budget.

Make sense?

cheers
Stu

[Boxy]

B.O.R.I.N.G are pleased to announce we are having another assault on the Nascar Fantasy Comp.

After a very successful first year, we are planning to come back and knock that pesky Antro from his perch.

B.O.R.I.N.G '08 Line-up is:

#2: Dale Earnhardt Jnr
#22: Mark Martin/Aric Almirola
#34: Dario Franchitti
#59: Jacques Villeneuve

Good luck all, and Stuie for running this comp again.

[chemhead1]

AM2 Makes Changes 24 Hours Before The Big Race!!!

After failing to make the Daytona 500 field and very likely not getting a ride for some time, AM2 Motorsports has decided to use one of their driver changes to sack Jacques Villeneuve and replace him with Michael Waltrip for the near future. AM2 is not 100% sure if a change is allowed before the race but after qualifying is set, so if it isn't allowed, the change is still wanted for after the race. Just to summarize:

Villeneuve OUT (-$200,000),
Waltrip IN (+$200,000)

Budget still stays the same. Thank you!

[mattyboy17]

MY FANTASY DRIVERS ARE

#17 MATT KENSETH
#5 CASEY MEARS
#55 MICHEAL WALTRIP
#84 A.J ALLMENDINGER

[Ben_Dover]

TEAM S.L.U.T racing Slobs & Layabouts Under Training

SPONSORS Lambert Locations
Jim Beam
Viagra
Holden Motor Sport
X Box 360

Car Chevrolet

Drivers 88 Dale Earnhardt Jnr
11 Denny Hamlin
55Micheal Waltrip

Hopefully with a new driver line up and couple of good Ozzie sponsors we can have a great year.

[Boxy]

B.O.R.I.N.G have been forced to sack Jacques Villeneuve after not qualifying for the Daytona 500. At this stage, Jacques' future looks very bleak indeed, so we have decided to give Sam Hornish Jr a run after an excellent start at the first round..

OUT: Jacques Villeneuve
IN: Sam Hornish Jr

Thank you.

[StuiE]

Done Boxy


As I mentioined in the results thread, unfortunatelty Ben_Dover and mattyboy17s teams didn't make it in time, however you will be scored from next round.

chemhead1: You still want to make those changes, effective next round, correct? (funnily enough, after first qualifying, when the front row was set, you could have swapped drivers for free, and known Waltrip would be in the race, before the Duels )


As I mentioned in the opening post, whoever is driving the #27 of Villeneuve next week (as Villeneuve will not be driving) will get the points of whoever steps in automatically (it doesn't look like Villeneuve will be driving for another team, so that doesn't look like an option)

[chemhead1]

Originally Posted by StuiE

You still want to make those changes, effective next round, correct?

Yeah, sure.

Originally Posted by StuiE

(funnily enough, after first qualifying, when the front row was set, you could have swapped drivers for free, and known Waltrip would be in the race, before the Duels )

Yeah, but what's the fun in that?

[Biggy G]

Eagle Penske Racing to Debut at California

Eagle Penske Racing is proud to announce their intentions to run the rest of the 2008 10-Tenths Sprint Nascar Fantasy Cup. Due to team owner Kieran Granger not getting deals done before the cut off date for the Daytona round the team was left with a couple extra weeks to get things sorted for the next round in California.

The team welcomes three outstanding drivers they hope can take them to the top of the podium this season. Although starting a round late EPR hopes that with the Nascar season being so long that the ground can be made up with smart driving and driver changes if need be. The team has formed a technical alliance with Penske Racing, who will supply three cars for the team to run, and with Penske's results at Daytona the team is looking forward to getting their shot this weekend.

The team has signed on Dale Earnhardt Jr, Kyle Busch and Sam Hornish Jr. Jr and Busch are seen as the two main point scorers for the team and Hornish is ever improving and hoping to be a real asset to the team. The following pictures are the liveries for this season (Check out the dedicated livery thread for more pics)

#8 Dale Earnhardt Jr. Mountain Dew - Citi Dodge


#18 Kyle Bush. CitiBank - No Fear Dodge


#81 Sam Hornish Jr. Gatorz Dodge

NAME: Eagle Penske Racing
SPONSOR(S): Citi Group, Mountain Dew, Gatorz
DRIVERS:
#8 Dale Earnhardt Jr.
#18 Kyle Busch
#81 Sam Hornish Jr.
MANUFACTURER: Dodge

[CAMSOgirl]

Can i swap Villeneuve for Waltrip being as it don't look like J.V will be back?

[Mikes544]

well, this is it. Mikes544 Enginnering is GOOOOOOO!!!!
#002 Matin Truex JR $700,000
#200 Greg Biffle $600,000
#020 Michael Waltrip $ 200,000
#202 Brian Vickers $200,000
Sponsors: Too Many
Make: Chevrolet

[FIRE]

@Biggy G: How do you create these cars? Looks great!

[Biggy G]

Originally Posted by FIRE

@Biggy G: How do you create these cars? Looks great!

They are done in a program called 3DS max, I paint the templates in Paint Shop Pro and then render it onto a 3D model to get the results above, PM me if you want any more info

[Matt]

Originally Posted by Biggy G

They are done in a program called 3DS max, I paint the templates in Paint Shop Pro and then render it onto a 3D model to get the results above, PM me if you want any more info

Yep, you make great renders as well! Can't wait to start supplying you with more cars to render, lol.

[StuiE]

Originally Posted by CAMSOgirl

Can i swap Villeneuve for Waltrip being as it don't look like J.V will be back?

Certainly, however it will cost you a driver change (you automatically got Mike Skinner, who filled in for Villeneuve, but didn't qualify for the race since the car has no owner points).


oh and +1 for Biggy G's renders look great.

[Mikes544]

Mikes544 Enginnering liveries #002 Martin Truex JR
#200 Greg Biffle

[Matt]

Originally Posted by Mikes544

Mikes544 Enginnering liveries #002 Martin Truex JR
#200 Greg Biffle

You see, when I get my PC back, I am gonna try some liveries like that, more touring car based, to see how it would look.