2009 NASCAR Fantasy Championship: Entries & Driver Changes

[Antrodemus]

Now entering the 3rd year of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Fantasy Series, we are hoping for a great season ahead, Penguin Motorsport 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.

Unfortunately due to our late start this year, we will have to miss Daytona and Fontana to give you guys a decent shot at signing up. That means we have a 34 race season starting with Las Vegas on March 1.

To make things simpler this year with respect to driver swapping, part-time teams, and road-course ringers, you now effectively hire a team, and score points for anyone who drives for them. So say you hire the #09 team, who have three drivers scheduled to race in various events, you would receive points scored by all three while they were driving the #09. It’s kind of similar to the Martin/Almirola situation in the #8 last year. Also many of the cheaper teams are only part-time, or are uncertain pending sponsorship, so it would pay to check if they are going to show up before you hire them!

You can hire up to 4 teams to drive for you, provided that their combined salary comes in below the $2,000,000 Salary Cap.
Here is how much they cost:

$1,600,000
#18 (Ky.Busch)
#48 (Johnson)
#99 (Edwards)

$1,400,000
#11 (Hamlin)
#14 (Stewart)
#16 (Biffle)
#17 (Kenseth)
#24 (J.Gordon)
#29 (Harvick)
#31 (Burton)
#33 (Bowyer)
#88 (Earnhardt)

$1,200,000
#1 (Truex)
#2 (Ku.Busch)
#5 (Martin)
#6 (Ragan)
#9 (Kahne)
#20 (Logano)
#26 (McMurray)
#39 (Newman)
#42 (Montoya)
#83 (Vickers)

$1,000,000
#00 (Reutimann)
#07 (Mears)
#19 (Sadler)
#44 (Allmendinger)
#82 (Speed)
#96 (B.Labonte)
#98 (Menard)

$800,000
#7 (R.Gordon)
#12 (Stremme)
#43 (Sorenson)
#47 (Ambrose)
#55 (Waltrip)
#66 (T.Labonte / Blaney)
#77 (Hornish)

$600,000
#8 (Almirola)
#28 (Kvapil)
#34 (Andretti)
#78 (Smith)

$400,000
#09 (Keselowski / Marlin / Schrader)
#36 (Riggs)
#41 (Mayfield)

$200,000
#08 (Said)
#13 (Papis)
#21 (Elliott)
#23 (Skinner / Richardson)
#25 (Keselowski)
#27 (Shelmerdine)
#51 (Bires / Bean)
#64 (G.Bodine / T.Bodine / Gunselman)

$100,000
#15 (Davis)
#37 (Raines)
#46 (Long)
#57 (Benning)
#60 (Hylton)
#71 (M.Wallace)
#73 (Garvey)
#75 (Cope)
#87 (Nemechek)

Other Drivers
If any cars other than those listed above enter a race, they will be valued at $100,000.

You can have 7 driver changes over the whole season.

Keep track of your driver movements at Jayski's great site here: http://www.jayski.com/pages/2009teams.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 $2 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) (yes Stu, I noticed )
- 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:

NAME: Five Into Four Racing
SPONSOR(S): UPS, 3M, DeWalt, Crown Royal, Aflac
DRIVERS:
#1 David Ragan (#6 team)
#2 Greg Biffle (#16 team)
#3 Matt Kenseth (#17 team)
#4 Carl Edwards (#99 team)
MANUFACTURER: Ford

(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. 800x600 is probably the largest you should go.

I know there are some real good livery makers here, so get into 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.

So get your entries in people, you can change your team as many times as you like until Las Vegas (ie before Friday 27 February), if you enter later than that you'll just score from the first round that you start. (schedule here: http://www.nascar.com/races/cup/2009/data/schedule.html)

Any questions/issues etc post here or PM me or Axeman. Until we hear from Stuie, Axeman will be running the show (assuming he can understand my spreadsheet ), so probably best to pester him!


Good luck!
Stu (and Antro and Axeman on his behalf)

[Jacko44]

After two 2nd place finishes the last two years, Jacko Junior Racing are hoping third time's the charm as they enter the 2009 Sprint Cup Season.

Jamie McMurray and David Stremme will be the drivers leading Jacko Junior Racing to it's first Nascar Championship.

Team Name: Jacko Junior Racing

Drivers:

#19 - Jamie McMurray (#26 team)
#91 - David Stremme (#12 team)

Manufacturer: Toyota

Sponsors: McDonalds and KFC

[Knowlesy]

DBK Racing
Sponsors: Target, DuPont
Driver #1: Mark Martin
Driver #2: David Stremme
Manufacturer: Chevrolet

[kelvin88]

Roots V8 Racing

Manufacturer, Chevy, quick! before they go bust!

Sponsored by

Jack Daniels,
Because ugly birds need love too!

#24 Gordon

#08 Said

#64 Gundelman and the Bodines

#23 Skinner and Richardson

[Axeman444]

Once again the GT40's of Axeman Performance Racing are back thanks to sponsors Bunnings, Black Douglas & Cola and Tooheys Extra Dry. New drivers for this year are:
#47 Marcos Ambrose - at least until after the road courses if he performs
#6 David Ragan

[DanicaFan]

AP Press Release:

Feb. 13, 2009 - Scottsdale, Arizona..

Danica Patrick Racing has confirmed its entry for the 2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Season. The team's 2 drivers are Carl Edwards and Scott Riggs. Crew Chief, Dave Sharpley is ready to take on the task of leading these 2 drivers in this year's season.

Danica spoke to the press briefly this morning...

" Um.. I am very excited about this year's NASCAR season. We ran a partial season last year but we now have the resources to run a full season. I am confident in my drivers' ability to run at the front of the field. Carl Edwards is a proven driver and he will have another great year. My newest driver, Scott Riggs improved last year and I feel he will have a strong year and will do well for us. Um, we have all the sponsors in line and my whole team is ready to go racing and have a great year. Thank You. "

TEAM INFORMATION:

Danica Patrick Racing

Sponsors: Motorola, GoDaddy.com, XM, Air Tran
Driver 1: #99 Carl Edwards
Driver 2 #36 Scott Riggs
Manufacturer: Ford

[nickyf1]

Captain Backfire Racing

Toyota - main sponsor - Toyota Express Lube

Mayfield
Logano
Riggs

[ThePenguin]

Penguin Motorsports is back for 2009. After winning (stealing) the championship last year we are back to compete (win by all means possible) the chapionship this year.

Our Line up will be:

#8 Aric Almirola
#21 Bill Elliot
#28 Travis Kvapil
#34 John Andretti
Manufacturer: Ford (should Ford not make it to the end of the year, we will remove all of their stickers and replace them with Chinese flags.)

Sponsors: Obama's stimulus package, if that doesn't work we will fire one of our drivers and auction off the seat through Rod Blagojevich Inc. If that one also fails, we will begin to run a elaborate Ponzi scheme to make sure we have enough to finish off the season and pay our lawyers.

Good luck to all.

[Speedworx]

NAME: SRD International
SPONSOR(S): CAT, Cheerios, Shell
DRIVERS:
#1 #41 Jeremy Mayfield
#2 #07 Casey Mears
#3 #36 Scott Riggs
MANUFACTURER: Cherolet

[mongrelpunt]

After a successful rookie season in 2008, finishing with a respectable Top 15 finish, Mongrelpunt Motorsports returns for a real tilt at the title in 2009.

Given the impossible task of picking a driver line-up, team principal mongrelpunt has put faith in a young squad, with a small sprinkling of experience to help mould the team into a force in 2009.

In the lead #5 car will be young sensation David Ragan, and joining him for the full season in the #24 will be consistent rookie Aric Almirola. But because of the economic downturn Bill Elliott will also join the team in the #63, but will run on a limited schedule.

Big things are expected from the team in 2009, with anything less than a top 5 finish considered a failed season.

NAME: Mongrelpunt Motorsports
SPONSOR(S): Pepsi (#5); Subway (#24); Starbucks (#63)
DRIVERS:
#5 - David Ragan
#24 - Aric Almirola
#63 - Bill Elliott
MANUFACTURER: Chevrolet

[Axeman444]

Originally Posted by mongrelpunt

...In the lead #5 car will be young sensation David Ragan...

NAME: Mongrelpunt Motorsports
SPONSOR(S): Pepsi (#5)
DRIVERS:
#5 - David Ragan

MP, just to confirm you want the #6 David Ragan, not #5 (which is Mark Martin)?

[Axeman444]

Originally Posted by Axeman444

MP, just to confirm you want the #6 David Ragan, not #5 (which is Mark Martin)?

and also confirm you mean #21 - Bill Elliot, and #8 Aric Almirola?

If i don't hear back, this is what you will be entered with (changes in bold):
NAME: Mongrelpunt Motorsports
SPONSOR(S): Pepsi (#6); Subway (#8); Starbucks (#21)
DRIVERS:
#6 - David Ragan
#8 - Aric Almirola
#21 - Bill Elliott
MANUFACTURER: Chevrolet

[mongrelpunt]

Originally Posted by Axeman444

and also confirm you mean #21 - Bill Elliot, and #8 Aric Almirola?

If i don't hear back, this is what you will be entered with (changes in bold):
NAME: Mongrelpunt Motorsports
SPONSOR(S): Pepsi (#6); Subway (#8); Starbucks (#21)
DRIVERS:
#6 - David Ragan
#8 - Aric Almirola
#21 - Bill Elliott
MANUFACTURER: Chevrolet

Yup thats what I wanted. I added my own car numbers (similiar to last year). Sorry.

[carma]

Team Tiger Racing is in for 2009
Name TTR
Sponsers Oakley, Jeld Wen, Tooheys
Drivers
#00 Reutiman
#07 C Mears
Manufacturer Toyota

[Boxy]

B.O.R.I.N.G are stoked that Antro and Mr Axe have decided to get this comp up and running! Cheers

Entering our 3rd season, there are no excuses for failure!!

B.O.R.I.N.G's '09 Line-up...


NAME: B.O.R.I.N.G (Boxy Organised Racing Including Naked Gridgirls)
SPONSORS: VB, CNW Electrical and Data, Hoosiers & Reef Oil
DRIVERS:
#2 Michael Waltrip (#55 team)
#22 Scott Riggs (#36 team)
#222 Reed Sorenson (#43 team)

MANUFACTURER: Chevrolet

[Antrodemus]

World Famous in Charlotte, NC...

World Famous Racing (formerly Team Iron Horse) are back with the clear goals of beating ThePenguin and Jacko44 (and anyone else who gets in our way, but mostly those two).


World Famous Racing
Sponsors: L&P
#51 David Reutimann (#00 team)
#52 John Andretti (#34 team)
#53 Scott Riggs (#36 team)
Stickers: Dodge

[Suttory]

NAME: RS Powertrain Competition
SPONSOR(S): Virgin Atlantic, BT, PPG, Castrol
DRIVERS:
#1 Kyle Busch(#18 team)
#2 Riggs (#36 team)
MANUFACTURER: Ford

[Ben_Dover]

Down Under Racing
new year new drivers
#05 M Ambrose
#15 R Gordon
#25 Said
#55 Pappis
No smoke with out burning rubber
No burning rubber without a win
Hopefully a lot of smoke this year!!!
Sponsors;
Holden when only the best will do !!!!
Jim Beam
Bob Jane Tyres

[flynn98]

NAME STELLA RACIN

DRIVERS
REUTIMANN(00)
WALTRIP(55)
G/T BODINE& GUNSELMAN(64)

[kelvin88]

Well done Flynn! Thought you weren't coming!

[krypto71]

NAME: Krypto Motorsport
SPONSOR(S): STARBUCKS, JR PROPO, SPEKTRUM, OS ENGINES, COOLPOWER Fuels
DRIVERS:
#1 Reutimann (#00 Team)
#2 Mears (#07 Team)

MANUFACTURER: Ford

After missing the initial rounds, Krypto Motorsport have finally gathered the funds to enter the Sprint Cup. Its gunna be tough from here, but lucky for us, its a long season.

[Boxy]

1st change of the year for B.O.R.I.N.G..

We have sacked all of our drivers and are starting over!

New line-up as of Martinsville:

#2: Kurt Busch ($1,200,000)
#8: Aric Almirola ($600,000)
#71: David Gilliland ($100,000)

[Suttory]

RS Powertrain Competition are looking for some added speed, so why not add another driver !



Swap



#18 Kyle Busch

for

#24 Gordon
#25 Keselowski

[Antrodemus]

World Famous Racing rings the changes:

OUT: #36 Riggs and #34 Andretti

IN: #12 (Stremme), #71 (Gilliland I think), #87 (Nemechek)

[Axeman444]

After a whinge from Marcos "Hey i can drive on short tracks now" Ambrose that David "these Roush Engines are crap" Ragan isn't pushing him enough, Ragan has been dumped by Axeman Performance Racing in favour of #55 Michael "I'm the Team Boss so give me a drive" Waltrip. Also named as test drivers and Race Entrants when they are fast enough/it doesn't rain are #71 David "I wanna spin someone into a wall" Gilliland, and #87 Joe "i used to be called Front Row" Nemecheck.

Current Line up as at Pre Race Scrutineering for Texas:
#47 Ambrose $800k
#55 Waltrip $800k
#71 Gilliland $100k
#87 Nemecheck $100k