2016 V8 Supercar Fantasy Championship!

[Antrodemus]

The 2016 V8 Supercar Fantasy Championship roars into action at the Clipsal 500 in just under a months time in what promises to be yet another fast and furious race for the Pete55 Memorial Trophy.

V8 Supremo Antrodemus took time out from doctoring attendance figures to share his enthusiasm for the series in 2016, and is confident of another great year.
“2015 was such an awesome year, but for the love of god will someone beat JC Ohope!” he said. “I’m sure 2016 will be an inconceivably exciting year; I've heard whispers of some big changes about so I look forward to the whole circus rolling into Adelaide at the end of February.”

Now entering its fourteenth year on Network Ten-Tenths, this series can always guarantee close racing, dodgy officiating, and heated rivalries. The 2016 V8 Supercar Fantasy Championship Series is upon us! Gentlemen (and Gentlewomen),
Start Your Engines!

1. Drivers

You can hire up to 3 drivers to drive your cars, provided that their combined salary comes in below the $2,000,000 Salary Cap.
Here is how much they cost:

$1,200,000

Craig Lowndes

Mark Winterbottom

$1,100,000

Chaz Mostert

Jamie Whincup

$1,000,000

Fabian Coulthard

James Courtney

Shane van Gisbergen

$900,000

Scott McLaughlin

David Reynolds

Garth Tander

$800,000

Will Davison

Rick Kelly

Scott Pye

Tim Slade

$700,000

Lee Holdsworth

James Moffat

Nick Percat

Cam Waters

$600,000

Jason Bright

Michael Caruso

Todd Kelly

Dale Wood

$500,000

Tim Blanchard

Andre Heimgartner

Chris Pither

Aaren Russell

Other Drivers
If anyone else not listed above drives in one of the non-enduro rounds, they will be valued at $500,000.

Endurance Drivers
Specialist drivers will be available for Phillip Island, 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.

Driver changes do cost you championship points, however, as per below:
First change = free!
Second change = 50 points
Third change = 100 points
Fourth change = 150 points
etcetera, increasing by 50 points for each subsequent change.


Enduro Cup
If you wish, you may use one of your driver changes to hire some of the Sunday drivers that appear during the Enduro Cup (Phillip Island, 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 rounds. 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, 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 eleventeen 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:

NAME: What Badge? Racing
SPONSORS: TBA
DRIVERS:
#949 David Reynolds
#494 Aaren Russell
MANUFACTURER: Merholdes

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)

[Professor]

NAME: TGI Racing
SPONSORS: Sportsnet Holidays; GoPro; Taskforce
DRIVERS:
#151 Will Davison ($800,000)
#152 Michael Caruso ($600,000)
#153 Jason Bright ($600,000)
(Total $2,000,000)
MANUFACTURER: Holden VF Commodore

More information and detailed press release / livery reveals later to the start of the season.

[JC Ohope]

Flying Kiwi racing is proud to return to the 2016 V8SCFC!

Name: Flying Kiwi Racing
Sponsors: Coke Light, Air New Zealand, Holden
Drivers:
#1 Scott Pye $800K
#11 Jason Bright $600K
#111 Michael Caruso $600K
(Total: $2M)
Manufacturer: Holden, VFII Commodore

Looking forward to another competitive season, good luck to all teams!

[F J Nedos]

NAME: Squadra Galoppo Enchiladas
SPONSORS: Chickadee, Shimano
DRIVERS:
#242 Jamie Whincup ($1.1m)
#272 Scott McLaughlin ($900k)
Total = $2M
MANUFACTURER: VF2 Commodore

[fomoco]

B.F & I Racing Team
Sponsors : Penske Truck Rental
Drivers
Fabian Coultard
Scot Pye
total 1.8 m
Manufacturer: Ford FGX

[Razor]

Dodo Racing enters it's 11th championship start.

Driving it's three Holden VF Commodore's is

#55 - Shane Van Gisbergan
#51 - Chris Pither
#15 - Tim Blanchard

[Axeman444]

Off the back of a 2nd Place in the Championship last year, Axeman Performance Racing is dragging out the trusty GT40's once more, painting a big target on JC Ohope's Flying Kiwi Racing.

Name: Axeman Performance Racing
Sponsors: Bunnings and the Australian Taxation Office
Drivers:
#44 Chaz Mostert ($1.1M)
#444 Scott Pye ($800k)
Manufacturer: FORD

[GTRMagic]

Straight Line Entrepreneurship Racing Rocks V8Supercar in 2016
GTRMagic is proud to announce that Jordan Belfort's infamous 'Straight Line Entrepreneurship' system has continued its support for his entry into the 2016 TenTenths V8Supercar Fantasy Championship for a third season.

Fresh off the back of a solid 27th placing in the 2015 fantasy championship , GTRMagic has created & effected a 100 point plan to revitalise the team line up & hardware to bring back the competitiveness we know is in the car, waiting to be unlocked!

Joining the team in 2016 are a fleet of NASA-built Ford Falcon FG/X's, powered by Ford Ecoboost 2 litre bi-turbos, while we welcome back Mr Van Gisbergen & new to the team Mr McLaughlin to the driving line up.

Jordan Belfort is the team Oracle, bringing his colourful self & a menagerie of endearing female supporters and hundreds of disciples of his financial systems to each round of the series.

And his new party bus. Every round a new reason to party.... dancing, drinking and dru... Oops... And sheep shearing.. Although the Kiwi drivers wont shear with nobody..

Look forward to the RaceCam images from the cars too....

Go Jordan. Go Well.

TEAM NAME: Straight Line Entrepreneurship Racing
SPONSORS: Jordan Belfort's Straight Line Entrepreneurship System
DRIVERS:
#11 Shane Van Gisbergen - Ford Falcon FG/X - $1,000,000
#12 Scott McLaughlin - Ford Falcon FG/X - $900,000

(and the spare $100,000 for party favours......)
MANUFACTURER:
Ford Australia. Have you have you have you driven a Ford, lately?

[MarcosAmbroseFan]

TEAM NAME: Premium Motorsport Group
SPONSORS: Qantas, Freightliner, Coca-Cola
DRIVERS:
#7 Will Davison (800k)
#77 Shane van Gisbergen (1.0m)
TOTAL: (1.8m)
MANUFACTURER: Holden VF

[twinwebbers]

NAME: Zoom Motorsport
MANUFACTURER: Volvo
SPONSORS: Fred Fern Bowls Centre; OPSM;
DRIVERS:
#3 Scott Pye - $0.8m
#32 Jason Bright - $0.6m
#322 Michael Caruso - $0.6m

[twinwebbers]

Originally Posted by twinwebbers

NAME: Zoom Motorsport
MANUFACTURER: Volvo
SPONSORS: Fred Fern Bowls Centre; OPSM;
DRIVERS:
#3 Scott Pye - $0.8m
#32 Jason Bright - $0.6m
#322 Michael Caruso - $0.6m

I did my maths last night worked out who I wanted and posted this... Now I look through the posts and see I have chosen the same as JC Ohope. (Winner of the last two seasons, so I must be doing something right.) If you want me to change JC Ohope, as you were in first, let me know and I'll mix it up again.

[Antrodemus]

Originally Posted by twinwebbers

I did my maths last night worked out who I wanted and posted this... Now I look through the posts and see I have chosen the same as JC Ohope. (Winner of the last two seasons, so I must be doing something right.) If you want me to change JC Ohope, as you were in first, let me know and I'll mix it up again.

Last three actually. Proper little Whincup.

Remember you can also use your Driver Changes to separate yourself from Flying Kiwi, so you could just make a devious switch before the last round to poach the prize...

[JC Ohope]

Originally Posted by Antrodemus

Last three actually. Proper little Whincup.

Remember you can also use your Driver Changes to separate yourself from Flying Kiwi, so you could just make a devious switch before the last round to poach the prize...

I'll try to take that as a compliment XD

Originally Posted by twinwebbers

I did my maths last night worked out who I wanted and posted this... Now I look through the posts and see I have chosen the same as JC Ohope. (Winner of the last two seasons, so I must be doing something right.) If you want me to change JC Ohope, as you were in first, let me know and I'll mix it up again.

Don't worry about it at all, I'll inevitably change my lineup at some point in the season after one (or all) of them prove to not be worth running! If nothing else, the enduros always make a good tie breaker

[Accident]

Name: Silvercrest Racing
Sponsors: Silvercrest Auto Group, Rebellion, IVECO, Spark Models
Drivers:
#65 Davison ($800k)
#66 Caruso ($600k)
#67 Bright ($600k)
Total: $2kk
Car: Cadillac ATS-V

[GM10]

The first (I think) Italian team to join V8 Supercars!

Name: GM10 Racing
Sponsors: Audi Sport, Polleria Osvaldo
Drivers:
#10 Chaz Mostert ($1,100,000)
#95 David Reynolds ($900,000)
Car: Audi RS5

[Gaz170]

After a break of God knows how many years, TEAM GAZ170 rejoins the race to avoid the wooden spoon. We've raided various teams rubbish bins and found enough cast-off's to get a couple of cars on the grid this year.

NAME: Team GAZ170
SPONSOR: Sims Metal Group - supplier of most of our parts.
DRIVERS:
#29 Chas Mostert - (even brought along his old Falcon for spares)
#92 Scott Pye -
MANUFACTURER: Ex Erebus Mercs - don't let Betty know we umm... borrowed them.

[JamesV8Fan]

NAME: Smint Motorsports
SPONSORS: Repsol, Movistar, Smint, Sony
DRIVERS:
#29 Scott McLaughlin ($800,000)
#34 Andre Heimgartner ($500,000)
#88 Jason Bright ($600,000)
(Total $2,000,000)
MANUFACTURER: Ford Falcon FGX

[Average Punter]

TEAM NAME: Attention Deficit Racing
SPONSORS: Ritalin, the Department of Juvenile Justice
DRIVERS:
#1 Fabian Coulthard (1.0m)
#11 Shane van Gisbergen (1.0m)
TOTAL: (2.0m)
MANUFACTURER: 300C Pimpmobile

[coln72]

MYTOY Motorsport.

After a last years toe in the water experience, MYTOY Motorsport has decided to step up this year for a serios tilt at the title, continuing with star drivers Craig Lowndes and James Moffat driving Volvo's just cause we love the noise.

As we did last year, the team have made the decision to focus all of our resources and efforts on two quality cars for our drivers.

Team-MYTOY Motorsport

Sponsors- car #16 SEEFA Race and Rally, Bills Fish Shop, P&A Paints
car #32 Coke
Drivers-Craig Lowndes #16 & James Moffat #32

Car-2016 Volvo 360's

[joey31]

Name: Cooper Racing Team
Drivers:
#2 James Courtney (1.0m)
#22 Shane Van Gisbergen (1.0m)
Total: 2.0m
Sponsors: Under Armour, Oakley, Go Pro, HSV, Samsung, Pepsi Max.
Manufacturer: Holden VF Commodore.

[Tracer Fire]

Silver Fernz Motorsport is pleased to announce that the team has retained the services of Craig Lowndes and will be joined this year by Scott Pye.

Name: Silver Fernz Motorsport
Sponsors: Interislander, Z, Ford
Drivers:
#888 Craig Lowndes
#88 Scott Pye
Manufacturer: Ford

[The Rat Pack]

NAME: Mach 1 Motorsport
MANUFACTURER: Ford Mustang
SPONSORS: Air NZ
DRIVERS:
#7 Chaz Mostert ($1.1m)
#16 Scott McLaughlin ($900,000)

[Helix]

TEAM NAME: Shogun Autosport
SPONSORS: Quaker state
DRIVERS:
#17 Fabian Coulthard 1 mill
#18 Shane van Gisbergen 1 mill
TOTAL: 2 mill
MANUFACTURER: Ford

[Pro Racer]

Brendon Engineering returns for assault on 2016 V8 Supercars Fantasy Championship!
Brendon Engineering has unveiled an championship winning line-up for it's assault on the 2016 V8 Supercar Fantasy Championship with 6 time Champion Jame Whincup and Bathurst winner Will Davison putting pen to paper with the team. Once again the chariot of choice will be Holden VFII Commodores.

In a massive get for the team they have snuck under Triple 8 supremeo Roland Dane's guard to snare 6 time Champion Jamie Whincup. "Jamie's records speak for themselves, he is one of the greats of all time and I can't believe I landed his signature, however I don't think I've written so many zero's on a cheque before". laughed team Owner Brendon.

Bathurst Winner Will Davison joins the team looking for a return to the winner's circle after a few lean years. "Will can obviously drive given he right equipment, he has won races and Bathursts and driven for 2 factory teams. "He even won in the Merc." joked Brendon.

Brendon Engineering and it's new recruits hit the track this weekend for the Clipsal 500.

Brendon Engineering 2016 Driver Line-up:
#88 - Jamie Whincup - Holden VFII Commodore ($1,100,000)
#19 - Will Davison - Holden VFII Commodore ($800,000)
(Total - $1,900,000)

[BlueBlood]

BlueBlood Motorsport.

After a just missing the top 10 in 2the 015 season, the team is pairing two of the young guns for a red hot crack at winning the 2016 season.


BlueBlood Motorsport.

Sponsors:
Steinlager Pure, Mustangs Gentlemans Club

Drivers:
#7 Chaz Mostert 1.1M
#17 Scott Pye 800K


FGX Falcons of course.