2013 V8Supercar Fantasy Championship

[Antrodemus]

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:

NAME: Jim's Lovely People Racing
SPONSORS: BAT
DRIVERS:
#7 Todd
#11 Michael
#15 Rick
MANUFACTURER: Nissan

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: GoGetEm Racing
SPONSORS: Black and Decker, Stanley, DeWalt
DRIVERS:
#15 Rick Kelly
#17 Jonathon Webb
#19 SCott McLaughlin
MANUFACTURER: Nissan Altima

More announcements to follow on Liveries etc. closer to our launch. Looking forward to the start of the new era in 2013

[GTRMagic]

TEAM NAME: Team Orica

SPONSORS: Orica Mining Services, Ford, Westrac CAT, Petronas Syntium

DRIVERS:
#25 Jamie Whincup ($1.4m)
#26 Alex Premat ($0.6m)

MANUFACTURER: 2013 Orica Racing Ford Falcon FGII COTF

(BF Blueprint Ride Car Shown In 2013 livery)


We're going to let our results do the talking...

[kramer]

NAME: Twodollarshop Racing
SPONSORS: Two Dollar Shop. SuperCheap Auto. Dollar General. Clint's Crazy Bargains. Kingfisher Beer.
DRIVERS:
Mark Winterbottom
Rick Kelly

MANUFACTURER: Tata.

Yeah, we're back. Whatever. Our Car of the Future Tatas are under construction in Mumbai, at our (third) World-class engineering facility. With such innovations as a beam axle with leaf springs, rear drum brakes and a four-speed gearbox with a column shift, we expect... something.

Our main innovation is our "Bollywood" cheer squad, with scantily-clad dancers who are busily practicing simultaneous patting the dog and changing the lighbulb.

See you in Adelaide.


Kramer

[MattV]

Team Happy Dragon MVMotorsport returns for another year

On the back of their most successful year since their debut, Team Happy Dragon MVMotorsport announces it will return to the FVESCO for 2013.

Team Happy Dragon MVMotorsport are pleased to confirm the following details:

Name: Team Happy Dragon MVMotorsport
Sponsors: St. George Bank; Momentum Energy; Always; Jeep; Alfa; McGuigan Wines; WIN TV; Kumho Tyres.
Manufacturer: Holden
Drivers:

#3 David Reynolds
#4 Michael Caruso
#34 Tony D'Alberto

Livery to be revealed if someone were keen to have a crack at one for me

Best of luck to all competitors and thank you as always to Antro for running the competition.

[kittle]

Kittle Racing Developments has stepped up into the Main Game V8Supercar Championship. With the announcement that team currently has three brand new Ford Falcon COTF under construction in house.

NAME: Kittle Racing Developments (Mother Energy Drink Racing)
SPONSORS: Principle Sponsor: Mother Energy Drink, Westrac Cat. Gold Sponsors: Castrol, Orrcon, Samsung, Oakley, Kingcrome Tools.
DRIVERS:
#4 Mark Winterbottom ($1,300,000)
#11 Jason Bright ($700,000)

MANUFACTURER: KRD Ford Falcon FG

Any livery designs are welcome

[Razor]

Dodo Racing returns for it's 9th season and 8th season as a title sponsor.

Name: Dodo Racing
Sponsors: Dodo Internet, Caltex, Coca-Cola (title sponsor for International rounds), YouTube, Biante Model cars, HSV, 7 Eleven, Big W and Bridgestone.
Drivers:
#3: Jonathan Webb
#23: Fabian Coulthard
#33: Scott McLaughlin
All cars in spirit: Jason Richards

Manufacturer: Holden VF Commodore

Livery will be released soon.

[Razor]

Originally Posted by MattV

Team Happy Dragon MVMotorsport returns for another year

On the back of their most successful year since their debut, Team Happy Dragon MVMotorsport announces it will return to the FVESCO for 2013.

Team Happy Dragon MVMotorsport are pleased to confirm the following details:

Name: Team Happy Dragon MVMotorsport
Sponsors: St. George Bank; Momentum Energy; Always; Jeep; Alfa; McGuigan Wines; WIN TV; Kumho Tyres.
Manufacturer: Holden
Drivers:

#3 David Reynolds
#4 Michael Caruso
#34 Tony D'Alberto

Livery to be revealed if someone were keen to have a crack at one for me

Best of luck to all competitors and thank you as always to Antro for running the competition.

Originally Posted by kittle

Kittle Racing Developments has stepped up into the Main Game V8Supercar Championship. With the announcement that team currently has three brand new Ford Falcon COTF under construction in house.

NAME: Kittle Racing Developments (Mother Energy Drink Racing)
SPONSORS: Principle Sponsor: Mother Energy Drink, Westrac Cat. Gold Sponsors: Castrol, Orrcon, Samsung, Oakley, Kingcrome Tools.
DRIVERS:
#4 Mark Winterbottom ($1,300,000)
#11 Jason Bright ($700,000)

MANUFACTURER: KRD Ford Falcon FG

Any livery designs are welcome

Will be making designs for anyone who asks.

[kittle]

Originally Posted by Razor

Will be making designs for anyone who asks.

Thanks Razor.

If possible would you be able to create a design for me.

[MattV]

Originally Posted by Razor

Will be making designs for anyone who asks.

Razor, that would be outstanding... MS Paint doesn't cut it in here anymore

[Helix]

NAME: Shogan Autosport
SPONSORS: Quaker State, misc minor sponsors i havent thought of yet lol
DRIVERS:
#75 Craig Lowndes (1.3)
#76 Jonathon Webb (700)
MANUFACTURER: Ford FG

Shogan autosport boss Helix was quoted as saying "we are keen to start the year with a brand new COTF FG's and liveries will be released shortly"

[fomoco]

Name: B.F. & I. Racing Team
Sponsors: Pepsi Max and Jeld Wen
Drivers : # 59 Will Davison
: # 25 Alex Davison
Manufacturer: FPR FG COFT

B.F. & I Racing Team is back for another season in the new COFT era.

[Accident]

I've never done a fantasy league in this format before, sounds like fun.

Team: Silvercrest Racing
Sponsors: Prevost, SCR, Classic Carlectibles, Fikse wheels
Drivers: #65 Jamie Whincup (1.4)
#66 Michael Caruso (0.6)
Manufacturer: Holden

[Boxy]

After taking out Adelaide in the first round last year then falling into a complete heap for the rest of the season, B.O.R.I.N.G has dedicated all of it's time to the COFT in the last 6 months...

Wth little fanfare our line up is:

Team name: B.O.R.I.N.G

Sponsors: CNW Electrical and Data, Hoosiers, Soundwave 2013 and Adidas

Drivers: #2: Holdsworth
#22: Caruso
#222: Pye

Manufacturer: Porsche (Panamera)

Bring it!

[liquid drano]

D&T Racing is back with a new name, LIQUID MOTORSPORTS. As funding has been cut, we will be racing with little fanfare.

Drivers are:
Alex Davison 800k
Michael Caruso 600k
Scott McLaughlan 500k

Manufacturer: Ford (of course)

Sponsors: Vans of the Wall, VB, and Viagra.

[STEALTHY]

STELTHY Motortsport is back, fielding 2 cars this season. Thermaltake Technology Inc continuing their support across both cars.
Samsung and Billabong return, again as joint secondary sponsors.
Unique Cars, Just Car Insurance, and Farmers Union return also.
After shocking results last year, the budget has been used on two new, better skilled drivers this year, Will Davison, and Rick Kelly.

Liveries to be released at the test day.

NAME: STELTHY Motorsport

SPONSORS: Thermaltake, Samsung, Billabong, Unique Cars, Just Car Insurance, Farmers Union.

DRIVERS: #TBA - Will Davison
#TBA - Rick Kelly

MANUFACTURER: COTF Audi.

[STEALTHY]

Originally Posted by STEALTHY

STELTHY Motortsport is back, fielding 2 cars this season. Thermaltake Technology Inc continuing their support across both cars.
Samsung and Billabong return, again as joint secondary sponsors.
Unique Cars, Just Car Insurance, and Farmers Union return also.
After shocking results last year, the budget has been used on two new, better skilled drivers this year, Will Davison, and Rick Kelly.

Liveries to be released at the test day.

Teaser shot before this weekends release.

[Pro Racer]

!!! Press Release !!!

2012 Champions return to defend title!
Brendon Engineering is pleased to announce they will return to defend their title in the 2013 10 Tenths V8 Supercar Fantasy Championship. The team has been hard at work in the off season building 3 new Car of the Future spec VF Holden Commodores which they hope will deliver them back-to-back titles. "The team is buzzing and really looking forward to the season with #1 on the car, I wish with Clipsal was this weekend." said an excited Team Owner Brendon.

The team has re-signed the experienced Will Davison to a 2nd season with the team after he placed 4th in the driver's standings in 2012. "Will did a great job for us last year and we were bloody fast to whack a contract under his nose." Brendon said of Davison. Joining Davison in the teams other 2 VF Commodores will be Dean Fiore & young Gun Scott McLaughlin "Dean has been around a while now and proved himself a solid driver and will be an integral part of our team. "With Scott how can you not go and sign a bloke who won a championship on each side of the Tasman, we are really looking forward to what Scott will produce in our Commodore."

The new cars and driver's will hit the track on Saturday for the first time on Saturday in plain white livery with the team launching their new livery just prior to the Clipsal 500 28th of February - 3rd March. "I've seen the livery comming together and it looks neat and can't wait to see it rocket around Clipsal in a few weeks." commented Brendon on the livery.

Brendon Engineering 2013 Driver Line-up:
#1 - Will Davison - Holden Commodore VF - $1,200,000
#33 - Scott mcLaughlin - Holden Commodore VF - $500,000
#88 - Dean Fiore - Holden Commodore VF - $300,000 (2nd LDM REC)

[STEALTHY]

Originally Posted by STEALTHY

STELTHY Motortsport is back, fielding 2 cars this season. Thermaltake Technology Inc continuing their support across both cars.
Samsung and Billabong return, again as joint secondary sponsors.
Unique Cars, Just Car Insurance, and Farmers Union return also.
After shocking results last year, the budget has been used on two new, better skilled drivers this year, Will Davison, and Rick Kelly.

Liveries to be released at the test day.

NAME: STELTHY Motorsport

SPONSORS: Thermaltake, Samsung, Billabong, Unique Cars, Ceva Logistics, Farmers Union, Australia Post, Chep, and Stihl.

DRIVERS: #25 Billabong - Will Davison
#26 Samsung - Rick Kelly

MANUFACTURER: COTF Audi RS6.

Unfortunately Just Car Insurance withdrew their funding, and were replaced by Ceva Logistics.

[The Rat Pack]

NAME: Mach 1 Motorsport
SPONSORS: Air New Zealand, Oakley, Z Petrol
DRIVERS:
#28 Jamie Whincup
#82 Scott McLaughlin

MANUFACTURER: Ford

After a disappointing 2012 season, Mach 1 Motorsport returns with a new driver line-up.

[joey31]

Cooper Racing Team will return for their 3rd season, hoping to improve from last season & return to the podium.

Both drivers from last season have been released & the team is excited with this years driving line up.

Team: Cooper Racing Team

Drivers:
#2 - Jaime Wincup: 1.4m
#22- Michael Caruso: 0.6m

Major Sponsor: Corona.
Minor Sponsors: New York Yankees, Hooters, Oakley, Beats by Dre & Go Pro.

Manufacturer: Holden

Razor - If you could have a go at a livery that would be great.

[JC Ohope]

After a fairly successful run in 2012 Flying Kiwi Racing will return for the 2013 season running a 3 car team.

Last years drivers will not be retained, with a reinvigorated lineup surely leading to better results!

Team: Flying Kiwi Racing

Drivers:
#8 - Jason Bright - $700k
#88 - Fabian Coulthard - $800k
#888 - Scott McGluaghlin - $500k

Major Sponsor: Coke Zero
Minor Sponsors: Jim Beam, Fujitsu, BOC, Holden, Microsoft Dynamics

Manufacturer: Mercedes Benz - AMG

[Tracer Fire]

NAME: Silver Fernz Motorsport
SPONSORS: Interislander, Zespri
DRIVERS:
#13 Craig Lowndes
#87 Scott McLaughlin

MANUFACTURER: Mercedes Benz

The proud recipients of the 2012 Paul Radisich Trophy, Silver Fernz Motorsport are looking for a more consistent performance in the 2013 V8Supercar Fantasy Championship. We have retained the services of Craig Lowndes, and have signed on Scott McLaughlin as our second driver.

[Micklegend]

Name: Team Bitza Autosports (TBA)
Manufacturer: Ford
Sponsors: Mother, Monster, Red Bull, Rockstar (primary), Shell, Mobil, Fuchs, Caltex (secondary).
Drivers: Webb ($700K), Fiore ($300K), Caruso ($600K), Pye ($400K).

Micklegend, team manager, threw all the driver names into a hat and drew out the above lucky steerers to put together the team most likely to cause havoc, spring lucky results and mix it with the big boys when you least expect it.

Will we do any good?...."hell no but we will give it a shot!" he was heard to say at the sponsors presentation. Taking pity, the 4 main energy drink manufacturers threw some lazy cash behind the team, along with a few oil companies. General consensus is that the sponsors are all having an each way bet with the leader by Bathurst to win the honour of covering all 4 team cars in their stickers and claiming bragging rights over the rest for the remainder of the season.

Losing sponsors will be relegated to having their signs on the underside of the driving pedals for the final rounds! (may get some exposure in those tricky camera shots.....)

Good luck all....

[STEALTHY]

Originally Posted by Micklegend

Name: Team Bitza Autosports (TBA)
Manufacturer: Ford
Sponsors: Mother, Monster, Red Bull, Rockstar (primary), Shell, Mobil, Fuchs, Caltex (secondary).
Drivers: Webb ($700K), Fiore ($300K), Caruso ($600K), Pye ($400K).

Micklegend, team manager, threw all the driver names into a hat and drew out the above lucky steerers to put together the team most likely to cause havoc, spring lucky results and mix it with the big boys when you least expect it.

Will we do any good?...."hell no but we will give it a shot!" he was heard to say at the sponsors presentation. Taking pity, the 4 main energy drink manufacturers threw some lazy cash behind the team, along with a few oil companies. General consensus is that the sponsors are all having an each way bet with the leader by Bathurst to win the honour of covering all 4 team cars in their stickers and claiming bragging rights over the rest for the remainder of the season.

Losing sponsors will be relegated to having their signs on the underside of the driving pedals for the final rounds! (may get some exposure in those tricky camera shots.....)

Good luck all....

Someone cant count