2007 Nextel Cup Fantasy Championship *Open For Entries!*

[StuiE]

Here we go, Now we're ready to take entries for the inaugural NASCAR Nextel Cup Fantasy Series..






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
#17 Matt Kenseth
#20 Tony Stewart


$800,000
#29 Kevin Harvick


$750,000
#31 Jeff Burton
#8 Dale Earnhardt Jr.
#24 Jeff Gordon
#9 Kasey Kahne


$700,000
#16 Greg Biffle
#2 Kurt Busch
#5 Kyle Busch
#99 Carl Edwards
#11 Denny Hamlin


$600,000
#07 Clint Bowyer
#43 Bobby Labonte
#25 Casey Mears
#12 Ryan Newman
#19 Elliott Sadler
#88 Dale Jarrett


$500,000
#7 Robby Gordon
#66 Jeff Green
#26 Jamie McMurray
#10 Scott Riggs
#28 Ricky Rudd
#1 Martin Truex Jr.
#83 Brian Vickers
#22 Dave Blaney


$400,000
#38 David Gilliland
#36 Jeremy Mayfield
#45 KylePetty
#41 Reed Sorenson
#18 J.J. Yeley


$300,000
#14 Sterling Marlin
#13 Joe Nemechek
#96 Tony Raines
#60 Boris Said
#40 David Stremme
#55 Michael Waltrip


$250,000
#4 Ward Burton
#42 Juan Montoya
#6 David Ragan


$200,000
#49 Mike Bliss
#15 Paul Menard
#70 Johnny Sauter


$150,000
#84 A.J Allmendinger
#00 David Reutimann


$100,000
#61 Chad Chaffin
#74 Derrick Cope
#78 Wallace K.
#72 Brandon Whitt


All of these drivers should be running the full season, (which is why Mark Martin/Regan Smith and Ken Shrader/Jon Wood are not listed) if you want to change a driver, for poor results, doesn't enter races, or otherwise, you can make 2 changes throughout the season.


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.
- Points are the same as the real series. If things don't seem to add up, feel free to query my maths ability.
- 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:

NAME:Joe Bloggs Racing
SPONSOR(S): Intel, Coca-Cola
DRIVERS:
#12 Dale Earnhardt Jr
#87 Joe Nemechek
#33 Juan Montoya
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

Originally Posted by FAQ
Keep the image to a reasonable physical and data size. Remember, not everyone has a fast internet connection! As a guideline, pictures shouldn't be much more than 400 x 400 or thereabouts. Any picture that distorts the forum display is too large! Image links that are considered to be too large may be removed by the Moderators. If in doubt, ask!

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 2006 is locked in for the first 5 or so races of 2007.

http://www.nascar.com/races/cup/2006...ngs_owner.html
(look for the real life car number, there is driver names there may not neccesarily be the driver of that car)
Prizes

Maybe? Maybe not, I really don't know, but you shouldn't be doing it for the prizes anyway



So get you entries in people, you can change your team as many times as you like 'till Daytona (before the 1st Duel, 15th 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/2007/data/schedule.html)

Any questions/issues etc post here or PM me


Good luck
Stu

[StuiE]

Crooks Motorsport 2007 Press Release:


Crooks Motorsport would like to announce that it's just moved into NASCAR, after running relatively successful ChampCar and V8Supercar campaigns we're expanding our business, and looking for success.

2007's Nascar Nextel Cup campaign will be using the services of:
#30 Kevin Harvick
#5 Scott Riggs
#12 Reed Sorenson

Chevrolet Monte Carlo/Impala for the car

King of Spin Shane Warne for PR (now the he has nothing to do)

To cut costs, all drivers will be crew-chiefing for themselves

Sponsers: Delphi, Coventrys and Hyperdrive Motorsport

PRguy
Shane

[Knowlesy]

"Team DBK Knowlesy Racing" makes it's debut in NASCAR Nextel Cup in 2007. After a strong debut season in Champcar, in which the team was a consistent frontrunner and once a winner, the organisation has decided to expand into America's biggest racing series!

The team will employ the services of crowd favourite Dale Earnhardt Jr, ex-F1 star Juan Pablo Montoya and 2006 frontrunner Denny Hamlin. Rumours that these choices were made from total bias rather than common sense are totally false, the team would like to add.

The three Chevrolet's we will run will be sponsored by M&M's, Johnnie Walker and Texaco-Havoline in three lucrative deals for the team.

See you in Daytona!

David Knowles,
Team manager, "Team DBK Knowlesy Racing"

[Chatters]

Chatters Aussie Motorsports would like to announce their entry into the 2007 NASCAR Nextel Cup Fantasy Championship.

Team: Chatters Aussie Motorsports
Drivers: #42 Juan Pablo Montoya
#84 A.J Allmendinger
#20 Tony Stewart
Sponsors: Qantas, Dick Smith Electronics, Australian Made.

See you all at Daytona!

Chatters

[kelvin88]

KAM Racing has announced their intention to race in the 2007 Nextel Cup

Team boss Kelvin Hassell has chosen a top quality line up of drivers

Juan Montoya
Jeff Gordon
Ryan Newman
and Kenny Wallace

The team were spotted getting some short track practice in at Lydden in England earlier this year in a Ford Taurus.
At the moment them team only have one car but fortunatly Montoya says he will collect some more cars at Daytona...

[Jacko44]

Jacko Junior Racing is making it's NASCAR Nextel Cup Debut after running in the V8 Supercars the previous three seasons, looking to expand into the much bigger market of NASCAR.

The drivers employed include:

Jeff Gordon, sponsored by Rolex
Carl Edwards, sponsored by Smirnoff
Juan Montoya, sponsored by Arnette

The drivers will be running Dodge's for the year.

See you in Daytona.

Kiel Jackson
Owner: Jacko Junior Motorsports

[BlueBlood]

Blueblood Racing is making it's NASCAR Nextel Cup Debut after running in the V8 Supercars the previous two seasons, looking to expand into the much bigger market of NASCAR.

The drivers employed include:

#24 Jeff Gordon, sponsored by Ford Global
#16 Greg Biffle, sponsored by FPR & Prodrive
#42 Juan Montoya, sponsored by Ferrari

The drivers will be running Ford's for the year.

No liveries will be posted due to the teams IT geek being fired as he was the weak link in the drinking competitions.

[FIRE]

NAME: Evolution Motorsports
SPONSOR(S): Philips Electronics (Tony Stewart), Shell (Jeremy Mayfield), United European Dodge Dealers (Reed Sorenson)
DRIVERS:
#20 Tony Stewart
#36 Jeremy Mayfield
#41 Reed Sorenson
MANUFACTURER: Dodge

[Jacko44]

does anyone know where you can get nascar templates from on the net? cheers.

[EuropaBambaataa]

Europa Bambaataa Racing enters three Ford Fusions for:

#11 - Denny Hamlin (Mountain Dew)
#83 - Brian "Brain" Vickers (Pinky and the Brain)
#36 - Jeremy Mayfield (Haagen-Dazs Sorbet)

Brian Vickers announces he wants to do "the same thing we do every night, Pinky. Try to take over the Cup!"

[James63]

NAME: J.M.R
DRIVERS:
#9 - Kasey Kahne (Dodge)
#10 - Scott Riggs (Valvoline)
#19 - Reed Sorrenson (Dodge)
MANUFACTURER: Dodge

[matt_015]

Team Name: VB (Victoria Bitter Racing)
Drivers:
#8 Dale Earnhardt Jr. (Victoria Bitter)
#9 Kasey Kahne (Chevy Racing)
Manufacturer: Chevy

Liverys comming soon.

[nickyf1]

Mousemat Racing America

#99 - Carl Edwards
#17 - Matt Kenseth
Manufacturer - Dodge


That should come under budget.

Sponsors TBA

Livery coming soon!

[nickyf1]

Originally Posted by Jacko44

does anyone know where you can get nascar templates from on the net? cheers.

Ill make one if I can

[matt_015]

Originally Posted by nickyf1

Ill make one if I can

Hey nickyf1 when you finished that plate do you mine posting it here and not in PM so everyone can use it, By the way thanks.

[StuiE]

I'm having some computer isses at the moment (have not had a problem with this computer 'till now!), basically my (laptop) mouse isn't working, hopefully I can pick one up on the weekend.

However, I can tell you, Kelvin 88's KAM Racing is a fair bit over budget...

[kelvin88]

how am i? unless my calculators wrong or i miss read the rules

kw 100000 + rn 600000 + jg 750000 + jm 250000 = 1700000

[StuiE]

Will check when I get back onto Excel, you could well be right, have had some weird results come up before...

[kelvin88]

ok, if your right i will fire my accountant!!

[nickyf1]

Originally Posted by matt_015

Hey nickyf1 when you finished that plate do you mine posting it here and not in PM so everyone can use it, By the way thanks.

of course i was going to post it here!

[StuiE]

Your accountant still has a job I'd writted Wallace in wrongly and it had given a much higher $ figure, my apologies, it actually looks like a pretty strong team..

[6th Gear]

6th Gear Race Engineering Press Release:

after this competition had beed released the team at 6th Gear Race Engineering hummed and hared about entering....we chose to..

We have stupidly purchased the two Holden VX Commodores (#16, #50) of Team Brock (now Paul Weel Racing) that were campained in the 2003 V8 Supercar Series in Australia...following that we purchased the Tasman Motosports VX and VY Commodores (#3) that were campained in the 2004 V8 Supercar Series in Australia..We have also purchased a Holden VZ Monaro from Holden Motorsport for David Gilliland to drive...the ex #3 VX Commodore is a spare Car!!!

We will release liveries soon but here is our line up:

Team Name:- 6th Gear Race Engineering
Drivers:-
#23 - Ryan Newman (#12) - Holden VY Commodore (ex-#3)
#24 - Jeff Green (#66) - Holden VX Commodore (ex-#3)
#43 - Scott Riggs (#10) - Holden VX Commodore (ex-#16)
#44 - David Gilliland (#38) - Holden VZ Monaro

Liveries to come in 7-14 days!

[6th Gear]

My post timed out to edit Car #3 VX Commodore will be the Spare car....If a mod can change (ex-#3) to (ex-#50) on the VX Commodore that would be great!!!

[Chatters]

Does it really matter...

[6th Gear]

Originally Posted by Chatters

Does it really matter...

No but I didn't wanna look like a fool...psst...I think everybody knows