Like F1, all teams are their own constructors, but with almost zero technical regulations!
So, who will be in the new series you ask? Read on...
F1 Rejects-Life
1. HWNSNBM (F1R-Life 01A) [F1Rejects.com/Life]
2. Roberto Moreno (F1R-Life 01B) [Tesco]
F1 Rejects-Life and HWNSNBM are crowned champions before the season even begins, thanks to the team also being the governing body, hence doing what they like and making themselves champions. The single Life W12 engine is put in the A-spec car, while Moreno is forced to use the B-spec car, essentially a rebadged Wanzl ST09 i.e. a Shopping Trolley with a Fire Extinguisher taped to it for propulsion.
Atom Motorsport
3. Eric van de Poele (AMR001-Lamborghini) [Red Bull/Sparco/AMD]
4. Alasdair Lindsay (AMR001-Lamborghini) [Red Bull/Sparco/AMD]
37. Bernd Schneider (AMR001-Lamborghini) [Sonax/Mobil 1/Bosch]
38. Allan Simonsen (AMR001-Lambroghini) [Saxo Bank/Lucozade]
The team who should have been champions, and are far and away the best team in FRejects despite their yearly budget being about £6.37. Some old Lambo V12 engines are found in a dumpster outside Gerard Larrousse's house and installed into the cars. Two cars added on just before season begins, for another reject, Bernd Schneider, and rookie Allan Simonsen.
Badoer Racing Team
5. Luca Badoer (LB210-Ferrari) [Parmalat/Agip]
6. Marc Gene (LB210-Ferrari) [Parmalat/Agip]
The two hapless ex-Minardi team-mates are brought together once again for Luca's own team. Despite the reject nature of the series, they are still left trundling around the back of the pack depsite a works Ferrari engine supply and endless amounts of cash avaliable.
Chanoch-Nissany
7. Chanoch (Chanoch Nissan 01) [Microsoft/Nissan]
8. Bill Gates (None) [Microsoft]
Chanoch realises his dream of a Nissany Nippony racing team in F1, and decides he wants to drive the car himself. Bill Gates is brought in as a "second driver" though never actually races, yet still pays the team for his "race seat".
Stefan Grand Prix
9. Milos Pavlovic (SGP001) [AMCO]
10. Nelson Piquet Jr. (SGP001) [Zepter]
Stefan GP gain entry to FRejects and sign the mediocre Pavlovic, and also Piquet depsite the obvious reasons. Though, rather suspiciously, Pavlovic wins 3 races in his debut seasons, all in races Piquet DNFed in due to crashes...
Pacific GP
11. Jean-Denis Deletraz (Pacific PR03) [Ursus/Elf]
12. Tazio Nuvor...ahem...Giovanni Lavaggi (Pacific PR03) [Ursus/Elf]
Pacific make their GP return with the usual suspects. Deletraz wins a race by default when everybody crashes out of the Swedish GP, run on the Hagfors SuperSpecial stage in thick snow.
EuroBrun
13. N/A (This seat is cursed...) [None]
14. Gregor Foitek (ER210-Cosworth) [Lehman Brothers]
EuroBrun return but only end up fielding one car, for the hopeless Gregor Foitek. Doomed to failure from the beginning, they only qualify for races because in FRejects, there is no limit to the amount of cars which can qualify.
Coloni-Subaru
15. Pedro Chaves (FC210-Subaru) [Subaru/OMP]
16. Naoki Hattori (FC210-Subaru) [Subaru/OMP]
Like a EuroBrun clone, but even slower with their rubbish Scooby boxer engine. Chaves finally starts a Grand Prix, but doesn't finish any. Nobody realises Hattori exists for most of the season until finally scoring a point late in the season.
Andrea Moda
17. Perry McCarthy (S101-Cosworth) [Sponsors? What Sponsors?]
18. Captain Pugwash (S101-Cosworth) [Its buried somewhere...]
McCarthy finally becomes lead driver and is actually allowed to qualify. No issues with a whining second driver this year though, as they hire the fictional Captain Pugwash as their other driver (not that the governing body care). But Sassetti gets in deep sh*t again and ends up in prison this time, after Capt. Pugwash turns him into the authorities for not letting him drive. So much for no whining second drivers eh?
Visa-Lola
19. Ricardo Rosset (Lola T10/30-Cosworth) [Visa]
20. Yannick Dalmas (Lola T10/30-Cosworth) [Visa/Gaulioses]
21. Marco Apicella (Lola T10/30-Cosworth) [Visa/ATS Euromaster]
22. Hideki Noda (Lola T10/30-Cosworth) [Visa/Tenoras]
Lola are so confident and rich with their new Visa sponsorship they hire 4 rejects! Rosset is nominated as team leader, and the other three are told to do "whatever the hell they like, it doesn't matter really" due to the fact their cars arent even designed symmetrically. Noda runs out of cash mid-season and Apicella amazingly gets sacked with 3 rounds to go for not making it past Turn 1 in any Grand Prix. They are replaced by Oliver Groulliard and Shinji Nakano respectively.
Super Aguri
23. Yuji Ide (SA10-Honda) [NGK/Super Happy Fun Fun Nippony]
24. Masami Kuwashima (SA10-Honda) [Marlboro]
25. Aguri Suzuki (SA10-Honda) [Espo/Unisys]
Super Aguri return with an all Japanese team. Ide is instructed by team boss and 3rd driver Aguri Suzuki to crash into everybody so him and Kuwashima can take a 1-2 finish. Though, it doesn't work, and Ide ends up taking out Piquet in the SGP car who was already crashing anyway.
Minardi-Cosworth
26. Gastón Mazzacane (PS10-Cosworth) [Telefonica/PSN/Repsol]
27. Tarso Marques (PS10-Cosworth) [Doimo/Mild Seven/LG]
28. Alex Yoong (PS10-Cosworth) [Asiatech/Petronas]
Paul Stoddart makes a comeback and revives 3 of his old drivers from the death-throes of motorsport. Mazzacane even wins a race! They end up 3rd in the Constructors, depsite Lola having 4 cars...
Bathplug the Safety Car Racing Team
29. Taki Inoue (BTSC1R-Ford) [Sasol/MTV]
30. "Quick" Nick Heidfeld (BTSC1R-Ford) [Trust/Sobranie]
Inoue and Heidfeld have only one mission this season: to take out the Safety Car. Both succeed on numerous occasions and halfway through the season, they successfuly get a rule implemented midway thru the season that gets them 10 points for every Safety & Medical car they crash/hit, whether with or without the car (cue Inoue not looking where he is going...) so they end up 4th in the constructors.
McLaren-Mercedes
31. Michael Andretti (MP4-25) [Marlboro]
32. Norberto Fontana (MP4-25) [Esso Ultron/PSN]
McLaren enter just for the hell of it, and of course appoint the #1 Lucky Bastard as team leader, Mikey Andretti. Norbert Haug goes a bit potty and tries to appoint himself as second driver, only to accidentaly enter Norberto Fontana instead. Hilarity ensues. Andretti still as sh*t as ever and wusses out to IndyCar with a round to go.
Race Calendar coming later today
