1996 Rejects-1 World Championship season

1996 Rejects-1 World Championship
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The 1996 Rejects-1 World Championship season was the third season of the Rejects-1 World Championship series.

Changes are EuroBrun at the beginning removed from the chassis list as the development team failed to modify the car to go faster. Instead the 1992 Brabham BT60B is added to the chassis choices. While Coloni C3C after GLB switched chassis was declared obsolete too. Then Rockets to Russia asked for exclusive use of the EuroBrun due to tight budget, which the Rejects-1 comission gave permission to it. Engines are also tuned to have 5 extra horsepowers for free. The series also has solved the financial issues that striked during last 1/3 period in 1995. It would be the final year of the current generation of cars.

Chassis

Origin	Constructor	Name	Year
	AGS	JH24	1990
	Andrea Moda	S921	1992
	Brabham	BT60B	1992
	EuroBrun	ER188B	1989
	Fondmetal	GR02	1992
	Life	L190	1990
	Modena	Lambo 291	1991
	Onyx	ORE-1	1989
	Osella	FA1ME	1990
	Rial	ARC-02	1989
	Zakspeed	891	1989

Teams and Drivers

Entrant	Chassis	No.	Race Drivers	Rounds	Test/Reserve Drivers
Great Leap Backward	Brabham BT60B	3	Kim-Jong Sung	1-	Friedl Källström Frederico Angeli
		31	Carlos Marquez	1-
Ursus Racing	Rial ARC-02	5	Fidrik Arnason	1-	Anna Gunnarsdottir
		25	Algernon Bell	1-
Aussie Motorsport	Andrea Moda S921	8	Nic Tooas	1-	Sam Sun
		10	Joe Gaera	1-
Northgate Engineering	Zakspeed 891	11	Satoru Kagawa 1	1, 3
			Massimiliano Patrese	2
			Patrick Boon	4-
		12	Rafael Modena	1-
Caraxl Racing 4	Life L190	14	Petrus Handoyo	1-3, TBA	Ronald Tenpecost James Generic
Rob Lomas Racing	Onxy ORE-1	27	Archibald March	1-	Cletus Brown
		666	Mikhail Karimov	1-
Rockets to Russia	EuroBrun ER188B	35	Danny Ramone	1-
		53	Marky Howard	1-
Hunter Autosport	Fondmetal GR02	36	Deanna McMahon	1-
		37	Natascha Zaugg	1-
Foxhound Life	Lamborghini 291	44	Pjotr Madunochev	1-	Sergej Madunochev
HURT Racing	Zakspeed 891	47	Sam Pritchard	1-
Lotto Racing	Osella FA1ME	70	Cameron Maroon 3	1-3
			Ron Mignolet	4
HTMTRT	Life L190	76	Shigeru Hashimoto	1-	Torna Swan
		78	Jeice Swan 2	1-2, 6-
			Torna Swan	3-5
Blokkmonsta Racing	Andrea Moda S921	79	Vic Sunset	1-
Buoygues Télécom EBL	Fondmetal GR02	84	Bernard Leclerq	1-
		222	Jean-Philippe Henri	1-
Scuderia Asso di Fiori	Zakspeed 891	88	Mark Albertson	1-
Team Sprunk 4	Osella FA1ME	98	Anna Gunnarsdottir	1-3
		99	Goker Peynirci 1	1
			Antonio Bizarri	2-3
Valerian Engineering	Onyx ORE-1	100	Shad Griffith	1-	Rial Cotman Gary Ceara
		200	Sabine Forestiur-Valerian 1	1, 3-
			Javier Alverez	2
V.I.D.A.	AGS JH24	333	Julio Vaca	1-	Cleide do Nascimento Pierre Abblegen
		444	Joaquim Alcântara	1, 3-5, 7-9, 11-
			Cleide do Nascimento	2, 6, 10

Notes:

• 1 - Round 1, Satoru Kagawa injured for 1 race, Goker Peynirci for 2 race, while Sabine Forestiur-Valerian was banned for one race for dangerous manouver over Peynirci.
• 2 - Round 2, Jeice Swan was injured for 3 races
• 3 - Round 3, Cameron Maroon was injured for three months
• 4 - Following financial reason, Team Sprunk withdrew from the series at the conclusion of the Argentinian round, while Caraxl Racing with Petrus Handoyo moved to IndyCar but returned only for Indonesian round.

Calendar

Testing

	Date	Track	Fastest Driver	Fastest Team
1	February 17-18	Sebring International Raceway, Florida, USA	Mikhail Karimov	Rob Lomas Racing

Championship Races

Each race was scheduled to last approximately 65 minutes, with the exceptions of sprint races and SuperPrix, which the latter will have longer race around 120 minutes. Sprint races maximum time are 21 minutes.

	Date	Title	Track	Pole position	Fastest lap	Winning driver	Winning team
NC	March 2	Rejects-1 Budweiser 100 Miles Challenge	Daytona International Speedway Oval, Daytona Beach, Florida	Archibald March*	Rafael Modena	Jeice Swan	HTMTRT
1	March 3	Rejects-1 Budweiser Florida Grand Prix	Daytona International Speedway Road Course, Daytona Beach, Florida	Archibald March	Archibald March	Mikhail Karimov	Rob Lomas Racing
2	March 16	Rejects-1 Grande Prêmio 240k do Brazil	Autódromo de Jacarepaguá, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	Archibald March	Archibald March	Archibald March	Rob Lomas Racing
3	March 24	Rejects-1 Gran Premio de Argentina	Autódromo Oscar Alfredo Gálvez No. 12, Buenos Aires, Argentine	Petrus Handoyo	Sam Pritchard	Pjotr Madunochev	Foxhound Life
4	April 14	Rejects-1 Kiwi New Zealand Grand Prix	Teretonga Park, Invercargill, New Zealand	Archibald March	Vic Sunset	Julio Vaca	V.I.D.A.
5	April 21	Rejects-1 Australian Grand Prix	Eastern Creek Raceway, Sydney, Australia
6	May 5	Rejects-1 PIAA 日本グランプリー	Mine Central Circuit, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan
7	May 18	Rejects-1 Magneti Marelli 240k Gran Premio d’Italia	Autodromo di Pergusa, Sicily, Italy
8	June 12	Rejects-1 Total SuperPrix de France - Sprint 50 km	Circuit de La Sarthe, Le Mans, France
9	June 14	Rejects-1 Total SuperPrix de France - SuperPrix 400 km
10	June 30	Rejects-1 British Grand Prix	Donington Park, Leicestershire, England
	July 14	Rejects-1 Bosch Großer Preis von Deutschland	Hockenheimring, Hockenheim, Germany	CANCELLED
11	July 21	Rejects-1 Artic Circle Norge Grand Prix	Artic Circle Raceway, Mo I Rana, Norway
12	August 4	Rejects-1 Gillet Grand Prix de Belgique	Circuit National de Spa-Francorchamps, Spa, Belgium
13	August 18	Rejects-1 A1 Großer Preis von Österreich	A1 Ring, Spielberg, Austria
	September 1	Rejects-1 Groot Prys van Suid-Afrika	Kyalami Circuit, Gauteng, South Africa	CANCELLED
	September 20	Rejects-1 Garuda Grand Prix Indonesia Sprint 40 km	Sirkuit Internasional Sentul, Bogor, Indonesia	CANCELLED
14	September 22	Rejects-1 Garuda Grand Prix Indonesia GP 210 km
15	October 6	Rejects-1 Grand Prix of Canada	Shannonville Motorsport Park, Ontario, Canada

Notes:

• 1. Budweiser Challenge is an exhibition race non-points counted race. The field will be chosen from the top 12 of qualifying. The equipments needed are all specially-prepared only for the exhibition race.
• 2. Sprint races point system are: 6-5-4-3-2-1. Pole position and fastest lap points will be given after combining time and result from sprint race and feature race. French SuperPrix point system is: 30-25-22-20-18-16-14-12-10-8-6-5-4-3-2-1

Results

Points system: 20-15-12-10-8-6-4-3-2-1. Pole and fastest lap both rewarded 1 point except the aforementioned ones.

Pos.	Driver	USA	BRA	ARG	NZL	AUS	JAP	ITA	FRAS	FRA	GBR	NOR	BEL	AUT	INA	CAN	Pts.
1	Archibald March	2	1	Ret													39
2	Julio Vaca	3	4	18†													22
3	Pjotr Madunochev	Ret	10	1													21
4	Mikhail Karimov	1	Ret	Ret													20
5	Algernon Bell	Ret	5	4													18
6	Mark Albertson	Ret	2	9													17
7	Shigeru Hashimoto	Ret	Ret	2													15
8	Marky Howard	5	Ret	6													14
9	Cleide do Nascimento		3														12
10	Danny Ramone	Ret	11	3													12
11	Rafael Modena	4	Ret	Ret													10
12	Shad Griffth	6	8	Ret													9
13	Fidrik Arnason	Ret	Ret	5													8
14	Nic Tooas	Ret	6	Ret													6
15	Natascha Zaugg	7	Ret	Ret													4
16	Massimiliano Patrese	7															4
17	Sam Pritchard	8	Ret	15†													3
18	Anna Gunnarsdottir	Ret	Ret	7													4
19	Deanna McMahon	9	Ret	10													3
20	Kim-Jong Sung	Ret	Ret	8													3
21	Antonio Bizarri		9†	Ret													2
22	Petrus Handoyo	10	Ret	Ret													2
23	Joe Gaera	Ret	Ret	12†													0
24	Bernard Leclercq	Ret	Ret	Ret													0
25	Jeice Swan	Ret	Ret	INJ	INJ	INJ											0
26	Joaquim Alcantara	Ret		Ret													0
27	Sabine Forestiur-Valerian	Ret	EX	16†													0
28	Carlos Marquez	Ret	Ret	11													0
29	Vic Sunset	Ret	Ret	14													0
30	Cameron Maroon	Ret	Ret	17†	INJ	INJ	INJ	INJ	INJ	INJ	INJ						0
31	Jean-Philippe Henri	Ret	Ret	13													0
32	Goker Peynirci	Ret	INJ	INJ													0
33	Satoru Kagawa	Ret	INJ	Ret													0
34	Javier Alverez		Ret														0
35	Torna Swan			Ret													0	36	Dennis Mignolet				Ret												0	37	Patrick Boon				Ret												0