2016 Formula 1 Rejects World Race Series season

2016 Formula 1 Rejects World Race Series
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The 2016 Formula 1 Rejects World Race Series season will be the seventh season of the F1RWRS. It will also include the F1RWRS' 100th race in Belgium.

Drivers and teams

Team	Constructor	Chassis	Engine	Tyre	#	Race Drivers	Rounds	Test Driver(s)
/ Virgin Melrose Racing Team	MRT	M7	BMW P90/16		1	Mark Dagnall	1-	Franc Piscine Jason Hamilton Daniel Melrose
					2	Kay Lon	1-
Castrol Jones Ford Team	Jones	CJR-105	Ford Zetec XR8B	TBA	3	Rhys Davies	1-	Terry Hawkin
					4	Rosco Vantini	1-
Aeroracing Engineering	Aeroracing	ARE01-2	Audi AF1-4		5	Pippa Mann	1-	Marko Jantscher
					6	Nicolas Steele	1-
Gillet Ecurie Nationale Belge	Gillet ENB	ENB116	Gillet GV11		7	Thomas De Bock	1-	Laurent Seron
					8	Aurelien Moll	1-
Foxdale Auto Racing Team	Foxdale	F1-5	TBA		9	Martin McFry	1-	Jordan Davies Peter Port
					10	Ben Fleet	1-
ArrowTech-Acuri Autosport	ArrowTech	AT-06	TBA		11	Mirko Bosevic	1-	TBA
					12	Phillippe Nicolas	1-
/ Kamaha Motorsports	Kamaha	KM-7	TBA		13	Nathan McKane	1-	Victoria Desai Barii Mori
					14	Tomo Kazama	1-
Sunshine Daihatsu	Sunshine	SD-02	Daihatsu Zeetec-R1/16	TBA	15	Daniel Martins	1-	Yuka Katayama
					16	James Davies	1-
Boxtel Engineering	Boxtel	BOX-016	TBA	TBA	17	Andrea Battani	1-	TBA
					18	Jari Kekkonen	1-
Kingfisher Racing	Kingfisher	KR-03	TBA	TBA	19	David Neuberg	1-	TBA
					20	Barii Mori	1-
Pemberton Prospec Racing	Prospec	PPR-03	TBA	TBA	21	Fredo Mestolio	1-	Martyn Rietacher
					22	Mitchell Macklin	1-
Mobil Holden Racing Team	Holden	HRT-006	Holden LSF1-16		23	Frank Zimmer	1-	Carter Simpson Daniel Melville
					24	Douglas Mann	1-
Tropico Grand Prix powered by CR Motorsport	Tropico	TGP003	TBA	File:Goodride Icon.jpg	25	Danny van Rijkens	1-	Tristan Jung Samora Mondlane
					26	Yuka Katayama	1-2
						TBA	3
						Alberto Cara	4-
Scuderia Alitalia	Alitalia	SA-15B	Lancia 016/1		27	David Koczo	1-	Nathanael Spencer Collin Pratchett
					28	Ron Mignolet	1-
/ Revolution Engineering	Revolution	HS16	TBA		29	Shinobu Katayama	1-	Marie Simon
					30	Hagane Shizuka	1-
Mecha Grand Prix	Mecha	FM-16	TBA		31	Renaldo Jiménez	1-	Hendra Naufal Dave Anderson
						Dave Anderson	6-8
					32	Nathan Scott	1-
Gulf Simpson Motorsports	Simpson	GSM-020	TBA	TBA	33	Michael Cameron	1-	Dave Simpson
					34	Dave Simpson	1-2
						Du Lei	3-
/ Red Bull Autodynamics GP	Autodynamics	AGP16	TBA		35	Jean-Vincent Albertini	1-	Damon Cannon Miko Fäkkinen
					36	Jean-Luc Schiller	1-
Dofasco Lukoil Racing	Dofasco	DR 03	TBA	TBA	37	Alexey Buyvolov	1-	TBA
					38	TBA	1-
Alstom Equipe Gauthier	Gauthier	GF1.16	TBA	TBA	39	Jesus Plaza	1-	Benoît Voeckler
					40	Hansuke Shioya	1-

Driver and team changes

Teams

• DGNgineering announced that they would be leaving F1RWRS to form a team in F1.
• Equipe Gauthier took DGNgineering's place, signing Jesus Plaza and Hansuke Shioya.

Drivers

New drivers

• Kamaha have signed Nathan McKane, who finished 2nd in the 2015 Rejects of LFS season and current F2RWRS champion Tomo Kazama.
  
• Tropico have signed current F2RWRS driver Alberto Cara. Due to his ban recieved in the F2RWRS Indianapolis event, Cara will not be allowed to race for the first 3 events of 2016, and will be replaced by Yuka Katayama for the first two rounds, and an unannounced driver for the next one. The team was supposed to run fellow Tropican Renaldo Jiménez but he was signed to Mecha Grand Prix.
• Because Jiménez is participating in the Siemens Ausdauer Reject Series, Dave Anderson will replace Jiménez during the Canadian and the American rounds, in which Jiménez cannot participate due to scheduling conflicts.

Retirements

• Barii Mori, announced his retirement but has been entered as a reserve driver for Kamaha.
  
• Sammy Jones retired after the 2015 Italian GP.
  
• Saeed Al Faisal after being the only driver so far to qualify the Simpson car was offered a year contract. However he is still undecided.
• John Zimmer, and David Koczo will retire at the end of 2015.
  
• Free agents, Darren Older Jr, Jack Christopherson have not announced their retirements from F1RWRS but their ages mean they are unlikely to get a seat.

Races

The provisonal calendar was annouced on the 15 September 2015 with the current version being announced on the 22 January 2016. This year will see the 100th race in the history of the Formula 1 Rejects World Race Series which is to be held at the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps

Race	Track	Date	Pole position	Fastest lap	Winning driver	Winning constructor	Reject of the Race	Driver of the Race
Australian Grand Prix	Adelaide Street Circuit	20 March
New South Wales Grand Prix	Mount Panorama Circuit	27 March
British Grand Prix	Brands Hatch	17 April
Italian Grand Prix	Autodromo Nazionale Monza	1 May
Austrian Grand Prix	Red Bull Ring	15 May
Canadian Grand Prix	Circuit Gilles Villeneuve	29 May
Southern US Grand Prix	Long Beach Street Circuit	5 June
Northern US Grand Prix	Road America	19 June
German Grand Prix	Norisring	10 July
North Sea Grand Prix	Circuit Park Zandvoort	24 July
Monaco Grand Prix	Circuit de Monaco	4 September
Belgian Grand Prix	Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps	18 September
Mexican Grand Prix	Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez	2 October
Argentine Grand Prix	Autodromo Juan y Oscar Galvez	9 October
Chinese Grand Prix	Guia Circuit	30 October
Japanese Grand Prix	Fuji Speedway	6 November

Standings

Driver's Championship

Pos Driver AUS NSW GBR ITA AUT CAN SUS NUS GER NSE MON BEL MEX ARG CHN JPN Pts

Key Colour Result Gold Winner Silver 2nd place Bronze 3rd place Green Points finish Blue Non-points finish Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Did not finish (Ret) Orange Did not qualify (DNQ) Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ) Black Disqualified (DSQ) Pale Blue Withdrawn (WD) Blank Did Not Enter (No text) Excluded (EX) Did not Start (DNS) Did not Arrive (DNA) Event cancelled (C) Injured (INJ) Bold denotes pole position Italics denote fastest lap † Classification despite retirement ‡ Race not run to scheduled distance

Constructor's Championship

Pos	Constructor	#	AUS	NSW	GBR	ITA	AUT	CAN	SUS	NUS	GER	NSE	MON	BEL	MEX	ARG	CHN	JPN	Pts

Pre-Qualifying Cup

Pos	Team	AUS	NSW	GBR	ITA	AUT	CAN	SUS	NUS	GER	NSE	MON	BEL	MEX	ARG	CHN	JPN	Pts

Harvey Jones Memorial Trophy

Pos	Tyre Manufacturer	AUS	NSW	GBR	ITA	AUT	CAN	SUS	NUS	GER	NSE	MON	BEL	MEX	ARG	CHN	JPN	Pts