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The Formula 1 Rejects World Race Series (F1RWRS) is an offline gaming competition on the F1 Rejects Forum created by the Zimmer brothers and currently run by Daniel Prieto. To date, five seasons have been completed with pre-season testing about to begin for 2015. 2014 was also the first season which was run in conjunction with the F2RWRS and the F3RWRS, the official feeder categories of the series.

History

Early Years: 2010-2012

The series was formed after the 2009 Formula One season when Frank Zimmer was under pressure from the Brawn F1 team, who eventually fired him before the season came to a close. He, along with older brother John and the help of several disgruntled manufacturers, frustrated at the way Formula One was being run, formed the series as a cheaper alternative to Formula One as the premier International Open Wheeler category. The series quickly gained a reputation as a series to watch as several ex-Formula One drivers joined the series as drivers, most notably three time world champion Daniel Melrose and British veteran Sammy Jones. In all 19 drivers in 10 teams competed in the inaugural season. Melrose was later replaced by fellow world champion Chris Dagnall as he was forced to sit out while recovering from dental surgery before eventually deciding to focus on securing his fifth Formula One championship. After a closely fought out season the championship was won by Gary Cameron despite having not won a race all season.

2011 was all change for the series in terms of team and driver lineups with the most significant changes being Sammy Jones creating his own team with himself and Dagnall as drivers and Holden entering the series with John Zimmer. The mid-season also brought many changes with it. On the championship front it was a punch-counter punch battle between defending F1 champ Melrose and British driver Nathanael Spencer where both drivers took the initiative at different points of the season. In the end Spencer won the title when neither driver scored points at the season ending race at Laguna Seca. This marked the last time any of the 10 founding teams from 2010 won either championship.

2012 turned out to be the final season to be run under the original F1 Rejects Council based in Sydney. Another former Formula One World Champion in the form of Chris Dagnall was in the hunt for the championship along with German Kay Lon and another British driver in Pippa Mann. The championship battle remained tight amongst the three drivers before Mann won it with a 4th place at the season ending Budweiser 500, a race won by her stablemate in the Mann Racing fraternity Hagane Shizuka. The "Bud 500" has since become the marque race of the season. The F1RWRS scored another major coup over Formula One in the meantime as they managed to snare the defending F1 champ for the second year in a row, this time in the form of four time champion Rhys Davies.

Revolution and Reform: 2013-Present

Halfway through 2012 there was a notion to move the F1 Rejects Council to Europe, specifically Madrid, Spain with new F1RC president Daniel Prieto. Prieto brought in many reforms designed to consolidate the F1RWRS as the fastest growing motorsport category anywhere in the world. Furthermore, Prieto put the F1RWRS under the control of a new controlling entity, the F1RWRS Commission, also under his lead. The reforms, the technical regulations especially, were met with criticism, particularly from Sammy Jones but they were met with praise as well from the likes of Melrose, Dagnall and HRT boss Mark Skaife. On track the Dagnall Engineering team, formed from the remains of Jones Racing dominated proceedings in the race despite not being quite on the pace in qualifying. Mark Dagnall, son of Chris, won the championship after a record breaking season as the new regulations increased the gap between the front and the back of the field substantially. The season was marred by the death of Scotsman Dave McFaste at the Chinese Grand Prix after a mid-race accident. For this season the "Bud 500" was a non-championship race where drivers were now competing for the Dan Wheldon Memorial Trophy, in honour of two-time Indianapolis 500 winner Dan Wheldon. Former F1 Driver Jack Christopherson won the race in his first ever drive in the series after the Foxdales hit problems, a common theme for the Foxdale squad over the course of the year.

2014 saw the revival of Melrose Racing Team after the team had a horrific 2013 season. Despite continual problems with the all new BMW turbo engine, the M5 was the team to beat with Nathanael Spencer and Dagnall amongst a whole raft of early contenders as the two Englishman tried to become the first ever repeat champion in the series. As the season progressed, Spencer fell out of championship contention and out of favour with the team as it eventually became a straight two-horse fight between Dagnall and Spencer's teammate Phillippe Nicolas. The title was eventually won by Dagnall in the penultimate race of the season, making him the first repeat champion in the process. Off-track and the teams formed the Formula 1 Rejects Teams Association, initially led by caretaker president Daniel Melrose before Jones Racing boss Sammy Jones was voted in almost unanimously by the team owners at the German GP. The F1RTA was formed as the team's united voice on issues concerning the F1RWRS and the rules and regulations of the series. A new trophy was also announced during the off-season with the Dave McFaste Cup now awarded to the winner of the Chinese Grand Prix, in honour of McFaste who was killed at the race the previous year. The Bud 500 for 2014 was re-formatted into two twin 250 mile races in order to improve the spectacle and to better accommodate the F2RWRS season finale. The changes however didn't stop Jack Christopherson winning his second straight Bud 500 for Jones Racing and the Dan Wheldon Memorial Trophy for the second year in a row.

The build-up to the 2015 was filled with even more rule changes and reforms in order to level up the playing field, including the banning of turbocharged and supercharged engines. Many of the changes meant that the pre-season title race suddenly opened up with names such as Gillet ENB and Jones Racing, now the official Ford works team, being thrown up as possible title contenders.

List of champions

Drivers'

Season	Driver	Team	Wins	Podiums	Points
2010	Gary Cameron	Team Calinetic	0	3	53
2011	Nathanael Spencer	Prospec	2	5	71
2012	Pippa Mann	Anglo-Manx Racing	2	4	87
2013	Mark Dagnall	Dagnall Engineering	7	8	74
2014	Mark Dagnall	DGNineering	5	9	72

Constructors'

Season	Team	Drivers	Wins	Podiums	Points
2010	Prospec	Nathanael Spencer David Koczo	3	6	95
2011	Prospec	Nathanael Spencer David Koczo	3	9	117
2012	Anglo-Manx Racing	Pippa Mann James Davies	3	6	122
2013	Dagnall Engineering	Chris Dagnall Mark Dagnall	9	12	106
2014	DGNineering	Mark Dagnall Nathan Scott Ben Fleet Hansuke Shioya	5	11	88

An * denotes the current season.

Trophies

Dan Wheldon Memorial Trophy
Awarded to the Winner of the F1RWRS Indianapolis 500

Season	Driver	Team
2012†	Hagane Shizuka	Manx-Anglo-Nippon Racing Team
2013	Jack Christopherson	Jones Racing
2014	Jack Christopherson	Jones Racing

Dave McFaste Memorial Cup
Awarded to the Winner of the Chinese Grand Prix

Season	Driver	Team
2010†	Dave Simpson	JLD Motorsport
2011†	David Koczo	Prospec
2012†	Luca Pacchiarini	Pacchia-Coswojuddhartlambo
2013†	Chris Dagnall	Dagnall Engineering
2014	Mark Dagnall	DGNineering

• † - Awarded retroactively

Giovanni Lavaggi Trophy
Awarded to the Driver who has the most fastest laps in a season

Season	Driver	Team	Fastest Laps
2010	Nathanael Spencer	Prospec	3
2011	Daniel Melrose Barii Mori	JLD Motorsport Team Phoenix	3
2012	Chris Dagnall Rhys Davies Dave Simpson	Jones Racing Holden F1RWRS Racing Team Australian Minardi	2
2013	Mark Dagnall Shinobu Katayama	Dagnall Engineering Sunshine Infiniti	3 1/2
2014	Mark Dagnall	DGNgineering	6

See Also

• List of Formula 1 Rejects World Race Series Drivers
• List of Formula 1 Rejects World Race Series Teams
• List of Formula 1 Rejects World Race Series Records