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	1-8
			Sam Sun	9-
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, 8-	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
			Dennis Mignolet	4
			Alik Mori	5-
HTMTRT	Life L190	76	Shigeru Hashimoto	1-6	Torna Swan
			Jeice Swan	7-
		78	Jeice Swan 2	1-2
			Torna Swan	3-
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, 3-8
			Javier Alverez	2
			Anna Gunnarsdottir	9-
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. Forestiur-Valerian then replaced by Anna Gunnarsdottir from round 9.
• 2 - Round 2, Jeice Swan was injured for 3 racet but then took 1 extra race rest before returning in #76 car due to Hashimoto moved to Formula Nippon and F3000. Torna Swan continue to drive at #78
• 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 for round 8 and beyond.

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	Natascha Zaugg	Kim-Jong Sung	Vic Sunset	Blokkmonsta Racing
6	May 5	Rejects-1 PIAA 日本グランプリー	Fuji Speedway, Oyama, Shizuoka, Japan	Mikhail Karimov	Mikhail Karimov	Archibald March	Rob Lomas Racing
7	May 18	Rejects-1 Magneti Marelli 240k Gran Premio d’Italia	Autodromo di Pergusa, Sicily, Italy	Archibald March	Algernon Bell	Algernon Bell	Ursus Racing
8	June 12	Rejects-1 Total SuperPrix de France - Sprint 50 km	Circuit de La Sarthe, Le Mans, France	Archibald March	Archibald March	Archibald March	Rob Lomas Racing
9	June 14	Rejects-1 Total SuperPrix de France - SuperPrix 400 km		Mikhail Karimov	Natascha Zaugg	Bernard Leclercq	Buoygues Telecom EBL
10	June 30	Rejects-1 British Grand Prix	Donington Park, Leicestershire, England
11	July 14	Rejects-1 Bosch Großer Preis von Deutschland	Hockenheimring, Hockenheim, Germany
12	July 21	Rejects-1 Artic Circle Norge Grand Prix	Artic Circle Raceway, Mo I Rana, Norway
13	August 4	Rejects-1 Gillet Grand Prix de Belgique	Circuit National de Spa-Francorchamps, Spa, Belgium
14	August 18	Rejects-1 A1 Großer Preis von Österreich	A1 Ring, Spielberg, Austria
15	August 24	Rejects-1 Groot Prys van Suid-Afrika	Kyalami Circuit, Gauteng, South Africa
	September 20	Rejects-1 Garuda Grand Prix Indonesia Sprint 40 km	Sirkuit Internasional Sentul, Bogor, Indonesia	CANCELLED
16	September 1	Rejects-1 Garuda Grand Prix Indonesia GP 210 km
17	September 22	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 is still same for each 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	GER	NOR	BEL	AUT	SAF	INA	CAN	Pts.
1	Archibald March	2	1	Ret	13†	Ret	1	Ret	1	Ret									69
2	Vic Sunset	Ret	Ret	14	2	1	Ret	15	3	2									65
3	Julio Vaca	3	4	18†	1	Ret	7	10	Ret	10†									55
4	Mikhail Karimov	1	Ret	Ret	Ret	2	3	Ret	2	Ret									55
5	Algernon Bell	Ret	5	4	Ret	8	12	1	4	Ret									45
6	Danny Ramone	Ret	11	3	9†	7	4	3	13	12†									45
7	Bernard Leclercq	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	4	Ret	Ret	10	1									40
8	Pjotr Madunochev	Ret	10	1	12	10	Ret	4	9	11†									38
9	Joaquim Alcantara	Ret		Ret	3	6		Ret	Ret	6†									34
10	Shad Griffth	6	8	Ret	5	Ret	9	Ret	11	7†									33
11	Patrick Boon				Ret	Ret	Ret	5	Ret	3									30
12	Natascha Zaugg	7	Ret	Ret	7	Ret	2	13	8	Ret									25
13	Sam Pritchard	8	Ret	15†	Ret	9	Ret	2	5†	15									24
14	Mark Albertson	Ret	2	9	14	Ret	Ret	8	16	14†									23
15	Jean-Philippe Henri	Ret	Ret	13	4	5	8	Ret	7	16†									22
16	Kim-Jong Sung	Ret	Ret	8	6†	Ret	11	Ret	17	8†									22
17	Shigeru Hashimoto	Ret	Ret	2	Ret	Ret	6												21
18	Fidrik Arnason	Ret	Ret	5	Ret	Ret	5	7	6	Ret									21
19	Sam Sun									4									20
20	Alik Mori					Ret	Ret	Ret	15	5									18
21	Marky Howard	5	Ret	6	8	Ret	Ret	11†	Ret	Ret									17
22	Deanna McMahon	9	Ret	10	Ret	3	10	12	19	Ret									16
23	Cleide do Nascimento		3				Ret												12
24	Anna Gunnarsdottir	Ret	Ret	7						9†									12
25	Rafael Modena	4	Ret	Ret	11	11	Ret	Ret	Ret	12	Ret								10
26	Torna Swan			Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	6	Ret	13†									10
27	Nic Tooas	Ret	6	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	14	Ret									6
28	Massimiliano Patrese		7																4
29	Antonio Bizarri		9†	Ret															2
30	Petrus Handoyo	10	Ret	Ret					Ret	Ret									2
31	Sabine Forestiur-Valerian	Ret	EX	16†	Ret	Ret	Ret	9	Ret										2
32	Carlos Marquez	Ret	Ret	11	10	Ret	Ret	16	18	Ret									1
33	Joe Gaera	Ret	Ret	12†	Ret	Ret	Ret	14	20										0
34	Jeice Swan	Ret	Ret	INJ	INJ	INJ		Ret	Ret	Ret									0
35	Cameron Maroon	Ret	Ret	17†	INJ	INJ	INJ	INJ	INJ	INJ	INJ								0
36	Goker Peynirci	Ret	INJ	INJ															0
37	Satoru Kagawa	Ret	INJ	Ret															0
38	Dennis Mignolet				Ret														0
39	Javier Alverez		Ret																0