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.

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	TBA	5	Pippa Mann	1-	TBA
					6	Nicolas Steele	1-
Gillet Ecurie Nationale Belge	Gillet ENB	ENB116	Gillet GV10-B	TBA	7	Thomas De Bock	1-	Laurent Seron
					8	Aurelien Moll	1-
Foxdale Auto Racing Team	Foxdale	F1-5	TBA	TBA	9	Martin McFry	1-	Jordan Davies Peter Port
					10	Ben Fleet	1-
ArrowTech-Acuri Autosport	ArrowTech	AT-06	TBA	TBA	11	Mirko Bosevic	1-	TBA
					12	Phillippe Nicolas	1-
/ Kamaha Motorsports	Kamaha	KM-7	TBA	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	TBA	23	Frank Zimmer	1-	Carter Simpson Daniel Melville
					24	Douglas Mann	1-
Tropico Grand Prix powered by CR Motorsport	Tropico	TGP003	TBA	TBA	25	Danny van Rijkens	1-	Tristan Jung Samora Mondlane
					26	Renaldo Jiménez	1-3
						Alberto Cara	4-
Scuderia Alitalia	Alitalia	SA-15B	Lancia 016/1	TBA	27	David Koczo	1-	Nathanael Spencer Collin Pratchett
					28	Ron Mignolet	1-
/ Revolution Engineering	Revolution	HS16	TBA	TBA	29	Shinobu Katayama	1-	Marie Simon
					30	Hagane Shizuka	1-
Mecha Grand Prix	Mecha	FM-16	TBA	TBA	31	Renaldo Jiménez	4-	Hendra Naufal Dave Anderson
					32	Nathan Scott	1-
Gulf Simpson Motorsports	Simpson	GSM-020	TBA	TBA	33	Michael Cameron	1-	Dave Simpson
					34	Du Lei	1-
/ Red Bull Autodynamics GP	Autodynamics	AGP16	TBA	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 fellow Tropican Renaldo Jiménez

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.

Unsigned drivers

• David Neuberg has not currently signed with Kingfisher and may get signed by HRT.
  
• Tomislaw Tajner is unlikely to be resigned by Dofasco and looks likely to leave the series at the end of the season.
  
• Markus Van de Schoot is unlikely to be resigned by Dofasco and looks likely to leave the series at the end of the season.
  
• Dave Simpson would like to retire, but is looking for decent drivers for Simpson.
  
• Gia Van Dycke is a free agent but looks unlikely to be signed for 2016.
  
• Phil McCracken is a free agent but looks very unlikely to be signed for 2016.
  
• Sebastian Groves is a free agent but looks like signing again as a reserve driver for 2016.
  
• Daniel Melrose is likely to retire from F1RWRS to go to state side.
  
• Du Lei is currently racing for Kamaha and has been impressive, however has no interest from teams so far and was dropped by Prospec as their third driver.
  

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