2016 Formula 1 Rejects World Race Series season

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	TBA	TBA		Mark Dagnall	1-	Franc Piscine
						TBA	1-
Castrol Jones Racing F1RWRS Team	Jones	CJR-105	TBA	TBA		Rosco Vantini	1-	Terry Hawkin
						Rhys Davies	1-
Gillet Ecurie Nationale Belge	Gillet ENB	ENB116	TBA	TBA		Aurelien Moll	1-	Laurent Seron
						Thomas De Bock	1-
Aeroracing Engineering	Aeroracing	TBA	TBA	TBA		Pippa Mann	1-	TBA
						The Stig	1-
Foxdale Auto Racing Team	Foxdale	TBA	TBA	TBA		TBA	1-	Jordan Davies Peter Port
						TBA	1-
Boxtel Engineering	Boxtel	TBA	TBA	TBA		Andrea Battani	1-	TBA
						Jari Kekkonen	1-
/ Kamaha Motorsports	Kamaha	KM-7	TBA	TBA		Nathan McKane	1-	Victoria Desai
						Tomo Kazama	1-
Kingfisher Racing	Kingfisher	KR-03	TBA	TBA		TBA	1-	TBA
						TBA	1-
Sunshine Daihatsu	Sunshine	TBA	TBA	TBA		TBA	1-	Yuka Katayama
						Daniel Martins	1-
ArrowTech-Acuri Autosport	ArrowTech	TBA	TBA	TBA		TBA	1-	TBA
						TBA	1-
Valvoline Holden Racing Team	Holden	HRT-006	Holden LSF1-16	TBA		Frank Zimmer	1-	Carter Simpson Daniel Melville
						TBA	1-
Pemberton Prospec Racing	Prospec	TBA	TBA	TBA		Fredo Mestolio	1-	Du Lei
						TBA	1-
/ Revolution Engineering	Revolution	TBA	TBA	TBA		Shinobu Katayama	1-	Marie Simon
						Hagane Shizuka	1-
Mecha Grand Prix	Mecha	TBA	TBA	TBA		Steven Mackintosh	1-	Hendra Naufal Dave Anderson
						Jean-Luc Schiller	1-
Scuderia Alitalia	Alitalia	SA-15B	Lancia 016/1	TBA		TBA	1-	Nathanael Spencer
						Ron Mignolet	1-
Tropico Grand Prix powered by CR Motorsport	Tropico	TGP003	TBA	TBA		Alberto Cara	1-	Tristan Jung Samora Mondlane
						Danny van Rijkens	1-
/ Red Bull Autodynamics GP	Autodynamics	TBA	TBA	TBA		Damon Cannon	1-	Dean O'Lauchlan
						Miko Fäkkinen	1-
Gulf Simpson Motorsports	Simpson	TBA	TBA	TBA		TBA	1-	TBA
						TBA	1-
Dofasco Lukoil Racing	Dofasco	TBA	TBA	TBA		Alexey Buyvolov	1-	TBA
						TBA	1-
TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA	39	TBA	1-	TBA
					40	TBA	1-

Driver and team changes

Teams

• DGNgineering announced that they would be leaving F1RWRS to go into F1 to help Ferrari.

Drivers

New drivers

• Kamaha have signed current RoLFS leader Nathan McKane.
  
• Tropico have signed current F2RWRS driver Alberto Cara.

Retirements

• Sammy Jones, John Zimmer, Saeed Al Faisal 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.
  
• James Davies has not currently signed with Sunshine but is expected to do so.
  
• Phillippe Nicolas has not currently signed with Kingfisher but is expected to do so.
  
• Nicolas Steele has not currently signed with Kamaha, but currently is under pressure to perform.
  
• Barii Mori has not confirmed his driver with Kamaha is looking hard at Steele and the drivers marker in general.
  
• Ben Fleet has not been retained by Alitalia for 2016 but is linked to Foxdale.
  
• Mirko Bosevic is one of the oldest drivers in the paddock and may not be resigned by Arrowtech.
  
• 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.
  
• Mitchell Macklin has been struggling with strugglers Simpson and is likely to be resigned.
  
• Dave Simpson would like to retire, but is looking for decent drivers for Simpson.
  
• Jesus Plaza has interest from Arrowtech and other teams.
  
• 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.
  

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