rFR World F1 League Season #8 Preview

Getting ready for rFR Season 8. We will be using FSOne2008 mod. 30 drivers are signed up and attendance will be high during the opening races, so it will be tough to score points. Maybe later in the season, with more experience with the car I can finish a race in the top ten.  Looks to be a fight between Ferrari, Mclaren, and Renault for the Team Championship. BMW and Toyota are also strong teams. Jaguar and Super Aguri both have top ten drivers in one of their cars. New drivers coming in and returning drivers coming back, so it will be a mixup in the midfield and with us backmarkers.

Teams and drivers of Season 8 (sorted by driver number):

BMW

#19 - Arek
#44 - Wez


Ferrari

#1 - Tom McKay
#7 - Sven


Force India

#15 - Mario Gotze
#99 - Geoff


Honda

#24 - George Ratchis
#36 - Egikhan


Jaguar

#4 - Mattie Redford
#66 - Alex Hill


McLaren

#2 - Joe McLaggen
#11 - Sexy Brigadeiro


Red Bull

#20 - Jese Rodriguez
#77 - DenReus


Renault

#27 - Antonio Hreljanovic
#69 - Adrian S Shole


Super Aguri

#23 - Crystakke
#42 - Alaster


Torro Rosso

#9 - Mike Henry Jr.
#78 - Blackfox


Toyota

#5 - Lau
#14 - Denis_Belarus


Williams

#12 - Juan Caires
#40 - Richard Allen




Reserves (drivers with RFR car)
#13 - Bober Belarus
#47 - Jure Pazin
#54 - Rock
#71 - Deadfish
#74 - Cueball
#76 - Rory Collins

rFR Season 8 will feature 18 races. Watch out for Jacarepagua 1988, I don't think I've ever raced there before. And later in the season it's Sebring. I have run there before in the GTs and LMPs. I wonder what it is like to race F1 cars there. Might be too bumpy. Some old classics to look forward to: Indy, Imola, and Magny Cours. The dreaded Monaco and the favorite A1 Ring are also scheduled.

 A new season and everybody is back to zero points. After two seasons in this league I think I have established myself as a "the fastest of the slow guys" and an occasional points scorer. Right now in testing, I'm about 3 seconds a lap behind the leaders. I think I can find maybe 1 more second. With any luck, my teammate will lend me some of his magical setups. After the troubles of the previous season, I can only improve.

rFactor Racers World F1 League Season #7 Review

What a terrible season that was for me. With some DNS because of connection problems and points awarded only to the top ten finishers, my final tally is mere 4 points. My only consolation; if it was top 15 to score, I still would have scored points every race I entered. Anyway, there will be a new mod for Season #8 and maybe I have a chance to move up the pecking order with some good performances.

Congrats to Tom McKay, Driver's Champion and a season of domination. Congrats to Mercedes Team. Thanks to all participating drivers and to all the admins.