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What would your team be called? Orange Downton-Pagani, (Main Sponsor, Team Name [Named after my surname, like Williams], and Engine Supplier)

Who would your biggest rival be? Whoever can get near us ;)

What would be your greatest success story? Front row lockout in our first ever race by over a second, then easy 1-2′s all year with the same level of dominance.

What would be your biggest failure? Having our drivers collide due to the lack of team orders.

What would your team be like personality wise (you know how Mclaren are branded as stale but corporate and Ferrari passionate but arrogant…) We would be very accessible to the fan’s, no matter how much or little money they have. We would race for and because of the fan’s, not the money.

What would your livery be like? Orange and Sky Blue, add some colour to the sport :P.

Who would be your main sponsor? Orange

Which big F1 name would be your loyal ally? Adrian Newey – Chief Designer

Which big F1 name would be your biggest enemy/rival? Whoever’s closest to us again, and their designer.

What sort of circuits would your car do well at? All of them :P aha, but mainly high downforce.

What secret weapon or device would your car have? Whatever Newey decides…

Which two drivers would you hire and why?
Driver 1: Lewis Hamilton – Great driver and with some calming, and fully focused on F1, he can do great things.
Driver 2: Bruno Senna – For the Senna name…, and i like him

Which reserve driver would you have?
Hmmm, tough one, Gary Paffett. He’s still relatively young to take over and really reliable as a test driver.

Which would be your favourite driver really?
Couldn’t choose, honest truth.

Would you use team orders and when?
Nope, drivers are to free to race. (But if they crash they’re fired :P )

Satsuma!

Who would your biggest rival be? – probably HRT. I don’t actually have any experience at this team leading stuff.

What would be your greatest success story? – we would have better crowd support than any other team (except Ferrari in Italy and Spain). We would do this by giving out free caps and t-shirts at every grand prix, and generally being happy and cherry folks. Oh, and being completely crazy :D

What would be your biggest failure? – points. We probably wouldn’t win very many.

What would your team be like personality wise weird, but… actually no, just weird.

What would your livery be like? Orange! We’d only have two sponsors: the ‘phone company, and a local market stall which sells fresh fruit each week in Southampton.

Who would be your main sponsor? – I’ve already answered that one. TRY to keep up ;)

Which big F1 name would be your loyal ally? – Eddie Jordan, he’d love us. And Red Bull, we’d look after some of their young drivers (God knows they’ve got enough).

Which big F1 name would be your biggest enemy/rival? – Luca Montezemolo. “Why can’t they take things *seriously?!*”

What sort of circuits would your car do well at? – Good question. We hope to find one before the end of the season. (I’d probably set it up for lots of downforce and great cornering ability. Racing happens at corners; straights are just the bits in between.)

What secret weapon or device would your car have? – Another good question! This is, of course, secret. But I’m sure we’ve got one.

Which two drivers would you hire and why? – I believe I mentioned Red Bull’s young driver program. Vergne, and Ricciardo.

Which reserve driver would you have? – The Mighty Quinn! No, not that one. Niall. We hired him because we liked his name… I don’t think he’s very happy about that.

Which would be your favourite driver really? – Jenson Button. We grew up in the same area. (I’d tell my drivers to let him by and hold up his rivals.)

Would you use team orders and when? Don’t just think switching positions but using both cars when they’re 1st and 2nd to block the road and stop anyone passing like Top Gear did a few years back. – F1 is a team sport. My drivers would be expected to recognise this and voluntarily let their team-mate past if their car had a problem. Alternatively, if they found themselves running next to each other, one might hold up the pack while the other accelerated away into the distance.

But if the two drivers were evenly-matched on the track, and neither of them was competing for the championship – well then, I’d expect a good old-fashioned battle, and the winner can share his champagne with the team.

And that’s all I can think of for now. Hopefully you’ll all enjoy this thread and hope you’re all having a good festive Xmas season so far :)

Happy Christmas :)

What would your team be called?
Super Nova Hot Racing Team.

Who would your biggest rival be?
Ferrari.

What would be your greatest success story?
Dominating the championship after the rule change 2014.

What would be your biggest failure?
Drivers crashing from a 1-2 because we didn’t use teamorders.

What would your team be like personality wise?
Proud, a bit cocky and over confident.

What would your livery be like?
Blue with some white.

Who would be your main sponsor?
Playstatian

Which big F1 name would be your loyal ally?
Charlie Wright

Which big F1 name would be your biggest enemy/rival?
Max Mosley.

What sort of circuits would your car do well at?
Monaco, Singapore, ect…

What secret weapon or device would your car have?
Super sized highly efficient brakes.

Which two drivers would you hire and why?
Sebastian Vettel and Nico Rosberg.

Which reserve driver would you have?
Pedro De La Rosa (experience)

Which would be your favourite driver really?
Both get equal treatment, but Rosberg is secretly slightly favored because I like him more.

Would you use team orders and when?
Only in the final 10 laps when both of our cars are in podium scoring positions.

What would your team be called? – Jaguar F1 (best car i ever had was a Jag and i think they need some success)

Who would your biggest rival be? – Red Bull since i see them being at the top for many years

What would be your greatest success story? – Getting a 1-2 from 23-24 on the grid with a mix of perfect strategy and an epic drive

What would be your biggest failure? – Over confidence

What would your team be like personality wise? – Fun, the party team to new heights

What would your livery be like? – British Racing Green, big silver jaguar on the side

Who would be your main sponsor? – Jaguar

Which big F1 name would be your loyal ally? – Newey obv

Which big F1 name would be your biggest enemy/rival? – Red Bull and McLaren

What sort of circuits would your car do well at? – the classics, Spa, Monza, Imola (recently added to the calender) Suzuka etc

What secret weapon or device would your car have? – Insane speed

Which two drivers would you hire and why? Vettel – for being impossible to dislike, and Hamilton, together they fight against Alonso and Vergne at Red Bull, Vettel has given Lewis some if his fun and consistancy, Lewis has given some aggressiveness to Vettel, perfect.

Which reserve driver would you have? – Paffet

Which would be your favourite driver really? – Lewis

Would you use team orders and when? Don’t just think switching positions but using both cars when they’re 1st and 2nd to block the road and stop anyone passing like Top Gear did a few years back. – No, both drivers have respect for each other and get along, so no need they just battle it out on track

Home race? – Silverstone

What would your team be called? QScrew ItGP

Who would your biggest rival be? Vodka and lasagna, perhaps a team

What would be your greatest success story? Winning both championships after having 50 crashes throughout the season

What would be your biggest failure? Running out of carbon fibre in the factory 5 times during the first 2 seasons due to traffic jams

What would your team be like personality wise (you know how Mclaren are branded as stale but corporate and Ferrari passionate but arrogant…)? We would open our motorhome to everyone, offer tickets to the fans that coudn’t afford them, and create the Screw The Richest Foundation, to take money from the richest of the world

What would your livery be like? Mostly yellow, with some red, dark green and blue parts

Who would be your main sponsor? IMF (yes, the International Monetary Fund. That would bring me a lot of money)

Which big F1 name would be your loyal ally? Charlie Whiting (some cheating involved)

Which big F1 name would be your biggest enemy/rival? Flavio Briatore

What sort of circuits would your car do well at? Circuits with a lot of fast corners. It would have so much rear downforce that we could even get rid of the rear wing at Monza.

What secret weapon or device would your car have? A paintball gun at the back, knives on both front wing endplates, blades on the wheels, a bowling ball firing machine at the airbox, etc.

Which two drivers would you hire and why? Sebastian Vettel (obvious reasons) and Fernando Alonso (because he can take the car to the podium even if it is crappy)

Which reserve driver would you have? If I may, I’ll have three: Jenson Button, Lewis Hamilton and Robert Kubica

Which would be your favourite driver really? Sebastian Vettel

Would you use team orders and when? I would use team orders to get the other cars out of the race. Like crashing into others (that’s why Charlie Whiting would be my ally) just as in video games when a race gets boring, making others crash like starting a race at the back only to push a car into other and cause a pile-up, spoiling pit stops by cutting the cables (with crashing cars) that connect the air guns to the air bottles, etc.

What would your team be called?
Original idea: Angels of Death – Racing
Until IKEA paid us a fiver and then it turned into: IKEA-GP

Who would your biggest rival be?
Hopefully HRT, but most likely the safety car and the barriers.

What would be your greatest success story?
Making it to the grid for our second race, with the biggest hangover ever after the saturday pre-race celebrations, which we just invented.

What would be your biggest failure?
Bringing the car to Jerez for our first test (which would be the last test day for anyone else), and then find out that we mixed up the dates, and all the others are lining up on the grid in Melbourne for the first race of the season.

What would your team be like personality wise (you know how Mclaren are branded as stale but corporate and Ferrari passionate but arrogant…)
Probably just very forgetful but charming in our own way. And always spying on the others, just to make it look like we know what we are doing, bringing a lot of cool looking laptops with us just to play bubble-shooter all day because we don’t know how to open the telemetry data. Never mind analysing it..

What would your livery be like?
Carbon black with shark-like teeth painted on the front wing. Was our original idea, until IKEA wanted us all yellow and blue..

Who would be your main sponsor?
IKEA and probably some pizzaria just down the road getting their name on the side if they deliver lunch for our design team.

Which big F1 name would be your loyal ally?
DC because he, as the only guy in F1, pretends to laugh with us, and not at us.

Which big F1 name would be your biggest enemy/rival?
Collin Colles for being an enormous p****, and being quicker then us..

What sort of circuits would your car do well at?
The pitlane! Just as quick as a Red Bull! Well if he exclude the actual pitstop that is..

What secret weapon or device would your car have?
Having a monkey throw bananas at the competitors.

Which two drivers would you hire and why?
Me, as I have loads of F1 experience from racing on my PS3, and surely that will make me qualify as a F1 driver. Might also have something to do with a tight budget, and no room for a driver we could actually pay.
Eddie Jordan! Because he has loads of potential as a grand prix driver, and because, by contract, he is allowed to act like a baboon publicly. Which was how we convinced him to try to have a go as a grand prix driver.
But as I spend too much time getting lost in roundabouts and mixing up left and right, Eddie will be the only driver we race for most of the time.

Which reserve driver would you have?
Who ever wanted to work for free of cause. Probably my grandmother, she don’t do much in the weekends anyway, and as a reserve driver for IKEA-Racing we promise loads of spare time at the race tracks to do patchwork. Martin Brundle would probably like some tips on that anyway.

Which would be your favourite driver really?
Possibly our lorry driver. Which is also me probably.
Who needs to pay for a guy to do that anyway?

Would you use team orders and when?
Who needs two cars on the track on the same time anyway?
That is just a waste of fuel. Sometimes people need to think a little more about others. The polar bears will probably get hot and sunburned if we keep wasting fuel like that.
A tight budget might also have something to with it, but that is a secret.

What would your team be called?
Ingram-Skoda F1 Engineering

Who would your biggest rival be?
Virgin

What would be your greatest success story?
Sensationally signing Juan Pablo Montoya

What would be your biggest failure?
Juan Pablo sensationally quitting the team when he was hit on the head. However he sensationally returns in 2 races time.

What would your team be like personality wise (you know how Mclaren are branded as stale but corporate and Ferrari passionate but arrogant…)
Lovable underdog

What would your livery be like?
Green with purple

Who would be your main sponsor?
We wouldn’t have one, I fund the team

Which big F1 name would be your loyal ally?
Bernie

Which big F1 name would be your biggest enemy/rival?
Horner – because our car broke down in front of Vettel and it caused Webber to win

What sort of circuits would your car do well at?
None

What secret weapon or device would your car have?
The ability to retire at least 1 car a race

Which two drivers would you hire and why?
Juan Pablo Montoya – All my earnings go to him
Whoever wants it

Which reserve driver would you have?
Can’t afford

Which would be your favourite driver really?
Juan Pablo

Would you use team orders and when? Don’t just think switching positions but using both cars when they’re 1st and 2nd to block the road and stop anyone passing like Top Gear did a few years back.

If both cars were close to finishing I’d tell them to try to crash