Difference between revisions of "2014 Superleague season"

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2014 Superleague season

Competition	Superleague
Title Sponsor	TBA
Platform Used	rFactor v1.255
Rounds	TBA
Mod base	TBA
Carshape base	F1 Based
Engine Supplier(s)	TBA
Tyre Supplier(s)	GPVWC
Drivers	-
Teams	14
Drivers' Champion
Teams' Champion
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The 2014 Superleague season will be the 15th GPVWC Superleague season.

Teams and drivers

The following teams have confirmed their 2014 participation.

Superleague Team	Base	Constructor	Chassis	Engine	Tyre	No.	Race Drivers	Rounds	No.	Test/Reserve Driver(s)
SimCraft Midnight Motorsport	Manchester, England	Midnight			G	1			31
						2
Nijo Racing	Nantwich, England	Nijo			G	3	Tom van der Voort		32
						4
Torrent Motorsports	Columbus, OH	Torrent			G	5	Jim Parisis		33	Adam Rouse
						6	Petter Kaasa
Nordsjøen Racing	Cardiff, Wales	Nordsjoen			G	7			34
						8
Hawkeye Racing	Kendal, England	Hawkeye			G	9			35
						10
Red Archer Virtual Racing Team	Rethymno, Greece	Red Archer			G	11			36
						12
Kernow Sport	St.Austell, England	Kernow			G	14			37
						15
Woods Racing	Southampton, England	Woods			G	16			38
						17
Phoenix F1	Gold Coast, Australia	Phoenix			G	18			39
						19
Green Stripes Racing	Muehlen, Germany	Green Stripes			G	20			40
						21
ST Racing	Chandler's Ford, England	ST			G	22	Calvin Hermse		41
						23
CSG Racing	Manchester, England	CSG			G	24	Lewis Redshaw		42	Florian Geier
						25	David Fidock
Target Racing	Oslo, Norway	Target			G	26			43
						27
Vod:Bul Racing	Liverpool, England	Vod:Bul			G	28			44
						29

Team changes

• Halcyon Racing, after retiring from the 2013 Superleague season following the Belgian Grand Prix, chose not to re-apply for 2014.
• Constant Racing, after serving five years in the Superleague, also chose not to re-apply after a troubled 2013 season.

New entries

The number of team entries increased to 14 for the 2014 Superleague season with 3 spots available for new teams. All three new entries were promoted from the Supercup.

• CSG Racing returned to the Superleague after a 3 year break and were accepted after storming to the 2013 Supercup season Teams' Championship.
• Target Racing also were promoted to the Superleague after a strong campaign in the 2013 Supercup season which saw them take four wins.
• Vod:Bul Racing, though finishing mid-table in the 2013 Supercup season, proved their worth by fielding a solid line-up to every race and taking multiple podiums. The team was expected to show this same commitment to the Superleague.

Rule changes

Technical

• 2014 will see the introduction of the Kinetic Energy Recovery System (KERS). KERS would allow drivers a new level of strategy when lapping providing limited additional accelerative power at the driver's discretion. The KERS battery is fully recharged every lap.
• A brand new engine limit will be imposed; eight being the maximum amount of engines one car can use. If a ninth engine or more were to be used, then a penalty would be handed to the driver using the car. As a consequence of this rule change, reliability will become a new option for engine manufacturers to upgrade.
• R&D will see a massive overhaul seeing the progression system change from a 10-step model to a 1-100% model.

Sporting

• Official Free Practice sessions will now be limited to Race Drivers only with no R&D points to be gained during the session. Instead, R&D points and eRD points can be earned on a separate server to be used exclusively by Test Drivers in their own 30 minute session during the race evening.
• In-season testing has been removed from the Superleague schedule.
• Pre-season testing will now enforce a cap on mileage and the freedom of personal team testing programmes during pre-season testing.
• All costs and gains - of R&D points and for fuel - will be based now on mileage, not laps.
• All teams have the option of buying 2013-spec engines for a reduced price to 2014-spec. The advantage of these engines will be better initial reliability. However, the main disadvantage to the 2013-spec engines will be that they will not get upgraded like the 2014-specs.
• An expansion of the personnel system will see the ability to add different ranges of staff to different areas. The ability to 'max out' staff has been prohibited however to prevent a major gap between teams in terms of creativity of personnel.
• 'Hospitality' will be a new area to the Managerial system. Teams will be able to host up to three big events and four medium or small hospitality events (in addition to the standard marketing operations) to attract new sponsors: these will result in the gain of Marketing Points to be used in the 2015 sponsorship negotiations.