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Monday, December 21, 2009

HAPPY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR

HAPPY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL FORMULAWAN PLAYERS!

The Formulawan Team wishes you lots of happiness, joy and games!


Our Reporter team is having a break during the winter!

The Gazette will be back on Tuesday_5 January 2010!


HAVE A GOOD TIME AND SEE YOU VERY SOON!

The next big Formulawan Event will be there...

Monday, December 14, 2009

For german fans!

Heute: SpeedMaster (Valkyr-Racing)
Als Valkyr-Racing-Fahrer hat man es sicherlich nicht leicht. SpeedMaster ist schon so lange im Team, aber die großen Erfolge blieben aus. Dies sollte sich jetzt ändern. Also meldete man den Fahrer beim Winterturnier an.



Starker Saisonstart
Die Meisterschaft begann auch genauso wie erhofft. Poleposition in Monastic und die zweitbeste Zeit der Liga (ohne Nachholrennen) bescherten SpeedMaster einen ersten 10er. Auch wenn er nur sich nur knapp gegen den starken Riku Miyugasaku durchsetzen konnte, so konnte doch niemand ahnen, dass dies das einzigste mal sein würde.
Auf Alaska sah man schon, dass der Valkyr-Bolide nicht den überlegenden Speed vergangener Tage hatte, jedoch spielte der Routenier seine ganze Erfahrung unter den schwiergen Bedingungen aus und erkämpfte sich einmal mehr einen hauchdünnen Sieg und war damit alleiniger Tabellenführer!

Zuerst Pannen
Allerdings sollten diese 2 Siege auch die Highlights einer ansonsten schwachen Meisterschaft werden. 4 Punkte verschenkte das Team durch das Nicht-Antreten in Norwegian. Denn im 1. Lauf wäre SpeedMaster unschlagbar gewesen, doch stattdessen holte El Ron Hubert diesen 10er, SpeedMaster verlor hier wichtige Punkte, 4 auf Riku und in der Relation sogar 8 zu El Ron Hubert. Trotzdem war er jetzt punktgleich mit Riku auf Tabellenplatz 1. Auf Peruvian verschenkte er einen möglichen Sieg durch einen dummen Fahrfehler. Damit verlor er in der Relation nochmals 8 Punkte im Titelkampf.

Dann fehlender Speed

Doch dort konnte er wenigstens noch um den Sieg kämpfen. Auf den 3 verbleibenden Strecken war ihm das nicht mehr vergönnt. Auf Death-Race war er noch recht klar 2. Auf dem Speedy rettete er einen 2. nur sehr knapp ins Ziel und im Abschlussrennen wurde es gar nur der 3. Platz, prägend für eine Saison von Verschlechterungen.



SpeedMaster
WM-Platz: 3
Siege: 2
Poles: 1
Tagesbestzeiten:0
Punkte: 48


Schwächen:
Unter Druck zu viele Fahrfehler, Qualifikationschwäche
Stärken: Erfahrung, extrem 2-Kampf-Stark


Top oder Flop?
Flop - er galt als Titelfavorit, auf 2 Siege folgten 4 2. Plätze und dann 1 dritter - Es ging immer weiter bergab,
mit Fahrfehlern in wichtigen Rennen (Peruvian) und dem organisatorischen Patzer im 3. Rennen reichte es nichtmal mehr für den Vizetitel womit alle Ziele klar verfehlt wurden.


Wir hoffen auch auf eine Stellungnamne von Valkyr-Racing und SpeedMaster

Nächstes mal nehmen wir dann den nächsten Fahrer unter die Lupe.

Till Schreiber

ODE TO MY FORMULAWAN CAR BY CONDORDOGS

Two very talented teams sent us their ODE to their favorite Formulawan car, and they both win a 500-bolts-check! Congratulations!

Ode To Condor 911 GT-FW, by CondorDog

When I think of things that make me wag my tail, the first thing that comes to mind is my Condor 911 GT-FW.

There is nothing quite like holding my head out the window when driving 300kph, my ears pulled back and my eyelids stretched tight.

The sights of Fall, the trees all turning bright red and orange and some in shades of grey and the occasional whiff of a friend who is out there, somewhere.

It is sometimes hard to hear anything over the blast of air that is trying to peel off my face, and my vision sometimes gets blurry. But when driving these sensations take second to the excitement of the race.

The qualifying lap is over now, and 5 other shining and gleaming cars take their place. My Condor 911 GT-FW pulls into the pack, engine singing its mechanical song and my tears of joy turn into seeds of determination.

My smile becomes a grimace. The last few seconds before a race start are always the most fearful. My eyes narrow their focus, and my ears tune out everything except the race announcer as he is preparing us for the start.

As if by magic, all 6 cars tear away simultaneously all getting perfect 0.0 reaction times. There is no time to wonder how; it is now time to bare my teeth and squeeze every point of potential from my Condor 911 GT-FW.

Bumping and grinding noises fill my ears as we all fight for the lead position. The first corner is easily handled, again as if by magic. The Condor 911 GT-FW is so easy to drive, its almost like watching it on television. The acceleration peels my lips back to the corner of my jaws, and the wheel action makes the drift into the next corner effortless.

The race only lasts mere seconds, less than a minute, but in my mind it is a long event. Every corner and every straight are etched into my mind. Every shift of the gears and every burp of the tires are right there, immediately accessible for review. I feel as if I somehow know this Condor 911 GT-FW better now, and the next time on the track I will be even faster.

ODE TO MY FORMULAWAN CAR BY BARTON RACING GP

Two very talented teams sent us their ODE to their favorite Formulawan car, and they both win a 500-bolts-check! Congratulations!

ODE OF TEAM BARTON RACING GP
(To the tune of "The Prince" by Madness)

Trophy won't beat the Elite
With a poor quali' heat...

It's called The King for a reason,
'plays a cool rock steady beat,
It races all good for a season,
'Gets the people up to their feet.
If your not in the mood for racing,
Step back, grab yourself a seat,
This may not be the Elite league,
But I promise you a treat
Trophy bowl me over with your bogus race
Shufflin' of me feet
Even though it'll keep on driving,
It won't get to Elite street.

So I set it up myself to say
For the man who set the heat
So I'll leave it up to me trophy
To get him back on his feet

Trophy bowl me over with your bogus race
Shufflin' of me feet
Even though it'll keep on driving,
It won't get to the Elite street.

Bring back the
Who is the
We want the
Bring back The King

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHhsAghLfgE&feature=related

Interview of Driver Kimi R

Barton Racing GP worked very hard this week and here is one of the interview he did for the Formulawan Gazette Readers. This time, the talented driver Kimi R answered his questions!

F = Food; Favourite meal?

siberian husky.

O = Outside racing; What hobbies do you have off-track?


drinking and partying

R = Reading; Any book you can't put down?


no time for books

M = Music; What are you listening to?


anything goes

U = Understudy; Anyone you look up to?

not really

L = Location; Where about in the world are you living?

switzerland

A = AKA; Any nicknames?

some but Iceman is best known

W = World; Where would you like to go in the world?

no idea

A = Animals; Any pets?

dogs

N = Next Year; Where would you like to see your career reach in a years time?

to higher class cars hopefully (team owner: maybe but first you need to stop failing at qualifications and improve times)

An interesting interview: WAOUF WAOUF

Our reporter Barton Racing GP did a very interesting interview this week : he interviewed the dog of Team CondorDogs and here you can read the article, translated into English via BabelBone.

F = Food; Favourite meal?
Master makes my food. Casserole of fresh chicken, rice, pasta, carrots, basil, garlic, olive oil and paprika. Yum.


O = Outside racing; What hobbies do you have off-track?

Like to sniff things. I have a particular affinity to tires and fire-plugs. Sometimes master doesnt like it after I smell things.
I also like to play with Blue and Yellow and let them know I am Alpha.


R = Reading; Any book you can't put down?

Animal Farm by George Orwell. Now thats good story.


M = Music; What are you listening to?

Master left a compact disk in my car with a song called "Metal *** Mad". Really like it. I think its by Anthrax back when Joey was the singer. Joey good singer. Heres picture of band after gig, Joey the tall one with funny look on face.



U = Understudy; Anyone you look up to?
Masters old freind RiffRaff. He good dog, very smart. Me want to be like RiffRaff one day. RiffRaff die, he was 126 years old in dog years.


L = Location; Where about in the world are you living?
I have a big fenced yard, almost 1 acre with my own door into house. House in Washington state, USA. Very close to Columbia River. We like to go to river in summer and roll in fish.


A = AKA; Any nicknames?

Master sometimes calls me "HEY", and sometimes "NO". Most time he calls me "GOOD DOG".


W = World; Where would you like to go in the world?

I hear in France, dogs can go in restaraunts with master. Me tired of wating in van, want to go inside. Once master pretend he blind and take me in but owner of store did not like it.


A = Animals; Any pets?

I have 2 humans, name Master and Master. Good humans. They take us to river a lot. Also take us to Masters father-in-laws house. Big farm with lots of cats. Me dont like cats, they too fast. Me glad no cats at my house.


N = Next Year; Where would you like to see your career reach in a years time?[/quote]
Next year me still be freinds with other teams drivers. Hope to have smarter engineer and mechanic too.
Master say one day I will be fastest dog ever. Me hope so.

Monday, December 7, 2009

EXCITING RACES!

Team Earth2025 would like to share his most exciting races with you! He was interviewed by our reporter team :

Eart2025 :


"My best races were at League 6 when I won at Speedys few times w/o lubrication, dunno if those races are still on results.

*comes up dusty after digging archives"

LOOK HERE

Before that race I avoided icy-tracks (due high risk of accident) outside championship of course (had before yesterday 1 win from Alaska-track) but surprisingly got my 2nd win at icy-track and my car was better than 10000 Horsepower-car which came 2nd.

Race against bots (not win I count high due being only human-competitor on that race):

LOOK HERE

My driver being part of his fellow racers endings of their races:

LOOK HERE

3rd race in row where I end fellow competitors race prematurely.

other 2 were this:

LOOK HERE

and this:

LOOK HERE

Luckily for me my driver didn't crash. All those races happened under old crashing-rules so .....

Before League 7 Speedy-tracks were tracks where my driver got wins, here's 1 of those:

LOOK HERE

After getting to L7 my wins have come mostly from Monastic-tracks.

Oddest win my driver has is from Death-track but its from League 1 or 2 so its gone long time ago."

THANKS FOR SHARING YOUR MOST EXCITING MOMENTS WITH THE FORMULAWAN COMMUNITY, EART2025

ODE TO MY FORMULAWAN CAR! WIN 500 bolts!

Dear players,

You would like to win 500 bolts for your team?
Nothing's easier!

Write a little ode to your Formulawan car and send it to

support@formulawan.com.

The most original ode will get an extra 500 bolts check!

If our reporter team gets several nice odes, it could decide to give more than one prize. It will all depend on YOU!!!

And the other odes will be listed here in the next Gazette Edition!

GOOD LUCK!

THE HALL OF FAME

Our reporter team is pleased to present you a very nice news! A Hall of Fame was built over night in the English World of Formulawan and it will willcome teams which are or have been major members of the Formulawan Community!
In their own way, they contributed to the game and to make the community alive!

Until now we have three members :

Team DrakenSPortRacing
Team Boots
Team Lefred

And we hope that lots of other teams will soon have their name on the Hall of Fame Wall!!!

THANK YOU FOR YOUR INVOLVEMENT!

http://www.formulawan.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=24

NEW INTERVIEW: DRIVER KENSHINZEN, our Halloween King!

Our talented reporter Barton Racing Gp interviewed a new team for his Drivers F-O-R-M-U-L-A-W-A-N section: Halloween King, Kenshinzen

F = Food; Favourite meal?

Team Kenshinzen is an organized team and can't eat whatever we like. We follow a specific diet for the races but during offseason, I prefer spaghetti.

O = Outside racing; What hobbies do you have off-track?


I don't have a lot of free time, usually I spend many hourss in the track practicing or in the gym training for the upcoming races. But when I have some free time I prefer to relax playing chess or other similar mind games. When I'm on vacation and have more time, I prefer extreme sports that involve speed.

R = Reading; Any book you can't put down?


Off course, reading is a good method to relax between races and I like any kind of book, magazine, comic, anything. My favorite is George R.R. Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire".

M = Music; What are you listening to?

I'm a fan of old bands, probably didn't heard of them because you're too young. My favorite are Led Zeppelin.

U = Understudy; Anyone you look up to?

There're many talented drivers in higher leagues, especially in elite. I'm a young driver without much experience yet but I think in time can be one of the best. CondorDog, Manimal, Luben Botev, all of them are great and is difficult to choose one of them but if you ask for my favorite, is Threepwud. An excellent balanced driver and I think my style is similar.

L = Location; Where about in the world are you living?

Everywhere! It's difficult to leave in one place when you have so many races during the year. But when I retire my dream is to stay near the sea, probably in a Greek island.

A = AKA; Any nicknames?

Other than the "Halloween King" for my scary style of driving? Sometimes I'm so fast and aggresive that people call me a "Shark".

W = World; Where would you like to go in the world?

I've visited many places with our team even in this short period of time but since you asked me, I want to see Africa. A race in a track constructed for a special event in the middle of the jungle is something I want to see.

A = Animals; Any pets?

I don't like pets, I prefer bigger animals (a lion, a tiger perhaps or something similar). I own a baby puma and soon after I find a big house with a safe place for them I hope to acquire a baby tiger.

N = Next Year; Where would you like to see your career reach in a years time?


I'm young, only 18 years old and I have a lot of time ahead of me. First of all want to thank team Kenshinzen for let me drive their cars, for the chance to show my skills and be in time one of the best drivers in elite league. At the moment I'm waiting for the arrival of my new car (a V12Turbo Rosy with over 560 HP), I'm training daily and compete in friendly races with some new drivers. After a month I'll start my competition in league 10 and my legacy will begin.

Thank you to our Reporter Barton Racing GP and the team kenshinzen for this interview!
DEAR FORMULAWANERS,

HERE IS OUR GREAT WINNER OF THE LAST FORMULAWAN GAME QUIZZ :


BUCKET-O-BOLTS. Congratulations! He wins 500 bolts!

His answers:

1. Chris Sawyer
2. True
3. ID Software
4. Monkey Island
5. Blizzard
6. Corrino
7. Scout
8. Ascent of Egypt
9. Black Dragon
10. Civilization