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25 / 07 / 2010
Fantasy F1: The results from the eleventh race in Germany are in! Check the results, see how your team did or enter a new team. Next race is Hungary next weekend on 1st August.

11 / 07 / 2010
Fantasy Rally: The results from Rally Bulgaria are in! Check the results, see how your team did or enter a new team. Next rally is Finland on THURSDAY 29th July (a day earlier than usual!).

11 / 07 / 2010
Fantasy F1: The results from the tenth race in Silverstone are in! Check the results, see how your team did or enter a new team. Next race is Hockenheim on 25th July.

27 / 06 / 2010
Fantasy F1: The results from the ninth race in Valencia are in, including the penalties for the naughty boys driving too fast. Check the results, see how your team did or enter a new team. Next race is Silverstone on 11th July.

13 / 06 / 2010
Fantasy F1: The results from the eighth race in Canada are in! Check the results, see how your team did or enter a new team. Next race is Valencia on 27th June.

30 / 05 / 2010
Fantasy Rally: The results from Rally Portugal are in! Check the results, see how your team did or enter a new team. Next rally is Bulgaria on 9th July.

30 / 05 / 2010
Fantasy F1: The results from the exciting seventh race in Turkey are in! Check the results, see how your team did or enter a new team. Next race is Canada on 13th June.

16 / 05 / 2010
Fantasy F1: The Monaco scores have been updated to reflect Michael Schumacher's ridiculous penalty for daring to overtake a Ferrari. Check the updated results, see how your team did or enter a new team.

16 / 05 / 2010
Fantasy F1: The results from the sixth race in Monaco are in! Check the results, see how your team did or enter a new team. Next race is Turkey on 30th May.

10 / 05 / 2010
Fantasy F1: The results from the fifth race in Barcelona are in! Check the results, see how your team did or enter a new team. Next race is Monaco on 16th May.

10 / 05 / 2010
Fantasy Rally: The results from Rally New Zealand are in! Check the results, see how your team did or enter a new team. Next rally is Portugal on 28th May.

19 / 04 / 2010
Fantasy Rally: The results from Rally Turkey are in! Check the results, see how your team did or enter a new team. Next rally is New Zealand on 7th May.

18 / 04 / 2010
Fantasy F1: The results from the fourth race in China are in! Check the results, see how your team did or enter a new team. Next race is Barcelona on 9th May.

06 / 04 / 2010
Fantasy Rally: The JWRC driver lineup has been released, so you can make your selection before teams are frozen for Turkey on the night of 15th April. If you don't pick anyone, you'll get Aaron Burkart by default.

05 / 04 / 2010
Fantasy F1: The results from the third race in Malaysia are in! Check the results, see how your team did or enter a new team. Next race is China on 18th April.

03 / 04 / 2010
Fantasy Rally: The results from Rally Jordan are in! Check the results, see how your team did or enter a new team. Next race is Turkey on 14th April.

29 / 03 / 2010
Fantasy F1: The results from the second race in Melbourne are in! Check the results, see how your team did or enter a new team. Next race is Malaysia THIS WEEKEND on 4th April.

14 / 03 / 2010
Fantasy F1: The results from the first race in Bahrain are in! Check the results, see how your team did or enter a new team. Next race is Australia on 28th March.

09 / 03 / 2010
Fantasy F1! Yes, there's a brand new Fantasy Formula One game! Check the rules or enter your team by Friday night to qualify for the first race in Bahrain!

08 / 03 / 2010
Fantasy Rally: The results from Rally Mexico are in! Check the results, see how your team did or enter a new team. Next race is Jordan on 1st April.

17 / 02 / 2010
Fantasy Rally: The points awarded for a win have changed in the real WRC, so we've reflected the changes in our scoring too. Check the rules to see the details. Next rally is Mexico on 5th March, teams will be frozen at midnight on the night of Thursday 4th March.

16 / 02 / 2010
Fantasy Rally: The results from Rally Sweden are in! Check the results, see how your team did or enter a new team.

31 / 01 / 2010
Fantasy Rally: The new rally season is upon us - 2010 Fantasy Rally is now open! Check the rules or pick a team ready for the start on 12th Feb.

25 / 10 / 2009
Fantasy Rally: All previous years' Fantasy Rally results are online - Check the 2009 season.

02 / 08 / 2009
Reviews: Sorry, there won't be any more movie reviews for the foreseeable future. Events have overtaken me. Catch up on reviews you may have missed.

18 / 08 / 2005
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2010 Forwardcharm Fantasy Rally Rules

Welcome to the 2010 Forwardcharm Fantasy Rally championship.

(Changes for 2010 are marked like this)

The rules for 2010 haven't changed much from 2009. The main changes are the scoring system, which now matches the FIA's last-minute decision to change it, and the addition of the SWRC category. If you played last year there's no need to read all the rules again this year - the new SWRC category behaves exactly like the JWRC and PWRC - it contains the Super 2000 cars that will be used in the WRC from 2011.

The idea is simple. Pick a team, change it as many times as you like throughout the year and score points when your selections do well in the World Rally Championship (WRC), Junior World Rally Championship (JWRC), the Production World Rally Championship (PWRC) and the Super 2000 World Rally Championship (SWRC). The game is just for fun, it costs nothing to enter and you can enter multiple teams if you like. Again, the prize(s) will be funded by the revenue gained by clicks on the advertising on the right hand side of each page (which gave us a prize fund of Ł50 last year, shared between the top 3 finishers).

Starting from last year, your email address must be a valid one - you won't be able to activate your team without clicking the link that will be sent to the email address you provide. This is for two reasons - firstly, so I can contact you when you win and secondly, because there's a robot out there creating random teams - this filters them out. You'd think people would have better things to do.

To enter, simply create your team from the link above. There is no "team budget", so you can chop and change as many times as you like for no penalty, except during a race weekend (see "Upcoming Events" for the calendar). Each selection has a weighting, decided by me and is likely to change during the season if they do better or worse than expected. The selection's score is multiplied by its weighting at the start of the rally, thus giving the less orthodox selections more chance to contribute to your team's score. For example, Sébastien Loeb may have a weighting of 1 as he is likely to score lots. Matthew Wilson, however, may be less likely to do well and so his weighting may be 5, meaning he scores five times as much as Loeb does. The effect of this weighting is to level the playing field - you won't win if you play safe with the big boys, you'll only make it to the top if you can predict the underdogs' success.

The weighting of any selection will only ever change while the site is locked during a rally. This means that once you pick a driver, you can be confident that his weighting won't change before the start of the next rally. In practice, the weightings rarely change after the first two or three races.

There are 13 rounds in the 2010 WRC season, so that makes 13 chances for your WRC drivers and team to score. Each WRC round also features a round of one or more of the JWRC, PWRC or SWRC championships - naturally where there is no JWRC round, your JWRC driver will score nothing (even if he decides to take part anyway), and the same for the PWRC and SWRC.

Your team consists of the following:

Two WRC drivers.

One WRC team.

One JWRC driver.

One PWRC driver.

One SWRC driver.

Scoring

Scoring is calculated at the end of each race weekend according to the results listed on www.wrc.com. In the real rally championships, points are awarded in accordance with the FIA standard: NOTE that the new scoring system was only announced by the FIA on the eve of the first race, so in our championship the first rally scored the old points, i.e. 10 for 1st place etc.

25 points for 1st place,

18 points for 2nd place,

15 points for 3rd place,

12 points for 4th place,

10 points for 5th place,

8 points for 6th place,

6 points for 7th place,

4 points for 8th place,

2 points for 9th place,

1 point for 10th place.

In the Forwardcharm Fantasy Rally, points are awarded as follows.

Each WRC driver scores double championship points for his final placing, plus 2 points for finishing the rally and 1 point for each stage win (a stage win being the fastest time recorded on that stage), but the FIRST stage win for that driver scores 10 points. In the event of a tied stage, I go with what wrc.com says.

Your WRC team generates points for both drivers in that team. Each team-mate scores half of his individual score for the team.

Your JWRC driver, PWRC driver and SWRC driver score double championship points for his/her final placing within his/her own championship, plus 2 points for finishing the rally and 1 point for each stage win within his/her own championship, but the FIRST stage win for that driver scores 5 points. So if you choose Aaron Burkart as your JWRC driver and he comes 10th overall, but is the highest placed JWRC driver, you get 50 points for Aaron finishing first within his own championship (corresponding to Aaron getting 25 points towards his own campaign), plus 2 points for finishing. If he wins 1 stage, he gets 10 bonus points, if he wins 2 stages he gets 11 points, if he wins 5 stages he gets 14 points, etc. Then this whole total is multiplied by Aaron's weighting. It sounds complicated - it isn't. It boils down to: "crap drivers score loads if they do well."

ALL points are multiplied by that selection's weighting, as described above.

Notes

There are some other points to bear in mind:

JWRC drivers nominate 5 of the 6 events to compete in, meaning that each driver opts out of one event in the season. The nominations made by each driver will be available in the "Upcoming Events" section when they are announced.

PWRC drivers nominate 6 of the 9 events to compete in, meaning that each driver opts out of three events in the season. The nominations made by each driver will be available in the "Upcoming Events" section when they are announced.

SWRC drivers nominate 7 of the 10 events to compete in, meaning that each driver opts out of three events in the season. The nominations made by each driver will be available in the "Upcoming Events" section when they are announced.

No changes will be permissible to your team once the rally starts. The site is generally locked down at midnight the night before the first stage. In 2010 the events are allowed to start on different days, so this won't necessarily always be on the Thursday preceding each event, as it has been in the past.

Driver changes have caused us some problems in the past few years. In 2010 we started an experiment whereby you would keep the driver number - but that turned out to be a non-starter as many drivers switched numbers after the very first race. Instead we'll have to revert to the old system of manually changing your driver if he's not racing. Unless you've asked to suppress email reminders when you last edited your team, you'll get an email notifying you that your driver isn't due to contest the next rally, usually a day or two before the rally starts.

If a driver is classified as finished by the FIA, they get the finish bonus.

The entry lists for each rally are subject to last-minute alterations. This happens fairly regularly - if I spot it in time, I'll warn any affected team, but I don't catch them all.

Privacy

This site is not secure. Your password will be transmitted over the internet in plain-text and so could potentially be read by dodgy Nigerians. For this reason, it is advisable not to use a password that you use elsewhere. If you forget your password, simply send an email to jimbo@forwardcharm.co.uk from the email address that you registered and I will reset it.

The personal details you enter (name, email address and password) will be used solely for the running of the Forwardcharm Fantasy Rally site and will not be used or distributed for any other purpose without your prior consent.

Have fun!

That's all. If you have any problems, please let me know so I can do something about it.

I hope you enjoy playing Forwardcharm Fantasy Rally.