Well, I am currently running a 2001 season based on four "What Ifs", which there are:
* Senna survived his Imola accident, but retired from active racing afterwards
* Toyota joining F1 in 2001 with the same drivers as in 2002
* Aryton Senna building his own team in 2001
* The F1 calender remained unchanged from the 1994 season
Yes, Senna Grand Prix is born! What an INNOVATIVE idea ^^.
Well, anyways, to be competitive, Senna decided to make his team into a B-team for BMW Williams. With BMW engines and a motivated driver dou, Senna wants to attack! The drivers are Williams test driver for 2001, Marc Gené and no one else than the great Takuma Sato, of which I took control. Besides being as successful as possible, it's my main target to beat Prost Grand Prix
(the Senna-BMW has the exact same values as Prost-Acer and Gené is only one grip point higher than Alesi). All races are 25 % distance with 15 minute qualifying sessions.
--- RACE 1: INTERLAGOS
Qualifying: Very disappointing qualifying session, I never got enough pace to be very competitive, only a number of good laps in the Saturday Qualifying made me able to get to 24th position, ahead of both Minardis and only a few hundreds of a second behind Allan McNish.
Race: Well, I didn't fare any better in the race, the start gave me a few positions but after that it was mostly a defensive drive. At the end of the race I was set for an acceptable P16, but Verstappen in his Arrows snapped P16 right from underneath my nose, how dare he? ^^ Regarding the front position, Ferrari got the ideal start to the title race, a 1-2 under the lead of Schumacher, who had an open battle with Barrichello for that position. The only car not from the Top 3 in the points was Jarno Trulli in his Jordan on P6.
Fight With Prost: 1:0 for Senna
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³ Race Results ³
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³ Brazil - Interlagos ³
³ (18 Laps) ³
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³ Pos Driver Time/Speed ³
³ ³
³ 1st Michael Schumacher 24m 46.282s ³
³ Ferrari - Ferrari ³
³ 2nd Rubens Barrichello +4.635s ³
³ Ferrari - Ferrari ³
³ 3rd Mika Hakkinen +7.025s ³
³ Mclaren - Mercedes ³
³ 4th Ralf Schumacher +8.617s ³
³ Williams - BMW ³
³ 5th Juan-Pablo Montoya +11.785s ³
³ Williams - BMW ³
³ 6th Jarno Trulli +14.256s ³
³ Jordan - Honda ³
³ 7th David Coulthard +15.601s ³
³ Mclaren - Mercedes ³
³ 8th Heinz-Harald Frentzen +17.139s ³
³ Jordan - Honda ³
³ 9th Olivier Panis +19.073s ³
³ BAR - Honda ³
³ 10th Jacques Villeneuve +21.006s ³
³ BAR - Honda ³
³ 11th Nick Heidfeld +25.391s ³
³ Sauber - Petronas ³
³ 12th Mika Salo +34.956s ³
³ Toyota - Toyota ³
³ 13th Marc Gene +44.525s ³
³ Senna - BMW ³
³ 14th Kimi Raikkonen +58.658s ³
³ Sauber - Petronas ³
³ 15th Pedro De La Rosa +1m 18.673s ³
³ Jaguar - Cosworth ³
³ 16th Jos Verstappen +1m 25.952s ³
³ Arrows - Asiatech ³
³ 17th Takuma Sato +1m 26.776s ³
³ Senna - BMW ³
³ 18th Jean Alesi -1 Lap ³
³ Prost - Acer ³
³ 19th Enrique Bernoldi -1 Lap ³
³ Arrows - Asiatech ³
³ 20th Jenson Button -1 Lap ³
³ Benetton - Renault ³
³ 21st Fernando Alonso -1 Lap ³
³ Minardi - European ³
³ 22nd Tarso Marques -1 Lap ³
³ Minardi - European ³
³ 23rd Giancarlo Fisichella -1 Lap ³
³ Benetton - Renault ³
³ 24th Luciano Burti -1 Lap ³
³ Prost - Acer ³
³ 25th Allan McNish Loose Wheel ³
³ Toyota - Toyota ³
³ 26th Eddie Irvine Didn't Finish ³
³ Jaguar - Cosworth ³
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--- RACE 2: PACIFIC
Qualifying: Well, again, I was in the lower field, this time P22, ahead of the Minardis and McNish, just behind Button. But this time it was not a lack of pace, no, I had lots of traffic and made unfortunate mistakes in those few rounds where I was alone out there.
Race: A very chaotic race. After a first lap
on drugs I was on Place 6 and it was now my duty to defend the position at all costs, which I actually managed to do in the first few laps. Well, in Real Life, this style of defensive driving would've earned Sato a DNF and/or a DSQ. Three drivers dropped out of the race due to a hard defensive line: Mika Häkkinen retired after a massive incident of which I don't understand how I could've gotten away with without any damage. Frentzen und Salo followed shortly afterwards, but at least these accidents were more harmless and the retirements were due to bad luck from those drivers. My final opponent for the last laps was Villeneuve who put me under a lot of pressure, but I got more and more comfortable with my car and my actions, and therefore he couldn't stop me from getting the point for Senna Grand Prix. Wohooo! Barrichello took advantage of a driving error by Schumacher who dropped behind his brother to take third place. Therefore, Barrichello leads the championship with 2 points from Michael Schumacher and further 9 from Ralf Schumacher.
Fight With Prost: 2:0 for Senna
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³ Race Results ³
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³ Pacific - TI Circuit Aida ³
³ (21 Laps) ³
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³ Pos Driver Time/Speed ³
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³ 1st Rubens Barrichello 27m 51.277s ³
³ Ferrari - Ferrari ³
³ 2nd Ralf Schumacher +7.903s ³
³ Williams - BMW ³
³ 3rd Michael Schumacher +15.017s ³
³ Ferrari - Ferrari ³
³ 4th David Coulthard +28.664s ³
³ Mclaren - Mercedes ³
³ 5th Eddie Irvine +37.834s ³
³ Jaguar - Cosworth ³
³ 6th Takuma Sato +45.221s ³
³ Senna - BMW ³
³ 7th Jarno Trulli +47.329s ³
³ Jordan - Honda ³
³ 8th Jacques Villeneuve +48.062s ³
³ BAR - Honda ³
³ 9th Nick Heidfeld +48.957s ³
³ Sauber - Petronas ³
³ 10th Kimi Raikkonen +49.562s ³
³ Sauber - Petronas ³
³ 11th Olivier Panis +50.059s ³
³ BAR - Honda ³
³ 12th Giancarlo Fisichella +51.596s ³
³ Benetton - Renault ³
³ 13th Juan-Pablo Montoya +51.749s ³
³ Williams - BMW ³
³ 14th Marc Gene +56.649s ³
³ Senna - BMW ³
³ 15th Pedro De La Rosa +1m 00.378s ³
³ Jaguar - Cosworth ³
³ 16th Luciano Burti +1m 01.015s ³
³ Prost - Acer ³
³ 17th Jos Verstappen +1m 03.043s ³
³ Arrows - Asiatech ³
³ 18th Enrique Bernoldi +1m 06.757s ³
³ Arrows - Asiatech ³
³ 19th Jenson Button +1m 12.549s ³
³ Benetton - Renault ³
³ 20th Fernando Alonso +1m 20.858s ³
³ Minardi - European ³
³ 21st Jean Alesi -1 Lap ³
³ Prost - Acer ³
³ 22nd Tarso Marques -1 Lap ³
³ Minardi - European ³
³ 23rd Mika Salo Didn't Finish ³
³ Toyota - Toyota ³
³ 24th Heinz-Harald Frentzen Didn't Finish ³
³ Jordan - Honda ³
³ 25th Mika Hakkinen Didn't Finish ³
³ Mclaren - Mercedes ³
³ 26th Allan McNish Didn't Finish ³
³ Toyota - Toyota ³
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