RPS Race Ventures

Team Manager: Owen Marklund (RnTheAndrian)
Headquarters: Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Team Summary:
RPS Race Ventures International (RPS is a short for REBIRTH PHILOSOPHY) is a fairly new team in the racing scene founded by Owen Marklund, a participant of a competitive reality show set in a remote island two years ago. Looking for a post-show career, he found managing racing team would be a good way to start his long post-show career, which resulted him moving from his hometown to Atlanta, Georgia, the eventual headquarters of the team. Assisting him in his managerial role is Markus Pfeiffer, senior racing driver, mentor, and former team owner of the then-named Earnest Crosswise Racing Team (RPS International bought naming rights to ECRT), the preceding team whose headquarters now belong to RPS.

The team enjoyed success in not only grassroots level, but also national level, with satisfying, if not perfect, results in Karting and Pro-Am Touring series. As an owner, Owen has received experiences in team managing, both basic and advanced, but with the team entering the Global Racing League, things will get a little different for both himself and his team. The team has good sponsor backings albeit "unorthodox" to aid their GRL career, and this will open the new chapter for the team. Other than that, Owen himself is very fond with sports cars, and for now, part of his dream has came true.

Drivers:

Qiuzhou Lam
Net Handle: @qzeroxneo
Nationality: Chinese
Birthday and Age: August 8th, 17 YEARS OLD

Stats:
Skill: 17/30
Consistency: 7/15
Potential: 5/15
Tenacity: 2/15
Base Hiring Cost: 140,000 CR
Experience Level: 27 (Total of Stats - 4); BRONZE Driver Classification

% of Earnings Taken Per Race: 20%

Specialties: Sportscar

Earnings:
Earnings for Season 1 = 3,115,000 CR
Earnings for Season 2 = 80,000 CR
Lifetime Earnings = 3,195,000 CR

History:
Ex - The Idle Master Open, Catalu-NYA Challenge Cup, Sara Hockenheim HPDE Challenge
S1 - Aeternam Sportscar Series (1-4), J-Speed Saikyou no Taikyu (1-4)
S2 - J-Speed GT Masters (2-), IMAS United Endurance Championship (1-), Pure GT Series (1-)

Summary:
Qiuzhou Lam's family comes from an ancient line of wealthy merchants, who continue their tradition of goods trading today, now on a worldwide scale. However, during Qiuzhou's childhood, he and his parents would move away from their native China to start over in the United States. His parents dreamed of becoming tuners, but due to how overly strict their home country was to car modifications, it was decided that they would move out to chase their dreams. It was a small dream, but as they gained a reputation for putting skilled craftsmanship above all else in their new shop in California, Lam's Auto Works built a small but dedicated fan base. Lam's Auto Works was a maintenance shop somewhat like others, but its true specialty was in fabricating anything the custom parts their customers would request for. It didn't matter too much how ridiculous their customer's wishes were; if someone wanted to have neon lights under their Lamborghini's frame, they'd have it.

Qiuzhou loved every single one of the monstrosities that would roll out of that shop. It would be his dream if he could have a ride he could call his own. But then the shop were accused of just building sculptures with motors; Qiuzhou's parents needed him to prove both the family and the shop's worth outside of being artists. On top of that, he had very few friends at school, most citing his somewhat feminine appearance as a suggestion that he was a weak person. Taking up the helmet to race in various amateur Touring Car and Time Attack competitions in the state during 2014, Qiuzhou set several class lap records and a number of high-placing upsets despite it being his first season. He began testing for an American Formula C seat in 2015, with good results, but Qiuzhou felt sports cars were more his thing.

Even with his inner shyness, Qiuzhou clearly refuses to let that be his defining character. Ever since he broke out into road racing, he now has an avenue where his talents speak for himself. Joining a team in the GRL is a stepping stone he's very intent on taking.

Roleplaying Notes:
- Terse. Talks in short phrases. Like this. Says he picked it up from Finnish race car drivers.
- Prefers to let his skills do talking. Applies to anything he does.
- Can speak and write perfectly fine English if needed. Prefers not to when possible.
- Often wonders about what his rivals must be like. Sometimes out loud.

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Sies Marland
Net Handle: @marjaneagleray
Nationality: American
Birthday and Age: July 7th, 24 YEARS OLD

Stats:
Skill: 15/30
Consistency: 7/15
Potential: 7/15
Tenacity: 5/15
Base Hiring Cost: 210,000 CR
Experience Level: 30 (Total of Stats - 4); BRONZE Driver Classification

% of Earnings Taken Per Race: 20%

Specialties: Sportscar

Earnings:

Earnings for Season 1 = 2,700,000 CR
Earnings for Season 2 = 68,000 CR
Lifetime Earnings = 2,768,000 CR

History:

Ex - The Idle Master Open, Catalu-NYA Challenge Cup
S1 - Aeternam Sportscar Series (1-4), J-Speed Saikyou no Taikyu (1, 3-4)
S2 - J-Speed GT Masters (2-), IMAS United Endurance Championship (1-), Pure GT Series (1-)

Summary:
Alesandra Marland, preferred to be called as "Sies", was used to be a very active fashion model walking for numerous top fashion designers, both Men's and Women's shows thanks to her androgynous looks. In addition, Sies had numerous top fashion magazine covers and editorials at disposal, proving that Sies managed to cross the gender barrier. The whole modeling career was first started when Sies was hanging out with several male model friends at a motel and a model scout discovered her.

As Sies' work bookings became more selective, this Brooklyn-based androgynous model also spent time on racing simulators in an attempt to slowly transition to the racing world, winning sim racing tournaments and collecting racing experiences from various disciplines, including sports car racing, whereas Sies' teammates do not aware that they were teaming up with a top fashion model, due to the fact that "Alex Mara" was the name Sies used.

Nowadays she is a full-time racer after her modeling agency allowed her to do racing commitments without even leaving occasional modeling jobs behind. Her sim racing knowledge proved useful for her first ever real-life racing career in the GRL scope, and she doesn't mind to have her teammates learning from her because she knows that Sies Marland never have an interest to be a number one race driver, but it is part of her passion to go racing with different people.

Off-track, she can be found reading almost anything (especially fashion magazines and racing car engineering-related ones), and making arts and crafts whenever the resource around allows her to. She is also a design major student, and it is no wonder why she has a good taste in art.

Roleplaying Notes:
- Always put professionalism in first place. At one point, personal matters would storm in an unexpected way but she could handle it on her own. This can take its toll where she can feel lonely at times and she doesn't want to let people know.
- A little bit shy, but can be expressive at times. Not an outspoken person and love life between other racers isn't on her agenda, but she can get along with almost everyone well.
- Usually speaks in third person (rarely when introducing herself), and she doesn't mind having people using male pronouns to her due to her androgynous looks.
- Always learn "street style" outfits worn by fashion models; no wonder she can be quite a stand out even for a racing driver.
- Lacks outdoor voice. Even if she has one, she isn't someone capable of throwing hams partly because of her male-ish voice, but the advantage is that she can keep herself humble for an endless number of interviews.
- Doesn't use her social media that much, even for racing. The only posts you'd see from her is her art creations and her fashion works, currently.
- She doesn't bother talking about her sim racing / "Alex Mara" past. Any attempt to bring it to the conversation would most likely end up with the following line of hers: "I saw a man."

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Cars:

Nissan GT-R GT3 (R35 type)
Category:
GT Endurance AM
Cost per Car:
350,000 CR / car

Base Peak Power: 587 horsepower
Base Curb Weight: 1181 kilograms
Base Reliability: 65%
Weight Distribution: 49% Front / 51% Rear
Top Speed: 290 km/h (about 180 mph)

Parts Equipped:
Reliability
Grueling Endurance Test - 100,000 CR - +5% Reliability (1/2)
Extreme Reliability Analysis - 75,000 CR - +5% Reliability (Stage 1/3) - Requires an Engineer with Advanced Failure Analysis perk
- CAUTION: This upgrade takes two Phases to complete.

Engine Tuning
Basic Engine Tuning - 50,000 CR - +1% engine power and torque
Advanced Engine Tuning - 50,000 CR - +1% engine power and torque (Stage 1/4) - Requires Engineer with Advanced Engine Tuning Perk -OR- Engine Tuner Tech Partnership & Requires Basic Engine Tuning to be completed

Camshafts
Race Camshaft - 50,000 CR - approx. more than +1% engine power

EMS & Fuel Systems
Eco-Spec EMS - 50,000 CR - approx. +9% better fuel economy

Chassis
Basic R&D Lighter Components - 65,000 CR - 0.5% LIGHTER weight and 0.5% LESS inertia (1/5)

Wings
Wing Aero Analysis - 60,000 CR - 1% MORE downforce per "setting step"

Body
Body Aero Analysis - 60,000 CR - 2% LESS base body drag

Tires
Astaroth "Behemoth RR" Race Tires - 200,000 CR - +3% overall tire grip

History:
No events run yet

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Engineers:
Last update: Nov 18, 2016
Current Phase: 6[/font][/i]

Nanako Kitamura

Nationality: Japanese
Class: Designer
Current Level: Level 2, 10 Phases to Next
Level 0 Perk: Advanced Chassis Designer; unlocks one stage of Advanced R&D Lighter Components.
Level 1 Perk: Advanced Failure Analyst; unlocks one stage of Extreme Reliability Analysis.
Level 2 Perk: Advanced Engine Tuner; unlocks one stage of Advanced Engine Tuning.
Level 3 Perk: *Advanced Chassis Designer; unlocks one stage of Advanced R&D Lighter Components.
Hiring Cost: 260,000 CR
Somebody who probably has listened to WAY too many Clara Crescendo albums while working on various chassis designs for a number of Touring and Endurance series teams. That said, she IS someone with a strong work ethic, so I suppose she's an okay choice? Just don't let her get near the audio systems...

Lynsey Watanabe
Nationality: American
Class: Designer
Current Level: Level 1, 6 Phases to Next
Level 0 Perk: Advanced Failure Analyst; unlocks one stage of Extreme Reliability Analysis.
Level 1 Perk: Rapid Failure Analyst; Extreme Reliability Analysis takes only ONE Phase when assigned to this Engineer.
Level 2 Perk: Manufacturing Analyst; unlocks one stage of Precision Manufacturing.
Level 3 Perk: Friend to all Engineers; +1 Engineer Capacity. (Only counts once per team; does not "stack")
Hiring Cost: 20,000 CR

"Everything needs to be perfect!"

Lynsey is usually a happy-go-lucky girl, but once something doesn't go her way, her world goes crashing down. That's why she entered university to engineer a perfect machine. A bit insane, but her drive can make it seem like it could be possible to build a perfectly reliable machine.

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Finances:
9,401,000 CR

Financial History: