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* SecretIdentity: Zsolt Baumgartner is known to all as "HWNSNBM" ([[HarryPotter he whose name shall never be mentioned]]). A RunningGag in the forums and the podcast is that saying his real name is illegal and punishable by being hit by a flaming papaya. Daniel Moreno (not to be confused with the Spanish cyclist) also took part in the 2015 [=F1RWRS=] as [[Series/TopGearUK The Stig]]. After [[FakingTheDeath faking his own death]] for reasons not yet explained, [[CoolOldGuy Leonhard von Gottorp]] now races as Russian Jaropolk Petrovich.
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* SecretIdentity: Zsolt Baumgartner is known to all as "HWNSNBM" ([[HarryPotter ([[Franchise/HarryPotter he whose name shall never be mentioned]]). A RunningGag in the forums and the podcast is that saying his real name is illegal and punishable by being hit by a flaming papaya. Daniel Moreno (not to be confused with the Spanish cyclist) also took part in the 2015 [=F1RWRS=] as [[Series/TopGearUK The Stig]]. After [[FakingTheDeath faking his own death]] for reasons not yet explained, [[CoolOldGuy Leonhard von Gottorp]] now races as Russian Jaropolk Petrovich.
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* SecretIdentity: Zsolt Baumgartner is known to all as "HWNSNBM" ([[HarryPotter he whose name shall never be mentioned]]). A RunningGag in the forums and the podcast is that saying his real name is illegal and punishable by being hit by a flaming papaya. Daniel Moreno (not to be confused with the Spanish cyclist) also took part in the 2015 [=F1RWRS=] as [[TopGear The Stig]]. After [[FakingTheDeath faking his own death]] for reasons not yet explained, [[CoolOldGuy Leonhard von Gottorp]] now races as Russian Jaropolk Petrovich.
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* SecretIdentity: Zsolt Baumgartner is known to all as "HWNSNBM" ([[HarryPotter he whose name shall never be mentioned]]). A RunningGag in the forums and the podcast is that saying his real name is illegal and punishable by being hit by a flaming papaya. Daniel Moreno (not to be confused with the Spanish cyclist) also took part in the 2015 [=F1RWRS=] as [[TopGear [[Series/TopGearUK The Stig]]. After [[FakingTheDeath faking his own death]] for reasons not yet explained, [[CoolOldGuy Leonhard von Gottorp]] now races as Russian Jaropolk Petrovich.
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* PostGameRetaliation: Less common nowadays, but in the early days of the AutoRejects World Series, brawls between displeased drivers and team owners were not uncommon.
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* JokeCharacter: Since the original website was dedicated to what basically amounts to UsefulNotes/FormulaOne JokeCharacters, this trope is all over the place.
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[[caption-width-right:150:Providing Bad Driving Since 2010]]
The ''Formula Rejects Alternate Series'' are a sports RPG consisting of virtual racing series held on the [[http://gprejects.com/forum Grand Prix Rejects]] forums. Grand Prix Rejects is a continuation of F1 Rejects, a website dedicated to bad UsefulNotes/FormulaOne drivers and teams, where the game was started. Players in the games usually control the fate of fictional drivers and teams in different racing series. being simulated with the AI-only mode of various racing games such as VideoGame/RFactor.
The games started out as a single game, the ''Formula 1 Reject World Race Series'': a [[StartMyOwn breakaway series]] from UsefulNotes/FormulaOne, since then renamed to ''[=AutoRejects=] World Series''. After four well-received seasons, the game was expanded with the creation of two feeder series: the ''Formula 2 Reject World Race Series'' and ''Formula 3 Reject World Race Series''. Soon enough, the games became part of an ExpandedUniverse, also hosting versions of UsefulNotes/FormulaOne and UsefulNotes/IndyCar, as well as many series [[SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute quite similar]] to other real-life racing series.
In addition to above-mentioned canon, there is also a subforum for games not part of the above-mentioned expanded universe, mostly various Formula One games.
While they are two different universes, the fact that F1 Rejects and the Roleplay/TMUniverse share a significant amount of their user base lead to characters appearing in both universes, although it has not quite reached the level of CanonInvasion yet.
The entire game can be found [[http://gprejects.com/forum here]]. A [[http://formularejects.com/wiki/Main_Page wiki]] to provide more exposition is available as well.
!!This webgame provides examples of the following:
* AllThereInTheManual: The wiki is this.
* BadassFamily: There are a number of families
* BurnBabyBurn: Drivers Robert Anderson and Frank Zimmer are infamous for both setting their cars on fire - Anderson after he found out that he was disqualified from the 1997 [=F1RGP2C=] Belgian Grand Prix, which led him to be kicked out from the Tyrrell-Gauthier team, and Zimmer in the 2008 F1 Brazilian Grand Prix for unknown reasons. Both Anderson and Zimmer have been banned from entering Belgium and Brazil respectively, with Anderson's name further disgraced with a drug scandal following.
* CheatersNeverProsper: Subverted in the 2010 Formula One season, where Stefan Grand Prix were successfully able to use rule-bending devices to increase the performance of their cars.
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Dan BH disappeared after the 2010 [=F1RWRS=] season after being the only American to win in the series, and hasn't been seen or heard from since.
* CoolOldGuy: Only a few games have actual age limits or methods of preventing older drivers from succeeding, so this trope can and does occur often. Crowning example would be Leonhard von Gottorp, who drove competitively even in his 70s before [[FakingTheDead faking his own demise]].
* {{Crossover}}: As mentioned above, the TMUniverse and the Formula One Rejects Alternate Series share some personnel and teams.
* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: Many driver names are obviously inspired by real-life racing drivers as well, despite an unwritten rule forbidding fictional drivers from being directly related to real-life drivers.
* JokeCharacter: Since the original website was dedicated to what basically amounts to UsefulNotes/FormulaOne JokeCharacters, this trope is all over the place.
** LethalJokeCharacter: Since there are many of them, this can happen easily, especially when they move to racing series more suited to their skills. Achieving this is arguably the greatest success you can pull off in the games.
* KilledOffForReal: Occasionally, drivers are killed off as consequence of racing incidents for a number of reasons, ranging from a desire to avert NoOneShouldSurviveThat to a desire to get rid of the character for a number of reasons
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters
* MiracleRally
* MultinationalTeam: Most drivers are part of a junior program funding their careers. Those programs are rarely limited to drivers from only one nation or region.
* PunnyName: Very common, ranging from obvious to insider jokes.
* PostGameRetaliation: Less common nowadays, but in the early days of the
* OfficialCouple: There are a number of characters in active relationships, some existing solely for roleplaying purposes with others existing to create or retroactively complete a family tree of a racing family.
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: As common in online role-playing games, Real Life events can influence the roles of characters and sometimes even remove them from the story altogether.
* {{Retcon}}: With the ExpandedUniverse being a work in progress and things developing quite quickly, this becomes necessary some times.
* SecretIdentity: Zsolt Baumgartner is known to all as "HWNSNBM" ([[HarryPotter he whose name shall never be mentioned]]). A RunningGag in the forums and the podcast is that saying his real name is illegal and punishable by being hit by a flaming papaya. Daniel Moreno (not to be confused with the Spanish cyclist) also took part in the 2015 [=F1RWRS=] as [[TopGear The Stig]]. After [[FakingTheDeath faking his own death]] for reasons not yet explained, [[CoolOldGuy Leonhard von Gottorp]] now races as Russian Jaropolk Petrovich.
* SuddenNameChange: The Mantis family, which includes racing drivers Psycho and Screaming[[note]]both intended as references to ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid''[[/note]], were forced to change their family name to Madunochev due to objections on the forum. Psycho and Screaming now race under the names Pjotr and Sergej. This also happens with other characters whose names are rejected for various reasons.
* [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Spell My Name With An A]]: Japanese driver Yuka Katayama often suffers with this, with her first name. This went to the levels that she is referred as ''Yuko'' during majority of the 2014 [=F2RWRS=] season until another driver, Dave Anderson, noticed the oversight. The same thing happens to Deanna [=McMahon=] whose surname is often misspelled ''[=McMohan=]''.
* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: The current year of the canonical series is 2018.
* TheRival: Given as the characters in the game are either HotBlooded, choleric and/or [[SmugSnake arrogant beyond belief]], intense rivalries are par for the course.
* ThirteenIsUnlucky: Averted. The F1 Rejects userbase mostly doesn't believe in the #13 curse and many drivers use the number in numerous series. The first driver to race with #13 was Dave Simpson in the 2010 [=F1RWRS=] and he won more races than anyone else that year. To further avoid this trope, Salvatore Miccoli and Antonio Didac Puerta have won outright titles with #13. In contrast, this trope is played straight in the alternate version of Formula 1 along with a handful of other NumberTropes, such as FourIsDeath-
* {{UnCancelled}}: Rejects of LFS started out as F1 Rejects [=LFS=] Cup, won by Shinobu Katayama in 2011. Then the series was renamed to IRDU Rejects Cup in 2012 season[[note]]because the creator thought rFactor was better than Live for Speed[[/note]], only to have the management arrested after unable to repay a loan[[note]]itself a reminiscent of the story of Brabham F1 team's bankcruptcy[[/note]]. The series was taken over by another user, redubbed Rejects of LFS. It caused much concern because of drivers' lack of safety (recurrent crashes, slow drivers) which lead to drivers frequently got injured and banned. The climax reached at the 2015 Kyoto Ring round when Nobushige Fukuda, a Japanese driver driving for Melrose Racing Team, was killed in a horrific accident.
* YouGoGirl: Due to the increased success and [[ImprobablyFemaleCast presence]] of female drivers in the Alternate Series, almost every racing series has seen a woman win a race, not to mention a championship. Shinobu Katayama took the honours of being the first female champion when she won the 2011 [=F1Rejects=] LFS Cup, whereas [[GenkiGirl Tomo Kazama]] became the first woman to win ([=F3WRS=], 2014 ''and'' [=F2RWRS=], 2015). Pippa Mann also won the [=F1RWRS=] in 2012. Logically, this completely and deliberately averts the [[Main/WomenDrivers Women Drivers]] trope.
* WackyRacing: The ''Rejectful Eastern European Car Series'' is this, using Eastern European [[TheAllegedCar alleged cars]]. Generally, having one or two wacky races a season is generally expected from anyone running a game on the site.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: As mentioned above, sometimes real life or the lack of interest lead to plots getting abandoned and characters disappearing from the face of the Earth, such as in the case with Dan BH who started the BH Curse, which results in American drivers' failure to win a race.
[[caption-width-right:150:Providing Bad Driving Since 2010]]
The ''Formula Rejects Alternate Series'' are a sports RPG consisting of virtual racing series held on the [[http://gprejects.com/forum Grand Prix Rejects]] forums. Grand Prix Rejects is a continuation of F1 Rejects, a website dedicated to bad UsefulNotes/FormulaOne drivers and teams, where the game was started. Players in the games usually control the fate of fictional drivers and teams in different racing series. being simulated with the AI-only mode of various racing games such as VideoGame/RFactor.
The games started out as a single game, the ''Formula 1 Reject World Race Series'': a [[StartMyOwn breakaway series]] from UsefulNotes/FormulaOne, since then renamed to ''[=AutoRejects=] World Series''. After four well-received seasons, the game was expanded with the creation of two feeder series: the ''Formula 2 Reject World Race Series'' and ''Formula 3 Reject World Race Series''. Soon enough, the games became part of an ExpandedUniverse, also hosting versions of UsefulNotes/FormulaOne and UsefulNotes/IndyCar, as well as many series [[SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute quite similar]] to other real-life racing series.
In addition to above-mentioned canon, there is also a subforum for games not part of the above-mentioned expanded universe, mostly various Formula One games.
While they are two different universes, the fact that F1 Rejects and the Roleplay/TMUniverse share a significant amount of their user base lead to characters appearing in both universes, although it has not quite reached the level of CanonInvasion yet.
The entire game can be found [[http://gprejects.com/forum here]]. A [[http://formularejects.com/wiki/Main_Page wiki]] to provide more exposition is available as well.
!!This webgame provides examples of the following:
* AllThereInTheManual: The wiki is this.
* BadassFamily: There are a number of families
* BurnBabyBurn: Drivers Robert Anderson and Frank Zimmer are infamous for both setting their cars on fire - Anderson after he found out that he was disqualified from the 1997 [=F1RGP2C=] Belgian Grand Prix, which led him to be kicked out from the Tyrrell-Gauthier team, and Zimmer in the 2008 F1 Brazilian Grand Prix for unknown reasons. Both Anderson and Zimmer have been banned from entering Belgium and Brazil respectively, with Anderson's name further disgraced with a drug scandal following.
* CheatersNeverProsper: Subverted in the 2010 Formula One season, where Stefan Grand Prix were successfully able to use rule-bending devices to increase the performance of their cars.
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Dan BH disappeared after the 2010 [=F1RWRS=] season after being the only American to win in the series, and hasn't been seen or heard from since.
* CoolOldGuy: Only a few games have actual age limits or methods of preventing older drivers from succeeding, so this trope can and does occur often. Crowning example would be Leonhard von Gottorp, who drove competitively even in his 70s before [[FakingTheDead faking his own demise]].
* {{Crossover}}: As mentioned above, the TMUniverse and the Formula One Rejects Alternate Series share some personnel and teams.
* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: Many driver names are obviously inspired by real-life racing drivers as well, despite an unwritten rule forbidding fictional drivers from being directly related to real-life drivers.
* JokeCharacter: Since the original website was dedicated to what basically amounts to UsefulNotes/FormulaOne JokeCharacters, this trope is all over the place.
** LethalJokeCharacter: Since there are many of them, this can happen easily, especially when they move to racing series more suited to their skills. Achieving this is arguably the greatest success you can pull off in the games.
* KilledOffForReal: Occasionally, drivers are killed off as consequence of racing incidents for a number of reasons, ranging from a desire to avert NoOneShouldSurviveThat to a desire to get rid of the character for a number of reasons
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters
* MiracleRally
* MultinationalTeam: Most drivers are part of a junior program funding their careers. Those programs are rarely limited to drivers from only one nation or region.
* PunnyName: Very common, ranging from obvious to insider jokes.
* PostGameRetaliation: Less common nowadays, but in the early days of the
* OfficialCouple: There are a number of characters in active relationships, some existing solely for roleplaying purposes with others existing to create or retroactively complete a family tree of a racing family.
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: As common in online role-playing games, Real Life events can influence the roles of characters and sometimes even remove them from the story altogether.
* {{Retcon}}: With the ExpandedUniverse being a work in progress and things developing quite quickly, this becomes necessary some times.
* SecretIdentity: Zsolt Baumgartner is known to all as "HWNSNBM" ([[HarryPotter he whose name shall never be mentioned]]). A RunningGag in the forums and the podcast is that saying his real name is illegal and punishable by being hit by a flaming papaya. Daniel Moreno (not to be confused with the Spanish cyclist) also took part in the 2015 [=F1RWRS=] as [[TopGear The Stig]]. After [[FakingTheDeath faking his own death]] for reasons not yet explained, [[CoolOldGuy Leonhard von Gottorp]] now races as Russian Jaropolk Petrovich.
* SuddenNameChange: The Mantis family, which includes racing drivers Psycho and Screaming[[note]]both intended as references to ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid''[[/note]], were forced to change their family name to Madunochev due to objections on the forum. Psycho and Screaming now race under the names Pjotr and Sergej. This also happens with other characters whose names are rejected for various reasons.
* [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Spell My Name With An A]]: Japanese driver Yuka Katayama often suffers with this, with her first name. This went to the levels that she is referred as ''Yuko'' during majority of the 2014 [=F2RWRS=] season until another driver, Dave Anderson, noticed the oversight. The same thing happens to Deanna [=McMahon=] whose surname is often misspelled ''[=McMohan=]''.
* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: The current year of the canonical series is 2018.
* TheRival: Given as the characters in the game are either HotBlooded, choleric and/or [[SmugSnake arrogant beyond belief]], intense rivalries are par for the course.
* ThirteenIsUnlucky: Averted. The F1 Rejects userbase mostly doesn't believe in the #13 curse and many drivers use the number in numerous series. The first driver to race with #13 was Dave Simpson in the 2010 [=F1RWRS=] and he won more races than anyone else that year. To further avoid this trope, Salvatore Miccoli and Antonio Didac Puerta have won outright titles with #13. In contrast, this trope is played straight in the alternate version of Formula 1 along with a handful of other NumberTropes, such as FourIsDeath-
* {{UnCancelled}}: Rejects of LFS started out as F1 Rejects [=LFS=] Cup, won by Shinobu Katayama in 2011. Then the series was renamed to IRDU Rejects Cup in 2012 season[[note]]because the creator thought rFactor was better than Live for Speed[[/note]], only to have the management arrested after unable to repay a loan[[note]]itself a reminiscent of the story of Brabham F1 team's bankcruptcy[[/note]]. The series was taken over by another user, redubbed Rejects of LFS. It caused much concern because of drivers' lack of safety (recurrent crashes, slow drivers) which lead to drivers frequently got injured and banned. The climax reached at the 2015 Kyoto Ring round when Nobushige Fukuda, a Japanese driver driving for Melrose Racing Team, was killed in a horrific accident.
* YouGoGirl: Due to the increased success and [[ImprobablyFemaleCast presence]] of female drivers in the Alternate Series, almost every racing series has seen a woman win a race, not to mention a championship. Shinobu Katayama took the honours of being the first female champion when she won the 2011 [=F1Rejects=] LFS Cup, whereas [[GenkiGirl Tomo Kazama]] became the first woman to win ([=F3WRS=], 2014 ''and'' [=F2RWRS=], 2015). Pippa Mann also won the [=F1RWRS=] in 2012. Logically, this completely and deliberately averts the [[Main/WomenDrivers Women Drivers]] trope.
* WackyRacing: The ''Rejectful Eastern European Car Series'' is this, using Eastern European [[TheAllegedCar alleged cars]]. Generally, having one or two wacky races a season is generally expected from anyone running a game on the site.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: As mentioned above, sometimes real life or the lack of interest lead to plots getting abandoned and characters disappearing from the face of the Earth, such as in the case with Dan BH who started the BH Curse, which results in American drivers' failure to win a race.
