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Message: [QUOTE="GRM Bandit, post: 12651527, member: 302625"] [CENTER][B]The Offseason Articles: Nukeshot Motorsport, offapple, and Drama [IMG]https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/527886873369247766/549297341727899648/7134265937082974748_0.jpg?width=800&height=450[/IMG] [/B][/CENTER] Firstly, sorry to everyone who was expecting the Week 2 livery reveals. I decided to do a quicker article as a sorry post for you guys. The livery reveals will continue as soon as I can get to them. Sorry for the inconvenience again. In the meantime, I interviewed series organizer, Nukeshot Motorsport team principal, and long time friend offapple ([USER=296022]@PSN offapple[/USER]). GRM Bandit: [I]Do you have anymore insight into who you’re three potential picks for the Nukeshot Motorsport team are? [/I] offapple: [B]I have a few ideas for Season 5, but I can't say much right now. We had a strong line up for Season 4, which showed with our 2 squads taking both 1st and 2nd in the Pro-Am championship. Y_bearr is one that I am especially considering a contract extension, while Waike has his own plans with SRP. I doubt Zephyr will make a return for us, so there are a couple of spaces to work with. [/B] GRM Bandit: [I]Is a contract between Nukeshot and BMW likely to happen again, or is Nukeshot looking at other options? [/I] offapple: [B]The reason that there were doubts if the BMW partnership would continue was due to trying to find a compromise with ex-S5 driver Sniparator. As you may well know, Sniparator and Nukeshot parted ways after a troubled time for him in DRL DTM. Now that it's confirmed that he's gone, the partnership with BMW looks to be continuing for another season unless something else comes up. [/B] GRM Bandit: [I]Did Snip leave because of the BMW partnership exclusively, or were there other factors leading to Snip leaving? [/I] offapple: [B]There was just generally a lack of team chemistry between myself and him which became apparent in DRL DTM. He also announced his retirement from the series publicly without giving me, his then team principal, any notice. That's basically what pushed me to make the decision to drop him entirely from Nukeshot Motorsport's future plans. [/B] GRM Bandit: [I]Is Nukeshot planning on creating a sister team, or is Nukeshot going on the customer team route? Or is is possible that Nukeshot will absorb one of the struggling small teams? [/I] offapple: [B]I'm hoping to go down the route of having 2 teams again as there's strength in numbers. Having a customer team on top of that would be quite a controversial move as it would bring Nukeshot's car total to 5, so I doubt I would do that. Regarding absorbing another team as you put it, it all depends on whether I can get an independant sister team to work or not. If not, then a merge with another team might be necessary. [/B] GRM Bandit: [I]What is Nukeshot’s main goal this season? [/I] offapple: [B]To burn rubber and chew bubblegum. Maybe get another teams championship while we do it too. [/B] GRM Bandit: [I]Do you have anything else you want to add about Nukeshot’s future plans? [/I] offapple: [B]The new partnership with medicinal drug chemists Atomic Injectables will hopefully give us that extra bit of backing that we need going forward, not to mention a new special chemical designed to improve the fuel combustion that we've been developing. We'll be trialing it at the upcoming Nürburgring 1 Hour event with our old faithful Peugeot RCZ.[/B] GRM Bandit: [I]Thanks for having me Radish.[/I] offapple: [B]No problem.[/B] Well to wrap up this article, offapple seems to know exactly what he's doing. To be honest, that should be expected of the four year team principal. While it is sad that Snip left Nukeshot, there are plenty of drivers in the series who would be eyeing up a nice Nukeshot contract. In the meantime, I'm GRM Bandit, terribly sorry for the delay in Week 2's livery reveals, signing off. [/QUOTE]

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