Thursday Night Championship 8

Thursday Night Championship 8 is Race Department's eighth Thursday Night Championship, a Formula One racing league contested on Codemasters' Formula One game series. It is being contested on F1 2013, over 15 rounds between February 27 and June 5, 2014.

Victor Ivanov went in to the season defending his third Drivers' Championship, only this time, he does it with Ferrari instead of Red Bull, and Force India are defending the Constructors'. Mark Saunders, yeseterseason's runner-up, currently leads the championship, with his team, Force India, also leading the constructors'.

Calendar
On November 21, 2013, Kaido Parl, administrator of TNC, announced that five tracks ("like Spa, Suzuka") would feature in both TNC 7 and TNC 8, and that the remaining seven of TNC 8 would be the tracks that did not feature in TNC 7. On February 12, 2014, Parl announced he would try to make a new thread (presumably with a provisional calendar and sign up list) the following week, and seemed keen to the idea of adding the two classic tracks included in F1 2013 standard edition to TNC, Jerez and Brands Hatch. He also announced TNC 8 would "probably" begin on 27th of that month.

On February 17, Parl created the TNC 8 sign up and calendar thread. In addition to the twelve previously-implied tracks, he added Brands Hatch, Jerez and a "Drivers Favorite" round at the end of the championship, in which the drivers will "vote what track to drive".

Teams and drivers
As usual, all teams (of which there are eleven in F1 2013) were available to drive for, and there were sixteen seats available, as per the limitations of F1 2013's multiplayer games. For TNC 7, drivers who drove in TNC 6 were given priority in choosing teams. This was not the case for TNC 8, and was only the case for TNC 7 because of the transition between F1 2012 and F1 2013.

The sign up list was created on February 17. * Rounds the driver was signed to the team or drove for them, not just rounds they attended using that team

* Rounds the driver was on the reserve list for. ** Rounds the driver played. *** What teams the driver played as during their time on the reserve list.

During round two, Ola Severinsson of Sweden was allowed to race, helped by the fact that they also participated in Racedepartment's Wednesday Night Championship.

Round 1 – Malaysia

 * ''Forum page: TNC 8 1/15 - Malaysia (27/02/14 @ 20:30GMT)

The season began in Malaysia. Qualifying saw light-rain, requiring intermediate tyres all the way through. Mark Saunders took pole from Pesa and Ivanov. The start of the race saw Pesa drop to the back of the field due to a spin. Other than that, position changes were small in number. After a few laps, Saunders pulled away from the pack. Ivanov, Mekkes, Pesa, and Sinik were battling for second. Najda had a brilliant start from the back of the grid, and was battling with Eaton, Lawton, and Praga for 5th. Saunders and Lawton used two-stop strategies, while the rest of the field used three. Saunders took victory by a comfortable 17 seconds, while Lawton struggled to maintain second, and dropped to fourth. Ivanov was the highest place three-stopper in second, followed by Henri Sinik. Two days after the race's finish, a stewarding decision had found that Pesa, who clawed his way back up to fifth, overtook Mekkes, sixth, by leaving the track. It was decided that the positions would be swapped.

Round 2 – Brazil

 * ''Forum page: TNC 8 2/15 - Brazil (06/03/14 @ 20:30GMT)

Victor Ivanov could not defend his title at the Brazilian Grand Prix due to it being his birthday. This allowed Pesa's strong pace in Malaysia to materialize in to results. He took pole position by half a second, and won the race by another 7, ahead of the two Mercedes cars, Mekkes behind Partington. Saunders and Force India retained their championship lead, scoring a 4th and 6th, though it was reduced.

Results and standings

 * See also: Results sheet