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25/06/2010 By Nick Oldenhuis GP-O
Round nine of the GrandPrix Online championship will be held at the relatively new Valencia Circuit, after a short trip to North America. Both Cordes and Rice are looking to match their victories in this Grand Prix, but the competition is fierce.
The Track
The Circuito Urbano de Valencia is 5.440 meters long and features a total of 25 corners. Thirteen of them bend to the right. Challenge drivers will be driving 57 laps, whilst the Sprint drivers have to complete a total of 29 laps around this difficult and demanding track.
The Circuito Urbano de Valencia is not famous for the spectacular races we saw in the past years. Perhaps the first visit of the Grand Prix Online paddock will change this. Only two corners have been marked as overtaking possibility, namely corner 12 and 17.
The Race
Challenge Qualify will start at 18:45 GMT, whilst the qualifying session for the sprint race will be the next Sunday at 9:00 GMT.
Silverstone By Nick Oldenhuis GP-O
This year will venue a brand new lay-out at the Silverstone track. Some corners were sacrificed to benefit the Motor racers safety, and were replaced by fast sweeping corners and a hairpin. Sceptics were weary about these changes, because Silverstone was perfect the way it was, according to them. Are these changes really that good? GPO Press had the opportunity to walk around the new track and experience it.
What is new?
The last race Silverstone venued, drivers had to take a left turn into Abbey. The tarmac between Abbey and Priory won’t be driven again this year, as Bridge corner was dangerous to motor drivers. Now drivers have to make a fast right turn leading up to a fast, but not really challenging section, ended by the new “Arrowhead” hairpin. It is this corner that probably allows overtaking moves.
Round up
All in all, the new layout is not the most challenging aspect of Silverstone, but in general it is a nice new feature, which the drivers appreciate. In a few days we will know who shall be crowned as King of New Silverstone.
17/08/2010
Here are the 1st skins for the new GP-O support series, The BMW is mine and the Porsche is a download from rfactor central painted by Labatt
C3 Drivers Podium
1 - Chris Rainer
2 - Charles Speed
3 - Erick Davis
Noram Drivers Podium
1
- Laurent Vaisman
2 - Erick Davis
3 - Bill McElroy
Noram Team Podium
1 - C5
2 - Sunarcher
3
- Rothmans
Final SimCar 2010-02 Results
C1 Drivers Podium
1 - Chris Rainer
2 - Laurent Vaisman
3 - Erick Davis
C1 Team Podium
1
- SunArcher
2 - Rothmans
3 - C5
Season 2010-03 Announced!
Season 2010-03 starts 6th September 2010. After a one week
break SimCar returns with a revised and shorter 7 round season format that gives
us more flexibility in anticipation of rFactor2 (hopefully released sometime this
year). We will be running 2 series only, Meganes tintops and also retaining the C1
cars (Indycar Dallaras). Meganes will be driver championship only and C1 will be
drivers and team championships. The format for each series will be timed races. This
will be a change for the C1 series.
Meganes: One 40min timed race
Champ 1: One 1hr
timed race
The track list will be:
Suzuka
Monaco
Rouen Les Essarts
Interlagos
Silverstone
Trois
Rivieres
Imola
Check the schedule page soon for actual dates and also the forums for
any further info on each series or to ask questions you may have. Don't forget, first
race is Meganes at Suzuka MONDAY SEPTEMBER 6th!
The 2010-03 package will be available
within the next 24 hours and an email will be sent out to let you know about it.