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Only one week after the German Grand Prix, the next one is on the schedule. The Hungaroring, near Budapest, is the host of the Hungarian Grand Prix. Scott Wilde leads the Challenge series, with a marginal 2 points infront of Drazen Cokor. Stuart Fields is still on top of  Sprint Championship ladder, extending his lead over Malcolm Rice in Germany to  7 points.
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It is with great pleasure that GPO can announce its new partnership with simrace.tv, a dedicated simracing broadcasting service. This will provide all GPO races with full broadcasts for the remainder of the year. We are still looking for dedicated staff to help us with the work involved with broadcasting so if you are a budding cameraman or director please drop us a line over at the GPO forum. In the meantime do check out simrace over at their website. A great day for GPO so lets get stuck in and show the world the awesome racing here at Grand Prix Online.

GPO driver, long standing sim racer and now real life British motorsports commentator Jack Nicholls is one of us who is making big waves in the racing community. Starting out as a sim commentator Jack is rapidly making his way up the ranks in real life motorsports commentating and you can see his newly launched show reel here by clicking the image below.  Check it out and give Jack the feedback he deserves. GPO wishes him all the best for his future, well done Jack.

GPO are proud to announce that their partnership with Machinima is now bearing fruits as we have out first video ready for viewing on their site.

Click the machinima banner below to go to the video and check out this amazing hotlap with an incredible commentary track by Jack Nicholls.

Grand Prix Onlines administration would like to say that at this time we have no comment on the article posted in the daily news.

Here is the full article about the events of the GPO sprint series British Grand Prix. The actual written report was huge this time (in the very best way) so the font size had to be reduced to fit all of the text into the document. So as a result you will see that the image, when clicked on, will go slightly larger than previous. Thanks to Nick Oldenhuis for a superb article and thanks to all of the sprint series drivers for giving us such a great race to write about. Enjoy.

Can all drivers registered to drive in either Challenge or Sprint series events please remember to complete your driver allocation for the upcoming race. This is an important part of the preparation for a grand prix weekend and we would appreciate your co operation on this matter. Thank you.

After a break of six races, Millenium Racing and Kammann are returning to the grid for the German GP in Hockenheim 2010. The team tests so far are looking promising and the drivers feel very comfortable in the car. But the team is clever enough to not underestimate the other teams and their drivers. Even Millenium Racing team-chief Jermaine Venhorst sounds fortunate.

Team-chief Jermaine Venhorst: “Finally we can race in Hockenheim, it was not sure if Kammann can do this GP but now we are happy to see him back in the car, even if it is maybe only for one race. But still the team wants to win this race and we are working hard to reach that.”

Jan-Moritz Kammann: “I’m very happy to get the chance to sit in this car again. This is my home GP so I’m jubilant to go to the track and go racing again here in this wonderfull series. Hopefully the homecrowd will cheer for the german drivers and also for me, but I think the atmosphere will be brilliant.”

Article by: Jan-Moritz Kammann

Red 5 Racing have been granted entrance to GP-O both in the Challenge and Sprint competitions.

Co-Owner and driver Gavin Thomas stated “We are very pleased to be involved in such a prestigious series. The abilities of our drivers will be stretched to the limit, but that’s what you want as a driver is to be pushed.”

On the subject of the second seat Thomas was happy to confirm the signing of a pre-contract agreement with his co-owner and good friend Wayne Mullins.

“One thing is for sure; Wayne has been competing against me for as long as I can remember and this series was an opportunity for us to work together. I personally cannot wait to see the outcome, as when he (Mullins) and I get near a race track, the gloves literally come off and our friendship is set aside!”

Red 5 Racing is not here to make up the numbers, to quote the affable Welshman Thomas: “We’re here to make some waves and to challenge for championship points, anything less would be disappointing!”

Only time will tell whether R5R can mount a serious championship challenge.

Article by: Gavin Thomas

After a bit more work we can now bring you the finished, revised format GPO news articles in their intended double page spread format. With luck you can click the thumbnail below and the full article will load in a larger screen for viewing and reading. We hope you enjoy this as it has taken a lot of preparation and hard work to produce an article of this nature and to be able to bring you a much improved news section. Many thanks. The GPO admin.

Please leave us your feedback and comments. Thank you.

What happens when Jan-Moritz Kammann and Sven Hesse, two of GPO’s finest drivers go head to head on a one lap challenge around the Hockenheim circuit. Who will come out on top. Click the image below to find out…

As the build up begins for the German Grand Prix we go for a hotlap of the circuit with German driver Sven Hesse in his Rice Racing car, enjoy this very fast blast of a great track.

Note: There is also a smaller video player located to the left of this article where you can view the lap.

GrandPrix Online 2010 – Hockenheim Lap

With a week to go until the next round of the GPO championships posters for the event have been seen around town and the German race fans are getting ready for the GPO circus to arrive.

This stunning race flyer was created by resident GPO artist James Scanlan whose work can be found throughout the media of Grand Prix Online. Many thanks to James for creating this.

As part of the GPO website facelift currently going on we have updated the links for the free practise screen and the live timing application. You will see these located at the top left of the website and a simple click will take you to either of these applications.

This has been done to allow us to free up some of the tabs at the top of the website for further new content as it is developed. The old links still work for the time being and we will update you all when this is changed. For now though we hope you enjoy the continued updates to your GPO website.

Do you have a team or driver website that you would like to have featured on Grand Prix Online? If so contact the league admin and we will add you to the new team websites bar located at the lower left of this website.

We very much look forward to adding new content and helping your teams and drivers reach whole new audiences.

Just launched, the GRIDline racing team are proud to present their latest website. Created to keep fans of the team up to date with the latest news, driver information, results and images from the teams racing season this website should prove to be a valuable tool as the team develops throughout its life.

Come and visit us at:

http://www.wix.com/gridlineracing2010/GRIDline-Racing

After some work the news reports for GPO will be getting a dramatic facelift as we strive to make GPO a more visually striking and appealing place to visit. The upcoming race previews and race reports will take on a new look and be uploaded in a visual magazine style presentation along with images of the key race moments.

The one included here is an example of the work and simply utilises the excellent report written by Malcolm Rice that eventually became the audio for the highlights video. Part of the article is missing as this would be visible on a second page that will be created.

We hope you enjoy this new development, please leave your comments and we will return with more soon. Please click the image for an enlarged pop up screen. Thank you.

Sven Hesse has won the first race on the new Silverstone circuit for Rice Racing. Michael Pieneman came in second place for GRIDLine Racing. Stuart Fields brought his car home after an heroic race in third place for GRIDLine Racing Double R.

Full race report will follow shortly.

The next round of GrandPrix Online’s championship will be held in Northamptonshire, Great Britain. The circuit of Silverstone is exactly the halfway point for this season. In Challenge Drazen Cokor leads with 92 points, whilst in the Sprint series has Malcolm Rice still as leader with 144 points.

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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.

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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.

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After an eventfull Turkish Grand Prix, the teams crossed the ocean to participate in the Canadian Grand Prix. After an absent year, this famous track once more is on the calender. After seven rounds, Cokor leads the Challenge championship with a 14 point lead over Kammann. The Sprint table is led by Rice, who has Fields breathing down his neck.

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After a few races without a broadcast, GPO is proud to announce that this feature will once more return. Challenge Series will be broadcasted again! The administration team is still looking for a solution to broadcast the Sprint series also.

Thanks to ProCaster Livestream, we are able to bring you live action from the track.

The feature is accessed by pressing the “Broadcast” button from the frontpage of our website
GPO is still looking for people who would like to join the broadcasting Team as commentators, also we are looking for additional cameramen especially for the sprint series.

If you feel you are up for the challenge ( or sprint ), send a pm to one of the administrators, or head over to the forums.

Grand Prix Online’s next round will be held at  Istanbul Park  in sunny Turkey. Drazen Cokor is our new Challenge leader, whilst Malcolm Rice still hangs on to  first place in the  the Sprint Series standings.

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The Eagle soars as practice begins…

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The form book is turned on its head when the BackMarker Brigade decide to get racey…

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This weekend GrandPrix-Online will host it’s very first practice session. Two days long, the server will be open to practice for the upcoming Grand Prix of Turkey.

As a bonus to the practice sessions, parts of it will be live broadcasted on XFIRE !

Read more about this on our forum

In between the practice sessions at the Monaco track, Scott Beck, team owner and driver of Rothmans Racing joined us for a welcome drink and a small interview.

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Just seven days after the Spain Grand Prix, the field settles in the capital city of stardom: Monte Carlo. The race in the streets of this Princedom is unique and already for decades the host of one of the highlights of the Grand Prix – Online Calender. Kammann still leads the Challenge standings, whilst Rice does the same for the Sprint series.

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This weekend will be all about the Grand Prix of Spain, hosted on the Circuit de Catalunya. This is officially the kick-off for part one of Grand-Prix Onlines European season.  The next three rounds will all be held on European land. After a quick visit to Canada, the final part of the European season will venue the next six races.

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It is with great pleasure that I announce GPO’s new partnership with Machinima.

As some of you may know, Machinima is the premier online gaming network, receiving over 108 million video views each month across the Machinima network. Videos will also be uploaded onto the Machinima YouTube channels which hold well over 1 million subscribers.

The deal will see Grand Prix Online having exclusive sole rights within the sim-racing community to upload race highlights, reviews and track guides to the Machinima network that will ultimately see GPO gain huge exposure with the online gaming community.

This partnership is a great coup not only for GPO, but for the teams of GPO both now and in the future, both league and team sponsors can look forward to huge exposure via this newly formed partnership.

We will begin submitting videos to Machinima shortly. We look forward to seeing you at the Spanish GP held on 8th/9th May in order to give us some great new footage to use.

As usual, if you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact either myself or one of my fellow admins.

The Grand Prix-Online administration is proud to present the possibility to get your Team-logo or sponsor outing into the actual races this season. Do you want everyone to know your team is participating, or give extra attention to your teams sponsor?  Head over to the  forum and read all about it, or make your enquiry to promotions@grandprix-online.com.

Hennings Cordes takes the fourth win of the season and proves that winning in GPO Challenge is very reminiscent of the old party game “pass the parcel”

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And so we move to Malysia were it was all change at the top again. A third winner in as many races…

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As we make a long overdue catch up with the fantastic GPO Challenge series, we make whistlestop reviews of each race and evaluate – will there be a changing of the guard as Jan-Moritz Kammann finds his early lead under attack left, right and centre? This is part one of four seperate articles about GPO Challenge that will be published over the next four days…

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The 2010 season continues this weekend with the Chinese Grand Prix on the Shanghai International Circuit. After the first three races Jan-Moritz Kammann leads the Challenge championship with 52 points. The Sprint championship is led by Malcolm Rice, also with 52 points.

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After a quick Sprint Press Conference, the three podium finishers from the Challenge series join us for the press conference A welcome to race-winner Tom Eley, second place driver Mickael Folcher for GRIDline Racing and rounding up the podium for Milennium Racing, Jan-Moritz Kammann.

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After an exciting race at Sepang, we now have the three podium finishers with us. From left to right we meet second place driver for Millennium Grand Prix Sven Hesse. Race-winner Stuart Fields from GRIDline Racing, accompanied by his teammate in third place Michael Pieneman.

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