Archive for the ‘GPO Sprint’ Category

The 2010 season will be facing it’s last race this weekend. The Yas Marina circuit will be the host of the nineteenth round of the GPO championship. With both driver titles decided last race, just the Constructors title is at stake in Abu Dhabi. In Challenge, GRIDLine UK leads 21 points over Rothmans Racing, whilst Rice Racing tries to avoid losing more then fifteen points this race, to make sure they will take atleast one price home this season.
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Stuart Fields clinched the title this morning after finishing second in Round 18 of the GPO Sprint Championship held at Interlagos in Brazil.

Congratulations to Stuart for his achievement and form over the course of the season which has enabled him to secure the championship with a race to spare.

A full race report will be issued in the coming days.

Muhammed Patel took another win at Suzuka for GPO Challenge this weekend, beating home title leader Scott Wilde. The championship battle now looks hellbent for going down to the wire as Wilde’s lead continues to be chopped! The Patel brothers continue to close down the Rothmans pairing of Cokor and Vincentjevic in the equally dramatic constructors battle.

Ryan Walker grabbed a popular maiden win in GPO Sprint with a gutsy drive to head off Stuart Fields and Ari Kesseli. This played into the hands of Fields who increases his lead over Malcolm Rice whom came in fourth, but this allows Rice Racing to close in the constructors after Michael Pienemann crashed out.

Full reports and results will be available during the week.

Michael Pieneman won the GPO Sprint Singapore GP today narrowly beating Stuart Fields and Sven Hesse into second and third places respectively  as the trio spent most of the race swapping places. This narrows down the points lead Fields has on the championship despite his nearest rival prior to the race Malcolm Rice’s retirement late in the race as Pieneman moves into second overall.

A full race report is to follow.

Stuart Fields took a stonking victory at Monza in the GPO Sprint series, leading home a 1-2 for GridLine with his teammate Michael Pieneman coming home a disant second. Malcolm Rice kept his championship challenge alive with third leading home a Rice Racing trio of Ari Kesseli and Terence Grech with Simon Smith scraping home sixth.

A full race report will follow shortly.

Sven Hesse won the Hungarian GrandPrix, after a commanding race from start to finish. Malcolm Rice, his teammate came in second. Jack Nicholls drove a superb race and finished third.

A full report will follow shortly.

You can tune in this weekend for the Challenge & Sprint series to watch these exciting races!
Click the “Broadcast” button to watch these races live.

Broadcasting starting at:
Challenge: 18.45 GMT (Starting with Qualifying)
Sprint: 9.00 GMT (Starting with Qualifying)

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 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.

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.

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

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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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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