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Grand PrixView Yas Marina Circuit, Abu Dhabi

Nick Oldenhuis — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 14:35:45 +0000

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.

The Track

Yas Marina Circuit is 5.554 meters long and counts 21 corners. Twelve of them bend to the left. Drivers will drive this track anti-clockwise. It’s also called the Arabic Monaco.

The Abu Dhabi races ‘special’ treat is the time of day it will be held. The race will start at daylight, but it shall finish under artificial lights. The best overtaking opportunities this time will be turn 8 and 11. Special aspects of this track are the hotel, which was built over the track between turn 17 and 18 and the pit-exit which flows beneath the track.

Most Expensive

Yas Marina circuit is by far the most expensive track ever built for Formula races, roughly 1 milliard dollars. An entire Island had to be erupted from the sea. Also a hotel was built inside the racetrack. Also the lights around the track took a major part of the price, namely 250 million dollars.

The Schedule

Challenge will be brought live to you by Matthew Weston and Simon Smith. The broadcast will start at 18:45GMT, just in time for qualifying. The race will go green at 19:30GMT. The Sprint series will qualify at 9:00 GMT, with their race starting at 9:45 GMT.

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Fields Clinches Title in Penultimate Sprint Race!

GPO Admin Team — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 11:58:33 +0000

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.

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Patel & Walker Take Honours at Suzuka

Simon Smith — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 13:37:54 +0000

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.

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Pieneman Notches Up Second Win At Singapore

Simon Smith — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 10:59:41 +0000

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.

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Stuart’s Top of the Field at Monza

Simon Smith — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 10:48:36 +0000

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.

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GPO Sprint: Hungary Race Report

Simon Smith — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 11:26:21 +0000

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GPO Sprint – Hungary Results

Nick Oldenhuis — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 11:12:38 +0000

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. Original post from Grand Prix Online Sim-Racing League

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GPO Broadcast news: Round 12, Hungary

Stuart Fields — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 09:05:15 +0000

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)

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GPO Sprint review: Hockenheim

Stuart Fields — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:06:27 +0000

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Grand PrixView – Hungary

Nick Oldenhuis — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 09:53:38 +0000

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.

The Track

The Hungaroring is 4.381 meters long, which makes it the third shortest track on the race calender this season. Only Monaco and Sao Paolo are shorter. The track features 15 corners, 9 of them bend to the right. The Challenge race will count 70 laps, whilst the Sprint race is 35 laps. The broadcast commences Saturday at 18:45 GMT and Sunday the broadcast will go live at 09:00 GMT.

Summerbreak

The Hungarian Grand Prix will be the last race before the summer break. 4 weeks after the race on the Hungaroring the next race is scheduled in Belgium. The teams will look forward to this break and take some well deserved time off. But before this break, all of them are looking forward to the races this weekend! Don’t forget, all action will be brought live through SimRace.tv! Don’t miss it.

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