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Grand Prixview – Istanbul, Turkey
May 26th, 2010 | 
Author: 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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GPO Sprint: Spain & Monaco
The form book is turned on its head when the BackMarker Brigade decide to get racey…
Grand PrixView – Monte Carlo, Monaco
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.
Grand Prixview – Circuit De Catalunya, Spain
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.
GPO Sprint – Post-Race Press Conference
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.
Fields Pushed to the Van Brenk of the Pacific Rim
Robin Van Brenk and Stuart Fields take one win each at Melbourne and Sepang respectively and so begins the titanic scrap to chase down Malcolm Rice for the sprint title glory.
GPO Sprint – Post-Race Press Conference
After 29 laps of intense battling and overtaking moves, here we have the three podium finishers for the press-conference . Race winner Redspeed’s Robin van Brenk, second place finisher of GRIDline Racing Nick Oldenhuis and third place finisher Malcolm Rice, driver and team owner of Rice Racing.
Grand Prix-view Melbourne, Australia
After an eventfull race in Bahrain, where Kammann and Rice took the first wins in the Challenge and Sprint series, the field now gets ready for round two of the championship. And what a venue this is promising to get.
Traditionally the Australian Grand Prix was the season opener of the Formula 1. This year however, the first venue was in the desert of Bahrain.
The semi-street circuit in Melbourne, running besides a big lake, is 5.303 meters long and counts sixteen corners. Ten of them turn right, leaving 6 left handed corners.
The Challenge series will run 58 laps, the sprint series will do 29. Qualifying starts at 19:45 GMT on Saturday for the Challenge series, race start is scheduled at 20:30 GMT.
The Sprint series will race Sundays, where qualifying starts at 10:00 GMT, the race will go green at 10:45 GMT.
The Race
There are quite a few drivers looking for the win in Australia. Some of them had a disappointing race in Bahrein, like Camillo Nino who struggled a lot during the race. Others are looking to match their result
in Australia. Drazen Cokor for example found himself on the second spot on the podium last race, sure a place he didn’t expect to be in on forehand. Kammann however is looking to expand his lead by winning his second Grand Prix this season.
In the Sprint series Malcolm Rice is the man to beat. After a stunning drive in Bahrain, his main contenders are looking to finish in front of him, making sure he doesn’t increase his lead over 2nd place man Nick Oldenhuis and third place finisher Michael Pieneman. Ed Wiliams however is looking for his first finish of the season, after showing great driving in Bahrain, where he got into an accident and unfortunately had to retire.
Make sure you tune in to PSRTV this Saturday to follow the race LIVE.
The broadcast starts at 19:45 GMT.
Don’t miss it!
Rice On The Boil At Bahrain!
Malcolm Rice took the win in the inaugral GPO Sprint Bahrain Grand Prix. Nick Oldenhuis came home a fighting second with Michael Pieneman rounding off the podium finishers in third.
The newly created Sprint series, which takes place on Sunday mornings (GMT), saw 15 eager drivers on the grid ready to impress and Rice, in his own car, coverted his pole position to the lead down into turn 1 while behind, Oldenhuis battled for second with Rothmans Racing’s Ed Williams, the pair swapping positions constantly. This allowed Malcolm Rice to pull out a small lead, until Ed Williams crashed out on lap 9 of the race trying to keep up with Oldenhuis’ new GRIDline Racing car. This allowed Pieneman into the final podium slot.
Behind the lead three, an almight battle over the rest of points finishers was keeping everyones attention. Jermaine Venhorst had avoided some turn 1 jockeying to take fourth and was holding up Craig Johnston, Simon Smith, Maurice Willems and Ken Hunter. Hunter would lose control of his Rothmans on lap 3 taking himself out of the equasion, which then allowed Willems in his his BackMarker Brigade DNQ to attack his sister car stablemate Simon Smith, however an ill planned move lost Willems his front wing in the final corner and so he was in for an early pitstop. This then proved to be a blessing in disguise for Maurice as after dispatching Emmanuel Baako and Patrick Wier, he ran in clear air for the rest of the race, gaining time on the position swapping fest that was Venhorst, Johnston and Smith.
By the time everyone had pitted, Rice had opened up a good 15 seconds over Oldenhuis and over fourty seconds on a lonely Pieneman in the second GRIDline. The battles behind had not quite finished however as Smith, who’d lost out in the stops dispatched Venhorst for fifth and closed down Willems quickly only to have a costly spin in the closing laps and hault his charge. Further back we’d lost Flavio Nobrega from a points scoring position and also Emmanuel Baako who’d worked his way to 9th when he retired his Deletraz in the barriers. The other retirement was Myles Dixon who suffered a screen freeze and by the time the game returned, he was already missing some vital pieces of his car!
Malcolm Rice took a comanding win with a lights to flag victory and fastest lap for good measure – a fantastic achievement for Rice Racing and a race that will go down in history as the first ever GPO Sprint event. Oldenhuis and Pieneman make sure GRIDline take the constructors lead with second and third overall and team boss Stuart Fields will be delighted with that.
Behind Willems takes a delighted fourth ahead of a stunned Simon Smith grabbing one of best finishes in his sim racing career to date.
Patrick Wier took sixth after a determined drive and playing catch up after a cautious start, however his end lap times were on pace with those in front. Jermaine Venhorst was demoted to seventh after two drive throughs in the closing stages for ignoring blue flags, marring what was a stiring drive for RedSpeed. Craig Johnston came home ninth after a lengthy pitstop to repair damage following an off whilst James Scanlan improved his pace over the course of the race to claim ninth and Lee Massey grabbed the final point with a dogged drive to 10th depsite being significantly down on pace.