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Tune in this weekend to see the GPO Challenge and Sprint events broadcast live on Simrace.tv

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.

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 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.

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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.

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

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.

At GPO we are constantly searching for new ways to improve the service we can provide, thanks to one of the latest applications developed for the iPhone by Oscar Martin we are now able to provide live timing direct to your iPhone.

To access the new service you must go to the App Store on your device and search for “LiveFactor”. The App costs just £0.59, all proceeds go to the developer in order to fund the LiveFactor servers.

Once you have the application installed on your device simply open the application. In the search bar at the top, input “Grand Prix Online”. Our server is the only one on the list at this time, simply select our server and you will be presented with a box asking for a password, unfortunately we are required to use a password so we have set it as “gpo”; something that is easy to remember for everyone. The application will then connect and you can enjoy GPO live timing on your iPhone.

The application provides session data, driver names and split times aswell as a lot of other information as you can see in the screenshots attached to this post. The best part about this application is that it means the live timing can be accessed anywhere, even when you are out and about.

Round 01 of Grand Prix Online kicks off this weekend in the desert with two races around the Sakhir Circuit in Bahrain.

GPO Challenge kicks off on Saturday evening with a 49 lap event followed by the GPO Sprint Series on Sunday morning with a 25 lap race.

Grand Prix Online has managed to secure the rights to run the 2010 F1 configuration of Bahrain so be sure to tune into PSRTV on Saturday evening for the opening race of the 2010 Season.

Following the creation of GPO back in January we never considered the option of having live broadcasts of our races so early on in our existence.

Fortunately, everything we have done so far has gone ahead incredibly smoothly. Everything has turned out to be much better than we expected, however the biggest coup is that we have managed to gain access to the PSRTV beta program.

This fantastic opportunity to participate in this beta program enables us to be able to broadcast the opening round of the GPO Challenge Championship in Bahrain Live on PSRTV next Saturday. At this point in time the Bahrain event is the only confirmed broadcast but we are busy in negotiations with PSRTV in order to extend this to a whole season of racing.

Following this great news, we have worked towards gaining a team of commentators to provide an enjoyable commentary. We have been fortunate enough to have secured the services of three of the best commentators in the sim-racing community.

You will all be familiar with Michael Lam; he is one of the most experienced sim-racing commentators around. Michael has commentated on a number of series including FSR, GRC, SSCA and the Simtona 500. More recently Michael has been focusing his commentary skills on the many iRacing events that PSRTV cover.

Phil Roberts will be working alongside Michael in the booth, Phil began his commentary career as a pit reporter during the FSR 2009 season, he made the move into the booth at the Spanish Grand Prix when he was promoted to work alongside Michael. As with Michael, Phil has commentated on GRC events in the past and has taken a leading role on many occasions.

Finally, we have secured the services of Nick Rowland. Nick is the most experienced racer of the trio and will bring a racers view to the booth. Nick, as with Michael and Phil, commentated on FSR 2009. He was the lead commentator in a number of the broadcasts as well as working alongside Michael and Phil on a number of occasions.

We are all raring to go at Bahrain for the first round of the Championship in just under a week. With a high quality broadcast alongside a trio of the best commentators in sim-racing we are all in for a treat.

Make sure you tune into PSRTV next Saturday to catch the opening round of the GPO Challenge 2010 Championship.

In order to view the scheduled dates for each event, please click the “Calendar” button at the top of this page.

Grand Prix Online 2010 IS GO!!!!

Finally the wait is over!, After a month of preperation and lots of hard work GrandPrix-Online has reached its official launch date and we will be releasing everything to you, our community over the course of the coming day. The mod is ready and is undergoing final checks so keep an eye on the website and the forums for further news and developments in the world of GP-O.

We will also bring you further news of the upcoming test race from the famous Imola Circuit in Italy, this is to be held on the 3rd of March and should bring us plenty of on track excitement. We will look forward to seeing you all in the forums and out on the track!

We’d like to thank everyone for their input, trying to think of names.
But, the decision has been made, Grand Prix Online Challenge and Grand Prix Online Sprint are the official names!
Sprint will be the 50% race distance, and Challenge will do the full 100%!
Grand Prix Online Challenge driving times:
Saturday at 18:00 GMT.
Grand Prix Online Sprint driving times:
Sunday at 10:00 GMT.

With under two weeks until the official launch of Grand Prix Online signups for the 2010 season have opened.

In order to participate in the championship, team owners and drivers must first register and apply for membership on the official forums in order to gain a free participation license.

When you have been granted your participation license, you will be able to proceed to the GPCOS system and either register your team, or sign yourself up with an existing team.

We already have 18 entrants for the 2010 Championship; with teams beginning to launch their 2010 contenders, the tension is building for the season opener in Bahrain on March 13th.

As GP-O continues with leaps and bounds to work towards the opening race in the leagues history things have really began to pick up pace.

Firstly, a completely revamped Beta Mod is now readily available to all our approved drivers in the forums. The mod is based on the Ferrari F60 from the LMT Modding Group. Remember registration is completely free… hang on… so is the racing! Just what is there to lose? Sign up today! You’re more than welcome to bring a friend but unfortunately you can’t already discount free things for doing that.

Elsewhere in the world of GrandPrix-Online we have plenty going on.

Our first track pack is in the final stages of completion before it is released to the public. Our track packs will come in different stages so you have access to groups of tracks at a time and can prepare for them in advance.

We also now are in the final preparations for signing sponsors for a teamspeak3 server to help out with team radios and race control during the events, plus we now have the fantastic Live Timing on our website for all the ontrack action and the amazing Live Stream which effectively becomes a TV Channel dedicated to GP-O in the making. All these exciting media prospects are already at our fingertips, not to mention a potential partnership with PSRTV.

As you can see, now is starting to become the most exciting time in GP-O’s short life span. We really hope you come to join in with our community and celebrate fresh starts, new beginnings and our pre-season excitment as the tension builds for when the red lights go out.

Grand-Prix Online

Our Mission Statement

Grand-Prix Online (GPO) aims to bring a competitive and professional league to the sim-racing community whilst maintaining a friendly, relaxed and fun environment for our community to blossom, grow and enjoy the experience we provide.

How Will We Provide That?

GPO will be building trusting and supportive working relationships with mod groups, talented individuals and racing teams and make of the decision making as possible a group decision. We will have active discussion topics in which our valued members can offer messages of support, praise and also constructive criticism. We will always listen and take on board what everyone has to say and GPO will work as an open book league, which means everything that is discussed or decided will be done so in a public manner.

We also know that people are not here for politics and decisions and just want to have fun out on the track, and we respect (and completely understand) that. Via our forums we will be actively promoting a harmonious community that will respect each other on and off the track. We aim to run our races as efficiently as possible and provide a clear rulebook that cannot be interpreted in more than one fashion.

GPO firmly believes that everyone who comes to sim-racing does it for the sheer enjoyment of racing, and that is first and foremost in the administration that run the league. This is what takes precedent over everything. This is why the league has been launched.

Who Will Provide This?

At present we have a leading committee of five members. Each has the following role but will always be happy to help if you need to ask a question regarding another matter:

Dave Carr-Smith, Roy Wachtmeester & Michael Pieneman are the league administrators for GPO. They will be dealing with all the running of the events and any post-race check analysis.

Simon Smith, Michael Pieneman and Stuart Fields will be dealing with marketing and publicity for GPO.

Stuart Fields will be leading our art and design department.

Between the five administrators, we will make sure that everything is ran in a fair and positive manner and give our very best efforts to ensure we can cater for as many people as we possibly can.

So What Can We Look Forward To?

~A mod that has been tested by the community to ensure its something the majority of people can adapt to and enjoy
~A set-up database which allows for drivers to learn about their cars whilst testing
~Advice and guidance on livery and painting design
~A monthly/bi-monthly newsletter packed with news, reviews and gossip
~Potentially a midweek fun race pending on community response

Most importantly… organised fun community racing! 

We look forward to seeing you in the forums and out on the track,

With thanks,
GPO Admins