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GPO 2011 Entries Announced

Dave Carr-Smith — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 11:20:32 +0000

The first batch of successful team entries have now been announced, further information can be found on the official forum.

We currently have two vacancies available within Sprint Trophy. Applications will therefore be re-opened as of now, until 23:59GMT Sunday 27th February.

Additionally, information as to how to go about submitting your license acquisition fee for the 2011 season, whether you are a team owner or a driver, can now be found on the official forum.

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GPO 2011 Team Applications Open

Dave Carr-Smith — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 04:30:20 +0000

Team applications for the 2011 are now open and will remain open until 23:59 GMT on Sunday 20th February.

You can submit your team’s application by visiting the “Team Application” page found on the GPO home page and entering all of the details, it is also linked to at the end of this message.

On Monday 21st February my fellow admins and I will scrutinise the applications in order to determine the thirteen teams (for each series) that will compete. We will inform you all of the successful applicants as soon as possible following this.

Please complete the entry form for EACH team you wish to enter. DO NOT apply for more than one team entry on a single application.

I must remind you that upon your application being successful, you will be required to submit a £5.00 fee for each team entry. Information regarding driver entry fees will be forthcoming when we publish information as to how to submit your team entry fee.

As usual, if you have any questions, feel free to ask.

APPLICATION FORM: Click Here

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GPO 2011 Regulations Published

Dave Carr-Smith — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 04:29:05 +0000

You can now download the GPO 2011 Regulations via the link towards the end of this message.

We have also included a seperate document detailing the Research & Development system that will be implemented for the World Championship division of GPO this coming season which you can download via the link towards the end of this message.

The regulations and R&D document are comprehensive in their content and I am confident that they will answer the questions you have asked over the past few days, however, as always, if there is something you are unsure of please feel free to ask and we will do our best to help. Please note that these documents are open to refinement and alteration as we progress through the year. The upgrades system in particular will require testing and pre-season trials to make sure it works in the way that we had envisioned.

Please read the documents thoroughly as there are a lot of topics covered.

*Please note that should there be sufficient demand, we have the capability to add a third series*

DOWNLOAD: GPO 2011 Regulations
DOWNLOAD: GPO 2011 R&D Information

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GPO 2011 Season Announcement

Dave Carr-Smith — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 11:33:08 +0000

It is with the greatest pleasure that we welcome you to the 2011 season here at Grand Prix Online.

After the success of our first ever season in 2010 we are proud to have researched, developed and tuned what we believe to be a far more in-depth racing experience as you will take the role of a top racing driver to compete on some of the greatest tracks on earth.

Focus for 2011

The focus throughout the league for 2011 is teamwork. Being part of a team is an essential part of any form of motorsport and it is something that we are keen to strengthen and emphasise within GPO.
Maintaining our ethos of quality rather than quantity we will be opening up thirteen team slots in each of our race series to control the introduction of teams and promote the idea of team identity and keep a unique flavour to the grids during the 2011 season.

League Format

The format for 2011 will change slightly with 2010′s GPO challenge becoming the GPO World Championship with the best drivers competing with each other for top honours and perhaps some unexpected prizes. The World Championship will be the pinnacle of GPO and should provide a goal for new drivers to aspire to – can you prove your worth and catch the eye of a team manager to get your break in the WC?

This is not to say that our second series, the GPO Sprint Trophy will be any less of a challenge as drivers from all corners of the globe will gather to compete and prove themselves. In 2010 it was this championship that proved the most competitive with four drivers taking the title fight down to the wire and the constructors championship being decided at the very last race. Again only thirteen teams will be admitted to the series at any one time so team slots will be valued highly and drivers will have to show that they have the skills to be
worthy of a top line race seat.

Both series will benefit from the introduction of a live marshalling system this year that will allow the Race Directors and their team of dedicated marshals to provide on the spot penalties for any race infraction. Joining this system will be the introduction of the safety car; driven by a veteran of GPO and sim-racing in general the safety car will be deployed when the situation arises and will provide a further dimension to the on track action.

The World Championship series will also utilise a new vehicle upgrade and engine management system that will see the teams working together to upgrade and improve their cars over the course of the season whilst also keeping an ever watchful eye on the condition of the allocated eight engines; can you out develop and out think the opposition to get you to the chequered flag first? Only time will tell.

The Mod

Many of you have been asking about the car itself for the 2011 season and we are proud to announce a new partnership with the incredible Reiza Studios. A renowned car, physics, track and overall game developer Reiza Studios will be a sensational team to work alongside in 2011. We have been sworn to secrecy for a long time now as the administration worked closely with Reiza Studios lawyers and copyright partners to ensure we could reach the agreement we all desired. This agreement will see GPO using a custom built 2010 spec Formula One car in the shape of the mighty championship winning vehicle of Sebastien Vettel and Mark Webber – The Red bull RB6. Using the usual system of unique liveries for our teams, every allocated team will be issued the painting template for this car so that they can create their own work of art and have it grace the bodywork of this new vehicle. This marks a big step forward by GPO as we begin to work closely with a well-established mod group. The car itself has taken a great deal of discussion and financial commitment by GPO to secure its use for 2011. This naturally comes with various protection methods, contract agreements and a new, dedicated sim sync tool that will allow us to distribute the mod and the car to the people that deserve it, our GPO community.

Membership information

As a reflection of this, 2011 will bring in a membership application and fee process. This is not something we would do in an ideal world but if we wish to push the league to new heights, provide the leagues members with the best experience possible and also begin to offer prizes and rewards for competing in the league then this is the only way to go. The fees will be realistic and relatively small at just ten British pounds per driver and five British pounds per team (one entry one fee). We believe that we will be offering a league and experience that more than justifies this cost.

We have a staggering twenty race calendar that has already been published, a detailed new rulebook which outlines every aspect of the 2011 season and it’s on track rules, some incredible new tracks to include, new partners still yet to be announced, continued broadcasts from the 2010 season, new admin staff to welcome and some exciting new teams and drivers waiting in the wings. 2011 is building up to be a major step forward for GPO and we hope you all agree once you get a good look at it.

Release Schedule

As for when this will happen; the team and driver application process along with fee payments will open on the 16th February. Once a team’s application is processed the official car template will be sent directly to each team ready for painting. On the 1st March we will take delivery of the actual car from the Reiza factory and the remainder of the 2011 mod will be finalised and released through the SimSync tool to our drivers. After that we will be opening our new server with the Jerez test track for a week’s worth of car shakedowns and test runs. After this first week the server will move to our first official 2011 event, the Bahrain Grand Prix, Round 1 of the 2011 Grand Prix Online Championships. We hope you will all join us for the action beginning on the 12th March.

The warmest of welcomes and the very best of luck to you all.

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Season 2011 – Countdown immenent

Nick Oldenhuis — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 10:43:20 +0000

GPO 2011 is almost ready to open it’s curtains for the upcoming season.
As time progresses, GPO administrators are working very hard to get the best experience for our members. With just a mere month to go till the opening race in Bahrain, the GPO 2011 season is almost ready to open it’s curtains for all members.

Stay tuned for more information!

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Happy New Year From GrandPrix Online

Nick Oldenhuis — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 14:40:21 +0000

A bit late perhaps, but the administration of GrandPrix Online wishes you all the best for 2011.

Behind the scenes the administration is working hard to ensure an even better 2011 season.
So stay tuned for some exciting new regulations, mod, and much much more.

An official statement will be made shortly.

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GPO Support series is coming!

Stuart Fields — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 08:00:06 +0000

It is with great pleasure that we can announce to you the introduction of a support class race series to Grand Prix Online.

In the next update to GPO, as well as the final tracks, adverts, loading screens and the usual things you expect from an update we will also be including a specially modified for GPO Porsche supercup mod and a Formula BMW single seater mod to form the GPO Support series.

Details of the races, times and schedule will be posted in the coming weeks but we can say now that we will not be using the standard F1 tracks for this series. The decision was taken to include some of the very best circuits rfactor has to offer and make a truly great add on to the current GPO series. Templates for both cars will also be included and on the run up to the start of the series we will release a skin pack for you all to include your teams liveries.

We really hope that this will be a good thing for GPO and will open up new doors for the league and give us some more exciting racing as well as a great test bed for upcoming GPO F1 drivers.

Stay tuned for further announcements in the coming week.

Many thanks

The GPO admin team.

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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 secures broadcasting!

Stuart Fields — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 21:19:59 +0000

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.

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GPO hits Machinima.com!

Stuart Fields — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 22:16:46 +0000

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.

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