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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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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

With a week to go until the next round of the GPO championships posters for the event have been seen around town and the German race fans are getting ready for the GPO circus to arrive.

This stunning race flyer was created by resident GPO artist James Scanlan whose work can be found throughout the media of Grand Prix Online. Many thanks to James for creating this.

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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Round nine of the GrandPrix Online championship will be held at the relatively new Valencia Circuit, after a short trip to  North America. Both Cordes and Rice are looking to match their victories in this Grand Prix, but the competition is fierce.

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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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The 2010 season continues this weekend with the Chinese Grand Prix on the Shanghai International Circuit. After the first three races Jan-Moritz Kammann leads the Challenge championship with 52 points. The Sprint championship is led by Malcolm Rice, also with 52 points.

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Round 2 of GP-O’s inaugural season ready and set for a showdown. With just under 5 hours to go, a few remaining drivers are now gracing the land of the wallabies with their presence.Some chose to hang back to enjoy the luxuries of the gulf in Bahrain and have been spotted making their way off their chartered carriers. With the current £40 million budget cap imposed by the FIA, we’re seeing fewer G5s arriving at Melbourne’s Tullamarine airport.

The man to beat from Round 1, Jan-Moritz Kammann, managed to edge Williamson Dynamics GP’s Camilo Nino off the leader board earlier in the week only to see GRIDline UK tear that sheet up into shreds. Lukas Euler sits more than half second clear of teammate David Dominguez hanging on to a one-hundredth of a second lead over the current points leader. We wait to see what last minute changes will surface and if these guys can find some more pace before qualification.

The GPO-O Sprint series drivers are simply bidding their time now, waiting to jump on the circuit as soon as the post-race celebrations end. In a quick chat with one of the crew members sporting a suit clad in BackMarkerBrigade colours, he mentioned that PSRTV’s coverage of the Challenge race will be an eye-opener in picking up the parts of the track where to really push the car and find the difficult overtaking spots.

After such a great opening performance by all GP-O teams in the maiden round, the atmosphere is simply ecstatic. Large numbers of visitors have dropped by to say congratulations to the guys in Melbourne, and the enormous quantity of fantastic feedback online, confirms the exciting growth of GP-O amongst the F1 circles. Jet-lagged crews tweaking cars for optimum performance, all the while adjusting to the 10-hour time difference did not make anyone available for some good interviews, but expect a few words after qualifying. I did grab a quick chat with Sven Hesse of RedSpeed Grand Prix who had noticed some of the new drivers joining the line-up. “I know some of these guys, and they are crazy quick”, he said “expect some really good battles on the track.

So Albert Park, GP-O is here. The track itself, set in mown parkland, is easy to walk around so anyone with general admission will have a blast of a weekend. Those in the grandstands will also be but be caught with gleaming faces at the beginning and end of each lap. Heading back down to the paddocks from my room at the Crown Towers with stunning views of Port Philip Bay to get ready, I’m giddy with bounce and ebullience: 2 races, 2 championships, 2 electrifying days of fun… get ready to go racing!

-reporting from the grid, this has been EB with ‘GP Inside’

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.

The Track

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!