Santander Grand Prix von Deutschland - Nurburgring - Official Results

POST RACE OFFICIAL INTERVIEWS

Davide Corigliano (BMW Sauber) - WINNER
ENGLISH: "I'm so happy for this win, I had a good feeling with my car and setup was great, with soft tires I had to overtake Baroni in first laps, but I missed a corner and I was forced to climb up again. If Baroni didn't make an error, I think we should fight for first position. Now I'm focused only to be in front of him in next races".
ITALIANO: "Sono molto felice per la vittoria, avevo un buon feeling con la vettura e il setup era ottimo, con le morbide dovevo per forza superare Baroni nei primi giri ma ho sbagliato e ho dovuto recuperare. Se piddu non fosse uscito ce la saremo giocata. Adesso penso solo ad arrivare davanti a lui nelle prossime gare."

Alex Zingalus (Ferrari) - 2nd Place
ENGLISH: "I'm so happy for second position, cause this is a track I don't really like and I had never made nice races here. I was in troubles to keep the way of leaders after my pitstop with a not really good setup, however I want to say 'thank you' to my team for the great work and constant updates that give me more feeling with the car".
ITALIANO: "Felicissimo della seconda posizione finale, questo e un circuito che non mi piace non ho mai fatto grandi risultati. Ho faticato a tenere il passo dopo il cambio gomme con un setup non al meglio, ringrazio comunque la squadra per il lavoro svolto e per i continui miglioramenti che mi permettono di sentire maggiormente la macchina."

Gianpiero Baroni (Force India Mercedes) - 3rd place
ENGLISH: "Qualify was better than what we expected, in our team everyone worked doing his best. Race start was wonderfu, I overtook Corigliano in first corner. I led for 10 laps, when my tire collapsed pushing me against the wall. Pitting in I had a stop of 12 second, I lost some position and when I pitted out I tried to climb up the standing: ended in 3rd with a second of gap from Alex Zingalus. In general, not bad...really looking forward Hungary!"
ITALIANO: "La qualifica è andata meglio del previsto, in Force hanno lavorato tutti alla grande. La gara è partita splendidamente, in partenza son partito in maniera impeccabile, superando Corigliano alla prima curva. Fino al 10° giro ero in testa con un po di vantaggio sul secondo ma purtroppo la mia gomma è finita facendomi andare a sbattere contro le protezioni. Rientrando ai box con una sosta di 12 secondi perdo posizioni, cosi ho tentato di recuperare: a fine gara 3° a un secondo da alex Zingalus, tutto sommato è andata bene...sarà per l'Ungheria!"

Meeting...Gianpiero Baroni

Name: Gianpiero (Suppa)

Surname: Baroni (Piddu)

Age: quite close to 29

Place of Birth: Rho (Milano) Italy

Where do you live: Rho

Height and Weight:173cm 73kg

Baroni during his succesfull carrer with go-karts

What are your hobbies?: racing with moto and cars, online races

What do you do in your life?: Hair specialist

Who is the most beutiful woman in the world?: Shania Twain

How many years did you race rF online?: eight months

What kind of controller do you use: Logitech g25

Do you like rF1?: really a lot

What kind of modifies do you suggest for rF1?: more stable server

Baroni is now back to the top of standings after Great Britain's win.

Who is going to win?: who is going to be more "constant"

Who is the surprise?: Cabiddu e Giammy Serra

What's your favourite real driver?: Jarno Trulli

What's your favourite track?: Monaco, Valencia, Monza

What kind of different league would you like to race?: Tourism and IndyCar

rFactor1 Santander Grand Prix von Deutschland - Nurburgring - Preview

Nurburgring F1 track.

The 8th race of rFactor1 league took finally place in Germany, in a very historical place for F1: the famous Nurburgring.
Of course, the track is quite different from the old 22kms/lap version, but here we can already see exciting races and great battles.

New paddock for rF1 races.

The last version of track is 5.148 kms long, with sixteen corners, ten right and six left. There are also four important straights, where rF1 cars can easily take 305 km/h.

If you want to know something more about the city and the track, please visit:
http://www.nuerburgring.de/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%BCrburgring
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%BCrburg

The Nurburgring Nordschleife now.

The race is tuesday, June 8th, free practise will start at 09.00pm GMT time (10.00pm in Italy).
h 09.00pm GMT Free practise - 35 mins.
h 09.35pm GMT Qualify - 10 mins. (Parc Ferme)
h 09.45pm GMTRace - 35% of real laps with a mandatory pitstop -22 laps.

Race carefully, see you in track.

rF1 staff.

Flash News #04 - 06.03.10

Lotus is disappointed after entry list refuse.
Lotus has not given up for 2010.

Several teams are really disappointed after they were not been included by the rF1 Federation on the official entry list for next season.
Lotus, under the new ownership of Tony Fernandes and capitals from Malaysia, with investiments from local government throught the Proton. Lotus Racing F1 Team is still in waiting and has not given up the chance to race next season
Also David Richard, ex BAR manager and now owner of Prodrive, is disappointed, cause rF1 is the highest level of competion and his team woul really like to join as soon as possible.

Driver's market swap for Red Bull and Toro Rosso?
Drivers swap for RBR and STR?

Some rumors in the paddock says that for 2010 season Giammy and Giaki Serra should move to RBR, considering the same ownership of both teams, lead by Dietrich Mateschitz. Cardozo, who is in talking with the team for a contract renewal, should move to STR, followed by (last minute new) Mario Nieto.

Manor, Campos and USF1 drivers market.
Manor GP during last F3 season.

A few hours after the announcement of the entry of new teams in the league, rumors of market purchase of new drivers have sparked in the paddock. Manor, Campos and USF1 are talking with some drivers, some from rF1 and some from other leagues. The most appetites are Max Burdisso and Daniele Vacca, after they great first half of the season. Both drivers have got 5 points in the standing and they are looking forward to a contract renewal or for a new signing for 2010 season.

rFactor1 Santander British Grand Prix - Silverstone - Comment

It was an exciting race in Silverstone for rFactor1 circus. The home race of most teams showed the skills of some drivers, but also the lack of brain of some others.
In qualify, there was a great pole for the "deb" of Red Bull Ahmet Kesgin form Turkey, due of a really low amount of fuel in the tank. Baroni was second, third place for Luty (really bad behaviour for him during this race), Cabiddu (Monaco winner) 4th. Corigliano was really in troubles with his BMW and started in 15th.

Mario Nieto is back in points, after a great battle with his friend Cardozo.

At the green light, all drivers left the grid, Kesgin leading, with Giammy Serra who had overtake Zingalus in first corner. In the center of the group, at Becketts, lot of contacts happened: Giaky Serra hit Greg and lost his nose, there was a contact between Iudicello and Corigliano, and in Chapel Wariof destroyed his car hitting Giaky Serra, who was coming back to the track after the previous accident.
But it's not over: at corner eight Cardozo, finally really fast, overtake Zingalus for 5th place. At The Bridge, Bernard finished his fuel and was overwhelm by Corigiano: the McLaren driver completely lost his rear tire ad was forced to retire.
At the end of first lap, pitstops for: Kesgin, Iudicello, Giaky Serra and Wariof (retire for him).

Second lap, Giaky Serra and Antonio Iudicello waere forced to carry a Stop&Go for speeding in pits.
Fourth lap, Nieto spun off at first corner, back in track with no damages in 11th position. Kesgin started his abominable show, overtaking Smith after an heavy contact in Stowe.

Zingalus was 7th at the end of first lap, but he climbed up the standing taking an awesome second position.

Fifth lap, while Baroni is leading in front of Luty, Cabiddu spun off at Luffield losing in third position, taken by GM Serra.
One lap later, pitstops for Cardozo (was 6th) and Kesgin (second pit for him). Corigliano, leader of World Championship, ended his bad race hitting the wall just outside Chapel.
Eighth lap, Monaco's winner Cabiddu retired for an electric failure.

At tenth lap, pitstops dance finally started: we had Greg, Burdisso (also a Stop&Go for him for Speeding in Pitlane), Giammy Serra, Smith, Baroni, Nieto, Zingalus, Kesgin, Luty (hit the wall pitting out), Vacca, Iudicello and Giaky Serra.
Pitstop was really important for Zingalus in 15th lap: he made his pit two laps after Giammy Serra and pitted in front of him for one second, taking second place.
Also in fifteenth lap, there was the final retire for Luty that was penalized after an incredible series of cuts in every lap.

Seventeenth lap, great overtake of Nieto on Cardozo for 5th place.
One lap later, Kesgin broke his nose hitting Nieto for four times in two corners. His behaviour had been really unacceptable and he received ten seconds of penalty at the end of the race, plus the starting from last position in German GP. In the same lap, Cardozo took again 5th place overtaking Nieto with Brawn.

This is what drivers calls a great race: lot of fights and a good 5th place for Cardozo and his Red Bull.

Great win at the end for Baroni, who took again the leadership of the standings, important second place for a never subdued Zingalus and again a third place for the "solid" Giammy Serra and his Toro Rosso.

SUMMARY OF PENALTIES:
- Ahmet Kesgin, the whole the race pushing other drivers to overtake them, bad behaviour in track - +10secs on his race time, starts from last in Germany, official "yellow card" - at first mistake he's going to be DSQ for one race.
- Tomas Luty, the wole race hitting other drivers, cutting corners, driving out of the track, cutting lines, etc. - DSQ in Germany.
- Giacomo Serra, official warning. He has to be more careful coming back in track after an accident.
- Davide Corigliano, above all in first lap was driving too much agressive, under probation.

rFactor1 Santander British Grand Prix - Silverstone - Official Results

Massive penalties for Kesgin and Luty. They showed really bad behaviour, causing lots of accidents, cutting corners more than once.
Kesgin hit 4 times during 18th lap Mario Nieto for example. So, the turkish driver suffers 10 sec of penalty and will start from last position in German GP.
Luty, considering was racing his 4th gap, is going to be DSQ for German Grand Prix.
We hope everyone now ends to race without his brain ON.

Silverstone files:
http://www.vrl-simracing.be/rfactorreport/index.php?qualyfile=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.new-adv.com%2FSilverstoneQ.xml&racefile=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.new-adv.com%2FSilverstoneR.xml&cssstyle=



POST RACE OFFICIAL PRESS CONFERENCE

Gianpiero Baroni - Force India Mercedes - WINNER
ENGLISH: "I was really looking forward a win, after all troubles in Monaco, above all with electronics of my Force. My mechanics did a great job and we risked with the tactics in race, but we caught a great win. These points are really important after Corigliano retires."
ITALIAN: "Questa vittoria davvero ci voleva, dopo tutti i problemi a Monaco, soprattutto con l'elettronica della mia Force. I miei meccanici hanno fatto davvero un lavoro eccezionale, e abbiamo osato nella strategia dei pitstop cogliendo una grande vittoria. Questi punti sono davvero importanti alla luce del ritiro di Corigliano."

Alex Zingalus - Ferrari - 2nd place
ENGLISH: "I can say that in general it was a great race for first four guys of the standing, because of a great constancy in laps time and also for good pitstop strategies. A little bit of confusion for Kesgin and Luty's driving style, but I'm really satisfied also because of car's update in this Grand Prix."
ITALIAN: "Posso dire che è stata un'ottima gara per i primi quattro, a causa di una buona costanza sui tempi sul giro e delle buone strategie dei pitstop. C'è stata un pò di confusione per la guida di Kesgin e Luty, ma sono davvero soddisfatto anche per gli aggiornamenti portati alla macchina in questo Gran Premio."

Giammy Serra - Toro Rosso Ferrari - 3rd place
ENGLISH: "I'm really happy for my fifth third position in a row. We are doing a great job and we are taking great results. I hope to keep in this way for the rest of the season. Thanks to the "pit guys" that made an awesome job."
ITALIAN: "Sono davvero felice per il mio quinto terzo posto consecutivo. Stiamo facendo un gran lavoro e ne stiamo raccogliendo i frutti. Spero di continuare in questa direzione per il resto della stagione. Grazie ai ragazzi del box che hanno fatto un lavoro magnifico."

rFactor1 Santader British Grand Prix - Silverstone - Preview

Lots of rF1 teams are finally happy, cause the circus is going to race in their Home-Race. Silverstone is located in Nortamptonshire, around 4 miles from Towcester.

Silverstone circuit paddock entrance.

The track is really well known by the teams, considering they spend lot of winter tests here and in Spain. The track is quite fast, 5,141kms for 22 laps in total.
We have 10 turns right and 7 left, for 17 total corners.

Silverstone Circuit with names of all his corners.

If you want to learn something more about Silverstone and his track use Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silverstone
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silverstone_Circuit

The staff recommends full attention and respect for themselves and for other drivers, given that level of presence in the race track will be more complicated in the league.

Starting Grid is between Woodcott and The Copse.

The race is tuesday, May 25th, free practise will start at 09.00pm GMT time (10.00pm in Italy).
h 09.00pm GMT Free practise - 35 mins.
h 09.35pm GMT Qualify - 10 mins. (Parc Ferme)
h 09.45pm GMTRace - 35% of real laps with a mandatory pitstop -22 laps.

Race carefully, see you in track.

rF1 staff.