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After the tight street circuit we go to another tight track. The only race in Fern Bay will be on the Black circuit, which means more distance to the wall and also higher curbs. In the past years we have seen every possible strategy, from driving slowly and avoiding the curbs to a five-stop strategy, which was the winning strategy in 2007. Key factors are concentration and a car setup, that forgives rumbling over the curbs.

Join Chris 'Wilko868' Wilkinson, Christian 'Hansi' Kistner and Stefan 'germanpio' Piotrowski at 17:30 GMT - 19:30 CEST for two qualifyings and 47 laps at Fern Bay on multiBC.

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After a long break of three weeks the drivers headed to South City to score some points at the Long circuit of the track. The race is the longest of the season and is one of the highly expected races of the season, just like the Monaco GP, with the exception that overtaking is possible here. Quentin Benoît, the current leader of the World Championship, was looking to keep his lead against the current champion Adam Wisniewski, who was on a roll in the past South City races.

Again Jarl Teien was the fastest driver in the first qualifying. A few new drivers showed up in the rankings of this race due to different circumstances: For the Green and Yellow Racing Team Leandro Krissak replaced Marlon Göese who still had technical problems, Christian Felder took the seat of Peter Hopkins at the Sonicrealms Racing Team, Jorge Bento at the Its All About Speed Team and Carsten Hörenbaum took part for Raptor-Gaming. Except Bento all of them made it into the second qualifying where the drivers have to drive their car in racing conditions, which means a lot of fuel and race setup. Many drivers set their fastest time at the beginning of the session that saw Wisniewski on pole-position for the first time this year, followed by Riegler, Felder and the current championship leader Benoît. The other drivers didn’t have much luck in their runs that gave them only one fast lap, Krissak had additional problems as his setup wasn’t the right one, so he had to start from the pits.



While the top three made no sudden moves at the beginning of the long race, Teien took a look at the inside line against Benoît before turn two. Behind them was Hörenbaum was on his way out of their slip stream when both cars in front of him hit the brakes. Hörenbaum hit Teien, both spun and left no other choice for Araújo to hit the wall. Gamil had to slow down and got a hit by Wójcik, who also got a hit by András Szabó. Meanwhile Matt and Ian Maslen are stuck at Teiens car that was standing crosswise to the racing line. Lims Chebbi and Jorge Bento benefitted from that accident and found themselves on positions five and six after starting in row six. At the end of lap one both drivers of Team Egypt were in the top ten with position eight for Gamil and Zeyad Abou-Eita on ninth. However Gamil had to serve a drive-through penalty at the end of the second lap for an incident at last race, after that he was in eighteenth position. Teien had lots of work to do in the first lap when Ian Maslen also wanted to pass him in turn fifteen., but Maslen hit him slightly in the rear that robbed him of his speed for the following straight and opened the door for him and for Wójcik as well, but the matter couldn’t find a way past Teien.



The top four consisting of Wisniewski, Riegler, Felder and Benoît could open the gap to fifth-placed Chebbi, who did a magnificent job in keeping his position against Hörenbaum, Bento and Storhaug, who were all faster than him. But after lap five his defence collapsed and one by one they made it past him, before Chebbi got back into a rhythm on ninth. At the front Wisniewski could increase his lead by approximately ten seconds in front of Riegler and Felder before their first pit stops, with the later being the last one at the pits, but due to a mistake by him prior to his pit stop he couldn’t get past his teammate. Benoit followed by another five seconds, but after his pit stop he couldn’t keep the pace of the three at the front and found himself on fourth position from now on, safely separated from the top three and fifth-placed Carsten Hörenbaum, who shared his fate after Araújo and Teien who had to pit earlier than expected. Both fought hard to get back into the positions they started the race, but shortly after that they had to pit, leaving both of them outside the points. Teien had to retire after a third of the race, Araújo followed after the next third. Another driver who suffered a heavy time loss at the beginning of the race was Tariq Gamil, who was already on tenth before the first pit stops, but technical problems forced him to retire as well.



The midfield had its own race at the first pit stops. Maciej Wójcik got position six from Bento but before his stop he gave it away again with a little mistake. Bentos’ stop took a while and he found himself back in a fight with Rob Logtenberg, who started from the pits after missing the qualifying, and Yann Laprevotte, who fell behind the other two after a few laps, followed by Matt Maslen who was staying behind them from now on. Wójcik got under pressure from Lars-Ole Storhaug after their stops, and after a few laps of driving behind his opponent, Storhaug had the upper hand against Wójcik, who lost another position to Araújo, who had to retire a few laps after that as already mentioned earlier. Lims Chebbi also lost positions against these three and after his great beginning of the race he had to retire on ninth position before his second pit stop. With the retirements of Araújo and Chebbi his teammate Laprevotte was on tenth prior to his second visit to the pits, but he didn’t change his tyres and ix laps after his second stop his tyre blew up, which forced him to pit for the third time, giving Matt Maslen the tenth position and his first point of this season next to seeing the chequered flag for the first time this year. Wójcik also gave away his seventh position shortly before the finish to Bento due to a third pit stop. He ended up in ninth as Rob Logtenberg also passed him while he was in the pits. Logtenberg was also fast enough to catch Bento, but not fast enough to launch an attack for another position improvement.



While Benoît and Hörenbaum had a rather easy race for one-and-a-half hour, the top three were never separated by more than ten seconds. While Wisniewski was still leading Felder made another small mistake that gave Riegler an advantage of five seconds before the second pit stops. And again Riegler was the first at the pits, but Felder rejoined the track just behind his teammate and didn’t have a chance to pass him in the final part of the race. He finished third behind his teammate with a gap of two seconds, but the winner of this race is Adam Wisniewski, who already won last season both races at South City.

Wisniewski improved his overall number of points to fifty and trails Benoît now by just five points after the first quarter of the season in the Drivers’ Championship. With his win Wisniewski brought his team SPDO Racing the lead in the Teams’ Championship in front of Redline Racing with a lead of also five points. The next race will be held on 29 May at the Fern Bay Black circuit.

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The third round of this season is held on this Saturday on the South City Long course. In the past years it has become a tradition to hold the South City Long race on the same weekend as the Monaco Grand Prix.
It will be interesting to see which driver can keep his concentration up during the longest race of the OWRL F1 season.
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The second round was held at the Kyoto National Reversed circuit. The track is smaller than Aston GP which would lead to many blue flag situations with 25 drivers, especially in the first qualifying. Nonetheless sixteen drivers were within one second in Q1, with Adam Wisniewski leading the pack. He and his teammate Mantas Brazinskas were alongside with both drivers of Sonicrealms Racing, Raptor-Gaming and Green and Yellow F1 Racing Team. The Top 10 for Q2 were completed by Tariq Gamil and Quentin Benoît, the winner of the season opener.

In Q2 the cars were filled with the amount of fuel they intended to start the race with. Lucas Araújo got pole-position in front of both SPDO racing drivers with Wisniewski in front of Brazinskas, followed by Benoit. Looking at the start everyone was focused on the turn where the grid leaves the oval part. That turn becomes narrow and is a dangerous spot at the start, but with the race lasting for sixty laps there would be enough time to compensate an incident at the start.

Wisniewski had a good start and when Araújo didn’t close the door, he got the lead in the first turn. Benoît and Brazinskas behind hit each other slightly, but luckily they didn’t spin. Christian Rauch of Raptor-Gaming took advantage of that and got position three. Araújo was behind Wisniewski and hit him slightly, then jerked the steering wheel around and hit the wall, rejoining as eleventh in turn two without crashing into another car. During that incident Rauch also overtook Brazinskas. Meanwhile Isaac Price of Tiger Express Motorsports broke too late for turn two and crashed into Rob Logtenberg and his teammate András Szabó and before that Pasi Juvani and Jarl Teien exchanged paint. In the braking zone Erwin Caffé had to avoid his teammate of the 1stBFA Racing Team Lars Ole Storhaug and steers in the way of Teien. Caffé spins onto the grass and hits Araújo who just recovered from his spin. A big pile-up follows that involves Anton Moroz, Adrian Bakaj and a flipped car of Matt Maslen. One turn later Gamil spun Hopkins who was able to continue, but he dropped from eighth to seventeenth.



Benoit was overtaken by Sascha Riegler but had success with a counter attack for fourth position. After a rather chaotic start of the race the drivers calmed down until the beginning of lap three when eight drivers were fighting for position in a group. Juvani as sixth was their leader, followed by Kaique Piropo of the Green and Yellow F1 Racing Team, who pushed Gamil while braking for turn four into Patrick Kreutz, Araújo, Wójcik and Teien were directly behind them, couldn’t drive around the cars and were sent off the track as well. Markus Gomel slipped just between them to win five positions in one turn, behind them his teammate Wasti Wohlmann was hit by Hopkins, which forced both to retire. Araújo and Piropo also had to retire a few laps later with damaged cars.

Christian Rauch lost a few places and dropped to sixth while Benoît was now second after overtaking Brazinskas. Gamil was the first at the pits in lap 11 for repairing his damaged car, by that time Wisniewski was already ten seconds in front of Benoît, who stopped one lap earlier than Brazinskas, who took advantage of a lighter car and didn’t change his tyres that saved him enough time to stay in front of Benoît after the first stop. The same strategy worked for Riegler against Juvani, although getting passed by the latter a few laps before the pit stop. Riegler pitted in lap twenty-six, only beaten by Szabó and Caffé who pitted at halftime. Caffé was fifth before his stop, Szabó was lapped right at the start after being involved in a start crash. The third battle that was decided in pits was between Storhaug, Bakaj and Wójcik. While Bakaj was losing ground after his stop, his teammate Wójcik had to repair damage and fell behind Storhaug after the first set of pit stops.



Wisniewski was clearly in the lead, followed by Brazinskas who had Benoît in his neck after a little mistake, Juvani on fifth got rid of Rauch after a mistake by him but also got overtaken by Teien. Kreutz and Storhaug were in a fight for seventh, Gamil in a battle with Wójcik and after losing against him he went to his second pit stop. He rejoined just behind Rauch who had a very long second stop. Both were outside of the points, but a retiring Teien and a second pit stop of Bakaj gave Rauch and Gamil positions nine and ten. Caffé was behind them after making a mistake as well, but Gamil had to retire in the final laps that gave Caffé the last point in this race as tenth behind Rauch.

Leader Wisniewski was still leading after his second stop, followed by Riegler, who had one stop remaining. Brazinskas went two laps before Benoît to the pits, but couldn’t make the gap to Benoît bigger and therefore he had to hand second place to Benoît a few laps after their pit stops. Riegler had a fast second pit stop and rejoined just a few seconds behind Brazinskas, but he received a Stop&Go penalty for speeding in the pitlane that made it impossible for him to challenge Benoît or Brazinskas for a spot on a podium, but his fourth position was safe. That made most of the positions inside the points clear, but between fifth and eighth it was a thrilling finish.



Juvani was fifth until three laps were left, when he spun in the final chicane after getting stuck on the curbs. Kreutz inherited fifth and Wójcik also won a position, but Wójcik wasn’t satisfied with that and huinted down Kreutz, who got a puncture in the penultimate lap. While Wójcik was on his way to secure fifth and Kreutz driving safely with three working tyres to finish sixth Juvani got under pressure by Storhaug and with one final move just before the finish line, Storhaug beat Juvani in a battle for position seven by one tenth of a second after 80 minutes of racing.

Benoît could increase his lead now in the Driver’s Championship and also his team Redline Racing with Juvani could take the lead in the Team’s Championship in front of SPDO Racing, who overtook with 40 points on this round Raptor-Gaming. The next race will hardly feature the same racing action like this race, but on South City Long constancy is required even more than sopeed. With a break of three weeks a solid preparation is possible and on 15 May we will see, who will survive in the streets of South City.

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On the National reversed circuit Benoît tries to repeat his success of two weeks ago while both SPDO Racing and Sonicrealms Racing drivers want to score the first points of the year, if not winning the race and starting the hunt for the trophy. At 17:30 UTC - 19:30 CEST the first qualifying starts with Carsten 'KiLl3r' Hörenbaum, Timo 'Timo.Inferno' Höfer and Stefan 'germanpio' Piotrowski

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The 2010 season of the OWRL F1 was going to be the biggest compared to their three previous seasons with the largest grid. Especially on the small tracks the two-part qualifying and the 305km races will be a challenge for the 28 drivers. But the seasons’ first race was on the Aston GP circuit with as much room for all cars as needed. The top 10 of the first qualifying will be driving in the second part with race settings and the amount of fuel they intend to start the race with, so strategy plays a key role here.

The first part however was all about the speed and getting into the top ten. NordicUK Racing driver Jarl Teien set the fastest lap in front of both Redline Racing drivers Pasi Juvani and Quentin Benoît. The important tenth place was held by Peter Hopkins, who drove the same time like ninth Maciej Wójcik. Both were just two hundredth of a second faster than Patrick Kreutz on eleventh and therefore were able to take part in the second qualifying. Loaded with fuel the cars were quite different to handle and therefore a few drivers went off the track, but both SPDO Racing drivers reserved a spot in the first row with the current world champion Adam Wisniewski in second and Mantas Brazinskas on pole position, followed by both Sonicrealms Racing members Sascha Riegler, who hit the wall in his outlap, and Peter Hopkins. Teien, the fastest driver in Q1, didn’t get a proper time and was ninth in front of Lucas Araújo, who had problems with his car setup.



The man on pole position, Brazinskas, also had a problem with his car setup and knew, that his lead won’t last for long, so the plan was nothing but attack to get the lead as big as possible before doing the first pit stop. That may be also the reason why Wisniewski backed down after being next to his teammate before turn one, but that gave Riegler and Hopkins the chance to get into second place and they would not give in until the door was closed. It was closed a few times by Wisniewski before Hopkins had to stay on third while Riegler was being overtaken by Benoît and Teien a few corners later. The first lap was thrilling as always. Araújo moved up to seventh until split one, in the back of the grid Michael Leisterer underestimated the loss of downforce in turn one and spun Matt Maslen and András Szabó tried to brake before the first hairpin on the grass, nearly pushing out his teammate Rob Logtenberg and Dominik Möhrle. On the other hairpin Logtenberg went too late on the brakes and sent Markus Gomel in the gravel, who later is involved in an incident with Matt Maslen that ends his race at the fast left hander before the second split. At the same turn fifth placed Wójcik went wide, lost his car on the curbs and fell back. Lars Ole Storhaug got a piece of him and lost a few places as well. In the final chicane Logtenberg loses his car, as well as Storhaug and Leisterer. Juvani however was fighting back by overtaking Marlon Göese and Tariq Gamil on the outside.



But his joy didn’t last long when he was hit slightly by another car that sent him to an early pit stop in lap two. Brazinskas also had to pit now with a gap of more than five seconds in front of Wisniewski, but he dropped back to 19th. At the front Teien tried to overtake Hopkins for third, but in the heat of the battle Hopkins touched in turn one the grass with his wheel and went into the gravel. Unfortunately he got stuck in there, so he had to retire. Wisniewski in the lead got a light hit by Benoît that handed over the lead to the latter, Teien slipped through also. Wisniewski got then under pressure of Riegler, and when Riegler was in front of him, Riegler lost his car in the last chicane and left Wisniewski without a chance to avoid the tyres. Teien couldn’t keep his position also after running wide in turn one, but he managed to get back on track. Now Kreutz was in second and already ten seconds behind Benoît shortly before the first set of pit stops, but he had to battle with Riegler who came from behind, though Riegler lost his car at the same place where Wójcik and Gomel lost their cars and has to retire as well. Benoît went to the pits as the leader which gave Raptor-Gaming positions one and two for Kreutz and Möhrle, followed by Tariq Gamil, until all three went to the pits as well.




Teien and Wisniewski went to the pits before that and worked their way up again. Brazinskas was following Snogard.Racing driver Holger Arndt until the last chicane where he ended up in the tyre wall and had to do a pit stop. After rejoining the track he received a hit by Logtenberg and went off the track where he got stuck in the gravel. Wisniewski got back to fifth until midrace, but after an incident with Gamil on a straight he has to retire as well. At that time no one of the top four of Q2 was still in the race. Benoît, who started fifth, was still at the front of Kreutz and Göese, who overtook Möhrle, with a comfortable lead. Gamil was fifth, but after his incident with Wisniewski his times dropped significantly.




Kreutz didn’t choose to be the first to pit for a second time, but he had to after avoiding a spinning Matt Maslen next to pit entry, which destroyed all his chances for a win by receiving a Stop & Go penalty. His teammate Möhrle could stay out as long as he planned it and stopped a few laps later than Göese, who also made a mistake shortly before his stop so Möhrle took over easy the second place from the Brazilian. Thanks to the Stop&Go Penalty of Kreutz it was Maciej Wójcik who finished fourth in front of Kreutz, who did benefit of the struggling Gamil. Juvani was seventh until he had to stop again after crashing into the tyres at the last chicane, after that he ended up in tenth to get the last point. Adrian Bakaj came into seventh, but he couldn’t do much against Araújo who came from behind in the final laps, Teien finished exactly where he started on ninth after an eventful race. Benoît finished the race in style by driving the fastest laptime in his final lap instead of taking it easy.

Of course he leads now the Drivers’ Championship, but due to his teammate’s fourth pit stop Redline Racing is trailing Raptor-Gaming in the Teams’ Championship by two points. The next race will be held on 24 April at Kyoto National reversed at 19:30 CEST.

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The OWRL F1 makes its first appearance on multiBC this Saturday. 28 drivers are fighting from this Saturday on for the first points of the season.

The multi-part qualifying starts at 17:30 UTC - 19:30 CEST, live on Stream 2 of multiBC.

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Invited teams for the OWRL F1 2010 season

The fourth season of the OWRL F1 has the biggest grid in its history. Not less than 14 teams have signed up for the upcoming season. To ensure a grid without big differences in speed between the drivers that would lead to dangerous situations in this grid, we reintroduced the 107%-rule, which is in effect from now on in the first qualifying of an event.

This is the list of the 14 teams including their starting numbers, which the drivers have to use with their realname during the event. Numbers were given after last year's team championship with exception of no.1 and 2, which are for the team of the best driver from last season. After those teams, numbers were given by order of application:

1 - 2 SPDO racing
3 - 4 1stBFA Racing Team
5 - 6 Sonicrealms Racing
7 - 8 Maslen F1 Racing Team
9 - 10 Redline Racing
11 - 12 Tiger Express Motorsports
14 - 15 RAPTOR-GAMING
16 - 17 NordicUK racing
18 - 19 SNOGARD.Dragons
20 - 21 Bavarian Racing
22 - 23 Its all about speed
24 - 25 Team Egypt
26 - 27 Green and Yellow F1 Racing Team
28 - 29 Force Hungary

All drivers of those teams which were listed in the application will get access to the F1 sub-forum in the next days where all important information for the races will be posted prior to the event. Drivers who don't have an aco**** yet are asked to register on owrl.de to receive information about the events.
The first race of the new season will start on 10th April on the Aston GP track. Both qualifying sessions and the race will be broadcasted LIVE on multiBC.

Applications I received until 18 March are from:

Sonicrealms Racing, RAPTOR-GAMING, Maslen F1 Racing Team, 1stBFA Racing, Team NordicUK racing, SNOGARD.Dragons, Redline Racing

So far we’ve received seven applications for the upcoming season which features a live broadcast for the first time in OWRL history. If you are a team of at least two drivers who are searching for a well-organized BF1 league then this is your chance to take part. Just send a mail to owrl.league©gmail.com containing your team name and lfsworld names of the drivers until 28 March. Races are on Saturday evenings and 305km long with a two-part qualifying. More information about the OWRL F1 and the upcoming season can be found on owrl.de.

The fourth season of the OWRL’s BF1 league will see some major improvements. Twelve races will be held on Saturday evenings between 10th April and 30th October 2010 which are 305 km long. Points will be awarded down to the tenth position after the new system that the Formula One now uses. The two-part qualifying stays like before, with the top ten drivers of part one driving under parc ferme conditions in the second part for the pole-position.

Broadcast

For the first time in OWRL history, all races will be shown on MultiBC. You won’t miss a second from the first qualifying to the chequered flag. Commentators are former OWRL champion Dave “Storm_Cloud” Southword and Chris “Wilko868” Wilkinson, Assistant Race Admin of New Dimension Racing. Stream information will be given before each race.

Applications

Teams consisting of at least two drivers can apply via mail to owrl.league©gmail.com with the exact team name and LfSworld names of the drivers that will take part. Applications are open until Sunday, 28th March 2010 23:00 UTC. Teams can change drivers between each race. Teamless and interested drivers can form temporary teams for OWRL F1 or start as a guest driver for an invited team that cannot start with two drivers. The invited teams will be announced shortly after the sign-up deadline.

OWRL F1 information

2010 Calendar

Race # (# laps): track date

Race 1 (35): AS GP 10 April
Race 2 (60): KY Nat Rev 24 April

Race 3 (77): SO Long 15 May
Race 4 (47): FE Black 29 May

Race 5 (59): WE Int Rev 5 June (cloudy sunset)
Race 6 (59): AS North 19 June

summer break

Race 7 (90): BL GP 21 August (cloudy sunset)

Race 8 (60): KY Nat 4 September
Race 9 (55): AS Nat Rev 18 September

Race 10 (77): SO Long Rev 2 October (cloudy sunset)
Race 11 (59): WE Int 16 October

Race 12 (42): KY GP 13 November

Time table (CET / CEST when applicable)

- 19:30 - 19:45 Qualifying all drivers (Q1)
- 19:50 - 20:00 Top 10 Qualifying (Q2)
- 20:10 - 21:50(latest) Race

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The last race of this years OWRL F1 championship 2009 took place at the Kyoto GP circuit. Although both titles were tight in the hands of the 1stBFA Racing Team there was still a position left at the podium of the driver championship. Contenders were Carsten Hörenbaum, SK Gaming, who led with one single point against Pete Hopkins, Sonicrealms Racing. Next to their fight it was also important to say goodbye to this year in a way that will be remembered in the upcoming months when the OWRL F1 will have a long winter break.

A typical issue of this track is the fast chicane where the cars leave the oval part. This race the OWRL F1 installed a few poles to force drivers to stay on the tarmac, but that did not stop drivers from spinning during qualifying. In the second and important session many attempts were destroyed by the chicane, however we still got a proper order for the race. Carsten Hörenbaum took pole-position in front of champion Adam Wisniewski and his contender, Pete Hopkins on third, who were separated by just 0.01 seconds. But like a few times before in this season, grid order of the start is not the same in turn one.



When the red lights went out Hörenbaum lost his position at the top to Wisniewski after a very bad start and was lucky enough that Hopkins and Innovate Racing driver Sascha Zimmermann couldn’t pass him. The first half of the grid made it without problems through turn one, but then Gießler hit Juvani slightly and started spinning while taking Speedfreak Damon Ryder with him. Piotrowski didn't slow down enough and hit him, his followers Franz-Josef Stumm and Matthias Lust of Factory Phantom Racing drove in the back of him and Piotrowski and Stumm were sent flying into the air. Stumm had to retire once again, Piotrowski had to pit for damage. Zimmerman, who was fourth, got caught by Sascha Riegler and Pasi Juvani. The first victim of the chicane was Jürgen Gießler of Innovate Racing, who fell back from seventh to thirteenth in lap three. Wisniewski was leading in front of Hopkins, but both of them could only stay at the front until lap four. Wisniewski had to retire after a slide at (of course) the fast chicane and Hopkins ran wide at a rather unusual corner. A trip through the gravel after the first split let him fall back from second down to eighth, that way Hörenbaum was leading the race.



But the race on this challenging circuit became a lucky bag. Zimmermann went from fifth to second within a few laps and after a short mistake he was already back on sixth. During that time Sonicrealms Racing was leading with both drivers because Riegler and Hopkins found a way to pass Hörenbaum. Shortly after that Riegler was alone at the front when the other two went to the pits. Zimmermann was back on second in front of both Speedfreaks Ramon and Damon Ryder and Storhaug of 1stBFA. Storhaug managed to pass both at the pits but after he rejoined in front of them he had to retire with technical problems. Everyone was making their pit stops except for leader Riegler and Timo Höfer, guest driver for Maslen F1 racing, who was now second after starting from fifteenth. He and Riegler were the last into the pits and Riegler could keep his lead. But even Riegler was not safe against the chicane and just before his pit stop he lost the car like many drivers before him. The following pit stop was now longer than expected and he dropped back to ninth. Zimmermann was now in the lead in front of Damon Ryder, who was on a very short middle stint. But just before his stop he got overtaken by Hopkins.



Matt Maslen went to his second pit stop as fifth and rejoined just in front of Damon Ryder. Both were behind Yann Laprevotte, who still had to pit a second time. Gießler with a Drive-through penalty and Piotrowski with his third stop were behind Maslen and Ryder, all four were joined by Riegler after his stop. All five drivers were in the running for sixth position, fifth was safe in Timo Höfers hands. Maslen had a bad set of tyres and dropped back to tenth before spinning off at the chicane. Ryder got close to Höfer on fifth in the final laps but couldn’t find a way past him to finish sixth. Behind them were Piotrowski and Riegler, with the latter being faster. While coming out of the hairpin at the end of the last lap both crashed and spun. Riegler waited for Piotrowski and both recovered on P7 and 8 just before Gießler was coming by, that way his DT penalty cost him four championship points.




Hopkins and Hörenbaum were on second and third after overtaking Ramon Ryder, who will finish fourth. That way Hopkins would retake the third place in the championship, but Hörenbaum was faster and in the final laps he was directly behind him. But when they approached the fast chicane, Hörenbaum lost the car and drove through the grass, losing ten seconds. He was able to cut the gap in half but Hopkins could stay in front of Hörenbaum and therefore finishes second in this race and third overall. Sascha Zimmermann, who led the race since lap twenty-one, had a very long middle stint and gave the lead never away once he had it and wins his first OWRL F1 race.

That was the last OWRL F1 race of this year, we hope you enjoyed the season and we will see you again next year. The Open Wheel Racing League still has one division race and a cup during Christmas planned, so we hope you’ll take a look at those races as well. Keep racing!

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Round twelve of this years’ OWRL F1 championship and one title has already been given away, but there was still the Team Championship left to decide. The 1stBFA Racing Team could seal the deal with three points at the Aston GT Reversed course. During Qualifying it became clear that it was just a formality to achieve the necessary position. However another driver, who didn’t have anything to do with the championship was leading the time table in the final seconds of qualifying.

Innovate Racing driver Jürgen Gießler was at the top when everyone made their final attempt to take pole-position. SK driver Carsten Hörenbaum was the first who improved his personal best by more than a second to reach pole, but the new champion Adam Wisniewski drove almost half a second faster than Hörenbaum and took over, just before Pete Hopkins of Sonicrealms Racing was coming out of the last turn to set another fastest lap and with just one tenth of a second faster than Wisniewski the run for the top grid position ended with Hopkins staying on pole. But his joy didn’t last long after the red lights went out when Wisniewski had a better start and went first into the chicane. At the back Matthias Lust got pushed off the track by Matt Maslen, but both continued.



Gießler went back to sixth after starting from fourth when Sascha Riegler and Matthias Felix overtook him. Riegler was on a fast pace and also got Hörenbaum in lap three. Stefan Piotrowski could advance from twelfth to eighth until he saw Franz-Josef Stumm spinning in front of him. Both collided, Stumm had to retire, Piotrowski lost three places. Gießler got it much worse when he lost his car on the curbs while chasing Hörenbaum and Felix for fourth and was stuck in the gravel. He could continue, but he rejoined as last. During the race he could made his way up to seventh thanks to his speed compared to the midfield-runners, also passing both drivers of the new team Tiger Express Motorsports, namely Lims Chebbi and Yann Laprevotte. Neither of them saw the finish thanks to retirements in the second half of the race and got company by Pasi Juvani who had another retirement.



The first of two pitstops arrived and Hopkins went first into the pits, followed by Wisniewski one lap later and therefore rejoined clearly in front of the former. But Wisniewski made a mistake a few laps later and had to pass the lead to Sascha Riegler, who was the last of the top-runners in the pits and now in the lead. Even Hopkins could overtake Wisniewski in a short battle. Hörenbaum and Felix were going into the pits at the same time and rejoined the track in the same order, but half a lap later Felix could overtake him and was now on fourth position, which means that both Sonicrealms cars were in front of both 1stBFA drivers, followed by Hörenbaum and Gießler. Matthias Lust of Factory Phantom Racing, team championship winner 2008, was on seventh followed by Maslen and Piotrowski who fought over the last point during second and third stint. Maslen was first at the pits but couldn’t find his rhythm that gave Piotrowski, despite his second pit stop seven laps later, the eighth position and possibly the last point of the race.



Wisniewski could improve his position after a late stop against Felix. Leader Riegler could stay out four laps longer than Hopkins but wasn’t able to open the gap, and a small mistake by Riegler gave Hopkins the opportunity to win this race by staying leader in the final eight laps. Wisniewski behind them wasn’t able to dispute a possible Sonicrealms double victory after a tyre blew up on his car and he had to pit another time. He rejoined behind Gießler, but the latter threw his car at the first chicane again off the track and handed fifth back to Wisniewski. Felix and Hörenbaum as third and fourth kept a safe distance to both leaders and that way the laps went on and on until the final lap, when a front tyre blew up at Hopkins’ car at the fastest turn on the track. He spun off track, hit the wall and rejoined in fourth just behind his opponent Hörenbaum in the battle for third place overall. Sascha Riegler could avoid his spinning teammate and won his second race out of five just one minute later.

Both 1stBFA cars finished in the points and can therefore be called official Team Champions 2009. Hörenbaum and Hopkins now fight for the third position in the championship, the latter trailing by one point before the final race at Kyoto on 7th November.

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Only two drivers were left in the run for the OWRL F1 championship 2009. Adam Wisniewski, driver of 1stBFA Racing Team, was leading with seventeen points in front of Speedcore driver Nelson Marques and three additional points away from the title. The eleventh race and possible the last with Matthias Agari as the defending champion took place at the Westhill International Circuit before heading to the final two races in Aston and Kyoto. But in qualifying neither of them matched their current championship position.

Pasi Juvani was the man of qualifying who led both sessions for the Xcite Dragon Racing Team, followed by Pete Hopkins of Sonicrealms Racing. Wisniewski was third, Marques only on fifth when Speedfreak Damon Ryder took fourth and splitted the contenders. Hopkins already warned Juvani before the start and once the red lights went out, he stormed to the front. Wisniewski wished he could do it the same but found himself in fourth when Ryder made a great start and took third. Matthias Lust on the other end had to stop in the first lap to take the right tyres and quened up with drivers like Wisniewski who had the same problem a few races ago. Speaking about him, Wisniewski made his move on Ryder withouot much effort and took third. A bit later Ryder went to the pits which revealed his three-stop strategy. Innovate Racing drivers Zimmermann and Gießler wished to drive that far but many problems end their races early.



Agari, still champion has more luck after sliding off the track after touching the grass at a fast right-hander. Back on track he found himself just in front of the midfield, mainly Anton Moroz and two new drivers: Mignien for Sonicrealms and Storhaug for the 1stBFA Racing Team. Mignien and Moroz fell back with problems, Storhaug however found himself battling with Ryder who joined him after his second pitstop. But whem Ryder made his third stop it became clear that Storhaug will have the upperhand in their fight. At the front the top four were planning two stops. Leader Hopkins was first, followed by Juvani who came one lap later. With its fast turns a heavy car loses more time compared to other tracks and therefore Juvani rejoined in front of Hopkins. Wisniewski went to the pits three laps later and rejoined in front of both, giving the lead to Marques, who was on a very long stint but rejoined behind the other three.



The top three were very close. Hopkins and Juvani had a lighter car than Wisniewski. Hopkins took advantage of a little mistake by Juvani and then a few laps before the end of his stint he took the lead. But he couldn't drive away from Wisniewski who had fuel for four additional laps. Hopkins and Juvani went at the same time into the pits and left there without a position change. Wisniewski rejoined four laps later in front of them with a gap of eight seconds. At that time Juvani had to retire with technical problems. That was a good chance for Marques and after his second stint – again very long – he rejoined just two seconds behind Hopkins on third and the latter found Marques a few laps later in full dimension in his mirrors. If he could finish on second he would delay the title decision for at least two weeks. Agari, half a minute behind them, took fourth despite his error in the early stages of the race in front of Storhaug and Ryder.



Wisniewski would win this race, that position was out of question. Eight laps were left for Marques to overtake Hopkins, he got close, but not close enough to attack on one of the fastest tracks of Live for Speed. Hopkins didn't make a mistake and at the end he won two seconds against Marques. Leader Adam Wisniewski won the race and four points more than Marques, therefore winning this years' championship. This was his sixth win of the season but for the first time two wins in a row. Hopkins could reach third in the championship, tied with Hörenbaum. Agari and Storhaug are in the lead lap on fourth and fifth position, Damon Ryder lost concentration and time at the end of the race and finished sixth in front of his teammate Ramon Ryder. Matthias Lust of Factory Phantom Racing gains the last point despite his unplannend pit stop in lap one.



With Adam Wisniewski winning the driver's championship the 1stBFA Racing Team already has one title in the bag. They are also leading the Team championship by a large amount of points, but there are still three points left to close the deal against Sonicrealms Racing, who are second thanks to a successful second half of the season, scoring more than ten points on average since then.

Round twelve on the Aston Grand Touring circuit will take place on 24 October at 19:30 CEST.


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The eleventh race of the season might be the last of 2009 in which Matthias Agari will be titleholder of the F1 series. The calculation between Nelson Marques and current leader Adam Wisniewski, who leads by seventeen points, is very simple: If the latter scores three points more than Marques, Wisniewski will be the new champion of the OWRL F1. The venue for this evening will be the Westhill International circuit where anything might happen with its fast turns and without space for mistakes. You can follow the event starting at at 19:30 CEST via LfS Remote.

The sun was going down in the city when the tenth event of the OWRL F1 2009 series began. The race on the South City Long course in the reversed configuration turned out to be the longest of the saison and the low autumn sun made the the race feel even a bit longer.

The two-part qualifying began and after that, the ten fastest drivers would again compete for the pole-position. The current leader of the championship, Adam Wisniewski, showed early that this track is his district and got pole-position despite having the world record on this track. Carsten Hörenbaum and Martin Silhanek were behind him while Nelson Marques, Wisniewski’s biggest rival for the title only started from 5th.



The start is a bit tricky on this track with a fast left-hander and a bumpy braking zone before the first right turn. Everything went fine until the midfield reached the fast turn. Damon Ryder and Pedro Marques made contact and slowed down a bit. Pete Hopkins had to avoid both and spun off against the wall, bounced back and before he could continue, he got collected by Matt Maslen, who got a hit by James Dacre-Peace. Hopkins had to retire, at the front Hörenbaum misjudged his braking point and hit Wisniewski. Both continued, Hörenbaum with a little delay after getting spun by Sascha Zimmermann. Both lost a few places that led to the following order: Wisniewski on the lead, followed by Silhanek and Marques. Behind them was Sascha Rigler, who seemed to have a good stint and caught Silhanek and Marques within eleven laps. Wisniewski was at that point already ten seconds away and out of reach.



The strategy was a 2-stopper for most of the drivers, who were able to prevent damaging their suspension. The top-runners could do that, but it didn’t pay out for Silhanek, who had to retire midrace with a damaged suspension and technical problems. Wisniewski and Riegler stayed safely at the front, followed by Agari thanks to a fast stop against Marques. The latter had problems in his second stint and gave even the 4th place to Zimmermann, one of the fastest drivers at that time after being stuck behind Hörenbaum at the beginning. With a big gap behind were Speedfreak Damon Ryder and Stefan Piotrowski, guest driver for SK, fighting for seventh. Ryder was in front a long time with a stop less to do, but Piotrowski a bit faster.



Wisniewski and Riegler were still without opponents, but Riegler somehow had problems to get his tyres working and his laptimes dropped significantly. But Agari, who was behind him had other problems, because Zimmermann was coming closer and soon clearly visible in his mirrors. But Agari found his speed again in the last laps and after a few unsuccessful attacks he could drive away from his opponent. Sixth was Piotrowski, who could use the advantage of a light car against Ryder, ahead of Hörenbaum who had many contacts with the wall which made his strategy in vain with two extra stops. But no one was able to stop Wisniewski from his triumph in this race.

Wisniewski has won now every second race of the season, making it five out of ten until now. Marques scored only four points, therefore seventeen points behind the leader and now the only one who can steal the title away from Wisniewski in the final three rounds.
1stBFA is also leading the Team championship with twenty-seven points in front of Sonicrealms Racing. The eleventh race takes place at 10th October at the Westhill International circuit.

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The last third of the season starts today at the South CIty Long circuit, driven in the reversed direction and under sunset conditions. Three drivers are still in the run for the championship and as many teams are chasing the 1stBFA Racing Team for the Team Championship. The configuration of the track itself is used in the OWRL F1 for the first time and therefore a new experience for everyone. Compared to the standard version many corners demand a complete different technical approach. To see who deals best with the new challenges you should take a look via LfS Remote at 19:30 CEST when the first qualifying starts. The race will start at approx. 20:05 CEST.

The ninth race of the OWRL F1 2009 series took place at the Blackwood GP reversed course. While Wisniewski wanted to continue his successful run of the past races his opponents tried everything to keep the championship battle open. But as often, many plans have to be changed after the start.

During qualifying everything was straight forward when Adam Wisniewski took pole-position in front of Sascha Riegler and Nelson Marques. After a few infrictions regarding the line choice of some drivers the race got underway with Wisniewski starting on the inside and therefore storming away at the front while Riegler got under pressure by Marques. Both drove side by side into turn one with Marques coming out first. Riegler had to take care of Martin Silhanek who eased off early to avoid any contact right at the beginnging of the 90 laps. Pasi Juvani kept his sixth position for two turns before he went onto the grass and lost control of the car, behind him missed Ian Maslen his brakepoint completely and hit Sascha Zimmermann off the road but both could continue.



When James Dacre-Peace managed to avoid a spin in turn one with a drift, Wisniewski drove away from the field until he realized that he took the wrong tyres at the start. His early stop in lap five made it almost impossible to win this race and left Nelson Marques at the front, who got under pressure by Riegler who wasn’t amused after losing one position at the start. Pete Hopkins couldn’t keep up with the frontrunners because Carsten Hörenbaum was haunting him for fourth position. A small switching error just before turn one let him spin in that corner and made it possible for Hörenbaum to took over after making sure a doesn’t get caught by the spinning car. Zimmermann, who was last after his first lap incident, fought back and was up in 7th within nine laps when Riegler made his move on Marques during overlapping Stumm, remembering the Hakkinen move in Spa 2000.



Matin Silhanek was on a good pace and could close the gap to Marques on wnd position, but before he could attack the first round of pit stops has arrived. Marques and Riegler were the first to pit. The stop of Marques took six seconds longer because he decided to change the tyres on his first stop. Sihanek stopped one lap later without getting new tyres and got out in front of Marques on third. Hörenbaum was a lot heavier than his opponents, stayed out nine laps longer and also managed to rejoin in front of Marques on third. A small incident just before the second round of pitstops made it possible for Marques to regain third after he and Hörenbaum got stuck for a short time behind a lapped car. But Marques had to stop again with Silhanek and Hörenbaum moved up to second. When Riegler made his pit stop he was no opponent for Hörenbaum who was on his way to his second stop and therefore very light. He rejoinend just behind Marques on third, Silhanek was behind them and had bigger problems.



Silhanek lost control of his car in similar way to Juvani but two turns ahead and damaging his rear suspension. He continued on fourth and was visited by Hörenbaum afew laps later when the latter lost his car in turn one. But Silhanek kissed the wall one more time and soon he had trouble to keep the car on track. He fell back to 6th just in front of Zimmermann. Wisniewski and Hopkins finished fourth and fifth and in front of Zimmermann, who could keep both of them busy in their middle stints. But Sascha Riegler drove a constant race at the front and therefore earned his first win in front of Marques and Hörenbaum. The eighth place goes to Anton Moroz who scored the first points for himself and his team Starlite Racing. Sonicrealms Racing could reach the second place in the team championship in front of SpeedCore. In the drivers championship Wisniewski lost a bit but still has a 11-point advantage against Marques on second. Hörenbaum on third still has a theoretical chance.

The tenth race will be on the 26 September with a premiere. According to the Singapore GP the race will take place at the South City Reversed circuit under evening conditions.

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New teams and new faces could be found on the grid for this race. With Starlite Racing and SK Gaming, who lured Carsten Hörenbaum away from spdo Racing, two new teams faced the second part of the saison. With Silhanek dropping out for this race, spdo had a complete new line-up with Reno Kööts and Dmitri Tsubenko, while Sascha Riegler drives now for Sonicrealms Racing after just one race for Xcite Dragon Racing before the summer break. For some of them the race was shorter than they imagined, but we start from the beginning.

The qualifying was as usual a matter of how much fuel will the drivers take with them. After a few drivers had forgotten the rules after such a long time the second part started and three drivers spun in their second try in the chicane. But everyone recovered and Matthias Agari could finally celebrate his first real pole-position this year after he already made it at the Aston North Race earlier this season. He was followed by championship contenders Adam Wisniewski and Nelson Marques. With Juvani and Kööts two newcomers made it into the top 10, but couldn’t make it further than positon nine and ten. Sascha Riegler started from the pits, but maybe this was a great idea to avoid any collisions at the start.



But the chicane wasn’t the dangerous spot on the track, the biggest accident took place just after the start, when Matthias Felix released the throttle on the banked right and Carsten Hörenbaum couldn’t avoid the car and drove into the back of the 1stBFA car. After they both spun and luckily most of the drivers found a way past them, Ian Maslen hit Hörenbaum’s car that went up and against the fence. With that wreckage the race was over for Hörenbaum. Later at the real Turn one Damon Ryder and Juvani couldn’t decide which one will go first into the chicane so both touched each other, leaving Juvani retire after getting stuck in the gravel. One turn later Kööts slides off the track as well but can continue his race while Anton Moroz has to give up with technical problems in Starlite Racings first OWRL event.

Agari led the field while Wisniewski could take the second position back from Peter Hopkins in the early stages of the race, while Nelson Marques dropped a few position after running wide in the chicane. Agari made his pit stop very early compared to Wisniewski who stayed out six laps longer and took over the lead when he rejoined the track after his first pit stop. Behind those three both SpeedCore drivers were constantly following them until Pedro Marques lost touch after a little mistake by him before the first stop. Riegler and Kööts were still on a two-stop strategy, but with a long first stint that gave Riegler the lead for a few laps just before half-time. When the second round of pit stops arrived the top three spots were almost fixed, but Marques had to stop early for his second visit at the pits to give Riegler a chance to come out in front of him. Fourteen laps later he went into the pits and after a short stop he rejoined in front of Marques, while Kööts stayed behind them on sixth.



Although the gaps were still relatively small after more than one hour racing, the order stayed at the front. Wisniewski won the the race two seconds in front of Agari, followed by both Sonicrealms drivers Hopkins and Riegler. Nelson Marques loses track of Wisniewski with a fifth place and Kööts finishes with a sixth place in the points. Matthias Felix crosses the line as seventh and one lap behind the leader and Matt Maslen finally scores the first points for Maslen F1 racing.
Wisniewski has now a lead of 14 points, 1stBFA in the team championship is 29 points ahead of their opponents. The next race will take place at Blackwood Reversed in just one week on 12 September.

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After two months without BF1 racing we continue our OWRL F1 series with round eight of the 2009 season at Kyoto National. With Starlite Racing and SK Gaming we could invite two additional teams for the rest of the season to ensure great racing. Six races are left this year, six chances to take the title away from the current leader Adam Wisniewski and 1stBFA Racing, who have an 8- respectively 21-points lead over their opponents.

The National standard course will see its third race in three years, a track that can be compared to the Indianapolis Road Course with its long and banked turns and the infield, requiring a car that is as fast as possible on the oval part but still driveable through the fast and slow corners of the infield.

The two-part qualifying starts at 19:30 CEST followed by the race shortly after 8pm. The event can be followed via LfS Remote.

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