by the OWRL Correspondent


After our halfway report we now continue with the championship deciding races in OWRL Div A and Div B. Turned out to be a battle among the veterans in Div A, and that the Div B championship was decided even after the contestants crossed the line:

Season 11 – The Second Half

With the season expanding to 6 events, the fourth race meeting of the season was not the climax, but the start of the second half. Both divisions remained as close, tense and exciting in the final three races with the championship fight going to the final laps, or even beyond the chequered flag!

Division A

Race 4 – South City Long Reverse

The dominance of the “Big Three” was smashed with two new faces on the podium. Virtual.Roedii completely dominated the meeting taking pole position by a large margin and then leading every lap to take the win by over 20 seconds. 2nd, 3rd and 4th were covered by a total of 0.7s at the end in what looked like an absorbing contest with FPR Matze78 finishing 2nd ahead of ^P^Storm_Cloud. IRT Andy (GER) kept his championship challenge going with 4th whilst spdoFiredup dropped out of the top 3 for the first time. The spdo team must have liked what they saw here as they moved in and signed up Roedii after the race.

Race 5 – Westhill

The top 11 drivers were separated by only 1 second in qualification and the race was a bit closer than South City too. ^P^Storm_Cloud held the lead from pole for 29 laps but during the crucial laps around the pitstops FPR Matze78 was faster and he took his first OWRL Division A win by 3 seconds from ^P^Storm_Cloud with IRT Andy (GER) in 3rd. This dropped Andy 8 points behind in the fight for the championship and after spdoFiredup’s disappointing race at Westhill he needed the Pole-Win double and both Storm and Andy retiring to take the championship. The “Big Three” had definitely become the “Big Five” over the last two races and incredibly from 5 races there had been 5 different winners.

Race 6 – Aston GT

A classic showdown. Two champions fighting once again for the title at the final race, but before qualifying there was a minute silence for ELR Button. Frank had finally succumbed to a long illness and as a long time OWRL driver and friend to many it was a fitting show of respect from his friends and rivals. He will be truly missed.

After qualifying, IRT Andy (GER) had trimmed ^P^Storm_Cloud’s lead to 7 points. A win, with Storm in 3rd place would do the job.



An accident at turn 1 caused by ^P^Storm_Cloud removed the front row spdo drivers from the front of the race and FPR Matze78 had a spin early on. This left the two old rivals fighting at the front. Although Storm only needed to finish 2nd he tracked down Andy and overtook him going down the hill into the stadium section. Andy defended hard on the inside, but could do nothing to stop the pass. Being the true sportsman he is, there were no “Michael Schumacher” moves from Andy and both drivers made the tricky left-right at the bottom of the hill. Storm finished the race in the lead and became the first driver since IRT Andy (GER) himself to retain the Division A championship. SpdoFiredup bounced back from his setback at turn 1 to drive a magnificent race and finish 3rd, which confirmed his 3rd place in the championship.

Matze finished he season in 4th place ahead of the ever consistent mb Andre Louis who finished in 4th, 7th, 5th and 5th in his last 4 races after a slow start to just beat spdoRoedii into 6th place.

A very close season indeed. Over the second half of the season Storm beat Andy by a total of 13.44 seconds in 127 laps of racing. That is an average of 0.1s per lap! It certainly seems that experience is the key to winning OWRL Division A. The problem for Andy and Storm is that Roedii, Matze and Firedup have now got that experience too and will take the fight to the veterans in Season 12.

Division B

Could DSR Sizzle retain his lead and win the championship? Could IRT Relax actually win the title without getting on the podium? Would another challenger emerge from the pack? Read on...

Race 4 – South City Chicane

SpdoVincper took an easy win in the sprint race as spdoMarcG, DSR Sizzle and IRT Der Dude battled for the podium. In the main race, IRT Relax led away from pole after taking 8th in the sprint, but a couple of incidents in front of DSR Sizzle moved him to 4th on the first lap. However some big battles with the spdo boys and IRT Der Dude meant it looked like IRT Relax would score some big points over his rival as DSR Sizzle fell to 9th place. It was not to be for the German ex-champion as he picked up damage and fell to 7th at the end with Sizzle finishing just ahead in 6th. spdoMarcG took the win but it wasn’t all good news for the team as spdoVincper was disqualified for not taking a Stop-Go penalty within 3 laps.

Race 5 – Westhill

SpdoVincper made up for his South City main race DQ with a win in the sprint race at Westhill just ahead of IRT Der Dude and Core Forbin. Of the contenders, IRT Relax scored the best result with 4th as DSR Sizzle struggled to finish 19th after tangling with spdoMarcG and then crashing at the quick chicane.

In the main race, spdo Vincper made it a double win again finishing ahead of IRT Der Dude. The title chasers both finished well down with IRT Relax in 10th and DSR Sizzle in 17th having made 2 more trips to the pitlane.


Race 6 – Aston Club

So the fight came all the way to end and the race at that quintessential FOX track, Aston Club. The FBMs showed the action is no less frantic with 2 great races. DSR Sizzle started at the back but drove brilliantly to finish 8th in the sprint race, whilst IRT Relax finally made the podium behind IvRT Codename and spdoMarcG, who took the win.

Going into the main race IRT Relax had a lead of just 5 points and with DSR Sizzle on the pole it looked like it would be tough for the former Division A and Division B champion to hang onto that slender lead. DSR Sizzle led the early laps from spdo Vincper and IvRT Timurr with IRT Relax in 4th. This was enough for DSR Sizzle, but then the spdo boys, Vincper and MarcG got ahead and then it was IRT Relax, still in 4th place who would take then title by 1 point! With only 5 laps to go the championship was on a knife edge – one wrong move and it would be the end.

On the last lap a backmarker crashes as IRT Relax passes him, slowing the German and IvRT Codename, who has been closing him down passes for 4th! DSR Sizzle can win the title! Relax crashes at the last corner but retains 4th place as he crosses the line, crestfallen. The championship is gone by 3 points.

But wait! DSR Sizzle makes 2 chat messages, loses 10 seconds in penalties and 2 places! IRT Relax is champion! Unbelievable! It seems very harsh on DSR Sizzle to lose like that, but OWRL has to apply the rules to everyone equally. In truth, either driver would have been a worthy winner, but it was IRT Relax who took the trophy home.

Glory is short lived in OWRL however, and in less than 2 weeks the next season starts at Blackwood and the fight will start again!

Last edited by Krutch, Sat 10 May 2008, 14:09.

In exactly 2 hours from now the first race in the OWRL F1 Series 2008 starts, with qualifying before that!

The first race takes place over 35 laps (305 KM) at Aston GP and can be followed live on LFS Remote.

http://www.lfsworld.net/remote/?host=OWRL%20F1

Many OWRL drivers have found themself in this situation: a few days before the event they have practiced and feel like they can set a good lap time. But how does the lap time compare to the other participants? Where to find that out? The LFS Tracker of course!

The LFS Tracker, operated by WolleT, has been used as a service to LFS drivers in general and league drivers in particular for a long time. The OWRL made use of it since 2006 until now. From S2 Season 12 onwards, the OWRL will use a tailored tracker for our own league. It will have special sections for Div A, Div B and OWRL F1.

But before we present the new tracker, we want to thank the person who made this type of application popular, WolleT. Thank you!

Div A Tracker
Div B Tracker
(OWRL F1 will be added later)

Last edited by Krutch, Sat 10 May 2008, 13:48.

I maybe would join if I can combine it with a visit to some friends in southern Germany. So yes I'm interested, but I can't say for sure if I will attend yet. Keep me informed!

Teams have 1 day left to apply.

For those who didn't follow it last year, here are the final race report and the final championship standings:

Final race report
Final standings

Tonight is the final race with qualifying starting in 25 minutes.

The Div A championship deciding race can be followed on LFS Remote:

http://www.lfsworld.net/remote ... 5E2pod+%5E7Virtual+Racing

We're two races further and both championships still aren't decided!

With only the final round to go both championships are between two drivers. In Div A, IRT Andy(GER) now lags 8 points behind ^P^ Storm Cloud. He can still win the title by winning the race and have at least one race between him and Storm Cloud. In Div B the season finale will be even more tense with [DSR] Sizzle and IRT Rel'ax only point apart. 5 drivers behind them still have a mathematical chance for the championship, so Sizzle and Rel'ax still need to watch their back. It's going to be a grand finale at Aston!

Standings:
Div A
Div B

Tonight the OWRL moves to the fourth round of the season at South City. The races can be followed with LFS Remote:

Div A
Div B1
Div B2

Qualification starts at 20:00 CET with the race after the 15 minutes qualifying session.

Last edited by Krutch, Sat 15 Mar 2008, 18:07.

by the OWRL Correspondent

Season 10 Div A was all about four dominant drivers – IRT boys Papafant and Andy (GER), ELR’s Grandlhuber and the champion R4R (now ^P^) Storm_Cloud. With Papafant and Grandlhuber leaving the series for Season 11 surely it would be just Andy and Storm sharing out the spoils, right?

Wrong!

A new season has brought new drivers into the series and there are some quick ones. The outstanding new driver so far is spdo Firedup. He’s hardly a rookie having raced in OWRL since season 5 aswell as other leagues like GFC and the Dutch league. Impressively, he has been right at the sharp end finishing each session (qualifying and races) in the top 3 and he is hunting down the old warhorses Andy and Storm in the table.

Other quick drivers have arrived and shown great speed. Matze78 showed an impressive 4th place finish in the first race and virtual.Roedii arrived for the second race at Fern Bay and could have won on his debut.



Race 1 – Aston National

The first race of the season saw IRT Andy (GER) dominate with pole position and a lights to flag win. The real hero though was spdo Firedup, who despite opting for a non-stop strategy in the 45 lap race still managed to hang with the leaders early on. He may have even retained the lead after Andy’s pitstop but for a small mistake. He was then cruelly robbed of 2nd place on the final lap as his worn tyres couldn’t give him the traction he needed allowing ^P^ Storm_Cloud to nip through at the hairpins. FPR Matze78 debuted with a 4th place, with fellow new boys GFC Myxin, NWRT Veter and ^P^ Adam5k in 6th, 9th and 13th places.

Race 2 – Fern Bay Black Reverse

The usual suspects were joined at the front by debutant virtual.Roedii for the second round after he joined Division A thanks to OWRL opening up the qualifying criteria slightly. That looked like a great decision as he saw off pole sitter Andy and moved into an early lead. It all looked good for him until he made a mistake on lap 27 and was unable to continue. This gave a first OWRL Division A win to spdo Firedup who cruised in well ahead of ^P^ Storm_Cloud and IRT Andy (GER). GFC Myxin and Aaron NI rounded out the top 5.

Race 3 – Kyoto National

The only strategy for this 49 lap race was to go non-stop as the pitlane is so long at the Japanese venue. The only question was would the tyres last? Pod.hama Pio didn’t think so and he went for a 1 stopper and stunned everyone by going from 8th to 3rd by turn 1! He also took a turn at the front during a very open race that was won by ^P^ Storm_Cloud, who just had enough tyres and suspension left to hold off IRT Andy (GER) by 2 seconds. spdo Firedup matched his Aston result in 3rd, with mb Andre Louis showing strongly in 4th. pod.hama Pio’s pitstop strategy saw him fall to 5th at the end and Aaron NI continued a consistent start to the season with 6th place.

With the top 3 drivers locking out the podium in all three races so far it looks like a dogfight for the title between the multiple former champion IRT Andy (GER), current champion ^P^ Storm_Cloud and spdo Firedup. 4th place is also wide open with Aaron NI sitting there at the moment, but there are some quick drivers who should have a lot more points by now who will be looking for a high finish.

Watch the races on LFS Remote live on Saturday evenings or download the replays from www.owrl.de (registration required). This season’s going to go right down to the wire!

Standings Div A

Division B



It might be called Division B, but there’s nothing second rate about the driver line up in the smaller class of OWRL. FPR Chris, IRT drivers Relax, Der Dude and Mardox, DSR’s Sizzle and Al Payson, Core Forbin and spdo Define have all been fighting for the top points in the first three races. New patch, new car (the Formula BMW), but the fast drivers are still fast and the action is still frantic!

Race 1 – Aston National

FPR Chris took a double win at the first round, keeping IRT Mardox at bay in the first race before in the main race taking 6 laps to fight through a big battle at the front involving NWRT Knu, Core Forbin, IRT Mardox and spdo Define. Spdo Define was helped in his fight through to 2nd when IRT Mardox and Core Forbin collided at the final chicane on lap 7.

Race 2 – Fern Bay Gold

The Division B boys used a different track to the FO8 class for Race 2 using the classic FOX favourite Fern Bay Gold. Would it be as good in the FBM? You bet! A typical crash packed first lap of the B1 sprint race saw DSR Sizzle, IRT Mardox and AR LawVS get clear of the field early on. They held their advantage to the line and DSR Sizzle made up for his disappointing evening at Aston National by taking a comfortable win in the main race, but not before having to fight from 8th on the grid. Most of his passes were classic Fern Bay Gold – up the inside into the hairpin, although he even manage to overtake FPR Pio on the outside for 2nd.

Race 3 – KY National

FPR Chris was back after missing Race 2, but he could turn a good qualifying (2nd to spdo MarcG) into the win. Spdo MarcG in his first FBM race of the season crossed the line 1st in the sprint race but was given a 5 second penalty for chatting – handing the win to IRT Der Dude. DSR Sizzle backed up his strong showing at Fern Bay with 3rd place. Spdo MarcG put things right in the main race with a dominant win ahead of FPR Chris and DSR Al Payson.

DSR Sizzle leads the standings from IRT Relax. Although we haven’t seen the German former Division A champion on the podium so far this season he has been very consistent and finished well in all the races. DSR Al Payson is 54 points behind in 3rd place. FPR Chris is very high up despite missing one race and he must also be in with a chance of the championship. In fact, with 100 points up for grabs in each race the championship is still wide open, unlike their next track – South City chicane.

Standings Div B
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How about time? The DP01 was designed with the distinct possibility that it could race on ovals, but as Champ Car no longer does it wasn't really the first priority to test it and develop it to the point where you could enter it in a race.

The IRL season is only a month away from its first race, so no way they can do it until then. Officials first need to get everything working for this season, so it is too early for discussing what will happen in the longer future.

The second issue at the moment is that there are more Dallara's around than Panoz.

But the main reason for going with the Dallara is that's the indycar and this isn't a merger. The Champ Car owners just gave up.

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and why Surfers Paradise has to be a non-championship event in 2008~?

The race in Chicagoland on 7 September has a contract that says its the final race in the championship. But they are probably negotiating to chance that. We'll hear more in the upcoming week.

That's because this is not a merger. Champ Car ceases to exist and the IRL continues with most of the Champ Car teams and a few of its venues. They'll even be racing with the IRL's Dallara's instead of the much better looking Panoz DP01...

I'm sad the better one of the two had to go. Hopefully something can be build up from here. For now I have to see if I really can be interested in following a serie led by Tony George.

The Div A qualification rules have been opened up for future seasons.

Also, for the currently running S2 Season 11, we only have 20 qualified drivers for Div A. This means there are four open spots. Drivers can apply according to the new rules. In this case, this means uploading a FO8 hotlap to Fern Bay Black rev (not Gold, that is for Div B ) and notifying us in our own forums or by mail: owrl.league©gmail.com. Only applications before Wednesday 20 February, 23:00 CET will be considered.

Tonight's Div A race can be followed on LFS Remote: click here

FO8 @ Aston National, 45 laps

Qual 20:00 CET
Race 20:20 CET

For anyone that does like the FBM (and has a valid S2 license), the Open Wheel Racing League starts a season with the car on February 9th. More info can be found in our league subsection on this forum and on our website: www.owrl.de

Thanks to the devs for adding another great open wheel car

The Open Wheel Racing League continues delivering some of the best open wheel racing in LFS. And given that we received a new car last christmas, this year it should be better than ever. The 2008 calendar includes three longer Div A/B seasons, with Div B altering FBM and FOX, and the second championship in the OWRL F1 series.

Division A/B
Main admin: Krutch



The Div A/B league continues to be the main competition for individual drivers. Compared to last year, two main changes in this league:
- Div A/B seasons will have six races per season. Over the course of 2008, we will run three season.
- Div B will also use FBM in some seasons. In the first Div B season (S2 Season 11) will use the Formula BMW, where the next (S2 Season 12) will use the Formula XR. In the third Div A/B season the cars has been tentatively set to alternate after three races.

The number of drivers in Div A and per server in Div B remains at 24. The top 17 div A drivers from S2 Season 10 can stay in Div A together with those that moved up after last season.

As the length of the season has increased, we also want to give the top 3 in Div B the chance to move up after three races in the season. Even though this means that they won't have a chance in both championship, they can get in the Div A within three race and stay there until at least the next season. This is just for the top 3, so if they decide to stay, the next driver will not inherit the choice.

At the end of each season, the top 7 Div B drivers will be promoted to Div A, where the last 7 drivers will have to make room for them.

S2 Season 11 & 12 calendar

OWRL F1
Main admin: Germanpio



2007 was the inaugural championship in the OWRL F1 series and in 2008 we will held the second one. Similar to 2007, the series can only be entered by teams that enter two drivers per event.

The series will run from April to November including a summer a break. For qualifying at each event, a two-part qualifying might be used where only the top 10 cars qualify for part 2. We will probably test this in a test race before the season starts and then make the final decision on whether we use it for the F1 series.

More details on the calendar and qualification procedure for this years season will be announced later on.

2008 Calendar
9 February - 12 April (6 races, bi-weekly): Div A/B S2 Season 11
26 April - 5 July (6 races, bi-weekly): Div A/B S2 Season 12
April - October/November: OWRL F1 series 2008
July/August: Summer events
September - November: (6 races, bi-weekly): Div A/B S2 Season 13

Last edited by Krutch, Thu 22 Jan 2009, 21:41.

Victor, the Open Wheel Racing League is definitely not inactive. Can you move it back please?

As I said this is an old thread, so they raced their last season.

The chicane was left as it is. On friday several drivers where struggling to find a good line and one or two spinned their, but no incident happened in the race.

The best story of the weekend was the USA national anthem. Turned out that the guy who was supposed to sing the American and Dutch anthem only thought he had to sing the Dutch one. He didn't even knew the words for the American anthem. So the circuit announcer had a go at it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rb1Ehizwg8k

To dig up an old topic, the Euro Tour was succesful enough for Champ Car to come back again next year and even add a third race in Jerez. Spain here I come! Maybe anyone from Spain knows more about how this deal got into place? Anyway, I look forward to visiting Spain next year

2008 calendar:

April 20-Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach-Long Beach, California
April 27-Champ Car Grand Prix of Houston-Houston, Texas

May 18-Champ Car Grand Prix at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca-Monterey, California

June 1-Champ Car Belgium at Circuit Zolder-Zolder, Belgium
June 8-Champ Car Spain at Circuito Permanente de Jerez-Jerez, Spain
June 22-Champ Car Grand Prix of Cleveland-Cleveland, Ohio
June 29-Champ Car Mont-Tremblant-Mont-Tremblant, Quebec, Canada

July 6-Steelback Grand Prix of Toronto-Toronto, Ontario, Canada
July 20-Rexall Grand Prix of Edmonton-Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
July 27-Champ Car Portland-Portland, Oregon

August 10-Road America Grand Prix-Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin

September 14-Champ Car Holland at the TT Circuit Assen-Assen, Holland

October 26-Gold Coast Indy 300-Surfers Paradise, Australia

November 9-Gran Premio Tecate Presentado por Banamex-Mexico City, Mexico

At the final round of S2 Season 9 in the Open Wheel Racing League, two familiar but new champions were crowned in Div A and Div B. In the FO8 League, IRT Papafant only had to finish in the points at Fern Bay Gold rev and he did just that. It is Papafant's first OWRL Div A championship, after winning the last two MRT Club seasons.




In Div B, the final round provided more drama. It looked like FPR Paddi and GFC Myxin could battle it out in the final race, but both drivers failed to finish the main race. Myxin's teammate nBio took full advantage by winning the sprint and finishing second in the main race. It gave GFC nBio his second OWRL Championship in one month time, after winning the first OWRL F1 season.

Div A: Final Standings
Div B: Final Standings

(made by Speedykev, click for larger version)

It's the final round of the season, you're 8 points behind 2nd place in the championship with the championship leader (nBio) already been crowned champion and you haven't won a race in this season yet. What do you do? Go all out for the win. This is exactly what R4R Storm did at the final OWRL F1 round at Kyoto GP Long.

Storms' quest for winning at least one race of the first OWRL F1 season started in qualifying. 0,10 seconds ahead of GFC nBio and 0,15 ahead of 58sTyLe, Storm took pole position. This was followed by a good start of the race and so far everything looked nice and steady.



But the two GFC drivers had their mind set on something else: the team championship. Both drivers were not planning on settling behind Storm. 58sTyle passed Storm for the lead on lap 6 and nBio followed on lap 9. But it was not that Storm didn't had the speed. More fuel meant he couldn't keep them behind, but two fast laps after 58sTyle's stop made him regain the lead just ahead of his rival.

As Storm and 58sTyle fought for the lead, nBio had to make a extra stop to repair mechanical damage and put himself out of contention for the race win. As the race progressed at the front Storm lost but then regained the lead and took advantage of his pit stop strategy to put some distance between him and 58sTyLe. No one was going to stop Storm from winning and getting up to second in the championship. Well done!

nBio lost a few positions due to his extra stop, but could still help his team to steal the team championship from SK Racing by finishing 3rd. He knew what to do and drove himself back to third place, setting the fastest lap in the progress. With that he kept Andy(GER), who was guest driving for 1stBFA, from the podium. Still a 4th place in his OWRL F1 debut is a good performance.

So now all races are over, all what's left is to congratulate GFC nBio on winning the championship and GFC on winning the drivers championship. Thanks to all drivers who took part in this season. We enjoyed doing it and we hope to see all of you next year!

Results
Final Standings
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At the penultimate round of the OWRL F1 championship, GFC nBio was in second place until the leader of the race, [OMC]JET, put a bit too much power out of the second hairpin on his rear wheels and had to correct the slide. nBio got handed the lead and drove away to his fourth victory this season. Enough to build a lead in the championship of more then 10 points, handing GFC nBio the championship in the first ever OWRL F1 season.



nBio joined the OWRL F1 season only after four races, but showed his talent right from the start. He started with two second places, followed by two wins. In all the races the GFC driver participated, he ended on the podium, where as his main rival (HuskY`) missed a few races.

Behind nBio, [OMC] JET went on to finish second, just ahead of R4R Storm. However, post-race inspection showed both drivers chatted during the race. JET used more lines and his 10 second penalty meant he dropped down to third in the results.

The season will now be concluded at Kyoto GP Long. The OWRL admins would like to congratulate nBio with his championship!

Results
Standings
OWRL.de

nBio has won the Blackwood GP rev race and with that took the lead in the championship. It didn't look like that halfway during the race. A freak accident on the start/finish straight made the GFC driver do an extra pitstop. This gave his team mate 58sTyLe and [OMC] JET the chance to lead the race, but nBio recovered from P5 and regained the lead on lap 62. Behind the new championship leader, R4R Storm and [LT] Davke finished second and third after a strong showing from both drivers.

The OWRL F1 season now continues in two weeks time on a track which is quite a bit longer; Aston Grand Prix

Results
Standings
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S2 Season 9 & 10 coming up

The OWRL F1 is back from the summer break! The break didn't change much for Chris H. He won the last race before the break and continued with winning now. And just as in the final race before the break, it wasn't an easy win. At Westhill International, Chris qualified on pole just ahead of [OMC] Jet and R4R Storm. In the race, Jet and Chris battled for the lead during the full first stint before Chris managed to increase his lead. In the second part of the race, Jet would lose 2nd place to Mojo1987.

In the championship, the 2nd win of GFC Chris means he closes in on HuskY', who now leads by 8th points.

OWRL F1 will continue with the next round on 1 September when Fern Bay Black will host the race.

Results
Standings
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Last edited by Krutch, Mon 20 Aug 2007, 15:48.