Grats 
Not a surprise for me :P I was sure you will recruit him 
But congratz anyway
But congratz anyway
Good Luck 
Booo David Jundt. Booo.
Yarr conrats mate!
Good Luck David! 
Congrats David and TEM! Really nice sign-up indeed, David is a great driver
Gratz Tigers and David
Sicher doch!
YOU.CAN.NOT.WIN. Boo Fordy, boo.
Thanks Kevin, totally forgot about you also being there during this LEUCAT time
Hopefully, I'll race you one time too!Of course, thanks to everyone!
IT'S TIGER-TIME!
Congrats DJ, have fun
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Congratz TEM and David
gl in your new team see on track mayby ewen in iracing
mayby ewen in iracingHaving read the TEM forum tonight, I see you've taken Timo into your band of anmie people. I r scared. I will not lose...whatever I am trying to win.
But he won't get me into his anime club. Hopefully... 
He will, Sascha.
You guys worry too much, pfftt...
Although I have to say that I am amused
Although I have to say that I am amused
It is that time of the year again… As New Dimension Racing is about to launch the 4th annual edition of the Kyoto 250. The 250 miles XRT race arguabily remains one of the two most prestigious oval event of LFS’ history, alongside its bigger brother, the Kyoto 500.
For the second time in a row, Tiger Express will be the team lining-up the biggest amount of cars(six), with Niko Puntola, Yann Laprevotte, Lims Chebbi, David Jundt, plus trial members Tom Parker and Liane Solfrank lining-up on the grid next Saturday.
A seventh TEM driver met the entry requirements in time and was ready to go: Oskari Rinne. Sadly the young Finn had to pull out in last minutes due to personal reasons.
With 40 drivers showing up for qualifying day for only 30 race slots, everyone would have to fight just to have a chance to race. Qualifying day’s proceudre might sound a bit complex, but it is actually simpler than you would think at first. The day begins with an hotlap session, in which top 2 gets “locked in” and gets front row for race day. Then it is time for the “Twin 115 races“: even position finishers of the hotlap sessions gets moved to the first one, odd gets moved to the second one. The top 11 of each race is taken to set odd and even rows, from position 3 to 24. The last 6 race slots are then given to the 6 fastest drivers of the hotlap session who did not qualify from the twin races.
Here is a recap from each session:
Qualifying
The big surprise in this session came from young Englishman Tom Parker: for his first official show up in TEM’s colours, the former Gentles on Circuit pulled a fabulous 48:03 early in the session, keeping the lead on the timesheet for a long time. Sadly top-2 locked-in dreams ended-up after nFinity eSports‘ Kenneth O’Keefe(47:91) and ineX Racing’s Joe Holmes(47:99) improved at the very end, but Tom nevertheless took a very satisfacting 3rd place.
Good showing also for Niko Puntola(10th, 48:07), Yann Laprevotte(16th, 48:13) and Liane Solfrank(18th, 48:15). On other hand, disapointment for David Jundt(29th, 48:28) and Lims Chebbi(37th, 48:42): this leaves them no room for mistake in the twin races.
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Twin 115 n°1
3 TEM drivers were moved to the first twin: Tom Parker, David Jundt and Lims Chebbi.
Tom was starting 2nd. He lost a few places at the start, but made a strong showing around 4th-5th for most of the race. The Englishman then timed-out during the second half of the race sadly, but belive he might have been able to split the 100% ineX top 3(Friskopps-Diaz-Cattell) if he didn’t.
David had quite an eventful race. The Swiss started 14th, but moved to 9th after a perfect pit-stop. Unfortunately a spin around half-way point ruined his efforts, and made him drop to 16th. This by far wasn’t enough to get a Kyoto 250 slot. The anime fan then tried to fight back, but got caught in a pile-up and had to carry left rear damage until the end because of this. This wasn’t enough to stop him, and the Swiss driver managed to jump back to 9th in the last laps.
Lims was starting in 19th and penultimate place. The Frenchman pulled a safe race around the back of midfield. Until the last quarter of the race: Lims showed all his experience at a restart, in which he passed several cars around the outside to take 5th. He didn’t keep the place for long, as he got tangled at turn 1 and ended up approximately where he was. Fortunately, like David, he still had enough ressources to climb back to 8th in the last stages of the race, and get his Kyoto 250 slot.
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Twin 115 n°2
3 TEM drivers in this race aswell: Niko Puntola, Yann Laprevotte and Liane Solfrank.
Niko started from 5th. He maintained himself around the front in the first half of the race. He was then part of the 5 cars group getting away from the pack at the last restart, around 30 laps to go. The Finn then managed to break-away from the rest of the pack with Raptr.com Racing’s Oscar Hardwick, thanks to some very efficient bumpdrafting. Oscar eventually finished 1st in front of Niko, with ineX Racing’s Joe Holmes rounding the podium. Also note that this was the second Twin 115 podium in a row for Niko, who already finished 3rd in 2010.
Yann started 8th. He lost a few places due to a poor pit-stop, but managed to make his way back to 6th before the last caution, with some help from team-mate Liane. The Frenchman then passed Sean Williams in the latter half of the race, to take 5th.
Liane started from 9th. She quickly gained a few positions after staying on track longer than her rivals before her compulsary pitsop. Unfortunately, she quickly had some problems to keep up with the chasing group, due to lag issues. The German was 7th at a dozen laps to go, when a lag hit sent her in the inside barrier at high speed. Liane then ended up rolling at the other side of the fence, forcing her to retire.
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Race Build-Up
Provisional starting line-up can be found here.
Strangely, for the second time in a row, two TEM cars will be from 6th and 10th: this time it will be Niko Puntola in 6th instead of Michal Saidl, while Yann Laprevotte will start from 10th like in 2010.
Lims Chebbi will start 17th, 2 places in front of David Jundt. Despite their retirement in the twin races, Tom Parker and Liane Solfrank will make it to the grid in 25th and 27th, thanks to their strong qualifying performance.
This edition of the Kyoto 250 looks very open overall, with the whole top 5 of 2010 returning, and some very competitive new drivers making their debuts.
Will Phil Diaz make it 3 out of 3 after moving to ineX Racing? Will Kenneth O’Keefe eventually take the race he came so close to over the years? Will 2010 2nd place runner and ex-TEM member Michal Saidl make CoRe Racing’s invincibility last one more year? Tune-in on MultiBC on Saturday 26th March at 16:00 UTC, and find out.
While waiting, you can check TEM’s report from the 2010 edition: http://www.tigerexpress.net/20 ... kes-2nd-without-much-joy/
You may also view the excellent 2010 post-race montage by Michael Passingham: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7w0kqF7szNc
Or the 2011 edition teaser by Teemu Iivonen: http://vimeo.com/21333977
With respect to Joe and Ken, they are quick but I dont think they were 41.9s quick
Extremely good report again Yann. Hopefully we can convert good qualifying/twin races into a good result in race
Good job TEM!
Well done
Well done
Yep, great report there Yann, hoping for a good race on Saturday
Once again, a great report Yann!
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Fixed.
Tiger Express Motorsports is proud to welcome two more skilled and experienced racers: Greece’s Chris Vourliotis and Germany’s Liane Solfrank.
Chris Vourliotis, 34, comes from sunny Greece’s capital city, Athens. He is a web developper in real life. He started LFS back in October 2009, and quickly got involved in Fun Racing League, in which he gained a win and a few podiums. Chris mainly showed his mighty pace in the hotlap mode however: he currently holds 5 World Records, which is more than any other Greek racer.
Chris now considers extending his league racing involvement after having joined Tiger Express, and already made remarked debuts in Original LFS League.
Now let’s go a few thousands kilometers to the North-West, to Munich, Germany. The hometown of TEM’s second recruit, Liane Solfrank. Liane, 26, is a former Epic Racing member. She arguabily is one of the very best ladies who ever touched LFS, and probably the best known one. She already has experience from many prestigious LFS leagues, including iTCC, LFSCART, LFSCART Light, Kyoto 250/500, Apex Cup and GTAL. Her speciality is oval racing though: she gained on Kyoto Oval her first and only league racing victory so far(in LFSCART Light), and her best ever result so far: a 3rd place in the 2010 Kyoto 500, only a few hundredths of a second behind league racing legends Sebastian Hutchinson and Ramon Blauwhoff.
After a few months LFS-wide break, Liane aims to get back to business, this time with TEM, and already plans to enter in various leagues.
Congratz Chris and Liane!
And nice report, as always, Yann!
And nice report, as always, Yann!
Congratulations guys
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