Well well... Time flies by it seems! Looking back 10 years ago I would've never thought to ever have such a great gaming team under my lead.
It all started back in August 2002 when *ROCK* Clan was formed on Medal of Honor: Allied Assault. Here we where very popular under the young Dutch community, we had a succesful team server, and many wars.
At 16th of December 2002, we came to Live for Speed, and started with a tiny demo team for years... With members such as Nabz, Pikaflex, Kimberly, Tomas and Edvis.
In 2006 came the turning point, we recruited Nicholas "Camaro" Wrage and Thomas "Tommy" Vermeire to the team.
We experienced a bit of S2 online thanks to friends, and just at July 2007 the team fully moved to S2! Here we soon found other members such as Lieuwe "Overhit" Sijtsma and Willem "Fazer" Sijtsma.
We where more a team for pick-up racing, we didn't do any serious league racing.
At the end of 2007 Christel "LORD/Chasey" van Essen joined in after knowing Walter for quite some while. She soon was promoted to co-leader of the by then called Team Rock.
In 2008 we changed our minds from being a fun team, to a more serious racing team. We renamed ourselves to Team Rock Racing. Christel made us a nice first website and this attracted more members.
We had a struggle from 2008 till mid 2009 when we organised our first championship for our members. There where just a few races beginning in September till December. The last race was the decider. Walter "Rocky7up" Lemmens won only 1 race, whilst Christel won more.
But sadly in the final corner of the track Christel wrecked and lost quite some positions. In the end Walter claimed the first championship by a lead of just 2 points.
In 2010 we had our first full championship, only -TRR- members where allowed to attend. It was a fight between mainly Michal "Niuch44" Sikorski, Walter and Christel. Further into the season it was clear Walter would win his second title. Michal would finish second with 6 wins, Christel would be third with 4 wins.
In December there was a small meeting in Budel, the Netherlands. Here some members received awards, other awards where send via post. During 2010 we had our first few sponsors such as Fanatec, Spire Europe, Monster Energy Drink & SPAM Energy Drink.
During 2011 we organised a bigger championship, in some races also outsiders may join in. We found some new sponsors such as CM Storm, Cooler Master, Bridgestone & HDFilmCamera.nl
Walter took the lead early in the season, and really increased it by nearly 100 points in front of the second. But thanks to calm driving through the following races, the gap got reduced to only 18 points in the end. Christel finished second.
The 2012 season is now underway and it's very exciting. Let's see who will be crowned champion, now that it is an open series...
Since the launch of our first Joomla powered website back in 2010 we've had 100 different members in the team!
From those a lot have left at the ending of 2011 when we where going through a struggle.
Luckily new ones have come, and our current member counter shows 24!
We've been on LFS since 16th of December 2002, so it's almost time to celebrate our 10th anniversaty!
We would like to thank the following people:
Walter Lemmens - for starting this team back in 2002, and giving most of his life time since then for it.
Christel van Essen - for kicking the team out of the dust, into the right direction, creating our websites and skins, and just being a good friend.
Ton Arends - for being a very supportive member in and outside the game.
Nicholas Wrage - for being a great member and friend from 2006 to 2011.
Thomas Vermeire - for being a good member and friend from 2006 to 2009.
Willem Sijtsma - for being a great friend and member since 2006.
Anton-Willem Ahlers - for being our rising star from 2008 to 2010, when he magically disapeared and never came back.
Rik Kardol - for being a good friend and our rising star from 2010 to 2011.
Robin Lowik - even though he caused some trouble, he was and is a truth friend of the team.
Dave Taylor - for being a great friend and support to both the team and it's leader.
Tommy Østgaard - for kicking the team alive, helping us achieve succes and making us more popular.
Niki Dakovic - for helping the team achieve succes and being a good friend.
Bozhidar Velinov - for being a good friend and having fun.
We would also like to thank the following sponsors to have supported us over the years:
Fanatec - supplying us a great product as award
CM Storm - supplying us with multiple great hardware as awards
Cooler Master - supplying us with great hardware as awards
SteelSeries - supplying us with multiple great hardware as awards
CMW Designs - creating our great websits
Spire Europe - supplying some nice awards
Vonken Sport Prijzen - giving huge discount on trophies
HDFilmCamera.nl - supplying us a onbard helmet camera
ModelAutoDealer.nl - supplying us with some scalemodels as awards
Bridgestone - supplying us some nice gifts and goodies.
Monster Energy Drink - supplying beverages for events
BAWLS Energy Drink - supplying beverages for events
SPAM Energy Drink - supplying beverages for events
So that's a little summary of 10 years of Team Rock Racing, we hoped you enjoyed reading, up to the 15!