The Open Wheel Racing League continues its annual F1 series with an eight round championship starting this month! From 16 June onwards drivers and teams will vie for the title won last year by Pete Hopkins and Sonicrealms Racing Team B. The calendar has seen some shuffles after the Jamaican authorities failed to make the necessary upgrades to the Fern Bay circuit. Instead, a second street race has been added with the South City Chicane Route for a full 100 laps.

Several changes have been made to the rules, adopting an approach which OWRL competitors will know from the popular S2 Series. OWRL F1 will no longer be limited to 26 drivers. As many servers will be available as needed with drivers being assigned to the servers depending on their personal best or hotlap time. Drivers, who will need to use their real name, no longer need to be with an team to take part. The team championship still is only for teams that applied and remains limited to two drivers per race.

Saturday returns as race day with race events starting at 19:30 CEST. The two qualifying sessions remain in place, with the second only for the top 10 drivers with parc fermé rules. Each event has a single race of Grand Prix length. The series no longer contains a summer break but added to the rule book is the 'worst result dropped'-rule so drivers who are forced to miss an event still can score maximum points.

Applications
Drivers that want to take part need to signup for each individual race under upcoming events. For the team championship application is needed. Teams consisting of at least two drivers can apply via our forum or mail to [email protected] with the exact team name, driver names and LFS world names. Applications that are received before an event starts will be accounted for, from that event onwards. Teams can change drivers between each race, but for one team only two drivers can race per event. Before round one there is a pre-registration for the teams that ends on Wednesday 20 June, 19:00 CEST on which the lower starting numbers will be handed out.

2012 Calendar

Race # - date (# laps): track
Race 1 - 16-06 (35): Aston Grand Prix
Race 2 - 30-06 (59): Kyoto National rev (Cloudy Afternoon)
Race 3 - 15-07 (100): South City Chicane Route
Race 4 - 29-07 (91): Blackwood GP
Race 5 - 12-08 (58): Aston North
Race 6 - 26-08 (58): Westhill International Rev
Race 7 - 09-09 (75): South City Long (Overcast Day)
Race 8 - 23-09 (42): Kyoto Ring GP Long

Time table (CEST)
- 19:30 - 19:45 Qualifying all drivers (Q1)
- 19:50 - 20:00 Top 10 Qualifying (Q2)
- 20:10 Race

OWRL F1 information
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