Roster - SSCA Endurance Series

Allen cut his teeth in racing sims many years ago in games like Microprose Grandprix and Grandprix Legends before finally discovering online racing. He joined SimRacing.Org.UK in 2005 apprenticing with team 28CD Motorsports driving Simbin’s GTR sim. Not satisfied with only racing GTR, 28CDMotorsports moved their base of operations to Race2Play in January 07 where Cotton has been racing rFactor, GTR2, GT Legends, Race 07 and ARCA. Allen has enjoyed some success at R2P winning 3 championships and holds 2 track records. Allen is about to complete 20,000 raced miles at R2P and says he loves his racing and hopes to continue with 28CDMotorsports for a few years yet.

Brian’s sim career started with GTR1 racing at. UKGTR for 3 seasons. During this time he joined the 28CD Motorsports team and helped the team to win a couple of team championships. Brian followed the team over to Race2Play and races all manner of disciplines. Brian races with GTR2, Rfactor, GTL and Race07 sims.

Maurice had always been interested in simracing when he was younger, but only got into simracing when he bought a wheel in 2002. He started out with oval racing using Nascar Racing 2002 and moved on to Nascar Racing 2003 right after the release. After a disappointing attempt to prove his skill online he decided to move on to road racing sims. The chosen sim was GTR by Simbin which was only a demo version at that time. He played the demo until the release of the full game in spring 2005. After the release on GTR he signed up at SimRacing.org.uk - starting out racing solo - and joined the 28CD Motorsports team in early 2006. At Race2Play Maurice has raced with GTR2, rFactor, GT Legends, Race07 and ARCA Simracing and enjoyed various personal successes. 

Darius has been racing rfactor since March 2006 and is also active in national championships of his country Lithuanian.  He started his international simrace-career at the age of 16.  He made his international debute for Roaldo Racing in Formula-simracing.net World Series
and in 2007 he made his debute in the Formula-simracing.net World Championship for Kiwi Virtual.

He also drove in the virtual 24 hours of Leman for Armaroli Racing.

2001: Test Driver Ape Grand Prix (GP3)
2002: FSR WC Hernj Grand Prix (2 races)
2003: FSR WC Hernj Grand Prix (1 race, finish in points)
2004: FSR WS Ace and test driver WC
2006: ASRWC 5th for Spain
2007: FSR WC Virtual-games.com
2008: FSR WC GhostSpeed Racing (test driver) and virtual test driver for Armaroli.com

Starting simracing in 2006, represented NationTeam Netherlands in the Armaroli SimRacing WorldCup (finished 8th)
2007: Driver for Portuguese simrace team GhostSpeed Racing in Formula SimRacing.net WC (finished 8th in driver standing)
2008: Driver for Portuguese simrace team GhostSpeed Racing together with World Champion Bruno Marques in Formula SimRacing.net WC
*He’s also a virtual test driver for the Armaroli.com staff

I’m the current Club President for ASRG.

Have been sim racing since Indy 500 came out, tried all the different sims that came out since, been racing online since 2002, started off with SWIS Racing, then becoming a member of ASRG (Australian Sim Racing Group) and then eventually voted in as club President where I’ve been for the last 3 years.

http://www.asrg.org

2004-Prior
Raced in various open wheel series

2005-2006
Finished in the top 5 in the VOR Lemans Challenge Championship in both LMP2 and GTS divisions - driving the EllisDon Racing LMP2 Dome and Viper GTS

2007-2008
Currently scheduled to participate in the VOR International Lemans Series for EllisDon Racing in LMP2, GTS and Endurance Series.

ASRWC Canadian Seatholder/driver
N3 Bellstar Racing Series Touring Champion
TNT N3
TNRS 2 Time champion n3 n4
South West Action Tour N 4 Champion
30+ Racing Nascar 2003 Champion
XRL N2003
SROL 2007 Open wheel Champion Rfactor
SORS CTS Atlanta Past winner
CCCRL N2003 Rickey Craven Online Charity Races
FFRL CTS
GPL
ICR2
TNRS DTR Sprint CARS
TNRS DTR Modifieds
EA Sports F1 99 -2002

FFRL CTS 2005
SROL 2006 Go-Kart Champ
COS 2005 /2006/2007

Bellstar Racing Series
Southwest Action Tour
Tuesday Night Racing Series
30plus Racing League
Simulation On Line Racing Series
Friends and Family Racing League
TNRS DTR Sprint Cars
TNRS DTR Modifieds
GPL
EA F1 2000

I have raced online for years and love Online Racing atmosphere and competition.

I have race SROL this year and a Sunday night Fixed setup league, I am also an a driver for team Canada in ASRWC.

Being a new acquisition to the Caranci’s Cobras Racing Team, the CCR team owner has high hopes for me becoming one of the top Divers in there Stables of CCR drivers.

Full Seasons:

4th - 06-07 Beracing Megane Trophy, Team champions.

2nd - 2007 GTCC, Team Champions, Rookie of the year.

2nd - 07-08 BECCWS, Team Champions.

2nd - 2008 BeTCC, Team Champions.

Part-Time finished Seasons:

N/A - 2005 Portuguese Bskilled GT.

3rd - 2007 DRT British Megane Championship.

5th - 2007 Beracing FBMW.

Full Seasons:

4th - 2004 Screaming Wheels League - F1c RH04.

3rd - 2004 Screaming Wheels League - F1c RH04.

5th - 2005 TedF1 - F1c RH05.

4th - 2005 TedF1 - F1c RH05.

2nd - 2005 TedF1 - F1c RH05.

3rd - 2006 Megane Radical Gaming Network.

2nd - 06-07 Beracing Megane Trophy, Team champions.

2nd - 2007 Beracing FBMW.

5th - 2007 GTCC, Team Champions.

1st - 07-08 BECCWS, Team Champions.

Part-Time finished Seasons:

4th - 2007 DRT British Megane Championship.
11th - 2008 BeTCC.

TPG S3 is the first competitive racing in any form for me.
I jumped in head-first and did the GT, G3 and GTL.
Other than that, I’ve always been interested in racing.
Although my true love has always been MotoGP.

After havin’ played the NFS series for a few years, I came across something on the internet about “simulations” and how much more realistic and hard they were. Read alot of good stuff on GTR, so I went to the store and picked it up. Played that for a couple of weeks then started researching wheels. During my research I discovered a new game on the horizon… GTL… would be hittin’ the shelves in a couple of months.
So I ran the 360 at Brno for that time in Sim-mode to force myself to learn about settin’ up the car and driving w/out aids. GTL came along and I forced myself to run thru the single-player game in Sim-mode before I even ventured into Multi. I figured this was the best way to make sure I wouldn’t be one of those wrecker/race ruiners that I kept reading about. During all this, I discovered RSC and the rank sites. RSC led me to TPG and by the time GTR2 came out I was comfortable w/racing multi in the public domain and had been considering/interested in joining a GTL league. Fortunately, TPG had it all and I’ve been racing ever since.

Over 10 years of Sim racing both online and offline.  2 years of League racing in the TPG League.

Leagues Currently Racing:
TPG
SSCA
MNRL

5th in GT - SSCA 8 hours at Nuerburg

Real World Racing:
SCCA Club Racing
3 Time Southwest Divisioin GT2 Class Champion
3 Time Class winner SCCA 6 hours at Texas World Speedway

Porsche Club Racing
20 GT3 Class wins

First personal info, 38 years old, married, 3 kids ages 10-14.  I work as a Computer Operations Supervisor for Payless Shoe Source in Topeka, KS.  I have a degree in Technology Administration from Washburn University, I also served in the US Army from 89-93.

SIM info, I have been driving SIM’s for just over 3 years.  I started with F1C and quickly picked up on GTR.  I joined TPG Racing as a League Admin in their Season 2 and have been actively involved in the community ever since.

I am never the fastest guy on track, usually middle of the pack talent wise, but when given time to prepare I can drive a solid race with only minor misques.

Richard Freedman is part-time (sort of) serious sim racer. Started off way back with Indy 500 (earlier if you include those hand held game things from the 70’s). Discovered the online racing with N4 & GPL and was heavily involved with running big leagues for one of Australia’s original premier groups.

Recently won the AusTeamRacing Amnet 2007 Christmas Classic using NR2003.

Currently experimenting with DIY hardware information devices running out of rFactor. (and enjoying online racing again)

I started sim racing like many with Gran Turismo 2/3/4 and also another driving game on the PS2 by Option Video magazine. Once introduced to GTR 1 I was hooked and soon purchased a Logitech MOMO (black) and later a set of Advantage 1 pedals to replace the crappy Logitech items. This lead to rFactor, then GT Legends, then GTR2 and now Race07. I have been in several leagues in all of these sims & was the GTR2 league director for Triple P Racing.

I’m now running a Bi-turbo Porsche for Gazelle MotorSport. The team is semi fictional in that I don’t have a professional racing team, but I do have a Nissan Gazelle that Vance Le Garde & I have begun doing timed sprint events at a local racing circuit. I’m using my experience from both sim racing and the Gazelle to further my tuning knowledge of both.

Started in simracing in 2007.
Results:
- 5º Megane trophy rFactor Portuguese League
- 3º Grand Prix 1979 rFactor Portuguese League (FRC)
- 5º GTR2 (NGT CLASS) Portuguese League

Dutch/NL GPL champion
2nd in 2004 dEEL 24hrs of Le Mans with Simracing For Holland
rFactor.org Formula 3 2005 champion
2nd in 2005 WOSEC endurance league regular season
2nd in 2005 WOSEC 24hrs of Le Mans with Simracing For Holland
rfactor.org PCCRD 2006 champion
2nd in 2006 WOSEC 24hrs of Le Mans with Simracing For Holland
2nd in rFactor.org 1979 Demo season
Won OATAS 24hrs of Le mans with VTRacing
3rd in rFactor.org F1 1979 championship 2007
5th in FLOG79 series, one win
Simracing.nl PCC07 champion

Statistics from 2005 to 2007
2005
Sim-Challenge
Races:14
Position:2nd
Points:101
Victories:7
Retirements:1
Poles:7
Podiums:11
Fastest Laps:3
FSR WC
Races:4
Points:12
Victories:0
Retirements :1
Poles:1
Podiums:1
Fastest Laps:0
2006
FSR WC
Races:14
Position:1st
Points:118
Victories:7
Retirements:1
Poles:7
Podiums:13
Fastest Laps:2
2007
FSR WC
Races:17
Position:1st
Points:138
Victories:7
Retirements:1
Poles:5
Podiums:16
Fastest Laps:6

2006 - 2007
Through 2006 and 2007, David has been racing in several online simulation (sim) racing championships using rFactor. While merely a substitute for real racing, David has solidifed his reputation was one of the world’s best sim racing drivers. Along the way he has raced against, and beaten real racers who also indulge in sim racing as a hobby.

Currently ranked second in the 2007 Formula SimRacing World Championship—the premier online championship—with four race wins.
Finished in a tie for third place in the 2006 Formula SimRacing World Championship with two race wins in his debut season in the championship.
Led Team Italy to the win in the Armaroli Sim Racing World Cup with wins in five of the nine races.
2005

Five Races, Skip Barber National Championship
Podium finish in first race
Front-row start in third race and he also is a virtual test driver for Armaroli.com

Have been driving Sim-Racing seens 99.
Started with Nascar Revolution, F1C and so on.
Most active in GTR2.

qualifications
7.th SCWC07
2nd. SSR S5 Div.1 07
1st. STES Endurance Series 07
1st. SSR S3 Div.2 06

Age 54
Born in a Hospital
Now lives in Green Bay WI
Uses a steering wheel
Have been racing online for many years
Favorite tracks - Bristol for Stocks, Mosport for Road

Age 41
Born in Clinton,IA
3 kids Brandon 11,Madison 7 Rachel 2
Now lives in Des Moines,IA for 40 years
Uses the TSW 2 steering wheel
Have been racing online for 8 years

Age 45
Born in Aleandria Virginia
Wife: Mary - Kids: Brittani-18 Christopher-8
Now lives in Bealeton Virginia
Uses the MOMO steering wheel
Have been racing online since birth
First cool car was a Shelby GLHS

Age 57
Born in Alexandia Virginia
Wife: Diana - Kids: Crista-25 Ashlee-20
Grandkids: Morgan-3 Hunter-5 months
Now lives in Sterling,VA
Uses the Momo steering wheel
First car 1957 Chevy

Age 54
Born in Detroit Michigan
Married 29 years, 2 daughters and 1 grandson
Now lives in Fresno California for 52 years
Raced go-karts from age 5 to 10 years old. Auto-crossed off and on from 18 to 25 years old. On-line racing N3, N2002 and N2003. New to rFactor
First cool car 1960 Morris Minor

Previous Sims: Grand Prix 1, Grand Prix 2, Grand Prix 3, Grand Prix 3 2000, Grand Prix 4, Rally Championship 2000, Richard Burns Rally

Best Sim Moments: Every good result is a matter of pride so it makes me feel good, no specific best moment
Top 5’s: rF Tracks: Laguna Seca, Monza, Mondello, Imola, Kyalami and of course LeMans 79

Bio: The [K]R3W was an outfit founded in 2002 to compete in Tactical Operations, Battlefield 1942 & Call Of Duty.
After major successes in all three fps titles, our team left the first person shooter scene and headed to the raceways, where we now reside.
- www.kr3w.co.uk -

Location: Holland
Hobbies: Sim-racing, Music, Computers
Driving mostly at: RACER and FSR

Previous Sims: GP2,3,4. GTL.
Best Sim Moments: 2 GRCL Championships, Lienz Festival 2007 - 1st, SSCA 12hours of Daytona - 3rd,
Top 5’s: rF Tracks: Norisring, Interlagos, Brands Hatch, Daytona, Indianapolis

A veteran simracer from Portugal,has participated in several portuguese rFactor championships, like SRP´s Formula BMW and GPC.

Fast driver, his dedication to obtain the right setups for each car he drives can be amazing.

His international participions have also been in the SSCA leagues, in rFactor,where he drove the Audi R8 which he will drive in the 8Hrs of Nuerburg.

Daniel has obtained very good results in the past, with the Jaguar Racing Team and hopes to get even better results in the future, at the wheel of MST´s Audi R8.

Veteran portuguese simracer,started racing back in 2003,in the GPL and GTR-2002 simulators.

Has participated in several portuguese championships which included the national online Rally Championship,the 2 Hrs of Nurburgring,bSkilled GTL championship and SRP F1 and Formula BMW championships.

His only title was won in 2006, in the national G2|R4 Rally Championship,although several good results have come in the 2007 season,with several podium finishes in the bSkilled GTL championship (in both GTC-65 and GTC-76 categories).

His international participations have mainly been in the SSCA leagues (N2k3 and rFactor) and Spanish Rally Championships.

More info about its curriculum can be seen at: http://greatasaf.planetaclix.pt/index1.htm

I began racing online with Grand Prix Legends, and later received NASCAR Racing 2003 Season as a Christmas gift. I began my endurance career with a couple poor performances for Scott Michaels’s R4R team, before moving onto Brendan Kaczmarek’s Northstar Racing. I have since followed both into OATAS and the SSCA, respectively. I have two class endurance wins, both with the GTP platform.

I started racing online with GPL in 1999 mainly hanging out in VROC and doing pickup races until around 2002. In 2005 I Joined my first league, the PORRS GTP series, and raced for 2 seasons there finishing in the top 3 both times. I ran several races in MNRL, but didn’t have enough time to do races every week. I Filled in for Frosty in a couple SSCA races around the same time. I also drove the PORRS team car in the WOSEC endurance series, sadly we never finished a race. I switched to team Northstar Racing and we had a good first race of the season in WOSEC, but things went south with the league. Ever since then I hadn’t been doing much racing until SSCA made the move to rFactor and I’ve been helping out and racing here ever since.

Chris started simracing with GPL in 1999. He spent many years racing in VROC. Chris got his first taste of online league racing in the first season of GPLemans. When NASCAR 2003 came out Chris got involved with more online racing. Chris now is enjoying all the mods associated with rFactor. When not racing online, Chris spends most of time with his wife and 2 kids. He also loves photography, sailboat racing and watching any form of motorsports.

Accomplishments:

2nd GPLemans 1st season 2000
1st BRSC 1st season 2004
2nd BRSC TPTCC 2nd 2004
Top 10 MNRL GTP2 2005
3rd MNRL GTP2 2005 Team Championship
2nd Simcar 2006-3 NORAM
1st Simcar 2006-3 NORAM Team Championship
8th Flog Magenes League 2006

Chris is new to sim racing. He is participating in MNRL as his first ever season.

This will be his first ever endurance race.

About: Julien is relatively new to sim racing. He already competes against the fastest sim racers on the planet, as his skills continue to grow. His preparation and attention to detail gives him an edge over most of the competition on track, and he is already one of the most consistent drivers in sim racing today.

Accomplishments:

rFactor:
1st Place - 2006 F1 1979 FFSCA Demo League
3rd place - 2006 F1 1979 RACER Alex Silverstone Challenge
5th Place - 2006 F1 1979 rFactor.org Demo League
1st Place – 2007 F1 1979 FFSCA Championship

Frosty started sim racing in 2004. Since then he has gone on to win several championships. He also races R/C Cars and is sponsored by several factories.

Accomplishments:

1st Place - MNRL GTP Team Champions Season 1
1st Place - MNRL GTP Team Champions Season 3
1st Place - MNRL GTP Drivers Champion Season 4
1st Place - MNRL GTP Team Champions Season 4
1st Place - CanAm MCF1 Drivers Champion Season 2
1st Place - CanAM MCF1 Team Champions Season 2
1st Place - PORRS rFactor Invite
1st Place - Racer Alex Proton Heat Race Winner
2nd Place - NORRA Cup Road Racing League
2nd Place - MNRL GTP Season 1
2nd Place - CanAm MCF1 Season 1
2nd Place - SSCA Endurance Watkins Glen
2nd Place - The US Pits Bullrun 1000 (2006)
3rd Place - RACER Alex MCF1 Track IR Challenge
3rd Place - SSCA Endurance Daytona RC

About: Ilkka started racing sims in 1994 with F1 GP using a keyboard. Since then he has gone on to race almost every GP sim out. Now he specializes in rFactor, and is well known throughout the community for his raw speed. Also known as TheFlyingFinn, he has some of the purest speed in sim racing to date. Finn is always a threat to win any race he enters, regardless of the mod.

Accomplishments:

rFactor:
2nd place F1 1979 Mod – RACER Alex Silverstone Challenge
3rd Place F1 1979 Mod – FLOG 79’ Series
4th Place rFactor.org 79’ Demo League
1st Place in 2 legs of Lienz Festival of Speed

F1RS2:
1st Place F1RS2 League F1

Shawn started racing at the age of 5 with go-karts. He never had the money to get seriously into racing and when Grand Prix 2 came out in 1995 he started the beginning of his sim racing career. He raced offline for many years, from GP2, Nascar 2, Nascar 1999, Nascar 3, NR2002,NR2003,GTR To finally now in Rfactor.

Accomplishments:
NR2003
1st Place - 24 Hours of Lemans - Team Black Squirrel
1st Place - Champion TVR-Trans-Am
3rd Place - Overall WORRL Trans-Am

RFactor
Full Seasons
1st Place - 2007 FIA-GT CanAm Season 1 Champion
1st Place - 2007 FIA-GT CanAm Season 2 Champion
1st Place - 2007 PC Racers CST Protons Champion
2nd Place - 2007 Flog Sprint Series Season
3rd Place - 2007 Flog FIA-GT Season

Endurance Races/Special Events
1st Place - 2007 CanAm Road Course AllStar Season 1
1st Place - 2007 CanAm Road Course AllStar Season 2
1st Place - 2007 CanAm Road Course AllStar Season 3
1st Place - 2007 SSCA 6 hours of Watkins Glen (LMP)
2nd Place - 2007 SSCA 12 Hours of Daytona RC (LMP)

Part-Time Finished Seasons
12th Place - Toyota Atlantic CanAm Season 1(5 Starts)
15th Place - 2007 FIA-GT CanAm Season 3 (2 Starts)
23rd Place - Toyota Atlantic CanAm Season 2 (1 Start)

Part-Time/Current Seasons
1st 2007 MNRL PCC07 Season 2 (After 15 Races)
N/A 2008 SSCA 8 Hours of Nurburgring (LMP)

Hans Gunnar is quite new to simracing, but has driven a lot of driving games. He came into Racing League Nordic this season like a rocket, and is currently 3rd in the standings. 

Ivar is the founder of Racing League Norway, who later changed name to Racing League Nordic. He finished 2nd in 04/05 season, and finished 2nd again in the 06/07 season. He also won the Porsche Carrera league Nordic the same season.
Ivar is born in Bergen, Norway and is currently living in Skien, Norway. He began simracing back in the ancient ages, but got serious when Racing league Nordic got started. He also attended the 6 hrs. at the Glen, where his team was running 3rd in the LMP class when they got disconnected.

Ivar’s comment:
Ivar is a bit slower than Petter but often scores on being very stable and making almost no mistakes. He seldom has the fastest laps in the races, but always gets his car to the finish and scoring good points on that. Ivar is sometimes a bit hot-headed, and is known to be a bit optimistic in his overtaking attempts, and have caused quite a few incidents due to this.
Standings in Racing League Nordic:
Season:
04/05: 2nd
05/06: 4th
06/07: 2nd
07/08: 4th

Johnny has been with us for about a year. He is an excellent driver and a tecnical genious. He runs all our servers, and makes all the mods that we use in RLN. A real great guy!

Ivars comment:
Johnny, being born in 1960 is our grand old man. He probably is the only one whos name you guys can pronouce without getting in serious trouble

Magnar has raced in RLN since 2004. He is a very consistent and reliable driver. Fast and smooth. He has been very successful in RLN, being one of three who has won the RLN championship in addition to Petter Kaasa and Espen Graaten.

Ivars comment:
Magnar is not only one of my favourite drivers in RLN, but also one of my favourite persons. He is very kind and sweet, and always helping other guys with anything they might need help with. Always in a good mood, and a really fast driver. Magnar is doing the last two hours of the race at the ring, making it the gravedyard shift here in Norway, as these to hours is between 1200pm and 0200am local time. Cheer Magnar along, guys!!!

Ole Marius started with simracing in 2005 when he joined a Norwegian Grand Prix Legends series. Drove there for one season before I started in Racing League Nordic, He’s in his third season in F1 there, and second in the support class. He also started racing in netracingeurope in 2006, and participated in V8Thunder(With the V8 supercars), with no succsess, and went to TEC(a ETCC cup) in the same league, and got a lot of podiums and top 5 finishes before he had to take a break. Meanwhile he also got contacted by vMaxSR, and they asked if he wanted to join their rFactor part, which he did. Now he’s racing in F1, GT, Beetle Cup and a Champ Car Championship, and he’s planning to enter a new season with Touring Cars. Besides driving endurance of course.
And btw. Born in March 1991, not very old, yet!