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IZOD IndyCars: Paquin Wins Battle of the Greats, Ellenbrand the Championship
by Dennis Grebe on July 29th, 2010
The last week of online racing at Homestead Miami Speedway for the IZOD IndyCar Series in Season 2 of 2010 came down to a race of two of the season’s great oval sim racers: John Paquin (Club Indiana) and Rhawn Black (California) battled it out for the win, while Henrik Müller (DE-AT-CH) fell back a lap but took the fastest lap of the race. The deciding move of the race came on Lap 90, when Paquin moved past Black for the lead and didn’t relinquish it until the finish, scoring an impressive 146 points, the most of the week.
A season ends that saw some close and fast racing on ovals . . .
Black took the second highest points score at 134.5 points, with Tim Doyle (Atlantic) in third at 133.25 points. Doyle also scored the most wins of the week, at six from eight starts. Black won three of his seven races, while Niles Anders (Plains) won three of his nine races. The busiest driver was Bill Krause (New York) with twelve starts, ahead of Joey Schmidt (Benelux) and Morgan Purcell (Celtic) at eleven each.
After Klaus Ellenbrand (DE-AT-CH) set up himself for the championship lead at Mosport, nobody found enough points to even come close to challenging him for the top spot. Ellenbrand thus succeeds Joao Vaz as champion of the Izod IndyCar Series at iRacing with a gigantic lead of 71 points.
some classic corners like the Corkscrew…
The author of this article (also of DE-AT-CH) finished second with 999 points, just five points ahead of Nelson Marques (Iberia) at 994. Fourth and fifth went to Club DE-AT-CH as well, with Sven Mitlehner in fourth with 984 points from just seven races and Müller in fifth with 980 points. The other positions in the Top 10 went to Riku Varje (Scandinavia), Neil Stratton (England), Eric Playez ( France), Roderic Kreunen (Benelux) and Mark Muckey (Pennsylvania).
With Ellenbrand also taking the Division 1 title, Müller was the best of the Division 2 drivers to take his divisional championship ahead of Varje and Rob Kodey (Virginias). Juan Rodriguez (Florida) predictably took the Division 3 honors after going into the last week of racing with a big advantage. Sebastian Lohse (DE-AT-CH) however tried his best to bring the challenge to Rodriguez, coming to within 8 points of winning the division. Alain Mest of France came in third.
In Division 4 it was less close, with David Gill (Mid-South) taking the divisional championship 113 points ahead of Pascal Nicolas (France) and a further 55 ahead of Ronny Kuritz (DE-AT-CH). Luc Boccon-Gibod (France) defended his lead to take Division 5 with over 200 points ahead of Andrew Aitken (Celtic) and Greg Zyla (Pennsylvania), while Division 6 went to Paul Stolber (DE-AT-CH), 31 points ahead of Gimmi Lavecchia (Italy) and Rick Stenstrom (Northwest).
and close fighting every week.
In Division 7 it was another DE-AT-CH driver in Henning Kruse to take the championship, well ahead of Emil Roma (Italy) and Christopher Hedlund (West). John Paquin finished seventh in this division. Australian Derek Riley took Division 8 nearly 100 points ahead of Mark Witz (Illinois) and Doug Doster (Plains), with the latter two only separated by half a point!
Division 9 was taken by William Kabela (Midwest), who finished 47 points ahead of Krause and a further 107 points ahead of Ted Severns (California) and, finally, in Division 10 Small took the divisional championship, ahead of Matthew Lambertson (Pennsylvania) and Murray Simister (Western Canada).
Doyle and Black were the most successful drivers of the series with 13 wins each, which all came on oval tracks. Müller follows with 10 wins, Anders with 9 and Ellenbrand with seven wins from just twelve races. Müller was also busiest driver of the season with 48 starts, out of which came 34 Top Five finishes. Rick Small (Indiana) was also very busy at 47 races, as was Krause at 43 races and Anders, whose 38 races came in only four weeks.
In the Regional Standings Club Plains rallied to the finish to score 1910 points, clearly beating out the opposition of DE-AT-CH and Benelux, who managed 1768 and 1710 points respectively. Club Atlantic came in fourth at 1634 points with Celtic in fifth with 1604 points.
Next season will feature a lot of new tracks on the schedule and a shift to a 50-50 split between ovals and road courses. See you then!
Fastest Qualifying lap of the week: John Paquin –24.589
Fastest Time Trial of the week: John Paquin –24.612 (ten laps)