All News: Gary Teall
Grand Prix Legends Season Finale at Interlagos
July 28th, 2014 by Jaime Baker
The final week of Season Two 2014 for the Grand Prix Legends series headed to Brazil for 15 laps of the legendary Interlagos and the last big race of the season. Believe it or not, this historic track wouldn’t be a part of the Formula One calendar for another five years after the Lotus 49’s … Read the Rest »
Grand Prix Legends at Road America
June 25th, 2014 by Jaime Baker
Week Seven of the Grand Prix Legends series ventured to Wisconsin’s classic Road America for 12 laps of a 2868 SOF race for nine sim-racers in their Lotus 49s. Mick Claridge (in the role of alter ego Mike Spence) sat on pole with a qualifying time of 2:06.905, less than a tenth ahead of Michel … Read the Rest »
Brands Hatch Revisited
June 16th, 2014 by Jaime Baker
1967 was not a year when the British Grand Prix was stages at Brands Hatch (which only hosted on even numbered years in the 1960s and ’70s) but rather at Silverstone. The following year the Lotus 49B did race at Brands Hatch with Graham Hill and Jackie Oliver teaming up at Gold Leaf Team Lotus … Read the Rest »
Just Keep It On The Road (Atlanta)
June 10th, 2014 by Jaime Baker
Week Five of the Grand Prix Legends Lotus 49 series headed to bumpy Road Atlanta. On Saturday, 15 sim-racers lined up for a 2462 SOF race of 18 laps with Mike Dam leading the way after qualifying with a 1:20.485, almost .3s faster than Gary Teall in second. Row Two was occupied by Jason Shadd … Read the Rest »
Laguna Seca + Power – Downforce = Win
May 22nd, 2014 by Jaime Baker
Thirteen sim-racers lined up on the grid at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in their Lotus 49s for a 2834 SOF race. The top three qualifiers (Michel Dudognon, Mick Claridge, and Jason Shadd) all posted times in the low 1:24s and were separated by less than a quarter of a second. Behind them came another set … Read the Rest »
Something Old, Something New – I’m Excited, How About You?
May 19th, 2014 by Jaime Baker
The Circuit of the Americas became available in iRacing just last month, and the Lotus 49 is among the, er, “oldest” cars available to sim-racers. So how good could this combination really be? Well the truth is the world discovered this magical combination over a year ago when Caterham F1 reserve driver, and only American … Read the Rest »