All News: Gernot Fritsche

Williams Storm into CTC Lead

October 22nd, 2012 by

Virginia International Raceway presents one of the premier challenges in all of iRacing, but it can also produce some great sim-racing. It’s also the nearest thing iRacing has to the challenges and variety of corners provided by the Nurburgring.  As such VIR has a hard-core of supporters but, historically across all series, participation tends to … Read the Rest »

Classic Teams Championship Ignites at Oulton Park

October 9th, 2012 by

Ever since its arrival on the iRacing service, Oulton Park has gained a reputation as a popular and exciting track and, in Week Nine of the Classic Teams Championship, this English race track delivered; again. The biggest news of the week was the utter failure of two of the top three, teams causing the CTC … Read the Rest »

Ferrari Falter as Ligier Close-in on Top Spot

October 1st, 2012 by

Sebring marked the point in the Classic Teams Championship where many drivers and teams will have scored eight times and dropped scores will start to become a factor. To date 303 drivers have entered an online race during the season with a whopping 46 of them registering at least a single win with 96 registering … Read the Rest »

Ferrari Charge, McLaren Show Their Hand

September 21st, 2012 by

For the seventh round of the Classic Teams Championship the field flew back to the UK for one of the most iconic circuits on the calendar.  Silverstone hosted the first ever Formula 1 race in 1950, the British Grand Prix since 1948 and has hosted the event 27 times. Coming into the week Ferrari had … Read the Rest »

Top Teams Show Form as ATS Fades

September 14th, 2012 by

The Classic Teams Championship took a dramatic turn as it approached the half-way phase with Ferrari and Ligier both scoring top points and Williams snapping at their heals as ATS faded. As the field took on the challenge of the Mid-Ohio circuit for Week Five, all eyes were on the top teams as they desperately … Read the Rest »

ATS on Top as Ligier and Tyrrell Show Their Hand(s)

August 23rd, 2012 by

With 25% of the season gone the Classic Teams Championship (CTC) continues to be exciting and topsy turvy and, with the first round of major driver changes taking place, Ligier and Tyrrell showed good form as ATS raced to the top of the tables. As reported last week, Mark Bird was hotly tipped to take … Read the Rest »

Williams Take Classic Teams Championship

July 26th, 2012 by

CTC Celebrates Its First Year 12 months ago a group of drivers addicted to the Lotus 79 were coming up with ideas to try to increase the diminishing attendance of what they believe to be the best car on the iRacing service.  Luis Babboni suggested a teams championship.  Series organiser Frank Herfjord loved the idea … Read the Rest »

Fristsche Tightens Grip

July 17th, 2012 by

Teams Championship Goes Down to the Wire ROUND 10,  MOSPORT, CANADA It was boom times for The Classic Teams Championship in Canada. The series is currently growing faster than it ever has before with nine new drivers signing-up and two new teams taking to the track over the past seven days. But up the front … Read the Rest »

Ferrari Goes Dutch

June 12th, 2012 by

CLASSIC TEAMS CHAMPIONSHIP ROUND 6:  ZANDVOORT, THE NETHERLANDS. FRITSCHE, HULBERT SHARE PODIUM FOR FERRARI The Classic Teams Championship was back on classic ground this week at Circuit Park Zandvoort in Europe; the sand dunes of the Netherlands’ coastline having been a setting for the F1 circus until 1985, although on a very different layout to … Read the Rest »