All News: Lotus 79

Lidqvist Storms to CTC Drivers Title; Lotus Tops Constructors

April 26th, 2013 by

A quiet final week at Oran Park didn’t dampen the fact that — once again, the Classic Teams Championship provided an excellent and exciting player-led addition to the official iRacing.com Classic Lotus Grand Prix Series. For the second season in a row, multiple-champion Gernot Fritsche had to play second fiddle to a superb newcomer to … Read the Rest »

Fritsche Closes Gap; Lotus Falter

April 12th, 2013 by

Road Atlanta is a popular and challenging track, with the sweeps early in the lap being both exciting and testing in equal amounts. In all 100 Lotus 79 drivers took on the challenge over the course of 10 races during Week 10 of the Classic Teams Challenge in 2013 Season One. Gernot Fritsche took full … Read the Rest »

Fritsche Back on Top

April 8th, 2013 by

Lingqvist’s Lead Nearly Unassailable; Lotus Likely Champions Sonoma Raceway and Mosport Park represent two completely different tracks with the former being an undulating track with wide range of corners through dusty hills, while the latter is a classic ex-Formula 1 venue steeped in history and full of flowing corners.  Together, they posed quite a back-to-back … Read the Rest »

iRacer Profile: Carlo Labati

April 6th, 2013 by

Q: What attracted you to iRacing? A: iRacing is a simulator developed after GP Legends and Nascar 2003 Racing Season… so what could be better? Q: What are favorite iRacing cars/tracks? A: My favourite iRacing cars are Dallara in Road and Silverado Trucks in Oval. I love “real” tracks and historical ones. Q: What do … Read the Rest »

Salminen Closes on Podium; Lotus Stretch Lead

March 26th, 2013 by

For Round Seven of the Lotus Classic Teams Championship the field remained in Belgium, moving from the classic Spa circuit to the confines of Circuit Zolder. Most famous as the venue where the legendary Gilles Villeneuve lost his life, this circuit represents a huge contrast to the week before.  With three tight chicanes and a … Read the Rest »

Lingvist Extends Lead; Lotus Take a Stranglehold

March 11th, 2013 by

Round 4 of the Lotus 79 Classic Teams Championship saw the field visit the perennial favourite, Watkins Glen. This classic race track generally sees a peak in participation but for some reason that didn’t materialize this season, although the participation remained consistent as 17 starts took place over the course of the week. Nicklas Lindqvist … Read the Rest »

Lindqvist Leads as Fritsche Falters

February 25th, 2013 by

Nicklas Lindqvist continued his great start to the season as he won the third round of the Classic Teams Championship with a stunning 248 point haul at Road America ahead of Tomasz Kozdron who bumped a faltering Gernot Fritsche to third overall. In all 143 drivers took their Lotus 79s to the long straights of … Read the Rest »

Linquvist Storms into CTC Lead

February 15th, 2013 by

From the Kentish Brands Hatch circuit the Classic Team Championship moved across the North Sea to Holland and the classic Zandvoort circuit. Zandvoort represents a much different challenge than the sweeping curves of Week One and up front the lead changed with Nicklas Lingqvist besting Gernot Fritsche into second place. BRM driver, Nilsson, dropped to … Read the Rest »

BRM Driver Streaks to CTC Lead

February 8th, 2013 by

Lotus makes the early running in new-look championship Pre-season, as with all series in 2013, S1, the CTC and its associate Lotus 79 championship moved to a 7 days a week schedule, but initial reaction to the published schedule was very negative. Eventually a revised schedule was published which met with approval of the drivers … Read the Rest »

Ehnström Storms to CTC Crown

January 22nd, 2013 by

Roland  Ehnström stormed to an emphatic overall drivers crown in the 2012 Season 4 Classic Teams Championship series.  The Swedish sim-racer won all but one of his races throughout the season and was a deserving champion as outgoing champion, Gernot Fritsche, struggled to come to terms with the heavily-revised Lotus 79. With a couple of … Read the Rest »