This summer for Blue Flag Racing’s Mark A Warmington, could not have been any better.

 

Mark has spent the past twelve weeks dedicating himself to and competing in the iRacing GT Championship.  The iRacing GT Championship features the Corvette C6.R – a car which is ‘quite simply the most awesome GT car ever built’, according to iRacing.com.  The C6.R is a winner of five straight American Le Mans Series titles and a staggering total of eight class wins in the 12 Hours of Sebring and 24 Hours of Le Mans. 

 

When asked why he chose to run the iRacing GT Championship Mark responded by saying, ‘it was a chance to race the C6.R, a car that is probably one of the fastest and most durable sports car of its era – ever!  iRacing have faithfully reproduced, in high-fidelity, this amazing seven-litre V-8, that produces an immensely impressive 600 horsepower and “rewards finesse and style over ham-fisted driving – approach to racing” and suits my approach to racing nicely.’

 

The Corvette C6.R GT1 Series includes some of the best road courses North America has to offer; courses that hark back to the halcyon days of racing, where tracks had character, charm and were built around the local topography, rather than being purpose built to cater for TV.  The series also boasts some extremely talented drivers that made the challenge of running the series all the more rewarding for Mark.

 

The series ran over twelve weeks, with a driver’s best results for 8 out of the 12 weeks contributing to his points tally for the overall GT Championship and individual divisional titles, with the worst 4 results being dropped.

 

Starting out the season at Virginia International Raceway saw Mark take a commanding lead in his division and an impressive 9^th place in the overall GT Championship with a top-five finish at what can only be described as one of the most technically challenging tracks in North America. 

 

Mark would continue his run of top-five finishes through the first half of the GT Championship as the circus turned up at Watkins Glenn, Mazda Raceway – Laguna Seca, Road America – Elkhart Lake, Silverstone – the home of British Motorsport and Road Atlanta.

 

It was at the mid-point of the season that Mark would start to have more indifferent performances as he came to terms with on track incidents, tracks, like Barber Motorsports Park – where the technical and challenging nature of the track presented a rapid and steep learning curve, Brands Hatch – where a DNF whilst running in 2^nd place was extremely hard to take and Sebring International, where Mark would start to recover his form by finding over a second in pace on his last visit to the spiritual home of North American endurance racing, resulting in two more top-five finishes in that weeks heat of races.

 

Round 10 at Mosport  International Raceway was, in Mark’s words, ‘a nightmare of a week’ – with Mark electing to drop round 10’s results from his best-eight finishes for the season.

 

With two rounds to go, Mark was well aware that the divisional title, for Division Five, was potentially his.  Two solid performances at Zandvoort and Daytona Road Course, the season closing event, would not only lock down the title for Division Five but would also potentially cement Mark’s place in the top-20 for the overall GT Championship standings for iRacing’s Season Two, 2010.

 

Mark duly delivered, culminating in what Mark considered to be a supreme performance, for him, at Daytona RC.  Mark managed to improve his personal best times around the circuit by over a second in both qualifying and race trim.  This resulted in Mark starting on the pole for his final heat race and ultimately claiming his first, and only, win in the GT Championship.

 

When asked what Mark considered to be the most enjoyable and satisfying moments of the season, Mark responded by saying ‘... it sounds like such a cliche’, but the drivers that made up the GT Championship are some of the most supportive, generous, competitive and fair racers that I have had the pleasure to share a track with in my entire sim-racing career.  Drivers like Dave Gelink, who absolutely dominated the series from week one, Alexandre Martini, who was always on hand to discuss setup options, Toby Bushnell, Ben Newby and Ian Rogers all made the experience quite simply, amazing!

 

What Mark failed to mention was the fact that winning the Division 5 title for Season 2, 2010 represented the first sim-racing championship title of Mark’s sim-racing career; a career that has spanned almost two decades and a multitude of sim-racing titles.

 

Mark now looks forward to a week off as iRacing moves into its regular week 13 cycle, where the simulation receives updates to its build and a new induction of rookie races are entered into the fold.

 

Dave Gelink was crowned overall GT Champsionship winner for Season Two, with a staggering points haul of 1127 championship points.  Mark would ultimately be classified in 17^th position (out of 326 drivers) with a points tally of 779.

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Finally the summer started!

With temperatures climbing over 30° in Europe, most of our drivers are occupied with BBQ s, swimming and holidays. Still some of them just can t get enough and are active in the GT league at RD (Eckhart, Konrad & Krzysztof) or are trying to conquer the iRacing championships with changing success (Mark & Steve).

Also the RDHGP Season 5 has finished. Read more about it over here (Roman, Krzysztof & Kris).

Warren Dawes is actively recruiting for his RBR events at RD and regularly spams our forum with his spectacular rally movies. He already attracted Eckhart, Krister & Mark to compete in a few events.

The STC Blue Cup has just finished and already the first test races of STC Black Cup 2010 have been announced together with a new Mod: the Doran JE4 powered by a Ford V8

Five leagues are about to start soon.

• The STC Blue Cup 2010 where we wait with eagerness for the new mod. This season seems to attract more BFR members than ever!
• RD V8 Supercar Championship. Kristofer Larsson and Mark A Warmington will have a lot of fun here. Good luck guys!
• RD Formula Pro - World Series. Mikael Larsson, Mark A Warmington and Konrad Stanczak will try to take control of these F1 cars. They all drive in division 2 this season.
• RD Chevrolet Camaro Cup. Péter Bartfai will defend our team here.
• In RD ATCC will William Yunck and Steve Emmons participate.

There was maintenance at our webhotel today and the scripts wasn't running correctly which caused a lot of warning texts. We're sorry but are back on track again.

A lot of work has been going on behind the scenes.

A new Log In system has been implemented but at this moment only BFR members has the possibility to register.

Even though the most looks like the "old" pages, a totally new structure has been done to keep up with the growing amount of pages and files.

We welcome our newest member: Steve Emmons (USA). Nice to have you in our family!

He´s running in RD FOC div.2 and will also make company with William Yunck in American Touring Car Championship (RD).

Good luck guys!

Finally we have started the long requested events. The BlueFlagRacing fun races!

The first event took place on December 3rd on Vayline International Raceway. The cars for this event was the Caterham 200 and 9 members showed up.

A great event and a lot of fun where the final standings was without importance. Who remember? :)

Next event will be on December 17th. This time with standard GTL cars on Nuerburg Village.

We have some new members we want to welcome to our team. It´s a little late but there was a harddrive crash a while a go making it harder to edit our site.

In July, Raymond Kok (Netherlands), Konrad Stanczak (Poland) and Roman Kruszewski (Poland) joined us. Raymond is driving in the STC league. Konrad drives in STC and RDFOC.

In August, Péter Bártfai (Hungary) became a member. He´s driving in RaceDepartments F1 league (RDFOC) in Team Quick Rabbits where he really has the speed. Good work Péter!

Blue Flag Racing is preparing eagerly for the next STC cup this year: The Black Cup 2009!
BFR dumped the BMW M3 GTR from the Blue Cup and selected a new car from the GT Sport range. Have a look at our Corvette C6 GT2 in the Gallery!
A new car alone wasn´t going to be sufficient, we attracted several new drivers to have a fully occupied grid with some reserve for last minute changes. The team welcomes Konrad Stanczak, Raymond Kok and Roman Kruszewski who will be making their entry in the Black cup.

The first event is this Thursday at Silverstone and our team colours will be defended by Mark A. Warmington, Kristofer Larsson and Raymond Kok. The black & blue Vette´s have been spotted on BFR´s trainingserver on several occasions to get ready for the opening race.

Don´t forget the Live Broadcasts with the unforgettable comments from ´your friendly voice´ Eckhart!  Link to STC Pit-Wall

Link to BFR's Calendar