Besides the real race was organized the Virtual/LAN VW FunCup 25Hours .
Placed just above the new F1 pits , in a totally equiped 600m² room , about fifty sim racers met up for this world first .
Qualifying :
At the end of the Qualifying session , the order was as follows : Gtweb-live , Delahaye Racing Team , M&M’s . The 3 favourites were grouped in the same second , guaranteeing a very tight race !
Racing Day :
4 p.m , every team starts , for a crazy race . Very quickly the 3 leaders are joined by the n°5 MadCroc car . After 5 hours , these 4 cars are still in the same lap .
The other teams were doing their best , but can’t keep up . The first award is already in sight , as VW has offered a run as co-driver to the leading team at midnight .
Reaching midnight in the lead is the Delahaye Racing Team , with only a 4 seconds margin over the Gtweb-live , something amazing after 8 hours ! As a result , the 3 drivers are to meet up with the VW stand on Sunday afternoon to live an unforgettable experience .
Behind the 3 leading cars , several battles are taking place , and the standings are constantly changing .
With only 3h30 to go , the spectators present in the room can follow a magnificent battle for the lead on the big screen . Dje and Goos-Max are battling hard , and Dje finally takes the lead from the GtWeb-Live .
Though , this is forgetting the determination of the GTWeb’s top driver , Wolf produces an amazing last run to regain the lead , which he does for only 6 seconds over the Delahaye racing Team . In 3rd place comes the M&M’s car , 23 laps behind the winner .
Wolf makes some comments about his race : “ it was a terrific race ! I had never experienced such stress and suspense in my sim gamer’s life .
This race was very different from any virtual endurance race I had done before , for the simple reason that it was really “live” .As for me , every run was crazy ! Finally I take the checked flag with 6 seconds on the 2nd . Had there been 3 or 4 more laps , it would have been nearly impossible to win .
So here we are , we’ve won a day at the wheel of a VW FunCup . We leave this event with a lot of happy memories and meetings . For a first time , Congratulations to the organizors , it really was perfect . “
Atmosphere :
Outside , the engine’s noise of the real cars and the terrible heat made the atmoshpere very heavy . On the contrary , in the Virtual race’s room reigned freshness ( thanks to air conditioning ) and quiet , sign of the players’ great concentration . Spectators were numerous and were quite impressed by the drivers‘ skill as well as the difficulty of the game .
On the Organization’s side , the LAN wiring system knew no problem at all , all the computers could be connected and only one electricity cut at 1 a.m obliged us to reboot the server ( red flag on the real track as well , for the same reason ) .
Quite a lot of “real life” VW FunCup pilots came to meet us , and we were lucky to play against the winners to be of the 2010 race , Maxime Martin and Maxime Soulet , drivers of the yellow M&M’s .
The organization had installed a simulator so they could have a run from times to times . We could see Fred Bouvy , Pascal Mathieu , Armand Fumal , Nico Verdonck and some others race against our drivers .
Great thanks to them for coming .
This first edition can be called a success , and a second edition is already planned . Thanks to all the entrants , as well as to the sponsors who believed in this crazy project . Ntfrance.org and Kinetic09 Simulation will soon make an anouncement for the next edition .
See you in 2011 , hopefully with some foreign teams !
************CLASSEMENT FINAL**********************
1 : 486 : GTWeb Racing : 11
2 : 486 : Delahaye Racing : 72
3 : 463 : M Ms BELGIUM : 271
4 : 458 : Cycle Dynamic Racing : 14
5 : 454 : Mad Croc : 05
6 : 452 : Radio CONTACT : 325
7 : 449 : Jack Daniel s : 07
8 : 401 : RTL New Media : 13
9 : 398 : Publiaplic : 039
10 : 395 : Fun 4 Girls : 04
11 : 373 : Mad Croc Fun Racing : 017
12 : 69 : Cybernet : Abandon
13 : 272 : M&M’s Jaune : Abandon
La salle aménagée au dessus des box F1.
Le podium d’arrivée.
Dje part pour son baptême de piste au cœur de la course.
Steph quelques minutes plus tard.
Fred Bouvy en personne, 2ème de l’épreuve.
Maxime Martin (FIAGT1) en personne, Vainqueur de cette édition 2010 !
). Denk je dat rFactor 1 of LFS toen die uitkwamen niet zwaar waren voor de pc's toen?
