VT Racing

OATAS 10 hrs Watkins Glen Championship Decider	15/09/07
In a season of "what the hell is happening next?" where the championship looked safe in the hands of SSCA until things took a turn for the worse, and then OATAS took over for the remaining races, we now go down to the wire for the championship decider. VT Racing Vs OATAS, and 10 hours of Watkins Glen to decide everything. We’re not quite sure what will happen after this race, so it could be VT Racing’s final fling, but let’s hope not. We’ve not done it for a while, but for this race we’ll be broadcasting the pit radio from 5pm UK time right up until after 3am UK time when the race finishes :o If last night has anything to go by it’ll be rather random, and maybe a touch silly :P Click here to listen to the broadcast (you may need to hit the play button when the page has loaded). Wish us luck!!
Posted by: Glyn

OATAS 10 hrs Watkins Glen Championship Decider

15/09/07

In a season of "what the hell is happening next?" where the championship looked safe in the hands of SSCA until things took a turn for the worse, and then OATAS took over for the remaining races, we now go down to the wire for the championship decider. VT Racing Vs OATAS, and 10 hours of Watkins Glen to decide everything.

We’re not quite sure what will happen after this race, so it could be VT Racing’s final fling, but let’s hope not. We’ve not done it for a while, but for this race we’ll be broadcasting the pit radio from 5pm UK time right up until after 3am UK time when the race finishes :o If last night has anything to go by it’ll be rather random, and maybe a touch silly :P Click here to listen to the broadcast (you may need to hit the play button when the page has loaded).

Wish us luck!!

Posted by: Glyn

SSCA Sunsky	31/03/07
The next VT Racing race is at Sunsky for six hours of racing in the SSCA league. As per usual the pit radio broadcast is up.
Posted by: Glyn

SSCA Daytona Road Course 12 Hours	10/02/07
After an extended Christmas break we're back racing in circles again now at Daytona Road Course for 12 hours. As per usual, the pit radio broadcast is up.
Posted by: Glyn

WOSEC Le Mans 24 Hours	25/11/06
It's the big one! The WOSEC Le Mans 24 hour race. Not really much to say other than that, but I will mention that the team radio will indeed be broadcasting for the full 24 hours should we make it. It's not been recorded though :P
Posted by: Glyn

WOSEC Le Mans 24 Hours

25/11/06

It's the big one! The WOSEC Le Mans 24 hour race.

Not really much to say other than that, but I will mention that the team radio will indeed be broadcasting for the full 24 hours should we make it. It's not been recorded though :P

Posted by: Glyn

WOSEC 8 Hours of Brands Hatch	30/09/06
Brands Hatch is quite a tricky track at the best of times, and the speed of the GTP cars just adds to that. To top it off, with a narrow track and no runoff worth mentioning, eight hours of racing is quite a challenge. I'm not quite sure if we'll be broadcasting the radio this time as Ian is busy and until 11am when practice starts Rich is walking around a field carrying golf clubs looking for his golf balls in the rough :P Keep an eye out on the Grand Prix Games forum for any updates about broadcasting
Posted by: Glyn

WOSEC 8 Hours of Brands Hatch

30/09/06

Brands Hatch is quite a tricky track at the best of times, and the speed of the GTP cars just adds to that. To top it off, with a narrow track and no runoff worth mentioning, eight hours of racing is quite a challenge.

I'm not quite sure if we'll be broadcasting the radio this time as Ian is busy and until 11am when practice starts Rich is walking around a field carrying golf clubs looking for his golf balls in the rough :P

Keep an eye out on the Grand Prix Games forum for any updates about broadcasting

Posted by: Glyn

SSCA Series - 8 Hours of Road America	16/09/06
Next up on the list of challenges for the VTR team sees us revisiting the Road America track (known to us old skool folks as Elkhart Lake!). The SSCA endurance team, after successfully playing host to 12 hour races at Watkins Glen and Daytona, have launched a full scale series, of which we are proud to be participating in. 8 hours face the crew this time, with the field being split into 2 "classes" in the form of a laptime limit of 1:51 for the "lights" cars (Toyota & Mazda). We're just hoping neither Ian or Esben go on a banzai, as every lap under the limit sees a lap docked for the lights drivers! The team lines up with an old but new face in the form of Graham Bridgett, rejoining us after a spell away from GTP, Graham has shown great enthusiasm and eagerness in putting right a bad patch he had with us last year. We're all feeling alot more confident this time around though, and we are hoping the greater experience of the rest of the time will feed onto Graham and help him along, so best of luck mate. Driver line ups for the race will be: VTR1 (Sauber) - Richard Dickson & Jan Larsen VTR2 (Sauber) - Neil Stratton & Graham Bridgett VTR4 (Toyota) - Ian Woollam & Esben Tipple A number of the team are taking a break for this one, well when I say a number, I mean body mass wise, being as Gav and Neil P are sitting it out. As per usual, we will try and get the team radio broadcast.
Posted by: Rich

SSCA Series - 8 Hours of Road America

16/09/06

Next up on the list of challenges for the VTR team sees us revisiting the Road America track (known to us old skool folks as Elkhart Lake!). The SSCA endurance team, after successfully playing host to 12 hour races at Watkins Glen and Daytona, have launched a full scale series, of which we are proud to be participating in.

8 hours face the crew this time, with the field being split into 2 "classes" in the form of a laptime limit of 1:51 for the "lights" cars (Toyota & Mazda). We're just hoping neither Ian or Esben go on a banzai, as every lap under the limit sees a lap docked for the lights drivers!

The team lines up with an old but new face in the form of Graham Bridgett, rejoining us after a spell away from GTP, Graham has shown great enthusiasm and eagerness in putting right a bad patch he had with us last year. We're all feeling alot more confident this time around though, and we are hoping the greater experience of the rest of the time will feed onto Graham and help him along, so best of luck mate.

Driver line ups for the race will be:

VTR1 (Sauber) - Richard Dickson & Jan Larsen
VTR2 (Sauber) - Neil Stratton & Graham Bridgett
VTR4 (Toyota) - Ian Woollam & Esben Tipple

A number of the team are taking a break for this one, well when I say a number, I mean body mass wise, being as Gav and Neil P are sitting it out.

As per usual, we will try and get the team radio broadcast.

Posted by: Rich

SSCA 12 hour Race At Watkins Glen	08/07/06
With WOSEC currently on the off season, the VT Racing crew are taking part in the SSCA 12 hour race at Watkins Glen. As per usual all the normal VT Racing broadcasts are online, but you can also enjoy the superb SSCA broadcasts at www.rlmtv.com and actually watch the race! Taken from the website: SSCA (Simulated Sports Car Association) brings you the 12 Hours at the Glen sponsored by http://sim-gear.com. 38 Teams from all over the globe will be taking to the track for this historic event. United States, Canada, Russia, Brazil, Netherlands to name a few of the Countries entering cars for the race. This special event is taking place at the Watkins Glen GTP course for 12 hours this Saturday July 8th 2006 starting at 10 AM EST - 1:00 PM GMT Watch online racing history... All 12 hours of the event will be broadcast live on http://www.rlmtv.com/. THATS RIGHT !!! All 12 hours will have video and audio broadcast with live announcers, interviews, etc. On top of that.. There will be prizes to win.. http://www.sim-gear.com/794354.html Each driver on the podium gets a shifter. Thanks to http://sim-gear.com. For this event, we will be using the incredible GTP mod by Team Redline. We will be running two classes. GTP & GTP Lights. The GTP cars will consist Mainly of Saubers a few Jags and Toyotas. The GTP Lights class will only run the Mazda only. 15 of the 38 teams in the race will be racing in the Lights class. Here's the broadcast info for the race Log on to www.rlmtv.com
Posted by: Glyn

VT Racing Get Ready For 10,000 Corners (Take 2)	03/06/06
Oh yeah. 14 miles. 174 corners. 53 times. It's the 'schleife baby! The 'green hell' awaits Vader Trophy Racing as the WOSEC championship heads into round 5. This has been rearranged from last weekend, as we had some server issues, but that gave time for reflection allowed VTR to bring in a ninth regular driver, Jan Larsen, formally of dE Racing.
Posted by: Gav

VT Racing Get Ready For 10,000 Corners (Take 2)

03/06/06

Oh yeah. 14 miles. 174 corners. 53 times. It's the 'schleife baby!

The 'green hell' awaits Vader Trophy Racing as the WOSEC championship heads into round 5.

This has been rearranged from last weekend, as we had some server issues, but that gave time for reflection allowed VTR to bring in a ninth regular driver, Jan Larsen, formally of dE Racing.

Posted by: Gav

VT Racing Get Ready For 10,000 Corners	27/05/06
All the VT Racing drivers are getting ready for almost 10,000 corners around the famous, scary, and possibly evil Nurburgring. As per usual, you can hear the progress in the 'watch & listen' section.
Posted by: Glyn

VT Racing Get Ready For 10,000 Corners

27/05/06

All the VT Racing drivers are getting ready for almost 10,000 corners around the famous, scary, and possibly evil Nurburgring.

As per usual, you can hear the progress in the 'watch & listen' section.

Posted by: Glyn

VT Racing Scale Heights at Mount Panorama	29/04/06
We've taken a different approach this time. Rather than the standard test, test, test, race that we normally do, we decided it would be more interesting to see who could break the most gear before the race. So far we have 3 broken steering wheels, 1 dodgy net connection and we're still planning on entering 4 cars. Oh dear. It's Bathurst guys. A true corker of a circuit, but with some killer walls to contend with. You'll be reading up during the race of retirements and a damage report on each car. It will be that bad. Keeping out of trouble is the order of the day. No heroics. Like that'll last long :P Here's the line-ups as I've interpreted them (plus additional issues :P): VTR1 (#84): Richard Dickson (broken wheel, using old MS Sidewinder) Gavin Wilson (broken wheel, using 2 hand Logitech MOMO Racing) VTR2 (#85): Gavin Wilson (starting and relief stint) (broken wheel, using 2nd hand Logitech MOMO Racing) Neil Pearson (Australian-type lag) VTR3 (#86): Esben Tipple Ian Woollam (little testing, only started on Thursday) VTR4 (#87): Neil Stratton (huge connection issues, having just switched to ADSL Max, and getting lots of disconnections while BT work out which speed is best suited to kicking him) ...no one else. Neil will move into another car should his retire, and visa-versa.
Posted by: Gav

VT Racing Scale Heights at Mount Panorama

29/04/06

We've taken a different approach this time. Rather than the standard test, test, test, race that we normally do, we decided it would be more interesting to see who could break the most gear before the race.

So far we have 3 broken steering wheels, 1 dodgy net connection and we're still planning on entering 4 cars. Oh dear.

It's Bathurst guys. A true corker of a circuit, but with some killer walls to contend with. You'll be reading up during the race of retirements and a damage report on each car. It will be that bad. Keeping out of trouble is the order of the day. No heroics. Like that'll last long :P

Here's the line-ups as I've interpreted them (plus additional issues :P):

VTR1 (#84):

Richard Dickson (broken wheel, using old MS Sidewinder)
Gavin Wilson (broken wheel, using 2 hand Logitech MOMO Racing)

VTR2 (#85):

Gavin Wilson (starting and relief stint) (broken wheel, using 2nd hand Logitech MOMO Racing)
Neil Pearson (Australian-type lag)

VTR3 (#86):

Esben Tipple
Ian Woollam (little testing, only started on Thursday)

VTR4 (#87):

Neil Stratton (huge connection issues, having just switched to ADSL Max, and getting lots of disconnections while BT work out which speed is best suited to kicking him) ...no one else. Neil will move into another car should his retire, and visa-versa.

Posted by: Gav

VeeTeeArrrgghh @ Spa	25/03/06
Coming live from the pit lane of one of most formidable yet lovable tracks of them all, ladies, gentlemen and Guilherme... it's that time again. Today, and tonight most likely, Vader Trophy Racing attack Spa-Franchorchamps. We don't like doing things the orthodox way, so in this, the seasons longest race so far, we're fielding our lowest number of drivers yet. Eight hours. 3 cars. 5 drivers. It's all Rich's fault. Holding a 100% winning record for the season so far (we're going to end up upside down in Eau Rouge on lap 1 now), VTR1 will be hoping to protect their championship lead over the mighty Sim-Racing for Holland squad - and because of the car-killing nature of the track, along with the extra 2 hours race distance, we're stupidly entering VTR3, as well as VTR2, themselves separated by a single point in the standings. As ever, the radio banter from at least one of the cars will be streamed, with the usual 60-seconds delay to enable FOM to filter out Gavcarlo Willychella shouting "@#$%&, it's @#$%& @#$%&" at his race engineer. You can pick that up in the 'watch & listen' section. Hopefully both VTR1 and VTR2 will be streamed, and VTR3s radio chatter might be covered in the VTR1 channel, as we may share early on. Unfortunately there is no video stream of NRTV for this race, as, well, Richard Dickson is an idiot. Race gets underway at around 12:30 GMT, with us lot jabbering on about nothing from about 11:00 most likely. You may place bets on whether the league admin remembers the start from last season, and if you hear constant laughing on the radio, you'll know that he's selected do to a full pace lap again. I'll say no more, it's something to bore you with later.
Posted by: Gav

VeeTeeArrrgghh @ Spa

25/03/06

Coming live from the pit lane of one of most formidable yet lovable tracks of them all, ladies, gentlemen and Guilherme... it's that time again.

Today, and tonight most likely, Vader Trophy Racing attack Spa-Franchorchamps. We don't like doing things the orthodox way, so in this, the seasons longest race so far, we're fielding our lowest number of drivers yet. Eight hours. 3 cars. 5 drivers. It's all Rich's fault.

Holding a 100% winning record for the season so far (we're going to end up upside down in Eau Rouge on lap 1 now), VTR1 will be hoping to protect their championship lead over the mighty Sim-Racing for Holland squad - and because of the car-killing nature of the track, along with the extra 2 hours race distance, we're stupidly entering VTR3, as well as VTR2, themselves separated by a single point in the standings.

As ever, the radio banter from at least one of the cars will be streamed, with the usual 60-seconds delay to enable FOM to filter out Gavcarlo Willychella shouting "@#$%&, it's @#$%& @#$%&" at his race engineer. You can pick that up in the 'watch & listen' section. Hopefully both VTR1 and VTR2 will be streamed, and VTR3s radio chatter might be covered in the VTR1 channel, as we may share early on. Unfortunately there is no video stream of NRTV for this race, as, well, Richard Dickson is an idiot.

Race gets underway at around 12:30 GMT, with us lot jabbering on about nothing from about 11:00 most likely.

You may place bets on whether the league admin remembers the start from last season, and if you hear constant laughing on the radio, you'll know that he's selected do to a full pace lap again. I'll say no more, it's something to bore you with later.

Posted by: Gav

WOSEC Road America	25/02/06
Another month, another WOSEC race, this time at the fantastic Road America track. Once again, you can keep up with all the action in the 'watch & listen' section.
Posted by: Glyn

VT Racing at WOSEC Norisring	28/01/06
VT Racing will be kick starting their 2006 campaign at the Norisring in WOSEC season 2. This is a tiny little track that only takes 45 seconds to lap, so we have 480 laps, or about six hours in real money. This season we have gone back to the Saubers in the hope to be a bit faster, but most of the hoping is actually on the car not breaking down! As per usual, you can watch the race and listen to our pit radio on the 'watch & listen page'.
Posted by: Glyn

VT Racing at WOSEC Norisring

28/01/06

VT Racing will be kick starting their 2006 campaign at the Norisring in WOSEC season 2. This is a tiny little track that only takes 45 seconds to lap, so we have 480 laps, or about six hours in real money.

This season we have gone back to the Saubers in the hope to be a bit faster, but most of the hoping is actually on the car not breaking down!

As per usual, you can watch the race and listen to our pit radio on the 'watch & listen page'.

Posted by: Glyn

VT Racing at Le Mans (Saturday 26th - Sunday 27th November 2005)	25/11/05
The time has come - the big race! 24 hours of solid online racing. Sounds like heaven? Sounds like hell? It doesn't matter - it's here, it's tomorrow, and VT Racing are taking part :D We'll be doing the usual media coverage on the day with the pit radio being broadcast on the website, and hopefully an NRTV broadcast too so you can watch the race. In preparation for the big one, I've also made a VT Racing Le Mans 2005 promotional video, which you can download from here. You can either download the file, or if you have a 1 Mb connection you should be able to stream it too. It's pretty big, but it's also pretty high quality. After the success we had at the Bullrun last weekend, we are looking for good things, but we are also aware this race is over four times longer, and finishing will be a huge achievement. We'll keep you posted throughout the race how things go on, so until then, we're off to write our "I've crashed at turn 1 on lap 1" excuses :P
Posted by: Glyn

VT Racing at Le Mans (Saturday 26th - Sunday 27th November 2005)

25/11/05

The time has come - the big race! 24 hours of solid online racing. Sounds like heaven? Sounds like hell? It doesn't matter - it's here, it's tomorrow, and VT Racing are taking part :D

We'll be doing the usual media coverage on the day with the pit radio being broadcast on the website, and hopefully an NRTV broadcast too so you can watch the race.

In preparation for the big one, I've also made a VT Racing Le Mans 2005 promotional video, which you can download from here. You can either download the file, or if you have a 1 Mb connection you should be able to stream it too. It's pretty big, but it's also pretty high quality.

After the success we had at the Bullrun last weekend, we are looking for good things, but we are also aware this race is over four times longer, and finishing will be a huge achievement.

We'll keep you posted throughout the race how things go on, so until then, we're off to write our "I've crashed at turn 1 on lap 1" excuses :P

Posted by: Glyn

Bullrun 1000 Km 2005	19/11/05
A year ago VT Racing made their debut at the Bullrun 1000 Km race, and this year we are back with an either stronger driver line up! Check out the 'watch & listen' page to see how we get on in this tough 1000 Km race round an even tougher track!
Posted by: Glyn

Bullrun 1000 Km 2005

19/11/05

A year ago VT Racing made their debut at the Bullrun 1000 Km race, and this year we are back with an either stronger driver line up!

Check out the 'watch & listen' page to see how we get on in this tough 1000 Km race round an even tougher track!

Posted by: Glyn

WOSEC Daytona Media Online!	29/10/05
The website is now ready for action for the WOSEC Daytona race, so pop along to the 'watch & listen' section to see and hear the race unfolding. Please remember though for reasons out of our control, there is up to a 90 second delay with the pit radio which puts it slightly out of sync with the video stream. So you know what's happening, the timetable for the race is as follows: 11:00 BST - Free practice 12:00 BST - Server reset 12:05 BST - Practice for the qualifying driver 12:15 BST - Qualifying 12:20 BST - Happy hour 12:30 BST - Race starts The race should last just over 6 hours depending on the weather conditions. Enjoy!
Posted by: Glyn

WOSEC Daytona Media Online!

29/10/05

The website is now ready for action for the WOSEC Daytona race, so pop along to the 'watch & listen' section to see and hear the race unfolding. Please remember though for reasons out of our control, there is up to a 90 second delay with the pit radio which puts it slightly out of sync with the video stream.

So you know what's happening, the timetable for the race is as follows:

11:00 BST - Free practice
12:00 BST - Server reset
12:05 BST - Practice for the qualifying driver
12:15 BST - Qualifying
12:20 BST - Happy hour
12:30 BST - Race starts

The race should last just over 6 hours depending on the weather conditions.

Enjoy!

Posted by: Glyn

Welcome To the VT Racing Website!	24/10/05
Welcome to the VT Racing website! This site has been in development for many months, but due to a severe case of lazyitis it hasn't really got anywhere until now, when I realised we could really do with a site for the great media features we have planned for VT Racing! The site has all the usual features team sites have, and more will follow in this department with driver profiles and the likes, but the heart and soul of the VT Racing site is the 'Watch & Listen' page. Not only will you be able to watch a live video stream of NRTV when there's one available (that's most WOSEC races), but you'll also be able to listen in on the teams pit radio for all the competing cars! This means you'll be able to see a live standings page and also watch the drivers as they race round the track! Then, to add to the experience, you'll be able to listen to what the drivers are saying on the team radio! You can even play the guess the accent game :) With the WOSEC 1290 Km Daytona race this Saturday 29th October, it's a perfect time for these features to be tested before the big one - the Le Mans 24 Hours! Keep your eyes peeled on the website for more details this Saturday, and connect to the VT Racing Live! experience.
Posted by: Glyn

Welcome To the VT Racing Website!

24/10/05

Welcome to the VT Racing website!

This site has been in development for many months, but due to a severe case of lazyitis it hasn't really got anywhere until now, when I realised we could really do with a site for the great media features we have planned for VT Racing!

The site has all the usual features team sites have, and more will follow in this department with driver profiles and the likes, but the heart and soul of the VT Racing site is the 'Watch & Listen' page.

Not only will you be able to watch a live video stream of NRTV when there's one available (that's most WOSEC races), but you'll also be able to listen in on the teams pit radio for all the competing cars! This means you'll be able to see a live standings page and also watch the drivers as they race round the track! Then, to add to the experience, you'll be able to listen to what the drivers are saying on the team radio! You can even play the guess the accent game :)

With the WOSEC 1290 Km Daytona race this Saturday 29th October, it's a perfect time for these features to be tested before the big one - the Le Mans 24 Hours! Keep your eyes peeled on the website for more details this Saturday, and connect to the VT Racing Live! experience.

Posted by: Glyn