Team Ultimatecarpage.com Race 1: Barcelona

[Roy Visser]

Tonight, the second ZAC (Sunday Night Championship) starts. The first of 12 races, after which we will see if Mark Kroesbergen (cup 400) and René Venderbosch (cup 600) will still have their titels.

The first race of the season is always very exciting, who's going to be fast, are the new rookies good, who is the underdog and most important, what is everybody's strategy?

This evening we will race on the well known circuit of Barcelona. A reasonable fast track, with numerous of long bends which will demand allot of the tires. The long straight will offer numerous of brake-overtake possibilitys, but then again, there should be plenty of options for other overtaking possibilitys

If we look at the testraces (we drive those every mon-wed-fri), then we will see that in the Cup 400 class (Porsche 911 GT3RS, Porsche 911 GT3RSR, Gillet Vertigo, Ferrari 360) the very strong team Kroda Porsche Racing, with title defender Mark Kroesbergen and Koos de Boer, will be the team to beat. Competition can be seen in team Roko Racing, and one of the underdogs, Team Ultimatecarpage.com.

With 12 cars in the cup 400 class, and 18 in the cup 600 class, the field is packed! After tonight, we will know how different proportions will be.

The Track

Race Time: 75 minutes
Track Conditions: tarmac 30 degrees celcius, dry


Team ucp Driver comments before the race:
Jeroen Ursem
This is going to be a very intresting race, although i wont be competing for the first place. My main motto is going to be, to finish first, you first have to finish. Because i just started with GTR (about 500lap experience, but way more in other racegames), i'm not going to be fast, i just hope i wont make any mistakes, and overtake places because of my consistency.

Goals:
race pace: 1:48's
qualifing position: 8th
End position: Top 8

Strategy:
Soft Front tires
Med Rear tires
48 Liters of fuel
Pit in lap 20

Roy Visser
In testraces i have noticed that my race pace isnt that far away from the last seasons champion, so i hope that with consistency, and no errors, i can keep up, or overtake him. With my more experience (around 1250laps) i should be able to score good points for the team.

Goals:
race pace: 1:46.8**'s
qualifing position: Top 5
End position: Top 4

Strategy:
Soft Front tires
Med Rear tires
48 Liters of fuel
Pit in lap 21

Competitors:
Nr. Team Naam Forum
Cup 600
#1 Dynamic Motorsports René Venderbosch
#2 Dynamic Motorsports Bram Knot
#3 Seizure GTR Kevin van der Meyden
#5 Benelux Spirit Kim van der Stichelen
#6 Benelux Spirit Sander Kooy
#7 Digital Racing Development Robert Saalmink
#8 Digital Racing Development Niels Tieman
#9 Race-Team Lommel Ludo Bleys
#10 Phil Racing Ivo IJsseldijk
#14 Gerben Kelly KRT GT
#20 Skin Sense Racing Fabian de Jong
#21 Skin Sense Racing Arnaud Paagman
#24 [FAB] Racing Mark Schuttenhelm
#25 [FAB] Racing Steven van Eijk
#28 The-Paddock Racing Cedric Broux
#29 The-Paddock Racing Jietse Melotte
#34 Supervise Racing Emile van der Stel
#43 Supervise Racing Rob van der Zwaan
#46 Caterpillar Racing Guyon Waltmans
#47 Caterpillar Racing Dennis Asselbergs
#49 Hezemans Indoor Karting guest Tim Stelten

Cup 400
#50 Kroda Porsche Racing Mark Kroesbergen
#51 Kroda Porsche Racing Koos de Boer
#60 ROKO Racing Robby Goedefroy
#61 ROKO Racing Koen van Holsbeeke
#62 Ippel Race Jaap-Jan Aardappel
#80 Team Ultimatecarpage.com Jeroen Ursem
#81 Team Ultimatecarpage.com Roy Visser
#86 Martini Racing Engineering Jesper Mol
#87 Red Bull Racing Kenneth Fikenscher
#88 Red Bull Racing Mathijs Twisk
#99 Hezemans Indoor Karting guest Mohammed Mazouz


Wish us luck people, tomorrow i will update the second post, and give you guys a nice race report