Wietse Visser and Ivo Simons had both a great event in the second race of the season in the RD Formula One Championship Division 2.

Both drivers got into the second part of qualifying with Visser edning in 4th and Simons in 6th. Visser got off the grid with wheelspin which resulted in almost losing the car but after a couple of laps he was back up to fourth again with his teammate right behind him in 5th. Simons had at this points a huge train behind him but fought well to keep them there.

After this both Rebels drove great and gained positions during the pitstops which resulted in p2 for Visser and Simons in p4, which brought a total of 30 points to the team! A result that both drivers enjoyed very much.

Visser is now in 4th pace in the stanings with 17 points with Simons just 4 points behind in 7th.

The final round of the team championship was held last Sunday. Already crowned champion, Mikael Hellén, was to show his team mates how to master the Brands Hatch Indy circuit.

He once again started in pole with a time of 0:47.262. And after a couple of laps he started pulling away from the rest of the feild. Andreas Hultgren who made a good start spun a couple of times in the early stages and had to settle for 3rd. The fight for second was to be between Andreas Löffler and Weitse Visser where the latter would draw the longest straw and finished behind Hellén. Löffler started having problems near the end and had to pit and lost much time. Ben Buitendijk finished fifth and last, 10 laps behind.

Race 1
Position/Name/Laps/Time/Points

1. Mikael Hellén 26L +20:52.743 10p
2. Wietse Visser 26L +0:30.975 6p
3. Andreas Hultgren 25L +1 Lap 4p
4. Andreas Löffler 24L +2 Laps 3p
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5. Ben Buitendijk +10 Laps

In race two Hultgren made another blinder of a start and got around Buitendijk through Paddock Hill Bend to take the lead. Buidendijk then spun in Druids and a few corners later his race was over. Hultgren lead the first couple of laps before being passed by his counrtyman Hellén. Then Hultgren missed his braking point and spun. The fight for second was then again between Visser and Löffler and once again Löffler had to pit near the end losing alot of time and got over the line in 4th.

Race 2
Position/Name/Laps/Time/Points

1. Mikael Hellén 26L +20:53.335 10p
2. Wietse Visser 26L +0:31.435 6p
3. Andreas Hultgren 26L +0:42.030 4p
4. Andreas Löffler 24L +2 Laps 3p
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5. Ben Buitendijk 1L DNF

Hellén took an amazing 14 victories out of 18 this season aswell as grabbing all the polepositions. Visser took two race wins and David García and Andreas Hultgren one each.

The winners:

Curitiba Oval
-Mikael Hellén & Wietse Visser
Monza
-Mikael Hellén & Wietse Visser
Anderstorp
-Mikael Hellén & Mikael Hellén
Pau
-Mikael Hellén & Mikael Hellén
Zandvoort Club
-Mikael Hellén & Mikael Hellén
Valencia
-Mikael Hellén & David García
Macau
-Mikael Hellén & Mikael Hellén
Hockenheim
-Andreas Hultgren & Mikael Hellén
Brands Hatch Indy
-Mikael Hellén & Mikael Hellén

Final standings after round 9: Brands Hatch Indy

1. Mikael Hellén 152p 14w
2. Andreas Hultgren 87p 1w
3. Wietse Visser 73p 2w
4. David García 13p 1w
5. Mehmet Arlsan 10p
6. Clive Siggs 9p
7. Xosé Estrada 8p
8. Ben Buitendijk 6p
-. Andreas Löffler 6p
10. Vicent García 4p

The Rebels were on pace in the second round of the RD Super Touring League.

TBR 1 with Andreas Löffler and Mikael Hellén is now in 2nd place in the team standings in Division 1 after both scoring many valuable points in the 250 kilometer long race. Löffler, who qualifyed his BMW in 6th, managed to get all the way up to second place after the supearior Peter Duivelaar. Hellén started from p8 and after a couple of offs he finished in 6th. Löffler is 2nd in ths standings and Hellén is 9th.

The TBR 2 team featuring team boss David García and Xosé Estrada had a tough race in the second division. García had a mistake in qualifying that put him in p15 and in the first corner he hit a spinning car. After pitting for repairs he came out on track a lap behind the leaders. After pushing hard he made a mistake that ended his race on lap 35. Estrada on the other hand had a pretty good run and finished 12th to score 4 points to his tally. Garcá is 14th and Estrada is a place behind in the overall standings.

The third team, TBR 3, also had a great race with Ben Buitendijk finishing in 7th in D1. Team mate Mehmet Arslan finished in 12. They are in 11th and 18th respectivly in the championship hunt.

Next stop on the calendar is the Oschersleben 150 on October 3rd.

The team had yet another tough race in the Simracing Team Challenge as the league headed to Germany and the mighty Nordschleife for race 2.

Andreas Löffler qualifyed in 5th and right by the start he passed for 4th. Everything seemed to go very well for him untill the 40 minute mark when he lost controll of his Ferrari and hit the wall. That was the first of a total of 5 pitstops for the German racer. He would in the end still manage to finish in 12th and bring home valuable points to the team.

Mikael Hellén drove the second TBR Ferrari and he also had a tough evening. Not that he had many incidents but he felt he didn’t really have the speed to compete for top positions as he usually is capable of. The only error he had was when he spun and got stuck on a kerb for half a minute. He still finished 11th.

The team now has 52 points and lays 8th but are already 54 points behind the leaders DMSv who finished 1-3 this time around with Roland Ehnström taking the win.

Race results
Standings

Next up is the home race for the team at the famous Le Mans track in France on October 1st. You can as always follow the teams progress LIVE on PSRtv or the STC Pit Wall.

The Rebels had a tough race in the Simracing Team Challenge opener at Silverstone. Andreas Hultgren and Vicent García was set to defend the TBR colors but the end result was not what the team had hoped for.

The conditions were tricky with a damp track in both qualifying and race. Hultgren went for dry tyres in both and started in 15th but after the warm-up was done he knew he was going to be in for a really hard race. The entire first stint was all about defending and he did so very well and made his pitstop halfway through. He then came out in 13th and was set for that place until the last 15 mins when his tyres wore out and Ryan Mortimer (DHR Fanatec) cought up. Then on the penultimate lap Marcin Skrzypczak (RPM) cought both to lap them but hit Mortimer who then hit Hultgren so that he lost his rearwing and ended up 16th and last running car.

García had an even tougher race as he qualifyed at the back of the grid after suffering in the tricky conditions. This continued in the race and he never really got in to it and to suffer even more he ran out of fuel at the very end being classified 17th. Won the race did DHR GPs’s Vincent Staal in a dominant fashion.

Of course it could have been worse as it was for FlaOuts both teams, BFR and AnE who all went home without a single point. The Rebels are 9th in the standings, 15 points behind leaders Black Visor Motorsport (46p).

Race results
Standings

Next up is the mighty Green Hell on September 17th.

RaceDepartments Super Touring League got underway last Saturday and TBR have three teams entered in the series. Two in Division 1 and one in Division 2. Round one was held at the Chinese track of Zhuhai.

Andreas Löffler, Mikael Hellén in the Beemers races in D1 and got a good start to the season. Löffler qualied in 5th with a solid lap and finished the race in the same spot. He had an eventfull race with many hard fights but felt like he could have gotten on the podium if it weren’t for a couple of missfortunes during the race. Hellén finished 12 after starting from p10. He got spun around in the race and had to play catch up from 21st and last but still managed a good result.

In D2 the two Spaniards David García and Xosé Estrada had good results aswell with their SEATs. García qualifyed in 10th and made up one place during the race to finish 9th despite two spins. Estrada also took one place during the race after starting 15th to finish in 14th. According to the latter the SEAT didn’t have a chance against the Chevys and BMWs on the Zhuhai track.

The third team, icluding Ben Buitendijk and Mehmet Arslan, could not participate in this round.

Next round will be held September 19th in Barcelona.