TBR racer Dariusz Swiderski has been the latest victim in RaceDepartments interview segment called ‘Interviews with Top Rankers’.

To find out a little more about Dariusz I suggest you head over there and read the interview!

The WTM (Racedepartments World Touring Masters) league completed 2 rounds so far and started better than expected for TBR.
The league started at Virginias full course known to all that tried iRacing and proved to be a hand full to handle in the touring cars from the 80′s with many victims at the rollercoaster back straight with it’s hard barriers along the sides.
Ben Crooks took home the point for pole in qualy with Jack Keithley in 2nd and our own Gregory Degreef in 3rd,rest of TBR was Mikael Hellén in 6th,Ivo Simons in 11th,David Cuthill in 14th and Kevin Ledoux in 17th.
When the greenlight went on all 36 cars headed for T1 with Greg loosing some positions and Mikael won a few spots but Greg soon found his pace and could work his way up the field.
Ben C and Jack K headed off with some amazing pace in the first few laps but it became obvious after around half of the race distance that they both made a bad choice with the soft tyres.
Greg was soon in the lead when the front runners lost their advantage with the softs and also Mikael could pass Jack at the final 5 laps.
Ivo had an eventful race with alot of fighting for positions throughout the race.
Final result saw Greg on top of podium with Ben C in 2nd and Mikael in 3rd,Ivo 13th and David in 16th.Kevin DNF 12 laps behind.

2nd round we all headed to Mid Ohio with the chicane,qualify was again a good day for TBR with Mikael putting the Volvo on pole this time and Gregory who had a connection drop almost missing the qualy session and joined just in time to finish 1 single hotlap in 3rd with Ben C again on 2nd gridposition.
Rest of TBR qualify results:Ben Buitendijk in his 1st apperance with the Alfa 75 in 12th,Ivo Simons 15th,David Cuthill 18th and Kevin Ledoux in 21st.
This time start was the opposite vs round 1 with Mikael making a bad start and Greg a good one,Ben C could take the lead into T1 and Greg was bumper to bumper with Mikael.A few laps into the race Greg could pass for 2nd position with some paint rubbing and start the chase for the lead.Ben B also made a good start and was soon fighting for 4th position.Around 10 laps into the race Greg could pass Ben Crooks with a nice manouver on the outside in the righthander after the backstraight putting him in 1st.
Mikael then launched attack after attack on a hard defending Ben Crooks but never got through.
Ben B fought hard with alot of changes in the positions.
Final result once again saw Greg on top and Ben C in 2nd with Mikael rounding off the podium.
Ben Buitendijk finished in a great 5th place in his first race,Ivo Simons in 13th,David Cuthill in 19th and Kevin Ledoux in 25th.
Overall a great start of the league with TBR eyes and Greg in a great position to take yet another league title.

Andreas Löffler and Wietse Visser were the two drivers to defend the TBR colors when Simracing Team Challenge headed to Spa. As usuall in Spa the weather is not to be trust and the race started of in rainy conditions.

Wietse started at the back after a miserable qualifying. Then he misjudged the weather for the race and had to pit on the opening lap to put on wet weather tyres. He never got back after that and finished down in 20th.

Andreas had a better race but by Löffler standard it wasn’t what he nor the team had wanted. It all started good though and he was inside top 10 for the first half but then everything went downhill. After running off track a few times he decided to pit for a second time but there were no improvments and in the end he finished in 13th.

The taem is still third in the standings but DMSv2 got a lot closer as they had a good team result with 4th and 8th. Only 11 points seperates the two teams. DMSv1 is still in the lead and is near its first STC title.

Results
Standings

Dariusz Swiderski dominated the fourth round of the TBR Championship at the German street track.

After getting pole he lead the entire first race, with Gregory Degreef being the only one keeping up. Andreas Löffler finished in 3rd but was out of contention for the win.

Race 2 wasn’t much different despite reversed grid. Andreas Hultgren, who t-bones David García in race 1, took the lead ahead of the spaniard but both were soon to be passed by faster cars. And just as in race one, Dariusz made his way up to p1 and stayed there. This time Wietse Visser finished 2nd and Gregroy 3rd.

Official results round 4: Norisring
Pole: Dariusz Swiderski 1:01.962 1p

Race 1
Position/Name/Laps/Time/Points

1. Dariusz Swiderski 22L 23:07.939 10p
2. Gregory Degreef 22L +0:00.835 8p
3. Andreas Löffler 22L +0:06.603 6p
4. Wietse Visser 22L +0:12.039 5p
5. Mikael Hellén 22L +0:16.126 4p
6. James Chesters 22L +0:26.796 3p
7. David García 22L +0:47.038 2p
8. Anderas Hultgren 20L +2 laps 1p (+30 sec penalty)

Race 2
Position/Name/Laps/Time/Points

1. Dariusz Swiderski 22L 23:14.804 10p
2. Wietse Visser 22L +0:04.640 8p
3. Gregory Degreef 22L +0:08.991 6p
4. Andreas Löffler 22L +0:09.998 5p
5. Mikael Hellén 22L +0:10.530 4p
6. Anderas Hultgren 22L +0:20.571 3p
7. James Chesters 22L +0:28.421 2p
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8. David García 2L damage

Official standings after round 4: Norisring

1. Gregory Degreef 63p 3w 1p
2. Andreas Löffler 55p 1w 2p
3. Dariusz Swiderski 44p 3w 1p
4. Andreas Hultgren 38p 1w
5. David Cuthill 30p
6. Wietse Visser 29p
7. Mikael Hellén 24p
8. Kevin Ledoux 8p
9. James Chesters 5p
10. David García 2p

There is now a summer break but the series continues again on July 19th at Monza.

In almost a week the WTM League starts on Racedepartment. A impressive line up of 40 cars will be starting at Virginia. With 7 Rebels joining the grid. The Supra is the most favorite car for the Rebels with 4 entry’s, then 2 Volvo’s and 1 Alfa Romeo.

The Championship is no team Championship so the drivers can battle it out all they want with eachother and try to take home the win.

Line up of the cars are.

#1 Supra: Ben Crooks

#14 Supra: Gregory Degreef

#29 Supra: Ivo Simons

#52 Supra: Kevin Ledoux

#1 Volvo: Mikael Hellen

#11 Volvo: David Cuthill

#76 Alfa Romeo: Ben Buitendijk

Consistency paid off for the Rebels at Donington Park

Mikael Hellen and Gregory Degreef where to drivers on the tough track for the Corvette.

Gregory qualified 8th where Mikael ended up 12th. But where both far of their PB but that can happen with Superpole.

Both started very clean and got some places because of other peoples troubles. Only Mikael was unlucky after some laps. While he drove away from to cars behind him. Those cars battled it out but where involved in crash and cutted the chicane and collected Mikael. Wich some damage and on place 16th Mikael continued with for the rest a very consistent race wich would bring him to place 10 at the end.

Gregory battled the whole race with 4 guys from 4th to 7th. But was also very consistent like Mikael and could bring the car home on place 6th.

Both cars in the top 10 where other teams failed to do so. This is way TBR is closing in on the number 2 in the standings and pulling away from 4th place. Next race is at Spa with Andreas Loffler and Wietse Visser behind the wheel of the Green Corvette.

Standings

http://www.simracingteamchallenge.com/component/option,com_tracks/p,2/view,teamranking/

The team had a great race when STC headed to Trois Riveres and its twisty street track. Nothing could be done against RPM’s Dragos Haba nor DMSv’s Roland Ehnström but David Greco made it over the lineas the last car on the lead lap in 3rd to bring the teams first podium of the season.

If that was not enough Gregory Degreef made it home in 7th which made the team strenghten its 3rd place in the standings.

Results
Standings

Another good Results for the Rebels

Pro:

The Qualification was not the best of the season for the drivers. With Jamie and Mikael just outside the top 5 and Wietse and Dariusz at the back of the grid. But the race went better for 3 of the 4 drivers. Dariusz ran in some problems and need to retire after 30 laps. With Wietse climbing up to 13th. And Mikaell climbed to 4th and Jamie to 2th. Just behind his main competitor for the Championship.

Jamie is now second in the championship and Mikael 4th

Wietse is 19th and Dariusz 34th

But Pro TBR teams are still on top of the standings in the Team Championship. With 3th and 4th

Standings

http://f1.racedepartment.com/current-season/standings.html

Semi Pro

Kevin Ledoux and Ivo Simons both Qualified in the top 5 and took P2 and P3 in Q2.

Kevin had a good start and managed to get P1 in the first lap. Ivo got second after a couple of laps but got tapped a couple of laps later and got a Suspension problem and was back on the grid after his pit. Kevin managed to pull away from the P2 car and for the rest a lonley race. Ivo managed to climb back to 8th place. Still a good result for the 2 TBR drivers. Because the Number 3 in the standings. Had some technical diffulties and didnt managed to start the race.

Kevin is now 1st in the standings and Ivo 2th. The team championship is almost certain because there is a big gap to the second placed team.

Standings

http://f1.racedepartment.com/current-season/standings.html

Next race is in 2 weeks on the very bumpy Istanbul circuit.

Race with ups and downs for the TBR drivers

Andreas Loffler (Cortina) and David Cuthill (Abarth) had total opposite races.

Qualification went perfect for both of them. With Andreas on 3th and David on 6th.

Andreas managed to get P1 after a couple of laps and got away from P2 and had a lonely race after that and took the win. David had one a scary moment when his wheel didnt respond anymore after 11 laps and was forced to retire. Both have the pace of the front runners this season so its gonna be intresting. Only both had already races this season with some troubles. A DNF for Andreas in the first race and David now in the second. But the season is long so enough time to catch up.

Driver standings:

Andreas Loffler – P7

David Cuthill – P18

STC is back after all the server problems. It was good day for the STC but also for The Black Rebels.

David Greco and Gregory Degreef  where the drivers this week. And got the maximum out of the Vette on this very narrow and more suited for small cars track.

Greco took unexpected pole while Gregory took 5th place. Greco controlled the first half of the race while closely followed by Haba on second.

Gregory ran in some little problems in the opening laps and dropped back to 12th.

In the pitstop window Greco’s pitstop took almost 10 second longer then Haba’s one. And lost first place.

Greg was nicely moving up the grid to 8th while managing his engine health because it was dropping massivly.

Greco was battleling heavily with number 3 who was on a 2 stop strategy and better tyres at the end. One lap before the finish he couldnt hold the place and dropped to 3th and finished there while Gregory climbed again one place and finished 7th.

So a very good result for the team. Wich gave us a more stable 3th place in the Team Championship.

http://www.simracingteamchallenge.com/

Next races are on Donington, Spa, Le Mans and Daytona. So perfect tracks for the raw power of the Vette