On thursday the 3rd round of STC guest at the circuit of Hockenheim. TBR was again up for it – Gregory Degreef and Andreas Löffler lined up on the grid.

Firstly qualifying went different for them. While Greg got P3, only 2 tenth away from pole position Andreas ground in the middle of the field in P11 with 1,2 sec to P1 after 2-3 mistakes in his hotlap.

In a confusing start cause the pacecar wasn´t available this time it developed different for the TBR drivers. Greg lost unfortunatly one place to P4, Andreas in contrary could win places already up to P7. Before the pit stop in the middle of the race it begun to rain a little. Greg was still in P4 in touch to the podium, Andreas drove on P8. But the stop went not good for Greg, so afterwards the TBR drives found them behind each other on P7 and P8. Then the rain got stronger and stronger althought the weatherforecast said much better weather for the afternoon. So the drivers were confused, some pit finally (including Greg and Andreas) for rain tyres but some not. Sure not an easy situation due it had could be also only a short period of full wetness. Luckily for TBR it was the right decision. Only the last few minutes it went dryer again. So they could win again a few place (also cause the bad luck of a FDR driver who blew his engine) and finished finally on P5, Gregory and P6, Andreas. The race won Gubklubben driver Robin Johansson, in front of the Flatout drivers Ben Tusting and Mikko Korkiakoski as well as FDR driver Jesper Taulborg.

full race result

With this great teamresult TBR made a big step forward in the championship, ranking now on P7 of 13 teams with 70 points. Still leading is Flying Dutchman Racing, close in front of Flatout Racing and Gubbklubben.

championship table

STay tuned, in only one week the next race will start at the circuit of Donington Park on the island of Great Britain. So stay tuned!

Missed the live broadcast of the Hockenheim race? Here is the complete relive, enjoy:

After the longer “vacation-time”  and missing the first round, TBR returned to STC Black Cup 2011 at the circuit of Paul Ricard in France.

Into the race for The Black Rebels went Andreas Hultgren and Gregory Degreef in the new Matech GT 1. A big factor was again the alternating weather. For example Gregory started on “wets” (P4) and Andreas took “dry” tyres, starting from P16.

It slowly begun more and more to rain but the first time the “dry” tyre was the better choice. So from that Greg lost some places but due unneeded incidents also much time. But he stayed out which payed back later on. With more rain several drivers (also including Andreas) pitted or could overtook again from Greg. Before Greg´s stop, he was back in third, but the weather already changed to more dry and he decided for dry´s for second stint. A wise decision cause only for the last few minutes it took over to more rain again. Last moment of shock was a spin from Greg in last turn which luckily don´t cost a place anymore and he finished in a fine 4th place.

On the other hand Andreas got a quite unlucky race. After several pitstop´s (from dry to wet and again to dry) with bad timing according the weather he finished at least in the top 20, on P19.

With this result we find TBR already on P11 in the standings in front of Torrent Motorsport and Water Blue Racing. A big success went to FDR with a double win and the in STC first time winner for FDR Hugo Hekkenberg. FDR also leading in the championchip in front of Gubbklubben and Flatout Racing. Next race will be already next week on the circuit of Hockenheim in Germany, let´s see what TBR is able to do there!

complete race here: click me

 Yves Larose, organisator of the RD Camaro Cup announced the new season. After already four fabulous seasons there will come some new points to the drivers. For the new season will come the new gen 5 Camaro, well known from the swedish Camaro Cup 2010. These V8 monsters are coming with 420 HP, 625 NM, shared on 1350 kg of weight.

Also the race format has changed. There will be Sprint (35 minutes) and Feature (75 minutes) races with mandatory pitstop for the sprint one. Including the test on September 10th, the season will ovarall go over 7 stations around the world. So, start your engines and join the thrill.

For TBR will drive till now last season in overall placed 3rd Dariusz Swiderski and 6th Andreas Löffler. For both target will be again to fight for the podium. Andreas, who drove all season so far said: “I´m very attired in the new season. I imagine close racing with the new car and new race format, sure a good decision from Yves. Specially the tracks are greatly choosen, i love it.”

 The design for Andreas car will be sure an eye-catcher on the grid. Beside the common TBR main sponsors TheGameHoster.net and STC i also want to advert a new one on the car, dedicated to the skinner of the car and photograph Andreas Hultgren. It´s his website andreashultgren.com, a page for amazing photos around the motorsport. You won´t regret a click on it.

For more information around the RaceDepartment Chevrolet Camaro Cup follow this link.

The RaceDepartment´s Historic GP season 7 finished on the track of Limerock Mountain. With double length and double given points the championchip was still open between the TBR drivers Andreas Löffler, Ivo Simons, Ryan Callan and the independent driver Dymitro Botnarenko. Only 9 points was seperate them.

Qualy went great for TBR. With Ryan on pole, Andreas on second and Ivo on fourth, TBR stayed in the front 2 rows. But also Dymitro on third keep his chances on third. Then the start, and horror for Ryan. Anything went wrong and he fall down very far away already first straight. With both extra points (pole and fastest race lap) his chances was good to reach at least the podium in standings but after some laps his race was over. Also Dymitro had trouble and went off one corner which cost many time. So also no chances anymore for the needed win for him. So it came up to Ivo and Andreas.

Andreas leaded from the start. But it became a thriller, with championchip leader Ivo only a few seconds behind. To the end of the stint Ivo close up. The tyre wear of Andreas Corvette worked again against him. The two teammates fight 3-4 laps each other without giving presents but in lap 19 Ivo finally climbed the lead. Who thought it´s decided now, was fooled. Andreas immediately jumped into pits for his stop. Added fuel, new tyres and out again he drove his best laptimes. After Ivo stopped two laps later, suddently a gap of almost 15 seconds cut them off. Both drove like hell, Andreas to keep the gap anyhow till finish, Ivo to come nearer. Simultanious it was the fight for the championchip. The gap stayed long quiet constantly and Andreas was the virtual winner of the championchip. But with the last laps Ivo came again more and more nearer every lap. Once again Andreas couldn´t hold his laptimes and with 3 laps finally a spun on his worn tyres gives Ivo without a struggle the lead and championchip.

But the drama going on. Andreas had to spare massive fuel cause a fuel mistake at the pit. With that also 2nd place in championchip was in big danger if Dymitro who fought back in 4th position would catch Andreas. Last lap, two last corners – Andreas had to let pass Ross. Dymitro was directly behind them. Andreas defend in last corner to Dymitro and with almost no fuel he finished in front of Dymitro with lesser then a tenth of a second in third place.

With this result finally Ivo and Andreas claimed the championchip podium in P1 and P2. A big succes for TBR (with winning 5 of the 8 races) to put the champion and runner up. The dream was sure the triple with the unlucky Ryan, who finished with 2 missed races and the dnf in last race only on 6th position in the standings. Which is still great to be in top 10 of over 30 drivers. The good result for TBR was rounded up by David Cuthill on 16th position. With only 1 race 5th TBR of the league Gregory stay on P26 in the standings

For Andreas it´s now the third runner up in a row in RDHGP, at least only he was one time able to beat the Shelby Daytona (7 wins) with his Corvette (1 win). But the big Congratulaions go to Ivo, who drove finally the most constantly season. With two wins (first and last race) a very well deserved champion. Well done Ivo !

race result Limerock Mountain

Drivers standings after final round:
1. Ivo Simons 179p
2. Andreas Löffler 166p
3. Dymitro Botnarenko 161p
4. Ross McGregor 146p
5. Nils Norberg 139p

6. Ryan Callan 122p
16. David Cuthill 46p
26. Gregory Degreef 16p

overall standings

David Garcia, the spanish “gay” of TBR was unstopable in first round of RDGTC. In a rare seen style David runs from a disappointing P9 in qualy to P2 in finish. With this “supergay” effort he catapult his blue The Blag F(l)ags BMW directly into RD´s elite group 1. For sure he will need also in the next rounds this performance. And after now already 2 races there we can say, David is on fire. Let´s hope the best for today´s race in Monza. Beside him Andreas Löffler, Chris Jacque and Kevin Ledoux will fight for the win for the TBR´s.

Here a review of the highlights of David´s race on the famous Nürburgring:

The RaceDepartment´s Historic GP finished on the legendary track of Spa. With double length and double given points the championchip was still open between TBR driver Andreas Löffler and BVM Gary Lennon. But Gary needed “only” a 8th place finish.

Qualy went great for TBR. With Greg on pole, Andreas in second and Ryan on third the first three places went to TBR. An incident each other and pitstops let Ryan fall back on P5 and Greg on P10. Andreas took advance of this and won, right in front of Gary – both with a no stopper race.

With this result Andreas and Greg claimed the championchip podium in P2 and P3. With 3 missing races Ivo finished still on P11 in standings and Ryan jumped on P17 overall. Fifth TBR driver in standings is David on P23 of 31 listed drivers.

Watch also the race highlights, made by Andreas Löffler:

http://www.vimeo.com/20526805

race result Spa

Drivers standings after final round:
1. Gary Lennon 200p
2. Andreas Löffler 180p
3. Gregory Degreef 136p
4. Jay Adgie 112p
- . Bob Hutchins 112p

11. Ivo Simons 89p
17. Ryan Callan 54p
23. David Cuthill 25p

overall standings

After already did some training laps, together with the RD ARCA boys at the Kansas City Speedway last week, Andreas Löffler plans to run the next ARCA events on RaceDepartment. To the question if thats the ending of his roadcourse career (actually in RDCCC, RDTCC and RDHGP) he said “No no, i won´t turn off in any roadracing. It´s more an additional to it. The nascar produce great racing with having all the time a tactical part which i enjoy a lot since i played NASCAR racing 2003 in the past.  So i´m really happy we have such racing on RD and maybe it will be more then club events, who knows”.

New car for the season will be the Dodge Charger #21 in TBR colours, designed by Eric Martel.

The 6th RaceDepartment Touring Car Championchip opened at last weekend. With in five TBR drivers. Harald Stadler and Ivo Simons in the Audi A4, Ryan Callan in the Seat Toledo Cupra, Andreas Löffler in the BMW 320i e46 and TBR newbie Matthias Klein in the Peugeot 407. Qualifying went into a war of hundredths with in the end 20 drivers in one second. Best TBR spot went to Matthias on P7 followed from Ryan in P9 and Ivo in P10. Andreas started from P12 and Harald from a disappointing P28.

For Harald the race went not better. Due continous FFB problems he quitted the race after a few laps. The other TBR´s had a much better run. From start they stayed close together in position 7th to 10th position. Ivo go in front while Andreas fall a bit down. Ryan and Matthias had nice fights to each other. After the stops Ivo cap his great performance with step up on podium position P3. Matthias stay on his starting position in P7 and Ryan finished just in top 10 on P10. Andreas struggled with much tyre wear and went finally into P14.

For the full action watch RD´s highlight vid made by Jari Vinnari and commentary from Ryan Callan.

Race results round 1:
1. Jesper Taulborg (Alfa Romeo 156 Gta)
2. Miguel Neto (Alfa Romeo 156 Gta 
3. Ivo Simons (Audi A4)
7. Matthias Klein (Peugeot 407)
10.Ryan Callan (Seat Toledo Cupra)
14. Andreas Löffler (BMW 320i e46)
29. Harald Stadler (Audi A4)
 

Drivers standings after round 1:
1. Jesper Taulborg 115p
2. Miguel Neto 100p
3. Ivo Simons 92p
4. Hugo Goncalves 85p
5. Dan Allinson 81p
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7. Matthias Klein 72p
10. Ryan Callan 60p 
14. Andreas Löffler 48p

full stats

The RDCCC, RaceDepartments Camaro Cup Championship, got underway yesterday at Birubi SouthernCross. The forcast was heavy rain and thunderstorms which created a bit of confusion of when the rain was going to come down. Qualifying was dry though and Gregory Degreef clinshed the pole by a very small margin ahead of and Henrik Horvath, Rami Kaukola and Peter Duivelaar. All four seperated by less then 4 tenths! Andreas Löffler started in 5th, Dariusz Swiderski in 10th, Kevin Ledoux 15th and Andreas Hultgren 18th.

Degreef got off to a good start and was leading a huge group initially before he and Kaukola got a gap on the following drivers. When the first stop was getting closer the rain was still not there and all drivers opted for slicks once again. Degreef lost the lead though to Kaukola during the stop and was then fighting hard with Duivelaar. Löffler had managed to get up to 4th during this period of the race. The rain came just before the second stop and it was heavy, just as expected. Kaukola spun out of the lead and gave the win to his teammate Duivelaar. Degreef also got the better of the Finn and finished in a great 2nd place. Löffler finished right off the podium in a fine 4th.

Ledoux was having ups and down throughout the race but when the rain came he exelled and got up to 10th while the others had problems staying on the slippery track. Hultgren finished 13th in the end after two good stops where he gained positions. Swiderski started off good but had an oposit race to what Ledoux had and had huge problems in the early part of the rain chaos. He managed to finish 13th though despite 4 pit stops.

Race results round 1:
1. Peter Duivelaar (Roaring Pipes Maniacs)
2. Gregory Degreef
3. Rami Kaukola (Roaring Pipes Maniacs)
4. Andreas Löffler
5. Martijn van Bommel (Flying Dutchman Racing)
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10. Kevin Ledoux
13. Andreas Hultgren
15. Dariusz Swiderski

Drivers standings after round 1:
1. Peter Duivelaar 30p
2. Gregory Degreef 28p
3. Rami Kaukola 24p
4. Andreas Löffler 22p
5. Martijn van Bommel 20p
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10. Kevin Ledoux 11p
13. Andreas Hultgren 8p
15. Dariusz Swiderski 6p

Team standings after round 1 (unofficial):
1. The Black Rebels 75p
2. Roaring Pipes Maniacs 70p
3. Flying Dutchman Racing 39p

Andreas Löffler has become ADR WTCC Champion after a very solid effort in the last round of the league. The last 2 races were held at Barcelona. Löffler got beaten to the pole by teammate Ivo Simons in his Honda. This was Simons first round since Istanbul but despite that he had been the force to beat during practice aswell as qualifying. Löffler however used the BMW’s rear drive advantage at the start and took the lead, a lead that he would keep to the line with Simons trailing him closely all the way. Andreas Hultgren made it a TBR 1-2-3 after starting 5th. But after a rocket start he was up to 3rd and fended off one of Löfflers biggest title rivals Tobias Tannreuther. Gregory Degreef was in for a tough round though as he was carrying 50kg of success ballast. He finished down in 10th after a difficult race.

The Rebels aimed to repeat the feat in race 2 and it looked good right from the get go. Despite starting from 8th Löffler was soon up fightingt for the lead but got hit and spun by Torsten Gerlach. He got up to speed fast though and was on his way up the feild again untill he received another hit, this time by Tannreuther. Despite this he managed to finish 4th, again infront of his main rivals and the championship was his to celebrate. Up front it looked as if Hultgren had secured a second win of the season. He was up fighting with Andreas Krupp and Tannreuther for the lead before the pitsops. Hultgren went in first (together with Tannreuther) and when Krupp pitted the lap after Hultgren was in the lead and started to slowly pull away. At best he had over 3 seconds to Krupp but he shot his tyres in the process and eventually he was cought up. In the meanwhile Simons had cought up with this group and in just a couple of laps he was then in the lead, a lead he never lost as he took his first and only win of the season. Krupp also got passed Hultgren who finished 3rd yet again. Degreef had another tough race and finished 8th.

Final drivers standings:
1. Andreas Löffler 236p
2. Tobias Tannreuther 219p
3. Frank Schroeter 209p
4. Jörg Klein 181p
5. Andreas Krupp 177p
6. Gregory Degreef 172p
7. Andreas Hultgren 171p
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13. Ivo Simons 81p
21. Xosé Estrada 14p

Final team standings:
1. TBR Belnedmany 443p
2. RB Kiteforce 373p
3. Smoking Boys 341p
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6. TBR Ruta Destroy 185p