2001 Superleague season

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2001 Superleague season
GPVWC logo 2010.gif
Competition Superleague
Title Sponsor N/A
Platform Used GP4 icon.png GP3
Rounds 3
Mod base
Carshape base
Engine Supplier(s) Multiple
Tyre Supplier(s) Bridgestone & Michelin
Drivers
Teams
Drivers' Champion Germany Christian Neumann
Teams' Champion CVRT
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The 2001 Superleague season was the second GPVWC Superleague season. It used Geoff Crammond's Grand Prix 3 and saved qualifying and race files were submitted to the league for checking and classification.

Format

The qualifying, race and in-season testing sessions were all driven off-line and the saved game files were then submitted to the GPVWC for validation and classification in accordance with set deadlines. Saving the game at any point (for the session to be continued) was unrestricted.

The top twelve finishers scored points in the race.

Report

Teams and drivers

Team Base Constructor Chassis Engine Tyre No. Race Drivers Rounds Test/Reserve Driver(s)
Silver Angels Silver Angels BMW B  ?? Germany Thomas Kimmich Netherlands Twan Verweij
 ?? Czech Republic Miroslav Polacek
Netherlands Twan Verweij
A-Racing A-Racing Renault B  ?? England Richard Dickson
 ?? Australia Chris Connolly
Sweden Millennium Millennium Ferrari B  ?? Sweden Micke Fang
 ?? Sweden Rudolf Lofgren
Devils Devils Ferrari B  ?? Greece Athanasios Brinias United States Peter Knif
 ?? Australia Simon White
United States Peter Knif
United Kingdom Britten Britten Britten B  ?? Australia Jason Smith
 ?? England Darren White
United Kingdom BA Racing United Kingdom BA Racing Mercedes B  ?? United States Dan Pyrik New Zealand Jason Endean
 ?? Portugal Gabriel Nogueira
New Zealand Jason Endean
TBA TBA Rolls-Royce B  ?? Netherlands Ruud Nanne England Jonas Lindberg
 ?? England Chaz Charlton
England Jonas Lindberg
Netherlands Goffin Racing Goffin Racing Mugen-Honda B  ?? Netherlands Joost Jonk Netherlands Roald Reurink
 ?? Netherlands Gijs Herpers
Netherlands Roald Reurink
Racebase Racebase Mercedes B  ?? Netherlands Peter Visscher Canada Larry Karam
 ?? England Dave Harland
England Thomas Floate
Canada Larry Karam
Sparshot Sparshot Racing Ferrari B  ?? England Dan Lawrence
 ?? England Peter Kent
Red Arrows Red Arrows Ferrari B  ?? Switzerland Kris Pusaka
Australia Ben Connolly
DL Racing DL Racing Ferrari & Peugeot? B  ?? Australia Ian McMah England Glenn Bowen
Sweden Borje Johansson
 ?? Canada Scott Smith
England Glenn Bowen
Sweden Borje Johansson
New Zealand Pacific Racing Pacific Racing Britten
Fondmetal
B 15 Netherlands Harold Iedema
16 Australia Robert Vukovic
Feilerfuf Feilerfuf Ford B  ?? Germany Marcellus Schmidt
 ?? Italy Pierluigi Meloni
HawkEye HawkEye Racing Audi B  ?? Australia Blair Disley
 ?? Ukraine Alexander Masendycz

New entries

All the teams in the first season were new entrants. During the season there were many team changes and a few re-branded team names, with some changing management staff.

Team changes

Sparshot Racing was the first casualty of the season, when it was announced the day after the Hungarian qualifying session that its manager Nick Douglas had resigned. It followed Peter Kent's unexplained resignation from the team after the first race and Samuel Manier's failure to attend the Hungarian qualifying session. GPVWC founder and administrator, Dan Lawrence, who was also the team's lead driver, bought the team (resigning as the team's driver in the process). However, Manier withdrew the rights to the team's name and so the outfit was re-branded as Dan Lawrence Racing. After the Hungarian race meeting, Borje Johnston was hired by DL Racing to replace Lawrence.

Feilerfuf were temporarily ejected from the competition after the Hungarian qualifying session, having not fielded any drivers at all in the first race and none for the Hungarian qualifying session. New Zealander Barry Gifford's Pacific Racing was entered in place of Feilerfuf, initially with a Britten power plant, having entered a partnership with Brendan Maw's Britten Racing. Pacific had to settle for a Fondmetal engine from Japan, though it had initially been announced they were going with Supertec. For what turned out to be the team's last race entry however (they qualified at Spa), they went back to the Britten engine.

Millennium ironically never actually survived into the new millennium, with 2000 being its first and only year with the GPVWC.

Steve White quit as a driver for Devils Racing after Hungary, to become manager of TBA Racing. Also after Hungary, Dave Harland took over Kugla Racing and re-branded it Team Racebase, and subsequently hired Thomas Floate to partner Peter Visscher, and also Larry Karam in the role of Test Driver.

Driver changes

Samuel Manier quit Sparshot Racing on hearing of the resignation of team manager Nick Douglas, the day after the Hungarian qualifying session. Canadian driver Scott Smith was hired by Sparshot Racing to replace him on the same day, scheduled to make his début in Australia.

Miroslav Polacek was fired from Silver Angels for failing to compete in the Australian GP.

After losing Steve White, Devils Racing hired Peter Knif (on loan from BA Racing), and also newcomer Reurink Roald as Test Driver.

2001 Calendar

Round Race Title Grand Prix Circuit Date Time
Track time GMT
1 Australian Grand Prix Australian GP Australia Albert Park Grand Prix Circuit, Melbourne  ?th ???—5th Mar  ??? 23:59
2 Malaysian Grand Prix Malaysian GP Malta Sepang International Circuit, Selangor, Malaysia  ?th ???—19th Mar  ??? 23:59
3 Brazilian Grand Prix Brazilian GP Brazil Autódromo José Carlos Pace, São Paulo  ?nd ???—2nd Apr  ??? 23:59

Qualifying

Results and standings

Grands Prix

Rd. Grands Prix Pole position Fastest lap Winning driver Winning constructor Report
1 Australia Australian Grand Prix Australia Jason Smith Germany Christian Neumann
(1:29.941)
New Zealand Jason Endean United Kingdom BA Racing-Ferrari Report
4 Malta Malaysian Grand Prix Germany Christian Neumann Netherlands Ton Hoek
(1:41.084)
Germany Christian Neumann Flag placeholder.png CVRT-BMW Report
6 Brazil Brazilian Grand Prix Netherlands Ton Hoek United States Dan Pyrik
(1:16.834)
Germany Christian Neumann Flag placeholder.png CVRT-BMW Report

Scoring system

Points are awarded to the top 6 classified finishers.

Position  1st   2nd   3rd   4th   5th   6th 
Points 10 6 4 3 2 1

Drivers standings

Pos Driver ITA
Italy
HUN
Hungary
AUS
Australia
JPN
Japan
BEL
Belgium
BRA
Brazil
GBR
United Kingdom
CAN
Canada
MON
Monaco
Points
1 New Zealand Jason Endean 1 3 1 1 3 1 1 1 68
2 Germany Thomas Kimmich 1 4 1 3 5 2 6 2 2 48
3 England Richard Dickson 3 2 2 2 6 6 5 3 4 33
4 Australia Chris Connolly 5 5 6 5 4 9 2 4 3 23
5 Switzerland Kris Pusaka 2 1 3 DNS DNS 20
6 Australia Jason Smith 2 3 4 DNS 7 4 DNS DNS DNS 16
7 United States Dan Pyrik 10 DNS 5 DNS 11 DQ 4 DNS 6 6
8 Canada Scott Smith 9 7 10 5 7 5 5 6
9 Australia Ian McMah 3 DNS DNS DNS DNS 4
10 Netherlands Joost Jonk 7 7 7 4 12 DNS 8 7 DNS 3
11 Czech Republic Miroslav Polacek 4 Ret DNS DNS DNS DNS DNS DNS DNS 3
12 Greece Athanasios Brinias 11 6 12 DNS 9 7 10 8 7 1
13 Netherlands Ruud Nanne 6 8 19 DNS 16 DNS Ret DNS DNS 1
14 Netherlands Peter Visscher 16 10 16 11 14 10 9 6 8 1
15 Netherlands Harold Iedema 11 6 DNS DQ DNS DNS DNS 1
16 Germany Marcellus Schmidt 8 8 8 DNS DNS DNS 0
17 England Darren White 12 14 8 DNS DNS DNS DNS DNS DNS 0
18 Sweden Micke Fang 8 13 DNS DNS DNS DNS DNS DNS DNS 0
19 Canada Larry Karam 18 10 13 11 11 9 10 0
20 England Dan Lawrence 9 12 DNS DNS DNS DNS DNS DNS DNS 0
21 Sweden Jonas Lindberg 15 DQ 12 13 9 0
22 Sweden Rudolf Lofgren 13 9 DNS DNS DNS DNS DNS DNS DNS 0
23 United States Peter Knif 9 DNS DNS DNS DNS DNS 0
24 Canada Chaz Charlton 15 11 10 DNS 0
25 England Glenn Bowen 14 10 DNS 0
26 Netherlands Gijs Herpers DQ 18 15 15 DNS DNS DNS DNS 11 0
27 Australia Ben Connolly 11 DNS 0
28 Netherlands Twan Verweij 12 DNS DNS DNS DNS DNS 0
29 Australia Blair Disley 12 DNS 0
30 Netherlands Roald Reurink 14 DNS DQ 13 DNS DNS 0
31 Australia Robert Vukovic 13 16 17 DNS DNS DNS DNS 0
32 Italy Pierluigi Meloni 13 DNS DNS DNS DNS DNS 0
33 Portugal Gabriel Nogueira 14 DNS DNS DNS DNS DNS DNS DNS DNS 0
34 Sweden Borje Johansson 14 DNS DNS DNS DNS DNS DNS 0
35 England Dave Harland 18 16 0
36 Australia Simon White 17 17 0
37 England Thomas Floate 17 DNS DNS DNS DNS DNS DNS 0
Pos Driver ITA
Italy
HUN
Hungary
AUS
Australia
JPN
Japan
BEL
Belgium
BRA
Brazil
GBR
United Kingdom
CAN
Canada
MON
Monaco
Points
Key
Colour Result
Gold Winner
Silver 2nd place
Bronze 3rd place
Green Points finish
Blue Non-points finish
Non-classified finish (NC)
Purple Did not finish (Ret)
Red Did not qualify (DNQ)
Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ)
Black Disqualified (DSQ)
White Did not start (DNS)
Race cancelled (C)
Light blue Practiced only (PO)
Blank Did not participate (-)
Excluded (EX)
Withdrew entry before the event (WD)

Bold - Pole
Italics - Fastest lap

* Fastest laps are currently unknown for Hungary and Australia.
Drivers did not finish the Grand Prix, but were classified as they completed over 75% of the race distance.

Constructors standings

Pos Constructor Car
No.
ITA
Italy
HUN
Hungary
AUS
Australia
JPN
Japan
BEL
Belgium
BRA
Brazil
GBR
United Kingdom
CAN
Canada
MON
Monaco
Points
1 United Kingdom BA Racing-Mercedes  ?? 10 DNS 5 DNS 11 DQ 4 DNS 6 74
 ?? 14 1 3 1 1 3 1 1 1
2   Silver Angels-BMW  ?? 1 4 1 3 5 2 6 2 2 100
 ?? 4 Ret DNS 12 DNS DNS DNS DNS DNS
3   A-Racing-Renault  ?? 3 2 2 2 6 6 5 3 4 75
 ?? 5 5 6 5 4 9 2 4 3
4   Red Arrows-Ferrari  ?? 2 1 3 DNS DNS 42
 ?? 11 6 12 DNS 9 7 10 8 7
5 United Kingdom Britten  ?? 2 3 4 DNS 7 4 DNS DNS DNS 37
 ?? 12 14 8 DNS DNS DQ DNS DNS DNS
6 United Kingdom DL Racing-Ferrari/Peugeot  ?? 9 7 10 5 7 5 5 33
 ?? 14 DNS 3 DNS 14 10 DNS
7 Netherlands Goffin Racing-Mugen-Honda  ?? 7 7 7 4 12 DNS 8 7 DNS 32
 ?? DQ 18 15 15 DNS DQ 13 DNS 11
8   TBA-Rolls-Royce  ?? 6 8 19 DNS 16 DNS Ret DNS DNS 28
 ?? 15 11 10 DNS 15 DQ 12 13 9
9   Racebase-Mercedes  ?? 16 10 16 11 14 10 9 6 8 12
 ?? 18 16 17 10 13 11 11 9 10
10 Belgium Pacific-Britten/Fondmetal  ?? 11 1
 ?? 13 16 17
11   Feilerfuf-Ford  ?? 8 8 8 DNS DNS DNS 1
 ?? 13 DNS DNS DNS DNS DNS
12   Millennium-Ferrari  ?? 8 13 DNS DNS DNS DNS DNS DNS DNS 0
 ?? 13 9 DNS DNS DNS DNS DNS DNS DNS
12   Sparshot Racing-Ferrari  ?? 9 12 DNS DNS DNS DNS DNS DNS DNS 0
 ?? DNS DNS DNS DNS DNS DNS DNS DNS DNS
12   Devils-Ferrari  ?? 11 6 12 9 DNS DNS DNS DNS DNS 0
 ?? 17 17 18 14 DNS DNS DNS DNS DNS
Pos Constructor Car
No.
ITA
Italy
HUN
Hungary
AUS
Australia
JPN
Japan
BEL
Belgium
BRA
Brazil
GBR
United Kingdom
CAN
Canada
MON
Monaco
Points
Key
Colour Result
Gold Winner
Silver 2nd place
Bronze 3rd place
Green Points finish
Blue Non-points finish
Non-classified finish (NC)
Purple Did not finish (Ret)
Red Did not qualify (DNQ)
Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ)
Black Disqualified (DSQ)
White Did not start (DNS)
Race cancelled (C)
Light blue Practiced only (PO)
Blank Did not participate (-)
Excluded (EX)
Withdrew entry before the event (WD)

Bold – Pole
Italics – Fastest Lap

Cars did not finish the Grand Prix, but were classified as they completed over 75% of the race distance.

Preceded by:
2000 Superleague season
2001 Superleague season
2001
Succeeded by:
2002 Superleague season