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The '''2013 Challenge Malaysian Grand Prix''' - the second round of the [[2013 Formula Challenge season|2013 season]] - took place on the [[Sepang International Circuit]] near Kuala Lumpur on the 12th of March. The round consisted of 2 races of 14 laps each, with race 1 being sensationally won by [[SimInk Motorsport|SimInk]]'s [[Ghovand Keanie]], from pole, on his FC début. Race two, and both race's fastest laps, went to [[Emanuel Gaczella]] of the [[Storm Racing Team]], but it was [[Ari Nieminen]], who finished second in both races, who extended his lead in the championship, over Gaczella.
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The '''2013 Challenge Malaysian Grand Prix''' - the second round of the [[2013 Formula Challenge season|2013 season]] - took place on the [[Sepang International Circuit]] near Kuala Lumpur on the 12th of March. The round consisted of 2 races of 14 laps each, with race 1 being initially won by [[SimInk Motorsport|SimInk]]'s [[Ghovand Keanie]], from pole, on his FC début. However, in light of several infringements of the series regulations, Keanie would later be stripped of his win, and demoted to 4th place, promoting [[Ari Nieminen]] to take the 25 points. Race two, and both race's fastest laps, went to [[Emanuel Gaczella]] of the [[Storm Racing Team]]. Nieminen finished second in race 2 and extended his lead in the championship, over Gaczella.
  
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The round was characterised by difficult, changing conditions and unfortunately by further, spectacular accidents at the very beginning of each race. Besides Keanie's stand-out performance in race 1 (being accidentally shunted off the grid in race 2), other stand-out drives included [[Franz Schnyder]] in his first round of the season, threatening pole in Qualifying and driving a great race to finish 3rd in race two; also prominent were the all-American [[Fogel Motorsport]] drivers; [[Jeremy Allen]] and [[Patrick Fogel]]. Brawn-esque in appearance and Brawn-esque in performance, both Fogel cars came out of nowhere before the start of the round and both finished both races in the top 10, with Allen temporarily leading race 2.
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The round was characterised by difficult, changing conditions and unfortunately by further, spectacular accidents at the very beginning of each race. Besides Keanie's stand-out performance in race 1 (being accidentally shunted off the grid in race 2), other stand-out drives included [[Franz Schnyder]] in his first round of the season, threatening pole in Qualifying and driving a great race to finish 3rd in race two; also prominent were the all-American [[Fogel Motorsport]] drivers; [[Jeremy Allen]] and [[Patrick Fogel]]. Brawn-esque in appearance and Brawn-esque in performance, both Fogel cars came out of nowhere before the start of the round and both finished both races in the top 10, with Allen temporarily leading race 2. Unfortunately both drivers would later be penalised for infringements during the races, although the final result still saw both drivers remain in the points.
  
 
==Report==
 
==Report==
 
===Background===
 
===Background===
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After the storming start to the season, in which over 40 drivers participated, the turn out for the Malaysian round was slightly less, but still with numbers far above 30.
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While the number was less than at Melbourne, several places on the grid were taken up by new drivers and even new teams. Of the drivers who had appeared at Melbourne, those missing at Sepang included podium-finisher [[Jarl Teien]] ([[Squire Motorsports|Squire]]), [[Tim-Oliver Wagner]] and [[Juan Lopez]] (both [[Velocity Racing|Velocity]]), [[Brandon Warren]] ([[Rapid Raptor Racing]]), [[Jon MacLean]] ([[Measuric Racing]]) and [[Josh Gibson]] ([[Falcon GP]]).
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Teams that did not make the trip to Sepang include [[JRT]] (represented at Melbourne by [[Jack Nicholls]] and [[Ric Scott]]), [[Midori Motorpsort]] ([[Rodney Van der Jeught]] and [[Ricardo Michalewski]]), [[Viking Racing]] ([[Lee Palmer]] and [[Fabio Fontana]]) and [[Antec Racing Team]] ([[Jan Schwitter]] and [[Sven Schubert]]).
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In their absence came three new teams: the [[BackMarker Brigade]] (represented by [[Oscar Hardwick]]), [[Fogel Motorsport]] ([[Patrick Fogel]] and [[Jeremy Allen]]) and [[Edonis Engineering]] ([[Menno Klont]] and [[Dave van Gils]]).
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Other new drivers making their first start, either of the season or of their GPVWC career, included [[Ghovand Keanie]], in for [[Nadir Khan]] at [[SimInk Motosport]], in what would prove to be his only race for the team; [[Franz Schnyder]], who joined [[Chris Williamson]] at [[Racing Team Schroten]]; [[Ed Williams]] in as the second permanent driver at [[Tanskanen Racing FC|Tanskanen Racing]], relieving reserve [[Doug Hilliard]], as well as [[Lee Davidson]], who raced in place of [[Andy Smith]] at [[Epic Racing]]. Other reserve drivers [[Ollie Woods]] and [[Bradley Vanian]] also took part, Woods as the only representative of Velocity Racing, with Vanian filling in for race winner [[Wopke Hoekstra]] at [[Optimum SimRacing]].
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[[Ron Squire]], who had a pair of infamous races at Melbourne, had been indefinitely parked following Australia and was excluded from competing, although Squire had been forced to withdraw anyway due to technical difficulties.
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Other steward penalties rolling over from Australia included 5 place grid penalties for Fabio Fontana, Tim-Oliver Wagner, [[Alex Rolls]], Andy Smith and [[Simon Melhuish]], though Fontana, Wagner and Smith did not participate at Malaysia anyway.
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===Qualifying===
 
===Qualifying===
 
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===Post-race===
 
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The post-race atmosphere was clouded by controversy as race one winner and pole sitter [[Ghovand Keanie]] was ultimately stripped of his victory, having been found to be in contradiction of several official regulations. These included: Escaping & Rejoining during Qualifying; Formation Lap Recovery during Race 1; cutting the pit lane exit line, again during Race 1, and Chatting during Race 2. These penalties, explicitly the pit lane infraction, resulted in Keanie being demoted to 4th. The rulings coincided with an acrimonious split between Keanie and SimInk which saw Keanie out of the team before the day was done. Keanie later signed with [[Sisu Grand Prix]] in time for the following Grand Prix.
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Keanie was not the only driver to be penalised, or be demoted following the race.
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During qualifying, [[Benjamin Zerche]], [[Patrick Fogel]] and [[Mike Schroten]] were also deemed to have Escaped and Rejoined, and were all penalised 5 grid positions and given points on their licences. [[Matt Webb]] was penalised for Wrecking after the end of Race 1. [[Bradley Vanian]] was penalised for cutting the pit lane exit in race 2 while Fogel was penalised for further penalised for cutting the exit twice, once in each race. In both instances, Fogel was penalised 20 seconds, seeing him demoted from 7th to 10th in Race 1 and from 6th to 10th in Race 2. [[William Neron]] was penalised for punting Keanie at the beginning of Race 2, while [[Jeremy Allen]] was penalised for also Chatting during Race 2, which saw him demoted from 10th to 14th, taking some of the shine off what had been an excellent first outing for the Fogel team.
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Finally, [[Dan Rusu]] and [[Juha Tanskanen]], both affiliated with Tanskanen Racing, were served warning for Spectating during the race; spectating having been banned during FC events due to server strains at the previous round.
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==== Cumulative penalty table ====
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{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:90%;"
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!Driver !! Team !! Penalties !! Violations !! Notes
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|[[Ghovand Keanie]] || [[SimInk Motorsport|SimInk]]
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| +15 grid places, +20 seconds (Race 1), 4 Penalty Points || Escape & Rejoin; Formation Lap Recovery (Race 1); Cutting Pit Lane Exit (Race 1), Chatting (Race2)*
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|Demoted from 1st to 4th (Race 1); *Did not complete race
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|[[Patrick Fogel]] || [[Fogel Motorsport|Fogel]]
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| +5 grid places, +20 seconds (Race 1), +20 seconds (Race 2), 3 Penalty Points || Escape & Rejoin, Cutting Pit Lane Exit (Race 1 and Race 2)
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|Demoted from 7th to 10th (Race 1); Demoted from 6th to 10th (Race 2)
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|[[Benjamin Zerche]] || [[LogiX Razer Motorsports|logiX]]
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| +5 grid places, 1 Penalty Point || Escape & Rejoin ||
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|[[Mike Schroten]] || [[Wauters Automotive|Wauters]]
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| +5 grid places, 1 Penalty Point || Escape & Rejoin ||
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|[[Matt Webb]] || [[Epic Racing]]
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| +5 grid places, 1 Penalty Point || Post-Race Wrecking (Race 1) ||
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|[[William Neron]] || [[Sisu Grand Prix|Sisu]]
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| +5 grid places, 1 Penalty Point || Punt (Race 2)** || **Did not complete race
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|-
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|[[Jeremy Allen]] || [[Fogel Motorsport|Fogel]]
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| +20 seconds (Race 2), 1 Penalty Point || Chatting (Race 2) || Demoted from 10th to 14th (Race 2)
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|[[Bradley Vanian]] || [[Optimum SimRacing|Optimum]]
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| +5 grid places, 1 Penalty Point || Cutting Pit Lane Exit (Race 2)*** || ***Did not complete race
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|[[Dan Rusu]] ||rowspan=2| team member,<br>[[Tanskanen Racing FC|Tanskanen]]
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|rowspan=2|Final Warning
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|rowspan=2|Spectating
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|[[Juha Tanskanen]]
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==Results==
 
==Results==
  
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Flag of Malaysia.png   2013 Challenge Malaysian Grand Prix
Race details
Round 2 of the 2013 Formula Challenge season
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Date 12th March, 2013
Event 2013 Challenge Malaysian Grand Prix
Location Sepang International Circuit, Sepang, Malaysia
Course Permanent racing facility
3.440 mi / 5.543 km
Distance 14 laps, 48.16 mi / 77.602 km (each race)
Weather Race 1: Monsoon; Race 2: Dry start, heavy rain
Pole position
Driver Netherlands Ghovand Keanie SimInk Motorsport
Time 1:56.347
Race One Podium
First Finland Ari Nieminen Karjala Racing
Second England Ryan Gilmore SimInk Motorsport
Third England Emanuel Gaczella Storm Racing Team
Race One Fastest Lap
Driver Romania Emanuel Gaczella Storm Racing Team
Time 1:55.130 (on lap 2)
Race Two Podium
First Romania Emanuel Gaczella Storm Racing Team
Second Finland Ari Nieminen Karjala Racing
Third Switzerland Franz Schnyder Racing Team Schroten
Race Two Fastest Lap
Driver Romania Emanuel Gaczella Storm Racing Team
Time 1:48.459 (on lap 2)


The 2013 Challenge Malaysian Grand Prix - the second round of the 2013 season - took place on the Sepang International Circuit near Kuala Lumpur on the 12th of March. The round consisted of 2 races of 14 laps each, with race 1 being initially won by SimInk's Ghovand Keanie, from pole, on his FC début. However, in light of several infringements of the series regulations, Keanie would later be stripped of his win, and demoted to 4th place, promoting Ari Nieminen to take the 25 points. Race two, and both race's fastest laps, went to Emanuel Gaczella of the Storm Racing Team. Nieminen finished second in race 2 and extended his lead in the championship, over Gaczella.

The round was characterised by difficult, changing conditions and unfortunately by further, spectacular accidents at the very beginning of each race. Besides Keanie's stand-out performance in race 1 (being accidentally shunted off the grid in race 2), other stand-out drives included Franz Schnyder in his first round of the season, threatening pole in Qualifying and driving a great race to finish 3rd in race two; also prominent were the all-American Fogel Motorsport drivers; Jeremy Allen and Patrick Fogel. Brawn-esque in appearance and Brawn-esque in performance, both Fogel cars came out of nowhere before the start of the round and both finished both races in the top 10, with Allen temporarily leading race 2. Unfortunately both drivers would later be penalised for infringements during the races, although the final result still saw both drivers remain in the points.

Report

Background

After the storming start to the season, in which over 40 drivers participated, the turn out for the Malaysian round was slightly less, but still with numbers far above 30.

While the number was less than at Melbourne, several places on the grid were taken up by new drivers and even new teams. Of the drivers who had appeared at Melbourne, those missing at Sepang included podium-finisher Jarl Teien (Squire), Tim-Oliver Wagner and Juan Lopez (both Velocity), Brandon Warren (Rapid Raptor Racing), Jon MacLean (Measuric Racing) and Josh Gibson (Falcon GP).

Teams that did not make the trip to Sepang include JRT (represented at Melbourne by Jack Nicholls and Ric Scott), Midori Motorpsort (Rodney Van der Jeught and Ricardo Michalewski), Viking Racing (Lee Palmer and Fabio Fontana) and Antec Racing Team (Jan Schwitter and Sven Schubert).

In their absence came three new teams: the BackMarker Brigade (represented by Oscar Hardwick), Fogel Motorsport (Patrick Fogel and Jeremy Allen) and Edonis Engineering (Menno Klont and Dave van Gils).

Other new drivers making their first start, either of the season or of their GPVWC career, included Ghovand Keanie, in for Nadir Khan at SimInk Motosport, in what would prove to be his only race for the team; Franz Schnyder, who joined Chris Williamson at Racing Team Schroten; Ed Williams in as the second permanent driver at Tanskanen Racing, relieving reserve Doug Hilliard, as well as Lee Davidson, who raced in place of Andy Smith at Epic Racing. Other reserve drivers Ollie Woods and Bradley Vanian also took part, Woods as the only representative of Velocity Racing, with Vanian filling in for race winner Wopke Hoekstra at Optimum SimRacing.

Ron Squire, who had a pair of infamous races at Melbourne, had been indefinitely parked following Australia and was excluded from competing, although Squire had been forced to withdraw anyway due to technical difficulties.

Other steward penalties rolling over from Australia included 5 place grid penalties for Fabio Fontana, Tim-Oliver Wagner, Alex Rolls, Andy Smith and Simon Melhuish, though Fontana, Wagner and Smith did not participate at Malaysia anyway.

Qualifying

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Race One

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Race Two

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Post-race

The post-race atmosphere was clouded by controversy as race one winner and pole sitter Ghovand Keanie was ultimately stripped of his victory, having been found to be in contradiction of several official regulations. These included: Escaping & Rejoining during Qualifying; Formation Lap Recovery during Race 1; cutting the pit lane exit line, again during Race 1, and Chatting during Race 2. These penalties, explicitly the pit lane infraction, resulted in Keanie being demoted to 4th. The rulings coincided with an acrimonious split between Keanie and SimInk which saw Keanie out of the team before the day was done. Keanie later signed with Sisu Grand Prix in time for the following Grand Prix.

Keanie was not the only driver to be penalised, or be demoted following the race.

During qualifying, Benjamin Zerche, Patrick Fogel and Mike Schroten were also deemed to have Escaped and Rejoined, and were all penalised 5 grid positions and given points on their licences. Matt Webb was penalised for Wrecking after the end of Race 1. Bradley Vanian was penalised for cutting the pit lane exit in race 2 while Fogel was penalised for further penalised for cutting the exit twice, once in each race. In both instances, Fogel was penalised 20 seconds, seeing him demoted from 7th to 10th in Race 1 and from 6th to 10th in Race 2. William Neron was penalised for punting Keanie at the beginning of Race 2, while Jeremy Allen was penalised for also Chatting during Race 2, which saw him demoted from 10th to 14th, taking some of the shine off what had been an excellent first outing for the Fogel team.

Finally, Dan Rusu and Juha Tanskanen, both affiliated with Tanskanen Racing, were served warning for Spectating during the race; spectating having been banned during FC events due to server strains at the previous round.

Cumulative penalty table

Driver Team Penalties Violations Notes
Ghovand Keanie SimInk +15 grid places, +20 seconds (Race 1), 4 Penalty Points Escape & Rejoin; Formation Lap Recovery (Race 1); Cutting Pit Lane Exit (Race 1), Chatting (Race2)* Demoted from 1st to 4th (Race 1); *Did not complete race
Patrick Fogel Fogel +5 grid places, +20 seconds (Race 1), +20 seconds (Race 2), 3 Penalty Points Escape & Rejoin, Cutting Pit Lane Exit (Race 1 and Race 2) Demoted from 7th to 10th (Race 1); Demoted from 6th to 10th (Race 2)
Benjamin Zerche logiX +5 grid places, 1 Penalty Point Escape & Rejoin
Mike Schroten Wauters +5 grid places, 1 Penalty Point Escape & Rejoin
Matt Webb Epic Racing +5 grid places, 1 Penalty Point Post-Race Wrecking (Race 1)
William Neron Sisu +5 grid places, 1 Penalty Point Punt (Race 2)** **Did not complete race
Jeremy Allen Fogel +20 seconds (Race 2), 1 Penalty Point Chatting (Race 2) Demoted from 10th to 14th (Race 2)
Bradley Vanian Optimum +5 grid places, 1 Penalty Point Cutting Pit Lane Exit (Race 2)*** ***Did not complete race
Dan Rusu team member,
Tanskanen 		Final Warning Spectating
Juha Tanskanen

Results


Standings after the race

Drivers' Championship standings
Pos Driver Points
1 Finland Ari Nieminen 81
2 Romania Emanuel Gaczella 75
3 England Ryan Gilmore 57
4 Netherlands Wopke Hoekstra 31
5 Norway Jarl Teien 28

Constructors' Championship standings
Pos Constructor Points
1 Romania Storm Racing Team 105
2 Finland Karjala Racing 81
3 Australia SimInk Motorsport 70
4 England Optimum SimRacing 43
5 United States Royal Blue Racing 35

  • Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.

Image Gallery

External links

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2013 		Succeeded by:
2013 Challenge Austrian Grand Prix
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