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Optimum

Full name	Optimum SimRacing
Owner/s	Bradley Vanian
Base	Stourbridge, England
Competitions
Superleague Team	None
Début	-
Supercup Team	None
Début	-
Formula Challenge Team	Optimum SimRacing
Début	2012 Irish Grand Prix
World Sport Series Team	None
Début	-
International Touring Cup Team	None
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Who is Optimum SimRacing?

Optimum SimRacing is an English GPVWC constructor who have competed in the 2012 Formula Challenge season and are driving in the 2012 Winter GT Series.

Optimum SimRacing was founded on 23rd December 2011 in preperation for a 24Hr Endurance Race. There was only 3 members at first, Jonatan Acerclinth, Jonathan Motteram and Bradley Vanian. All 3 drivers had interests in touring car racing aswell as Endurance Racing so the team entered into many Touring Car Leagues. In doing so, the team expanded. As the team grew bigger, the commitment increased. Recently, the team has had some great results in the world's biggest Touring Car Leagues aswell as a large amount of publicity around the SimRacing Community.

In August 2012, the team ventured into Open Wheel racing by applying for the GPVWC 2012 Formula Challenge.

2012 Formula Challenge season

Optimum SimRacing's first adventure of Open Wheel Racing was in the 2012 Formula Challenge Season. The team fielded Bradley Vanian and Alejandro Fernandez as drivers for the final 3 rounds of the season to prepare the team for 2013 which the team plan to enter on a full-time basis.

The opening round for the team was at Mondello Park and with some help from Jonatan Acerclinth, the team had a strong setup which gave both drivers a great sum of points on their debut. Bradley got a Top 10 finish in the Feature Race and Alejandro managed to get a double points finish.

The next round was at Charade and again, Bradley got a Top 10, meanwhile Alejandro got a double points finish again. Unluckily for the team, neither could capitalize on the reverse grid for the Sprint Race due to accidents.

The final round was a home round for Alejandro Fernandez however due to multiple unfortunate incidents, he was unable to capitalize. This was not the circumstance for Bradley though who finished 8th in Race 1 and 5th in the Sprint Race.

Even though the team only took part in the final 3 rounds, they finished 19th place in the Constructors and Bradley and Alejandro finished 32nd and 46th respectively in the drivers' standings.

Team Name	Base	Constructor	Chassis	Tyre	No.†	Race Drivers	Rounds	Reserve Driver(s)
Optimum SimRacing	Stourbridge, England	Optimum	FC-012	M	38	Bradley Vanian	23-28	Scott Sovik
					39	Alejandro Fernandez	23-28

Driver Car No. GBR NED ITA SLV MAL JAP AUS BRA MEX USA RSA ROI FRA ESP Driver Points Team Points Bradley Vanian 38 9 16 9 15 7 5 45 (32nd) 61 (19th) Alejandro Fernandez 39 11 14 14 14 14 13 16 (46th) 2012 Winter GT Series Optimum SimRacing entered the 2012 Winter GT Series with Jonathan Motteram and Jonatan Acerclinth. However, a week before the opening round, Jonathan had new commitments and the team quickly found Belgian Driver, Dimitri Demeulemeester to reaplce him. Both drivers used Lotus Evora's for the opening round. Team Name Base Constructor Chassis Tyre No.† Race Drivers Rounds Reserve Driver(s) Optimum SimRacing Stourbridge, England Optimum Lotus Evora / Porsche 997 M 711 Dimitri Demeulemeester 1-2 Bradley Vanian Lotus Evora / Alpina B6 93 Jonatan Acerclinth 1-2 Driver Car No. BRA BEL JAP USA Driver Points Team Points Dimitri Demeulemeester 711 18 Ret 0 (21st) 0 (14th) Jonatan Acerclinth 93 23 19 0 (21st) External links Optimum SimRacing Official Website Optimum SimRacing Facebook Page