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Ric Scott

Supercup Career
Nationality	English
Active Years	1
Team(s)	Draig Racing Hawkeye Racing Triple-Double Racing
Races	2
Championships	0
Wins	0
Podium finishes	0
Pole positions	0
Fastest laps	0
First Race	2011 Supercup Turkish Grand Prix

Ric Scott is an English driver in the GPVWC, currently racing for Draig Racing in the Supercup.

Scott is best known as Hawkeye Racing's team owner and driver from the HOWC, but since the league closed down, he had been inactive in the Sim-Racing world.

In June 2011, he started practicing racing again in order to compete in the GPVWC and has since signed a contract with Draig Racing for the rest of the season. As well as his commitments for Draig in the Supercup, Scott is also a test driver in the Superleague for Triple-Double Racing and has recently entered his own team, Hawkeye Racing, into the Supercup competition.

Early Sim-Racing Career

Scott started racing as a youngster in the mid-90s on the game GP2. In 2000, he formed his own racing league, the Hawkeye Offline World Championship, using GP3 to race. He competed in the first few seasons for his own team, claiming several podiums along the way, but took part in less races later on due to his league administration duties.

HOWC

2005-2007

Online sim-racing started for Scott with the release of rFactor in 2005. The HOWC started using the game for their F1 championship and Scott entered his Hawkeye Racing team into it. He finished 6th out of 19 competitors, with his team clinching the constructors title.

In 2006 his team were successful again, retaining the constructors title, beating their big rivals Vod:Bul Racing. Scott improved on his performance last season, coming 4th. His best result of the season came at Imola, where he won the race, the 3rd victory of his career.

He won a further 2 races in the 2007 season, but failed to improve on last season, coming 4th again. This time his team missed out on the constructors title too, with Vod:Bul Racing comfortably ahead.

Megane Championship

His biggest success to date was winning the HOWC Megane World Championship in 2007, racing for Justin Ziarko's Rage Racing. Consistency was the key for Scott this season, with his main rival, Stefan Gordon taking twice as many victories as him. The season came down to the last round, an endurance race, at Bathurst. An error from Gordon early on gave Scott the title, winning with 274pts to Gordon's 254.

GPVWC

Supercup

Ric and Chris battle for position in Turkey

Ric overtakes Ben round the outside in the Mexican GP

Ric Scott made his debut half-way through the 2011 Supercup season, driving for Draig Racing along-side fellow former HOWC racer, Phil Perkins at the 2011 Supercup Turkish Grand Prix. Scott struggled to start with, having not raced competitively for 3 years, and was way down the order in qualifying until his last lap which placed him in 11th of 24. He had a dream start in the race, taking advantage of other drivers' errors to get up to 8th place. An error on lap two lost him a few of places and he was back down in 11th. After that, Scott's lap-times were more consistent and he eventually worked his way up to 9th place with Tom Parker and Chris Williamson catching him. He managed to fend off Williamson but Parker (who qualified 4th) managed to get through, only to retire later, giving Scott a solid 8th place in his first race.

The next race on the calendar was Mexico, and Scott carried on his form by qualifying 10th. The race started well for him, as he maintained 10th position going into turn 1. He'd had a better start than Tom Parker ahead of him but didn't have the straight-line speed to get past, so Scott, Parker and Chris Williamson were 3-abreast on the start/finish straight but Scott eased off in order to get round T1 safely. His over-take of the day came 2 corners later when he managed to take Ben Warren on the outside of Turn 6 after getting a good drive out of Turn 5, moving him up to 8th. Contact with Nikos Evangelidakis and Gavin Thomas early on in the race sent Scott down into 12th, but through some over-taking moves and several retirements, he worked his way back up into the points, finishing 6th overall.

Supercup results

Superleague

Scott is currently Triple-Double Racing's test driver and has taken part in one practice session for the team, at the 2011 Turkish Grand Prix. At Mexico he was given a race seat, filling in for Bart De Vos. The event didn't go as well for him as the Supercup race, with him qualifying down in 23rd on the grid. This did, however, mean that he would have a relatively risk-free lap 1. This proved to be the case as he got round without any contact and spent the next few laps working his way up the field. The most notable battles for him were with Mark Wicks in the Woods Racing Mercedes and Chris Williamson in the Nijo Racing Toyota. All this was to be in vein though, as Scott retired with 15 laps to go with a fuel problem. He will return to his role as test driver in Canada.