February 16, 2001
The much anticipated 'trial race' is nearly upon us. The race will be staged at Magny Cours - France. and will run on the full 100% race distance (as is intended for 2001). Qualifying also applies - so get practicing!.

Deadlines

Qualifying Sunday 18th February

Race Tuesday 20th February

The purpose of this race is to elimate the weakest package from the GPVWC.

All teams who have stayed from last season have automatic entry onto the 2001 grid (no more complaints about this please! In real F1 they don't relegate teams every season for doing badly do they!). All new teams are not guaranteed entry onto the 2001 grid until this trial race has been completed. The slowest of these new teams will sadly not be able to compete in the 2001 GPVWC, this is due to the 11 car limit in GP3.

Two carsets have been put together. One for 2000 teams and one for new teams. This is because there is not enough space in a carset for 12 teams. basically there will be 2 seperate races with results being posted seperately to make it fairer.

Download the carset/info here!

Teams from 2000 will probably notice that there are slighlty more 'clone AI' cars in the new teams carset. Please don't complain about this, I know it will give a slight advantage (as the 'clone AI' cars have been made slower to give the fight to the actual GPVWC teams.) but at the end of the day we are only trying to establish the slowest new team - not to have a perfect race. 2000 teams are participating as a bonus really and should not take this trial race as seriously as I think some of you are (the real season will be a different story however). Also please note that not all cockpits/pitcrew etc have been put into the carset as they are not necesary - for the 2001 season a FULL carset will be supplied but due to time constraints at the present moment they have been held back.

For the trial the weather will be dry. Also there will be no car failures.

These factors WILL exist in the 2001 season though but are not necessary for the trial.

Please follow the instructions given for both qualifying and the race. Also please zip everything that u send for qual/race using winzip or winrar as this will compress the files and make them quicker to download from my email server, and PLEASE name your files according to the instructions given! (this is really important !)

Above all, have fun and good luck :)