2002 Gold Cup

The 2002 Gold Cup competition was a special event which took place between the 4th and 9th of September, 2002. The venue was Spa-Francorchamps and although the race was not called the "Gold Cup" at the time it was held, it became the first in series of annual events which came to bear the name.

The race took place towards the end of the GPVWC 2002 season (based on the GP3 game), shortly after the release of the GP4 game, with the race providing an early test of the new game for the GPVWC teams and drivers. Those taking part were not solely limited to GPVWC Drivers and Testers and the teams were as per 2001 F1 mirrored in the GP4 game. The race itself took place over 30% of full race distance (13 laps) and all cars were set to have the same BHP and no reliability issues.

Race over 30% distance, all cars have same BHP and no reliability issues.

Qualifying

Pos	Driver	Constructor	Tyre	Controller	S1	S2	S3	Lap	Gap	Fuel laps
1	Antonio Irisarri	Williams-BMW	Soft		32.708	39.188	34.266	1:46.162	—	10.9
2	Shiro Ryong	Ferrari	Soft		32.839	39.368	34.193	1:46.400	0.238	13.1
3	Paul Sleight	Benetton Renault	Soft		32.853	39.522	34.060	1:46.435	0.273	9.9
4	Kari Koski	Benetton Renault	Soft		32.503	40.044	34.123	1:46.670	0.508	14.5
5	Jan Kelder	Prost Acer	Soft		32.372	40.502	33.968	1:46.842	0.680	13.3
6	Artur Costa	Prost Acer	Soft		32.852	39.695	34.344	1:46.891	0.729	9.1
7	Daniel Wilkinson	Jaguar	Soft		32.671	39.833	34.509	1:47.013	0.851	17.9
8	Mikko Jakonen	Minardi European	Soft		32.517	40.176	34.412	1:47.105	0.943	15.1
9	Peter Harding	Williams BMW	Soft		33.226	39.265	34.885	1:47.376	1.214	11.3
10	Matt Maple	BAR Honda	Soft		32.999	40.025	34.369	1:47.393	1.214	12.1
11	Andy Graydon	Arrows Asiatech	Soft		32.909	40.208	34.437	1:47.554	1.392	16.6
12	Petri Loukasmaki	Minardi European	Soft		32.940	40.369	34.418	1:47.727	1.565	15.4
13	Chris Galloway	McLaren Mercedes	Soft		32.792	40.797	35.252	1:48.841	2.679	12.9
14	Kieran Ryan	Jordan Honda	Soft		33.565	40.323	34.974	1:48.862	2.700	14.1
15	David George	Jaguar Cosworth	Soft		33.410	41.059	35.218	1:49.687	3.525	10
16	John Harland	Ferrari	Soft		32.828	41.365	35.900	1:50.093	3.931	20.9
17	Lawrence Simpson	McLaren Mercedes	Soft		33.798	41.053	35.672	1:50.523	4.361	17
18	Ted Cragg	Sauber Petronas	Hard		33.897	41.890	35.749	1:51.536	5.374	11
19	William Ponissi	Arrows Asiatech	Soft		34.521	44.686	38.621	1:57.828	11.666	23

• British driver Toby Lock and Portuguese driver Miguel Oliviera had both registered for the competition, but both had problems qualifying.

Race results

Pos	Driver	Constructor	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Pitstops	Fastlap	Controller	Gap
1	Shiro Ryong	Ferrari	44	1:19:13.597	2	3 (12/24/36)	1:45.861		—
2	Antonio Irisarri	Williams	44	1:19:23.738	1	3 (9/21/33)	1:45.843		10.141
3	Daniel Wilkinson	Jaguar	44	1:19:26.587	7	2 (16/32)	1:45.993		12.990
4	Kari Koski	Benetton	44	1:19:47.811	4	2 (13/28)	1:46.510		34.214

5 8 Mikko Jakonen Minardi S 1hr20m05.111 44 1m47.024 42 2 14/29 51.514

6 5 Jan Kelder Prost S 1hr20m16.219 44 1m47.450 42 3 12/23/34 1m02.622

7 11 Andy Graydon Arrows S 1hr20m27.768 44 1m47.894 34 2 15/31 1m14.171

8 13 Chris Galloway McLaren S 1hr20m54.277 44 1m47.829 44 3 11/23/34 1m40.680

9 14 Kieran Ryan Jordan S 1hr20m58.738 44 1m48.240 33 2 13/30 1m45.141

10 9 Peter Harding * Williams S 1hr20m49.691 43 1m47.686 30 3 10/24/35 1 lap

11 17 Lawrence Simpson McLaren S 1hr19m53.313 42 1m50.372 33 2 15/31 2 laps

12 18 Ted Cragg * Sauber H 1hr19m40.899 40 1m50.818 40 3 9/20/35 4 laps

13 15 David George Jaguar S 0hr31m16.921 14 1m50.935 6 2 9/14 30 laps

External links

• Archive of Phoenix F1's results webpage.