2000 Italian Grand Prix

The 2000 Italian Grand Prix was the very first GPVWC race and took place at the Autodromo Nazionale di Monza circuit in Monza, Italy. The race was won by Thomas Kimmich who also recorded the league's first ever hattrick.

Classification

Qualifying

Dickson and Kimmich were light years ahead of the competition, with the gap to third place an incredible 1.3 seconds back. Technically, both Dave Harland and Peter Kent were outside 107% (1:27.863). This rule wasn't enforced, however.

Pos	No	Driver	Constructor	Lap	Gap
1		Thomas Kimmich	Silver Angels-BMW	1:22.115	—
2		Richard Dickson	A-Racing-Renault	1:22.669	+0.554s
3		Micke Fang	Millennium-Ferrari	1:23.428	+1.313s
4		Athanasios Brinias	Devils-Ferrari	1:23.746	+1.631s
5		Jason Smith	Britten	01:24.101	+1.986s
6		Chris Connolly	A-Racing-Renault	1:24.218	+2.103s
7		Dan Pyrik	BA Racing-Mercedes	1:24.278	+2.163s
8		Ruud Nanne	TBA-Rolls-Royce	1:24.902	+2.787s
9		Joost Jonk	Goffin-Mugen-Honda	1:24.978	+2.863s
10		Rudolf Lofgren	Millennium-Ferrari	1:24.996	+2.881s
11		Gabriel Nogueira	BA Racing-Mercedes	1:25.271	+3.156s
12		Darren White	Britten	1:25.448	+3.333s
13		Gijs Herpers	Goffin-Mugen-Honda	1:26.054	+3.939s
14		Peter Visscher	Kugla-Mercedes	1:26.209	+4.094s
15		Dan Lawrence	Sparshot-Ferrari	1:26.436	+4.321s
16		Chaz Charlton	TBA-Rolls-Royce	1:26.551	+4.436s
17		Simon White	Devils-Ferrari	1:27.404	+5.289s
18		Dave Harland	Kugla-Mercedes	1:29.135	+7.020s
19		Peter Kent	Sparshot-Ferrari	1:29.486	+7.371s

Race

Dutch driver Gijs Herpers of Goffen Racing was disqualified after unwittingly submitting an illegal game file. Herpers had been having technical difficulties and decided to save every lap and then edited the saved file, for no explicitly expressed reason, with the program GP3 Commander. There was no indication of any attempt at cheating. However, Herpers held his hands up and apologised for not complying with the league rules. He accepted his disqualification gracefully.

Thomas Kimmich became the first winner of a hat-trick in the inaugural GPVWC event, taking pole, fastest lap of the race and the race victory at Monza.

While Jason Smith couldn't quite hook it up in qualifying, he proved that he was a potential challenger to Kimmich's championship bid.

Silver Angels and A-Racing looked to be the constructors to watch in the coming races.

Pos	No	Driver	Constructor	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Pitstops	Fastlap	Controller	Points
1		Thomas Kimmich	Silver Angels-BMW	26	38:35.810	1	0	01:23.575		22
2		Jason Smith	Britten	26	+14.225s	5	0	01:24.086		16
3		Richard Dickson	A-Racing-Renault	26	+16.172s	2	0	01:24.349		14
4		Miroslav Polacek	Silver Angels-BMW	26	+45.105s	??	0	01:25.309		13
5		Chris Connolly	A-Racing-Renault	26	+54.882s	6	0	01:25.283		12
6		Ruud Nanne	TBA-Rolls-Royce	26	+59.371s	8	0	01:26.733		11
7		Joost Jonk	Goffin-Mugen-Honda	26	+1:03.940	9	0	01:27.181		10
8		Micke Fang	Millennium-Ferrari	26	+1:06.227	3	0	01:24.878		6
9		Dan Lawrence	Sparshot-Ferrari	26	+1:08.543	15	0	01:25.973		4
10		Dan Pyrik	BA Racing-Mercedes	26	+1:10.879	7	0	01:25.991		3
11		Athanasios Brinias	Devils-Ferrari	26	+1:14.011	4	0	01:26.285		2
12		Darren White	Britten	26	+1:27.335	12	0	01:26.680		1
13		Rudolf Lofgren	Millennium-Ferrari	25	+1 Lap	10	0	01:26.866		0
14		Gabriel Nogueira	BA Racing-Mercedes	25	+1 Lap	11	0	01:27.318		0
15		Chaz Charlton	TBA-Rolls-Royce	25	+1 Lap	16	0	01:28.134		0
16		Peter Visscher	Kugla-Mercedes	25	+1 Lap	14	0	01:27.205		0
17		Simon White	Devils-Ferrari	23	+3 Laps	17	0	01:29.664		0
18		Dave Harland	Kugla-Mercedes	23	+3 Laps	18	0	01:31.433		0
19		Gijs Herpers	Goffin-Mugen-Honda	0	DQ	13	0	DQ		0

Preceded by: None

2000 Italian Grand Prix 2000

Succeeded by: 2000 Hungarian Grand Prix