Superleague Formula - Round 1 (Donington) - 31 August. Event Thread

[cos]

New thread now race weekend is upon us?

Here's the lineup for this weekend; good to see Tappy getting a drive so quickly after losing his WSR seat.

3 AC Milan Robert Doornbos
4 Galatasaray Alessandro Pier Guidi
5 PSV Eindhoven Yelmer Buurman
6 Al Ain Andreas Zuber
7 Flamengo Tuka Rocha
8 Anderlecht Craig Dolby
9 Olympiacos Kasper Andersen
10 FC Basel Max Wissel
11 Borussia Dortmund Nelson Philippe
12 Beijing Guoan Davide Rigon
14 Corinthians Andy Soucek
16 FC Porto Tristan Gommendy
17 Rangers Ryan Dalziel
18 Sevilla FC Borja Garcia
19 Tottenham Hotspur Duncan Tappy
21 Liverpool Adrian Valles
22 AS Roma Enrico Toccacelo

Qualifying from 1230 tomorrow; and there's a "rookie session" at 1835 although I'm not quite sure what that entails. Races are Sunday 1100 and 1400.

Testing results from yesterday (thursday):

1 	22 	AS Roma  	 E.Toccacelo 	 1:18.262
2 	1 	Sevilla FC 	B.Garcia 	1:18.595
3 	3 	AC Milan 	R.Doornbos 	1:18.731
4 	4 	Galatasaray 	A.Pier Guidi 	1:18.889
5 	11 	Borussia D 	N.Philippe 	1:19.062
6 	21 	Liverpool 	A.Valles 	1:19.134
7 	17 	Rangers 	R.Dalziel 	1:19.237
8 	16 	FC Porto 	T.Gommendy 	1:19.256
9 	5 	PSV Einhoven 	Y.Buurman 	1:19.403
10 	6 	Al-Ain 		A.Zuber 	1:19.513
11 	9 	Olympiacos 	K.Andersen 	1:19.725
12 	12 	Beijing Guoan 	D.Rigon 	1:19.413
13 	7 	Flamengo 	T.Rocha 	1:20.005
14 	10 	FC Basel 	M.Wissel 	1:20.453
15 	19 	Spurs		D.Tappy 	1:21.298
16 	8 	RSC Anderlecht 	C.Dolby 	no time
17 	14 	Corinthians 	A.Soucek 	no time

If that's the GP circuit, that's only a tad off Senna's 1993 lap record.


Live timing looks to be available here and video streaming here (only for those countries without live TV deals already inplace, or presumably if you can fool the server into thinking you're in such a country).

[duke_toaster]

All I can say is anything can happen, it's probably going to be mental. As far as video streaming, well, if anyone knows anything about debritishising a computer,

[runshaw]

Thats only about 4 tenths off the WSR qualifying time set by Parente at Donington last year.

[cos]

Originally Posted by duke_toaster

All I can say is anything can happen, it's probably going to be mental. As far as video streaming, well, if anyone knows anything about debritishising a computer,

Annoyingly it's such a busy weekend touring-car wise it's going to be hard to catch up with everything. The grid looks almost reasonable: CCWS front-to-midfielders, the same kinda level of GP2 runners and a few others I can't recognise without Google (What happened to Dan Clarke? Did Tappy steal his drive?). The car looks pretty sweet too; a decent reminder of the DP01.

[Kai]

I must say I'm pretty excited about the series. I'm familiar with the better part of half the grid and have a rate a number of the drivers quite highly. That combined with what seems like a good chassis and an exciting package overall should hopefully make for some close racing.

[chunterer]

Oh there's definitely some decent drivers in this. As one or two mentioned in the overall discussion thread, it's giving a few guys who've run out of money a chance to run something big and lairy and potentially keep their name out there.

Yes, i'd like to know if there's some feed somewhere so I can at least see something and hear that engine note which apparently is superb!

I'm gonna put my neck on the line and stick this thread as it's worth a highlighted discussion for the opener at least!!!

[duke_toaster]

Yes, the race and quali will be streamed live on their website - http://superleagueformula.com/superl...e-broadcasting . Install the octoshape plugin there as it's needed. They say there is some geolocation to turn it off in to countries where there a TV deal.

[chunterer]

Top man, thanks for the heads up!

I'm actually looking forward to seeing how this develops.....

One thing 'wrong' though.... a footy based series could never be right without some Argentinian presence

What do you think Mekola?

[duke_toaster]

Stream working anywhere? Looks like it's running late.

[Martin Haven]

you can find results of practice (for those that managed to run) at TSL's website... www.tsl-timing.com

[chunterer]

Couldn't get the pdf page up from that site? Usually works fine though.

What I could gather from the rather confusing 'live comments' on the SL site is that Beijing and Seville were doing rather well in qualifying.

[META4]

Link sorry it is in french

http://direct8.directmedia.fr/live

[duke_toaster]

Couldn't get the stream working chunterer?

It's pretty simple. You need to click on the link in the first one and then run (to install Octoshape, the thing that makes it work), and then click on the second link to get it to show.

Chunterer, if it was confusing the qualifying may not be that normal. There are two qualifying groups, and those outside the top 4 in each get knocked out like F1.

Then it goes in to a knockout tournament. They release two cars with about a ten second gap. Faster goes through. The grid is something like.

Winner of final
Second place in final.
Fastest semi-final loser.
Slowest semi-final loser.
Fastest quarter-final loser.
2nd fastest quarter-final loser.
3rd fastest quarter final loser.
Slowest quarter-final loser.
Then those outside the top 8 by time in the fifteen minute group sessions.

Qualifying was rather epic, and the GP2 regulars aren't doing that well!

The race start times on the website are one hour behind british time (on GMT not BST), so here are the BST times

Race 1 : 10:30 broadcast start, 10:40 race start.
Race 2 : 1:30 broadcast start, 1:40 race start.

[MiniMadness]

Good to see some better known drivers getting involved in the series. The cars look quite smart and the times look fast. Can someone give me a quick summary of the car's spec and the reason for starting the series ? How does this compare to A1GP ?

I've been to two of their races at Brands Hatch and thoroughly enjoyed them.

[duke_toaster]

Car specs

Panoz DP09 chassis - slicks, wings and ground effect. None of this traction control malarky. 750 horsepower V12 by Meynard. As for the reason, don't know but it's got some of the people and the same basic idea as Premier 1 but without the stupidity (P1 wanted fifteen races in year one).

[chunterer]

For a look at the wider background to the series see this thread:

http://tentenths.com/forum/showthread.php?t=102144

dt, no probs with sl site, it was just the msl timing link.

[duke_toaster]

Will the races have pitstops?

[Down F0rce]

I'm assuming the official stream works fine in the UK?

[cos]

Originally Posted by duke_toaster

Will the races have pitstops?

No; it's just two 45 min races, the second race grid is the complete reverse of race 1 results.

[duke_toaster]

Originally Posted by Down F0rce

I'm assuming the official stream works fine in the UK?

Correct.

[duke_toaster]

Cancel that, the buggers got the stream disabled over here.

[kerrmanningjarv]

I watched the live stream today for qualifying, even though it wasn't meant to work in the UK. But let's see what happened on race day.

[LoopHole]

Not working for the race either, anyone got a link to another stream?

[duke_toaster]

No, we knew they got the geolocation working yesterday :X

[strider]

The live timing worked fine, but you had to know who was driving for which club and at the moment I don't.

Race 1 results here.

Race 2 results here.

For a first weekend, I'd say that was a pretty good result. Sure, there were some reliability problems and not everything worked like clockwork, but as I see it all credit to the organisers.