Qualifying week over, 3 wolves to the EU-Finals!
Written on Tuesday, January 31st
7 days of qualifying is finally over, and the 20 fastest from Europe has been chosen. Me, Rudy van Buren and Thomas Arends made it to the European Finals! F'ck yeah.
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Day 4-5-6
Written on Monday, January 30th
Sorry that I haven't been updating this for a few days, the weekend was just wayyy too busy for me to find any time to update here. Anyway, it's getting close to the end of the qualifying now, today (monday) is the last day. Rudy is safe, and I just need a decent finish today and I should be safe aswell. However it's looking hard for Thomas and Jason, they are forced to win their race today to even stand a chance. I'll put up a new race-video tonight after we're done! So long!
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Day 3
Written on Friday, January 27th
Racepace is getting better each day, Rudy is starting to find his rhytm and is looking strong. Thomas and Jason has the pace, but have been a bit unlucky in their races. The field is really competitive at the top, and personally I'm starting to feel a bit exhausted tbh. Atleast 2 qualifying sessions a day and then 2 races on top of that and add the fact that you have to be on top of your game all the time. Phew!
Hopefully all the commitment we put in to this will pay off in the European finals! Thomas and Jason are currently outside the top 20, but since there's 3 drop-days I'm sure they will advance and make the finals.
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Day 2
Written on Thursday, January 26th
Day 2 is over with some ups and downs. Thomas Arends got wrecked by a backmarker (aka a lapped car) while he was in the lead, taking it easy with the lapped traffic and BOOM, he got slammed from behind by someone who didn't pay attention to the traffic the same way Thomas did. Here's a video of what happened »
Rudy and me managed to gather some good points by finishing 2nd and 3rd on our respective servers. Our newest recruit Jason Lovett was in the same server as me and got 6th. I uploaded a video of my and Jasons onboard from the start that you can see here »
We are looking good to get several cars in the Regional Finals if we keep this up, still 5 qualifying-days to go!
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Day 1
Written on Wednesday, January 25th
Once a year, iRacing.com and Intel hosts a tournament called Intel GT Series. The Intel GT Series competition consists of four, week-long series to determine finalists from each of four geographic regions: North America, Asia/Australia/Africa, South America and Europe. The top eight finishers from each of the four Regional Finals will then be invited to race online in the Intel GP World Finals, to coincide with the Intel Extreme Masters World Championship in March. The Top 20 from each Regional Series will move on to Regional Final Race (held online TBD).
Top 8 finishers of each Regional Final move on to World Final Race of 32 drivers.
Last year we had our own Jake Stergios competing in the World Finals at the known gamer-LAN CeBIT in Germany where he won $1,400. This year however the World Finals will be held over the internet. During the 7 qualifying days you have to do atleast one race a day, and after 7 days you will have 3 "drop-days" so it will only count your 4 best days.
(Jake at CeBit in 2011, closest to the camera)
Yesterday was the first qualifying day for us Europeans, which is the most competitive field in the whole world on the road side (compared to the other continents). Rudy van Buren and Thomas Arends started off good yesterday and are 12th and 18th at the moment, the top 20 will make the Regional finals in 2 weeks. I got off to a bad start as I was wrecked on the start in my race, so yesterday was my first "drop-day".
Let's see what tonight has to offer! Lets go Wolves!!
Written on Tuesday, January 31st
7 days of qualifying is finally over, and the 20 fastest from Europe has been chosen. Me, Rudy van Buren and Thomas Arends made it to the European Finals! F'ck yeah.
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Day 4-5-6
Written on Monday, January 30th
Sorry that I haven't been updating this for a few days, the weekend was just wayyy too busy for me to find any time to update here. Anyway, it's getting close to the end of the qualifying now, today (monday) is the last day. Rudy is safe, and I just need a decent finish today and I should be safe aswell. However it's looking hard for Thomas and Jason, they are forced to win their race today to even stand a chance. I'll put up a new race-video tonight after we're done! So long!
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Day 3
Written on Friday, January 27th
Racepace is getting better each day, Rudy is starting to find his rhytm and is looking strong. Thomas and Jason has the pace, but have been a bit unlucky in their races. The field is really competitive at the top, and personally I'm starting to feel a bit exhausted tbh. Atleast 2 qualifying sessions a day and then 2 races on top of that and add the fact that you have to be on top of your game all the time. Phew!
Hopefully all the commitment we put in to this will pay off in the European finals! Thomas and Jason are currently outside the top 20, but since there's 3 drop-days I'm sure they will advance and make the finals.
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Day 2
Written on Thursday, January 26th
Day 2 is over with some ups and downs. Thomas Arends got wrecked by a backmarker (aka a lapped car) while he was in the lead, taking it easy with the lapped traffic and BOOM, he got slammed from behind by someone who didn't pay attention to the traffic the same way Thomas did. Here's a video of what happened »
Rudy and me managed to gather some good points by finishing 2nd and 3rd on our respective servers. Our newest recruit Jason Lovett was in the same server as me and got 6th. I uploaded a video of my and Jasons onboard from the start that you can see here »
We are looking good to get several cars in the Regional Finals if we keep this up, still 5 qualifying-days to go!
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Day 1
Written on Wednesday, January 25th
Once a year, iRacing.com and Intel hosts a tournament called Intel GT Series. The Intel GT Series competition consists of four, week-long series to determine finalists from each of four geographic regions: North America, Asia/Australia/Africa, South America and Europe. The top eight finishers from each of the four Regional Finals will then be invited to race online in the Intel GP World Finals, to coincide with the Intel Extreme Masters World Championship in March. The Top 20 from each Regional Series will move on to Regional Final Race (held online TBD).
Top 8 finishers of each Regional Final move on to World Final Race of 32 drivers.
Last year we had our own Jake Stergios competing in the World Finals at the known gamer-LAN CeBIT in Germany where he won $1,400. This year however the World Finals will be held over the internet. During the 7 qualifying days you have to do atleast one race a day, and after 7 days you will have 3 "drop-days" so it will only count your 4 best days.
(Jake at CeBit in 2011, closest to the camera)
Yesterday was the first qualifying day for us Europeans, which is the most competitive field in the whole world on the road side (compared to the other continents). Rudy van Buren and Thomas Arends started off good yesterday and are 12th and 18th at the moment, the top 20 will make the Regional finals in 2 weeks. I got off to a bad start as I was wrecked on the start in my race, so yesterday was my first "drop-day".
Let's see what tonight has to offer! Lets go Wolves!!
tommert
