Difference between revisions of "2018 Superleague season"
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Latest revision as of 15:51, 14 January 2019
Competition | Superleague |
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Title Sponsor | WTF1 |
Platform Used | rFactor 2 |
Rounds | 18 |
Mod base | GPVWC CL modular |
Carshape base | F1 based |
Engine Supplier(s) | Martex, Quasar, Talos, Valiant 1600cc turbocharged V6 |
Tyre Supplier(s) | GPVWC brand G |
Drivers | 70 |
Teams | 14 |
Drivers' Champion | Alex Siebel |
Teams' Champion | ACR Zakspeed |
Superleague Seasons | |
2000 · 2001 · 2002 · 2003 · 2004 · 2005 · 2006 · 2007 · 2008 · 2009 · 2010 · 2011 · 2012 · 2013 · 2014 · 2015 · 2016 · 2017 · 2018 · 2019 · 2020 · 2021 · 2022 · 2023 · 2024 |
GPVWC series in 2018 |
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Career Ladder |
Superleague |
Independent Series |
The 2018 WTF1 Superleague season was the 19th GPVWC Superleague season. Reigning Rudy van Buren left the league; as winner of the World's Fastest Gamer competition, van Buren had joined the McLaren F1 Team as a professional development driver.
Van Buren's former team, Vod:Bul Racing, who were the reigning team's champions, had merged with the multi-league-spanning Avid Chronic Racing organisation. Following that organisation's tie-in with the real-life Zakspeed racing team, Vod:Bul entered 2018 under the name ACR Zakspeed though Mike Pitman remained in control of the team's running in the league.
ACR Zakspeed were not the only team to have a major name partnership; Streetfighter Racing Systems would run in the branding of Red Bull while newcomers Epic Racing ran in partnership with Radical Sportscars.
In a similar vein, Wauters Automotive, one of the bright stars of the 2017 season, went through its own re-branding, henceforth being known as Edge Esports. It would be Edge and ACR who would come to dominate the championship. After a battle that ran to the penultimate round of the championship, German ACR driver, and reigning Supercup champion, Alex Siebel, took the drivers' championship from Edge's Croatian driver Peter Brljak, himself a former Formula Challenge champion. ACR would win the teams' championship, with Edge coming home second.
Siebel emulated his compatriot Philipp Puschke who won the Superleague driver's title in 2015, on the back of winning the Supercup title the year before. As of the beginning of 2019, not only are both the only two drivers to have won back-to-back championships over different series, but also remain the only Superleague champions to have previously won a championship in any of the feeder series.
Siebel and Puschke also shared Mike Pitman as their team owner. Although Pitman lost the team's championship in 2015 as Vod:Bul, ACR's victory in 2018 made it his second, consecutive title. ACR's victory was assured by Siebel's teammate Risto Kappet who finished third in the drivers' championship. Edge's second place in the team's championship was made very comfortable due largely to Jarl Teien's support of Brljak; Teien matched Brljak's three wins, but ultimately lost out in the driver's championship to Dennis Jordan, who sensationally led newcomers Evolution Motorsports to third in the team's championship, having won the Italian Grand Prix. Behind Evolution in fourth place came Epic Racing, who even more sensationally won their very first Superleague race, in Australia.
Evolution and Epic humbled many of Superleague's more established teams. Ricardo Costa's third place for Hawkeye Racing at the Canadian Grand Prix was the only time a team outside the top four would appear on the podium all season long.
Particularly, among the established teams who endured a season largely lacking of former glories, Nordsjøen Racing failed to score a podium for only the third time since the team's original season as Emerald Irish Romanian Equipe back in 2002. It sadly proved to be the last time, as the team; the most successful and longest-running in Superleague history; withdrew from competition after the end of the season.
Contents
Teams and drivers
Team changes
- The defending Constructors' champions, Vod:Bul Racing, merged with Avid Chronic Racing to form ACR Zakspeed ahead of the 2018 season.
- Wauters Automotive underwent a rebranding following the final pre-season test, becoming Edge Esports prior to the first race of the year.
- After more than 13 years in the Superleague, Woods Racing withdrew partway during the 2017 season and did not return in 2018.
- Kernow Sport withdrew from the Superleague after 6 years.
- Green Stripes Racing left the Superleague after 6 years and were demoted to Supercup.
New entries
- Epic Racing Team, Evolution Motorsports and Measuric Racing were all promoted from Supercup.
- EVAL Simracing Team and Flag-to-Flag SimRacing entered the Superleague in 2018. Notably, both entered without having progressed through the Career Ladder (albeit EVAL previously completed in Formula Challenge, in 2016).
Technical changes
- Edge Esports (formerly Wauters Automotive) are to begin production of their own Quasar engines, after winning the engine tender slot held by Trinity that was made free after Woods Racing withdrew from the championship partway through 2017.
2018 Calendar
Round | Race Title | Grand Prix | Circuit | Conditions | Date | Start Time | ||
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1 | Australian Grand Prix | Australian GP | Albert Park Grand Prix Circuit, Melbourne | TBC | 1st March 2018 | TBC | 19:00 | —
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2 | Chinese Grand Prix | Chinese GP | Shanghai International Circuit, Shanghai | TBC | 15th March 2018 | TBC | 19:00 | —
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3 | Azerbaijan Grand Prix | Azerbaijan GP | Baku City Circuit, Baku | TBC | 29th March 2018 | TBC | 18:00 | 19:00 |
4 | Spanish Grand Prix | Spanish GP | Circuit de Catalunya, Barcelona | TBC | 12th Arpil 2018 | TBC | 18:00 | 19:00 |
5 | Monaco Grand Prix | Monaco GP | Circuit de Monaco, Monte Carlo | TBC | 26th April 2018 | TBC | 18:00 | 19:00 |
6 | Canadian Grand Prix | Canadian GP | Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, Montreal | TBC | 10th May 2018 | TBC | 18:00 | 19:00 |
7 | French Grand Prix | French GP | Circuit Paul Ricard, Le Castellet | TBC | 24th May 2018 | TBC | 18:00 | 19:00 |
8 | Austrian Grand Prix | Austrian GP | Red Bull Ring, Spielberg | TBC | 7th June 2018 | TBC | 18:00 | 19:00 |
9 | British Grand Prix | British GP | Silverstone Circuit, Northamptonshire | TBC | 21st June 2018 | TBC | 18:00 | 19:00 |
10 | German Grand Prix | German GP | Hockenheimring, Hockenheim | TBC | 5th July 2018 | TBC | 18:00 | 19:00 |
11 | Hungarian Grand Prix | Hungarian GP | Hungaroring, Budapest | TBC | 2nd August 2018 | TBC | 18:00 | 19:00 |
12 | Belgian Grand Prix | Belgian GP | Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, Spa | TBC | 16th August 2018 | TBC | 18:00 | 19:00 |
13 | Italian Grand Prix | Italian GP | Autodromo Nazionale di Monza, Monza | TBC | 30th August 2018 | TBC | 18:00 | 19:00 |
14 | Singapore Grand Prix | Singapore GP | Marina Bay Street Circuit, Singapore | TBC | 13th September 2018 | TBC | 18:00 | 19:00 |
15 | Japanese Grand Prix | Japanese GP | Suzuka Circuit, Suzuka | TBC | 27th September 2018 | TBC | 18:00 | 19:00 |
16 | United States Grand Prix | United States GP | Circuit of the Americas, Austin | TBC | 11th October 2018 | TBC | 18:00 | 19:00 |
17 | Brazilian Grand Prix | Brazilian GP | Autódromo José Carlos Pace, São Paulo | TBC | 25th October 2018 | TBC | 19:00 | —
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18 | Abu Dhabi Grand Prix | Abu Dhabi GP | Yas Marina Circuit, Yas Island | TBC | 8th November 2018 | TBC | 19:00 | —
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Testing
The 2018 testing schedule is as follows:
Test | Date | Venue |
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Preseason Test #1 | 1st February 2018 | Bahrain International Circuit, Sakhir, Bahrain |
Preseason Test #2 | 8th February 2018 | Sepang International Circuit, Selangor, Malaysia |
Preseason Test #3 | 15th February 2018 | Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari, Imola |
Preseason Test #4 | 22nd February 2018 | Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez, Mexico City |
Young Driver Test | 22nd November 2018 | Yas Marina Circuit, Yas Island |
Calendar changes
- The Russian Grand Prix and Mexican Grand Prix were removed from the calendar.
- The location of the Spanish Grand Prix changed from the Valencia Street Circuit to the Circuit de Catalunya, Catalunya hosting the race again after swapping with Valencia in 2017.
- The location of the German Grand Prix likewise changed back from the Nurburgring to the Hockenheimring.
- The French Grand Prix returned to the calendar after a four-year absence, with the Circuit Paul Ricard hosting the event for the first time in 2018.
- The Azerbaijan Grand Prix would be contested for the first time in 2018.
Results and standings
Grands Prix
Scoring system
Points are awarded to the top 15 classified finishers.
Position | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th | 11th | 12th | 13th | 14th | 15th |
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Points | 25 | 20 | 16 | 13 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
Drivers' standings
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Bold – Pole |
† Cars did not finish the Grand Prix, but were classified as they completed over 75% of the race distance.
Constructors' standings
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Bold – Pole |
† Cars did not finish the Grand Prix, but were classified as they completed over 75% of the race distance.
See also
Preceded by: 2017 Superleague season |
GPVWC Superleague season 2018 |
Succeeded by: 2019 Superleague season |