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

Pos	Driver	Constructor	Lap	Gap
1	Thomas Kimmich	Silver Angels-BMW	01:22.115	—
2	Richard Dickson	A-Racing-Renault	01:22.669	+0.554s
3	Micke Fang	Millennium-Ferrari	01:23.428	+1.313s
4	Athanasios Brinias	Devils-Ferrari	01:23.746	+1.631s
5	Jason Smith	Britten	01:24.101	+1.986s
6	Chris Connolly	A-Racing-Renault	01:24.218	+2.103s
7	Dan Pyrik	BA Racing-Mercedes	01:24.278	+2.163s
8	Ruud Nanne	TBA-Rolls-Royce	1m24.902	+2.787s
9	Joost Jonk	Goffin-Mugen-Honda	01:24.978	+2.863s
10	Rudolf Lofgren	Millennium-Ferrari	01:24.996	+2.881s
11	Gabriel Nogueira	BA Racing-Mercedes	01:25.271	+3.156s
12	Darren White	Britten	01:25.448	+3.333s
13	Gijs Herpers	Goffin-Mugen-Honda	01:26.054	+3.939s
14	Peter Visscher	Kugla-Mercedes	01:26.209	+4.094s
15	Dan Lawrence	Sparshot-Ferrari	01:26.436	+4.321s
16	Chaz Charlton	TBA-Rolls-Royce	01:26.551	+4.436s
17	Simon White	Devils-Ferrari	01:27.404	+5.289s
18	Dave Harland	Kugla-Mercedes	01:29.135	+7.020s
19	Peter Kent	Sparshot-Ferrari	01:29.486	+7.371s

Race

Gijs Herpers, the Dutch driver of Goffin Racing, expressed himself to the press this morning, and took his chance to explain the situation that led to his disqualification in the Italian GP.

"I drove qualification, which was good for me because I didn't expect to drive a low 1.26 after my attempts to go below 1.27. After I changed the setup I drove immediatly a second faster. So 13th position, good starting point for the race and just one place behind points!

I started to drive a race what was very difficult. I had a lot trouble with my start and I decided to save after every lap I completed.

After the start I was 3rd but because of my little experience I had a lot of trouble with other cars. Because there was not much time left I decided to drive and see where it ends. I spun off two times and had to make a pitstop because my nose was driven off.

After my pitstop I drove my fastest lap of the game and a lot faster then the other cars were, 1.26.893. The result the computer gave me for the race was 34.20.580.

I didn't realise what this time was till I spoke with my manager and teammate. We were confused about this time because it was 5 minutes faster then my teammate who is more experienced and faster. I checked again and still the PC gave me that 34 minutes. Because I couldn't drive another race and we didn't know what was wrong I submitted this time.

Now I know that it is possible a bug in the game (or the GP3Commander from alphaf1, wich I used to edit the quickrace after asking Dan how to do that).

I totally agree with my DQ because it is not fair to al 12 drivers who are now in the points, I hope you see it was not my mistake and I hope this won't happen again (with me or someone else).

At last: I read that I was talking to other drivers about my time. I just discussed this with my teammate and teamowner (of what I can remember). I know for sure that I didn't just gave anyone my time without telling that I didn't know how it could be so fast because I knew that it was a bit strange!

I hope you all can forgive me if you think I cheated (which is not!). If everyone now still thinks I'm cheating then please tell me because I don't want to be in a championship were everyone thinks I'm a cheater!"

Gijs Herpers is now preparing for the Hungarian GP, in which he qualified in 13th position.

Pos	Driver	Constructor	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Fastlap	Points
1	Thomas Kimmich	Silver Angels-BMW	26	38:35.810	1	01:23.575	22
2	Jason Smith	Britten	26	+14.225s	5	01:24.086	16
3	Richard Dickson	A-Racing-Renault	26	+16.172s	2	01:24.349	14
4	Miroslav Polacek	Silver Angels-BMW	26	+45.105s	??	01:25.309	13
5	Chris Connolly	A-Racing-Renault	26	+54.882s	6	01:25.283	12
6	Ruud Nanne	TBA-Rolls-Royce	26	+59.371s	8	01:26.733	11
7	Joost Jonk	Goffin-Mugen-Honda	26	+1:03.940	9	01:27.181	10
8	Micke Fang	Millennium-Ferrari	26	+1:06.227	3	01:24.878	6
9	Dan Lawrence	Sparshot-Ferrari	26	+1:08.543	15	01:25.973	4
10	Dan Pyrik	BA Racing-Mercedes	26	+1:10.879	7	01:25.991	3
11	Athanasios Brinias	Devils-Ferrari	26	+1:14.011	4	01:26.285	2
12	Darren White	Britten	26	+1:27.335	12	01:26.680	1
13	Rudolf Lofgren	Millennium-Ferrari	25	+1 Lap	10	01:26.866	0
14	Gabriel Nogueira	BA Racing-Mercedes	25	+1 Lap	11	01:27.318	0
15	Chaz Charlton	TBA-Rolls-Royce	25	+1 Lap	16	01:28.134	0
16	Peter Visscher	Kugla-Mercedes	25	+1 Lap	14	01:27.205	0
17	Simon White	Devils-Ferrari	23	+3 Laps	17	01:29.664	0
18	Dave Harland	Kugla-Mercedes	23	+3 Laps	18	01:31.433	0
19	Gijs Herpers	Goffin-Mugen-Honda	0	DQ	13	DQ	0