Winter challenge 05/06
Here you will find a short review and the results of the first Alfacup racing series, which also included the Lotus Cortina.The Alfacup winter challenge started in 2005 and ended in May 2006. The clear winner was the Finnish driver Iltavilli, who not only won most of the races, but also frustrated the rest of the field with incredible laptimes and error-free driving. He deserves his inofficial title "the alien".
Our winner Iltavilli, also called "the alien", during
the press conference after his victory in Monza.
Some screenshots of the Winter05/06 cup can be found here.
Further highlights of the winter series 06
- Johnny Dee, who managed to finish almost no race because of technical problems or unlucky racing incidents and even was injured (during simdriving!!!) by hammering his foot against the desk, was the clear winner in the "master of desaster" special cup
- Andy was responsible for the "funny story of the year" by passing his wheel to his 11-year old son when the doorbell interrupted his race. His son mixed GTL up with the famous racing game "demolition derby" and it was an interesting challenge for everybody that tried to lap him. By the way this was the only incident where we had real troubles with wrecking during the whole season.
- Country of the year is definitly Finland, where not only the winner, but most of the fast drivers came from. The "Finnish mafia" took 3 of the top 5 positions in many races. By the way: Alfacup drivers came from all over the world including North and South America and Australia!
- The "alarm clock of the year" goes to Nivola, who managed to get up early at 2 a.m. in the morning in Australia to race with us and never fell asleep on the long straights. Note that the admin missed one race because he fell asleep (at 4 pm noon time).
- The "email of the year" came from an driver who told the admin that he is one of the fastest and most experienced online drivers and usually wins online races and would be willing to drive with us if he finds our races challenging enough and good sports. In his first race he was lapped by Iltavilli (without having spinned or crashed!) and never came back. Probably the challenge was not big enough.
- Big thanks to all drivers for fair, enjoyable and fun racing, and especially for the atmosphere in the forum, where the fast drivers helped the slower ones to improve their laptimes. Great community!
Final Standings of the Winter challenge 05/06
| Pos | Name | Car | Nat. | Points | HockShort | Monza GP | Zolder | Mullenbach | Dijon | Magny | Imola | Mondello | Anderst | Donnington | Brands H | Spa | Nürburgring | Hockenheim GP |
| 1 | Iltavilli | Alfa | Finland | 90 | 10 | 8 | 8 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 8 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | ||
| 2 | Stu Foster | Cortina | U.K. | 74 | 8 | 8 | 10 | 10 | 6 | 5 | 8 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 2 | |
| 3 | Sagax | Alfa | Finland | 67 | 10 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 5 | |||
| 4 | Confuser | Alfa | Belgium | 36 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 8 | 4 | 8 | 1 | |||||||
| 5 | Marko Toivo | Alfa | Finland | 35 | 6 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 2 | 4 | ||||||
| Jupp | Alfa | Germany | 35 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 3 | ||||
| 7 | Baracus | Alfa | U.K. | 24 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 6 | ||||||||
| 8 | Stefan | Alfa | Austrian | 22 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | |||||||
| Ake Sydöst | Alfa | Finland | 22 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 8 | ||||||||||
| 10 | Nivola | Alfa | Australia | 19 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 2 | ||||||||
| 11 | PeterClose | Alfa | U.K. | 15 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 3 | ||||||||||
| Rik | Cortina | U.K. | 15 | 6 | 3 | 6 | ||||||||||||
| 13 | Skurj | Alfa | Canada | 11 | 2 | 5 | 4 | |||||||||||
| 14 | Assasino | Alfa | Portugal | 8 | 4 | 4 | ||||||||||||
| 15 | Miko Kiiskinnen | Alfa | Finland | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Edam Speed | Alfa | U.K. | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | ||||||||||||
| 17 | OldTyke | Alfa | U.K. | 3 | 3 | |||||||||||||
| Pribeiro | Alfa | U.K. | 3 | 3 | ||||||||||||||
| Marcelo Colnago | Alfa | Brazil | 3 | 3 | ||||||||||||||
| 20 | Lars A | Cortina | Sweden | 2 | 2 | |||||||||||||
| Tomi Jakobson | Alfa | Finland | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||
| 22 | JohnnyDee | Alfa | USA | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||
| HuckD | Alfa | USA | 1 | 1 |
Note that the points don't add exactly up as only the best 9 of 14 results count!!!!
Race by race results:
| Date | Track | Number of Laps | Race results |
| Hockenheim Short, December 4th |
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40 | 1. Sagax 2. Stu Foster 3. Marko Toivo 4. Stefan 5. Jupp 6. OldTyke 7.EdamSpeed 8. HuckD |
| Monza GP, December 18th |
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30 | 1. Iltalivilli 2. Stu Foster 3. Sagax 4. Stefan 5. Mikko K. 6. Jupp 7. Lars A 8. Marko Toivo |
| Zolder, January 8th |
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30 | 1. Stu Foster 2. Iltavilli 3. Marko Toivo 4. Sagax 5. Jupp 6. Stefan 7. Mikko K. 8. Nivola |
| Nürburgring Mullenbach January 29th |
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75 | 1. Stu Foster 2. Iltavilli 3. Sagax 4. Jupp 5. Nivola 6. EdamSpeed 7. Marko Toivo 8. Mikko K. |
| Dijon GP February 12th |
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35 | 1. Iltavilli 2. Sagax 3. Stu Foster 4. Nivola 5. Assassino 6. Pribeiro 7. Jupp 8. Johnny Dee |
| Magny Cours GP February 26th |
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30 | 1. Iltavilli 2. Sagax 3. Peter Close 4. Stu Foster 5. Assassino 6. Nivola 7. EdamSpeed 8. Baracus |
| Imola March 12th |
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27 | 1. Iltavilli 2. Stu Foster 3. Marko Toivo 4. Confuser 5. Sagax 6. Jupp 7. Stefan 8. Baracus |
| Mondello GP March 26th |
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29 | 1. Stu Foster 2. Marko Toivo 3. Confuser 4. Jupp 5. PeterClose 6. Ake Sydöst 7. Stefan 8. Tomi Jak. |
| Anderstorp (long) April 9th |
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33 | 1. Baracus 2. Iltavilli 3. Sagax 4. Stu Foster 5. Confuser 6. Ake Sydöst 7. SKurj 8. Jupp |
| Donington GP April 23th |
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35 | 1. Iltavilli 2. Confuser 3. Ake Sydöst 4. Skurj 5. Nivola 6. Jupp 7. Peter Close 8. Stu Foster |
| Brands Hatch April 30th |
34 |
1. Iltavilli 2. Stu Foster 3. Rik 4. Jupp 5. Skurj 6. PeterClose 7. Nivola 8. Stefan |
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| Spa May 7th |
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21 |
1. Iltavilli 2. Sagax 3. Stu Foster 4. Baracus 5. Confuser 6. Rik 7. Marko Toivo 8. Tomi Jakobsson |
| Nürburgring GP May 21th |
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24 | 1. Iltavilli 2. Confuser 3. Rik 4. Sagax 5. Marko Toivo 6. Jupp 7. Ake Sydöst 8. Baracus |
| Hockenheim GP May 28th |
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31 | 1. Iltavilli 2. Ake Sydöst 3. Baracus 4. Sagax 5. Stefan 6. M. Colnago 7. Stu Foster 8. Confuser |
| Season end fun event in Brands Hatch June 4th |
Brands Hatch Indy | Two sprint races in the Mini !!! |