Apologies for the delay, but BackMarker Brigade has been a busy snail of late!
The news begins over at GRC where Simon Smith led the team home in both the sprint and feature races at Trois Riviere to claim his season best 10th and 9th places respectively. Paul Huggett claimed a great 14th in the sprint race while Gary Gray claimed a 13th in the feature race. All three drivers performed to their best round the tight Canadian street circuits and now sit 16th (Smith), 24th (Huggett) and 26th (Gray) in the standings as we move to Watkins Glen for the final round.
On the subject of GRC, BackMarker Brigade signed Scott Juliano to the team for Season 9 of the touring cars and for all the cup races, as well as seeing GPO driver Myles Dixon make his debut in the GRC Cup races this week too. Hans Bauer should also be starring in the upcoming GRC Endurance event too adding more new flair and fun to the team.
Grand Prix Online too continues to see great progress for the team! Alex Cooper lead the team home in the Turkish GP for 8th place and several points, just ahead of teammate Simon Smith taking 9th and two more vital points, both drivers maintaining their 100% points finishing record, Smith joint holding the leagure record for having a 100% finishing record and points finishing record! Maurice Willems was on course for points when he had to make an unscheduled pitstop which dropped him to 12th for the flag. Maurice Zondag crashed out with 13 laps to go from what looked like a certain 7th while Craig Johnston was centre of controversy when he was in the middle of a huge accident at turn 1, from which his car was so damaged it left it virtually undriveable and the young Brit parked it. The team will be welcoming Lee Palmer to the full distance challenge event from next round to race alongside Jordon Norwood who was not available for the Turkish GP.
Over at Race Department, our LeMans team didn’t even get off the starting line when ISP problems prevented Johnston taking the start and Jamie Rush was stuck in a driving lesson (oh the irony). However Bob Luneski upheld snail pride with his run to 12th at the FPWS Semi-Pro Turkish GP with another excellent drive. Bob is slowly moving up the championship standings to 17th, with BMB now 9th in the team standings. We are still last however in the Pro divison, so thank god for that!
Formula Sim Racing is last but not least in our news round up which is a celebration as Kostas Kantzouras drove a superb race to qualify for the first time for the main World Series race and then come home a fantastic 14th 2 laps adrift. In World Trophy Benjamin Chong drove his last race for the team before moving on to his new team venture and came home a great 15th. Teammate Roslan Gaidargi also qualified for the main race of WT but then failed to make it round the opening lap, but it was great to see his progress!
What a busy week for Meep!!!
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Kostas Kantzouras continues to rake in the point scoring finishes over at FSR following a detirmined drive to 17th at the FSR German GP at Hockenhiem. The points gave the Deletraz BMB team a welcome boost. Kostas has now been joined full time by his friend and teammate Kerkar Abdelaziz whom unfortunately retired with engine failure on lap 7.
