Intel GT Series Battles the World ‘Round
February 17th, 2012 by Jaime Baker
The Intel GT Series featured some great battles on two continents last week, with both the European Finals and the South American regionals taking place at Spa-Francorchamps.
The green flag waves on the Intel GT European Finals at Spa.
First came the European Finals which produced a race full of drama and not a little controversy. Lap 7 saw second place Jesse Nieminen (Finland) get a run on leader Atze Kerkhof (Netherlands) going into a corner. There was contact (first place claiming “ghost” contact) which took the European Regional Series winner and race leader out of contention, while Nieminen went on to finish 7th. Raymond Mooney (Scotland) had a clean, incident-free race which found him in the lead with nine laps to go. He never looked back en route to the victory, the spoils of which include an Intel Core i5 processor and motherboard courtesy of Intel and $50 of iRacing credit.
Kerkhof (left) and Nieminen spar for the lead.
The top eight finishers including Mooney, Davy Decorps (France), Rudy van Buren (Benelux), Thomas Arends (Benelux), Dániel Sinka (Central-Eastern Europe), Aleksi Elomaa (Finland), Nieminen and Tomas A Klopp (DE-AT-CH) move onto the Intel GT Series World Finals next month (details to follow).
Mooney grabs the lead from Nieminen.
South America had its turn this past week with the Intel GT Series South American Regional Series. To nobody’s surprise, 2011 Nvidia Series GP World Champion Hugo Luis took top honors. The all-Brazilian Regional Finals will take place this Sunday (Feb 19) at 23:00 GMT. The Top 20 in points from the Regional Series (who hail from South America) will compete for the final eight spots on the world stage. Those drivers include:
1 Hugo Luis Brazil
2 Denis Valjean Brazil
3 Ricardo Goncalves Silva Brazil
4 Sergio Roda Junior Brazil
5 Fred Tavares Brazil
6 Mogar DG Filho Brazil
7 Alexandre Sene Brazil
8 Sergio Calizario Sobrinho Brazil
9 Fabian Ventura Brazil
10 Felipe Andre Brazil
11 Marcel Fachini Brazil
12 Bruno Biazetto Brazil
13 Junior Guimaraes Brazil
14 Afranio Florence Brazil
15 Fernando Zakir Brazil
16 Renan Macedo Brazil
17 Jose Telmo Brazil
18 Gustavo Cianfarani Brazil
19 Samuel Mesquita Brazil
20 Luis Antonio Piccolo Brazil
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