2000 Italian Grand Prix

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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

Dickson and Kimmich were light years ahead of the competition, with the gap to third place an incredible 1.3 seconds back. Technically, both Dave Harland and Peter Kent were outside 107% (1:27.863). This rule wasn't enforced, however.

Pos No Driver Constructor Lap Gap
1 Germany Thomas Kimmich Silver Angels-BMW 1:22.115
2 England Richard Dickson A-Racing-Renault 1:22.669 +0.554s
3 Sweden Micke Fang Millennium-Ferrari 1:23.428 +1.313s
4 Greece Athanasios Brinias Devils-Ferrari 1:23.746 +1.631s
5 Australia Jason Smith Britten 01:24.101 +1.986s
6 Australia Chris Connolly A-Racing-Renault 1:24.218 +2.103s
7 United States Dan Pyrik BA Racing-Mercedes 1:24.278 +2.163s
8 Netherlands Ruud Nanne TBA-Rolls-Royce 1:24.902 +2.787s
9 Netherlands Joost Jonk Goffin-Mugen-Honda 1:24.978 +2.863s
10 Sweden Rudolf Lofgren Millennium-Ferrari 1:24.996 +2.881s
11 Portugal Gabriel Nogueira BA Racing-Mercedes 1:25.271 +3.156s
12 England Darren White Britten 1:25.448 +3.333s
13 Netherlands Gijs Herpers Goffin-Mugen-Honda 1:26.054 +3.939s
14 Netherlands Peter Visscher Kugla-Mercedes 1:26.209 +4.094s
15 England Dan Lawrence Sparshot-Ferrari 1:26.436 +4.321s
16 England Chaz Charlton TBA-Rolls-Royce 1:26.551 +4.436s
17 Australia Simon White Devils-Ferrari 1:27.404 +5.289s
18 England Dave Harland Kugla-Mercedes 1:29.135 +7.020s
19 England Peter Kent Sparshot-Ferrari 1:29.486 +7.371s

Race

Dutch driver Gijs Herpers of Goffen Racing was disqualified after unwittingly submitting an illegal game file. Herpers had been having technical difficulties and decided to save every lap and then edited the saved file, for no explicitly expressed reason, with the program GP3 Commander. There was no indication of any attempt at cheating. However, Herpers held his hands up and apologised for not complying with the league rules. He accepted his disqualification gracefully.

Thomas Kimmich became the first winner of a hat-trick in the inaugural GPVWC event, taking pole, fastest lap of the race and the race victory at Monza.

While Jason Smith couldn't quite hook it up in qualifying, he proved that he was a potential challenger to Kimmich's championship bid.

Silver Angels and A-Racing looked to be the constructors to watch in the coming races.

Pos No Driver Constructor Laps Time/Retired Grid Pitstops Fastlap Controller Points
1 Germany Thomas Kimmich Silver Angels-BMW 26 38:35.810 1 0 01:23.575 22
2 Australia Jason Smith Britten 26 +14.225s 5 0 01:24.086 16
3 England Richard Dickson A-Racing-Renault 26 +16.172s 2 0 01:24.349 14
4 Czech Republic Miroslav Polacek Silver Angels-BMW 26 +45.105s  ?? 0 01:25.309 13
5 Australia Chris Connolly A-Racing-Renault 26 +54.882s 6 0 01:25.283 12
6 Netherlands Ruud Nanne TBA-Rolls-Royce 26 +59.371s 8 0 01:26.733 11
7 Netherlands Joost Jonk Goffin-Mugen-Honda 26 +1:03.940 9 0 01:27.181 10
8 Sweden Micke Fang Millennium-Ferrari 26 +1:06.227 3 0 01:24.878 6
9 England Dan Lawrence Sparshot-Ferrari 26 +1:08.543 15 0 01:25.973 4
10 United States Dan Pyrik BA Racing-Mercedes 26 +1:10.879 7 0 01:25.991 3
11 Greece Athanasios Brinias Devils-Ferrari 26 +1:14.011 4 0 01:26.285 2
12 England Darren White Britten 26 +1:27.335 12 0 01:26.680 1
13 Sweden Rudolf Lofgren Millennium-Ferrari 25 +1 Lap 10 0 01:26.866 0
14 Portugal Gabriel Nogueira BA Racing-Mercedes 25 +1 Lap 11 0 01:27.318 0
15 England Chaz Charlton TBA-Rolls-Royce 25 +1 Lap 16 0 01:28.134 0
16 Netherlands Peter Visscher Kugla-Mercedes 25 +1 Lap 14 0 01:27.205 0
17 Australia Simon White Devils-Ferrari 23 +3 Laps 17 0 01:29.664 0
18 England Dave Harland Kugla-Mercedes 23 +3 Laps 18 0 01:31.433 0
19 Netherlands Gijs Herpers Goffin-Mugen-Honda 0 DQ 13 0 DQ 0


Preceded by:
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2000 Italian Grand Prix
2000
Succeeded by:
2000 Hungarian Grand Prix