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[[Richard Dickson|Dickson]] and [[Thomas Kimmich|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.
  
 
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| {{flagicon|ENG}} [[Richard Dickson]]
 
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| {{flagicon|SWE}} [[Micke Fang]]
 
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| {{flagicon|GRE}} [[Athanasios Brinias]]
 
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| {{flagicon|AUS}} [[Chris Connolly]]
 
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| {{flagicon|NED}} [[Ruud Nanne]]
 
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| {{flagicon|POR}} [[Gabriel Nogueira]]
 
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| {{flagicon|NED}} [[Gijs Herpers]]
 
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| {{flagicon|NED}} [[Peter Visscher]]
 
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| {{flagicon|ENG}} [[Dan Lawrence]]
 
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<p>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.</p> <p>&quot;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!</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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).</p> <p>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).</p> <p>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!</p> <p>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!&quot;</p> <p>Gijs Herpers is now preparing for the Hungarian GP, in which he qualified in 13th position.</p>
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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.
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[[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.
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While [[Jason Smith]] couldn't quite hook it up in qualifying, he proved that he was a potential challenger to Kimmich's championship bid.
  
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[[Silver Angels]] and [[A-Racing]] looked to be the constructors to watch in the coming races.
  
 
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Latest revision as of 00:06, 5 April 2012

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:
None 		2000 Italian Grand Prix
2000 		Succeeded by:
2000 Hungarian Grand Prix
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