Microprose Grand Prix 2 World Racing League

DRTW will try to qualify for this years INDY 500 with our Indy Car and CART teams.

CART Teams, Forsythe and Walker and Indycar teams, Penske and AJ Foyt will try to qualify with our current racing drivers in these series.

Well, how does the system of the guest entrants work?

This is a little delayed as I am in the middle of moving house, but if you want to enter a one-off team, make sure you have a chassis, engine and tyres as well as two drivers all with a budget of £10 million (in accordance with CART and IndyCar rules).

All IndyCar and CART teams will be entered into pre-qualifying along with any extra teams, with three sessions being planned to mix things up.

Could all one-off teams that are entering please submit your teams ASAP.

TEAM NAME: Team Rugen
Driver 1: Asuka Rugen (£250.000)
Sponsor Money on WRL Market: ---
Driver 2: Per Rugen (£250.000)
Sponsor Money on WRL Market: ---
Engine: Holden (£4.000.000)
Tyres: Firestone (Free)
Chassis: Dallara (£4.000.000)
Fuel: Gazprom Neft (Free)

TEAM NAME: Nagato-Walewski Indy 500 Engineering
Driver 1: Alphonse LeCoute (£1.000.000)
Sponsor Money on WRL Market: L'Oreal (£125.000)
Driver 2: Dr. Mathias Walewski (£250.000)
Sponsor Money on WRL Market: ---
Engine: Toyota (£5.500.000)
Tyres: Firestone (Free)
Chassis: Own Chassis (£2.500.000)
Fuel: Gazprom Neft (Free)

As we are a little delayed, I will close entries for the Indy 500 on Tuesday.

Round 9
USA, Indianapolis (INDY 500)
Build-up

After a reassessment by the WRL, it was judged that the Indy 500 would only be open to IndyCar Series teams for 2010, but the rule will be return to allow CART teams as well for 2011. The WRL has submitted apologies to teams from DRTW, DerKlon and SME who all intended to enter additional teams for the race.

Huckett's position in the WRL was thrown into doubt after a seat-fixing scandal was concluded yesterday, but he has agreed that he will drive in the Indy 500 whilst Eddie Williams Jr will take his Nagato drive for the May 30th weekend only. It is then up to DerKlon to announce where each driver will be for the remainder of the season.

Round 9
USA, Indianapolis (INDY 500)
Qualifying

Less than a second covered the entire field during qualifying for IndyCar's biggest race of the year.

Several drivers walked away disappointed after not being able to find those last couple of hundredths of a second. Both Red Bull Cheever drivers wanted a top ten start, but neither could manage it with Owen Smith 11th and Lewis Cool down in 17th. It was a similar tale at AJ Foyt for Darryl Briggs, who will start way down in 18th.

Reigning champion Emmanuel van Parys will start 16th, and clearly showed his frustration as he told the press that he "felt like a failure of a champion" and wondered if he'd "ever win a race in the sport he's the king of".

Penske also struggled with their drivers only 10th and 14th.

F1 and GPWC racer Jake Sanson is making his IndyCar debut, hoping to win the race on his first attempt. He'll start 13th for Andretti Autosport, but only 0.4 seconds off the pace means that he believes he has a chance of victory.

Taylor Mapps will start on pole ahead of James Lacy, with row 2 filled by Dallas Rebecky and Rodrigo Colciago.

Round 9,
USA, Indianapolis

Such an exciting and close encounter the Indy 500 has never seen. The rate of attrition was certainly the biggest surprise of the day, as on lap 2 a collision at turn one saw Luis Yannick punt Owen Smith out of the race to start the ball rolling.

Penske's day ended tragically early after mechanical failure robbed the team before half distance, and drivers such as Cool, van Parys, Cadiz, Mapps and Amory succumbed to the high mortality rate of the field.

At the front, the majority of the race became the battle between Darryll Briggs and James Lacy for race victory, until one man spoiled the show: Jake Sanson. A valiant fight through the field stopped Lacy in his tracks and sent the Rahal Letterman driver on the defensive. Their battle for second raged for over forty laps, as the swapped positions before and after their final stops.


Then on lap 118 (with just seven to go) unchallenged and in command, Darryll Briggs pulled out of a twelve second lead with a broken suspension, courtesy of riding the kerbs too high in his attempts to get away from Lacy earlier in the race. The pain was immense.

This left Lacy and Sanson in an incredible duel for the lead, which was set to go on till the flag. It was only when lapping Luis Yannick on lap 122 that the Brazilian allowed Lacy through and then swiped the Andretti Autosport, breaking his front wing. Panic ensued as Sanson returned to the pits for a nine second front wing change, resuming in an unworthy forth place.

That left James Lacy impossible to catch for anyone, and he cruised to his first win at Indianapolis. Sanson did however show what might have been by setting fastest lap as he crossed the finish line.

NEWS

The WRL has come down hard on Brazilian driver Luis Yannick after his conduct at Indianapolis which caused Owen Smith's lap 2 crash, and colliding with Sanson causing the Brit to drop from a fight for victory to forth place.

The sport's governing body have issued Yannick with a two-race ban and a $10,000 fine.

Jake Sanson:
"Of course, I'm a little disappointed not to have run at the front for those last two laps, I think we could have fought for the win, but the fact is I showed what I can do here, and justice has been done with Yannick. I'm not angry, just frustrated. But as a rookie, I should be and will be happy with forth. And nobody went round Indy faster than me today, so that's something at least."

Round 10,
USA, Chicagoland

An all-Ganassi front row headed by Jaime Lombardo gave us a thrilling race build-up, but half way round lap one Rodrigo Colciago was catapulted into the air after contact with Lewis Cool's Red Bull Cheever.




Fortunately, nobody was injured and the young Brazilian was lucky to walk away.

Amongst others Miguel-Angel Cadiz tried to beat Ganassi's power by setting fastest lap, but even he could do nothing to catch the race's eventual winner Tom Spain.