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Mikko Puumalainen took pole with a 1.13.765 followed by Bono Huis and Jaakko Mikkonen. Fourth was David Greco with Fredrik Nilsson in fifth. Sixth on his return to Formula Sim-Racing but now running with Ash-Aero F1 was Lee Morris. Seventh was Raino Room with De Wit in 8th. Tali made Qualifying 2 for the first time in 2011 with Morgan Morand rounding out the top 10. Off the line Mikko Puumalainen was able to hold his lead, however Bono Huis was able to pass Mikko at the chicane, while Room passed Saxen at the harpin and Kanitz lost his front wing. The following lap Greco passed Puumalainen at the chicane, followed a few laps later by Jaakko Mikkonen. On lap four, Lee Morris was able to pass De Wit for 6th into Turn 1. On the same lap, De Wit lost control of his Faster Than Speed car, De Wit was able to hold the car but lost a place to Tali. Greco retired from second with a technical issue, followed by Kerkhof spinning at the chicane, dropping him to 12th. After Raino Room passed Jim Parisis, contact was made between the two putting Room into a spin and ended his race. Lap 21 saw Huis pit from the lead, two laps later Atze Kerkhof went into the Wall of Champions, losing his front wing. Mikkonen pitted two laps after his teammate, but unlike Bono he fed out behind Morgan Morand. On lap 26, Bono was able to pass Lee Morris for third at the final turn. Huis passed Nilsson for second with 39 laps left, Nilsson and Puumalainen were yet to pit, the following lap both Nilsson and Puumalainen pitted giving Huis the lead. Nilsson had to come into the pits again 35 laps remaining because of a 10s stop and go penalty dropping him to 12th, he passed Blair Disley at the final turn. In Lap 46 Huis pitted for the 2nd time giving the lead back to Puumalainen, however coming out with just 4,5s behind the leader. On lap 48 Jaakko Mikkonen did his 2nd spot giving the last podium position to Lee Morris. In the following laps Huis rapidly closed in on Puumalainen and on lap 57 could make the move stick to take over the lead. Mikkonen struggled to use his tyre advantage and catch Morris and just caught up to him on the last lap, but wasn´t able to make a move. Huis finished with an 8s advantage over Puumalainen to take his 8th victory this season. Morris retained 3rd place infront of Mikkonen. Morgan Morand finished in a strong 5th place infront of Pedro Melim in 6th, Patrick de Wit in 7th, John-Erix Saxen in 8th and Atze Kerkhof (9th) and Blair Disley (10th) took the final points positions.
 
Atze Kerkhof (Twister Racing) has won the British GP, finishing 3 seconds in front of Bono Huis. Third was ATR – Silverline’ Blair Disely followed by Jaakko Mikkonen. Dimitri De Matos (NetRex Grand Prix) finished 5th with Dennis Hirrle (Mak-Corp Racing) in 6th. Mikko Puumalainen passed Fredrik Nilsson on the final lap for 7th. Just behind Fredrik Nilsson Marco Conti (2FAST4U-Racing) finished 9th. Rounding out the points paying positions was Ash-AeroF1 driver John-Eric Saxen.


Atze Kerkhof took pole position for the British GP, followed by David Greco and Jaakko Mikkonen. Marco Conti qualified 4th and 5th was Blair Disley. 6th was Cyril Werdmuller with Jim Parisis in 7th with Dimitri De Matos in 8th. Dennis Hirrle, in his first race for Mak-Corp racing qualified in 9th with Morgan Morand in 10th, both without setting a time.

With Kerkhof struggling to get off the line, David Greco took the lead with Jaakko Mikkonenfollowing in 2nd. Marco Conti had a half spin dropping him a number of positions, further on in the lap Morand and Conti made contact resulting in the ATR driver taking to the grass and getting a stop and go penalty, but reigning world champion Bono Huis, who had a back of the grid penalty moved up to 10th after the first lap.



Kerkhof was able to pass Mikkonen quickly and then took Greco for the lead. Bono Huis passed teammate Mikkonen on lap 13, moving to 3rd, just under 5 seconds behind Twister-Racing’ Atze Kerkhof. With 17 laps gone, 2FAST4U driver Marco Conti passed De Wit up the inside at Stowe, the next turn Morris passed De Wit & the Dutchman crashed into the wall on the same lap, retiring the Faster Than-Speed car. After Huis passed Greco for 2nd, another technical issue for the Italian, David Greco suffered a disconnection. On lap 23, Jim Parisis’ excellent race was cut short from 5th place with a technical issue.

With 29 laps to go, Twister-Racings Atze Kerkhof pitted from the lead, resuming out behind NetRex GP’ Dimitri De Matos. Huis pitted the following lap, followed in by Disley, Huis resumed out of the pits behind Atze Kerkhof. Blair Disley continued to follow Jaakko Mikkonen, meanwhile Dimitri De Matos was finally caught by the pair of Mak-Corp drivers Mikko Puumalainen & Dennis Hirrle, with Fredrik Nilsson a few seconds behind, but with the top speed of De Matos, Mikko Puumalainen was unable to pass the Frenchman. After Mikko’ slight mistake, teammate Hirrle passed him for 6th and with the Mak-Corp driver concerned about his tyre wear, he was forced to let Nilsson through. However, a slight error in the final lap from Fredrik Nilsson gave Puumalainen 7th.
 
Bono Huis has won the German Grand Prix followed by the Twister-Racing duo of Atze Kerkhof and Fredrik Nilsson. Fourth and Fifth was the Mak-Corp Racing drivers Dennis Hirrle and Mikko Puumalainen whom was followed closely by 6th place man Blair Disley for ATR – Silverline. Jaakko Mikkonen (Precision Motorsports) finished seventh with Saxen (Ash-Aero) closely following in 8th. The last two points paying positions went to 2FAST4U-Racings Muhammed Patel and Dimitri De Matos.


Bono Huis took pole position followed by Kerkhof and newly Ward F1 signed Lee Morris. Fourth was Fredrik Nilsson followed by Mak-Corps Dennis Hirrle. Sixth, Seventh and Eighth were separated by just over a tenth, with Disley in 6th, Puumalainen and Morgan Morand. Jaakko Mikkonen qualified in 9th with Patrick De Wit rounding out the top 10.

The start saw Huis maintain his lead followed by Kerkhof, Morris and Nilsson. However, into the run down to Turn 1; Morand being caught out by Disley braking early resulting in the Frenchman spinning causing chaos to those behind. Later on in the lap De Wit lost control of his Faster Than Speed car, spinning into GT Omega Racing’ Jack Keithley which put both Keithley and De Wit to watching from the side lines. Lap 2 saw Morand make contact with GhostSpeed racings Martin Gosbee, putting the Englishman to the back of the field.

Nilsson passed Morris into the chicane, but by now the two leaders Huis and Kerkhof had already pulled out a 3 second gap – which extended for the rest of the race. Nilsson had a lonely race with no other battles for the rest of the race.

On lap 10, Room and Saxen battled for position with the Ash-Aero driver coming on top. After Hirrle also passed Morris, it was his teammates opportunity to battle with Morris and after several attempts of passing Morris, Puumalainen was finally able to pass him around the outside. Kerkhof attempted to jump Huis, however a poor inlap cost him any chance of taking the lead.

Due to a drive through penalty, Morris dropped to 12th behind Patel, and the two made contact causing Morris to retire. On lap 39, Morand made yet another mistake which this time resulted in the Frenchman to retire from the German Grand Prix. Huis was able to win the German Grand Prix by 2.5 seconds from Kerkhof.
 
Patrick De Wit (Faster Than Speed) has taken pole position followed by Atze Kerkhof and Bono Huis. Continuing there good form, ATR Silverline driver Morgan Morand qualified in fourth, closely followed by GT Omega Racings Raino Room. Sixth and Seventh were Dominguez and Dimitri De Matos. 8th for WardF1 was Lee Morris with Disley and Puumalainen rounding out the top 10.


Off the line De Wit and Kerkhof battled for the lead, with the FTS driver going deep into Turn 2 but Kerkhof span out on the exit of the second turn after contact with Morand, which ended the race for the Twister driver. On lap 5, De Wit first lost the lead to Huis into Turn 2 and then a mistake dropped him behind Morand. Another mistake in the following lap dropped him behind Raino Room. While De Wit had issues, Huis was closely followed by Morand with Room dropping off slowly. On the final sector of the seventh lap Dominguez went into the wall, putting both Twister-Racing drivers out of the race.

fsr.jpgHuis and Morand clearly were in a league of there own, and while De Wit held a train of Puumalainen, De Matos, Morris, Disley, Saxen, Parisis, Mikkonen, Werdmuller and Lapchin which allowed Room to get a slight gap back to the train. On Lap 14 Puumalainen passed De Wit for 4th. De Wit pitted at the end of the lap, releasing the train of cars. Raino Room was going on well in third, but a mistake when entering the pit lane which ruined any chance of a top 5 result for GT Omega Racing.

By the mid way point, Huis built up a 4 second lead to Morand, third was Puumalainen who was closely followed by Disley, De Matos, Saxen, Morris and Werdmuller. With 30 laps left De Matos pitted and just exited the pits in front of Parisis, the following lap Puumalainen and Disley pitted, but the ATR driver was unable to maintain his position to the 2FAST4U driver.

After both the leaders pitted, Huis lead Morand by 6 seconds and a battle between Lapchin, Saxen and Morris saw Morris able to capitalise and pass Saxen for 7th and the following lap he was able to pass Lapchin for 6th.

In the following laps Morris slowly but surely closed the gap to the train behind Puumalainen. However when he had finally closed the gap a mistake made him loose contact again and any chance for a podium finish.

With just 9 laps to go drama struck Morand, who suffered a technical failure and had to finish the race with a very low framerate loosing 38 seconds to Huis in the last lap but just keeping his 2nd place finishing 1s infront of the Puumalainen train.

After 70 laps Huis crossed the line to take his 10th victory of the season and to secure the 2011 FSR World Championship already 5 races before the end. Morand finished on 2nd taking his 1st FSR podium, Puumalainen completed the podium in 3rd. De Matos finished in 4th, followed by Disley in 5th and Morris in 6th. Saxen, Parisis, Mikkonen and De Wit completed the top 10.
 
Bono Huis won the Belgium Grand Prix followed by Mak-Corp Racing drivers Hirrle and Puumalainen. A last lap overtake put Mikkonen to 4th, followed closely by De Matos and Duivelaar. Rouault and Morris finished in 7th and 8th with Parisis and Disley rounding out the top 10.


Bono Huis took pole at Spa Francochamps, followed by Morand, Mikkonen, De Wit, Hirrle, Puumalainen. 7th and replacing Atze Kerkhof for the race was De Matos with Parisis, Disley and Nilsson rounding out the top 10. The newest entry for the 2011 season was Scuderia Molarno, with both there drivers Lapchin and Vandoorne qualifying in 12th and 16th respectively.

Off the line Huis retained the lead and Mikkonen got passed into Les Combes by Morand and De Wit, but with the two making contact Mikkonen was able to keep 2nd.. Further back Nilsson failed in an attempt to pass Room and this lead to a number of drivers getting damage and retiring from the race.

Mikkonen was passed easily on the Kemmel Straight by De Wit and Morand, but a mistake by De Wit resulted in the FTS driver retiring. Further behind, a promising race for Martin Gosbee came to an end when the Britain experience a screen freeze which resulted in him hitting the wall at the exit of La Source.

A mistake by Huis allowed Morand to pass the two time world champion, the two exchanged positions a number of times, meanwhile, newcomer Vandoorne continued with his good start and passed Dennis Hirrle. With Huis and Morand fighting, it had created a train of 8 cars for the lead of the grand prix. Unfortunately, Vandoorne broke too late at the bus stop chicane which resulted in him colliding into Precision Motorsports driver Jaakko Mikkonen, the fin dropped several positions due to the error from the Scuderia Molarno driver. After the first stint, both the Mak-Corp drivers jumped Vandoorne, and Lapchin stalled his engine in his pit box.

The leaders then pitted, but with Morands pit location hampering his exit, Huis was able to jump him, and at lap 21 Morand spun around when colliding with Hirrle at Les Combes. A few laps later the ATR driver repeated his mistake, this time colliding with Stoffel Vandoorne. An unfortunate incident at Blanchimont with Stephane Rouault Resulted in the ATR driver retiring from the race. After passing Hirrle for the lead, Bono Huis pulled steadily away from the field and Mikkonen and De Matos battled for 4th.
 

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Bono Huis has won the Italian GP ahead his Precision counterparts of Jaakko Mikkonen and Mikko Puumalainen. Fourth was Morgan Morand followed by GT Omega Racing’ Dian Kostadinov. Making up 10 places in the race and finishing in sixth was Mak-Corp Racings Dennis Hirrle with Disley, Mirris, De Matos and vd Linden rounding out the point scoring positions.


Mikko Puumalainen took pole ahead of Bono Huis and Morgan Morand. Fourth was Yannick Lapchin with Ward F1 debutant Jim Parisis in 5th. 6th was Jakko Mikkonen with Karim Wezenberg with Dian Kostadinov qualifying in 8th in his World Championship debut. Rounding out the Top 10 were Lee Morris and Patrick De Wit.

Puumalainen held onto the lead off the start, followed closely by two time world champion Bono Huis. The two of them slowly pulled away from Morand who was clearly hampering the progress of finish driver, Jaakko Mikkonen. De Wit was relatively lonely in the race as he didn’t have the pace to hold on with Morand, but also was too quick for Morris, whom had a train of cars all squabbling for position.

Huis spent only 10 laps behind Mak-Corp Raings Mikko Puumalainen, as he passed Puumalainen and maintained the lead for the remainder of the race. Further back, Patel and Saxen battled into the first sector with the pair swapping positions and two laps later Saxen came ontop. Later on that lap, De Wit had yet another retirement in the 2011 season. After Kostadinov passed Morris, the GT Omega Racing driver pulled away a gap back to the group of cars behind Morris, which inevitably saw Dian hold on to 5th in his debut World Championship race.

The first of the stops started around lap 20, with Marcel vd. Linden being the first scheduled stop, Patel and Morris followed him in two laps later. However, the race for Patel went dramatically downhill as the 2Fast4U Twister-Racing driver locked up and went straight on into Turn 1 as Saxen exited the pits, resulting in the Britain getting a drive through penalty.

A spin by Saxen on lap 32 dropped him a number of positions. A few laps later, Jim Parisis lost his front wing and on the same lap Karim Wezenberg retired from the race, after Parisis’ stop, the Ward F1 driver rejoined in last, but closed down Muhammed Patel and the pair battled for the remainder of the race.

Puumalainen, who was running in second with Mikkonen closely following had a slight mistake with three laps to go in the first Lesmo, Mikkonen grabbed the opportunity by passing Puumalainen at the first turn of the final lap. A few seconds behind, Patel was defending from Parisis but the 2Fast4U car had lost its brakes, resulting in Patel helplessly spinning across Turn 1 into the path of Mikkonen and Puumalainen. Luckily no contact was made.

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Bono Huis won yet again in 2011 by securing a comfortable 7 second lead over the his two Precision Motorsports teammates which sees Precision getting their second trio podium at Monza.
 
Morgan Morand won his first World Championship race at Suzuka. The competitive Japaneese Grand Prix saw the top seven separated by less than 12 seconds. Mikko Puumalainen and Dennis Hirrle finished second and third, seeing the Mak-Corp team continue there great run of form. Fourth for ATR-SL was Blair Disley with Mikkonen, the sole Precision Motorsports driver finishing in 5th. Sixth was Yannick Lapchin with Dimitri De Matos closely following in seventh. Jim Parisis finished in 8th with Mart Kalberts and Stephane Rouault rounding out the points paying positions. Two time world champion, Bono Huis had technical issues before the race resulting in him not being able to race.


Bono Huis took pole position, followed by Puumalainen, Lapchin and Hirrle. Morand qualified in 5th, just squeezing out Mikkonen who was 2 hundredths off. Blair Disley qualified in seventh and an impressive qualifying session for Eduard Mallorqui saw the Spanish driver line up in 8th. John Eric-Saxen qualified in 9th and rounding out the top 10 was Dimitri De Matos.

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With Huis’ disconnection, it left Puumalainen to lead the field and off the line Mallorqui’ stalled his car and this resulted in Gosbee hitting his rear and losing his front wing. Within the first 10 laps, both Faster Than Speed drivers retired, with Saxen and Room following suit. Martin Gosbees race ended prematurely with the Britain spinning at turn 2 and after several spins he was unable to get the car going again. Luka Peklaj who was covering for Lee Morris also joined the retiree list, ending his World Championship debut 7 laps from the finish. Unfortunately for Dian Kostadinov, he was unable to continue his great form from the Italian Grand Prix and he retired with two laps to go.

Hirrle who had a good start moved up to second, but soon he found out that his fuel calculations were inaccurate and this resulted in the German having to short shift throughout the race. Morand was able to pass him in lap 16. A long race battle between Morand and Puumalainen finally was resolved in lap 33, where Morand passed Puumalainen and was able to maintain the lead for the remainder of the race.

Morgan Morand won his first World Championship race, followed closely by the two Mak-Corp Racing drivers, Blair Disley, Yannick Lapchin and Dimitri De Matos. Following the 2Fast4U-Racing driver was Jim Parisis, who trailed a full 50 seconds from De Matos. He was closely followed by Mark Aalberts and Stephane Rouault finished in 10th, one lap down.
 
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