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Blokkmonsta had an incredible start to the season at Argentina, with Sunset finishing 2nd on his very first race in the series. Since then their luck has run dry, with two DNFs over the next two races. | Blokkmonsta had an incredible start to the season at Argentina, with Sunset finishing 2nd on his very first race in the series. Since then their luck has run dry, with two DNFs over the next two races. | ||
| − | Sunset has formed a small rivalry with [[Mikhail Karimov]] of [[The Team of the Workers Party]], as a press conference after the Brazilian GP confirms that Sunset wishes to finish the season ahead of Karimov. | + | Sunset has formed a small rivalry with [[Mikhail Karimov]] of [[The Team of the Workers Party]], as a press conference after the Brazilian GP, where Karimov retired by colliding with Sunset's retired car before it left the track, confirms that Sunset wishes to finish the season ahead of Karimov. |
Revision as of 11:49, 29 March 2013
Blokkmonsta Motorsport (sometimes appears as Blokkmonsta Racing) is a racing team founded in 1991. The team's official nationality is Germany, but the team administration and crew are a mix of Dutch and German. The team premiered in the 1992 Life Grand Prix Series season and has since been particpating in races of varying disciplines.
Formation: From Film to Racing
The Blokkmonsta company was founded in 1982 by a group of amateur filmmakers and close friends. The film group produced primarily slasher and horror films on tight budgets. Although Blokkmonsta made around a dozen films, none of them sold well, and the company was mired with debt by 1985.
Blokkmonsta collapsed in 1985 and its members quietly disappeared from the film business. What happened over the next few years remains a secret within the group, but the group returned to the public with a sizable amount of cash and was revived as a small-time racing team named Blokkmonsta Motorsport in 1989. Speculators suspect that Blokkmonsta obtained a large amount of money through criminal means, but Blokkmonsta's administration declined to comment on the issue.
Life Grand Prix Series (1992-?)
Reborn as a racing team, Blokkmonsta spent its first year sponsoring low-level one-make series, but by 1991 the team expressed interest in the Life GP Series. The team had found some promise in a young rookie from the United States named Vic Sunset and by the start of the 1992 season the team had a car and a driver for the series. Although the team had missed the 1992 season's practice session in Italy, the administration of the Life GP allowed the team in despite the maximum number of drivers already met from team sign-ups. Now officially in Life GP, the team is hoping to make a strong impression on their first outing in the world of professional racing, and hopefully attract attention from other racing series in the process.
1992
Blokkmonsta entered the 1992 season just after pre-season testing. The team was fairly under-equipped, with just Sunset as their only driver and only one spare car with a few scattered sponsors. Blokkmonsta have announced right before the Argentine GP their plans to score at least one point for the 1992 season and to earn more funds to improve their car and attract more sponsors for next season.
Blokkmonsta had an incredible start to the season at Argentina, with Sunset finishing 2nd on his very first race in the series. Since then their luck has run dry, with two DNFs over the next two races.
Sunset has formed a small rivalry with Mikhail Karimov of The Team of the Workers Party, as a press conference after the Brazilian GP, where Karimov retired by colliding with Sunset's retired car before it left the track, confirms that Sunset wishes to finish the season ahead of Karimov.
