2015 F1RWRS Tasman Grand Prix

The 2015 F1RWRS Tasman Grand Prix was the first race of the 2015 F1RWRS season. It will be contested by 20 teams with 40 cars all together, with 26 qualifying for the race. The points system that will be used is 10-6-4-3-2-1 for the top 6 finishers in the race.

Pre-Qualifying

The first Pre-Q session of the season was very surprising, as Nathan Scott topped the charts for Tropico, sending them to the Qualifying session. Boxtel and Simpson also made it to qualifying as well, with Daniel Melrose a surprising 11th place. Damon Cannon, with the Autodynamics team, placed 2nd on the charts but with Dean O'Lauchlan 15th, the team did not Pre-Qualify. Hagane Shizuka and Jean-Luc Schiller also did well but did not qualify.

Qualifying

Despite not placing a time in the first session, Ron Mignolet grabbed pole position for DGNgineering, with Barii Mori second. The Stig placed 5th in the session for Aeroracing. Both Simpson cars did not qualify, with Melrose about 3 seconds off Mignolet's time. Mark Dagnall was somehow in 20th after the sessions.

Race

At the start, Rosco Vantini led, but then Rhys Davies overtook Vantini and never lost the lead, except when The Stig briefly led due to pitstops. Phillippe Nicolas crashed the car early on, causing team owner Daniel Melrose to be quite irate. Soon both DGNgineering cars failed within minutes of each other, confirming a possible changing of the guard at the top of the league. Then Thomas De Bock spun, causing Mirko Bosevic to slow down and a surprising Andrea Battani collided with Bosevic with nowhere to go. ArrowTech boss The Fox filed numerous protests during the weekend, which was quite controversial to everyone else in the paddock. The Stig also impressed everyone from the Aeroracing but crashed with a handful of laps to go, and was lucky to escape injury. Then with 10 laps to go, the circuit had a power failure. This did not effect the race though the cameras were out of service as well as all team radios, which meant other teams had to use other means of communication. Otherwise, Rhys Davies easily cruised to victory, with Vantini second, Sammy Jones third, De Bock fourth, Battani fifth for Boxtel and Bosevic sixth.

Classification

Pre-Qualifying

Pos	No	Driver	Constructor	Time	Gap
1	33	Nathan Scott	Tropico-Gillet	1:12.846	+-.--
2	39	Damon Cannon	Autodynamics-Ilmor	1:13.203	+0.357
3	34	Darren Older Jr	Tropico-Gillet	1:13.405	+0.559
4	36	Hagane Shizuka	Revolution-Honda	1:13.754	+0.908
5	32	Jean-Luc Schiller	Mecha-Ford	1:13.880	+1.034
6	24	Nathanael Spencer	Boxtel-Ford	1:13.995	+1.149
7	39	Dave Simpson	Simpson-BMW	1:14.046	+1.200
8	23	Andrea Battani	Boxtel-Ford	1:14.152	+1.306
9	29	Ashley Watkinson	Kingfisher-Peugeot	1:14.188	+1.342
10	25	David Koczo	Alitalia-Lancia	1:14.517	+1.671
11	37	Daniel Melrose	Simpson-BMW	1:14.752	+1.906
12	35	Gia Van Dycke	Revolution-Honda	1:15.080	+2.234
13	26	Ben Fleet	Alitalia-Lancia	1:15.430	+2.584
14	30	David Neuberg	Kingfisher-Peugeot	1:15.669	+2.823
15	40	Dean O'Lauchlan	Autodynamics-Ilmor	1:15.834	+2.988
16	31	Steven Mackintosh	Mecha-Ford	1:17.739	+4.893
17	27	Tomislaw Tajner	Dofasco-Judd	1:18.178	+5.332
18	28	Markus Van de Schoot	Dofasco-Judd	1:18.924	+6.078

Qualifying

Pos	No.	Driver	Constructor	Q1	Q2	Gap
1	2	Ron Mignolet	DGNgineering-Chrysler	No Time	1:11.410	+-.--
2	12	Barii Mori	Kamaha-Yamaha	1:11.853	1:11.521	+0.111
3	10	Rosco Vantini	Jones-Ford	1:11.532	1:11.769	+0.122
4	4	Rhys Davies	MRT-BMW	1:11.649	1:12.171	+0.239
5	19	The Stig	Aeroracing-Audi	1:11.683	1:11.959	+0.273
6	9	Sammy Jones	Jones-Ford	1:11.690	1:11.812	+0.280
7	3	Phillippe Nicolas	MRT-BMW	1:11.996	1:11.971	+0.561
8	8	Thomas De Bock	Gillet ENB	1:12.361	1:12.094	+0.684
9	6	James Davies	Sunshine-Daihatsu	1:12.352	1:12.239	+0.829
10	11	Nicolas Steele	Kamaha-Yamaha	1:12.289	1:13.075	+0.879
11	15	Mirko Bosevic	ArrowTech-Renault	1:12.399	1:12.363	+0.953
12	23	Andrea Battani	Boxtel-Ford	1:12.364	1:14.233	+0.954
13	20	Douglas Mann	Aeroracing-Audi	1:12.478	1:12.366	+0.956
14	18	Poppy Whitechapel	Holden	1:12.683	1:12.519	+1.109
15	14	Martin McFry	Foxdale-Renault	No Time	1:12.592	+1.182
16	16	Saeed Al Faisal	ArrowTech-Renault	1:12.638	1:12.797	+1.228
17	24	Nathanael Spencer	Boxtel-Ford	1:13.071	1:12.759	+1.349
18	17	Frank Zimmer	Holden	1:12.991	1:12.877	+1.467
19	7	Aurelien Moll	Gillet ENB	1:12.969	1:12.878	+1.468
20	1	Mark Dagnall	DGNgineering-Chrysler	1:13.319	1:13.248	+1.838
21	13	Pippa Mann	Foxdale-Renault	1:13.436	No Time	+2.026
22	5	Shinobu Katayama	Sunshine-Daihatsu	1:13.551	1:13.596	+2.141
23	22	Fredo Mestolio	Prospec-Peugeot	1:13.804	1:14.149	+2.394
24	21	Kay Lon	Prospec-Peugeot	1:13.830	1:14.316	+2.420
25	34	Darren Older Jr	Tropico-Gillet	1:13.986	1:13.967	+2.557
26	33	Nathan Scott	Tropico-Gillet	1:15.467	1:14.027	+2.617
DNQ	38	Dave Simpson	Simpson-BMW	1:14.639	1:14.070	+2.660
DNQ	37	Daniel Melrose	Simpson-BMW	1:14.835	1:14.517	+3.107

Standings

• Bold text indicates who still has a theoretical chance of becoming World Champion.

Drivers'

Pos	Driver	Pts
1	Rhys Davies	10
2	Rosco Vantini	6
3	Sammy Jones	4
4	Thomas De Bock	3
5	Andrea Battani	2

Constructors'

Pos	Team	Pts
=1	/ MRT-BMW	10
=1	Jones-Ford	10
3	Gillet ENB	3
4	Boxtel-Ford	2
5	ArrowTech-Renault	1

• Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.

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