2018 Race of Rejects

The 2018 Race of Rejects is a race held in the off-season of the typical motorsport calendar, open to any driver who is currently a free agent and seeking new representation, and looking for a race drive for the upcoming season.

The race follows the well known Race of Champions format, with drivers going head to head around a temporary track built within the Stadio San Siro, and a winner being declared via a tournament elimination format. 64 drivers went into the first round, and in opening three rounds one driver per duel progressed via a sudden death race. For the quarter-finals and semi-finals, a best of three format came into play, and for the Final and 3rd Placed Duel, a best of five format was used.

The event produced a shock winner, as amateur GT racer Laurindo Coelho overcame a string of top professional drivers to lift the trophy against all odds, overcoming the likes of Akira Yamamura and Evgeny Restov on his path to success. Portugal was the most successful nation represented at the event, with Coelho's compatriot Diego Pereira taking third place overall, having lost to Coelho at the semi-final stage.

Entry List

Alexey Buyvolov	Nicolas Steele	Andrej Kremnicky	Evgeny Restov
Jari Kekkonen	Akira Yamamura	Renaldo Jiménez	Naas Botha
Diego Pereira	Daniel Moreno	Brucie Kibbutz	Lance Vance
Claude Speed	Jackie Gardner	Jochen Märko	Miko Fäkkinen
Lasse Tilkesson	James Turner	Chacko Palaniappan	Li Qi
Alessandro Marchesi	Alexander Obolensky	Joey Alliot	Jacques Malenfant
Hans Einhrin	Judd McAllister	Jack Maddock	Raul Souto Maior
Lee Brockhurst	Garry Jones	Leon de Teodoro	Ernesto Raya
Terry Stein	Ernest Bruno	Aurelio Bandini	Maven O'Connor
Abdel Genazzi	Serge Blanco	Henry Paul	Andrei Kolodin
Artur Smolarek	Waisale Serevi	David Graham	Matteo Rossi
Oliver Jones	John Magnus	Andoni Garrido	Olivier Gardin
Roy Mellows	Danilo di Longo	Charles Jericho	Janne Kagström
Dimitri Dzagoev	Alex Geinhart	Arthur Daniels	Johnny Boudermann
Gabriela Scopelli	Wim-Bert Horrie	Simon Garfünkel	Laurindo Coelho
Dominic Strass-Cahn	Khaled Al-Dizi	Jimmy Hopkins	Carlo Waladi

Results

Quarter Finals

Full Quarter Finals Report

Driver 1 Time 1 Score Time 2 Driver 2 Lasse Tilkesson vs Diego Pereira L.Tilkesson 1:59.217 0-1 1:56.132 D.Pereira L.Tilkesson 1:55.827 1-1 1:57.529 D.Pereira L.Tilkesson 1:56.008 1-2 1:53.646 D.Pereira Driver 1 Time 1 Score Time 2 Driver 2 Evgeny Restov vs Judd McAllister E.Restov 1:58.308 0-1 1:57.259 J.McAllister E.Restov 1:55.546 1-1 1:57.967 J.McAllister E.Restov 1:56.162 2-1 1:57.414 J.McAllister

Driver 1 Time 1 Score Time 2 Driver 2 Lee Brockhurst vs Laurindo Coelho L.Brockhurst 1:56.438 1-0 1:56.688 L.Coelho L.Brockhurst 2:00.703 1-1 1:58.221 L.Coelho L.Brockhurst 1:58.357 1-2 1:56.454 L.Coelho Driver 1 Time 1 Score Time 2 Driver 2 John Magnus vs Andrej Kremnicky J.Magnus 1:57.112 1-0 1:58.295 A.Kremnicky J.Magnus 1:59.002 1-1 1:56.595 A.Kremnicky J.Magnus 1:57.298 1-2 1:53.495 A.Kremnicky

Semi-Finals

Full Semi Finals Report
Driver 1 Time 1 Score Time 2 Driver 2 Diego Pereira vs Laurindo Coelho D.Pereira 1:57.496 0-1 1:57.447 L.Coelho D.Pereira 1:59.321 0-2 1:57.882 L.Coelho	Driver 1 Time 1 Score Time 2 Driver 2 Evgeny Restov vs Andrej Kremnicky E.Restov 1:57.495 1-0 1:58.855 A.Kremnicky E.Restov 1:58.656 1-1 1:53.822 A.Kremnicky E.Restov 1:56.659 2-1 1:58.876 A.Kremnicky

3rd Place Duel

Driver 1	Time 1	Score	Time 2	Driver 2
Diego Pereira vs Andrej Kremnicky
D.Pereira	1:56.555	1-0	1:58.626	A.Kremnicky
D.Pereira	1:57.075	1-1	1:56.172	A.Kremnicky
D.Pereira	1:56.891	1-2	1:53.443	A.Kremnicky
D.Pereira	1:56.771	2-2	Retired	A.Kremnicky
D.Pereira	1:56.521	3-2	1:58.736	A.Kremnicky
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Final

Driver 1	Time 1	Score	Time 2	Driver 2
Laurindo Coelho vs Evgeny Restov
L.Coelho	1:56.935	1-0	1:57.254	E.Restov
L.Coelho	1:58.769	1-1	1:54.886	E.Restov
L.Coelho	1:58.544	2-1	1:58.836	E.Restov
L.Coelho	1:58.462	2-2	1:55.080	E.Restov
L.Coelho	1:55.697	3-2	1:55.769	E.Restov
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