International XF GTi Championship S09-Fall Resume
The first season of the International XF GTi Championship ended in the end of 2009. It consisted of 12 races speaded over 6 rounds, which took part in November and December, around 5 different venues of Live For Speed. A strong level was to be found in the championship, with grids of an average of 24 cars at each race, and 11 ex or current MoE/IGTC drivers present in the championship.
There was some troubles at the management, after Andy O’Brien, the creator of the series, decided to stop brutally his implication a few hours before round 4, due to personnal reasons, but an arrangement was found with Yann Laprevotte, a driver of the series, who eventually made it running until the end of the season, without any consequent problems.
Finally, F1RST Racing’s brand new recruit, Tommy Østgaard, took the drivers’ chapionship, helping his brand new team to come back with the trophy of the teams’ championship in the same time. The ex spdo and 3id driver, James Peace, finished 2nd, just in front of 4SRT’s Kristaps Dzelzgalvis, coming only 1 point behind Peace.
Also note the 7th place of the winner of the 2008 Driver of the year award, Rudy van Buren, who signed-up at 2 round to go, and managed, after a disappointing 5th round, to earn the pole, the victory and the fastest lap in the 2 races of the last round, at Fern Bay Green.
Final Results
Drivers’ Championship
1st Tommy Østgaard – 170 pts
2nd James Peace – 131 pts
3rd Kristaps Dzelzgalvis – 130 pts
4th Joe Holmes – 104 pts
5th Reno Kööts – 85 pts
6th Warnes Barnes – 75 pts
7th Rudy van Buren – 72 pts
8th Yann Laprevotte – 66 pts
Teams’ Championship
1st F1RST Racing – 292 pts
2nd 4 Stroke Racing Team – 212 pts
3rd nFinity eSports – 186 pts
4th Magic Turtles – 114 pts
5th E-Team – 95 pts
6th SimRacing Lithuania Team – 76 pts
7th Renesis – 41 pts
8th Denzo Crew – 41 pts
