Long Beach, fast and tricky!

Long beach has several fast straights, a sharp hairpin, and quite a few tricky corners. It's a fast track, but if you screw up, regret you will have in spades!

Next Circuit: Watkin's Glen

Three weeks to Watkin's Glen in upstate New York; Teams prepare furiously and the track is expected to be quick and exciting!



One turn rated difficulty 2, the rest are difficulty 1 and a lot of fast corners and flat out straights are expected!

The National Capital Racing League is working on some regulatory changes to avoid some of the straightaway contact we saw during the race in Shanghai. These rules are expected to be in place for Watkin's Glen.

Shanghai in Sun and Rain

With a starting field of 8 drivers representing 8 disparate teams, Shanghai promised to be an exciting race. Weather that started out volatile, moved into pouring rain a third of the way through the first lap, and stayed that way until the middle of the second lap, and then sunny weather came back to stay only contributed to add to the excitement!

The race saw the early elimination of the newly recovered Guadalupe MacDougal of Team Poderoso Sporin from collision damage, shortly to be followed by Victory Eelap of Tombstone Racing due to body damage. Racer X of Smitholine Motor Oil went out in the third lap due to a critcial braking failure coming out of the second last corner.

Of the remaining field, Alice Gibbons of Initorque Motor Works took the checkered flag, followed closely by Darth Moto of Team Sidious. Behind the Sith came Racer 3B from Dozois' Auto-Vitesse, Simon Garfunkel of Sixty-Nine Racing, and Luka Filipov of Serbian Speedworks.

2011 Driver and Team Roster Unveiled!

2011 looks to be a promising season! There are old favourites like Team Sidious, Team Poderoso Sporin, and Initorque Motors, not to mention the perennially underated Tombstone Racing and then there are the new teams like Serbian Speedworks, Smitholine Motor Oil, Dozois' Auto Vitesse. The fan favourite, Pretty Pink Ponies is back, as is the league's Tow Operator, Team Campbell Towing.

The Season's kick off at Shanghai should be exciting with the first line drivers and their substitutes all anxious to cruise to victory! A special note: Hernando MacGregor, who suffered a broken arm late last season, is back and ready to race again in top form if his team-mate Guadalupe MacDougal is out of action.

A lap of Shanghai with Mark Webber gives fans an idea of what the drivers are in for! 

Hiatus Over

After a long hiatus, it is time to rejig, reset, and start again for the 2011 season.

One of the reasons for this is an abiding interest in campaign games and the fun of Formula De. One of the other abiding reasons is the large number of tracks still to be raced (there have been a goodly number of user-created tracks that are just excellent).

One of the problems the first campaign run faced was good intentions with bad implementation. The bookkeepig overhead was too great and some of the tracking was fairly ambigous. So the plan is to try to limit the bookkeeping to keep the focus on racing. This should make things move faster on the track as well.