Surprising events happened at Zandvoort, when BOSS GP had their second round of this years Championship on May 20th-21st. It wasn’t an Open driver but a Formula participant who ran away with the overall wins. Johann Ledermair in a GP2 car won heat 1 ahead of the Open driver Rinus van Kalmthout, who runs a modified GP2 Evo, which in theory should be faster. Mahaveer Raghunathan finished second in the Formula class in his AutoGP car ahead of Salvatore de Plano in a GP2 car. It was a pure family…
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Weather played a big part in the opening race
The weather played a big part when BOSS GP had their opening round at Hockenheim. Just as the warm-up lap started, rain started to fall, which gave chaos with several crashes. When the race was finally started, it only lasted until turn 1 before Klaas Zwart crashed his Jaguar R5 Formula 1 car from 2004. That send the Safety Car back on track. So when the race was finally started, there was only time for a few laps before the 12 minutes had passed. Winner of race 1 was last…
Read MoreBOSS GP starting their season this weekend
BOSS GP will start their 2017 season this weekend at Hockenheim. Big Open Single Seater GP, which is the full name of the series, is a mix of single-seaters from all over the world. In the Open Class we have the defending Champion Ingo Gerstl in his Toro Rosso STR1 Formula 1 car from 2006. His biggest competitor will most likely once again be Klass Zwart in a Jaguar R5 from 2004. These cars are from the time when Formula 1 had V10 engines, and therefore they have a fantastic…
Read MoreBOSS GP driver on his way to IndyCar
BOSS GP driver Luis Michael Dorrbecker is on his way to the Verizon IndyCar Series. The 24 year old Mexican, who has relations to Germany as well, will be testing for Schmidt Peterson Motorsport (SPM) at Sebring on the 1st of March. Dorrbecker won the Auto GP Championship in 2016, where he did a double programme, and finished in P2 in the BOSS GP Formula rankings with Team Torino Squadra Corse in a Lola B05/52 car. So far it’s just one test, but SPM is aiming at entering a third…
Read MoreBOSS GP ready with the 2017 calendar
BOSS GP has presented their 2017 race calendar. It will be an extended calendar compared to the 2016 season, but also with a few changes regarding the tracks. The start of the season will once again be held at Hockenheim in April, followed by Zandvoort for the Race Days by Max Verstappen – a guarantee to be loaded with Dutch fans. Another season highlight will be GAMMA Racing Days at Assen in August, where all available seats were taking at the 2016 race, with a lot of different race series…
Read MoreBOSS GP finished off the season with Formula 1 driver as winner
BOSS GP finished off the season on October 9th at the Italian Imola track. The Championship was already decided at the previous round in Brno, so we didn’t see the Champion Ingo Gerstl at the start. Instead it gave some opportunities for the other regular drivers to steal some attention. Or so they thought… There was several new drivers in the field this time. One of them was former Formula 1 driver Tarso Marques, who was competing in a Benetton B197. He was totally dominant in the practice, qualifying and…
Read MoreBOSS GP have already crowned 2 Champions
BOSS GP found their 2 Champions of 2016 when the penultimate round was held at Brno in the Czech Republic. Ingo Gerstl in the Open class has been at the front all season long. He has been in a close fight with Klaas Zwart throughout the season, but made a quite big gap to him at the previous round in Assen 1 month ago. Gerstl in Toro Rosso STR1 won both races of this weekend and showed Peter Milavec in a Panoz DP01 – Champcar 2nd position. Frits van Eerd…
Read MoreBoss GP delivered great racing in the Netherlands
Boss GP delivered an action-packed weekend, when they visited the Dutch track, Assen. The race series is a mix of different single-seaters, that have become too old to compete in their original championships. This weekend it was part of Gamma Racing Day, which was a great mix of single-seaters, motorcycle and Superkart racing, plus there was some show with Mika Häkkinen and Dani Pedrosa in a Mercedes C63 and Honda MotoGP bike respectively. The top of the charts in Boss GP are the cars in the Open category. Here we,…
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